Even if you are a computer novice, you can easily learn how to download movies. It is a matter of finding the site that carries what you are looking for and following their downloading directions. There are usually only a couple of steps to the whole process and in pretty short order you can have a movie to enjoy.

Not all movies are available in their totality for free download. As a matter of fact, the majority of what you will find free to view consists of trailers, clips, extra footage and information about the shooting, scenes and the actors. Viewing trailers is actually a good way to decide if you're interested in seeing the entire movie.

If you want to see Sex and the City ? The Movie, or the latest Indiana Jones, you will have to drive to the Cineplex and buy a ticket. Your other option is to wait for blockbusters to be shown on cable pay-per-view or released for sale on DVD's. Typically, hit movies take several months (after leaving theaters) before they show up on cable. Then, it is usually a couple of more months before the DVDs are available for purchase. If there is a movie you just cannot wait to see, it might be worth the high price of admission; otherwise, waiting a bit is a good way to go.

Independent films and documentaries can also be downloaded for free from many internet sites. Some independent films have gone on to win an Academy Award, so you might just get a first glimpse of an Oscar-winner. Moviesfoundonline.com opens the door to many fine independent films and documentaries.

Apple Movie Trailers is a great site to visit. Here, you can spend hours watching clips, trailers and out-takes from many very famous movies. Some more obscure films are also featured and equally entertaining.

If you are a classic film buff, Turner Classic Movies will definitely appeal to you. Turner offers hundreds of clips, trailers and footage of some of the best movies ever made. Additionally, once films are no longer under copyright restriction, Turner offers you the ability to download them at no charge. Currently, you can download ?McClintock?, starring John Wayne. This is only one of many good movies available for no charge and at your convenience.

A site called CinemaNow.com offers movies for sale, download (at a fee) and for rent. At CinemaNow.com you can rent a full-length movie for $3.99. Currently available for rent on their site: Sweeney Todd, Juno and the Oscar-Winner, No Country for Old Men Rental films are actually made available to the consumer via download to your computer. It is not possible to burn downloaded rental films to a DVD ? they have a program which prohibits this.