AntMovies: movies and TV series, country by country

The name and the site behind it

AntMovies was one of the film-listing sites of the late 2010s that built a following on range rather than on any single kind of film. Its home page mixed the week's Hollywood releases with the newest Hindi films and a few Japanese and Chinese titles, and its menus let a visitor move across all of them without changing site. The Indian audience found it through the same conversations that carried FilmyWorld and FilmyZilla, and the name travelled with the suffixes of the day, antmovies.tv first, then in, co, org, xyz and a long list of others.

What made it distinctive was the Country menu. Most film sites of that era sorted by genre and year and left the question of where a film came from to the small print. AntMovies promoted it to the top bar, and every card carried the country beside the year. A visitor from Delhi could open India and see Bollywood beside the Telugu and Tamil hits; a visitor from Manila could open the United States and see what the American networks were airing that week; a visitor anywhere could open France or Japan and find a national cinema in one place.

This site keeps that idea and builds the rest around it with care. Each title has its full story, its principal cast and crew, its original title in its own script where that differs from the English one, and a Watch now list naming the services that carry it in the country you choose. Each series has every season and every episode with its air date. Nothing asks for an account, and the three things the site remembers for you, your list, your viewing country and the episodes you mark, stay in your own browser.

The name also has a second life. Say "ant movies" to most people and they think of Ant-Man, then of the animated films about ant colonies, then of the old horror films about giant ants. That meaning is welcome here too, with a shelf of its own and a guide to the Ant-Man films in order, set out further down this page.

The front page, measured from antmovies.tv

The design is taken from the stylesheet antmovies.tv served in November 2020, read against the markup of the same capture, so the colours and proportions here are the ones visitors saw. The page itself is a dark slate, a blue-grey close to charcoal. Across the top runs a black bar fifty pixels tall with the menu in white uppercase: Home, Movies, TV-Series, Country, Genre, Top IMDb, A-Z and App. Each link turns bright red under the pointer and draws a red underline, the one place the page raises its voice.

Below the bar comes a short introduction and the notice line, then the category row: Latest movies, Latest TV-series, Hollywood, Bollywood, South Indian, Japan, China, Spain and Latin America, France, the UK, Ant movies and My List. Each is a short red-bordered chip, and the active one fills red. That row is the fastest way from the front page into a country.

Every shelf on the front page opens with a red slab, a solid bar of the site's own deep red carrying the shelf's name in white capitals and a small arrow pointing onward: LATEST MOVIES, LATEST TV-SERIES, and on down the country shelves. The slab is a link, so the arrow takes you to the full list. Under each slab the cards run in a grid, six across on a laptop, four on a tablet and two on a phone.

The type is PT Sans Narrow throughout, the condensed sans-serif the original site used, which lets a long title such as The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power sit on one card without wrapping into the artwork. Panels for the search box, the filters and the title details use a darker navy-black, a shade below the page, so they read as surfaces laid on top of it. At the foot of the page the links repeat: Movies, TV-Series, Country, A-Z, App, the addresses page, help, privacy and the about page.

Reading a card

Every poster sits in a thin grey frame, one pixel wide, the detail that gives an AntMovies shelf its tidy, catalogue look. Across the top-left corner runs the red ribbon, set at an angle like a sash. It reads HD when the title is available to watch now in high definition, and SOON when it is listed and on its way. At the top right sits the audience score, the figure people once called the IMDb rating and which here is the TMDB audience score, with the number of votes behind it shown on the title page.

Across the bottom of the artwork runs a band of translucent black carrying three facts: the title, the country and the year. That band is the Country idea in miniature. On a mixed shelf such as New in 2026 it lets you see at a glance that Spider-Man: Brand New Day is American, Dhurandhar: The Revenge is Indian, Blades of the Guardians is Chinese and Facing El Chapo is Mexican, before you read a word of any synopsis.

A tap on the card opens the title page. For a film that page carries the story, the running time, the genres, the director and the principal cast, the original title, the countries of production and the Watch now list. For a series it carries all of that plus the season list, and each season opens on its episodes with their dates and synopses. A heart on every title page adds it to My List.

The Country menu

The country page lists every country of production in the catalogue, thirty-one of them, with the number of titles each has helped make. The United States leads with two hundred and sixty-one; India follows with seventy-one; then Japan with forty-two, the United Kingdom with thirty-four, France with twenty-five, China with twenty-one, Spain with twenty and Canada with thirteen. After them come Germany, Belgium, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and a long run of countries with one or two titles apiece, from Argentina and Poland to Thailand and Taiwan.

A title's country is the country of the companies that made it, which means a co-production carries all of its partners. The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan appears under France, Germany, Belgium and Spain together; Slow Horses is British and American; Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie is French with Chinese and Canadian partners. That is why the totals add up to more than the size of the catalogue: each shelf shows everything its country helped to make.

Country and language are two different doors. The country says who made a film; the languages page says what the actors speak. For French dialogue whatever the funding, the language page is the one; for French cinema as an industry, the country page. The South Indian films are the clearest case for having both: they sit under India on the country page and under Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam on the language page, and the South Indian shelf gathers all four.

A good way to use the menu is to begin with the country you know best and then open one you have never tried. The cards look the same on every shelf, frame, ribbon and band, so a Chinese blockbuster sits as naturally beside a Hollywood one as it did on the site this one is named after.

Hollywood this year

The American shelf is the deepest on the site, and its newest end is the year's big releases. Spider-Man: Brand New Day brings Tom Holland and Zendaya back to Peter Parker's world after the memory-wiping ending of Spider-Man: No Way Home. The Odyssey is Christopher Nolan's version of Homer, with Matt Damon as Odysseus and a cast that includes Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway and Zendaya. Toy Story 5 sets Woody and Buzz against the tablets and gadgets of a modern playroom.

Around them sit the rest of the year's arrivals: Project Hail Mary, with Ryan Gosling as a schoolteacher who wakes alone on a spacecraft; The Mandalorian and Grogu, Pedro Pascal's bounty hunter on the big screen; Supergirl with Milly Alcock; Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg's return to the skies; The Death of Robin Hood with Hugh Jackman; Michael, the Michael Jackson biography; and the live-action Moana. Coyote vs. Acme finally lets Wile E. Coyote take the company to court.

Last year's films are a step back on the same shelf: Superman with David Corenswet, Jurassic World Rebirth with Scarlett Johansson, Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third trip to Pandora. A title's SOON ribbon turns to HD the day a service carries it in your country, and the Watch now list fills in the same moment.

For the week's newest arrivals across every country, Latest movies sorts the whole film catalogue by date, the page the LATEST MOVIES slab points to.

The long American series

AntMovies built much of its audience on American network television, the long procedurals and comedies that fill evenings in every country, and they are the backbone of the long-running shelf. NCIS leads it with twenty-four seasons and more than five hundred episodes, Mark Harmon's Gibbs giving way over the years to Gary Cole's Alden Parker. Grey's Anatomy follows with twenty-three seasons at Grey Sloan Memorial, and American Dad! with twenty-two seasons of the Smith family and their alien lodger Roger.

Crime runs deepest. Criminal Minds profiles its killers across nineteen seasons; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation built the forensic drama in Las Vegas and CSI: Miami carried it to Florida with David Caruso's sunglasses; NCIS: Los Angeles runs fourteen seasons with Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J. The Mentalist, Bones, Castle, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods and The Blacklist fill out the crime procedurals shelf.

Dick Wolf's Chicago shows are there as a set: Chicago Fire at Firehouse 51, Chicago P.D. in the Intelligence Unit and Chicago Med in the emergency department, crossing into one another often enough that the episode dates are the easiest way to keep them in order. FBI and FBI: Most Wanted carry the same producer's New York stories.

The comedies are just as long. The Office runs nine seasons at Dunder Mifflin Scranton, Modern Family eleven with the Pritchett and Dunphy households, Two and a Half Men twelve on the Malibu beach, and Regular Show eight seasons of a blue jay and a raccoon avoiding their groundskeeping jobs. Supernatural gives the Winchester brothers fifteen seasons of monsters on the American back roads, and Smallville ten seasons of a young Clark Kent.

For shows this long the episode dates matter. Every episode here carries its original air date, so you can find the Christmas episodes, follow a crossover through three Chicago series in the order it aired, or pick up a season where you left it years ago.

American drama beyond the procedurals

The newer American series sit on the same shelf, led by Reacher, Alan Ritchson as Lee Child's drifter ex-military policeman, four seasons of a very large man solving problems with his hands. Lioness is Taylor Sheridan's CIA drama with Zoe Saldaña running an undercover programme, and Sheridan's Yellowstone and Tulsa King, with Sylvester Stallone as a mob captain exiled to Oklahoma, are there beside it.

The Pitt puts Noah Wyle in charge of a Pittsburgh emergency room, one shift told across a season in real time. The Rookie has Nathan Fillion joining the Los Angeles police in his forties. High Potential gives Kaitlin Olson a cleaner with a genius-level mind who ends up consulting for the police, and Tracker sends Justin Hartley across the country finding missing people for reward money.

The prestige end is as strong. Breaking Bad is five seasons of Bryan Cranston's chemistry teacher turning into Heisenberg; Game of Thrones and its prequel House of the Dragon fill the fantasy corner; Stranger Things runs its five seasons in Hawkins, Indiana; Silo puts Rebecca Ferguson in an underground city with a secret; and The Boys turns superheroes into a corporate scandal. Ted Lasso is the gentle outlier, an American football coach managing a London football club with biscuits and optimism.

Bollywood

The India shelf is the second largest on the site, and its Hindi films run from the latest spectacle back through a decade of the biggest names. Dhurandhar puts Ranveer Singh at the centre of Aditya Dhar's spy thriller, with Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt and R. Madhavan around him, and Dhurandhar: The Revenge continues it this year. Jawan is Atlee's Shah Rukh Khan vehicle, the star in a double role as father and son, with Nayanthara and Vijay Sethupathi. Pathaan has Khan as a spy opposite Deepika Padukone and John Abraham, and Tiger 3 and War fill out the same spy universe with Salman Khan and Hrithik Roshan, joined this year by War 2.

Animal is Sandeep Reddy Vanga's violent father-and-son drama with Ranbir Kapoor and Anil Kapoor. KILL sets a commando against a gang of robbers aboard a single overnight train and barely pauses for breath. Fighter takes Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone into the Indian Air Force's cockpits.

The quieter films are some of the best on the shelf. 12th Fail follows Vikrant Massey as a boy from a Chambal village fighting his way through the civil-service exams. Dangal has Aamir Khan training his daughters into champion wrestlers, and Sitaare Zameen Par brings him back as a basketball coach to a team of neurodivergent players. Andhadhun is Sriram Raghavan's twisting thriller about a pianist who may or may not be blind, and Dear Zindagi pairs Alia Bhatt with Shah Rukh Khan as her therapist. Superboys of Malegaon celebrates a small town that made its own films on no money at all.

For romance and colour, Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani is Karan Johar at full volume with Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, and Saiyaara is last year's surprise love story. Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva gives Ranbir Kapoor a fire-wielding hero's origin, and Thamma adds a vampire romance to the horror-comedy universe that has made Hindi cinema laugh and scream at once.

Hindi web series

The Hindi web series shelf holds the originals that made the streaming services a force in India. Mirzapur is the one most people start with: three seasons of the carpet-and-guns empire of Pankaj Tripathi's Kaleen Bhaiya and the brothers Guddu and Bablu, told with the swagger of a gangster film. The Family Man has Manoj Bajpayee as Srikant Tiwari, an intelligence officer juggling terror plots with parent-teacher meetings, across three seasons from Raj and DK.

The same pair made Farzi, with Shahid Kapoor as an artist turned counterfeiter and Vijay Sethupathi as the officer chasing him. Paatal Lok follows Jaideep Ahlawat's weary Delhi policeman into the underworld the title names. Sacred Games, with Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, was the series that opened the door for all of them. Delhi Crime won an International Emmy for Shefali Shah's investigation, and Special Ops has Kay Kay Menon running a counter-terror hunt across two decades.

The lighter side is as popular. Panchayat sends Jitendra Kumar to be secretary of a village council in rural Uttar Pradesh, five seasons of small problems and large hearts. Gullak tells the everyday life of a small-town family in short, warm episodes. Made in Heaven follows two Delhi wedding planners through the city's richest ceremonies, and Four More Shots Please! four friends in Mumbai. College Romance and Hostel Daze are the campus comedies, and The Ba***ds of Bollywood takes a satirical look inside the film industry itself. This year's Taskaree: The Smuggler's Web puts Emraan Hashmi in a customs service at war with gold smugglers.

South Indian blockbusters in Hindi

Some of the biggest films in India of the past decade were made in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, and most of the country watched them in Hindi. The South Indian shelf gathers them, and each title page shows the original title in its own script beside the English one.

S. S. Rajamouli's films lead it. Baahubali: The Beginning and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion made Prabhas a national star and left a whole country asking why Kattappa killed Baahubali. RRR brought N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan together as two revolutionaries in 1920s India, and its song Naatu Naatu won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

From Kannada cinema come Prashanth Neel's K.G.F: Chapter 1 and K.G.F: Chapter 2, Yash as Rocky rising through the Kolar gold fields, and Rishab Shetty's Kantara, a village drama built around the Bhoota Kola ritual, with its prequel Kantara: Chapter 1 last year. Neel's Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire gives Prabhas another kingdom to fight for.

Allu Arjun's Pushpa Raj, the red-sandalwood smuggler, has two films, Pushpa: The Rise and Pushpa 2: The Rule, and his earlier family comedy Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo is on the shelf too. Kalki 2898-AD sets the Mahabharata in a dystopian future, with Amitabh Bachchan as the immortal Ashwatthama. Devara: Part 1 puts N. T. Rama Rao Jr. on a coastline ruled by the sea.

Tamil cinema brings Rajinikanth in Jailer as a retired jail warden drawn back into violence, and Lokesh Kanagaraj's linked thrillers Vikram, with Kamal Haasan, and Leo, with Vijay as a café owner in the Himalayan foothills with a past. From Malayalam comes Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra, a superhero film with Kalyani Priyadarshan that became one of last year's surprise hits. All of them carry Hindi tracks on the Indian services, alongside their original audio.

Japan: anime and film

The Japan shelf is anime first and cinema second, and both are strong. The isekai stories lead the series: Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, a reborn man growing up again as a gifted mage; Re:ZERO, a teenager who returns from death each time he fails; and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, four seasons of a slime building a nation.

The action series sit beside them. Jujutsu Kaisen follows Yuji Itadori into a school for sorcerers who fight curses, and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is its prequel film. Solo Leveling turns the weakest hunter into the strongest. Kaiju No. 8 gives a monster-disposal worker the power to become one. Hell's Paradise sends condemned ninja to an island of immortality, and BLUE LOCK locks three hundred strikers in a facility until one is left.

The gentler end holds some of the best animation of the decade. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End follows an elf mage after the adventure is over, learning what her human companions meant to her. The Apothecary Diaries puts a pharmacist in the inner palace solving poisonings. SPY x FAMILY assembles a fake family of a spy, an assassin and a telepathic little girl. Cells at Work! turns the human body into a busy city.

The films are some of Japan's finest. Makoto Shinkai's Your Name., Weathering with You and Suzume; Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron; A Silent Voice; Look Back; and the two record-breaking Demon Slayer films, Mugen Train and Infinity Castle. In live action, Godzilla Minus One won an Academy Award for its effects, Shin Godzilla turned the monster into a political satire, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters won the Palme d'Or and his Monster tells one story three ways, and Wim Wenders' Perfect Days follows a Tokyo toilet cleaner through a calm and beautiful routine.

China

The China shelf is led by the animated boy-god Ne Zha. Ne Zha (2019) retold the legend of a child born as a demon pill who defies his fate, and Ne Zha 2 became the highest-grossing animated film ever made. New Gods: Nezha Reborn moves the same hero into a steampunk city, and The Legend of Hei and The Legend of Hei 2 follow a small black cat spirit through a world of humans and spirits in a hand-drawn style.

The live-action blockbusters are just as large. The Wandering Earth and The Wandering Earth II fit the planet with engines to push it out of a dying solar system, Wu Jing and Andy Lau at the controls. Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms and Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force adapt the classic Investiture of the Gods. Bureau 749 and Warriors of Future bring science fiction to Chinese and Hong Kong cinema.

Jackie Chan has two recent films on the shelf, The Shadow's Edge, a surveillance-age heist thriller, and Panda Plan, in which he protects a baby panda from kidnappers. Big Brother casts Donnie Yen as a teacher who fights for his students. This year's Blades of the Guardians and The Furious are the martial-arts arrivals, and Big World gives Jackson Yee a moving role as a young man with cerebral palsy.

Spain and Latin America

The Spanish-language shelf is led by the Culpables trilogy from Prime Video: My Fault, Your Fault and Our Fault, the romance of Noah and her stepbrother Nick, played by Nicole Wallace and Gabriel Guevara, that became one of the most watched Spanish film series anywhere. Tell Me Softly is the same kind of young romance.

The thrillers are a Spanish specialty. The Invisible Guest is Oriol Paulo's locked-room puzzle with Mario Casas, The Platform 2 returns to the vertical prison where food descends a floor at a time, and Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End follows a man and his cat through a Spanish zombie outbreak. Society of the Snow is J. A. Bayona's telling of the 1972 Andes air crash, made with the survivors' voices in mind.

From Mexico come this year's Facing El Chapo, Vengeance, Until the End of the World and Accidental Partners, and from Argentina Barreda, a true-crime drama about a dentist who shot his family. Drawn Together and Agent Zeta round out the year from Spain.

France and its neighbours

The France shelf is strong on prize-winners. Anatomy of a Fall is Justine Triet's Palme d'Or courtroom drama, Sandra Hüller as a writer on trial for her husband's death with their son as the key witness. Portrait of a Lady on Fire is Céline Sciamma's love story between a painter and her subject on an island in eighteenth-century Brittany. Emilia Pérez is Jacques Audiard's musical crime film set in Mexico.

The adventure films are the big French crowd-pleasers. The Count of Monte Cristo gives Pierre Niney Dumas's great revenge story on a grand scale, and The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan sends François Civil to Paris with Vincent Cassel's Athos. Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom takes the Gauls to China, and the animated Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion goes looking for Getafix's successor. Beauty and the Beast is Christophe Gans's lavish fairy tale with Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel.

Family viewers know the shelf for Ladybug: Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie and the two Miraculous World specials set in London and in a mirror-world Paris. Belgium adds Lukas Dhont's Close, a tender story of two boys' friendship, and French-speaking Canada adds Xavier Dolan's Mommy. This year's French arrivals include Call My Agent! The Movie, the Paris talent agency on the big screen, and The Wizard of the Kremlin with Paul Dano and Jude Law.

Britain

The United Kingdom shelf is spy stories and gangsters first. Slow Horses gives Gary Oldman his best television role as Jackson Lamb, the slovenly head of Slough House, where MI5 sends the agents it wants to forget, six seasons of them outwitting the service that exiled them. MobLand has Tom Hardy as the fixer for a London crime family led by Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, and Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen hands an aristocrat's estate, and the cannabis farm beneath it, to Theo James.

Doctor Who runs thirteen seasons from its 2005 return, every Doctor from Christopher Eccleston onward with each episode dated. The co-productions cross over: Game of Thrones was shot largely in Northern Ireland, and this year's The Odyssey and Mutiny, with Jason Statham, carry British partners too.

Ant movies

The name invites a second shelf, and the ant movies shelf is it: nine films in which ants, or a man the size of one, are the stars. It sits in the category row beside the countries, and the guide to ant movies goes through every film on it.

The animated films are the family end. 1998 brought two in one autumn. DreamWorks' Antz gave Woody Allen the voice of Z, a neurotic worker ant who falls for a princess and upends his colony. Pixar's A Bug's Life followed Flik, an inventor ant who hires a troupe of circus bugs to defend his island from grasshoppers. The Ant Bully (2006) shrinks a lonely boy to ant size to learn the colony's ways, and the French Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants tells a war between black and red ants over a tin of sugar cubes with sound effects in place of dialogue, a delight at any age.

The horror end is older. Them! (1954) is the giant-ant film all the others borrow from: atomic tests in the New Mexico desert, ants grown to the size of trucks, and a final hunt through the storm drains of Los Angeles. Phase IV (1974), the only feature directed by the designer Saul Bass, keeps its ants their natural size and makes them intelligent, laying siege to two scientists in a desert laboratory in a film of eerie, beautiful close-ups.

And there is Marvel. The Ant-Man films are the ones most people mean, and they have a section of their own just below.

The Ant-Man films in order

There are three films with Ant-Man in the title. Ant-Man (2015) introduces Paul Rudd's Scott Lang, a burglar just out of prison, recruited by the scientist Hank Pym, played by Michael Douglas, to wear a suit that shrinks him to insect size and lets him command real ants. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) teams him with Evangeline Lilly's Hope van Dyne, the Wasp, on a mission to rescue her mother Janet from the Quantum Realm. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) takes the whole family into that realm, where Jonathan Majors' Kang the Conqueror waits, and gives Kathryn Newton's grown-up Cassie a suit of her own.

Scott Lang appears in two more films between them, and the full story reads best in this order. First Ant-Man. Then Captain America: Civil War (2016), where he joins Steve Rogers' side at the airport battle and grows to giant size for the first time. Then Ant-Man and the Wasp, set during the house arrest that battle earned him. Avengers: Infinity War (2018) happens while he is away, and the mid-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp shows where he was. Then Avengers: Endgame (2019), which begins with his return from the Quantum Realm and turns his discovery into the plan that saves the universe. Finally Quantumania.

Release order and story order are the same, which makes this one of the easiest Marvel runs to follow, and the three solo films together run a little over six hours. Before Quantumania, the essentials are the two earlier Ant-Man films and Endgame. Michael Peña's fast-talking Luis, with David Dastmalchian and T.I. as Scott's crew, and Randall Park's FBI agent Jimmy Woo give the first two films their comic rhythm, and Bobby Cannavale plays Cassie's stepfather Paxton throughout.

For more of the same universe, the Marvel films on the Hollywood shelf run from Iron Man through The Avengers and Age of Ultron to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Deadpool & Wolverine and The Fantastic 4: First Steps.

Top IMDb and the classics

The Top IMDb link in the top bar opens the highest-scored titles, sorted by audience score with a floor of votes so that every entry has a real crowd behind it. The film end is the list people expect. The Shawshank Redemption sits near the top, as it does everywhere, with The Dark Knight, The Green Mile, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction and Fight Club close by.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is there complete, from The Fellowship of the Ring to The Return of the King. Christopher Nolan has Inception, Interstellar and Oppenheimer. Denis Villeneuve has Dune, Dune: Part Two and Blade Runner 2049. Whiplash, Gladiator, Titanic, The Matrix, Mad Max: Fury Road and Top Gun: Maverick fill out an evening of certainties.

The series end has its own list, top rated series, every one scored 8.3 or better by at least five hundred voters: Breaking Bad, The Office, Supernatural, The Mentalist, Frieren and Mushoku Tensei among them.

Family and animation

Animation crosses every border on AntMovies. The Pixar films run from Toy Story and Toy Story 2 through Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Coco, Inside Out and Inside Out 2 to this year's Toy Story 5 and Hoppers. DreamWorks brings Shrek, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and The Wild Robot; Illumination brings Despicable Me, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Minions & Monsters.

The Spider-Verse films, Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse, changed what an animated film could look like. Coraline is stop-motion at its most beautiful and a little frightening. With the ant films, Ne Zha, Your Name. and the Miraculous films on their shelves, a family can go round the world without leaving the sofa, and every one has its dubs listed on the service Watch now opens.

The Harry Potter films are all here, from The Philosopher's Stone to The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the easiest eight-film marathon for a rainy week.

Watch now and your country

Every title page carries a red Watch now button, the same red as the section slabs. Press it and a list opens naming every service that carries the title in your viewing country, grouped by how you pay: free with advertising, included in a subscription, or to rent or buy. Free services are marked in green. Tap one and the title opens on that service.

Your viewing country is chosen once, from the notice line on the front page or from any Watch now list, and stays in your browser. Change it when you travel and every list updates. The country matters because rights are sold country by country: a Hindi film may be on one service in India, on another in the United Kingdom and on a third in Canada, and an American series may be free in one country and part of a subscription in the next. The list always shows where the title is for you.

Some patterns are worth knowing. The Hindi and South Indian films sit on the large Indian services in India and often on their international editions abroad. The American network procedurals are often free with advertising in the United States and Canada. The anime is on the Japanese-animation specialists in most countries, with the big shonen also on the general services. The older films on the Top IMDb list rotate between services month to month, and the list follows them.

Hindi dubbed, subtitles and audio

Hindi dubbed is the audio question most often asked about AntMovies, and the Hindi dubbed guide answers it in full. In short: the South Indian films carry Hindi tracks on the Indian services beside their Telugu, Tamil, Kannada or Malayalam originals; the large Hollywood releases, the Marvel films, Avatar, Dune and the Spider-Man films, arrive in India with Hindi, Tamil and Telugu tracks; and the popular anime carries Hindi dubs as well as Japanese with English subtitles.

The track is chosen in the player of the service you open, usually from a speech-bubble or audio icon. The original soundtrack is always available. The subtitles and dubs page covers the other languages, and each title page shows the original title so you can match the right edition on the service.

For the French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese films, English subtitles are the norm on every service that lists them, and many carry English dubs as well. For a first viewing of a film such as Anatomy of a Fall or Society of the Snow, the original voices with subtitles are worth the effort.

Seasons and episodes

Every series on AntMovies has its full season list, and every season its episodes with their air dates and short synopses: seven hundred and sixty-five seasons and more than thirteen thousand dated episodes across the catalogue. The seasons and episodes page explains how to use them.

Tick an episode as watched and the season shows your progress; come back and the next episode is highlighted. For the long runs this is the whole point. NCIS, Grey's Anatomy and Criminal Minds each run to hundreds of episodes, and knowing that you stopped at season eleven, episode fourteen saves an evening of guessing. The marks stay in your browser alongside your list.

The dates help in other ways too. They show which episodes aired together as a crossover, when a series moved to a new season pattern, and, on the ongoing shelf, when the next announced episode arrives. Latest TV-series, the page behind the LATEST TV-SERIES slab, sorts by the most recent episode date, so a returning show rises to the top the week it comes back.

Search, filters and A-Z

The search box understands English titles, original titles and common short forms. Type "rrr" or "kgf", "got" or "ncis la", "mirzapur" or "frieren", and the right title comes first. Add a year to pick one edition, such as "leo 2023" or "dune 2021", or a season and episode to jump inside a series, such as "reacher s2 e3". The search help page has more examples.

The Movies and TV-Series pages filter by country, language, genre and year, and sort by popularity, score or date, so "Indian thrillers from the last five years" or "Japanese animation, highest scored" is three taps away. The genres page lists every genre with its count.

The A-Z page, the last item in the top bar before App, lists every title alphabetically under its letter chips, the way the original site did. It is the quickest browse when you remember only how a title begins.

The app

AntMovies installs from the browser in two taps. On Android, open the address in Chrome, tap the menu and choose Install app or Add to Home screen; on iPhone and iPad, open it in Safari, tap Share and choose Add to Home Screen. The icon sits beside your other apps and opens full-screen with the black bar at the top and your list inside.

That install is the AntMovies app: it updates itself whenever the site does and asks for nothing beyond the shortcut. The app page has the steps with pictures, and a note on televisions: open the address in the television's browser, or better, use the phone as the catalogue and cast the service's player to the big screen.

Downloads

Films and episodes come down to a phone or tablet through the services Watch now opens. Pick the service, then use its Download arrow beside the film or episode. The file stays in that service's app for weeks, plays offline, and keeps the audio track you chose, Hindi included.

A two-hour film takes about one gigabyte at standard quality and three to four in full HD, and the long South Indian films run nearer three hours, so allow a little more. The downloads page lists the sizes at each quality and the services that allow downloads on their phone apps, and the quality page gives the data each setting uses when streaming.

The addresses and the Indian names

The site that set the look lived at antmovies.tv. Around it the name was typed with nearly every ending an address bar accepts: in, co, org, xyz, net, me, lol, live, shop, digital, art, biz and com. Many of those addresses now belong to other people. This one is the one to keep; bookmark it or install it from the app page.

In India the name travels with others, FilmyWorld, FilmyZilla, Filmywap and mp4moviez, often in the same breath. Those are separate download sites with their own addresses and histories. AntMovies is this site, a catalogue that sends every title to the licensed services carrying it where you live. The addresses page sets out the whole list and how to recognise this site at a glance: the slate page, the black bar, the red slabs and the HD ribbon on every poster.

My List and what stays in your browser

The heart on every title page adds it to My List, the last chip in the category row. The list keeps the order you added things in, shows each title's country and year like any shelf, and lets you remove a title with one tap. Build a list for a trip, a list of the South Indian films to catch up on, or a list of every Ant-Man appearance in order.

AntMovies keeps three things in your browser: your list, your viewing country and the episodes you mark. Nothing else is stored, there is no account to create, and clearing the site's data resets all three. The privacy page lists them, and the about page tells the story of the site in a few paragraphs. The safe and legal page covers the rest.

Six evenings on AntMovies

A Hollywood evening. Start with Ant-Man for its heist-film lightness, follow it with Top Gun: Maverick, and end with the first episode of Reacher. Three moods of American entertainment, and the Reacher season will keep you busy all week.

A Bollywood evening. 12th Fail first, for the story that made the country cry, then the opening episode of Panchayat to laugh again. If there is time for something louder, Jawan.

A South Indian weekend. The two Baahubali films on Saturday, RRR on Sunday, in Hindi or in Telugu with subtitles. By Monday you will know why a whole country waited for the second Baahubali.

An evening in Japan. Your Name., then the first two episodes of Frieren. Both are about time and the people it takes away, one in a rush and one at a walk.

A European evening. Anatomy of a Fall for the courtroom, then The Invisible Guest for the twist. Two films about what really happened, from two countries a mountain range apart.

An ant evening. A Bug's Life with the children, Them! once they are in bed. The name deserves it.

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