Ethiopia0 domestic services
Amharic films premiere in Addis Ababa cinemas first; piracy leaves almost no home-video market.
Informal channels: New Amharic films reach YouTube soon after their cinema run — the main way the diaspora watches them.
Ranking: editorial estimate · reviewed 25 Oct 2026 · Sources: Ethiopia's film industry plays catch-up to streaming (Shega, 2025)
The local cinema scene
For cinephiles
- Production
- No verified figure yet.
Archive, festivals and awards for this country have not been added yet.
01 / The directory
Sites people use in Ethiopia
Ordered by popularity.
- 1.
Film and TV database with user ratings from 1 to 10 and the Top 250.
02 / Around the world
Countries & their film culture
Local voices. Global favourites.
North America
Latin America
Western Europe
Northern Europe
Central & Eastern Europe
Balkans
Middle East & Africa
Asia
Oceania
Highlighted names are the country's domestic services.
How to read ratings
The same number doesn't mean the same thing on every site. Only Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have official thresholds; the rest are an editorial guide.
- 60%+ Fresh
- 75%+ Certified Fresh (with a minimum number of reviews)
- 40+ mixed or average
- 61+ generally favourable
- 81+ universal acclaim
- 7.0+ good
- 8.0+ excellent
Letterboxd- 3.5+ good
- 4.0+ excellent
FilmAffinity- 6.5+ good
- 7.5+ excellent
ČSFD- 70%+ good
- 80%+ excellent
Filmweb
Kinopoisk
Douban- 7.5+ good
- 8.5+ excellent
Filmarks- 3.7+ good
- 4.0+ excellent
Watcha Pedia
AlloCiné- 3.5+ good
- 4.0+ excellent
- 7.5+ good
- 8.5+ excellent
Same film, different scores: Parasite (기생충, 2019)
Scores converted to a 0–100 scale · collected 25 Oct 2026
In this example Letterboxd is the highest and FilmAffinity and Kinopoisk the strictest. ≈ marks a value from an indirect or undated source. Not confirmed yet: Douban, Filmarks, Watcha Pedia.
Methodology
- The ranking of services in each country is an editorial estimate (last reviewed 25 Oct 2026), checked every month against Chrome UX Report traffic data (Sep 2026). The “Top 1K” next to a site means it is among the 1,000 most visited sites in that country in Chrome. It measures the web only — apps are not counted — and sites inside a larger portal (BBC iPlayer, Naver) cannot be measured on their own. Where available, sources backing individual claims are listed with the country and the service.
- Who leads = the first service on a country's list that is not streaming. “Domestic” means the service comes from that country; “regional” means it comes from a neighbouring country or the same language area (e.g. FilmAffinity in Latin America, Kinopoisk in Kazakhstan).
- Film production shows only countries with a verified number (15 of 92). Countries count differently (produced, released in cinemas) and in different years, so the map compares orders of magnitude; the definition and source are listed with each country.
- Local or global compares, by Chrome traffic rank, the most visited domestic film site (ratings, criticism, databases) with the most visited foreign one. Ranks come in steps (top 1,000, 5,000, 10,000…), so “as big as” means the same step. Streaming, where-to-watch sites and general forums are left out.
- Domestic services counts the index's services from each country — a measure of the index's coverage, not of market size.
- Links are checked automatically once a week; the first check has not been recorded yet.
- Global streamers (Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Max) are left out because they are the same everywhere.
- Informal channels — Telegram channels, hand-to-hand copies, YouTube uploads — are described but not linked. Everywhere, a growing share of recommendations also comes from TikTok and YouTube critics, which this index does not try to rank.