L’homme que j’aime 1997

L’homme que j’aime 1997
1h 31min | Drama, Romance, Sport | TV Movie 5 December 1997

Storyline:

This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters’ coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one’s beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto “Live each day of your life as if it were your last.”

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Jack 2004

Jack 2004

Jack 2004
PG-13 | 1h 44min | Drama | TV Movie 29 March 2006

Storyline:

Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents’ divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn out to have a gay dad as well and his best friend’s parents end up not having the perfect marriage Jack thought they had.

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Supernatural 2014

Supernatural 2014

Supernatural 2014
Nua dhamma chat (original title)
1h 46min | Drama, Sci-Fi | 24 January 2014 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

In a futurist world, the Thai kingdom has been transformed by ‘The Leader’ into ‘the Realm of people who have done good deeds and earned merits’. It’s a nice place to be, even though the inhabitants are plagued by an indefinable nostalgia. In the old days, people could at least touch each other. Although the Realm has reached version 2.0, technical possibilities remain limited. This wondrous story of the future is interwoven with stories set in the present and past. According to Pansittivorakul, known for his independently-produced and taboo-breaking documentaries on homosexuality and politics, his first feature is science fiction, yet it is about today’s Thailand. For instance he criticizes the need for religion and superstition. But in the end, this very idiosyncratic, homo-erotically charged essay is above all about time: ‘Time influences everything. The past has to do with the present, and the present is linked to the future.

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The Everlasting Secret Family 1988

The Everlasting Secret Family 1988

The Everlasting Secret Family 1988
1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 3 March 1988 (Australia)

Storyline:

A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.

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Reel 2013

Reel 2013

Reel 2013

Reel 2013
13min | Short, Drama | 21 March 2014 (Sweden)

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It is the last day before Victor has to move to another city with his parents. So he and his best friend Robert do all the things they liked to do together so much: skateboarding, spraying, hanging out. But something is different this time.

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Another Country 1984

Another Country 1984

Another Country 1984
1h 30min | Biography, Drama, Romance | June 1984 (UK)

Storyline:

Based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell, the film explores the effect of Public School life in the 1930’s on Guy Bennett as his homosexuality and unwillingness to “play the game” turns him eastwards towards communist Russia.

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Daybreak 2008

Daybreak 2008

Daybreak 2008
1h 15min | Romance | 20 February 2008 (Philippines)

Storyline:

The whole movie occurs entirely in one place; a big white vacation house in Tagaytay, Cavite and only with two male characters. In a single narrative time, intending by way of voyeurism, the film allows viewers to discover what happens when two men spend one night contemplating whether to break up or continue their relationship.

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How to Be a Man 2013

How to Be a Man 2013

How to Be a Man 2013

How to Be a Man 2013
1h 25min | Comedy | 15 March 2014 (USA)

Storyline:

When former comedian Mark McCarthy is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires a young, impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons on what it means to be a man for his unborn son.

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A Boy Named Cocoy 1992

A Boy Named Cocoy 1992

A Boy Named Cocoy 1992
27min | Drama, Short

Storyline:

A young man arrives in Manila to find work. There he meets another boy who helps him and takes him in. Slowly, he realizes that this guy is gay and may be helping him just for sex. This breaks his heart and disillusions him. He picks a fight with him but feels obligated to return the favor. So he allows him to get physical with him and then leaves soon after because he is not gay and can’t deal with the situation.

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