Solos 2007

Solos 2007

Solos 2007
1h 17min | Drama, Romance | 18 April 2007 (Singapore)

Storyline:

Inspired by true events, SOLOS explores relationships among three individuals who are struggling to open up their feelings towards each other. Filmmakers Kan Lume and Loo Zihan co-directed this pathos that dramatizes the selfishness of love and its tragic outcomes. Set in contemporary Singapore, SOLOS follows the endeavors of BOY, MAN and MOTHER. Having been in a relationship with MAN (Lim Yu Beng) for years, BOY (Loo Zihan) eventually grows up and wishes to quit the relationship. Conversely, MAN still wants to be with BOY and for them to settle together. Meanwhile, MOTHER (Goh Guat Kian) is devastated that her son (BOY) has abandoned her and has been in relationship with MAN. As the three characters fight their own demons, SOLOS juxtaposes reality and surreal scenes in order to give clues of each character’s inner desires. The film has minimum conversation to give freedom to the audience individual interpretation of the film

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Le Petit Roi 1933

Le Petit Roi 1933

Le Petit Roi 1933

Le Petit Roi 1933
Comedy, Drama | 21 November 1933 (France)

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In an imaginary country, Michel VIII is still a child but he is to reign when his time comes. Revolution threatens and the young monarch’s entourage lies to him and even tries to get rid of him.

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Thatched Memories 2000

Thatched Memories 2000

Thatched Memories 2000
Caofangzi (original title)
1h 45min | Drama | 17 August 2000 (Hong Kong)

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The vivid far off memories of Youmadi, an old country school of his days of childhood, live on with fervor and a special intensity in the mind of Sangsang. The very first feelings of life and those of death, and all the many people who somehow by some unexplained act of fate, entered and influenced the special life and times of Sangsang’s boyhood world…

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Funny Games 1997

Funny Games 1997

Funny Games 1997
18 | 1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Horror | 14 May 1997 (France)

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Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it?

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Weekend 2011

Weekend 2011

Weekend 2011
1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 4 November 2011 (UK)

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On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what’s expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. Weekend is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms. It is about the search for identity and the importance of making a passionate commitment to your life.

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Salon Kitty 1976

Salon Kitty 1976

Salon Kitty 1976
2h 9min | Drama, War | 2 March 1976 (Italy)

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Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to “relax”. Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty’s help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

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The Canyons 2013

The Canyons 2013

The Canyons 2013
R | 1h 39min | Drama, Thriller | 29 July 2013 (USA)

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When Christian, an LA trust-fund kid with casual ties to Hollywood, learns of a secret affair between Tara and the lead of his film project, Ryan, he spirals out of control, and his cruel mind games escalate into an act of bloody violence.

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Between Love & Goodbye 2008

Between Love & Goodbye 2008

Between Love & Goodbye 2008
1h 37min | Drama, Music, Romance | 30 January 2009 (USA)

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Love makes the world go round. At least that’s what Marcel and Kyle believe, until they suddenly discover that love can alternatively flip the world upside-down. When certain elements are set into motion, they tend to stay in motion. If tampered with, they can spin out of control. Marcel and Kyle are in love at first sight, and even though they can’t legally marry, they will find a way to make it work. French Marcel marries their lesbian friend Sarah so he can stay in the USA with Kyle. Together they can overcome any obstacle, hurdle any barrier. Together they cannot be stopped. Enter Kyle’s sister April, a former prostitute. She needs a place to crash, but for how long? Taking a quick dislike to Marcel, April methodically drips poison into their happiness. But where Marcel sees a conniving woman with a not-so-hidden agenda, Kyle only sees his sister – in need. And how do you choose between family and the love of your life? Why should you have to? Love isn’t pure after it’s been tainted. Our perfect couple falls headlong into possessiveness, jealousy and rage; trapped in the tangled emotions found in that space between love and goodbye. Just how far will one of them go to put a stop to the madness?

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Bloody Kids 1980

Bloody Kids 1980

Bloody Kids 1980
1h 31min | Drama | TV Movie 23 March 1980

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The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), the boys arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.

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