Est. 2008 · Singapore · Members choose the films
New films and old. Brand-new festival favourites that never got a release here, and Hong Kong classics out of print for years. The Movies Club buys the rights, restores the old ones, and puts them in the members' library you watch on your TV, iPad, phone or home cinema. We never sell a film. The library only grows.
Or just ask your AI assistant.
Free. Waitlist members vote on the club's first film.
Watch anywhere
The sofa, the bed, the train, the screening room downstairs. Every club film streams to members on every screen. The big nights out are the extra, not the point.
Illustration. The library opens with membership.
What we buy
Great new films go unsold every year, and great old ones sit in vaults, out of print. We find both, buy the rights, fix them up, and bring them to you.
Of 14,000+ fiction features made in 2024, about 1 in 11 had a sales agent. The rest are hard to find. We go to the festivals and markets and buy the best.
The golden age of Hong Kong cinema, much of it out of print, badly subtitled or never on a streamer. We license it, restore it in 4K, subtitle it properly and put it back on screens.
First and second features from Asia and beyond. We release them as Club Filmmakers, with a premiere, a page and a library that keeps them watched.
The fun part
Feature counts: Stephen Follows' film industry research. Rights are bought for Singapore and Southeast Asia first, wider when we can.
The library
Most film companies sell their films to pay for the next one. We keep ours. Every film we buy stays in the library and keeps earning for the club, year after year, and everything it earns buys more films.
Films in the library, year by year. An illustration of how it works, not a forecast.
Nothing paid out. Ever. Two of every three dollars buys films, and every dollar films earn buys more.
The library belongs to the club. Members get access, votes and perks, not ownership, shares or returns. These rules go into the Members' Charter, which a Singapore lawyer is checking before membership opens.
Awards
Club films go to festivals. Restored classics go to the classics strands. New filmmakers go for the prizes that make careers. Every win is a members' night, and every win sits in the ledger next to what the film cost.
The trophy shelf. Empty, for now. The first one is a members' night.
Round 01 · Coming soon
Members vote in one-week windows on the shortlist, and on which classic we rescue next. The committee buys the winner, fast, publishes the price, and it lands in the members' library.
Title revealed to the waitlist
Title revealed to the waitlist
Title revealed to the waitlist
Membership
Every membership renews automatically, monthly or yearly, and you can cancel any time. The same prices on the site and through your AI assistant.
S$10 a month
Or S$100 a year · renews automatically · cancel any time
S$1,000 a year
Renews each year · founder price for life while you renew
Membership opens once the club's company is registered and the member terms are final. Membership is a subscription, not an investment: it gives no ownership of the club, the library or its films, and no financial return. We remind you before every yearly renewal. Perks and prices change only at renewal, with notice.
Your card · Your app · Your AI
A Steward Club
A library is only worth building if it can't be sold off. So the club's promises are locked into its constitution and the Members' Charter, and proved every month in the ledger.
Find great films and talent, buy them, keep them, and bring them to members.
An independent guardian can block a sale of the club, a change of purpose, money leaving the film budget, or the ledger stopping.
At least two-thirds of every fee and all film income goes to the film budget, and is never paid to the owner.
Every month: money in, the split, every film bought or passed on and why, and what it cost.
Members vote on what. The committee decides how. Any override is explained in the ledger.
Seats filled from members, published every year.
No sale without the guardian. A new owner keeps the Charter. If the club ever closes, refunds come first and the library goes to a film archive or club, never to the owner.
The ledger
No middlemen taking a cut. The club is the buyer, the distributor and the streaming service for its own members, and every fee is shown.
| Entry | Why | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Film rights, Film B | Members' vote, Round 01 | S$ xx,xxx |
| 4K restoration | Hong Kong classic | S$ x,xxx |
| Subtitles, 3 languages | For the library | S$ xxx |
| TV licence income | Film B, overseas | +S$ x,xxx |
Every month: what the club did, why, and what it cost. Open to members, and to their AI assistants.
"I launched this in 2008. Now an AI runs it."Andy Whittaker, co-founder of the original Movies Club
Our story
The first Movies Club let members choose and release films together. What held it back was the cost of running votes, accounts and member contact. Today an AI does that day-to-day work, and people make the decisions: deals, spending and votes.
Filmmakers, sales agents and rights holders
New films, older films, whole libraries. If you hold rights for Singapore and Southeast Asia, or wider, and want them watched for decades, tell us.
Questions
Yes, that's the main way. Every club film streams to members on TV, iPad, phone and computer, and Founding Members get a home cinema edition. Premieres and nights out are extras.
No. Membership is a subscription. It doesn't make you an owner or shareholder of the club, the library or its films, and it gives no right to profits or any financial return.
The club holds the rights. Members choose what it buys and watch everything in the library. Money the films earn goes back into the film budget for the next film.
Great films of every kind and age: restored classics, especially from Hong Kong and Asia, festival films that never reached you, and new voices. Finished films only. We don't fund production.
Yes, once membership opens. Your assistant can ask our club agent about the club, see the same prices you see, and open a checkout for you to approve. Nothing is paid without your OK, and you can cancel the same way.
No. It's your membership card in your phone's wallet, with your number. It never holds money.
The Movies Club is being set up by THEMOVIESCLUB PTE. LTD. in Singapore. The club's committee signs deals and approves spending. An AI does much of the day-to-day work. An independent guardian will protect the biggest promises.
Join the waitlist now. Membership opens once the company is registered and the member terms are final, and waitlist members hear first.