How WatchTrove Works: Find What to Watch and Where

What WatchTrove offers

WatchTrove is a free guide to movies and TV series. It helps you answer two questions quickly: what is worth watching, and how can you watch it legally where you live.

Every title has its own page with a synopsis, release information, genres, the TMDB audience rating, cast and key crew, an official trailer when one exists, related titles and, for series, a full season and episode guide. Each page also has a Where to Watch panel that lists the services offering the title in a country you choose.

WatchTrove does not host, stream or sell video. It does not link to unofficial copies, and it never puts a play button on a page unless that button opens an official trailer. When you are ready to watch, you go to the service itself.

Finding movies and TV shows

There are several ways in, depending on how sure you are about what you want.

The homepage changes daily. It opens with the week’s top trending film, then rails of trending movies and series, a row of well-rated titles that are popular right now, the five highest-rated movies and shows, new releases, and a calendar of upcoming theatrical dates.
Movies and TV Shows are the full catalogs. They start with the most popular titles and get more useful once you add filters.
Genres gives each genre its own page, with its best-rated and most-watched titles side by side.
Explore collects shortcuts by decade, country of origin, original language and streaming service.

Search and filters

The search box at the top of every page suggests matching titles after you type two letters. Each suggestion shows the year, whether it is a film or a series, and its rating, which helps when several titles share a name. Press Enter to see every match, then narrow the results to movies or TV shows. Original-language titles work too, so you can search for a Korean or French title as it was released.

In the catalogs, Filter and sort opens a panel with these options:

Genre, year and decade. For series, the year means the year the show first aired.
Country of origin. This is where a title was produced, which is different from where you can stream it.
Original language, regardless of dubbing or subtitles.
Minimum rating and minimum votes. Use them together. A 9.0 from twelve people means much less than an 8.1 from forty thousand.
Streaming service. This shows titles included with a subscription such as Netflix or Prime Video in the country you pick.

Filters combine, and each active filter appears as a chip you can remove with one tap. If a combination returns nothing, WatchTrove shows which single filter to drop to get results back.

Trending, charts and ratings

WatchTrove has five charts. Each one prints its rule at the top of the page, so you know what you are looking at.

Trending reflects activity on TMDB over the past week. It shows what people are paying attention to now, not what is best.
Popular follows TMDB’s daily popularity score, which moves more slowly than Trending.
Top Rated sorts by audience rating but only includes movies with at least 2,000 votes and series with at least 800, so a small, enthusiastic group cannot push a title to the top.
New Releases covers films released in your country in the last 45 days and series that premiered in the same period.
Coming Soon lists dated releases for the next four months, earliest first.

The rating on WatchTrove is the TMDB audience rating, an average of scores from 1 to 10 given by TMDB members. It is not a critics’ score and not WatchTrove’s opinion. Ratings appear only when at least 25 people have voted, and title pages always show the vote count beside the number.

Movie and TV pages

A title page opens with the essentials: year, age certification for your country, runtime or number of seasons, genres and the rating. Below that you will find:

Overview: the official synopsis. For series, there is also an estimate of how long it takes to watch every episode.
Trailer: an official video hosted on YouTube. Only a preview image appears at first. The player itself loads when you press play, which keeps pages fast.
Cast and crew: main cast with character names, plus director, writers, composer and cinematographer for films, or creators and network for series.
Seasons and episodes: every season, with air dates, runtimes, summaries and guest stars for each episode.
More like this: related titles recommended by TMDB.

Where to Watch by country

Streaming rights are sold country by country, so a film can be included with one service in the United States, sit on a different one in Morocco and be available only to rent somewhere else. That is why the Where to Watch panel always names the country it describes.

WatchTrove starts with the country set in Preferences. On any title page you can switch between the United States and Morocco with one tap, or pick from more than twenty other countries. Offers are grouped by type:

SubscriptionIncluded with a paid subscription.
FreeFree to watch, no payment.
Free with adsFree to watch, with commercials.
RentPay once to watch for a limited time.
BuyPay once to keep a digital copy.

If a country shows no offers, the title may genuinely not be available there, or the data for that market may be incomplete. Coverage is usually more detailed for large markets than for smaller ones.

My List

Save any title with the bookmark on its poster, or mark it as Want to Watch or Watched on its page. My List keeps both groups and lets you switch between them.

There is no account. The list is stored in your browser’s local storage on this device and is never sent to WatchTrove. Clearing your browsing data deletes it, and it will not appear automatically on your phone if you saved it on a laptop. To keep a backup or move it, use Export file and then Import file on the other device.

Where the information comes from

Titles, synopses, artwork, credits, release dates, ratings and recommendations come from The Movie Database (TMDB), a community-maintained database. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Where to Watch offers come from JustWatch, which tracks streaming catalogs in many countries and shares that data through TMDB. WatchTrove does not change these facts. It organizes them, labels them and explains them. Our Editorial Policy describes what we write ourselves and how corrections work.

Limitations worth knowing

Data changes constantly. Lists refresh hourly or daily, and details are kept for a limited time. A title that left a service this morning may still be listed for a while.
Release dates move. Coming Soon dates are the latest scheduled dates, and studios often change them.
Prices are not shown. Rent and Buy tell you that an option exists, not what it costs. Check the price on the service.
Translations vary. Titles and synopses in other languages depend on TMDB volunteers. When a translation is missing, the English text appears.
Community data can be wrong. If a detail looks off, it can be corrected at the source on TMDB, and our Contact page explains how to report it.

Before you subscribe, rent or buy, confirm availability on the service itself. WatchTrove is a guide to help you decide what to watch, not a substitute for checking with the service.