&gt; <i>MUBI has spent years cultivating that audience with a selection of artsy, obscure films that don&#x27;t usually appear on Netflix or Hulu. (It originally launched under the name &quot;The Auteurs,&quot; before rebranding in 2010 as MUBI — a play on accented pronunciations of &quot;movie,&quot; and after a city in Nigeria.) On Monday, the titles available on the company&#x27;s US site included Bernardo Bertolucci&#x27;s 1970 classic The Conformist, and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, by Chan-wook Park. Occasionally, it features more mainstream movies like Sin City, currently available on the French site, though the majority are far more obscure. A new title is added every day as another drops out, meaning that only 30 films are available for streaming at any given time.</i><p>In defense of Netflix (not that the &quot;Goliath&quot; in this comparison needs defenders)...but &quot;Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance&quot; has been available on streaming Netflix for, as far as I remember, the time that I&#x27;ve been a customer, which was basically when streaming started. &quot;Mr. Vengeance&quot; is the first in &quot;The Vengeance Trilogy&quot; that includes the more well-known &quot;Oldboy&quot; [1] and &quot;Sympathy for Lady Vengeance&quot;...I think the entire trilogy has been on Netflix for years (including the regrettable American remake of Oldboy, but can&#x27;t fault Netflix for having it...)<p>Even as Netflix&#x27;s blockbuster selection has faded (with the ending of the Starz deal, and in comparison to HBONow)...I&#x27;ve never had a complaint about their selection of the most well-known and recent foreign indies. &quot;Let the Right One In&quot;, &quot;The Hunt&quot;, &quot;Force Majeure&quot;, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy...though sure, they could always have more (and obviously, I don&#x27;t know enough of the foreign scene to know all of the gems that they don&#x27;t have).<p>But I imagine the problem for Netflix isn&#x27;t that they do a shitty job of curation...but that the deals end up not being financially valuable to them, as it was in the Starz case. Ang Lee&#x27;s movies (&quot;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon&quot; and &quot;Lust, Caution&quot;) were long-time selections, but I&#x27;ve just noticed they are no longer available for streaming.<p>edit: if you liked Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is definitely worth checking out. But whereas Oldboy was entertaining on top of being emotionally extreme...I&#x27;d argue &quot;Mr. Vengeance&quot; is much more of an artistic achievement, but at the cost of being &quot;entertaining&quot;. In fact, I get a little ill at the thought of re-watching it, even though I own it on DVD.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rogerebert.com&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;oldboy-2005" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rogerebert.com&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;oldboy-2005</a> -- Ebert&#x27;s review here is so glowing that not only did it get me to seek out Oldboy, but it changed the way I think of foreign movies in comparison to Hollywood.