Best Movies You Can Watch for Free on YouTube

YouTube is a video goldmine when it comes wasting large amounts of time. With a plethora of videos that range from cute cats, to WTF moments and the newest Katy Perry single, we often see ourselves spending countless hours straight lost on the site. Seldom though do we actually get a chance to sit down and stream a full movie. And with copyright protection, bandwidth restrictions and paid options, we rarely get the chance to see any for FREE. However, with help from Zero Dollar Movies we’ve complied a list of the best movies you can watch for FREE on YouTube.

**We have no idea if the movies have been uploaded to YouTube illegally and could come down at any time** 

The Imposter

Genre: Crime, Documentary

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: Adam O’Brian, Anna Ruben

Synopsis: A documentary centered on a young Frenchman who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.

Insidious: Chapter 2

Genre: Horror

Video Quality: 5/5

Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne

Synopsis: The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Genre: Comedy

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: John Candy, Steve Martin

Synopsis: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.

Hoop Dreams

Genre: Sports, Documentary

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: William Gates, Arthur Agee

Synopsis: A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

Mr. Holland Opus

Genre: Music, Drama

Video Quality: 4/5

Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly

Synopsis: A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.

Kingpin

Genre: Sports, Comedy

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Bill Murray

Synopsis: A star bowler whose career was prematurely “cut off” hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.

Last Man Standing

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Video Quality: 5/5

Starring: Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern

Synopsis: A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

The Rock

Genre: Action

Video Quality: 5/5

Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage

Synopsis: A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.

Donnie Brasco

Genre: Crime, Drama

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: Johnny Depp, Al Pacino

Synopsis: An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life to the expense of his regular one.

He Got Game

Genre: Sports, Drama

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: Ray Allen, Denzel Washington

Synopsis: A basketball player’s father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

The Sixth Sense

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Video Quality: 4/5

Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment

Synopsis: A boy who communicates with spirits that don’t know they’re dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

Memento

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Video Quality: 2/5

Starring: Guy Pierce, Carrie-Anne Moss

Synopsis: A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.

About Schmidt

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Video Quality: 5/5

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: A man upon retirement embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter’s wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.

Secondhand Lions

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: A coming-of-age story about a shy, young boy sent by his irresponsible mother to spend the summer with his wealthy, eccentric uncles in Texas.

School of Rock

Genre: Music, Comedy

Video Quality: 2/5

Starring: Jack Black, Joan Cusack

Synopsis: A wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band.

Primer

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan

Synopsis: Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there’s something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they’ve built, wrestle over their new invention.

Sunshine Cleaning

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Video Quality: 4/5

Starring: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt

Synopsis: In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business — a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service — with her unreliable sister.

Slumdog Millionaire

Genre: Drama

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: Dev Patel, Irrfan Khan

Synopsis: A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.

The Invention of Lying

Genre: Comedy

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe

Synopsis: A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Genre: Documentary

Video Quality: 3/5

Starring: Banksy, Mr. Brainwash

Synopsis: The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner

Puncture

Genre: Drama

Video Quality: 5/5

Starring: Chris Evans, Mark Kassen

Synopsis: A David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons.