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TypeError: Cannot read property ‘map’ of undefined when I am trying to access API call data

I am trying to make a movie search app with React and have made an API call to The Movie Database API. I have this form and what I am trying to do is get the data of the movie that I am searching for.

I am not able to access the data from the API call, and I get this error of “Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘map’ of undefined”

I have two js files: 1 index.js

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import SearchMovies from "./searchMovies";
import './style.css';

class Main extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="container">
        <h1 className="title">React Movie Search</h1>
        <SearchMovies/>
      </div>
  
    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<Main />, document.getElementById('root'));

The second file is searchMovies.js

import React, {useState} from "react";

export default function SearchMovies(){

//states- input query, movies
const [query, setQuery] = useState('');
const [movies, setMovies] = useState([]);

const searchMovies = async (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    
    const url = `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/550? 
    api_key=api_key&language=en-US&query=${query}&page=1&
        include_adult=false`;

        try {
            const res = await fetch(url);
            const data  = await res.json();
            setMovies(data.results);
        }catch(err){
            console.error(err);
        }
}


return(
    <div>
        <form className="form" onSubmit={searchMovies}>
            <label htmlFor="query" className="Label">Movie Name</label>

            <input className="input" type="text" name="query" placeholder="i.e. Jurassic 
                Park"
                value={query} onChange={(e) => setQuery(e.target.value)}
            />

            <button className="button" type="submit">Search</button>
        </form>
        <div className="card-list">
            {movies.map(movie => (
                <div className="card">
                    <img className="card--image"
                        src={`https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185_and_h278_bestv2/
                        ${movie.poster_path}`}
                        alt={movie.title + ' poster'}
                        />

                </div>
            ))}
        </div>
      </div>
    )
}

Can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong here? I am new to React. Many thanks!

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