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owl61uk Posts: 3,019

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17/12/22 - 14:44 edited 17/12/22 - 14:49 in Streaming #1

I am of a certain age where I want a bit of nostalgia every so often. Longing for some films from 70'/80's and 90's and even earler. Netflix, Amazon, Paramount. Disney, I have them all but older films are difficult to find. I know there are some but there must be a huge library of older films they could show. Amazon do have a decent library of older films BUT youhave to pay for these. Is that one reason.

Would really love to see some classic black and white films

In particular i am looking for older comedy films, the recent crop of so called comedy films is very poor. In particular I enjoy Mel Brooks/ Gene Wilder/ Steve Martin to name a few. Are they too controversial for the streaming sevices. Do the major providers think their audiences are too young and they only want up to date, CGI films

Is there anywhere to watch older films

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  • Lily_M Posts: 1,355

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    17/12/22 - 15:14 #2

    BBC iplayer has some older films.

    And you could try Talking Pictures Encore, though they don't have a huge range of films and what they do have might be too old than what you're looking for.
    https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/

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    17/12/22 - 17:39 #3

    Lily_M wrote: »

    BBC iplayer has some older films.

    And you could try Talking Pictures Encore, though they don't have a huge range of films and what they do have might be too old than what you're looking for.
    https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/

    I get that there are some older films on terrestial TV, there are also some on streaming services but not what you call a huge amount. I understand that they have to cater for everyone, but it would be nice to have a place to watch them. Talking to my missus about this and she feels the same. She loves Cary Grant/ James Stewart/ Audrey Hepburn and films from around that period

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    17/12/22 - 18:37 edited 17/12/22 - 18:41 #4

    owl61uk wrote: »

    Lily_M wrote: »

    BBC iplayer has some older films.

    And you could try Talking Pictures Encore, though they don't have a huge range of films and what they do have might be too old than what you're looking for.
    https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/

    I get that there are some older films on terrestial TV, there are also some on streaming services but not what you call a huge amount. I understand that they have to cater for everyone, but it would be nice to have a place to watch them. Talking to my missus about this and she feels the same. She loves Cary Grant/ James Stewart/ Audrey Hepburn and films from around that period

    The film companies sometimes hold the rights carefully to popular classic films as they still have value. They do give limited rights for set times to broadcasters and streaming services. So Talking Pictures Encore may only have rights for a few weeks, then it is passed onto someone else, the BBC managed to get some good films with went on iplayer or Britbox. Now Britboxis part of ITVX some classic films will be in the subscription area. they now have ITVX classic movies with limited titles streaming free with ads.
    Great Movies have some broadcast rights but not streaming yet.
    Sky Cinema have some films with Cary Grant/ James Stewart/ Audrey Hepburn and some rights to Universal films. Also Netflix have some title limited time streaming rights.
    But the major film companies: like Paramount, Lionsgate, MGM (part of Amazon) now are setting up their own streaming services with their own films, so will mean different films will be on different streaming services than just one.
    Some classic films are still buy to download only rather than part of streaming services, with the decline of DVDs which was the traditional way for studios to make money from classic films, buy to download has replaced this market.

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  • owl61uk Posts: 3,019

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    17/12/22 - 18:52 edited 17/12/22 - 18:53 #5

    hanssolo wrote: »

    owl61uk wrote: »

    Lily_M wrote: »

    BBC iplayer has some older films.

    And you could try Talking Pictures Encore, though they don't have a huge range of films and what they do have might be too old than what you're looking for.
    https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/

    I get that there are some older films on terrestial TV, there are also some on streaming services but not what you call a huge amount. I understand that they have to cater for everyone, but it would be nice to have a place to watch them. Talking to my missus about this and she feels the same. She loves Cary Grant/ James Stewart/ Audrey Hepburn and films from around that period

    The film companies sometimes hold the rights carefully to popular classic films as they still have value. They do give limited rights for set times to broadcasters and streaming services. So Talking Pictures Encore may only have rights for a few weeks, then it is passed onto someone else, the BBC managed to get some good films with went on iplayer or Britbox. Now Britboxis part of ITVX some classic films will be in the subscription area. they now have ITVX classic movies with limited titles streaming free with ads.
    Great Movies have some broadcast rights but not streaming yet.
    Sky Cinema have some films with Cary Grant/ James Stewart/ Audrey Hepburn and some rights to Universal films. Also Netflix have some title limited time streaming rights.
    But the major film companies: like Paramount, Lionsgate, MGM (part of Amazon) now are setting up their own streaming services with their own films, so will mean different films will be on different streaming services than just one.
    Some classic films are still buy to download only rather than part of streaming services, with the decline of DVDs which was the traditional way for studios to make money from classic films, buy to download has replaced this market.

    I have had Britbox for almost a year but the films there are generally disappointing They rarely change the films some have been on there for a year. same with a lot of Disney films, especially comedy ones many have been on there for a year or more

    Guess it just a case of doing what I normally do on a Saturday night, search through all of the streaming services and hopefully something that looks decent will come on

    Makes me wonder how the hell we coped pre 1990 when we only really had 4 channels and Blockbuster

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    17/12/22 - 18:56 edited 17/12/22 - 18:56 #6

    Incidentally ITV and Britibox have a new series about Cary Grant''s early life in Bristol in production called "Archie", Grant’s daughter, Jennifer Grant, and ex-wife Dyan Cannon are producers. Might be released in 2023 and be either very good or very bad.

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  • Sploink Posts: 5,613

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    17/12/22 - 20:43 #7

    I have bought quite a few films, including black and white and silent ones, from Amazon. Sometimes they are second hand, but you can also get ones freshly restored and put on DVD. I think most major stations fear that people won't watch those, so TPTV tends to be the one that puts them out. I have seen plenty of good stuff on there.

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  • MongoBoomDecker Posts: 1,670

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    17/12/22 - 22:14 #8

    Youtube is a good place for old films(30s, 40s, 50s) it can take some searching to find what you want do. Often the quality of the print can be better than what you get on streaming platforms like Amazon Prime.

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  • neys Posts: 4,390

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    17/12/22 - 22:38 edited 17/12/22 - 22:39 #9

    I have bought quite a few films, including black and white and silent ones, from Amazon. Sometimes they are second hand, but you can also get ones freshly restored and put on DVD. I think most major stations fear that people won't watch those, so TPTV tends to be the one that puts them out. I have seen plenty of good stuff on there.

    I do a times like to watch a movie I may not have seen in a good few years.
    I do still have a near 10 year old Sony blu-ray DVD player connected to TV in living room but its been a year or more since I last used it.

  • Mandark Posts: 48,958

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    18/12/22 - 10:07 #10

    hanssolo wrote: »

    Incidentally ITV and Britibox have a new series about Cary Grant''s early life in Bristol in production called "Archie", Grant’s daughter, Jennifer Grant, and ex-wife Dyan Cannon are producers. Might be released in 2023 and be either very good or very bad.

    Should be interesting as he comes from my original neck of the woods.

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    18/12/22 - 13:26 #11

    wedo tv has a lot of older movies also filmzie
    https://en-gb.wedotv.com/

    https://filmzie.com/home

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    19/12/22 - 20:37 #12

    hanssolo wrote: »

    owl61uk wrote: »

    Lily_M wrote: »

    BBC iplayer has some older films.

    And you could try Talking Pictures Encore, though they don't have a huge range of films and what they do have might be too old than what you're looking for.
    https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/

    I get that there are some older films on terrestial TV, there are also some on streaming services but not what you call a huge amount. I understand that they have to cater for everyone, but it would be nice to have a place to watch them. Talking to my missus about this and she feels the same. She loves Cary Grant/ James Stewart/ Audrey Hepburn and films from around that period

    The film companies sometimes hold the rights carefully to popular classic films as they still have value. They do give limited rights for set times to broadcasters and streaming services. So Talking Pictures Encore may only have rights for a few weeks, then it is passed onto someone else, the BBC managed to get some good films with went on iplayer or Britbox. Now Britboxis part of ITVX some classic films will be in the subscription area. they now have ITVX classic movies with limited titles streaming free with ads.
    Great Movies have some broadcast rights but not streaming yet.
    Sky Cinema have some films with Cary Grant/ James Stewart/ Audrey Hepburn and some rights to Universal films. Also Netflix have some title limited time streaming rights.
    But the major film companies: like Paramount, Lionsgate, MGM (part of Amazon) now are setting up their own streaming services with their own films, so will mean different films will be on different streaming services than just one.
    Some classic films are still buy to download only rather than part of streaming services, with the decline of DVDs which was the traditional way for studios to make money from classic films, buy to download has replaced this market.

    It's a pity that Paramount+ in Europe doesn't offer the film back catalogue Paramount+ US has. I was promising my Father all those 1930/40s Westerns and Musicals they have on the US version but nothing Older films on streaming services (13)

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    21/12/22 - 15:28 edited 21/12/22 - 15:29 #13

    MongoBoomDecker wrote: »

    Youtube is a good place for old films(30s, 40s, 50s) it can take some searching to find what you want do. Often the quality of the print can be better than what you get on streaming platforms like Amazon Prime.

    YouTube has a lot of variety of anything for sure, Through I do notice it seems to suggest more of the stuff that you watched in the past in its Algorithm. So say if I watch the weather forecast. It will suggest another weather forecast a day later. Through a search can bypass the algorithm if need be.

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    08/01/23 - 17:23 #14

    Absolutely love 80s/90s movies, I have such a nostalgic bias towards them.

    Disney+ and Now seems to be the best place for them, Disney+ working towards having the entire 20th Century back catalogue on their service.

    Prime has loads of smaller studio movies from those decades, lots of lower budget titles.

    Paramount+ could be another one to watch as they slowly add their back catalogue.

    Netflix was great for movies from this era but no longer, too much focus on their garbage originals now though there still some decent big 90s movies (for now).

  • Martin1 Posts: 8,799

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    08/01/23 - 17:26 #15

    True Lies movie from 1994 was added to Disney+ on 30th December
    https://www.reddit.com/r/DisneyPlus/comments/zyvzaa/true_lies_1994_is_now_available_on_disney_in/

    I wasn't sure if they owned it but that suggests they do

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  • Nick1984s Posts: 2,324

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    08/01/23 - 18:01 #16

    It’s in HD too, the movie never got a Blu-ray release.

    When I watched it they seem to have applied a lot of DNR to it, detail was only noticeable in high contrast areas.

  • Martin1 Posts: 8,799

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    08/01/23 - 20:55 edited 08/01/23 - 20:59 #17

    Nick1984s wrote: »

    Absolutely love 80s/90s movies, I have such a nostalgic bias towards them.

    Disney+ and Now seems to be the best place for them, Disney+ working towards having the entire 20th Century back catalogue on their service.

    Prime has loads of smaller studio movies from those decades, lots of lower budget titles.

    Paramount+ could be another one to watch as they slowly add their back catalogue.

    Netflix was great for movies from this era but no longer, too much focus on their garbage originals now though there still some decent big 90s movies (for now).

    I noticed Jerry Maguire was added recently to Sky Cinema from Sony's Tristar Pictures until 28th February 2025 , which is the same date as Philadelphia.

  • snafu65 Posts: 18,902

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    09/01/23 - 07:54 #18

    ITVX have quite a few older movies to watch for free if you can put up with the numerous ad breaks.

    https://www.itv.com/watch/collections/films/6D2ZDICRbTr3UnRebcr0D8

  • Martin1 Posts: 8,799

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    05/02/23 - 18:26 edited 05/02/23 - 18:26 #19

    Noticed a UHD HDR version of Jaws (Universal Pictures) has added to Sky Cinema recently.

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