diff --git a/searx/engines/imdb.py b/searx/engines/imdb.py
index 0897b8dca..0c6f2d5f0 100644
--- a/searx/engines/imdb.py
+++ b/searx/engines/imdb.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ about = {
     "results": 'HTML',
 }
 
-categories = []
+categories = ["movies"]
 paging = False
 
 # suggestion_url = "https://sg.media-imdb.com/suggestion/{letter}/{query}.json"
diff --git a/searx/engines/moviepilot.py b/searx/engines/moviepilot.py
index 4f7a25862..6bd2b2290 100644
--- a/searx/engines/moviepilot.py
+++ b/searx/engines/moviepilot.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ about = {
     'language': 'de',
 }
 paging = True
-categories = []
+categories = ["movies"]
 
 base_url = "https://www.moviepilot.de"
 image_url = "https://assets.cdn.moviepilot.de/files/{image_id}/fill/155/223/{filename}"
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index e7f53a69c..b2715d050 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -1487,6 +1487,7 @@ engines:
   - name: tmdb
     engine: xpath
     paging: true
+    categories: movies
     search_url: https://www.themoviedb.org/search?page={pageno}&query={query}
     results_xpath: //div[contains(@class,"movie") or contains(@class,"tv")]//div[contains(@class,"card")]
     url_xpath: .//div[contains(@class,"poster")]/a/@href