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4k Free Movies Online

26 points by CTOSian 5y ago

willcipriano 5y ago
Four thousand movies, not movies in 4k resolution.
- myself248 5y ago
  Saved me a click, thank you.
mithusingh32 5y ago
Not surprised it's a clickbait title. Seems more and more posts are clickbait here.
- simlevesque 5y ago
  Tell me if I'm wrong. But in english, the sentence in the title litteraly means four thousand movies.
  - banana_giraffe 5y ago
    "4k" near "movie" tends to mean 4K resolution (generally with the assumption that it's also HDR), not 4K in count. It's certainly how I parsed it at first.
judge2020 5y ago
These are "Movies" in the sense that they're moving pictures, not necessarily feature-length films with >$1M budget - for example, this 14 minute movie titled Herbert White[0]. They do all seem to be hosted on YouTube, though, and the few I clicked on were all public domain, so there shouldn't be much illegal about them. 0: https://youtu.be/hPLzZNL76yI https://youtu.be/hPLzZNL76yI
squarefoot 5y ago
A bit clickbaity headline, since the linked page clearly says: "4,000+ Free Movies Online ..."
ofrzeta 5y ago
First thing I discovered is "Crash: The Short Film" – "Otherwise known as The Atrocity Exhibition, this pre-Cronenberg short film was directed by Harley Cokeliss and stars J.G. Ballard himself. (1971)" I didn't even know this existed.
tsjq 5y ago
clickbait. misleading title.
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ofrzeta 5y ago
I don't see why this is flagged. Is there some kind of convention that in the context of movies "k" must only be used in terms of resolution - but only if it's a well-know resolution? So "5k" movies will be ok to refer to 5000 movies but not "4k" or "8k" movies? In fact the list contains many interesting movies, for instance Tarkovsky movies such as Solaris, The Mirror and Stalker. Or a film by Peter Greenaway about Darwin. I am skeptical about the licensing, though, because many movies are probably not free. Also some on Youtube are "not available" (to me?). For instance "Fargo" is most likely not free.
- Lockal 5y ago
  > I don't see why this is flagged Because HN rules disallow title editorialization, especially for clickbait reasons. Why title is not "4,000+ Free Movies Online" as in original?
  - ofrzeta 5y ago
    That makes some sense. Although I am having a hard time imagining someone trying to clickbait with "4k movies". I for one am not as much interested in the resolution as a I am in the content. But what do I know ...

26 points by CTOSian 5y ago

willcipriano 5y ago

Four thousand movies, not movies in 4k resolution.

myself248 5y ago
Saved me a click, thank you.

mithusingh32 5y ago

Not surprised it's a clickbait title. Seems more and more posts are clickbait here.

simlevesque 5y ago
Tell me if I'm wrong. But in english, the sentence in the title litteraly means four thousand movies.
- banana_giraffe 5y ago
  "4k" near "movie" tends to mean 4K resolution (generally with the assumption that it's also HDR), not 4K in count. It's certainly how I parsed it at first.

judge2020 5y ago

These are "Movies" in the sense that they're moving pictures, not necessarily feature-length films with >$1M budget - for example, this 14 minute movie titled Herbert White[0]. They do all seem to be hosted on YouTube, though, and the few I clicked on were all public domain, so there shouldn't be much illegal about them. 0: https://youtu.be/hPLzZNL76yI https://youtu.be/hPLzZNL76yI

squarefoot 5y ago

A bit clickbaity headline, since the linked page clearly says: "4,000+ Free Movies Online ..."

ofrzeta 5y ago

First thing I discovered is "Crash: The Short Film" – "Otherwise known as The Atrocity Exhibition, this pre-Cronenberg short film was directed by Harley Cokeliss and stars J.G. Ballard himself. (1971)" I didn't even know this existed.

tsjq 5y ago

clickbait. misleading title.

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ofrzeta 5y ago

I don't see why this is flagged. Is there some kind of convention that in the context of movies "k" must only be used in terms of resolution - but only if it's a well-know resolution? So "5k" movies will be ok to refer to 5000 movies but not "4k" or "8k" movies? In fact the list contains many interesting movies, for instance Tarkovsky movies such as Solaris, The Mirror and Stalker. Or a film by Peter Greenaway about Darwin. I am skeptical about the licensing, though, because many movies are probably not free. Also some on Youtube are "not available" (to me?). For instance "Fargo" is most likely not free.

Lockal 5y ago
> I don't see why this is flagged Because HN rules disallow title editorialization, especially for clickbait reasons. Why title is not "4,000+ Free Movies Online" as in original?
- ofrzeta 5y ago
  That makes some sense. Although I am having a hard time imagining someone trying to clickbait with "4k movies". I for one am not as much interested in the resolution as a I am in the content. But what do I know ...