Élève libre 2008

Élève libre 2008

Élève libre 2008

Élève libre 2008
1h 45min | Drama | 21 January 2009 (Belgium)

Storyline:

A sixteen-year-old aspiring tennis pro neglects his education in hopes of volleying his way straight to Wimbledon, but finds his ambitions sidelined when his relationship with his tutor takes a decidedly personal turn. Jonas has just failed his exams, but who needs an education when you’re a world-famous athlete. Unfortunately, Jonas hasn’t achieved that level of fame just yet, though he’s convinced that he’s well on his way. When thirty-year-old Pierre offers to tutor Jonas and the cocky young athlete turns his back on school entirely, the boundaries of their relationship become increasingly blurred.

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Tainy dvorcovyh perevorotov 03 Ya-Imperator

Tainy dvorcovyh perevorotov 03 Ya-Imperator

Tainy dvorcovyh perevorotov 03 Ya-Imperator

Tainy dvorcovyh perevorotov 03 Ya-Imperator
Episode aired 2 November 2002 | Drama

User review:

This movie is a pleasure to watch. The costumes, props, scenery and decorations are exquisite. It has a splash of humour, a handful of spectacular actors and an intersting and accurate account of an important time in russian history.

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Vermist: Season 4, Episode 6: Jona

Vermist: Season 4, Episode 6: Jona

Vermist: Season 4, Episode 6: Jona
Action, Crime, Drama | Episode aired 14 March 2014

Storyline:
Boarding schoolboy Jona Verreyt (13) is missing. Room – and athletics team mate Tim reluctantly tells Jona had an altercation with their coach, Lukas Neyrinck, practically a substitute for Jona’s ever-absent father, divorced businessman Bernard Verreyt. Nick’s ex from vice, Monica Legaer, helps the team discover Lukas’s clandestine practices and spot him on an illegal child abuse website, near his prostitute mother’s pimp-controlled residence.

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Concrete Night 2013

Concrete Night 2013

Concrete Night 2013

Concrete Night 2013
Betoniyö (original title)
1h 36min | Drama | 1 November 2013 (Finland)

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Concrete Night opens in a cramped, concrete-jungle home. The elder of the two brothers is getting ready to go and serve his prison sentence. During his last 24 hours of freedom, his little brother follows the brother he admires through the fateful sights of that night.

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Cuatro lunas 2014

Cuatro lunas 2014

Cuatro lunas 2014

Cuatro lunas 2014
1h 50min | Drama, Romance | 12 February 2015 (Mexico)

Storyline:

Four stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

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Boys to Men 2001

Boys to Men 2001

Boys to Men 2001
1h 15min | Drama | 16 March 2001 (USA)

Storyline:

Compilation of 4 short films from different directors all with a common theme of gay identity – “Crush” by Philip Bartell, “The Mountain King” by Duncan Tucker, “…lost” by Dan Castle & “The Confession” by Carl Phirman.

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Före stormen 2000

Före stormen 2000

Före stormen 2000
1h 46min | Crime, Drama | 22 September 2000 (Sweden)

Storyline:

This is a story of a disturbed normal life. In other words, it is a story that fear transforms the lives of the characters almost to destroy them. Ali is a man who comes from the Middle East. Lives in Sweden, is a taxi driver and has two daughters. Leo is an unassuming boy classmate of one of his daughters. Both will live in parallel a descent into hell when fear is installed in their lives and consumes them from within. In the case of Ali, through a message that sends memories to a distant past as a terrorist he thought he had finally escaped; in the case of Leo, when a series of unfortunate coincidences lead him to shoot another boy who constantly torments him. Both characters have to face their fears or succumb to it.

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Twee vorstinnen en een vorst 1981

Twee vorstinnen en een vorst 1981

Twee vorstinnen en een vorst 1981

Twee vorstinnen en een vorst 1981
1h 42min | Drama | 1 October 1981 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

Returning to his hometown by the sea, Levien visits his unyielding mother (Kitty Courbois) on her deathbed. He looks back on his childhood (played by Eric Clerckx) when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta (Linda van Dijck) and his anarchist mother who regularly put the whole family in trouble.

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