Film works are ubiqutous in today's world and one of the institutions that contains a film collection is the public libraray. The promotion of the film collection is most often manifested on social networks and film portals, but the question arises as to how the film works are presented within the library catalog. This paper will analyze the current state of subject access to the film in the catalogs of public libraries in Crotia and film online portals. Based on the results of the research, it will be observed how to enrich the description of the film within the library catalog. The theoretical part of the paper will provide insight into information about classification, subject headings, audiovisual material in the library, but also about film in general, about film online portals and a review of research conducted in the field of film, libraries and film online portals. The second part of the paper is related to research. The goal of this research work is to find out how these sources present the film content and what their similarities and differences are, by analyzing the catalogs of public libraries in Croatia and the most famous online film portals. The purpose of the research work is to see in what ways public libraries in Croatia could enrich the subject presentation of films within their catalogs. The results of this research indicate certain similarities and differences in the subject presentation of the films in the catalogs of Croatian public libraries and film online portals, as well as the matching of their genre terms with those elaborated in the theoretical part of the paper. Certain shortcomings of the subject presentation of the film in the catalogs were observed and the ways in wich these shortcomings could be removed and the subject access to the film could be enriched.