“Filmin” - is Spanish and has a very decent film catalog in my opinion. If you like Cinema and not just movies as some snobs will say.

ARTE.tv - is a French and German Platform that has public financing and therefore is free and is full of great documentaries and concerts and interesting content.

Those are two that I enjoy very much.

Some will suggest MUBI (British) but I won’t because is full of problems in financing and several Filmmakers have finally called it out recently. Look into it.

But if people are hell bent on watching those American TV shows, then yeah, piracy wins. But the attention in American centered media remains and nothing changes. That’s a sure bet. If all people watch is American Tv shows and movies, that means that all that they’ll mention in conversation is… obviously American TV shows and movies. Doesn’t matter that is pirated or not. The ones who don’t pirate will watch what you mention too by reference. That is continuation of dissemination. But I still intend to watch American stuff… when it interests me. Paul Thomas Anderson has a new film coming out. But right now I don’t want to give Warner or the U.S. money. So the high seas are looking bright for that one. But a case could be made that that film in particular deserves to be raised in the cultural moment of the U.S. and the world and I can’t argue with that logic either.

But in Europe we can start a petition to have the EU start a public owned streaming platform that gathers all the public financed media in the EU countries in one online platform for all of us to watch with subtitles available in all the languages from the countries that are members. A deal can probably be extended to Britain for the inclusion of BBC in exchange for granting British citizens access to the platform as well.

Meanwhile VPN can grant one access to a lot of public owned broadcasting online platforms all over Europe and the world. Language barrier is the limitation in the meantime. One can only watch content in the languages one speaks. But this works with BBC and Australians have a lot of great TV dramas and comedies as well.

I don’t need streaming services to rewatch anything that I love because I’ve been buying physical media since the VHS times. And because I like “snobby films” more than just mindless entertainment as a “snotty snobby”, that means European Specialty Boutiques are still releasing my favourite movies being made in our time. A lot of them by European Filmmakers. And this way is a direct contribution to their work that allows them to continue to exist. And I use Rarewaves (British) a lot to order stuff from. But there are other websites.

Anyway. I don’t care much about what is said on reddit because reddit is very American centric. Which is only ridiculous when it’s not American subs.

I know about ADN 🇫🇷 but that’s Anime focused.

BBC iPlayer or what was it? But it’s only for uk.

Other national broatcasters like Yle Areena (Finland)

MTV Katsomo (Finland, commercial)

Rakuten TV is Japanese I think

Belgium has "streamz’. Which is a combination of foreign and domestic shows.

In my area, pretty much every TV channel has narrowly dodged extinction by starting to offer streaming services. They have a mix of American reality trash, Icelandic crime drama, British comedies etc.

French Canal+ maybe

In the Netherlands we have Videoland (owned by the private broadcaster RTL), and the public broadcaster has a free service called NPO Start

Europe doesn’t have one streaming service to rule them all. We don’t really have any European wide services for anything. Instead, there are many local services, either local to a country or neighbouring countries.

There is a German based service called Just Watch, which lets you track what movies and shows you have watched and tells you where you can watch them, and so on. It supports numerous countries around the world, so you can use it to view what services and shows are available in different countries. For example: https://www.justwatch.com/it, https://www.justwatch.com/fi.

It also has a genre called Made in Europe, which is a little misleadingly named. It’s not really Made in Europe, but movies and shows co-funded by MEDIA programme of European Union. Based on your instance, you seem to be from Australia, so this is the link for you: https://www.justwatch.com/au/made-in-europe. If you are not from Australia, you need to change the country code to the correct one. Many of the shows on that list are produced in US or UK, but if you filter and sort it like this, there are more shows produced in EU countries: https://www.justwatch.com/au/made-in-europe?providers_type=free&sort_by=imdb_score (again, note the country code).

Few countries have “Voyo”, but it’s mostly local content for that specific country.