259,630 Movies

About MoviesThisDay

What is this tool?

MoviesThisDay is a simple tool to provide a list of movies made on this date in history. It uses the TMDB and OMDb datasets and offers both a modern web UI and a robust API.

• Discovery: Navigate to the homepage to browse movies released on today's date or others.
• Search: Use the search page to find movies by title, studio, genre, or more.
• MCP: Install as an MCP for Chatbots or other AI Agents (see setup details)
• API: Access the API endpoints for advanced queries (see documentation).

Movie Database Statistics

API Examples:

• Movies released today (JSON):
  curl 'https://moviesthisday.com/movies/today'
• Movies by day (MM-DD):
  curl 'https://moviesthisday.com/movies/by-day/06-15'
• Search by title (regex):
  curl -G --data-urlencode 'title=^tron' 'https://moviesthisday.com/movies/by-title'

About the Author & Project

Author: Jason A. Cox
Project: https://github.com/jasonacox/MoviesThisDay

IMDb index IDs are included to make it easy for users to look up movies on IMDb.