I recently discovered Mubi 🇬🇧.

Based in London and founded by Efe Çakarel. Born in Izmir and educated at MIT, he was worried that american streamers were flooding the world with mass Hollywood crap while quality cinema struggled.

Mubi supports and distributes movies from around the world.

On their catalogue, you find some the best award winners from the Cannes Festival, the European Film Festival, the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival.

https://mubi.com/en/films?sort=popularity_quality_score

Netflix is like going to Pizza Hut.

Mubi is like eating at a Pizzeria owned by a Sicilian family.

  • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
    30·
    2 days ago

    Founded in London as a distributor, partnered with Criterion to launch a streaming service, and now Mubi is a US-registered multi-national company.

  • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
    22·
    2 days ago

    Man, I am disappointed. I go to the website and it took me ages to find pricing. I had to go to menu > about and only then there is new menu item “membership” where I could see the price. I hate such dark patterns, if they cared they would not hide the price (and I don’t even think its unreasonable price, why hide it…)

      • frazorth@feddit.uk
        4·
        1 day ago

        £11.99 a month.

        Or theres that Mubi Go, which seems to be Mubi, and a monthly cinema ticket to get bums in seats for independent cinema for £18.99.

      • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        You are welcome. 😀

        The reason why I wrote how to get there not what is there is that my prices are in CZK I have no idea if they have it priced same only based on exchange rate or based on economic strength of local currencies…

    • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      I watch a fella named Thomas Flight and got 6months of Mubi for $6/mo with his promo. Idk if he still has it.

      Watched a number of films on there including “The Substance”. I cancelled because $15 is a lot once the promo went out, we’s poor people

  • Tundra@lemmy.ml
    16·
    2 days ago

    I like your enthusiasm, and it definietly looks like a well curated alternative, but is it not co-owned by the american company: Criterion Collection?

    • dwazou@jlai.luOPEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I didn’t know that at all.

      Is there a way to check who the shareholders are ?

  • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Hmmm but wait, Britain (or the UK) is not part of the EU.

    Besides, they are as anti-privacy and anti-safety as the US, being their good bitch.

      • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Oh no I multiclassed it alongside Politics and Literature, which taught me there’s this thing called Context. Which teaches a supposed stream service of a country that is requiring government ID to access media or even web services in general, from a country that historically spreads its legs for the US and does lots of colonialism otherwise, might not be the most palatable thing. Even more when the rest of the US is pointing out they’re gonna help fund VLC.

        • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
          4·
          1 day ago

          LOL WTF are you on about? This community is literally called Buy European. If you’d paid any attention in school you’d be able to recognise that the UK is actually part of Europe. So your original comment makes fuck all sense.

          and does lots of colonialism otherwise

          🤣 Hey Bob what do you fancy doing today? Oh I don’t maybe grab some beers, watch the game, perhaps a little colonialism?

          You might also want to rediscover your history lessons about Europe. The UK and pretty much every other country on the continent.

          • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
            3·
            1 day ago

            It’s going to be a wake up call the day he learns about Belgium and Congo. Or Spain and Latin America. Or France and Haiti. Or Portugal and south India. Or Andorra and… Nah, you’re cool Andorra, you’re cool.