Eisenstein in Guanajuato 2015

Eisenstein in Guanajuato 2015

Eisenstein in Guanajuato 2015
1h 45min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 11 February 2015 (Germany)

Storyline:

The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few – if any – directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein’s sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career – a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar’s Plot.

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Growing Up: A New Approach to Sex Education, No. 1 (1971)

Growing Up: A New Approach to Sex Education, No. 1 (1971)

Growing Up: A New Approach to Sex Education, No. 1 (1971)
23min | Short, Documentary | 1971 (UK)

Plot:

From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology takes us through 60 yearsof sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s.All ‘unmentionable matters’ pertaining to sex are dealt with, from the WW1 warning to soldiers about the dangers of cavorting with loose women in London’s West End, Whatsoever a Man Soweth (1917), to puberty pep-talks for girls on how to avoid pregnancy in Don’t Be Like Brenda (1973).

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Spetters 1980

Spetters 1980

Spetters 1980
2h | Drama, Romance, Sport, Adult | 28 February 1980 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

Three young Dutch amateur dirt bike motorcycle racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, works at a concession stand at the races. Everyone is looking for a better life. The young woman wants out of the business and away from her brother. The motocross racers want to make their marks as professional racers, like their hero, played by Rutger Hauer.

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Gods of Olympia 2002

Gods of Olympia 2002

Gods of Olympia 2002
1h 29min | Drama | Video

User review:

About as good as a low budget movie can get, and I mean that in a good way. The film follows the lives of a group of gay restaurant staff, who all have their lives turned upside down by new people in their lives. I especially liked how the issue of spirituality is raised, and how alternate beliefs are accepted.

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Schnick Schnack Schnuck 2015

Schnick Schnack Schnuck 2015

Schnick Schnack Schnuck 2015
1h 24min | Adult, Comedy | 25 March 2016 (Germany)

Storyline:

Felix plans to spend the weekend at a music festival in Amsterdam with his buddy Kai. Meanwhile his girlfriend Emmi ought to stay home and grade papers. But commitment is not exactly Kai’s strongest suit and then suddenly Emmi’s high school friend Magda shows up and shows it all. So of course things get a little out of hand and in the end everybody is naked.

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The Dream Children 2015

The Dream Children 2015

The Dream Children 2015
1h 38min | Drama | 30 April 2015 (USA)

Storyline:

Troubled TV personality Steven Evans struggles to find meaning in his life in the face of the superficial world he has created. Smothered by celebrity and materialism, Steven’s only respite is through solitary visits to the ocean and shallow sexual encounters with the acquaintances that orbit his life. When his long-term partner hurls him headfirst into fatherhood, Steven’s initial reluctance is gradually replaced with love, as he discovers, in his new family, a bond stronger than any he has experienced before. But the return of an unexpected visitor triggers off a series of events that thrusts Steven and his family into a cycle of loneliness, self-destruction and grief.

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Utopians 2015

Utopians 2015

Utopians 2015
Tung lau hap woo (original title)
1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 16 January 2016 (Japan)

User review:

This film tells the story of a university student in Hong Kong, who lives with his mother and has a Catholic girlfriend. One day, he attends a class on Greek philosophy, and he gets intrigued by the professor. Deeper and deeper, he is drawn into the mysterious world of sexual seduction.

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Dogtooth 2009

Dogtooth 2009

Dogtooth 2009
Kynodontas (original title)
1h 34min | Drama, Thriller | 11 November 2009 (Greece)

Storyline:

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence ‘the sea’ refers to a large armchair and ‘zombies’ are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the über-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission. The father is the only family member who can leave the manicured lawns of their self-inflicted exile, earning their keep by managing a nearby factory, while the only outsider allowed on the premises is his colleague Christina, who is paid to relieve the son of his male urges. Tired of these dutiful acts of carnality, Christina disturbs the domestic balance.

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