A friend pointed a relatively young interesting website to me, www.freemoviescinema.com. It collects free movies but categorizes them carefully, putting a lot of effort in choosing the best quality videos.
At this time there is only 139 movies on the site. However, (in contrast to Youtube and similar services, where you can find zillions of movies but don’t know where to start) I’m interested in almost all of them.
The movies themselves are just (supposedly free of copyright) Google video or Youtube clips embedded in a nice GUI, but they are well categorized, with year of release, duration, plot, cast, a link to IMDB info and even a poster of the movie.
The news section of the site brings a couple of RSS feeds - nothing spectacular but nice enough.
As far as social interaction goes, you can rate the movies, and that’s pretty much it. However, the site is more about the good editorial choice of the admin than about socializing.
The site itself is pretty ad-ridden, and even most of the ads are standard, unobtrusive Google ads, at some points it does become too much and pulls the viewers’ attention from the content.
Final thoughts? Well, although I expected something more Web 2.0-ish, I must say that I’m not disappointed. The site works - it’s just a nice little place to go and check out a good movie or two. Yes, there are a few ads too many, but the content is free, so I doubt anyone will complain.
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Here’s a similar site:
http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies
Movies Directories are full of deadlinlks, i prefer http://www.vidjay.com/ vidjay.com
I like this site a lot. I didn’t like its choice at first, but now I understand the concept and I support it - its much more educational with classic movies, rarities and bizzare stuff worldwide and its nice to have such place online. There are not that many deadlinks as James would suggest (i’ve found only one, contacted the admin and got fast reply and that movie was moved from the base and a few days later I got email that they’ve found new link and posted me info), maybe he is lobbist for vidjay, who knows? Vidjay with its exclusive (illegal) content has much much more deadlinks and copyright issues so it can’t be referal point - its more like be quick and catch new movie online before it gets banned.
It’s free and I like its intuitive design, nice layout and no popups.
the site’s not working last time i visited it, which is right now
I just checked. Site is working. As I can see in their blog, they moved to faster server, maybe thats why it was online. I like freemoviescinema a lot. Nice, sharp and clean. Thanx for discovering it. I’m watching charlie sheen’s The Wraith. Turns back my memories of childhood….
enything movie thats good
good
I love the new concept. Fan films mixed with student works and free independant movies. Very original content in the sea of cam ripped blockbuster embedable cinemas all around. Thanx for
and pictures and explanations in your adress so