Taboo 1999
Gohatto (original title)
1h 40min | Drama, History, Thriller | 18 December 1999 (Japan)
Storyline:
Set during Japan’s Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school’s stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green 2012
PG | 1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 15 August 2012 (USA)
Storyline:
After receiving bad news from a fertility doctor, Cindy and Jim Green try to bury their dreams of having a child by writing out all the great traits their child would have and putting them in a box in the garden. During a freak storm in the middle of the night, they awake to find a boy named Timothy, with leaves growing from his ankles, standing in their kitchen calling them mom and dad. Cindy and Jim are thrown into the midst of parenthood and over the coming months, Timothy will teach them more than they could have imagined about being parents and raising a child, no matter how he comes into their lives.
Dante’s Cove S03xE02 Blood Sugar Sex Magic
54min | Drama, Horror, Mystery | Episode aired 9 November 2007
Storyline:
Grace discovers Marco’s mangled and dismembered body on the beach and comes to realizes that a great evil is indeed in Dante’s Cove. Ambrosius announces his plans to take over H2Eau where he makes Toby the head cook and Adam the bartender. Ambrosius continues to grow weaker as Kevin continues to secretly steal his powers to break free from being his boy-toy. Meanwhile, Michelle approaches the powerless Diana to ask her for help in learning Tresum magic and to find the evil entity that killed her parents. But nobody is aware that Michelle isn’t running from the evil entity for she IS the evil entity and is staying one step ahead of Grace who continues to investigate. Griffen suggests to Ambrosious to move on to more satisfying male conquests to increase his hormonal drive. Also, Brit continues to deal with Elena and of her suspicions regarding Michelle.
Everything is Free 2017
1h 32min | Comedy, Drama
After making us crack up with sketches like “The Gay Age Gap” and “When gay guys get rejected,” then creating the best damn web series — LGBTQ-themed or otherwise — we’ve ever seen with The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, writer/actor Brian Jordan Alvarez has set his sights on a feature film. And we are so ready for it.
The Long Day Closes 1992
PG | 1h 25min | Biography, Drama | 22 May 1992 (UK)
Storyline:
A young British boy comes of age among his loving family and the austere Catholic Church as he realizes his love of cinema and his homosexuality.
Wild Bill 2011
Wild Bill 2011
1h 38min | Drama | 23 March 2012 (UK)
Storyline:
Out on parole after 8 years inside, Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11- and 15-year-old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on. Although Dean the older boy has found a job and is doing his best to be a father to his younger brother Jimmy, the arrival of Bill brings them to the attention of social services. With the danger of being put into care looming, Dean forces his feckless dad to stay by threatening to grass him up for dealing. If there’s one thing Bill doesn’t want it’s to go back to prison. He reluctantly agrees to stay for a week to help fool social services that the boys are being cared for. Having never really grown up himself, Bill quickly connects with Jimmy and, through this new bond, starts to realize what he’s been missing. He has a family, a place in the world. He is a father. However, their happy family set-up is short lived when Jimmy gets into trouble with Bill’s dangerous old cohorts. To sort it out would breach the terms of his license and risk sending him back to jail. Bill’s next steps will show what sort of a dad he wants to be – a good one or a free one.
Edge of Seventeen 1998
1h 39min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 20 April 2000 (Australia)
Storyline:
A gay teen finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle America in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers.
Outcast of the Islands 1951
1h 42min | Drama, Adventure | 25 February 1952 (UK)
Storyline:
A man occupies a position of trust with a merchant in an East Asian port. He’s sacked when he’s caught stealing, but he pretends to commit suicide and a captain he befriended agrees to take him to a secret trading post.
The Atoning 2017
1h 29min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5 September 2017 (USA)
Storyline:
Vera, Ray, and Sam, a seemingly normal family, are haunted by more than mere ghosts. The lingering horror of their past threatens their ability to function as a loving family until they become enlightened by a mystical encounter. From that moment on, they’re thrust into a horror worse than anything they’ve ever experienced. Personal demons manifest and tear the family apart from the inside out as they come to terms with their past.
