Stream smarter with ‘Plex’: free movies, TV shows, and more all in one place.
With streaming costs rising, Plex offers a free way to access movies, TV shows, live channels, and even your personal media - saving you both time and money.
With the price of streaming services going up everywhere you look (along with the price of everything else!), there comes a point where a free streamer that offers enough of what you need starts to make sense. If you’ve hit that point, it’s time to check out Plex. Plex lets you streamline your entertainment options without spending a dime, and offers a surprisingly rich mix of movies, TV shows, and live channels. Plex’s universal watchlist pulls together content from all your other streaming subscriptions into one easy-to-navigate hub. Plus, there’s the added bonus of letting you organize and stream your own media files from any device. So, whether you’re in the mood for something new or revisiting old favorites, Plex has you covered—all without adding another subscription to your monthly bill. Here’s everything you need to know about Plex.
Everything You Need to Know About ‘Plex’:
What Is ‘Plex’?
Plex is a comprehensive media platform that combines a free streaming service with the ability to manage and stream your own personal media. In fact, it’s our Content Director’s most watched service – and you can read his breakdown of Plex here.
On the streaming side, Plex offers access to over 50,000 movies and TV shows on demand, as well as more than 1,100 live TV channels across 193 countries. It gives viewers access to live local news channels in select cities, including Detroit, Atlanta, Memphis, Jacksonville, Tulsa, Boston, and Seattle.
But Plex is more than just an ad-supported streamer. It also lets you manage your own media by connecting your devices to Plex so you can stream and share any media on your hard drive, effectively turning your personal computer into a powerful media server. So, you can curate and enjoy your own digital content alongside a massive library of free, ad-supported TV shows and movies. Not bad!
Plex also gives users one of the most useful features in a cluttered streaming world - a universal watchlist. That means no more juggling between apps. Just add your favorite streaming services to the platform, and Plex becomes a central launchpad for finding and watching shows and movies, no matter which service they live on.
How Much Does ‘Plex’ Cost?
Plex is totally free to use. It’s an ad-supported streaming service, so it makes money by serving ads during playback. Plex does offer a paid tier, known as Plex Pass for $5 per month (or $40 per year OR $120 for a lifetime subscription). This gets you features like offline downloads, DVR capabilities for recording live TV, high-quality music streaming, and enhanced photo management.
What Movies and TV Shows Can You Watch on ‘Plex’?
Plex has a ton of free movies and TV shows, organized into categories like “Holiday Therapy,” “Plex Picks,” “The Dojo,” “Bingeworthy Shows,” “Most Popular in the U.S.,” and more. For thriller fans, you can catch Liam Neeson doing what he does best (beating people up) in the movie “Honest Thief.” Neeson plays a notorious bank robber who has stolen over $9 million throughout his criminal career. But when he falls in love with Annie, he decides to turn his life around and come clean to the FBI in exchange for a reduced sentence. But things quickly spiral out of control when two corrupt agents double-cross him, attempting to seize the money for themselves.
For comedy TV fans, you can watch all nine seasons of the “The Drew Carey Show” – which follows Drew as an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. There’s also popular shows like “Spartacus,” all eight seasons of “Weeds,” and even newer shows like “Kevin Can F**k Himself” and “The Walking Dead” spinoffs, “Daryl Dixon” and “Fear The Walking Dead.”
For fans of British TV, you can watch episodes of “Gracepoint” and all three seasons of the murder-mystery “Broadchurch.” Set in the small, picturesque coastal town of Broadchurch, the crime drama follows detectives Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) as they investigate the shocking murder of an 11-year-old boy, Danny Latimer.
And for horror fans, there’s a pretty solid collection of great horror movies, including hits like “It Follows.” One of the best horror movies of 2015, it tells the story of Jay, who, after a mysterious sexual encounter, is pursued by a relentless, shape-shifting entity that only she can see. There’s also the hit indie-horror movie, “Terrifier” – following the maniacal Art the clown who terrorizes three young women on Halloween night.
Check out some of the other popular titles available on Plex:
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Warm Bodies
January 31, 2013After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
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Scary Movie 4
April 12, 2006Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien “Tr-iPods” are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
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Mandy
September 13, 2018The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
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Outcast
September 26, 2014A mysterious warrior teams up with the daughter and son of a deposed Chinese Emperor to defeat their cruel brother, who seeks their deaths.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
September 20, 2012Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
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MythBusters
January 23, 2003MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia’s Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show’s hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.
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Let Me In
October 1, 2010A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. This is the English-language remake of the movie “Let The Right One In,” which was an adaptation of a book.
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Honest Thief
September 3, 2020A bank robber tries to turn himself in because he’s falling in love and wants to live an honest life…but when he realizes the Feds are more corrupt than him, he must fight back to clear his name.
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Spartacus
January 22, 2010Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment.
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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
September 10, 2023Daryl washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan.
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Gracepoint
October 2, 2014When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boy’s family into further turmoil and upends the lives of all of the town’s residents.
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Broadchurch
March 4, 2013The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
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It Follows
February 4, 2015When carefree teenager Jay sleeps with her older boyfriend for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay’s friends don’t believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her defend herself.
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Terrifier
January 25, 2018A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.
What Platforms Can You Watch ‘Plex’ With?
Plex is compatible with Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Roku, Android TV, iPhone/iPad, Android Phone/Tablet, Mac, Windows, Playstation, Xbox, LG Smart TV, Samsung Smart TV, Sony Smart TV, and VIZIO Smart TV.
Plex
Plex is a free streaming service that includes on-demand access to 50,000+ movies and TV shows. The service also offers 1,100+ free-to-stream live TV channels in 193 countries. Users can also connect Plex to their computers to stream and share any media they have on their hard drives.