Call Boy 2018

Call Boy 2018

Call Boy 2018

Call Boy 2018
Shônen (original title)
1h 59min | Drama, Romance | 2018 (Japan)

Storyline:

University student Ryo works at a bar part-time to earn money. He is not enamoured with his job or life for that matter. He is introduced to a female pimp who first tests him, and once he passes the hurdle, employs him as a male escort. Ryo takes to his job like a duck to water and prides himself in satisfying his diverse clientele. Getting to know the needs and wants of his customers helps Ryo understand himself better. With understand comes cognition and with cognition comes questioning.

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Hey, Happy! (2001)

Hey, Happy! (2001)

Hey, Happy! (2001)

Hey, Happy! (2001)
Unrated | 1h 15min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 1 May 2001 (Canada)

Storyline:

DJ Sabu’s overactive libido leads him into teenaged pregnancy. His mythic quest for two thousand boys ends with Happy, a paranoid UFO-ologist to whom aliens promise to appear (as his love child). Spanky is an evil hairdresser trying to foil Sabu’s mission, he is the self-proclaimed ‘biggest bitch in the world.’ The action unfolds at a series of raves on old garbage hill in an industrial Antonioni landscape peopled with characters right out of vintage John Waters.

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A Bigger Splash 1974

A Bigger Splash 1974

A Bigger Splash 1974

A Bigger Splash 1974
Not Rated | 1h 46min | Documentary, Biography, Drama | 10 April 1975 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

When David Hockney’s beautiful lover, Peter Schlesinger, breaks up with him, it leaves David a complete emotional wreck. An artist, he suddenly finds himself unable to create anything, and is awash in depression and loneliness. After a time, David is able to find inspiration in his backyard swimming pool, and he begins a portrait of it. This unique docudrama presents a semi-fictionalized account of the story behind one of Hockney’s most popular paintings.

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Struggle 2010

Struggle 2010

Struggle 2010

 

Struggle 2010
1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2010 (Canada)

Storyline:

Struggle is the story of Darren, a young gay man, who arrives in Toronto seeking a new life. Running out of money, and with nowhere to live, he quickly falls in with a group of gay rent boys. Complicating matters for himself, he falls in love with Steve, one of the group. Steve already has a boyfriend. While desperately trying to avoid becoming a prostitute himself, Darren’s loneliness and infatuation with Steve eventually sets him on a downward spiral with tragic circumstances.

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Boy 2012

Boy 2012

Boy 2012

Boy 2012
TV-14 | 48min | Drama | 29 September 2012 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

“Boy” tells the story of an invisible member of our society, an undocumented Filipino cleaner. He has no name. Moving continuously from one location to the other, he is living between being seen and being invisible, between his life with his boyfriend, an erotic dancer, and his role as financial provider of his family back home. All this changes when his boyfriend auditions for a dance company and one of his employers commits suicide. A charming photographer shows interest in him. He wants him as a model for a photo series.

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Beat 2018

Beat 2018

Beat 2018

Beat 2018
TV-MA | 1h | Drama, Thriller | TV Series (2018)

Storyline:

Beat works as a promoter in Berlin’s most famous techno club and does not miss a party himself. The european secret services recruit him as an undercover insider. Soon, he discovers the shocking extent of corruption in his close network – as well as his personal limits.

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