Lately I’ve been watching foreign romances on Netflix…and they are the most tragically depressing movies I have ever  seen.

In the last two days I’ve watched a movie about how an impoverished Indian woman receives a job at a hotel from a mysterious British hotelier to save her family from losing their house. Very heroic of her I would say. So they fall in love like people do, but soon after the happy dandy honeymoon phase is over, he starts to become more of a demanding asshat up to the point where she stabs him and herself. Like okay what. I was expecting them to run off together  and get married. To be happy.She would become a dancer and he would become a cinematic director. But that is the complete opposite of what happened. There was no happiness in this movie.

I figured it was just a one off, I didn’t expect to watch another horribly sad and heart-wrenching movie the next day…but I did. This movie was about a queen who had an affair with her husband’s handsome physician, which really I should have known it  all would just go downhill from there…but being the hopeful person I am I still had hope for them! The queen soon became pregnant with the physician’s baby, which meant she had to start visiting the king’s bedchamber again so no one would guess she was having an affair. They thought no one would ever find out about them…but a red-haired power-seeking hag  did. She and the Cabinet forced the Queen into exile and they tortured the physician until he confessed, he was soon then killed…his last thought was of her..that just about killed me. The King was forced down from the throne as well, which is good, he was a terrible king. But basically, there was no happiness in this movie except for the birth of the princess. I should have known that it would end terribly, the majority of the movie was gray lighting…that’s never ever a good sign. Sigh.

I’m just never again going to watch a “romantic” foreign movie from Netflix. Because what they really should be called are Heartbreakingly Tragic Foreign movies, not romantic. Decapitation is less than romantic.