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123movies is one of the world's most popular free streaming services that provides access to a huge collection of movies and TV shows for free, without registration or providing any personal information. The service is provided as is and it's your choice to use it or not.
The main things you need to know about 123Movies are as follows
- Our service is absolutely free! If any clone site of the official 123Movies will ask you to subscribe, you should not do it and you should leave such a site.
- Our service does not require registration or any actions to get access to streaming movies and TV shows.
- 123Movies does not store cookies or any personalized data about visitors in order to ensure your complete anonymity and thereby protect you from harassment by particularly vigilant ISPs.
- 123Movies is completely safe for users - all files on the site are scanned by antivirus once a day on a scheduled basis.
- On 123Movies you will find a choice of more than 5 players, which gives you the opportunity to choose the player with the best video quality, subtitles and adjustable playback speed.
Legality of 123Movies
There is a lot of controversy surrounding this and many are convinced that the 123Movies service is in a gray area, but this is not the case. 123Movies is a movie catalog that does not itself contain movie files or TV shows. What you see on 123Movies pages are embedded players from third-party content providers found on the web. To draw an analogy, 123Movies is like Google - the service just provides the information found on the web, and whether you use it or not is your choice.
It is worth noting that watching movies or TV shows online is completely legal.
The following information is addressed to those users who are sure that the Internet provider monitors your traffic and can send you a fine for visiting 123Movies service. We recommend you to use VPNs such as Wireguard, GoodbyeDPI and other similar ones that do not require deep knowledge to use them. We do not recommend using public VPN services for the same reasons of your anonymity.
How to make watching movies and TV shows on 123Movies more comfortable
We recommend you to use ad blockers, because third-party embedded services have annoying pop-up ads.
The second thing you should do is to use the Favorites functionality, which allows you to create a list of movies that you would like to watch or that you really like and would like to watch later.
Third, use an advanced filter to search for content. It allows you to limit the search area by IMDB rating, select genres, year of release and many others. Don't neglect this functionality.
What information is available on movie and TV show pages
After some time of deliberation, we decided that the most important things for users are IMDB, TMDB and RottenTomatoes ratings. Among other things, of course. That's why we update these ratings regularly every few days.
In addition to ratings, the preview page has a brief synopsis of the movie or TV show, a poster, a list of genres and keywords (tags) by which you can find similar movies.
Note the novelty - a block of similar movies, which is formed not just in random order, but based on a smart algorithm, inside which sits AI ChatGPT and gives recommendations. Take a closer look at this content, it will make you happy with its accuracy.
Advantages of 123movies over other services
The main advantage, is that 123movies has everything! The content here is not limited by platform exclusivity like on paid streaming services, where you have to buy a subscription to watch exclusive content that is not available on other services. This is not the case with 123movies - we are not constrained by such limits, so you can watch everything here.
The second advantage is a huge collection, which includes old and very rare movies that you are unlikely to find anywhere else. For true movie buffs, 123movies is a boon also because the rarities are exhibited in excellent video quality and are available for free. This is something you won't find on paid streaming services.
The third but not the least advantage is the availability of complete information from different sources about the movie or TV show. You don't need to visit several sites to find out the rating. Everything is collected in one place, as well as information about fees, awards and much more.