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It’s a pretty good crime series BTW!

@lainy @b17a3b4f 
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Oh, I'm a fan of Eastern European shows, including Polish ones of course. I usually prefer darker stuff though: Wataha, Belfer, Pakt… Wataha is simply amazing — it has so many unusual sides to it, even some mysticism gets thrown in 😅
This reminds me that I have at last found the third season of it, I'll probably rewatch it whole after finishing UV.
Ultraviolet is good! TBH mid first season I wasn't sure if I'm up to the second one, but in the end I got hooked.
There is this site, cinemaz.to, where you can find torrents for European shows and hard to find old movies. I'm not too much into Bittorent, this site is the only reason I have my seedbox running 24/7. UV, Wataha and Pakt are of course big names, produced in cooperation with and for international companies like Netflix and HBO, sometimes by international teams even, but they also have much less know stuff, produced mostly for internal markets — and it's simply amazing, those are done without making it more accessible to foreign viewers in mind, you can often see what people really live like, it's like a window to another world!
Contemporary Polish movies are good too, even less artsy more accessible ones, like Kler, The Hater (don't remember its original name) or Bogowie to name a few. Not sure if they are known outside Poland, but these ones have excellent stories and are also good from, so to say, production value, visual point of view.
@lainy @b17a3b4f 
 @m0xEE 

Nice, especially thanks for the torrent website as I’ve always struggled to find decent Eastern European movies/series that are not on Netflix or Polish streaming services. Rutracker worked to some extent for Russian and Ukrainian films, but majority of work there has some terrible Russian dubbing. Polish cinema was in a bit of a depression in 1990-2000’s where they developed their unique style, which I didn’t like very much to be honest - very… long… scenes… where… the… main… actor… watches… a… wall - and for some unknown reason completely shitty audio. But now I see lots of really good movies and series, mostly discovered them through Netflix.

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