I'm building a program that retrieves the poster of a movie or TV from a list of titles. For some reason, about 50% of the titles my program searches return no results when searched but when I use the exact same terms that my program is using on the actual website, it shows the exact results I'm looking for. Note that these titles are consistent and the response code to the query is always 200. Does anyone have any insight?

Some titles that return nothing: MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, Waco: American Apocalypse, I Am Georgina

Here's my code:

import requests

api_key = "key"
base_url = "https://api.themoviedb.org/3"
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"}

title = "title of show or movie"

queryDB = title
params = {
    "api_key": api_key,
    "query": queryDB,
    "language": "en-US",
    "include_adult": False
}

# Make request to search for movie
response = requests.get(f"{base_url}/search/movie", headers=headers, params=params)
response.raise_for_status()  # Raise exception if request fails

# Get first result from search
results = response.json()["results"]
if not results:
    # No results found for search query
    poster_url = None
    print("no results found")
else:
    # Get poster image URL from movie details
    movie_id = results[0]["id"]
    response = requests.get(f"{base_url}/movie/{movie_id}", headers=headers, params=params)
    response.raise_for_status()  # Raise exception if request fails
    poster_url = f"https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original{response.json()['poster_path']}"