The search history of a name
Put "putlocker" next to a film title and the searches that come up are not this year's releases. They are Troy, The Notebook, Hotel Rwanda, Cast Away, Hackers, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, 28 Days Later and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. People who used Putlocker in its first decade remember it as the place that had the film from 2004 they wanted on a Tuesday night, and the catalogue is built to still be that place.
2004, the Putlocker year
Four of the most searched titles opened in 2004: Troy, The Notebook, Hotel Rwanda and The Polar Express. It was a year of large films made for a wide audience, and the 2004 page has the rest of it: Mean Girls, Shrek 2, Anchorman, Saw. Pick the year on the years page and read across; it is the way the old site was browsed and it still works.
The 2000s shelf
The 2000s collection runs from Cast Away and Gladiator in 2000 through The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Harry Potter films, Batman Begins, The Departed, 300, Superbad, The Dark Knight and Avatar. It is the decade Putlocker's visitors grew up with, and it is the deepest shelf on the site.
The 1990s shelf
The 1990s collection holds the films people rewatch rather than discover: Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Jurassic Park, Titanic, The Matrix, Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, Independence Day, Scream, Hackers and Home Alone. Every one is in HD, and most are on more than one service in most countries, so Watch now usually offers a choice.
Cult and comedy
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is searched with the Putlocker name every month, and it sits in the catalogue beside Anchorman, Step Brothers, Superbad, The 40 Year Old Virgin and Ted. The comedy genre page and the comedy collection gather them.
Reading a classic's page
Every title page shows the original release date, the runtime, the studio, the country and the TMDB audience rating with its vote count, which for a film from 2004 is tens of thousands of votes and worth trusting. The cast list is searchable: tap a name in the search form's Starring box and the actor's other films line up. And the Watch now button lists the services carrying the film in your country now, which for a twenty-year-old title often includes a free ad-supported service alongside the rentals.
