Nordsee ist Mordsee 1976
1h 27min | Drama | 2 April 1976 (West Germany)
Storyline
14 years old Uwe grows up in a dull multi-storey apartment building in a suburb of Hamburg. His father is an alcoholic and beats his son while he’s drunk. Only together with his clique Uwe feels strong and accepted. Their aggressions focus on the Asiatic boy Dschingis. When the younger boy dares to fight back, Uwe declares war on him.
Keep the Lights On 2012
1h 41min | Drama, Romance | 27 July 2012 (Taiwan)
Storyline
It’s 1998 and New York City is in a state of intense flux when documentary filmmaker Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt) first meets Paul Lucy (Zachary Booth), a handsome but closeted lawyer in the publishing field. What begins as a highly charged first encounter soon becomes something much more, and a relationship quickly develops. As the two men start building a home and life together, each continues to privately battle their own compulsions and addictions. A film about sex, friendship, intimacy and most of all, love, Keep the Lights On takes an honest look at the nature of relationships in our times.
Kids 1995
Kids 1995
1h 31min | Drama, Romance | January 19957 (USA)
Storyline
Disturbing, dark, low-budget independent film about teen-agers in New York City. The story focuses on Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), a teen who has a goal to de-flower as many virgins as he can. When one of his old encounters discovers that she is H.I.V.-positive, after only one encounter with a guy, Telly remains undaunted.
King Cobra 2016
1h 31min | Crime, Drama | 21 October 2016 (USA)
Storyline
This ripped-from-the-headlines drama covers the early rise of gay porn headliner Sean Paul Lockhart a.k.a. Brent Corrigan, before his falling out with the producer who made him famous. When Sean decides he’d be better off a free agent, a cash-strapped pair of rival producers aim to cash in by any means possible.
Shivers 1981
Dreszcze (original title)
1h 46min | Drama, History | 23 November 1981 (Poland)
Storyline:
Set in the early 1950’s, during the Stalin’s Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek’s father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The neighbor upstairs commits suicide when her husband is also arrested and transported to the prison camp. It’s winter so the kids keep their hands warm at school by hand-beating themselves. The teachers at school are mean, narrow minded idealists, When they ask the kids who goes to church on Sundays, the whole class stands up to defeat the purpose of the propaganda lesson. Tomek is sent to the training school in the summer. There he absorbs most of the ideology pumped into his head, and when his father is released from prison he finds another boy he has left.
The King of Havanna 2015
El rey de La Habana (original title)
2h 5min | Drama | 16 October 2015 (Spain)
Storyline:
Recently escaped from reformatory, young Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other’s arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.
Closet Monster 2015
1h 30min | Drama | 13 September 2015 (Canada)
Storyline:
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Brombeerchen 2002
1h 31min | Drama | 25 January 2002 (Germany)
Critic:
André alias Blackberry and Lilian want to keep any kind of bitterness out of their lives. The pretty German couple at the beginning of the twentieth is then in any case still on the road to Spain and is hoping to experience the great adventure and above all “what is real”. “Blackberry” takes a lot of imagination with a generic specific subject, which is best captured by Felix von Muralt’s mischievous images. Nevertheless, the impression remains that this story lacks something fundamental. Or maybe you are not afraid to turn emptiness into the central theme. (google translated)
Deeper The Retribution of Beth 2014
1h 20min | Drama, Thriller | 3 November 2015 (Japan)
Storyline
Mark (a journalist from Xice Magazine) is sent to do a premier article on Steve and John (co-creators of XBus & owners of Bang-on Entertainment). They decide to take Mark on a ride that, unbeknownst to them, turns into a vicious nightmare. Caught in a revenge plot that’s been brewing for years, Mark tries to escape with his life as our mysterious Beth reigns down punishment for Steve and John’s past dirty deeds. What is a “just” consequence for a couple of scum-bag’s?… And how far will one go to get even?
