Rent or buy movies online: Deals and offers (May 2021)

Amazon: £1.99 new releases for Prime members

Amazon often has selected new rentals for £1.99 if you’re with Prime. If you’re not already a Prime member you can get a 30-day free trial once a year.

Rakuten: £5 credit

Take out a 7-day free trial of streaming service Starzplay via Rakuten before 31st July 2021 (or until 60,000 people have taken the offer), you’ll be gifted 500 Rakuten points – worth £5. These points will stay on your account for 31 days and can be used towards rentals or purchases.

If you don’t cancel the Starzplay trial at on at least day six you will be charged £4.99 for the next full month, and that’s ongoing until you do cancel. Full terms and conditions here.

Rakuten: Up to 1/3 off via Tastecard

If you have a Tastecard you can get reduced Rakuten rentals. An SD rental costs £2.99, HD costs £3.49 and UHD costs £3.99.

This is far cheaper than everywhere else (subject to other special offers). It’s possible to get a Tastecard free trial for three months here.

Rakuten: 24 free rentals a year via Halifax

The Halifax Reward account will offer two HD rentals a month – but there are conditions to qualify. But do this and you’ll also avoid the £3 monthly fee. Here’s more information.

Rakuten: 12 free rentals a year via Lloyds Bank

Similarly you can open a Club Lloyds current account and choose to get a Rakuten rental every month.

To avoid a monthly £3 fee you need to pay in £1,500 a month (though it doesn’t need to stay there).  There are more details in my Club Lloyds review.

Chili: 50% off your first rental

The first time you sign up you should be able to get your first rental half price. The discount code is usually automatically applied at checkout, but check first.

Chilli: 50% off gift cards via Lidl

You can buy a £10 Chili voucher for £5 from the Lidl Plus loyalty app. Terms say the credit expires on 31st March 2021 but they are still available to buy.and you can only add on £10 credit to your account a month.

You can also get a £3.50 voucher for £2.50, saving £29%. This offer ends 31st May 2021.

The credit also can’t be used with other promotions or codes, and you can only use it to rent movies, not purchase them.

Chili: Free credit on Vodafone

If you have Vodafone’s VeryMe loyalty app there is often a credit or offer for a rental or sometimes £10 to spend on a selection of movies. Here’s more about VeryMe and how anyone can get it.

Sky Store: Asda Pizza and movie deal

Buy two medium pizzas and a drink meal deal from Asda stores and you can claim a free Sky Store voucher.

The pizza must come from the pizza counter in-store, and will be labelled as a “Movie Nights In Meal Deal”. It’ll cost £5 in total.

To claim your voucher, worth £5.49, you need to visit MovieNightsIn.co.uk within seven days of buying the food and upload a photo of your receipt.

You’ll then get sent a code to add to your Sky Store account within a week, but you’ll have a year to actually use the credit. It’s due to end 1st August 2021 but it’s already been extended once.

Thanks to the SkintDad blog for bringing this offer to my attention!

Sky Store: 10% off gift cards via Lidl

This offer is nowhere near as good as the discounts offered for Chili on the same Lidl Plus app.

You can get:

• £5.99 voucher for £5.50 (save 8%)
• £10 voucher for £8.99 (save 10%)
• £13.99 voucher for £12.99 (save 7%)

Google Play

Google Play offers are few and far between nowadays, but it’s worth keeping an eye on your account for special promos.

Google Play: 4% off gift cards

The website CD Keys usually has a small discount of around 4% on Google Play gift cards.