r/movies

Updated Aug 27

/r/movies is the world's largest online film community, with over 37,000,000 members. Come on in and talk about movies with us!

Members

37,593,935

37.6M

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

85.2

from the last 100 posts, spanning 27.9h

Comments per post

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

+0.0%

+6.3K members · ≈4d

Growth · 30d

not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

not assessed yet

Last post

Aug 28

sampled Aug 28

Distinct posters

65%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Aug 23 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

Tracking since Aug 23 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/movies — frequently asked

How many members does r/movies have?

r/movies has 37,593,935 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 27. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/movies growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/movies yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 23; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/movies?

Around 85.2 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 27.9h. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

Who posts in r/movies?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 65% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Aug 28. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/movies?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/movies yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/movies for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/movies into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/movies's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/movies's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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r/movies: 37.6M members, 85.2 posts/day (Aug 2026)