tmdbAPIexample.php

<?php
	// Prepare the API call
	$search_string = urlencode("City of God");
	$API_KEY = "<redacted>";
	$URL = "http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/Movie.search/en/xml/{$API_KEY}/{$search_string}";

	// Perform the API call
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
	$output = curl_exec($ch); 
	curl_close($ch);

	// Parse the XML response
	$doc = new DOMDocument();
	@$doc->loadHTML($output);

	// Traverse the DOM node tree
	$movies = $doc->getElementsByTagName("movie");
	for ($i=0; $i<$movies->length; $i++) {
		$movie = $movies->item($i);
		$overview = $movie->getElementsByTagName("overview")->item(0);
		var_dump($overview->textContent);
	}
?>

string(248) "City of God is one of the most successful Brazilian films of all times. It depicts the raw violence in the ghettos of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970’s that even had young kids carrying guns and joining gangs when they should be playing hide-and-seek."