Thanatos, Drunk 2015

Thanatos, Drunk 2015

Thanatos, Drunk 2015
Zui sheng meng si (original title)
1h 47min | Drama | 7 August 2015 (Taiwan)

Storyline:

They live in an old house on the fringe of Taipei City: Rat and his elder gay brother Shanghe. Two brothers look for jobs to survive while search for themselves and long for a foothold in life. The younger works at market where he meets a mute woman who gets up to all sorts of craziness. The elder is attracted to a nightclub dancer and finds himself drawn into shifty business. With the rhythm of their wanderings, the film observes its protagonists: lives in limbo, without fixed coordinates, and evolves into panorama of a society that does not appear to welcome its next generation.

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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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Squirrels 2018

Squirrels 2018

Squirrels 2018
1h 31min | Comedy | 17 July 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

Three young artists; a trans opera singer/dj, a middle eastern American performance artist and a gay film maker, share a tiny studio apartment while they look for love and fame in NYC. They scrimp and save and scam and steal their way from month to month somehow they survive but in the new world shared economy they are just one click away from losing everything.

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We Are Thr3e 2018

We Are Thr3e 2018

We Are Thr3e 2018
Somos tr3s (original title)
1h 29min | Drama | 11 March 2018 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

Nacho is an accountant, an average guy. At a party he meets Ana, a recently divorced and self confident young woman. Then they meet the charismatic bartender Sebastian, who starts flirting with both of them. Despite their doubts, Nacho and Ana accept Sebastian’s invitation to spend the night at his place, where nothing happens. A few days later, they decide to go on a weekend trip to a secluded farm. And it seems like it will be a fun one-night-stand, until Sebastian confesses that he desires a long-term relationship with a man and a woman together.

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Al Berto 2017

Al Berto 2017

Al Berto 2017
1h 53min | Drama | 5 October 2017 (Portugal)

Storyline:

It’s the summer of ’75 in Sines, Portugal. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future – but right after the fall of Portugal’s dictatorship system, the country is not yet ready for his love story.

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Love in the Time of Civil War 2014

Love in the Time of Civil War 2014

Love in the Time of Civil War 2014
L’Amour au temps de la guerre civile (original title)
Unrated | 2h | Drama | 6 June 2015 (USA)

Storyline:

Alex is a young addict who sells his body in Montreal. He’s flanked by Bruno, Simon, Jeanne, Eric and Velma, all of them caught in the same spiral of compulsion. Hostage to society’s market logic, they are the fallen angels of a dark and violent time.

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The House of Violent Desire 2018

The House of Violent Desire 2018
1h 57min | Horror , Mystery , Thriller | 5 October 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

In a remote hill top mansion, a mysterious stranger emerges from a thunderstorm in the night, seeking refuge with the Whipley family; four young adults ruled by their strict religious mother, and their troubled father, who has vanished the previous night – But perhaps the ‘stranger’ is more connected to this family and to the dark unknown history of the house than they could ever suspect, and as the visitor begins to cultivate sexual tensions and paranoia within the house, the devilishly erotic history of the Whipley family threatens to lure them deep into its lustful, violent madness once again.

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The Year I Lost My Mind 2017

The Year I Lost My Mind 2017

The Year I Lost My Mind 2017
Jahr des Tigers (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Thriller | 28 August 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

From prolific director Tor Iben comes a new thriller about a lonely young man who becomes dangerously obsessed with a stranger. After encountering him during a burglary, Tom begins stalking and antagonizing the attractive young Lars. When Lars finds out about Tom’s intentions, he manages to turn the tables on him, leading to a shocking confrontation.

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Cola de Mono 2018

Cola de Mono 2018

Cola de Mono 2018
1h 42min | Thriller | 12 October 2018 (Chile)

Storyline:

It’s Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his extended family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. This hypnotic story from Chile is both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller about the ways that passion and desire control our lives – from our pop-culture tastes to our sexual fantasies.

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