/film/ - FILM

>>8269

RIP in pieces. I barely used that site anymore

but now that I think of it, I was listening my final download just this afternoon

That sucks. I guess there's still waffles. What's mutracker like these days?

now there are two what.cd replacements

PassTheHeadphones - very stupid name with only elite users so far

Xanax - a mess after it opened for many users at once

>>8317

Both are easy to join now

Does anyone have a Karagarga invite to spare? I'm desperate.

I can provide a modest cinemaz ratio (4.15) + torrent client ratio + speed test as proof of my good intentions.

Sage because shame.

>>8348

KG invites are much harder to get than when this thread started

only VIPs can invite now

I'm also looking for a kg invite. If not kg then cinematik or Secret Cinema. I maintain good ratios at a number of pt's, power user and vip on a couple of them. Can prove via email.

>>9182

which other sites are you on?

I can probably do SC but not KG

>>9185

I'm on quite a few; film-related: myspleen, thc, avistaz... why don't you email me and we can discuss in a little more detail?

I would really appreciate a SC invite, I'm in desperate need of a pt where I can find classic/arthouse films

>>9185

oh yeah, I forgot, I'm also on ttn

I'm on Cinematik thanks to a lad, but holy hell is it hard to get into

Freelech doesn't have that many and seeding is very slow, i have uploaded 20mb in 2500 hours

RARBG and The Pirate Bay are good shots, but recently i found Zooqle and it works like a charm, at least for american movies

Empornium is the objective to go to, and PTP sure i guess

Cinematik used to be my main site, but then I got a better TV and stopped burning DVDs. You can build up your ratio by hopping on the MOTW as early as possible. I don't remember when they switch it, maybe Saturday?

Whoever sent me the SC invite, thank you so much! I'm really grateful.

>>9194

I'm scared if i download something and doesn't seed a bit

Bought some local movies i didn't found there nor in the web, they are somewhat obscure and not bad, might find my way there

Still i'm going to throw them in the request thread, after i learn how to do a proper file

TV-Vault is also cool but ripping old shows is tough, at least seeding there is relatively easy enough. Great place for TV movies too, shame they don't manage subtitles

>>9205

I usually seed until I need to make HD space. Most of the time it's well below 1.0, but I've got a decent buffer so it doesn't really matter. Then again I never downloaded any blu-rays b/c they're too large for my taste.

Were you on the site in January? The freeleech would be a good chance to build up your ratio. Uploading works too - you'll get something like 10% bonus for seeding your own uploads.

I'm on every site I want besides HDBits

>>9206

>Were you on the site in January?

Yes, but i managed to goof it and never did anything with the FL

I will get the handle out of it, so far i've found all movies i want except asian/HK ones

Heard AsianDVDClub is the place for it but we will see, first i get all i can outside

>>9244

ADC is good but it has the same problem as tik for me: there's only full DVD/BD when I'd rather have smaller rips

I wish there was an HD-only site for rarefilm

Why would I need to be on any film tracker other then KG?

>>9266

KG used to make it hard to get upgrades approved, so there are still many 700MB avi/divx files on the site. That means the best rip might not be on KG. It's helpful to check a few other places to see what's available

SMZ was essential IMO but they've been down for several weeks: https://quitter.no/smz

Does anyone know where secret cinema went?

I remember reading something about them changing hosts and moving to a temporary discussion forum in the meantime. Does anyone have a link to the forum?

>>9652

Yeah the forum is at http://cosurvivors.proboards.com/

Here's the old message

2017-04-15

URGENT! Secret Cinema is going into limbo.

The server will close down when the hosting contract finishes at the end of April.

We have a plan to migrate to a new server home as we cannot continue with our current host, unfortunately some serious real life troubles took down our two most important people when we were close to realising that plan.

So we invite you to our temporary home, it's a discussion forum only, where you will find many familiar people. There we will ponder how best to resurrect the one and only Secret Cinema.

....

Secret Cinema Staff.

>Secret cinema

I expected something good before realizing it was just hipsters.

Tehconnection is a good one if you can't get into PTP

>>9653

thank you

>>9655

Me too. Their film collection is really limited and consists of 80% mainstream crap that you can find on any other public tracker, usually in better quality. I don't know why they bother. Some of the staff have been kicked out of Karagarga, so maybe SC is partly butthurt fueled. Anyway, I'm just trying to build a ratio so that I can hopefully migrate to Karagarga someday. A man can dream.

PTP user limit just got bumped up

So invites are open for the first time in a while

>>10565

I know begging for invites from people you don't know is really annoying, but if anyone has a spare PTP invite I would be more than willing to accept it.

I'm on KG, I love classics, PrivateHD and Classix, and can provide proof if necessary.

>>10566

Forgot to add my email, it's 604090a1423@gmail.com.

>>10566

I don't actually have ptp invites but maybe one of your trackers has a forum thread

>>9656

>Tehconnection

http://tehconnection.eu/ - http://archive.is/8gPdK

They say they got their servers seized. there is a mystery message aobut a " prominent private movie tracker". is it ptp?

>Due to a court order granted to the Attorney General of Quebec with the assistance of the Special Enforcement Unit, TehConnection's servers were seized, fortunately - we run a mirror server for the front-end which allowed us to back-up data offshore from the actual server before deleting all traces of TC.

>This happened less than 30 days after the Systems Administrator of TC was threatened by a member of staff at a prominent private movie tracker. Take your guesses.

>At this time we are re-evaluating our efforts to determine what sort of set-up is necessary to prevent this from happening again as well as negotiating with hosting firms in Russia and Hong Kong to determine if they will be able to provide us with the hardware, network and support we require at a manageable cost.

>Please donate to our efforts via BTC, keep seeding the torrents, and we will try and be back as soon as possible.

>1HVr7VpswDwaShhvDakQW7Ygcjyph3qVUL

>>10650

People say the site is hacked instead of seized. So that message may be from a hacker trying to get money.

Open

https://avistaz.to/auth/register (asian)

https://cinemaz.to/auth/register

>>10785

cinemaz has had open registration for a long time now, is that a normal thing for private trackers?

>>10787

those two sites are open a lot, there are some other sites like that (demonoid I think)

I think cinemageddon used to be open with a user limit. Bithq used to have open registration periods too. But many private movie sites are closed with limited invites

>>11019

Someone offered to sell you an invite? How much?

>>11020

Some lad who sells pirate DVD's at my local premium stolen goods flea market

At 19.00 the dollar, it was 13 bucks. The advantage was direct payment there and there, no transfer shenanigans

>>11021

I'm surprised that you met the seller in person. If he's selling DVDs he probably downloads them from the site. You do get banned if they discover you bought an invite, but the inviter gets in trouble too. Recently a movie site banned one of their staff members who was caught selling invites.

>>11023

Trick is to pretend you know the inviting party if you get questioned, which so far haven't seen or heard it, probably because my other accounts are (almost) legit

He definitely sells the rips, like movies that aren't even premiered in the country, while the invite was just there due to seeding, i casually asked and got the offer

Might as well wait a little longer, i was planning to upload some movies in our share thread in some weeks but haven't searched for proper wares to rip them, especially one that makes life easier with subtitle making

>>11024

You are probably safer to do it in person, if you do it at all. I'm sure there are people monitoring the online invite selling forums.

>my other accounts are (almost) legit

Your stats aren't good enough to get an invite on those sites?

Either way PTP won't be open too long. They have already added 366/5000 users in a few hours.

>>11026

I'm in some sites already, really don't use them a lot other than MMATracker, which i forgot the requirements for an invite, 50gb uploaded i think, have 15 or so with only freeleech, which rarely request data but it's a great place for instructional data

Cinematik is a pain in the ass, i don't know what to do with it and nobody wants data, TVVault is ok but also on freeleech because you get in the red easily, getting invites there is pretty hard too

I'm done for with PTP, at least for this year, but i will manage to get in sooner or later because i get the feeling Hawkmenblues will get slapped

I could always buy one but they are pretty expensive, at least a year ago, and the risk you mentioned is very well known. Basically i will download everything i can and make lists of stuff i cannot find until something happens

>>11027

I see. Well, the Power User forum on Cinematik is one place to get a PTP invite. But of course you have to start using that site to get there. I agree that full DVDs and blurays aren't very appealing to download now.

>>11027

>Cinematik is a pain in the ass, i don't know what to do with it and nobody wants data

bookmark what you're interested in and wait for a freeleech, try to get in on freeleech first day so you can seed after leech

once you got a little wiggle room on ratio, you can snag new torrents very early and if you got a decent connection rate, seed it back and more

lots of stuff at CG, KG that are exact duplicates at tik so you can download that content then grab the torrent file from tik and if it matches hashes, seed it there

seed, seed, seed... or don't seed if it remains unseeded for 100 days (iirc) it's bumpable, then reseed it and the bump will get attention, good strategy to deploy at free leech when new uploads are prohibited, you can flood the recent torrents with bumped deads

these are the games you play to be the cinema archiver

Alot of dvd rips aren't very good, so its worth it to get the full disc

>>11112

I like buying physical copies but some rarer films are either not available or absurdly expensive, although at that point it is technically an investment.

>>11114

>I like buying physical copies but some rarer films

I like supporting the industry because most of the lesser known films are from small independent production companies or independent owners and not studios, the elements are often improperly stored, or passed along to an heir that views as worthless junk, and many are simply lost.

These titles only get restored because small independent labels spend the time seeking them out, licensing, and restoring them. I'll still shop around for the best deal, but many of the niche labels are only available direct or from a few specialty retailers anyways.

Granted, I don't have the money to buy them all, but many of the limited releases are a one-time no repress distribution and can hold their value quite well. Some of the titles I've accumulated are now out of print and sell for many times the value I bought them at on ebay. So I tend to stick to the limited pressing releases because they hold value in the long run.

literally all of them

>>11159

When I said time I wasn't talking about buffer. I don't think about that either. I meant that I don't check some of my accounts for weeks or even months because I have limited time to do so.

I don't even join new sites anymore, even when they sound cool. I have plenty to keep me occupied already.

>>11168

'check' them? I don't think anyone bothers to browse the new torrents unless they're on a music site and want to find out the new trending stuff. Most people just use them to grab films they become interested in through research or word of mouth although the KG MOM feature is pretty neat

Lot's of private tracker folks here.. I've always meant to get into the scene but never have (largely due to concerns like >>1325).

Are they worth it? I use RuTracker but it sucks and has a very limited selection. Wouldn't it make more sense if everyone hosted on there as well? Why do you guys only support your secret little communities, and not people like me?

>>11617

> Are they worth it?

They are worth it for me but it depends what you want to watch and how you want to watch it. Now there are many alternatives like streaming sites. Years ago private torrent sites were the ONLY place to find rare films online, unless you wanted to pay some grey market dealer.

> Wouldn't it make more sense if everyone hosted on there as well?

If everything was in one place, then it would be easier for authorities to take all of it down at once. That has happened twice with the major music torrent sites -- first oink then what.cd. There have been constant attempts to take down Pirate Bay too.

> Why do you guys only support your secret little communities, and not people like me?

I help people here. I have filled many requests for this board.

>>11621

>alternatives like streaming sites.

I am not happy with these personally, I vastly prefer downloading. I don't understand why rare films aren't also available more commonly on public sites like RuTracker (more on that below).

>if everything were in one place, then it would be easier for authorities to take all of it down at once.

This is true only if people also stopped using private trackers entirely. My point was more about seeding in both public and private domains, but perhaps that's asking too much. I don't know how rich private tracker communities are, but they strike me as having much more to offer than my public selection. It would be great if public trackers offered as much, but this will only happen if private tracker folks begin seeding publically.

>I have filled many request for this board

That's very kind of you! But I meant it in a more broad scope, as mentioned above.

What's a good tracker (public or private) for MP4s?

>>11639

most places prefer mkv, but you can change the container to mp4 quite easily

>>11643

Damn. but yeah, the broader topic being general public accessibility, not only fine cinema for those l33t enough to get into these exclusive clubs.

Hopefully we see some sort of decentralized service that big bad uncle sam can't take down somtime soon

>>11641

I can do that. It's a rather long story as to why I'd prefer MP4, but I can certainly cut up or convert MKVs. Any recommendation? I don't really have a niche taste, but I don't think I'm too plebby either. I'm trying to really just cover all my bases right now and start going through directors discography's methodically

>>897

I don't speak cyka.

>>11647

You could try cinemaz.to. They have open signups every few weeks. You can also submit an application to join.

See if that site has what you want.

>>11617

>Are they worth it

Only KG, Cinematik and Cinemageddon if you're looking for niche, underground and obscure stuff. Anything else can be easily found on public trackers and blogs.

In order to find the blogs, you just have to google moviename + blogspot

Some good blogs:

http://kebekmac.blogspot.gr/ (mainly for french films, hard to navigate but you can customize google search to only include results from this page)

http://worldscinema.org (nice collection of arthouse and video art)

>>11653

>blog

Interesting, I've never heard of this method. Thanks! I'm also particularly in French films atm, so that's extra useful in my case.

>>11652

I'll give it a shot, but I have history using trackers, therefore no reputation, so my expectations are low.

>>11661

I think there are more blogs and links in the Resource Library thread. Off the top of my head I know http://hawkmenblues.blogspot.com/ is good

OPEN: http://www.documentarytorrents.com/account-signup.php

I just wanted to add that i had my fill with the 'tik, 6000 hours with 4 torrents resulting in 30mb uploaded is ruthless, doesn't help 10 of those precious mbs didn't register.

>>11101

I had your comment in my mind for a couple months, guess i will have to play that game, even when i know well i won't be watching them.

Looks like SecretCinema/KaraG were the main men for that kind of niche film place, from what i read at least.

>>11383

>>11853

Thanks a bunch, CC is pretty good and will look around them docs

The Greatest Story Never Told is nowhere to be seen thou, that's bad moon

>>11951

TehCon closed open registers, those guys are quick if they opened it

I downloaded 2 movies, nothing uploaded because i had the good/bad luck that both have competent seeders. I tried to grab new releases but i came late to Worlds Apart and Embrace the Serpent, waiting for the 31th to see what comes at noon

Thanks for asking, i cannot see downloading from them that much anyways other than DVD extras

>>11951

This could be false info so proceed with caution but if I'm not mistaken this is a different TehConnection. Not from the original people. They may be riding on the coattails of the name and legacy.

>>11953

They seemed to have closed open registers in a couple hours.

>>11953

>>11955

It is a real site, but there's just one person behind it rather than the whole staff of the old one. So it's an unofficial reboot. I think he runs another site too (nebulance.io). The Laravel software is the same as blutopia.

I would invite you guys but I never got an invite like I was supposed to. If you want to check it out (and you have a profile on another site) I can ask the admin to give me one.

>>11868

Have you ever looked through the regular golden torrents on 'tik? A while ago I noticed that some of them barely have any seeders. If you are the lone seeder on a golden torrent you will have a higher chance of getting GB.

You could try uploading something too. I think you get 10% extra GB on personal uploads.

>>11959

>What streaming sites host rare films?

probably meant Mubi, Hulu, Fandor, Filmstruck, etc.

>>11962

>Filmstruck

I just canceled my subscription. $100 a year is good deal considering their catalogue but I already have enough films on my plate.

cinemaz is open again

https://horrorcharnel.org/signup.php

https://blutopia.xyz/register

I have a spare Karagarga invite, impress me with your film taste and I will send it your way.

I'm sorry what in the hell are film trackers, usually I go for other harder to find places for films.

>>12507

torrent sites

>>12507

What do you mean?

>>12511

Thank you.

>>12512

Good lord what is wrong with your flag.

>>12517

I use a vpn, what do you mean? Like you seek out film archives?

>>12521

Personal collections and the sort. It's brought me to some fucked up places but it's also been truly beneficial.

>>12523

Fucked up places like what? Do you trade with a p2p program or ftp or something else?

>>12532

Well, in terms of actors and directors, there's still plenty to pick out, although finding complete sets of certain directors might be difficult.

Nagisa Oshima might be an interesting person to pick, i was surprised to not see him when i checked that list, taking into account his controversial nature and fame. Walter Hill is somewhat "mainstream" and over played, but his body of work is worth noting, at least in the overall tones.

Might be too soon, but the South Korean Wave (1998-2008) is also plentiful, it has too many plastic facades and colors in its list, but there's a lot of interesting works there. Chinese

"Fifth Generation" also comes to mind, even if only for Yimou and Kaige.

Why not a good ol irish drinking month or a Yugoslav Wars month depicted by every side.

Maybe revisit Third Reich cinema with soundtracks and literature addendum? Italian Fascism, Soviet and Weimar had them well enough

I mean i find the current theme a blanket one to pick a bunch of crumbs laying around, but i'm not really against it, i just find it bizarre taking into account some bubbles here and there.

Yeah, they should have definitely done another shitty, low effort MoM that doesn't go beyond setting some famous director's filmography to give bonus upload for a month.

It's not like the contemporary female filmmakers from South America are the talk at every major film festival nowadays, right? They totally aren't de facto shaping out to be one of the most interesting unspoken movements in the cinema of the recent years. We should steer far away from identity politics and instead go for a theme that has not only already been done before, but is even more political than that (although. thankfully like most triggered /pol/babies I'm too uneducated to know that so it's perfectly fine after all since I'm not even planning on engaging in it beyond namedropping it to sound like I'm in the know)

Jesus christ, kek

>>12551

>Cananea (1977)

Thanks for mentioning this one. I am always interested in that topic of economic development, or people trying to improve their lives, under what looks to be very harsh conditions

>trackers

I just use qBittorrent's search engine plugins for that. If I'm looking for anime, I just go with nyaa or bakabt before it went private.

I never noticed the Gangster movie tracker in OP image. "CN (Name withheld)". I guess it's Cosa Nostra? Was anyone ever a member?

http://torrentinvites.org/f36/cosanostra-cn-movies-2015-review-115758/

The gangster theme applies to the site design but not the selection of films. Weird.

>>12667

There's a couple more where Yuen Biao got his fame, they are decent enough but i did saw them long time ago

Knockabout - Sammo Hung

Wheels on Meals - Sammo Hung

Magnificent Butcher - Woo-ping Yuen

Dreadnaught - Woo-ping Yuen

Whopping also made Iron Monkey

The first Armour of God is also decent, personal opinion i prefer it from the second one.

I would also include Once Upon a Time in China 2, only because it has Jet Li against Don Yen, but it's not as good as the first and the subtitles are somewhat off even in the Bluray version. The stunts are just as good even if it is the only thing going for it, they have no solid justifications behind it, characters really don't have any build-up. Only if you loved the first.

And i think Police Story was in the list back there, even when it was only distributed by GH i believe. Just checked and yes, it's there, guess the list also includes movies distributed, but not made, by them.

That makes it more outrageous, A Chinese Ghost Story, Fist of Legend, Tai Chi Master, and some Stephen Chow comedies, if you like his highly repetitive style.

Another one bites the dust? It's not looking good.

http://surrealmoviez.info/

>>12955

>>13037

I wish there was a backup of this site. I has a long list of bookmarks that I used for a watchlist and now it's all gone. ;_;

>>891

Can someone help me? I'd like to get into a lossless music tracker like Pedro's and maybe something more inclusive like what.cd or mutracker. I'd also like to get into something for ebooks in case libgen goes down, and of course some /film/ approved trackers.

Can we start our own tracker? I've been meaning to do this for years but have never gotten around to it

>>13091

Redacted is the best music tracker right now. Most of the content is flac. You can try following this guide to join: https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html

You probably won't get a Pedros invite unless you prove yourself somewhere else.

Does anyone have a spare invite on PTP? I'd love to be a member there. I'm on another tracker, can post stats.

Can someone invite me to KG?

I have plenty of southamerican films to share.

>>13091

Did you get on a music site? I heard Pedro's is a graveyard with dad rock.

>>13658

What sites are you on?

>>13662

Maybe I can help you get there. Send an email.

>>13663

I'm on EMP... Does that qualify? I upload stuff on there.

I hope I can upload some world movies on PTP too.

>>13663

I'm also on MAM, have been uploading stuff too.

>>13667

You are aiming too high asking for PTP on the open web. You can email me if you want but I don't think I can get you in there.

I think you can get to PTP via RED. First you must get to Elite on RED, which is not easy.

A new Asian tracker which aims to replace the possibly deceased ADC

https://asiancinema.me/

I haven't signed up yet, and it's probably smaller than Avistaz. But have a look if you're interested.

>>14489

Open signup for a few days

https://asiancinema.me/register/

The uploads are mostly full dvd or bluray -- large files.

<Prohibited content:

<Any x264/265 encodes

SC is currently on full freeleech so hipstershit is pretty much well andled and they do have some stuff that is not on based rutracker sooo o-ok.

I want to fetch some low-rated B-movies on PTP but they're totally ded. Should I try to get into CG for that?

>>15455

Probably. What kind of stuff are you looking for?

>>15466

Early Uwe Boll movies and some lesser known horrors

iloveclassics open signup

http://www.iloveclassics.com/signup.php

http://torrentinvites.org/f36/iloveclassics-ilc-movies-2018-review-363348/

>>15455

CG is hard to join right now. THC should be easier and they have some overlapping content. If you are on PTP, try to become a Power User to access the invites section.

THC is such a great little tracker

Is there a way to get into TIK these days?

>>15709

Over a year ago I saw people talking about using the IRC channel to join. I can't guarantee it works right now, but you could try. You would need to have good stats on other sites for them to invite you.

https://pastebin.com/raw/vYSuxgQH