Frequently asked questions

An open, multilingual film archive: film pages, dossiers, a periodicals library of public-domain magazines, freely licensed cinema to watch online and tools to keep your own personal library.

No. The whole archive is free to browse without an account. You only need to sign up if you want to save films, write reviews, build lists or follow other people.

The “Open Cinema” ones, yes: public-domain or freely licensed titles that play right here from the Internet Archive. The rest of the catalogue is a reference: we tell you where they can be watched legally, but we don’t host those films.

From open sources such as TMDB, OMDb, Watchmode and Wikidata, combined and translated into all five languages. Cine Archive only presents it; it doesn’t sell or resell it.

Your profile is private by default: you decide who follows you. Each list is private unless you make it public, and only then can it be shared by link. You can change this any time from your account.

Five: Spanish, English, Galician, Basque and Catalan. Switch languages from the top menu; the archive’s texts are translated into all five.

The Periodicals section gathers public-domain film magazines and newspapers, read right here in the Internet Archive viewer; the Library does the same with books. We also link out to current open-access magazines.

In “Find your cinema” we look up real cinemas near you on an OpenStreetMap map, with a link to their listings. Data is fetched on the spot and we don’t store your location.

From your account you can edit or delete your reviews and lists any time. To delete the whole account and all its data, write to us and we’ll do it without a trace. The details are in the Privacy Policy.

Write to contacto@cinearchive.es. We’re especially keen to hear about accessibility issues and broken links in the archive.