🎬 Movie Recommender System

A content-based movie recommender system built with Python, Streamlit, and TMDB API.
It suggests similar movies based on the one you select and displays their posters.

🔗 Live Demo: Movie Recommender System

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Features

• Interactive Streamlit web app
• Choose a movie and get top 5 similar recommendations
• Fetches movie posters using TMDB API
• Lightweight and easy to deploy on Render / Heroku

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Demo Preview

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Tech Stack

• Frontend/Backend: Streamlit
• Data Handling: Pandas, Pickle
• Similarity Computation: Cosine Similarity / Precomputed Matrix
• API: TMDB API for fetching movie posters

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Installation & Setup

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/your-username/movie-recommender-system.git
cd movie-recommender-system

Create & Activate a Virtual Environment

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # For Linux/Mac
venv\Scripts\activate      # For Windows

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run app locally

streamlit run app.py