diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tmdb3/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tmdb3/default.nix
index 47247c6911d..36a88ea22e4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tmdb3/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tmdb3/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi }:
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, isPy3k }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "tmdb3";
   version = "0.7.2";
+  disabled = isPy3k; # Upstream has not received any updates since 2015, and importing from python3 does not work.
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
@@ -12,6 +13,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   # no tests implemented
   doCheck = false;
 
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "tmdb3" ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Python implementation of the v3 API for TheMovieDB.org, allowing access to movie and cast information";
     homepage = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tmdb3";