Film.fm

Film.fm is a free movie database that allows you to watch full length movies online.
The site offers information about each movie and is powered by crawlers and an automatic engine that is designed to bring DivX video results from Google, Stagevu, Divxstage and other video hosting sites. It allows users to rate the videos according to different parameters such as accuracy and quality.
The site is available in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Yiddish and automatically provides videos with subtitles accordingly to the chosen language.
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Film.fm doesn't host movies. The site uses crawlers and an automatic search engine that gather movies, videos and trailers from different sites and even combine movies that are found in the original source in several different parts. Most movies are DivX based so it is recommended for users to download DivX web player.
Film. fm is highly dependent on its users for sorting the high quality and relevant videos from the inferior ones. Whenever a user chooses to view a movie he is asked whether the video is the correct one or not .
The movies aren't sorted by movie name, genre, popularity, decade/year or language option so you can't choose between subtitles, voiceover or foreign movies in any defined language.
With each movie listing comes a detailed movie summary along with movie year and duration.
Film.FM has a multiple language interface with Geo-IP support. The site interface will automatically load in the local language and prioritise the films featured in it according to the country from were the user was connected from.
Film.fm in Israel
Film.fm received a great deal of media coverage on on the Rafi Reshef news show on , as well as the evening newscast. As a result, movie distributors, including the Israeli movie distributor, United King, threatened to prosecute the owner of Film.fm, and additionally users who translated movies, with charges of copyright theft. The distributors claimed the site and its users were "Virtually stealing food out of the directors and producers mouth."
Attorney Jonathan J. Klinger, an Internet legal expert, argued that Film.fm is legal due to the fact that it is only an automatic search engine that directs viewers to data found in other sites.
Five days after the first news report was broadcast, Film.fm shut down its Hebrew site and it was blocked in Israel.

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