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Where else would you find original, non English content? They keep that behind their iron media curtains for some reason and there's no other way to discover or get them.

I think these sites do more for Eastern European cinema than whatever else it is they do there.

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> iron media curtains

You mean like itunes, hbo, netflix catalogues in countries outside US? It's just that there is no interest in seeing these movies.

That's of course a very America-centric view. You don't think those countries have their own (smaller) Netflix competitors that make it nigh impossible to get the content outside of the country? The budgets of these competitors are also very, very different.

There is also interest, otherwise sites like these wouldn't pop up.

You can find many east european movies on youtube. Try doing the same for Adam Sandler's netflix movie.

You could even watch Memories of Murder on youtube just until Parasite won an oscar. Then they started carring. And this is a relatively new movie of a known director.

Distribution is a problem but saying this isn't blatant piracy is wrong.

Criterion Channel and MUBI are two streaming services I can think of off the top of my head, plus there's a much wider selection of physical releases. Nothing is "behind their iron media curtains".

private torrents, this a parasite website built on the hard work of people who took great time and effort to archive these movies.

Why does hosting what was privately distributed before make it "parasitic"? Sounds a lot like gatekeeping to me.

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