FlickZer is a movie recommendation web app that helps users discover trending and genre-based movies. It fetches live data from the TMDB API and presents it with a clean UI built using Flask and Jinja2.
🔗 Live Demo: https://flickzer.onrender.com
- 🔍 Search movies by title
- 🎭 Browse movies by genre
- 🎲 Randomized movie recommendations on each page refresh
- 🔥 Discover trending and top-rated films
- 📄 View IMDb links for more info
- 💻 Clean, responsive interface
- Frontend: HTML, CSS (Bootstrap), Jinja2
- Backend: Python, Flask
- API: TMDB API
- Deployment: Render
Due to Render's free tier, the site may take a few seconds to wake up after being idle.
In some cases, it might require logging into Render to trigger a build if it’s been inactive for too long.
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Charan8x/FlickZer-deploy.git
cd FlickZer-deploy
# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Run the application
python app.py- Movie data powered by TMDB API
- Built with using Python, Flask, and Bootstrap
This project is licensed under the MIT License — you're free to use, modify, and share it with proper attribution.