These are the Free TV Streaming Websites in 2020

Free TV Streaming Sites for Movies and Series

There are legitimate, ad-supported services that let you watch films and TV without a subscription. This guide covers only those. It does not cover torrents or unlicensed streaming sites, and we would advise staying away from them.

The landscape has changed a great deal since this guide was first written in 2020, and two of the four services originally listed no longer exist under the names they had then. That is the normal pattern for free streaming: catalogues and brands move constantly, so check what is available in your region before planning an evening around it.

Free TV Streaming Websites at a Glance

Popcornflix: still running, still free, still strongest on older films rather than new releases.

Vudu: now Fandango at Home. The free ad-supported tier continues under the new brand; vudu.com redirects there.

CONtv: gone as a standalone service. The contv.com domain now redirects to Midnight Pulp, which carries a similar cult and genre catalogue.

Classic Cinema Online: unreachable. The domain still resolves and redirects to its own HTTPS address, but that address serves nothing. Treat it as offline.

What Is Still Worth Using

Popcornflix

Popcornflix remains a free, ad-supported service with no account required to start watching. It is weighted towards back-catalogue films rather than recent releases, browsable by genre, and works in any modern browser.

Fandango at Home (formerly Vudu)

Vudu was folded into Fandango’s home offering and rebranded. It mixes free ad-supported titles with paid rentals and purchases, so the free tier takes a little filtering to find. It remains US-focused, and the region check is enforced — visiting from outside the US returns a region error rather than a catalogue.

Midnight Pulp (formerly reachable as CONtv)

CONtv began as a service for the Comic-Con audience, leaning on sci-fi, horror, martial arts and cult cinema. That audience is now served by Midnight Pulp, which is where the old domain sends you.

A Note on Region Locks

Most free streaming services are licensed territory by territory, so a catalogue that exists in one country may be entirely absent in another. Before paying for anything, confirm it is actually available where you live rather than where you happen to be connecting from — a service that looks available through a VPN may not be available at all once you turn it off, and you cannot get a refund on that basis.

Prefer animation? See the best free anime streaming websites, which covers the legal options in that category.

Updated 21 September 2026: service statuses re-checked. Vudu is now Fandango at Home, CONtv redirects to Midnight Pulp, and Classic Cinema Online no longer serves a working site.