Best Places to Watch Free Movies Online

Watching free movies online is a convenient and frugal way to see the films you love right from the comfort of your own home. Yes, there are plenty of sites where you can get movies “for free” but I’ve taken the time to confirm that the ones listed below, although ad-supported, are clean from viruses and, importantly, 100% legal to use.

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There’s a huge variety of freely available movies on these sites, from dramas and comedies to action and horror films. There are movies from big-name studios, but also many older and independent movies that you’ll love to watch over and over again. Just be sure you have the best TV to ensure a great viewing experience.

I spend some time each month looking for the best free movie websites. This list was last updated in June to confirm that they still work, are still free, and are still worth your time.

Tubi

What We Like

• High quality, popular movies.
• Lots of categories.
• Subtitles can be enabled for most movies.
• Has a section just for kids.
• You don’t need to log in to start watching.

What We Don’t Like

• Genre categories don’t separate movies from shows.

You don’t want to miss the thousands of free movies and TV shows you can stream right now at Tubi.

I like to visit the Leaving Soon page to catch freebies before they start to cost somewhere else, but my favorite part of this website for inspiration is Trending On Social — I often have no clue what I’m in the mood for, so to see what everyone else is watching right now is awesome.

For example, a few of the more popular titles people have been streaming over the last month include We’re the Millers, Rush Hour, Night School, I Robot, and Independence Day: Resurgence.

There are dozens of other genres and collections to pick from, too, like exclusives in Only Free on Tubi, and Black Cinema, Foreign Films, Based on a Book, Highly Rated on Rotten Tomatoes, and Cult Classics. There’s also a Spanish section and live TV.
Tubi Kids is a section of this site perfect for streaming just kid-related films. It’s available from the top of the website and has categories just for preschoolers and other kids, including Toon TV, LEGO, Animé, and Friendly Monsters films. There are also parental controls you can set through the normal website.

You don’t even need a user account to watch this stuff. Just follow this link below, click something you’re interested in, and enjoy!

YouTube

What We Like

• Movies are rated by real viewers.
• You can leave comments.
• Single, easy-to-scroll-through list.
• Most movies have subtitles.
• No ads for Premium subscribers.

What We Don’t Like

• Relatively few genres.
• No easy search tool for just the free movies.

I was shocked the first time I found out YouTube has free movies. And no, these aren’t poorly filmed videos without subtitles uploaded by some random user. I mean proper, full-length, totally legal movies managed directly by YouTube.

Recently, I was able to watch The Girl on the Mountain and Ava; both included captions and were available in 1080p. Here are some other examples of free films I saw listed on YouTube this past month: Due Date, The Pilot, Plan A, Open 24 Hours, and She’s The Man.

Something you can’t get with YouTube but that is supported by most of these movie sites is the ability to search through just the free titles. However, here’s a trick that has saved me loads of time: Open the full list of movies and use your browser’s Find function to search by year, genre, or title.

YouTube’s curated list (the link below) is the best way to find all their new and popular free movies. Some companies, like Cineverse, list movies in their own profile.

Freevee

What We Like

• Great collection of newer free films and shows.
• Browsing for movies is easy.
• Includes original videos.
• Locate movies with subtitles in your language.
• Uncluttered video player.

What We Don’t Like

• User account required.
• Most in-video ads are long.
• Unhelpful search tool.
• For US users only.

Freevee (formerly IMDb TV) is Amazon’s collection of free movies. I use this a lot from my TV, but it’s just as easily accessible from their website or mobile app. Everything I watch here is easy to find and seems to be high-quality.

Something I like about this site is how the genres and movie collections are organized. For example, if I’m looking through the most popular movies or recently added lists, I can filter by genre and/or subtitle language to make sure I find a movie that’s a good fit for me.

The video player lets you turn on subtitles, adjust the way the captions show up on the screen, change the video quality, and go into full-screen mode.

There’s a lot to explore here, but I’ll get you started with these titles that are some of the more popular choices: Hangman, Safe, Legion, Fantastic Journey to Oz, The Soulmate Search, and MI-5.

Fandango at Home

What We Like

• Lots of high quality movies.
• Several useful ways to find just the free movies.
• Most are popular and well known, and include subtitles.
• Films can be filtered and sorted in a number of ways.
• Also supports buying and renting movies.

What We Don’t Like

• Some movies here cost.
• You must log in (it’s free).

There are thousands of movies on Fandango at Home (formerly Vudu) that you can watch right now. All you have to do is put up with a few commercials.

It’s a great movie site whether you do or don’t know what you want to watch. Films can be filtered by genre, and you can browse by most-watched or release date. All the basic genres are available: action, comedy, crime, romance, and a few others.

While it’s true that the genres aren’t interesting, Fandango at Home makes up for it with their curated lists. Check these out: Big Time Movie Stars, Critically Acclaimed, Hidden Gems, and Most Watched Movies. There are a few hundred videos in each section.

Something unique about this site is that it not only lets you look through the newest releases, but you can do so on a single page for every genre. Another great thing about Fandango at Home’s movies is that some of them are in 1080p, so you don’t have to sacrifice quality just to watch some free movies.

Once you settle on something to watch, you might be given the option to buy or rent it, but so long as you find it through one of the free pages, there will be a button you can use to stream the movie without paying. You can even watch movies still in theaters.

Pluto TV

What We Like

• Has the same feel as a TV’s channel guide.
• Includes thousands of on-demand movies.
• Streams TV shows, news, music, and more.
• No user account necessary.

What We Don’t Like

• Has only a dozen or so channels for just movies.
• Live-streamed movies can’t be watched again on demand.
• There’s always a video playing; you can mute, but not stop it.

Pluto TV is the closest thing I’ve found to free cable TV. It’s owned by Paramount and fully supported by ads, so there’s no worry that you might accidentally buy something.

My biggest joy about using this service is that I can just turn it on and let it play. There are hundreds of live channels, so some of them feature news, reality TV, or game shows, but others have full-length movies.

Not everything is live, though, which is good. If I’m in the mood for something specific, I can look through thousands of movies and TV shows that are available on demand.

The unique categories for their on-demand films are a huge plus because most movie sites just stick to the traditional few genres. Hollywood Icons, The King of Horror, 00s Replay, and Cult Films are a few examples.

These are some of the most-watched movies on Pluto TV this last month: Titanic, Karen, Sonic The Hedgehog, Baywatch, The Reading, Seabiscuit, and The Wolf of Wall Street.

In my experience, running Pluto TV through a TV makes it easier to use because the always-on video player gets in the way on smaller screens. But, there is a mobile app and a desktop player if you’d rather go that route.