You don't need to subscribe to multiple services like Netflix, Disney+ or Amazon Prime Video to watch streaming movies and series in 2025.
The web is full of solutions for accessing streaming video content offered for free and completely legally. While some are known to everyone (but not necessarily used for this purpose), others, less popular, deserve to be brought to the attention of the general public for the wealth of content they provide access to.
We have reviewed several platforms and only kept those that seem to us to be the most relevant. Here are ten free streaming sites to watch streaming movies and series legally, to urgently save to your favorites.
The best free and legal streaming sites in 2025
1. YouTube
How can we talk about free video streaming without mentioning the most popular service of all: YouTube. Google’s video streaming platform doesn’t just host vlogs and podcasts. In fact, it’s home to many channels dedicated to documentaries and cinema.
By using the right keywords to search YouTube, you can find content in every language, including French. The queries “full movie”, “Full Length Movie” or simply “Full movie” should allow you to come across original productions and — by extension — channels entirely dedicated to their broadcasting.
Among the French channels, you will find what you are looking for with many options. For example, YouTube has channels like Ma ChaîNe FilMs, Ciné Movies, Boxoffice, CINE PRIME, My Digital Channel, Cinéma Cinémas or ARTE Cinema.
On YouTube, you will also have access to many thematic channels in English, such as Horror Central, Barbella X: Science Fiction movies, Sci-Fi Central or the channel dedicated to old films PizzaFlix.
Recently, Warner Bros. has posted on its dedicated YouTube channel, a playlist containing several dozen full-length films, viewable for free from your web browser or smartphone.
YouTube is undoubtedly the most comprehensive source of free and legal content.
- Download YouTube on Telecharger.com (Free)
2. France TV
You may not know it, but you can access a large amount of video content directly on France TV for free. Indeed, public television offers a free streaming service that allows you to access dozens of films and more or less recent productions, all for free. This also includes series and documentaries. You will even have the opportunity to watch the best moments of certain sports competitions again.
The platform, accessible from any web browser, only requires one thing: creating an account. This is obviously free and will allow you to create playlists, save certain programs in your favorites, but above all, resume reading content that you may have stopped halfway through.
You can also watch all the channels of the France TV group live, access the replay of the programs. The icing on the cake is that the platform will even allow you to access the free streaming site OKOO, entirely dedicated to youth programs.
- Download France TV on Telecharger.com (Free)
3. Plex.TV
You probably know Plex, this client-server software, which allows you to manage on your local network all the multimedia content stored on your devices. In addition to this service, do you know that Plex also has its own online streaming platform?
The Plex.tv service, accessible from your web browser, is completely free and legal. The platform aggregates the content of several online streaming services. In addition, it also offers its own content and earns money by broadcasting short pages of advertising.
To be sure to be able to access the content offered by Plex.tv, you must therefore deactivate your ad blocker if you use one. However, you will not need to create an account or log in in any way. All content broadcast on Plex.TV is accessible to everyone, without registration.
- Download Plex.tv on Telecharger.com (Free)
4. ARTE.TV
No, there are not only soporific documentaries on ARTE. The Franco-German public channel offers a myriad of programs, each one as attractive as the next, on its dedicated streaming site.
On ARTE TV, you can find film productions, series, documentaries, reports and even concerts. The program schedule offered by the free streaming site is enough to make more than one television channel blush.
ARTE TV offers content in several languages, they can be subtitled, old or recent, in black and white or in color. So there is something for everyone. In addition to being accessible free of charge, the programs are accessible without an account. You will therefore not need to connect to the platform.
- Download ARTE TV on Telecharger.com (Free)
5. TV5MondePlus
In the same vein as France TV and Arte.TV, TV5MondePlus stands out perfectly. The general French-language channel broadcast internationally offers, on its site, to watch dozens of films, series, documentaries and other youth programs. The different content categories are categorized by style to help you see things more clearly.
To be able to broadcast these programs for free, TV5MondePlus relies on the broadcast of short advertising pages. You will therefore have to deactivate your ad blocker, otherwise the videos will not load and the website will display an error. Please note that you will be able to stream the various contents as soon as they arrive on the platform, as it does not require registration, connection or subscription.
6. Rakuten.TV
You probably already know Rakuten as an e-commerce site, but perhaps less as a streaming site. However, the Japanese giant offers a lot of free content on its dedicated platform, called Rakuten.TV. To access it, you will need to click on the Free menu displayed at the top of the page. From then on, you then have at your disposal a large catalog of film productions classified by category.
Be careful though, Rakuten.TV may be free to use and without subscription or registration, but you must meet certain prerequisites before you can watch content. You will first need to disable your ad blocker if you use one. And this seems rather logical since the service broadcasts advertisements to finance the content it broadcasts.
Then, you will absolutely have to use Chrome, Edge or Firefox. If you’re on macOS and using Safari, you know what you have to do. Also, depending on your hardware, Rakuten.TV may limit the quality of the videos.
7. Molotov
Molotov is also an excellent solution for watching movies and series for free. The French service is accessible from a web browser, but it also has a dedicated application — it is available on all platforms. So, you can enjoy it on a computer as well as on a smartphone or a connected TV. Another advantage: it is accessible from abroad without the use of a VPN.
Molotov makes it easy to watch different linear TV channels or quickly view the programs currently being broadcast on each channel. However, it is not limited to broadcasting linear TV channels.
In addition, Molotov provides access to a wide range of on-demand content, particularly with its dedicated Mango service. With the free streaming site, you can discover films, series, children's programs, but also documentaries. In addition, it offers free access to the replay of certain channels, such as the channels of the France Télévisions group.
- Download Molotov on Telecharger.com (Free)
8. PlutoTV
Launched in France at the beginning of 2021, the American platform PlutoTV is quite similar to what the Molotov service offers. It thus offers to watch a lot of content broadcast live for free and above all without registration. You can watch movies, series, news programs, documentaries, cartoons, music videos, sports programs and other entertainment of all kinds from your web browser, smartphone or connected TV.
But, in addition to the programs that can be viewed live, PlutoTV also offers content on demand. The platform thus offers a rather well-stocked catalog of French and international films and series, all genres combined. You will find, among other things, British series produced by the BBC (including Doctor Who), police series, action films, science fiction, thrillers, animated films and much more.
- Download PlutoTV on Telecharger.com (Free)
9. Crunchyroll
Fans of the manga universe will undoubtedly find what they are looking for with Crunchyroll, a service regularly promoted by influencers. This American platform, launched in 2013 in France, allows you to stream many Japanese animated series and films. While most are reserved for paying users (stamped Premium), some productions can be viewed for free.
You will therefore have to search the site to find free content, as Crunchyroll does not offer any filters to display only videos that are freely accessible. The service, accessible directly from your web browser, is also available as a mobile application on iOS and Android.
Crunchyroll allows you to watch a lot of content in its original version, most often with French subtitles. And if you want to take a break from watching anime, you can also read manga in your browser, or play one of the games offered by the platform.
- Download Crunchyroll on Telecharger.com (Free)
10. Archive.org
If you don't know the Archive.org site yet, this platform is definitely worth adding to your favorites list. This website, also known as the Internet Archive, is a non-profit organization dedicated to archiving the entire web.
The service is particularly known for its Wayback Machine tool, a time machine that allows you to view old versions of web pages, or find web pages from sites that no longer exist.
Archive.org is not limited to web pages: the service also takes care of archiving books, audio files, games, software, and of course videos. A sort of Internet (of the past) within the Internet. By going to the page dedicated to videos, you will access an incalculable number of video contents of all kinds: television archives from many countries, videos taken from social networks, free and legal streaming films, sometimes old and covering all types of subjects.
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