The Trace of Your Lips 2023

The Trace of Your Lips 2023

The Trace of Your Lips 2023

The Trace of Your Lips 2023
La huella de unos labios (original title)
1h 21m | Drama | Release date: June 17, 2023 (United States)

Storyline:

Román is an actor who works in B-movies and who’s isolated in his apartment as a pandemic keeps the world on edge. Aldo, an indigenous young man, is an essential worker who’s allowed by the authorities to come and go. They live across from each other in an apartment complex. They meet online, and they can talk and even see each other in videocalls, but they can’t meet in person. Eventually, the temptation to break out of their lockdown comes up.

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Last Summer 2023

Last Summer 2023

Last Summer 2023

Last Summer 2023
L’été dernier (original title)
1h 44m | Drama, Thriller | Release date: September 13, 2023 (France)

Storyline:

Follows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre’s son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.

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The Finnster 2010

The Finnster 2010

The Finnster 2010

The Finnster 2010
Finnemans (original title)
50m | Drama | Release date: October 23, 2010 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

Finn (15) is an uncomplicated schoolboy until one day, coming home from school, he catches his father Roelof in his moms dress. The man Finn has looked up to his whole life, wants to become a woman. Finn, just discovering his own sexuality, is troubled by this new discovery. A struggle with feelings of shame, love and loyalty follows. Luckily Lizzie, his newfound friend, is there to help him.

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Elephant 2022

Elephant 2022

Elephant 2022

Elephant 2022
Slon (original title)
1h 34m | Drama, Romance | Release date: November 18, 2022 (Poland)

Storyline:

Bartek runs a small horse farm in the mountains in Southern Poland. He has to become head of the family when his father leaves and his mother has a breakdown. One day their neighbour dies and his son Dawid comes to the village for the funeral. Bartek becomes fascinated by Dawid and his recklessness. First love will force him to decide if he’s ready to choose his freedom over family obligations.

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Bad Boys 1983

Bad Boys 1983

Bad Boys 1983

Bad Boys 1983
2h 3m | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Release date: March 25, 1983 (United States)

Storyline:

Mick O’Brien, a sixteen-year-old juvenile delinquent preying on Chicago’s unsuspecting people, is arrested and taken to Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility for negligent homicide. Unfortunately, his latest victim was an innocent eight-year-old boy. As a result, hell-bent on avenging his death, the ruthless teenage drug dealer, Paco Moreno, decides to get even. But, inevitably, Paco’s arrest, and his detention in Mike’s prison, will lead to a dangerously volatile co-existence, and all bets are off on their imminent confrontation. Now, the two rivals have no other choice but to lock horns and take the law into their own hands. Is there a future for bad boys, Mick and Paco?

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The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995

The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995

The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995

The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995
Hikayatul jawahiri thalath (original title)
1h 52m | Drama, Romance, War | Release date: December 6, 1995 (France)

Storyline:

A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef’s family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father’s in prison and his heavily-armed brother’s on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef’s schoolmate from a well-off Arab family strives faithfully to assist them, while Yusef helps an elderly, blind neighbor escape from his lonely abandonment into the North American dreamworld he’s waited so long for.

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Those Half Hidden 2009

Those Half Hidden 2009

Those Half Hidden 2009

Those Half Hidden 2009
4h | Drama | TV Mini Series

Storyline:

The story of “The Half Hidden” is like a tapestry, in which the threads run obliquely between four different families in two different decades. Weaving recurrent patterns, the story unfolds upon the loom of our vulnerability in lives that are as brittle as the morning ice. This is the story of those who survived, and this is the story of those who did not survive.

The half-hidden, Jonas Gardell engaging depiction of a number of people in the two eras. The script, brilliant acting and strong efforts directed by Simon Kaijser da Silva quickly made the half-hidden to a cult series – one of the most unpredictable, most poignant and breathtakingly exciting ever shown on Swedish television.

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Bizarre Again 2022

Bizarre Again 2022

Bizarre Again 2022

Bizarre Again 2022
1h 50m | Drama | Release date: September 16, 2022 (United States)

Storyline:

From the confined universe of Brooklyn’s BIZARRE cabaret, we set off on a road movie across the American West. We are 7 years later. Lucas and Maurice have never seen each other again and have no contact since the tragic events of the BIZARRE cabaret in New York. Lucas now lives in Denver, Colorado. He is married to a slightly older man who is the father of a 16-year-old child. In the middle of this peaceful life, Maurice will again cross paths with Lucas. As another tragic event takes place in Denver, Maurice and Lucas will have only one solution, to flee towards San Francisco through the American West.

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Saltburn 2023

Saltburn 2023

Saltburn 2023

Saltburn 2023
2h 11m | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | Release date: November 17, 2023 (United Kingdom)

Storyline:

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

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