In this example I did the search with director Stanley Kubrick, id 240, and the helicopter keyword, id 720.

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=MYKEY&language=en-US&sort_by=popularity.desc&include_adult=false&include_video=false&page=1&with_crew=240&with_keywords=720

See here https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie-discover

Many thanks, Ticao2

Perhaps you can help a little more,

When i want to search for a movie currently i'm searching on the movie name and potentially the release date but sometimes the dates i have are not the same as the database so its then a case of guess work, my ideal was to confirm the director name against the results to confirm the movie is the correct one but currently it seems like a keyword search to get movie ids which there could be multiple results and then get the movie details to confirm the director names of each returned result.

Is there another way more efficient?

I'm not a programmer or anything like that.
I'm just curious, that for specific reasons, I studied the TMDb API a bit.
Everything you write I need to translate through Google. And sometimes it makes no sense.

The film years are rarely the same between IMDB and TMDb.
This is because the criterion is different.
IMDB considers the year of the first presentation, even in the festival.
TMDb considers the year of the first presentation open to the public.

To find a specific film, using the director's name seems to me the best.
To use a keyword seems to me bad. The choice of words is very random, does not follow a consistent rule.
There are many variations. Only the word **Short **should have about 20 variations. To find a specific movie, I think it's bad.
It makes sense when your quest is not for a title but for a specific subject.
Best chance is to use the genre. Romance, War, Thriller, Mystery etc ...
If you have the IMDB ID, most of the movies here have this data. In this case the search is 99% certain.

Travis Bell, the administrator, can give you better ideas.