In a tutorial written by Chidume Nnamdi, the process of building a movie application using Angular and Strapi is explored, demonstrating how these technologies can be leveraged to create a seamless integration between frontend and backend development. Strapi, an open-source headless CMS based on Node.js, facilitates the rapid design of APIs, allowing developers to define business models, create collections, and generate endpoints for easy data management. The tutorial guides users through the setup and configuration of a Strapi project to create a movie API that supports CRUD operations, which can then be consumed by an Angular frontend. The Angular application is structured with various components to display and manage movie data, including features for adding, editing, viewing, and deleting movies, all while emphasizing the benefits of using Strapi for backend development due to its support for RESTful and GraphQL APIs and its ease of deployment to the cloud.