I recently discovered Mubi ๐ฌ๐ง.
Based in London and founded by Efe รakarel. 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.
Founded in London as a distributor, partnered with Criterion to launch a streaming service, and now Mubi is a US-registered multi-national company.
Mubi
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 โmembershipโ where I could see the price. I hate such dark patterns, if they cared they would not hide the price (and I donโt even think its unreasonable price, why hide itโฆ)
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?