Letterboxd is fast becoming one of the most popular social networks built around a hobby, and soon it will let you watch movies directly in its app.
A new rental platform called Video Store is coming to Letterboxd from December 2025. It will focus on niche, long sought-after titles you struggle to find elsewhere. The brand says it will act like “curated shelves” at a movie store.
Letterboxd says, “We program these shelves using millions of watchlists, reviews and other secret sauce signals. It’s like walking into your local video store and seeing the “employee picks” shelf—and those employees are countless Letterboxd members across the globe.”
Video Store will focus on festival films, restorations of old titles, and what it calls “long-watchlisted” movies. Letterboxd hasn’t explained the latter in detail, but it appears to be films that aren’t readily available on traditional streaming services but often appear on people’s must-watch lists.
It also says it’ll provide “sneak peeks and unreleased gems” which will be movies available to rent for a limited time.
Letterboxd says its streaming tools will be available on Apple Airplay, Apple TV, Android, Android TV, Chromecast, iOS, and on the web. Alternative smart TV apps are also in development.
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Alongside the announcement, Letterboxd reaffirmed its plans to introduce TV shows to its movie-logging service. The brand replied to a user on social media network X confirming the feature is “still in the works.”
Letterboxd first announced that TV shows would be available in its app before the end of 2024, before later delaying the feature. The idea has proven controversial with Letterboxd fans, some of whom want to keep the platform specifically for tracking and reviewing films.
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