Get upcoming movies
AI agents call movie_upcoming to retrieve information from TMDB MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves upcoming movie information from the TMDB database without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing any operations. It is a simple query function with no side effects or state changes. The severity is low because misuse would only result in retrieving potentially excessive amounts of publicly-available movie metadata, with no destructive or financial impact.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'movie_upcoming' and description states 'Get upcoming movies', indicating retrieval of movie listing data.
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Get upcoming movies. It is categorised as a Read tool in the TMDB MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the TMDB MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for movie_upcoming: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches TMDB MCP Server. Nothing to install.
movie_upcoming is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the movie_upcoming rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for movie_upcoming. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
movie_upcoming is provided by the TMDB MCP Server MCP server (ryanxili/tmdb-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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