Where to watch TV shows and films in English with subtitles

1. Puzzle English

• Platforms: web.
• Cost: 2 990 rubles a year.

Puzzle English is a service for the comprehensive study of English. In addition to the many lessons, exercises and games on the subject, on the project site you will find a video library with 46 serials and 512 films in English. The assortment lacks new products, but a lot of time-tested hits. All these videos can be watched online by paying an annual subscription.

The service player allows you to display double subtitles and control the playback speed. The video quality is average, obviously less than Full HD. At the service of users is also a special translator who takes into account the context and works after a click on the word. Unfamiliar words can easily be sent to a personal dictionary and then taught them with special exercises.

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2. Ororo.tv

• Platforms: web.
• Cost: free of charge or from 299 rubles per month.

The project catalog includes more than 3 000 films and serials in English. Among them there are also novelties, and already widely known old works in HD resolution.

You can include in the player simultaneously several subtitles in different languages, adjust the playback speed, quickly translate words and add them to your personal dictionary. The service allows you to learn vocabulary using the well-known technique of interval repetitions.

Every day the user is allowed to watch up to 45 minutes of video and translate up to 50 words for free. To remove restrictions and in addition to access to films and additional series, you need to issue a paid subscription. Subscribers can not only watch videos online, but also download it for viewing without the Internet.

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3. Hamatata.com

• Platforms: web.
• Cost: free of charge.

The main feature of the service is that it does not contain its own content. But you can add videos to it from your computer or by link from other Internet resources, and then connect the subtitles to them. This will allow you to watch TV shows and movies in the Hamatata.com web player with a convenient built-in subtitle translator.

Hamatata.com uses the technologies of Yandex, Google and other translation systems and can connect to the LinguaLeo dictionary so that you can export new words there and then learn them. All the features of the service are available for free.

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4. Traditional video services

Popular sites with video content like “Google Play Movies”, iTunes, Netflix, ivi and Okko also offer serials and movies in English with different subtitle options. Especially rich in this regard, the choice is provided by foreign media giants. At the Russian companies (ivi and Okko) the assortment of video with the English sound track is more modest.

Depending on the service, the viewer pays for the subscription or buys separate series and films, and then can enjoy the video in Full HD on almost any modern device. You can choose the language of audio and text, but you can not include multiple subtitles at the same time. Quick translation functions and dictionaries are also missing. Although there are workarounds. For example, the SUFLI extension for Chrome translates subtitles in the Netflix web version by click.

iTunes

• Platforms: macOS, iOS, Windows, Apple TV.
• Cost: purchase and rent of serials and films at different prices.

iTunes is available on all Apple devices out of the box, and Windows users can install a special client and watch the video in it. But here on Android you can not use the service.

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Google Play Movies & TV

• Platforms: web, Android, iOS, Smart TV.
• Cost: purchase and rent of serials and films at different prices.

Google offers viewers a huge library of movies, some of them can be viewed in different languages. And prices are often lower than in iTunes.

You can choose the quality of the clips up to Full HD, as well as the audio and subtitle language. For the normal operation of the application you need a stable high-speed Internet.

Popcorn Time is not available on Google Play and the App Store, so it’s necessary to install it on smartphones in non-standard ways. To run the application on Android, you must enable the installation of programs from third-party sources in the device settings, then download the Android version of PopCorn Time from the official site directly to your tablet or smartphone.

To run the application on iOS, you need to download the installer to your computer and install it with the iOS-client Popcorn Time on your iPhone or iPad. Jailbreak is not needed for this.

Popcorn Time, like torrent trackers, distributes content illegally. Using it, you may violate copyrights. At the same time, the program allows you to watch movies that are not available in your area officially.

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6. Torrent Trackers

• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Android, Linux.
• Cost: free of charge.

If you do not mind downloading the video to the device, then, of course, you can download English-language serials and movies from torrent trackers. All you need is a file search service (for example, Skytorrents, TorrentSeeker, XTORX, or another) and uTorrent to download them. If the downloaded video ends up without the desired subtitles, they can be downloaded separately from the Opensubtitles resource. For viewing it is convenient to use players like KMPlayer, which support double subtitles.