Free launches AVOD offering OQEE Ciné

French service provider Free, the consumer-facing brand of Iliad Telecom, has launched its first AVOD offering, OQEE Ciné.

The new service is available to free of chanrge to all Freebox subscribers. OQEE Ciné offers a mix of blockbuster movies, cult series, comedies, thrilllers, cartoons and drama. Free said that the services was the first in France to offer such a large combined movies and series offering without an additional fee.

Freebox subscribers will be able to access OQEE Ciné direct from their set-tops on the TV and on their mobile devices via Free’s existing dedicated TV app, OQEE by Free.

OQEE is the name used by Free for the revamped version of its TV service launched two years ago.

Free’s TV subscribers are able to access their full range of live channels,  catch-up TV and VOD services via the same app.

OQEE Ciné will provide access to over 300 movies and series, according to the service provider.

Movies available on OQEE Ciné include Limitless, xXx, Godzilla, Hellboy and Kursk as well as older titles such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Dracula and Last of the Mohicans.

The service will also provide recent US series such as StartUp and Taken, A Very English Scandal from the BBC and kids movies such as Muppets From Space, Labyrinth, Tintin and Stuart Little 2.

The movie line-up also includes popular French comedies Halal Police d’Etat and Les Gorilles, while French series available include Damages and Drôles de Dames.

OQEE Ciné is available via Free’s Freebox Révolution Freebox Pop decoders and Free Devialet smart speaker as well as via iOS and Android phones and tablets, Apple TV and Android TV-based Smart TVs.