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Mubi is an outstanding British 🇬🇧 alternative to Netflix. It supports independent movies and documentaries from around the world. (jlai.lu)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by dwazou@jlai.lu to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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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.

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 31 points 11 months 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.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mubi

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh, stewardess? I speak Jive

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

✈️

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Chump don't want help, chump don't get help

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

The man say Cutty can't hang

[–] dieTasse@feddit.org 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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...)

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Anyway thanks for not mentioning it either 😅

[–] dieTasse@feddit.org 6 points 11 months 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...

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months 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.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months 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 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.lu 6 points 11 months ago

I didn't know that at all.

Is there a way to check who the shareholders are ?

[–] didek@101010.pl 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@dwazou

Requires DRM from Google...

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait... What ?!

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 points 11 months ago

Will assume they’re referring to WideVine

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

Damn their website is really fast! Optimised to shit!

[–] Novamdomum@fedia.io -1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

"I recently discovered Mubi" Wow, randomly just bumped into it huh?

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 11 months ago

Christ people can’t share stuff they find cool these days without someone crying ad.

Y’all have PTSD, and I get it.

[–] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Definitely not getting paid for this promotion

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

Why does it matter? Why do people have to be “I got here first so I’m better than you”?

[+] veniasilente@lemm.ee -14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 16 points 11 months ago

The UK is geographically part of Europe. The instance isn't called Buy EU.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You must have missed that class in school called Geography.... 🫠

[+] veniasilente@lemm.ee -8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Crampon@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

That copypasta never gets old!

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

Are you ok mate?

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 11 months 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.