Stream movies with your library

filmfriend offers entertaining and award-winning movies from all over the world, exciting documentaries and great children’s movies and series. Movies you’ve never seen before. Selected for you. On your smart TV, mobile device, or the web. Ad-free and at no cost with your library card. Is your library included?

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Use your library card to access a wide range of streaming services

Members of affiliated libraries can choose from more than hundreds of movies and series. Extensive search functions and carefully curated themed collections serve as inspiring guides.

The extensive range of programs can be streamed around the clock and completely anonymously – without collection of personal data. Logging in is easily done with your library card and password.

Best of all, filmfriend is available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium, and is completely free for members of affiliated libraries.

filmfriend - how does it work?

filmfriend is a streaming service offered by libraries.

You log on to filmfriend with your library card …

… and you can enjoy unlimited access to all films in our catalogue.

New films and series are added every week.

Is my library included?

843 libraries currently participating

Are you already a member of one of the listed libraries? You can log in and use filmfriend straight away. Enjoy the film!

Recent highlights on filmfriend

Library customers and press comments

"Fantastic selection, super structured, and also very nice design! Thank you very much!"

H.S.

"Your site is wonderfully clear, so lovingly curated and almost overflows with interesting films. Wonderful!"

S.S.

"The film selection is very well made. Browsing is also fun because of the ever-changing collections. The app itself is well structured, very user-friendly and it works really well."

G.A.

"The app is exceptionally well designed and user-friendly. [...] You never get the feeling that the lists were curated by an idiotic algorithm."

welt.de

"Not only cinephiles will find a truly exquisite selection at filmfriend. Children, documentary and music fans will also have a great time."

Kölner Stadtanzeiger

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