Best websites to watch Chinese movies, series, episodes, drama online free at a glance

1. Viki

Website URL: https://www.viki.com/

Totally qualified as the best DramaFever replacement, Viki is one of the best video streaming platforms for watching Asian drama and TV shows – free, no registration, and no buffering. From the filters in the Explore section, you can find the desired Chinese movie/TV show/variety without a hitch - you can even search for movies using subtitle language as a filter! Viki video player supports switching subtitles among multiple languages including English, thus whatever language you can read, you can fully enjoy desired Chinese movies, TV series, variety shows, etc contents on Viki. No limitation for free users but SD video quality. HD quality requires Viki pass, $ 4.17/month at least.


· On Viki, there are Chinese: Movies, TV Series, Variety shows


· Subtitle language: Deutsch, English, Spanish, French, Bahasa Indonesia, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Hungarians, Serbo-Croatian, etc.



2. Bilibili

Website URL: https://www.bilibili.com/

Apart from being the best anime & user-generated video platform among youngsters in China, Bilibili is also a good place to watch Chinese movies without cost, the best part is, it doesn’t even have any advertisement. It provides free movies in fabulous 1080p quality, and keeps purchasing copyrights of recent movies, to enrich the inventory of its movie inventory day by day. Movies are categorized into three major sections: free movies; movies for premium accounts; and movies that require a specific amount of payment, facilitating users picking movies as per budget.


Moreover, with its exclusive comment system “Danmu”, floated comments fast passing through the screen during video playback, users will not only enjoy the movie itself, but the pleasure of interactions with other people who are watching or have watched the current video.


· On Bilibili, there are Chinese: Movies


· Subtitle language: Chinese or Chinese + English bilingual subtitles


Bilibili Chinese Movies


3. iQiyi

Website URL: https://www.iq.com/

iQiyi is one of the largest video platforms in China that have purchased streaming rights of an uncountable number of movies, TV series, entertainment shows, variety shows. There’s barely any audiovisual resource that you can’t find on iQiyi - many so-called free video streaming sites in China will sneakily direct you to iQiyi for video playback, I guess that suggests the power if iQiyi to a good degree. On iQiyi, full-length movies are clearly classified into free or paid, the TV series are usually free to watch until a certain episode.


Whereas there are two obvious defects about iQiyi: 1. It has too much advertisement, one-minute ad before movies and even every episode of a TV series could really be intolerable. 2. The streaming rights that iQiyi has for most videos are restricted to Mainland China. To solve that, as mentioned, get iQiyi download is a reliable fix.


· On iQiyi, there are Chinese: Movie, TV Series, Variety shows, TV Shows


· Subtitle language: Chinese or Chinese + English bilingual subtitles


iQiyi Chinese Movies


4. ViewAsian

Website URL: https://polldrama.com/

Just like Viki, ViewAsian is another free video streaming website focusing on full-length Asian movie content. Its number and quality of Cantonese dubbed Chinese & Hongkong movies & TV series are impressive. Putting aside that you have to carefully watch out for redirects while switching media player server and playing videos, ViewAsian doesn’t bother you much. Consulting the “Tag Cloud” from the right side, you’ll find hot searched tags of ViewAsian users that might appeal to you, it’ll lead you to other contents on ViewAsian that you may dig as well.


But, here’s the thing, many websites like View Asian and FallDrama that stream Chinese movies in English subtitles, most Chinese movies upon are technically “borrowed” from Chinese streaming sites (they didn’t even remove the Chinese website logo), what they do is just translating the subtitles to English.


· On ViewAsian, there are Chinese: Movie, TV Series


· Subtitle language: English


ViewAsian Chinese Movies


5. FallDrama

Website URL: https://verdrama.com/

FallDrama is another good website to watch Chinese TV episodes. To the benefit of Indonesian users, this site supports Bahasa Indonesia as the display language. Every movie has a specified introduction and was tagged with keywords to find similar series.


They have two player servers to switch to another in case one fails to load videos. BTW, this website has the most redirects as I have ever seen, it even leads me to another new page three times until I can actually click on the play button.


· On FallDrama, there are Chinese: Movie, Drama, Kshow


· Subtitle language: English


FallDrama Chinese Movies


6. Youku

Website URL: www.youku.com

Youku is like Chinese YouTube, but focusing on catching up with the latest TV series in China, and provides users with free, high-quality and the latest Chinese movie content. On Youku, there are time-limited special offers for users to try paid movies. Ads on Youku are much shorter than those on iQiyi, and the video quality is on par with the counterpart. Although Youku video player seems to buffer more; users outside China have to unblock Youku before using; and the movie thumbnails are lack of basic intro... I say the overall terrific performance of Youku is certainly outweighed the shortcomings.


· On Youku, there are Chinese: Movies, TV Series, Variety shows, TV Shows


· Subtitle language: Chinese or Chinese + English bilingual subtitles


Youku Chinese Movies


7. Asiancrush

Website URL: https://www.asiancrush.com/

Asiancrush is a website consist of numerous Asian Movies and TVs. There are hundreds of Chinese movies to watch for free with English subtitles, and their reads about Celebrity, Culture, Interviews, etc. are perfect for fans to waste time with relish. It worth mentioning that, surprisingly, some trending Chinese filming that might charge you on Amazon Prime or Netflix can be found here. Although video quality is not the best, usually at around 576p, and they do have a serious advertisement issue, but considering the above mentioned merits, Asiancrush is also a good go-to.


· On Asiancrush, there are Chinese: Movies, TV Series


· Subtitle language: English


Asiancrush Chinese Movies


8. YouTube

Website URL: https://www.youtube.com/

As the hugest giant in online video hosting, YouTube will come in handy. Although YouTube is not a specialized website focusing on Chinese film works, you can certainly find a good deal of Chinese TV Channels providing full movies and TV episode playlists with English subtitles/closed captions. Just type whatever on your mind into the YouTube searching box and see if it’s there. Besides, there’re many free YouTube video downloaders nowadays, making it much easier for us to enjoy buffering-free offline playback in our leisure time.


· On YouTube, there are Chinese: Movies, TV Series


· Subtitle language: Subtitle language: Chinese/English/Chinese + English bilingual subtitles


· Some great YouTube channels for watching Chinese movies & TV series free online:


CCTV TV Series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Vl0YiY0rDlovqcCFN4yTA


CCTV6 China Movie Official Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA5WZBVcP0sfQwUqLlp_t1g


China Huace Film & TV Official Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/huacemedia


YoYo Television Series Exclusive: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTvseriesofficial


HLBN Entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJXahC9cJK7EpSvWuLz87sw