The Man in the Lighthouse 2007

The Man in the Lighthouse 2007

The Man in the Lighthouse 2007
Ang lalake sa parola (original title)
1h 48min | Drama , Romance | 3 September 2007 (Philippines)

Storyline:

Mateo is a lighthouse caretaker dating a teacher Suzette. The small town they are in is trying to increase tourism. Jerome stumbles across Mateo and Suzette having sex, whilst he is on holiday from Manila. A local a gay man, who pays local teenage boys for sex, talks to Mateo about the negative aspects of being gay in the Philippines. According to local legend, a lighthouse fairy seduces desirable men who then never marry. Mateo’s relationship with Jerome leads to self reevaluation.

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Super 8 and a half 1993

Super 8 and a half 1993
Unrated | 1h 39min | Drama | 28 April 1995 (USA)

Storyline:

A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial backing for her pet project.

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Thirty Years of Adonis 2017

Thirty Years of Adonis 2017

Thirty Years of Adonis 2017

Thirty Years of Adonis 2017
1h 37min | Drama, Erotic | 27 November 2017 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

Ke is a young man who is a Beijing Opera actor. He decides to pursue acting, and soon becomes a commercial sex worker for men.

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Bedways 2010

Bedways 2010

Bedways 2010
Unrated | 1h 16min | Drama, Romance | 21 June 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous melange. Berlin is the shelter, love is impossible, flesh is the law.

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Islands 2017

Islands 2017

Islands (2017)
Les îles (original title)
23min | Short, Drama, Fantasy | 15 August 2018 (France)

Storyline:

A melancholy reflection on the power of desire, suspended between the dream and urgency of the flesh, in which attraction is also horror. A mysterious and retro-technical nightmare at Leos Carax, where the fiction is reality and only those who love can get out of it.

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Serbis 2008

Serbis 2008

Serbis 2008
R | 1h 27min | Drama, Romance | 25 June 2008 (Philippines)

Storyline:

A drama that follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their daily challenges, but the real “star” of the show is an enormous, dilapidated movie theater that doubles as family business and living space. At one time a prestige establishment, the theater now runs porn double bills and serves as a meeting ground for hustlers of every conceivable persuasion. The film captures the sordid, fetid atmosphere, interweaving various family subplots with the comings and goings of customers, thieves and even a runaway goat while enveloping the viewer in a maelstrom of sound, noise and continuous motion.

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Boy Eating the Bird’s Food 2012

Boy Eating the Bird's Food 2012

Boy Eating the Bird’s Food 2012
To agori troei to fagito tou pouliou (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 20min | Drama | 9 May 2013 (Greece)

Storyline:

Three days in the life of an Athens boy who is without a job, a girlfriend, or anything to eat. The only thing he has left is his canary, and he will quite literally share with it anything he’s got.

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I Dreamt Under the Water 2008

I Dreamt Under the Water 2008

I Dreamt Under the Water 2008
J’ai rêvé sous l’eau (original title)
Unrated | 1h 35min | Drama, Romance | 18 June 2009 (Germany)

Storyline:

In this savagely engaging drama fill with heart, lyust and emotion, a bisexual man’s personal journey through the dark Parisian night opens his mind to a myriad of sexual possibilities.

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