Hooking my laptop up to my TV

I have a Macbook Pro and I don't have a DVD player. I'm wondering if there is some product I can use to hook my computer up to my TV so I can watch movies! This may be a dumb question, but I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to techy stuff... Any help would be greatly appreciated

For sound you will need a separate connection, as I said in my earlier response, connected from your audio output port to the RCA connectors on the back of your TV. See attached images.
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