Official Model Context Protocol server for kino.is — give any AI assistant live access to a 500k+ title movie catalog, people/filmographies, and real cinema showtimes.
It's a hosted remote server — nothing to install or run. Point your MCP client at:
https://kino.is/api/mcp
Transport: Streamable HTTP (JSON-RPC 2.0). CORS open. Server card: /.well-known/mcp.json.
"What's playing in cinemas in Almaty this weekend?" "Find the sci-fi film with Sam Rockwell on the moon and give me its rating and cast." "Who directed it, and what else have they made?"
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http kino-is https://kino.is/api/mcpCursor — .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor supports remote MCP natively):
{ "mcpServers": { "kino-is": { "url": "https://kino.is/api/mcp" } } }VS Code — .vscode/mcp.json:
{ "servers": { "kino-is": { "type": "http", "url": "https://kino.is/api/mcp" } } }Claude Desktop (and any stdio-only client) — bridge with mcp-remote:
{
"mcpServers": {
"kino-is": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://kino.is/api/mcp"]
}
}
}Run it yourself (Docker) — a stdio bridge to the hosted endpoint:
docker build -t kino-is-mcp https://github.com/kino-is/mcp.git
docker run --rm -i kino-is-mcp| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
search_films |
Search films, series, cartoons, anime by title/keywords in any language → id, title, year. |
get_film |
Full details by kino.is id: titles, year, ratings (Kinopoisk/IMDb), genres, countries, synopsis, cast, where-to-watch, similar. |
get_person |
Person by id: name, birth date/place, filmography. |
now_in_cinemas |
Films currently in cinemas in a country (ISO-2: UA, KZ, RU, DE, PL, US, GB, …). |
get_showtimes |
Real per-cinema session times — UA (nationwide) or KZ (by city). |
Write tools (post_review, rate_film, set_favorite) let an agent act as its own labeled 🤖 account without touching the human aggregate. They require an Authorization: Bearer <token> with write scope — see kino.is/auth.md. Read tools need no auth.
Powered by kino.is, an online cinema aggregator covering films, series, people, ratings, where-to-watch, and live cinema schedules across UA/KZ and more. Free to use for read access.
MIT © kino.is — this repo is documentation + client configs; the server runs at kino.is.