There is more to watch than at any point in history and it has never been harder to decide. Six streaming services, each with its own idea of what you'd like. Review sites that load slower than the trailer. Scores that mean different things on different pages. And by the time you've worked out that the thing you fancied left Netflix last Tuesday, it's ten o'clock.
Fi1m is our answer. One page per film or series, with everything you need to decide on it: a considered review, the critics' verdict as a single honest number, where it is streaming tonight where you live and what it costs, the certificate, the running time, the trailer. Nothing else. No advertising, no autoplay, no pop-over asking you to subscribe before you've read a sentence.
What you'll find here
- One review per title. Written to help you decide, not to fill a page. A clear verdict, a paragraph on the craft, a caveat if there is one, and no spoilers past the first act.
- Three scores, kept separate. Ours, the critics' and the audience's. They are different things, and we say so. How we rate explains each.
- Where to watch, checked daily. The services in your country, with prices for rentals; change country and the whole site follows. If a title is leaving somewhere this week, we tell you.
- Discover. Ask it what you're in the mood for, in plain English, and it answers from our own reviews with its sources shown. It is the closest thing we have to a friend who has seen everything.
- Collections. A Watchlist that knows what's streaming, and named collections you can share or publish.
Why Fi1m
The 1 in the name is the point of the site. Not a hundred films you could watch; the one film for tonight, for the people on the sofa and the mood they are in. Everything here, from the single review per title to Discover, is built to get you from “what shall we watch?” to one answer quickly, and then out of the way so you can watch it.
It is also, less modestly, a number one. We want Fi1m to be the best resource for film anywhere: the most accurate, the most current, the quickest to load and the easiest to trust. We are not there yet, and we say so on the pages where it shows. But that is the standard we are holding ourselves to, and the name is there to remind us.
Ask us for a review
We have reviewed a lot, and we have not reviewed everything. If you ask Discover about a film or series we have not covered, it will say so, offer the nearest things we have, and give you a button: Request a review. Press it and the title goes on our list. Reviews usually land within a few days, and the page appears in New reviews when it does. Ask Discover again then and it will have a view.
The same button sits beside the films and series named on a person's page that we have not got to yet, and on their cards in Discover. There is no form, no account and no vote to win; one reader asking is enough. We keep a daily allowance so a busy day cannot crowd out the films we had already planned, and a title that misses the cut goes in the next morning. It is the simplest way we know to make sure the site grows towards what people actually want to watch.
How it's made
Fi1m is written and maintained by AI models working under an editorial process with a named human editor. We think that is a reasonable way to keep a site this size accurate, current and free of advertising, and we think you're entitled to know it. Every review carries a disclosure line; How we use AI sets out exactly what the models do, what they don't, how work is checked before it appears, and what happens when we get something wrong. We correct in the open, on a corrections page anyone can read.
Ratings and reviews from members are written by members. We check them for spoilers and abuse, and otherwise leave them alone.
How it's paid for
Not by advertising, and not by selling your data; there are no third-party trackers on this site. Fi1m is free to read. When you rent or buy a film through one of our links, some services pay us a small commission, which does not affect what we say about the film or where it appears. Members pay a small monthly fee for unlimited Discover and a personal weekly email, and that keeps the lights on for everyone else.
Who
Fi1m Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales. The site is edited from London. The founders are a married couple who could not agree on a film in 2024 and decided to do something about it. One of them still thinks Arrival is better than Blade Runner 2049. The site takes no position.
Distributors, publicists and rights holders can find the right address on the contact page. So can anyone who has spotted a mistake, wants to say hello, or would like to tell us we're wrong about Poor Things.