SBS On Demand opens up movie vault
Grab the popcorn. SBS On Demand will offer over 400 free movies free.
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From 1st October SBS On Demand will expand to offer over 400 movies free to viewers.
Including titles such as Transamerica, The Skin I Live In and The Woodsman, films will be available for 12 months with around 10-20 new titles added every month. Genres will include thriller, horror, comedy, classics and action -half in English and the rest in various languages.
There will also be curated movies including Get A Room with Sexy/Risqué titles, Famous Faces featuring A-list talent, Festival Favourites: Movies with pedigree/ recognition, Feel Good Flicks easy to watch and light entertainment, Fright Night Scary/Horror/Thriller and SBS Loves -a cross-section of recommended titles.
SBS movie buff and host of Movie Mayhem on SBS 2 Marc Fenell said: “Over 400 free movies available 24/7 is every movie lover’s dream. There’s no catch, no subscription, no illegal downloading, just an amazing selection of movies from around the world on SBS, the home of international movies, available to watch on your tablet, desktop, mobile or through your internet connected TV.”
Titles include:
· The Skin I Live In. staring Antonio Bandaras as a plastic surgeon with a pet project on the side. Directed by Pedro Almodovar.
· Transamerica. staring Felicity Huffman as a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual who takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
· The Science of Sleep. A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is love-struck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world. Stars Gael García Bernal.
· Gomorrah. The greatest mafia movie ever made. An incredible film about organised crime at a grass roots level and modern crime families. Set in a crumbling Naples ghetto, crime and exploitation is inescapable.
· The Woodsman. A child molester returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life. Stars Kevin Bacon.
· Paradise Now. Shortlisted for Oscars amidst much controversy, Paradise Now is a film about two brothers preparing for a suicide attack.
· Fish Tank. starring Michael Fassbender –BAFTA winning 2009 British drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold, Everything changes for 15 yr old Mia (Katie Jarvis) when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
SBS On Demand is available on more platforms than any other broadcaster including online, iPhone, iPad, Android, Smart TVs, HBBTVs Xbox and Playstation.
8 Responses
@Dalmanic – I have SBS On Demand on my Samsung TV and the picture quality is excellent (though I have cable internet and watch via direct cable not Wi-Fi) and there are no watermarks. However there are ad breaks during the movies usually two to four breaks depending on the length of the movie that show one ad each break that go for 15 secs (and one at the start that is usually 20 secs long).
It would be better without them, however it doesn’t bother me that much (guess I’ve become accustomed to it) and I am a boring old fart as well (well 54 anyway), so take that as you will.
As a BOF (boring old …) I find the idea of watching anything, especially a movie, on a tiny phone screen, absolutely amazing! (Not in a good way).
However on a larger screen, I might be interested!
But – first I need to know there won’t be any ad breaks in the movie, or pollution on the screen like station ID watermarks.
Cause if there are, I’m not interested at all.
Foxtel movie channels supply a clean, uninterrupted movie.
Wow, great news. Some pearlers there worth seeing again.
Wowsers! What a goldmine!
Thanks, SBS!
Great initiative!
SBS on demand is available on windows phone. The English movies available on the SBS windows phone app at the moment are Mulholland Drive and Sin City if anyone is interested. Sin City is about to expire in a few days.
Hmmm-great if you happen to have unlimited download bandwidth-all of these have been shown previously by them and now that SBS is screening 2 or 3 movies night late/early morning in addition to their usual line up, you’ll probably see them screened again over a year or so-I would much rather have seen more of the stuff from the 80s/90s and on which hasn’t been seen recently-all those Yugoslav, Polish, Czech , French films that don’t get a guernsey these days.