Movie and TV metadata API

The movie API with every rating, TMDB and OMDb compatible

Change one URL, keep your TMDB or OMDb code, and get IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and Kinopoisk ratings in the same response.

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No extra fee for commercial use
No sales call
From $3.11 a month
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GEThttps://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550?language=en-US

200 OKapplication/json1.7 kBLive response

{  "id": 550,  "imdb_id": "tt0137523",  "title": "Fight Club",  "tagline": "Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.",  "release_date": "1999-10-15",  "runtime": 139,  "status": "Released",  "genres": [{ "id": 18, "name": "Drama" }, { "id": 53, "name": "Thriller" }],  "origin_country": ["US", "DE"],  "original_language": "en",  "budget": 63000000,  "revenue": 101209702,  "vote_average": 8.4,  "vote_count": 33045,  "popularity": 37.2853,  "poster_path": "/jSziioSwPVrOy9Yow3XhWIBDjq1.jpg",  "backdrop_path": "/b9HyPoxwxjxkWEUL5ErZdhApQe2.jpg"}

5 rating sources in one call: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Kinopoisk, TMDB
2 in 1 TMDB v3 and OMDb formats on one key
14 languages for titles and overviews
$3.11 a month on the cheapest plan, against $149 for TMDB's commercial plan

amodb is a paid movie and TV API that keeps the TMDB v3 and OMDb paths and JSON, so your code works after a base URL change. One key adds IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and Kinopoisk ratings, mood meters and soundtracks, and commercial use costs nothing extra on any prepaid plan.

Why pay for a movie API when TMDB is free?

TMDB is free until your app earns its first dollar. After that TMDB asks for its commercial plan, $149 a month for companies under $1M in revenue. TMDB has no IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic scores either, and OMDb, the usual second API, is licensed for non-commercial use. amodb is both formats in one key from $3.11 a month, with no extra charge for commercial use.

Feature	TMDB	OMDb	amodb
Price once your app earns money	$149 a month under $1M revenue	Non-commercial terms	From $3.11 a month
TMDB v3 paths and JSON	Yes	No	Yes
OMDb parameters and fields	No	Yes	Yes
IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic ratings	No, TMDB score only	Yes	Yes, plus Kinopoisk and TMDB
Mood meters, soundtracks and showtimes	No	No	Yes
No TMDB logo or notice on your screens	No, logo and notice required	Not stated	Yes
One key for both formats	No	No	Yes

Sources: the TMDB API terms, TMDB staff answers on commercial pricing and on when an app counts as commercial, and the OMDb legal page, read in October 2026.

Pro+: a whole series in one request

GET /3/all/tv/{series_id} returns the series complete: every season and episode with its cast, crew and stills, every image, video and translation, five ratings, mood meters and soundtracks. On TMDB the same blocks take one call for the show and one per season, and the scores need OMDb on top.

TMDB and OMDb

10 + 1 requests

The show and every season, plus OMDb for the scores

amodb Pro+

1 request

GET/3/all/tv/1399Game of Thrones

3.1 MB of JSON, 60 top-level fields

8 seasons
73 episodes
2,880 episode cast and crew credits
1,158 images
155 videos
50 translations
6 rating sources

Blocks in the answer

seasons
episodes
credits
images
videos
translations
ratings
moods
soundtracks
wikidata
watch/providers
keywords
reviews
recommendations
content_ratings
external_ids

Change the base URL, keep your code

amodb answers on the same paths as TMDB v3. A request for movie 550 returns the same JSON fields your client already parses: id, title, genres, release_date, poster_path and the rest.

Send your key as api_key in the query or as an Authorization: Bearer header. Both work on every endpoint.

Get a key

Pick a plan and copy the key from your account.
Authorization: Bearer $AMODB_KEY
Change the base URL

Point your TMDB or OMDb client at api.amodb.dev.
api.themoviedb.orgapi.amodb.dev
Ship it

The same JSON comes back, so your parser keeps working.
200 OKapplication/json

curl JavaScript Python

bashjspy

curl "https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550?language=en-US" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AMODB_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550?language=en-US", {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AMODB_KEY}` },
});
const movie = await res.json();
console.log(movie.title, movie.release_date);

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550",
    params={"language": "en-US"},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['AMODB_KEY']}"},
    timeout=10,
)
movie = res.json()
print(movie["title"], movie["release_date"])

JSON

{
  "id": 550,
  "imdb_id": "tt0137523",
  "title": "Fight Club",
  "release_date": "1999-10-15",
  "runtime": 139,
  "genres": [{ "id": 18, "name": "Drama" }],
  "vote_average": 8.4,
  "poster_path": "/pB8BM7pdSp6B6Ih7QZ4DrQ3PmJK.jpg"
}

One key for OMDb style lookups

The OMDb compatible endpoint lives at https://api.amodb.dev/omdb/. It takes i, t, s, type, y, plot and page, and returns Title, Year, imdbRating, Ratings and the other OMDb fields.

The Poster field points to img.amodb.dev, so posters load from the same service. Errors keep the OMDb shape: {"Response":"False","Error":"..."}.

curl JavaScript Python

bashjspy

curl "https://api.amodb.dev/omdb/?i=tt0137523&plot=short&apikey=$AMODB_KEY"

const url = new URL("https://api.amodb.dev/omdb/");
url.searchParams.set("t", "Fight Club");
url.searchParams.set("y", "1999");
url.searchParams.set("apikey", process.env.AMODB_KEY);

const film = await (await fetch(url)).json();
console.log(film.Title, film.imdbRating);

import os
import requests

film = requests.get(
    "https://api.amodb.dev/omdb/",
    params={"i": "tt0137523", "apikey": os.environ["AMODB_KEY"]},
    timeout=10,
).json()
print(film["Title"], film["imdbRating"])

JSON

{
  "Title": "Fight Club",
  "Year": "1999",
  "Runtime": "139 min",
  "Director": "David Fincher",
  "imdbRating": "8.8",
  "imdbID": "tt0137523",
  "Poster": "https://img.amodb.dev/t/p/w300/pB8BM7pdSp6B6Ih7QZ4DrQ3PmJK.jpg",
  "Response": "True"
}

Data that TMDB v3 does not return

Every key can call the amodb extensions on the same base URL. Add them with append_to_response or call them on their own.

Mood meters

Fear, humor, sadness, violence and more, each on a 0 to 10 scale, with one extra call.
GET /3/tv/1396/moods
Ratings in one call

IMDb, TMDB and three more scores with vote counts, from one endpoint.
8.8 IMDb
8.4 TMDB
- Kinopoisk 8.7
- Metacritic 67
- Rotten Tomatoes 81%
GET /3/movie/550/ratings
Rate limit you can see

Every response tells you how many requests are left this minute.
X-RateLimit-Limit: 40
Every TMDB image size

From w92 thumbnails to original files on img.amodb.dev. No key needed.
img.amodb.dev/t/p/w500/…
Find by any external id

Send an IMDb id or another external id and get the TMDB record back.
GET /3/find/tt0137523
Cinema showtimes

Showtimes by country for titles in cinemas, when they are known.
GET /3/movie/550/showtimes?country=US
Soundtracks

The songs used in a movie or a show, on the same base URL.
1. 1 Dreaming of the Crash Hans Zimmer
2. 2 Cornfield Chase Hans Zimmer
3. 3 Dust Hans Zimmer
GET /3/movie/157336/soundtracks

One API for personal and paid projects

A weekend project and a paid product call the same API, get the same data and are covered by the same terms. This is what teams build with it.

Streaming and watchlist apps Posters, trailers, seasons and episodes, plus five ratings to sort and filter by.
Telegram and Discord bots An OMDb style lookup by title or IMDb id returns a ready answer in one call.
Media servers and plugins Metadata scrapers that already speak TMDB v3 keep their client and gain IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes scores.
Movie sites and blogs Titles and overviews in 14 languages, so every market gets its own page.
Recommendation engines Mood meters rate fear, humor, violence and more from 0 to 10, signals that genres alone miss.
AI agents and chatbots Answer "what should I watch tonight" with real ratings, moods, cast and showtimes.

Plans differ in requests per minute

Every plan gets the same data: the TMDB and OMDb endpoints, all 14 languages, images and the extensions. Pro+ also gets /3/all: everything about a movie, series or person in one request. You pay once for 1, 3, 6, 12, or 24 months, and a longer period costs less per month. There is no free tier, and card payments do not renew automatically.

Lite

20 requests per minute

from $3.11 per month
Get Lite
Pro

40 requests per minute

from $3.71 per month
Get Pro
Pro+

120 requests per minute

/3/all a whole movie, series or person in one request

from $4.31 per month
Get Pro+

Pricing

Built for production traffic

Shared edge cache

Popular lists stay cached for 30 minutes, details for 6 hours and configuration for 24 hours.
Clear rate limits

Every response carries X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset. A 429 adds Retry-After.
TMDB style errors

Errors return success, status_code and status_message, so existing error handling keeps working.
Images without a key

Posters and backdrops load from img.amodb.dev/t/p/{size}/{file} in every TMDB size, cached for 30 days.

Questions and answers

Is the TMDB API free for commercial use?

No. A TMDB key is free while your project earns nothing. TMDB staff say any revenue from ads, in-app purchases, donations or subscriptions makes an app commercial, and the commercial plan costs $149 a month for companies under $1M in revenue. amodb charges nothing extra for commercial use, and its terms do not prohibit it.

How much does the TMDB API cost?

It is free for non-commercial use. For a commercial app TMDB staff quote $149 a month when yearly revenue is under $1M, and a custom price above that. amodb plans cost a few dollars a month and differ mainly in requests per minute.

Why pay for amodb when the TMDB API is free?

Because a paid app is not free on TMDB. amodb costs a fraction of TMDB's $149 commercial plan, needs no TMDB logo on your screens, and returns IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and Kinopoisk ratings in the same response. One key serves both the TMDB v3 and the OMDb formats, so you run one API instead of two.

Is OMDb free for commercial use?

OMDb's legal page describes the service for personal, non-commercial use and licenses its content under CC BY-NC 4.0. amodb answers the same OMDb parameters with the same field names, with no extra charge for commercial use.

Do I need to change my TMDB client code?

No. Point the base URL to https://api.amodb.dev/3 and use your amodb key as api_key or as a Bearer token. Paths, query parameters and JSON fields stay the same as TMDB v3.

Does the same key work for OMDb style calls?

Yes. Send it as apikey to https://api.amodb.dev/omdb/. The parameters i, t, s, type, y, plot and page work as in OMDb, and the response uses the OMDb field names.

Is there a free tier or a trial?

No, there is no free tier and no trial. Pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay for 1 to 24 months at once, and the key works until the period ends; card payments do not renew. Patreon is monthly and renews on Patreon until you cancel it there.

What is the difference between plans?

The request rate: 20, 40 or 120 requests per minute. Every plan gets the same data, all 14 languages, images, ratings and the other amodb extensions. Pro+ also gets /3/all: everything about a movie, series or person in one request.

Which languages are served?

English, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Chinese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Czech, Romanian, French, Polish, Italian and Spanish. Pass a TMDB style tag such as ru-RU; any other language falls back to English.

Start with one key

Every plan gets the same data, all 14 languages and images. Plans differ in requests per minute, and Pro+ also gets /3/all: everything about a title or person in one request.

Get an API key Read the quickstart

$ curl https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550 -H "Authorization: Bearer $AMODB_KEY"

curl https://api.amodb.dev/3/movie/550 -H "Authorization: Bearer $AMODB_KEY"

The movie API with every rating, TMDB and OMDb compatible

Get a key

Change the base URL

Ship it

Mood meters

Ratings in one call

Rate limit you can see

Every TMDB image size

Find by any external id

Cinema showtimes

Soundtracks

Lite

Pro

Pro+

Shared edge cache

Clear rate limits

TMDB style errors

Images without a key