Updating the movie listings page

Now, let’s update the code to extract movie information from the database. We will need to, first, update the index function; second, update the movies.index template; and third, add a custom CSS class.

Updating index function

In /movies/views.py, add the following in bold:

from django.shortcuts import render
from .models import Movie
def index(request):
    template_data = {}
    template_data['title'] = 'Movies'
    template_data['movies'] = Movie.objects.all()
    return render(request, 'movies/index.html',
                  {'template_data': template_data})
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Let’s explain the previous code:

• We import the Movie model from the models file. We will use this model to access database information...