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Letterboxd API: List popular films

Lists Letterboxd films in popularity order for a week, month, year or all time, optionally filtered by genre and decade. Ratings and posters may be unavailable for some films.

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Inputs

Values from the run on Oct 31, 2026, shown under Output.

Genre optionalgenre

Film genre, for example horror; use all for any genre.

all (default)

Decade optionaldecade

Release decade, for example 1990s; use all for any decade.

all (default)

Period optionalperiod

Popularity period, for example this_month.

this_month

One of this_week, this_month, this_year, all_time. Default this_week.

Max Results optionalmax_results

Maximum number of films to return, for example 36.

100

Whole number from 1 to 100. Default 36.

Output

From a run on Oct 31, 2026, shortened for this page.
{  "films": [    {      "rank": 1,      "year": 2026,      "title": "Resident Evil",      "poster_link": "https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/1/3/0/2/7/1/7/1302717-untitled-resident-evil-reboot-0-70-0-105-crop.jpg?v=a688bf1bc7",      "average_rating": 3.78,      "letterboxd_link": "https://letterboxd.com/film/resident-evil-2026/"    },    {      "rank": 2,      "year": 2026,      "title": "Coyote vs. Acme",      "poster_link": "https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/1/0/8/9/0/8/8/1089088-coyote-vs-acme-0-70-0-105-crop.jpg?v=735eb10cc7",      "average_rating": 3.84,      "letterboxd_link": "https://letterboxd.com/film/coyote-vs-acme/"    },    {      "rank": 3,      "year": 2026,      "title": "The Love Hypothesis",      "poster_link": "https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/9/3/1/1/8/1/931181-the-love-hypothesis-0-70-0-105-crop.jpg?v=b925aa1882",      "average_rating": 3.23,      "letterboxd_link": "https://letterboxd.com/film/the-love-hypothesis/"    }  ]}
Price
1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free.
Method
letterboxd.com/list_popular_films
Returns
rank, title, year, average rating, poster link, Letterboxd link

Use it from your agent

Give your agent this line. It reads SKILL.md, gets a Fous API key and connects the Fous MCP server. Its run then takes the method letterboxd.com/list_popular_films with the inputs above.

Ask your agent

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  • Top 10 most popular films right now on Letterboxd, any genre or decade.
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