BMovies

One name, two meanings

BMovies has always meant two things. To many it is the name of a film site, one that lived at a long run of addresses, to, is, nl, cz, io, vip and others, and was typed alongside fmovies and 123movies for years. To everyone else a b movie is a kind of film: cheap, fast, fearless and very often fun. This site welcomes both meanings.

For the first, BMovies is a broad catalogue of films and television: the new releases, the franchises, the long procedurals and comedies, the prestige dramas, the K-dramas and Korean thrillers, the Japanese animated films and the Bollywood blockbusters, three hundred and forty-nine titles in all, every series with every season and every dated episode, every title with a Watch now button for your country.

For the second, it keeps a shelf of the real B movies, twenty-five of the best from 1953 to 2013, with a B horror shelf and an 80s B movies shelf cut from it. The two sides sit comfortably together, because a good evening of films has room for Oppenheimer and for Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

The front page

The page is measured from the bmovies.co browsing page of June 2022, read with the capture's computed styles and the stylesheet it loaded. The background is a dark slate with a blue-grey cast; the header and both footer bands are a shade darker; and the category strip beneath the header darker still, so the page reads in three calm layers.

The menu runs across the header in uppercase: HOME, MOVIES, TV SHOWS, TRENDING, TOP IMDB, EPISODES, then B MOVIES and APP. The current item carries a three-pixel underline in the site's one accent, a clear sky blue, and the same blue fills the Watch movie button, the active section tab and the search icon. The body type is Raleway, with Asap on the uppercase menu and the section tabs.

At the top of the home page sits the category strip, then the sections, each headed by a tab filled in blue: Trending with its page numbers, Latest Movies, Latest TV Shows, B Movies, B Horror, K-Drama, the newest episodes and the genres. At the foot of the page the links sit in rounded pills on a thin grey outline, the way the original laid out its footer.

Reading a card

Every poster has softly rounded corners and a yellow chip pinned near its top right corner reading HD, the same bright yellow with dark lettering the original used for its quality label. It means the title can be watched in high definition on at least one service, and for the old B movies it usually means a restored print that looks better than it ever did at the drive-in.

The title sits across the foot of the poster, centred over a dark fade. Rest the pointer on a card and the hover card opens beside it with the audience score, the year, the running time or the number of seasons, the yellow HD label, the first lines of the story, the country, the genre and a Watch button. Tap the card and the title page opens with the full story, the director and cast, the original title, the countries of production, and for a series every season and dated episode.

What a B movie is

A B movie is a low-budget genre picture, made quickly for an audience that knows exactly what it wants. The term was born in the American cinemas of the 1930s and 1940s, where a programme offered two features: the A picture, the big studio film with the stars, and the B picture, a shorter second feature made for a fraction of the money. The B picture was a western, a crime story, a horror film or a science-fiction adventure, and it was often finished in a few weeks.

When the double bill faded, the name stayed and widened. It came to mean any cheap genre film, from the drive-in creature features of the fifties to the video-shop horror of the eighties and the made-for-television monster movies of today. Today "B movie" is as much a description of a spirit as of a budget: a film that trusts its idea, its monster or its stunt more than its script, and usually has a good time doing it. The B movies guide goes into the history, and the best B movies list picks the essentials.

A few terms travel with it. A cult film is one with a devoted audience that returns to it again and again. A "so bad it's good" film is loved for its flaws. A drive-in movie is one made for the outdoor screens of fifties America, where teenagers in cars were the main audience. And a creature feature is exactly what it sounds like. Many of the films on the shelf are all four.

The drive-in fifties

The atomic age filled the drive-ins with monsters, invaders and giants, and the best of them hold up beautifully. It Came from Outer Space (1953), directed by Jack Arnold from a Ray Bradbury story, lands a spaceship in the Arizona desert and was first shown in 3D. Arnold followed it with Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), whose Gill-man became one of the great movie monsters, all in seventy-nine minutes.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) is Don Siegel's quiet small-town nightmare, neighbours replaced by emotionless duplicates grown in pods, the B movie that turned out to be one of the finest American films of its decade. The Blob (1958) gave a young Steve McQueen his first leading role against a growing mass of red jelly that eats a small Pennsylvania town, cinema included.

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) is sixty-six minutes of pure drive-in poster, a wronged wife grown to giant size by an alien encounter. And Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957), Ed Wood's tale of aliens raising the dead, is the most famous "worst film ever made", beloved for its cardboard gravestones, its day-for-night confusion and its sheer sincerity. The fifties section of the shelf runs about seven hours, a perfect rainy weekend.

Corman, Romero and the seventies

Roger Corman was the king of the B movie, a producer and director who made hundreds of films fast and cheap and gave a start to half of New Hollywood. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), famously shot in about two days, follows a florist's assistant and his bloodthirsty plant, with a very young Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient. It later became a stage musical and a second film.

In 1968 George A. Romero changed horror for good with Night of the Living Dead, made in Pittsburgh for about a hundred thousand dollars: seven people in a farmhouse, the dead walking outside, and an ending that still shocks. Every zombie film since owes it something.

The seventies B movie grew sharper and funnier. Death Race 2000 (1975), a Corman production directed by Paul Bartel, stages a cross-country race where drivers score points for pedestrians, with David Carradine as Frankenstein and Sylvester Stallone as his rival. Piranha (1978), Joe Dante's gleeful Jaws parody, lets genetically engineered fish loose on a summer camp, and launched the career of a young James Cameron's future collaborators and of Dante himself.

The eighties video shop

Home video turned the eighties into the B movie's golden decade. A horror film could be made for almost nothing, sold to the video shops on the strength of its box, and find its audience on Friday nights across the world. The 80s B movies shelf holds eight of the best.

Sam Raimi made The Evil Dead with friends in a Tennessee cabin, five students, a Book of the Dead and a camera that races through the woods. He remade and topped it with Evil Dead II (1987), in which Bruce Campbell's Ash fights his own possessed hand and wins a chainsaw for his trouble, the high point of splatter slapstick. Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985) turns an H. P. Lovecraft story into a gleefully gruesome medical-school comedy.

Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead (1985) gave the zombies a punk soundtrack and a taste for brains. Fred Dekker's Night of the Creeps (1986) mixes slugs from space with a college formal. Critters (1986) sends furry alien fugitives to a Kansas farm, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) lands a circus-tent spaceship full of cotton-candy-wielding clowns in a small town. John Carpenter's They Live (1988) hands a drifter a pair of sunglasses that reveal the aliens running America, and has the longest alley fight in film history.

A B horror night

The B horror shelf picks sixteen films for a horror night, and the trick is pairing them. The classic double bill is black and white then colour: Night of the Living Dead at ninety-six minutes, then The Return of the Living Dead at ninety-one, the original zombie film and its punk answer, about three hours in all.

For a lighter night, pair Tremors (1990), Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward against giant underground worms in the desert town of Perfection, Nevada, with Critters, two affectionate small-town monster movies under three hours together. For a full Raimi marathon, The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness run about four and a half hours, from the cabin to the Middle Ages.

The horror B movie is where many great directors began: Raimi, Romero, Carpenter, Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, James Cameron. Watching the shelf in order is a history of modern horror told with rubber, fake blood and enormous enthusiasm.

Science fiction on a shoestring

Science fiction was the B movie's favourite playground, because an idea costs nothing and a spaceship can be a hubcap on a string. The fifties invaders on the shelf, It Came from Outer Space, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Plan 9, are the Cold War told with flying saucers, and their anxieties still feel close: strangers who look like us, a town that stops asking questions, a government that will not listen.

The later films turned the genre into satire. Death Race 2000 is a sports-mad dystopia that feels more plausible every year. They Live is a science-fiction film about advertising, its hero discovering that billboards and magazines hide orders to obey, consume and conform. Iron Sky takes the most absurd premise imaginable, a Nazi base on the far side of the moon, and plays it perfectly straight.

The same ideas run through the big science fiction on the site. Interstellar, Dune: Part Two, Project Hail Mary and Blade Runner 2049 spend in a single scene what a fifties B movie spent on its whole production, and yet the question underneath is often the same: what makes us human when something from outside tests us? The science fiction and fantasy shelf holds both ends of the budget.

The directors who started in B movies

The B movie has always been a school, and many of the great filmmakers of the last half century passed through it. Roger Corman's company gave early work to Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard, Joe Dante and James Cameron, and cast a young Jack Nicholson again and again. The rule was simple: bring it in on time and on budget, keep the audience watching, and within that you could do almost anything.

George A. Romero made Night of the Living Dead with friends in Pittsburgh and spent a career in the zombie film he invented. John Carpenter made Halloween on a shoestring before They Live. Sam Raimi went from The Evil Dead to the Spider-Man trilogy, and Peter Jackson from splatter comedies in New Zealand to The Lord of the Rings. Joe Dante's Piranha led to Gremlins, and Robert Rodriguez made his first feature for about seven thousand dollars before Planet Terror and Machete.

That is why the B-movie shelf and the blockbuster shelf belong on the same site. Watch The Evil Dead and then a modern Spider-Man, and you can see the line from one director's cabin in the woods to the biggest film franchises in the world.

B movies today

The B movie never went away; it learned to wink. Snakes on a Plane (2006) was famous for its title before it was finished, and Samuel L. Jackson delivers exactly what the title promises. Planet Terror (2007), Robert Rodriguez's half of the Grindhouse double bill, is a scratched-print tribute to seventies exploitation, and his Machete (2010) grew from a fake trailer into a real film with Danny Trejo.

Iron Sky (2012), a Finnish-German-Australian comedy partly funded by its fans, imagines Nazis returning from the dark side of the moon. And Sharknado (2013), made for television, sent a waterspout full of sharks over Los Angeles and became a phenomenon, proof that the drive-in spirit is alive and well. At eighty-seven minutes it is also a very efficient evening.

The big studios borrow the spirit too. This year's Evil Dead Burn continues the series Raimi began in a cabin, and Scary Movie returns to parody the genre once more.

Why B movies are loved

A B movie makes a promise on its poster and keeps it. A fifty-foot woman, a killer plant, a town eaten by jelly, sharks in a tornado: the idea is the star, and the film has no time to be anything else. Most run under ninety minutes. They move quickly, they rarely take themselves seriously, and they leave room for the audience to join in.

They are also a record of their times. The fifties invaders are the Cold War in rubber suits; the eighties zombies are consumer culture with its jaw hanging off; the sunglasses of They Live are a satire of advertising that is sharper now than it was in 1988. And they are a school: the directors who learned their craft on B movies went on to make Spider-Man, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings.

Then there is the joy of the so-bad-it's-good film, where the flaws become the fun. Plan 9 from Outer Space is the classic, a film made with complete conviction and very little else, and watching it with friends is one of cinema's great shared pleasures. The B movie is the one genre where laughing at a film and loving it are the same thing.

Modern horror

The horror shelf is not only about the classics. The horror and thriller shelf puts the old B movies beside this year's releases, and the modern films carry the same promise of a great premise. The Conjuring began a haunted-house franchise, and Insidious: Out of the Further continues another this year.

Backrooms grew from an internet creepypasta and a teenage director's short films into a studio feature, the most B-movie story of the year. Obsession, The Whisper Man and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a film about remaking a slasher franchise, are the new ones to try. The Resident Evil films, from Welcome to Raccoon City to the animated Death Island and this year's reboot, keep the zombie flame lit.

Comedy, on both shelves

Much of the best B-movie cinema is comedy with blood on it: Evil Dead II, Re-Animator, Killer Klowns and Tremors are funnier than most comedies. The comedy shelf puts them beside the television comedies, The Office, Modern Family, Rick and Morty, Shameless and Ted Lasso, and the family films.

Rick and Morty in particular is a B movie every week: each episode takes a pulp science-fiction premise, a parasite that plants fake memories, a planet-sized battle, a pickle, and runs it as far as it will go in twenty-two minutes. If you love the B movies shelf, it is the TV show to try next.

Top IMDb

TOP IMDB in the menu opens the highest-scored titles, sorted by audience score with a floor of votes so that every entry has a real crowd behind it. The films at the top are the ones you would expect: Interstellar, Inception, Django Unchained, The Imitation Game, Parasite, Your Name. and Coco.

The series list is top rated series, every one scored 8.3 or better by at least five hundred voters: Breaking Bad, The Office, Supernatural, The Mentalist, House, Ted Lasso and MobLand among them. And a few B movies score higher than you might think: Night of the Living Dead, They Live and Evil Dead II all sit comfortably above many recent blockbusters.

Films under ninety minutes

One of the great pleasures of the B movie is its length. With the modern blockbuster running close to three hours, the B-movie shelf is full of films that tell their whole story in well under ninety minutes, perfect for a weeknight. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is the shortest at sixty-six minutes, followed by The Little Shop of Horrors at seventy-three and Plan 9 from Outer Space at seventy-eight.

Creature from the Black Lagoon runs seventy-nine minutes, It Came from Outer Space, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Death Race 2000 eighty each, and The Blob eighty-two. From the eighties, Evil Dead II runs eighty-four, The Evil Dead eighty-five, and Re-Animator, Critters and Killer Klowns eighty-six apiece. Sharknado is eighty-seven and Army of Darkness eighty-nine. Every one carries its running time on its card, so you can see before you press play exactly when the credits will roll.

My List as a programme

The heart on every title page adds it to My List, the last chip in the category row. The list keeps the order you added things in, which makes it a natural programme: add a fifties double bill, then a zombie night, then the Raimi trilogy, and your next three weekends are planned. The episode marks for your series sit alongside it, so a B-movie Friday and a Reacher Saturday live in the same place.

My List, your viewing country and your episode marks stay in your browser and nowhere else; there is no account to create and nothing to sign. The privacy page lists exactly what is kept, and clearing the site's data resets it.

Hosting a B-movie night

A B-movie night is one of the easiest and best evenings a group of friends can have, and a few habits make it better. Pick a theme: zombies, giant creatures, invaders from space, a single director. Keep it to two films, because most B movies run under ninety minutes and two of them fit comfortably into an evening with a break for food between.

Start with the better film and finish with the sillier one, so the energy rises through the night: Invasion of the Body Snatchers then Plan 9, or Tremors then Sharknado. Talking back to the screen is not only allowed, it is the point; the so-bad-it's-good films were made for a room full of friends. And check the Watch now lists before everyone arrives, because the classic B movies are very often free on the ad-supported services, which makes the whole evening cost nothing but the popcorn.

Add the films to My List as you plan, and the list becomes your programme. BMovies keeps it in your browser, ready for the next night.

Creature features, then and now

The creature feature is the B movie's signature, and the tradition runs unbroken from the fifties to this year. The Gill-man of Creature from the Black Lagoon, the jelly of The Blob, the fish of Piranha and the worms of Tremors each gave a small town one very bad week. The formula is simple and endlessly adaptable: an ordinary place, a monster nobody believes in, and a handful of people who have to deal with it before help arrives.

The modern studios still make them, only bigger. Jurassic World Rebirth sends Scarlett Johansson's team to an island of dinosaurs. This year's Deep Water, directed by Renny Harlin, forces a flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai down into shark-infested waters, a premise any drive-in would have loved, and War Machine pits Army Rangers in training against a giant otherworldly killing machine. Godzilla Minus One shows how much craft and feeling the form can hold.

Sharknado sits between the two worlds: made for television on a tiny budget, it became so popular that it ran to six films, a creature feature that knew exactly what it was and invited everyone to the joke.

Action, lean and mean

The action B movie is built on a single line: a man, a train; a woman, a deadline; a crew, a heist. Death Race 2000, Snakes on a Plane and Machete are the shelf's classics, each one sold on its premise and delivered in under two hours. The action and adventure shelf holds their descendants.

This year's releases carry the tradition proudly. Mutiny puts Jason Statham on a cargo ship, framed for his employer's murder and out for revenge. The Runner has Gal Gadot as a London lawyer who must keep running through the city to get her kidnapped son back. Shelter, In the Grey, Guy Ritchie's heist, and The Punisher: One Last Kill round it out. They are A-list films with B-movie hearts, and all of them are better for it.

Same title, different film

B movies are remade constantly, which makes the year the most important part of a search. The Blob of 1958 was remade in 1988; Invasion of the Body Snatchers has been remade three times; Night of the Living Dead has been remade and reimagined more times than anyone can count; and The Evil Dead has a remake, a television series and this year's Evil Dead Burn. Even the big films share names: more than one production called The Odyssey appeared in 2026.

On BMovies each title page carries its year, its director and its original title, so the edition is never in doubt. In search, add the year, "the blob 1958" or "night of the living dead 1968", and the right film comes first.

Superheroes

The superheroes shelf holds fifty films and series. The comic-book film began as B-movie material, serials and cheap adaptations for Saturday matinées, and became the biggest business in cinema. The films run from Iron Man 2 to Deadpool & Wolverine and this year's Supergirl, with the animated Batman: Knightfall for fans of the comics.

The series are here too: INVINCIBLE, Peacemaker, Daredevil: Born Again, and the Arrowverse, Arrow, The Flash and Superman & Lois, with Smallville before them. Peacemaker in particular has the B-movie spirit in full: loud, crude, surprisingly touching, and scored to hair metal.

This year's films

New in 2026 collects the year's arrivals, newest first. Spider-Man: Brand New Day brings Tom Holland back after No Way Home erased Peter Parker from everyone's memory. The Odyssey is Christopher Nolan's version of Homer, with Matt Damon as Odysseus on the long voyage home. Project Hail Mary wakes Ryan Gosling alone on a spacecraft with a mission to save the sun.

The rest of the year is as varied: Toy Story 5, the live-action Moana, Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, The Mandalorian and Grogu, Supergirl, Michael, Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars and Zach Cregger's Resident Evil. Coyote vs. Acme finally takes the Road Runner's rival to court, and Mortal Kombat II is this year's most proudly B-movie blockbuster.

Latest movies, the first section on the home page, sorts the whole film catalogue by date, and Trending in the menu sorts by what is popular this week.

Blockbusters and franchises

The big-screen franchises run deep on BMovies. Marvel runs from Iron Man 2 and The Avengers through Age of Ultron, Infinity War and Endgame to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Deadpool & Wolverine. Spider-Man has Homecoming, No Way Home and the two animated Spider-Verse films, Into and Across.

Christopher Nolan has Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises, Oppenheimer and The Odyssey. Denis Villeneuve has Dune, Dune: Part Two and Blade Runner 2049. James Cameron has the three Avatar films, from The Way of Water to Fire and Ash. And the modern action classics, Mad Max: Fury Road, Top Gun: Maverick and F1, are all here.

DC has The Batman, James Gunn's Superman and this year's Supergirl. The B-movie spirit hides in plenty of these, too: Mad Max began as a low-budget Australian exploitation film, and Sam Raimi went from The Evil Dead to Spider-Man.

Animation and family

The family shelf is strong. Pixar brings Inside Out and Inside Out 2, Coco, Hoppers and this year's Toy Story 5. DreamWorks brings The Wild Robot, Illumination brings Despicable Me, The Lorax and Minions & Monsters, and Disney brings Moana 2 and Zootopia 2.

KPop Demon Hunters became the surprise hit of 2025, a girl group that fights demons with its songs, and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie takes Mario into space this year. For older children who like a scare, the gentlest B movies make a fine first horror night: Critters, The Blob and Tremors are all more fun than frightening.

The long-running TV shows

The long-running shelf holds the shows with a hundred and fifty episodes or more, thirty-one of them. NCIS leads with more than five hundred dated episodes, then Grey's Anatomy, American Dad! and Criminal Minds. Supernatural is fifteen seasons of the Winchester brothers hunting monsters, a B-movie creature feature every week, and CSI runs fifteen seasons in Las Vegas.

The procedurals fill the middle: The Mentalist, Bones, Castle, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist and the Chicago shows, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D.. The comedies are just as long: The Office, Modern Family, Two and a Half Men and Regular Show.

The finished dramas are here in full: Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, House, Dexter, 24, The Walking Dead, Romero's zombies grown into eleven seasons, and Doctor Who, the longest-running monster-of-the-week show of all.

The new drama series

The streaming era's best dramas sit beside the long runs. Reacher has Alan Ritchson as Lee Child's giant drifter across four seasons. Slow Horses gives Gary Oldman the role of Jackson Lamb, head of the MI5 office for disgraced spies. Lioness is Taylor Sheridan's CIA drama, and MobLand sets Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan in London's crime families.

The Pitt tells a Pittsburgh emergency-room shift in real time. Silo and FROM are the mysteries, one in an underground city and one in a town nobody can leave, FROM being as close to a B-movie premise as prestige television gets. House of the Dragon, Ted Lasso, The Gentlemen and this year's Lanterns complete a strong shelf.

Crime and mystery

The crime and mystery shelf holds more than a hundred films and series, and the television end is where it runs deepest. The case-of-the-week shows are built for an evening: NCIS, CSI and CSI: Miami, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, Monk and Castle, each episode a complete story you can start and finish before bed.

The serialised thrillers ask for more and give more back. The Blacklist runs ten seasons of James Spader's master criminal turned informant. Slow Horses and Reacher are the modern favourites, and Dexter the darkest. On the film side, Korea's crime cinema, from The Roundup to Decision to Leave, is as good as any in the world.

Trending and the latest

TRENDING in the menu opens what is popular this week, with a toggle between films and TV shows, the same two-tab switch the original placed above its Suggestion row. It is the quickest way to see what everyone else is watching, and it changes as new films arrive on the services and new seasons begin.

Latest TV shows sorts by the newest episode date, so a series rises to the top the week it returns, and Latest movies sorts the films by release. Between them and EPISODES, the front page always shows what is new, and the B movies shelf is always there for when nothing new appeals.

Korean drama and film

The Korean shelf holds forty dramas and films. The dramas lead with Squid Game, three seasons of deadly children's games, and run through The Glory, a revenge planned over decades; Weak Hero, a quiet student who fights back; Alchemy of Souls, mages and swapped souls; Taxi Driver, a taxi company that avenges victims; and When Life Gives You Tangerines, a whole life on Jeju Island. All of Us Are Dead and Sweet Home are the monster dramas, B movies with a budget.

Korean cinema is one of the best in the world, and the films prove it. Parasite, Bong Joon Ho's story of two families, won the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Picture. Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave and No Other Choice are the thrillers of a master. Exhuma sends shamans to dig up a cursed grave. Yeon Sang-ho, who made Train to Busan, has Peninsula and this year's Colony.

Korea makes the best modern B movies too: Ma Dong-seok punching his way through The Roundup and The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil, the zombie apartment of #Alive, the prison ship of Project Wolf Hunting and the wasteland of Badland Hunters. Extreme Job, detectives running a fried-chicken shop as cover, is the comedy.

Japanese films

The Japan shelf gathers twenty films, anime first. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Mugen Train are the record-breakers, Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc is last year's hit, and Makoto Shinkai's Your Name., Weathering with You and Suzume are the romances. Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron, A Silent Voice, Look Back and Violet Evergarden: The Movie are the ones that move people to tears.

In live action, Godzilla Minus One won an Academy Award for its visual effects, a remarkable feat for the descendant of the greatest monster movie series of all, and Shin Godzilla turned the monster into a satire of bureaucracy. Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters and Monster, Wim Wenders' Perfect Days and the eerie Exit 8 round it out.

Bollywood

The Bollywood shelf gathers eight Hindi blockbusters. Dhurandhar is Aditya Dhar's spy saga with Ranveer Singh at the centre, over three and a half hours of it. Jawan and Pathaan are Shah Rukh Khan's two record-breaking action films of 2023, Animal is Ranbir Kapoor's violent father-and-son drama, and Stree 2 is the horror comedy that became one of the biggest Hindi hits ever, a very Bollywood kind of B movie.

Rajkumar Hirani's 3 Idiots and Sanju are the warm-hearted favourites, and Nitesh Tiwari's Dangal has Aamir Khan training his daughters into wrestling champions. The Bollywood guide has more, including the Hindi audio and subtitle choices.

Watch now and your country

Every title page carries the blue Watch movie button. Press it and a list opens naming every service carrying the title in your viewing country: free with advertising, included in a subscription, or to rent or buy, the free ones marked in green. Tap a service and the title opens there.

Your viewing country is chosen once and stays in your browser, and every list follows it when you change it. The old B movies are often free on the ad-supported services, which love a creature feature; the new releases usually sit on one subscription service or to rent; the K-dramas and Japanese films are on the global services in most countries; and the Hindi films are on the large Indian services in India and their international editions abroad.

Episodes and keeping your place

EPISODES, the last item in the original menu, opens the newest dated episodes across every show, so a returning favourite appears the week it comes back. Each series page lists every season, and each season every episode with its air date and a short synopsis. The seasons and episodes guide covers it.

Tick an episode as watched and the season shows your progress; come back and the next episode is highlighted. For a long run such as NCIS or Grey's Anatomy, the marks are how you find your way back after months away. They stay in your browser with your list.

Search and the A-Z

The search box reads English titles, original titles and short forms. Add a year to pick one edition, "the blob 1958" rather than a remake, or a season and episode to jump inside a series, "reacher s2 e3". The search help page has more examples.

The A-Z page lists every title under its letter. Open B for the films and shows that start with it, from The Batman, Blade Runner 2049 and The Blob to Breaking Bad and Bones. The Movies and TV Shows pages filter by genre, language and year, and a Horror filter set to the 1980s is the fastest way to a B-movie night.

The app

BMovies installs from the browser in two taps: Install app or Add to Home screen in Chrome on Android, Share and Add to Home Screen in Safari on iPhone, and Install BMovies in Chrome or Edge on a PC. It opens full-screen with your list inside and updates itself whenever the site does, which makes it the BMovies app and the APK in one. The app page has the steps, and the devices page covers the television.

The addresses

The name lived at many addresses over the years: bmovies.to, bmovies.is, bmovies.nl, bmovies.cz, bmovies.io, bmovies.co, bmovies.net and bmovies.vip among them, with 123 bmovies and fmovies mentioned alongside. Most of those belong to other people now. This address is BMovies; bookmark it or install it. The addresses page explains how to recognise it: the slate page, the uppercase menu with its blue underline, the yellow HD chips and the B movies shelf.

Safe, legal and free

BMovies asks for no account, card, plug-in or download, and keeps only your list, your viewing country and your episode marks, in your own browser. Every title plays on a licensed service you choose from its Watch now list. The safe and legal page covers it, and the not working page has the fixes if an address or a player misbehaves.

Browsing is free, and the free movies page points to the titles that play free with advertising in your country, the B movies high among them. The alternatives page sets out what to compare when choosing a film site.

Six double bills

The drive-in. It Came from Outer Space and The Blob: two hours forty of fifties invaders. Popcorn essential, car optional.

The zombie night. Night of the Living Dead then The Return of the Living Dead: the original and its punk reply.

The cabin in the woods. The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, then this year's Evil Dead Burn if you have the nerve for a triple bill.

Monsters, then and now. Creature from the Black Lagoon and Godzilla Minus One: seventy years of rubber suits and craft.

So bad, so good. Plan 9 from Outer Space and Sharknado, best watched with friends who talk back to the screen.

The big night. Dune and Dune: Part Two, five and a half hours of Arrakis, for when only an A picture will do.

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