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I will second torrentgalaxy and 1337x, I can find most stuff on there. rutracker if it's really obscure

some general notes about torrenting movies:

• avoid anything that says CAM or HDCAM or TS or HDTS. look for BluRay or WEBRip instead. if the movie has not been released on Bluray or digital then you should practice patience and wait instead of watching a cam

• file size will often reflect quality. usually ~2gb is passable quality for a 2 hour movie in 1080p. for really good quality without compression artifacts then something like 6-8gb will be much better at preserving details and film grain

• 4K (2160p) rips are usually HDR so they won't look right unless your device supports HDR. you probably don't need 4K but if you have the storage space and fast internet and want super high resolution that's an option

notes on quality of different release groups I know of:

• YTS / Yify are pretty mid quality IMO, probably fine for some stuff but I generally avoid unless that's all I can find

• RARBG releases had decent quality/filesize tradeoff, not perfect but good for most things (that site is now defunct so you won't see them release new movies but you can find a lot of their old torrents on torrentgalaxy)

• GalaxyRG - I think their 1400MB rips are dumb but the 10-bit GalaxyRG265 rips seem pretty decent, comparable to RARGB or slightly better

• QxR releases very high quality encodes, the file sizes will also be larger but it's worth it for movies where you really care about visuals. their torrents often include commentary tracks and sometimes even special features (which you don't have to download) which is awesome

• HeVK (uploader on 1337x) releases a lot of really high quality encodes of horror movies in particular, if you're into that sort of thing. also usually includes commentary tracks