Has it ever been alive?

Yeah, it's dead. Turns out releasing movies with higher profiles than indie films and documentaries is actually a lot harder than they thought it was.

What's wrong with indie movies?
Devolver's movie collection is awesome and they are selling them on several platforms, also as DRM-free downloads.

I would love to try angry video game nerd and double fine adventure but asking over 20 pounds for double fine adventures and not really trying to sell the movies just puts me off buying. Plus the witcher concert is only stereo when the video is available in 4K. All in all, no reason to bother with gog movies

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One more than 3K?

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I don't know, but I keep hoping they'll go on sale during one of their big sales. There are one or two I want to pick up and haven't seen a deal on movies for at least a year, maybe two.

Yeah, GoG Movies is dead.

The Motion Picture Association of America, a.k.a. MPAA, a.k.a. MAFIAA is really big on infesting their film products with DRM and trying to crush anyone who resists their agenda.

So I can understand how that is not GoG's fault.

What I don't understand is why GoG thought that they'd be able to offer DRM-free movies in the first place. It's not like the MAFIAA was non-existent before GoG Movies first came out.

May I remind you, that
1) this is a European store on European soil
2) USA isn't (yet) dictating the rules for the rest of the world, although it tries really hard and has too much success in that, see also this movie
3) there's more than just Hollywood and imho much better stuff

Indie movies have a worse reputation than they deserve and I guess Hollywood did some propaganda job there too since I can't explain it otherwise.

If GOG really tried, they'd have tons of indies here but thanks to posts like many in this thread, they rightfully deduct, that it's not worth the effort.
I have no idea about Asian publishers when it comes to movies but maybe there'd be a chance for having great movies from South Korea, Thailand, Mongolia, etc... here too with subtitles, I have some and prefer those to a lot of stuff coming from the USA.
There are also great French, British, Russian and German movies and there has to be a way to sell those DRM-free, especially the old ones like Nosferatu, Metropolis, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Solyaris. If US citizens would have to be the ones having to use a VPN for once, I think most people here could totally live with that.

The real problem is, that GOG's movie section would need a lot of work and by CDP's order, they are pouring everything they have into this damned client, as it seems.

Even stronger than that, good and evil don't exist outside a cultural context.

If choosing between gog and MPAA was a witcher quest, it wouldn't be good or evil, it would be choosing the lesser of two evils :)

Im not sad that gog abandoned it . It didnt worked out as gog has envisioned it.

It was mentioned from Ingsoc85 in this thread gog wanted to get old popular movies . And the regionlock has probably also caused some problems for gog and their plans.