LOVEFilM (stylised as LOVEFilM) was a UK-based provider of DVD-by-mail and streaming video on demand in the UK and Germany.
Acquired by Amazon.com in 2011, the service had reached 2 million subscribers. It also claims over 70,000 titles, and over 4 million DVD, Blu-ray or Games rentals per month in five countries. Through a series of acquisitions, LOVEFilM quickly became the leading online DVD rental and streaming outlet in the UK and Europe.
The company offered a download service alongside postal delivery but this ceased on 23 February 2009. The company has started a "watch online" service which offers over 4,700 films available to watch as part of a subscription. This online viewing is available free for subscribers who have opted for one of their unlimited monthly rental plans or the unlimited streaming-only account.
In February 2014, Amazon announced that it would fold LOVEFilM's streaming service into its Video service on 26 February 2014.
LOVEFilM's DVD rental service continues to be available in both Germany and the United Kingdom under the LOVEFilM brand from Amazon's local websites.
Lovefilm (Hungarian: Szerelmesfilm) is a 1970 Hungarian drama film written and directed by István Szabó. The film was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 43rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Lovefilm is a film that is a cinematic imagery of the unspoken and untold aspects of love and hope between individuals. It depicts love between two childhood sweet hearts who continue to share strong bond and friendship through their adulthood though they quite do not define it as a love relationship for most part. They continue to refer to their relation as friends or childhood friendship or even introduce each other to their friends as 'like my brother' and 'like my sister'. It thus depicts love and undefined relationships that is experienced by most humans in their lives. Hence the musical and lucid title of 'Serelmesfilm' or 'Lovefilm'.
Picturizing the undefined and unspoken nature of love between individuals that exists mostly in the minds of people, the film editing and flow is non linear and has constant transitions back and forth between images of childhood memories during World War II Nazi occupied Hungary and the Soviet communist party controlled 1950s schooling and the early 1960s university days. It also echoes the tense times of 1956 and the feeling of nostalgia in the early 1970s. This gives the motion picture subject of love as an experience as largely in ones mind and mostly non linguistic and unspoken and expressed in silence and through the passage of time and experiences.
crystal eyes drowned in hate
forget the past a heathens fate
on the floor a naked whore
she's been waiting her body is cold
skin is white, eyes so black
always hungry
she's been waiting so long
now she's angry
fullmoon, tonights the night
master has come
demon love beautiful pain
reality is gone
just listen to my voice
you have your own choice
for those who live by crime
you must pay the price
darkness shall always be
forever is pain
hide in the light
or in christ's domain
do you really know what she wants
maybe she needs sexual pain
dominate make up your mind
forever trapped in humanity's game
skin is white...
suffering since birth
lifeflame burns fast
when lifecircle has broken
life ends at last
lifeflame!
skin is white...
not far from death
everyhing feels so strange
the things you should have done
it's all too late to change
suffering...
lifeflame!