Recent Thai dramas
The newest titles in the archive, by air date.
Thai food and drink
What it is, how it is eaten, and where it came from.
Thai culture
The customs, the clothes and the words behind them.
Thailand: where to start
Thai screen work reaches most people through one of two doors, a horror film somebody insisted they watch or a series a friend would not stop posting about, and then the trail goes cold because nobody explains what else is there. This page is the index to what is here: 6 dramas, 4 films, 10 people and 3 guides, each one a record with sourced fields rather than a paragraph of opinion, and all of it linked so a title leads to a face and a face leads back to everything else that person made.
The two halves of Thailand on screen pull in opposite directions, and that is the useful thing to know first. The film side built its reputation on horror and on festival cinema, from Pee Mak, which is still the country's highest-grossing film, to Uncle Boonmee, which took the Palme d'Or in 2010 and remains the only Thai film to have done so. The drama side runs on series of twelve to fourteen episodes made for a young audience and a global one, and the format Thai television exports better than any other is BL, which is why KinnPorsche and 2gether have audiences in countries that show no other Thai programming at all.
Where to watch is the question this site answers the same way every time. Every title page carries a "Where to watch" block naming the platforms licensed in your region, whether that is Netflix, WeTV, GMM 25 or a theatrical release with no stream at all. We do not host anything and we do not link to unlicensed copies. If a title has no licensed platform where you are, the page says so rather than sending you looking.
Cast is where the archive earns its name. An actor is entered once, on the cast list of the title they appeared in, and their profile builds its own filmography by reading that relationship backwards. Open The Gifted, click Korapat Kirdpan, and Bad Buddy is already there with the year and the role, without anyone maintaining a second list. The people panel on this page is the most recent additions, newest first.
Food and festival sit alongside the screen records rather than beneath them. Pad Thai has an origin story that Thai historians dispute, Songkran has a meaning underneath the water fight, and the guides here are written to the same standard as the records: sourced, and silent wherever nobody can source it.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I watch Thai dramas legally?
Title pages list the official platforms we know of and, where TMDB has JustWatch data, which services carry the show in your country. This site does not stream anything and does not link to unlicensed copies.
Where do the scores come from?
Readers. A score appears on a title only once people have voted on it, and the number of votes is printed beside it, so a 9 from four people never reads as a 9 from four hundred.
Where do the posters and the data come from?
Posters and portraits are shown through the TMDB API and belong to the studios, broadcasters, distributors and agencies behind each work or person. Facts on the page come from the sources named in each record. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
What if something here is wrong or missing?
Use the "Request a correction" link on the page and an editor reviews it. A field nobody can source is left empty rather than guessed at.