Front End:

Plex

• You can have multiple users,
• tracks your progress in a series,
• gives you imdb and soundtrack info,
• metadata and cover art.
• Automatically handles discoverability - Log in with your account and it’ll find your server wherever you are in the world!
• Great app support across mobile, tv, web, and desktop.
• Automatically syncs to films/tv folder(s) when new shows are downloaded.

Back end:

qBitTorrent

• Versatile and stable torrenting client.
• Can control up/download speed
• Online front end can be a lifesaver when diagnosing issues remotely.
• FOSS

Sonarr, Radarr

• Automatically discovers torrents for your chosen shows and movies, and forwards them onto torrent client.
• Can track unreleased content, downloading it as it becomes available.
• Supports user-configurable quality formats to weed out torrents that don’t meet your quality or space requirements.
• Automatically searches multiple trackers - If one tracker lacks a show, it can try another!
• FOSS

Prowlarr

• Indexes thousands of known torrent trackers for all kinds of content, with sonarr/radarr-ready configs.
• Add tracker to Prowlarr and it syncs to Sonarr/Radarr clients automatically
• Add your own private trackers too with a simple interface
• FOSS

Operating System:

DietPi

• Debian-based server OS with powerful terminal interface for managing and starting your first streaming server
• Rock-solid stability of debian, paired with a curated packaging system that reduces risks of breaking configurations
• Popular services are auto-configured to align with best practices, such as Nextcloud, Plex, Sonarr etc. all installing and configuring their own databases at install
• Powerful utilities for managing disks, files, power management and other server necessities with minimal existing knowledge of the command line
• Can be set up in a day on a raspberry pi, and be streaming torrented content by the evening!
• Great support, both with hardware and software. The devs are active and helpful on github if you have problems.
• Loads of tutorials for installing every single service you could need for a piracy server, from VPNs to linking services together and accessing them remotely.
• FOSS

DNS:

freedns

• Link your IP to a friendly domain name for free.
• Like, free. I can type in my domain anywhere on earth and access my rpi server easily.
• Loads of choices available
• Just log in once every 6 months to keep the DNS listing active.

Overseerr is good. nzb360 (android app) is also good in browsing upcoming or popular movies/shows.

Everyone always recommends the torrent solutions, plex and the arrs, but unless it’s something I’m really excited about or want in extra high quality, I find it’s easier to just use the browser streaming sites. In Firefox with ublock there’s no ads, it has subtitles for multiple languages loaded automatically usually, and a nice ui that shows most popular show/movies, and has a good catalogue. There’s lots to choose from, I think the guide has a list, but the ones I use are:

Bflix.gg Hdtoday.cc Fmovies.to

Quick, simple and painless.

https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases/

It’s a torrent client with a Netflix-like interface. It hides all the torrent stuff from you and just shows movies and shows in a nice format. It downloads and plays on the fly, it also grabs subtitles as needed, you can pick 720 or 1080, and you can choose to keep or delete the stuff you watched after you’re done.

Keep in mind that under the hood it’s still a torrent client, so if you have trouble with that kind of thing in your country you may want to use a VPN and all that jazz.

Kodi is what your looking for. A debrid + kodi is basically netflix with shows from around the world, in high quality, on demand.

But, it is not available on TVs as a seperate app. Companies do not like piracy, so many applications that are related to it do not make the appstores. A cheap and easy way to get Kodi would be to simply buy a Intel NUC, or a similar mini-pc.