diff --git a/app.js b/app.js
index a037764..ee0fb9d 100644
--- a/app.js
+++ b/app.js
@@ -1,34 +1,78 @@
-// ℹ️ Gets access to environment variables/settings
-// https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv
-require('dotenv/config');
+const express = require("express");
+const mongoose = require("mongoose");
+const hbs = require("hbs");
+const app = express();
 
-// ℹ️ Connects to the database
-require('./db');
+// Set up view engine
+app.set("view engine", "hbs");
+app.set("views", __dirname + "/views");
 
-// Handles http requests (express is node js framework)
-// https://www.npmjs.com/package/express
-const express = require('express');
+// Mongoose Model
+const movieSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
+  title: String,
+  director: String,
+  stars: [String],
+  image: String,
+  description: String,
+  showtimes: [String]
+});
 
-// Handles the handlebars
-// https://www.npmjs.com/package/hbs
-const hbs = require('hbs');
+const Movie = mongoose.model("Movie", movieSchema);
 
-const app = express();
+// Connect to MongoDB
+mongoose
+  .connect("mongodb://localhost:27017/moviesDB", { useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true })
+  .then(() => console.log("Connected to the database"))
+  .catch((err) => console.error("Error connecting to the database", err));
+
+// Home Route (Index Page)
+app.get("/", (req, res) => {
+  res.render("index");
+});
 
-// ℹ️ This function is getting exported from the config folder. It runs most middlewares
-require('./config')(app);
+// Movies List Route
+app.get("/movies", (req, res) => {
+  Movie.find()
+    .then((movies) => {
+      res.render("movies", { movies });
+    })
+    .catch((err) => console.log("Error fetching movies:", err));
+});
 
-// default value for title local
-const projectName = 'lab-express-cinema';
-const capitalized = string => string[0].toUpperCase() + string.slice(1).toLowerCase();
+// Movie Details Route
+app.get("/movie/:id", (req, res) => {
+  Movie.findById(req.params.id)
+    .then((movie) => {
+      res.render("movie-details", { movie });
+    })
+    .catch((err) => console.log("Error fetching movie details:", err));
+});
 
-app.locals.title = `${capitalized(projectName)}- Generated with Ironlauncher`;
+// Seed Route
+app.get("/seed", (req, res) => {
+  const movies = [
+    {
+      title: "Red Sparrow",
+      director: "Francis Lawrence",
+      stars: ["Jennifer Lawrence", "Joel Edgerton", "Matthias Schoenaerts"],
+      image: "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTA3MDkxOTc4NDdeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDAxNzgyNTQz._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg",
+      description: "Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.",
+      showtimes: ["13:00", "15:30", "18:00", "20:10", "22:40"]
+    },
+    // Add more movies as needed...
+  ];
 
-// 👇 Start handling routes here
-const index = require('./routes/index');
-app.use('/', index);
+  Movie.insertMany(movies)
+    .then(() => {
+      res.send("Movies have been seeded!");
+    })
+    .catch((err) => {
+      res.send("Error seeding movies: " + err);
+    });
+});
 
-// ❗ To handle errors. Routes that don't exist or errors that you handle in specific routes
-require('./error-handling')(app);
+// Start the server
+app.listen(3000, () => {
+  console.log("Server running on port 3000");
+});
 
-module.exports = app;