Story: A 7 is not a 7
How the world's rating sites differ — what each number counts, on which scale, and why press and public are sometimes kept apart.
Quiz: guess the country from its film site
Ten questions drawn from the index — which country a film site belongs to, and which country a film channel off the web describes.
Where to watch world cinema legally
Archives that stream their collections, public broadcasters' free players and art-house platforms, plus a “how to watch films from…” guide for 55 countries.
Every claim now has a source
All country notes, informal-channel notes and festival notes are sourced; 35 platform descriptions that called a site “the largest” or “the leading” without a source were reworded. Claims our own traffic data contradicted were removed.
Story: In Uganda, the narrator is the star
How films travel off the web in ten countries: live-dubbing VJs, El Paquete, Telegram channels and YouTube premieres.
Nine more African countries
Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, DR Congo, Rwanda, Angola and Mozambique, researched in French and Portuguese as well as English; Africiné for pan-African criticism; Luxor, Zanzibar, Écrans Noirs and FICKIN festivals; Nigeria's production updated to the 2025 classification count.
Story: how many countries choose their films on foreign sites
Measured traffic shows which countries have a home-grown film site as big as IMDb — and which have none in their top million.
Production history 2000–2024
Annual feature-film output charts for India, the United States, China, Japan and Italy, from WIPO / Omdia, with the original series linked.
Measured traffic on every site
Each film site now shows its Chrome UX Report rank in each country (September 2026). Rankings were corrected where the measurement clearly disagreed, and a new map layer compares the biggest domestic and foreign film sites.
Film festivals with countdowns
121 festivals by city, a countdown for every edition with announced dates, each date with its source, and a calendar you can subscribe to.
A page for every film site and country comparisons
What each site is, where it is popular and how to read its scores; any two countries side by side; share images for every country.
CineMundi launches
An interactive map of where people in each country find films and series — rating sites, critics, local streaming and informal channels — with every link checked weekly.