Totally Fucked Up 1993

Totally Fucked Up 1993

Totally Fucked Up 1993

Totally Fucked Up 1993
Totally F***ed Up (original title)
1h 18min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 13 January 1995 (UK)

Storyline:

Life really sucks for a group of gay and lesbian teenagers living in Los Angeles. Their parents kicked them out, they’re broke and bored, their lovers cheat on them, they’re harassed by gay-bashers. If things are going to be this way, maybe suicide isn’t a bad idea; at least not in the mind of Andy, our major protagonist, who gives the film its title by describing himself as “totally fucked up.”

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Aleksandr’s Price 2013

Aleksandr's Price 2013

Aleksandr’s Price 2013
1h 48min | Drama | 24 September 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

The film follows a young man who is drawn into the dark, sexual underbelly of New York City’s gay club scene. Aleksandr (Masó) is a young Russian immigrant alone after the tragic death of his mother. He turns to drugs and renting his body to wealthy men to deal with his loss. Aleksandr finds himself torn apart with a new personality making its way to the surface.

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Under One Roof 2002

Under One Roof 2002

Under One Roof 2002
1h 16min | Romance, Comedy | 25 May 2002 (USA)

Storyline:

It’s Sex and the City meets The Wedding Banquet for young San Franciscan Daniel Chang, living at home with his clueless, traditional mother. Desperate for a grandchild, she’s eager to see him married and spends much of her time planning introductions to suitable Chinese girls for Daniel. But when she recruits a new lodger for the downstairs flat, Daniel finds himself falling for Robert, the hot Southern boy who’s moved to the big city. Well, Robert’s not a suitable Chinese girl – but is he gay? And does he feel the same way about Daniel? Daniel soon gets his chance to find out when the basement floods and his mother insists Daniel share his bedroom with Robert while the plumbers fix the mess downstairs…

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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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Reel 2013

Reel 2013

Reel 2013

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

Storyline:

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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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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