JustWatch: Find Where Any Movie Is Streaming Tonight

JustWatch is a free search engine for streaming. Type in a film or a show, and it tells you which services in your country actually have it right now, included with your subscription, free with ads, or a few dollars to rent. One search, every platform, no more opening five apps in a row.

It is the tool that should have shipped with streaming in the first place.

What is JustWatch?

The streaming problem is not choice, it is fragmentation. A movie you want lives on exactly one service, that service changes without warning, and the answer is different in every country. So you end up checking Netflix, then the other one, then the one you forgot you were paying for, and by then it is 10pm and you are watching a documentary about mattresses.

JustWatch keeps track of all of it. Set your country, search a title, and you get a clean row of provider logos with the price and quality next to each. Free with ads gets marked as such. Rentals show the actual number. If nothing has it, it says so instead of wasting twenty minutes of your life.

Beyond single searches, it works as a browsing tool. Filter the entire streaming landscape by genre, release year, rating, price and provider, and you have a much better catalog interface than most streaming services provide for their own libraries.

What can you do on JustWatch?

• Search a specific title. The core move. Where is this, and what will it cost me?
• Filter across everything at once. Pick your genres, set a minimum rating, restrict to the services you already pay for, and browse only what is genuinely watchable tonight.
• See what is new and what is leaving. New arrivals across all providers in one feed, plus a heads-up on titles about to expire.
• Check the streaming charts. What is actually being watched in your country this week, across all platforms rather than one company’s self-reported top ten.
• Keep a watchlist. Free account, add anything, get told when it lands somewhere you already subscribe to. This is the feature that saves the most money.
• Compare rental prices. Renting the same film can cost different amounts on different stores. JustWatch lines them up.
• Change country. Useful for understanding why your friend abroad keeps recommending something you cannot find.

Tips to get the most out of it

1. Set your country and your services first. Tell JustWatch which subscriptions you have and filter to them permanently. Everything after that becomes “what can I watch for free right now,” which is the only question that matters.
2. Use the leaving-soon list as a queue. It is a natural deadline. Films you have been meaning to watch for two years suddenly become tonight’s plan.
3. Add to watchlist instead of renting. Most titles rotate onto a subscription service eventually. Add it, wait, get notified, save the rental fee.
4. Filter by rating and year for a fast shortlist. Highly rated, last five years, on services you own. That query takes ten seconds and beats an hour of scrolling.
5. Check before you subscribe. Thinking of adding another service for one show? Search the show and check whether it is cheaper to just rent it.
6. Install the browser extension if you browse film sites. Prices and availability show up where you already read about movies.

If you like JustWatch, also try…

• A Good Movie to Watch: the perfect companion. JustWatch tells you where; this one tells you what.
• Explore.org Live Cams: when you want something on the screen but not a plot.
• PlayPhrase.me: type a phrase and watch every movie scene where someone says it.
• My90sTV: a simulated 90s television you can channel-surf, for nights when choosing is the problem.

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Next time an argument breaks out about where a film is streaming, settle it on JustWatch in about four seconds.