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How do I find these movies? Amazon has some old, mostly low quality movies, but nothing good or recent. They got rid of the criterion collection years ago. Sinc

How do I find these movies? Amazon has some old, mostly low quality movies, but nothing good or recent. They got rid of the criterion collection years ago. Sincere question: How does one even find or acquire films today? I’d love to watch a movie, but literally don’t know how to go about it anymore. Netflix is not an answer as most of their content are not movies and basically spam to me.

sosborn 5y ago
Netflix has a tab to browse only movies. Amazon does too. They usually have a handful of quality old movies (lots of junk too), but some of their originals are very good.
- telesilla 5y ago
  This is my go-to when I want to browse Netflix https://www.finder.com/uk/netflix-around-the-world/genre-list https://www.finder.com/uk/netflix-around-the-world/genre-lis...
ghaff 5y ago
Amazon has tons of movies but many of them you have to buy/rent a la carte. At least in the US, there's Red Box for mostly recent films. You can also subscribe to Netflix' DVD service--although their back catalog isn't as good as it used to be.
heurist 5y ago
Check out the Criterion Channel: https://www.criterionchannel.com/ https://www.criterionchannel.com/
WalterBright 5y ago
The TCM channel does a good job of organizing films into categories. I've been watching their Film Noir picks every Saturday night. Lots of fun movies I never knew existed.
- handrous 5y ago
  HBO's streaming service rotates a decent selection of TCM material, too, complete with the intros.
esperent 5y ago
If it's an old film and it's not easily available on a streaming service, I torrent it.
Arainach 5y ago
justwatch.com lets you search and discover what services have what movies. Alternatively, DIY. As streaming became more popular, optical media and hard drives became far more cheap. Over the last 10-15 years I've ended up with more than 500 movies, all of which I own legally and most of which cost me $5 or less. They get to all of my devices through Plex (I used to use Kodi, which is fine over a LAN if that's all you care about). A significant number of them aren't available for streaming anywhere at the moment, and plenty more would require obscure services I don't feel a need to pay for. It was a gradual upfront cost, but not that extravagent compared to the cost of paying for a couple of streaming services over that time - to say nothing of the 6-10 I'd have to subscribe to to actually have access to all of it.
vo2maxer 5y ago
In addition to the criterion channel, already mentioned, try MUBI [1]. It’s a cinephile’s dream: a film discovery nearly everyday while also curating the great directors. [1] https://mubi.com/ https://mubi.com/
- paganel 5y ago
  +1 for MUBI, really great cinephile resource. One can also find very interesting stuff on YouTube, depending on how good your search skills are, I know that at the start of the pandemic I had discovered a user who was uploading Italian western spaghetti movies in HD format. I think I might also have found something similar for Hong Kong wuxia movies from the 1960s and 1970s but I'm not sure.
quickthrowman 5y ago
I pay for Spotify and Steam Games and HBO Max, but pirate movies since Hollywood isn’t interested in making films available to be watched.
kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
Your local library probably has tons of DVD and Blu-Ray discs (and librarians who can provide recommendations), and maybe free access to an app like Hoopla with classic/highbrow movies.
graeme 5y ago
Criterion channel is a great streaming service for old classics.
hallarempt 5y ago
My wife and I used to buy a DVD in the second-hand books/new dvd's shop round the corner every Friday for a Friday-night movie viewing. He knew our tastes -- it must be sweet, funny with a happy ending and no adultery or rape -- but the shop closed. We regularly ask each other "Where's Roman Holiday but with a cute girl instead of Gregory Peck. Audrey Hepburn can stay."? Why all the drama in movies these days? We just wanna see two girls kiss and walk away in the twilight, hand-in-hand. But all we get is drama like Ammonite. Why isn't there yet a Poser or Daz3D/Blender/MakeHuman/$GAME_ENGINE that combined makes it easy for people to tell tales as movies yet? It should be possible to put everything together in an interface that even a movie producer could understand, which would make it a doddle for ordinary people.
- nerpderp82 5y ago
  > Why isn't there yet a Poser or Daz3D/Blender/MakeHuman/$GAME_ENGINE that combined makes it easy for people to tell tales as movies yet? This is happening right now and it is mostly an update of the film techniques used in schlock, b films, but the results are much better.
  - hallarempt 5y ago
    Where?
    - nerpderp82 5y ago
      Making of Kung Fury, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKOHJs17rc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKOHJs17rc Corridor Crew makes a movie in Unreal Engine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K7a_aMGA7Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K7a_aMGA7Y Sassy Justice talked to Jared Kushner about Deep Fakes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjmmP1rE_3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjmmP1rE_3A 1/3 of the posts on Two Minute Papers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEsYo9L5lOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEsYo9L5lOo I won't be surprised when someone can feed a script into a model and out comes a fully rendered movie.
- blooalien 5y ago
marnett 5y ago
Friendly plug for kanopy.com. Amazing, changing collection and likely free signup and streaming (monthly-refreshing limit) with your local library card (:
- indigodaddy 5y ago
  Also/or, your library may give you access to a similar service called Hoopla. I have access to both via my local library, and I find Kanopy’s selection (and picture quality) somewhat better, especially for foreign (non—USA) content.
weeblewobble 5y ago
I never understood this complaint. There are dozens and dozens of recent, popular (good is subjective) movies on the front page of Amazon, Netflix and HBO Max right now.

sosborn 5y ago

Netflix has a tab to browse only movies. Amazon does too. They usually have a handful of quality old movies (lots of junk too), but some of their originals are very good.

telesilla 5y ago
This is my go-to when I want to browse Netflix https://www.finder.com/uk/netflix-around-the-world/genre-list https://www.finder.com/uk/netflix-around-the-world/genre-lis...

ghaff 5y ago

Amazon has tons of movies but many of them you have to buy/rent a la carte. At least in the US, there's Red Box for mostly recent films. You can also subscribe to Netflix' DVD service--although their back catalog isn't as good as it used to be.

heurist 5y ago

Check out the Criterion Channel: https://www.criterionchannel.com/ https://www.criterionchannel.com/

WalterBright 5y ago

The TCM channel does a good job of organizing films into categories. I've been watching their Film Noir picks every Saturday night. Lots of fun movies I never knew existed.

handrous 5y ago
HBO's streaming service rotates a decent selection of TCM material, too, complete with the intros.

esperent 5y ago

If it's an old film and it's not easily available on a streaming service, I torrent it.

Arainach 5y ago

justwatch.com lets you search and discover what services have what movies. Alternatively, DIY. As streaming became more popular, optical media and hard drives became far more cheap. Over the last 10-15 years I've ended up with more than 500 movies, all of which I own legally and most of which cost me $5 or less. They get to all of my devices through Plex (I used to use Kodi, which is fine over a LAN if that's all you care about). A significant number of them aren't available for streaming anywhere at the moment, and plenty more would require obscure services I don't feel a need to pay for. It was a gradual upfront cost, but not that extravagent compared to the cost of paying for a couple of streaming services over that time - to say nothing of the 6-10 I'd have to subscribe to to actually have access to all of it.

vo2maxer 5y ago

In addition to the criterion channel, already mentioned, try MUBI [1]. It’s a cinephile’s dream: a film discovery nearly everyday while also curating the great directors. [1] https://mubi.com/ https://mubi.com/

paganel 5y ago
+1 for MUBI, really great cinephile resource. One can also find very interesting stuff on YouTube, depending on how good your search skills are, I know that at the start of the pandemic I had discovered a user who was uploading Italian western spaghetti movies in HD format. I think I might also have found something similar for Hong Kong wuxia movies from the 1960s and 1970s but I'm not sure.

quickthrowman 5y ago

I pay for Spotify and Steam Games and HBO Max, but pirate movies since Hollywood isn’t interested in making films available to be watched.

kwertyoowiyop 5y ago

Your local library probably has tons of DVD and Blu-Ray discs (and librarians who can provide recommendations), and maybe free access to an app like Hoopla with classic/highbrow movies.

graeme 5y ago

Criterion channel is a great streaming service for old classics.

hallarempt 5y ago

My wife and I used to buy a DVD in the second-hand books/new dvd's shop round the corner every Friday for a Friday-night movie viewing. He knew our tastes -- it must be sweet, funny with a happy ending and no adultery or rape -- but the shop closed. We regularly ask each other "Where's Roman Holiday but with a cute girl instead of Gregory Peck. Audrey Hepburn can stay."? Why all the drama in movies these days? We just wanna see two girls kiss and walk away in the twilight, hand-in-hand. But all we get is drama like Ammonite. Why isn't there yet a Poser or Daz3D/Blender/MakeHuman/$GAME_ENGINE that combined makes it easy for people to tell tales as movies yet? It should be possible to put everything together in an interface that even a movie producer could understand, which would make it a doddle for ordinary people.

nerpderp82 5y ago
> Why isn't there yet a Poser or Daz3D/Blender/MakeHuman/$GAME_ENGINE that combined makes it easy for people to tell tales as movies yet? This is happening right now and it is mostly an update of the film techniques used in schlock, b films, but the results are much better.
- hallarempt 5y ago
  Where?
  - nerpderp82 5y ago
    Making of Kung Fury, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKOHJs17rc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKOHJs17rc Corridor Crew makes a movie in Unreal Engine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K7a_aMGA7Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K7a_aMGA7Y Sassy Justice talked to Jared Kushner about Deep Fakes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjmmP1rE_3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjmmP1rE_3A 1/3 of the posts on Two Minute Papers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEsYo9L5lOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEsYo9L5lOo I won't be surprised when someone can feed a script into a model and out comes a fully rendered movie.
blooalien 5y ago

marnett 5y ago

Friendly plug for kanopy.com. Amazing, changing collection and likely free signup and streaming (monthly-refreshing limit) with your local library card (:

indigodaddy 5y ago
Also/or, your library may give you access to a similar service called Hoopla. I have access to both via my local library, and I find Kanopy’s selection (and picture quality) somewhat better, especially for foreign (non—USA) content.

weeblewobble 5y ago

I never understood this complaint. There are dozens and dozens of recent, popular (good is subjective) movies on the front page of Amazon, Netflix and HBO Max right now.