Bent 1997

Bent 1997

Bent 1997
NC-17 | 1h 45min | Drama, History, Romance | 4 October 1997 (Japan)

Storyline:

Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay and gets a yellow label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays). In camp he falls in love with his fellow prisoner Horst, who wears his pink label with pride.

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Permanent Residence 2009

Permanent Residence 2009

Permanent Residence 2009
Yong jiu ju liu (original title)
1h 55min | Drama, Romance | 23 April 2009 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

The life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved ones.

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Teenage Kicks 2016

Teenage Kicks 2016

Teenage Kicks 2016
1h 38min | Drama | June 2016 (Australia)

Storyline:

Seventeen year old Miklós Varga’s plans to escape his migrant family and run away with his best friend Dan are crushed by the accidental death of his older brother Tomi. Only Mik knows the events that led to this tragedy, and he is suddenly forced to navigate his guilt and explosive sexuality to find the man he can become.

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Before Night Falls 2000

Before Night Falls 2000

Before Night Falls 2000
R | 2h 13min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 3 September 2000 (Italy)

Storyline:

Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro’s rebels. By 1964, he is in Havana. He meets the wealthy Pepe, an early lover; a love-hate relationship lasts for years. Openly gay behavior is a way to spite the government. His writing and homosexuality get him into trouble: he spends two years in prison, writing letters for other inmates and smuggling out a novel. He befriends Lázaro Gomes Garriles, with whom he lives stateless and in poverty in Manhattan after leaving Cuba in the Mariel boat-lift. When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, “Revenge.”

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Moonlight 2016

Moonlight 2016

Moonlight 2016
16 | 1h 51min | Drama | 2 September 2016 (USA)

Storyline:

Three time periods – young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult – in the life of black-American Chiron is presented. When a child, Chiron lives with his single, crack addict mother Paula in a crime ridden neighborhood in Miami. Chiron is a shy, withdrawn child largely due to his small size and being neglected by his mother, who is more concerned about getting her fixes and satisfying her carnal needs than taking care of him. Because of these issues, Chiron is bullied, the slurs hurled at him which he doesn’t understand beyond knowing that they are meant to be hurtful. Besides his same aged Cuban-American friend Kevin, Chiron is given what little guidance he has in life from a neighborhood drug dealer named Juan, who can see that he is neglected, and Juan’s caring girlfriend Teresa, whose home acts as a sanctuary away from the bullies and away from Paula’s abuse. With this childhood as a foundation, Chiron may have a predetermined path in life, one that will only be magnified in terms of its problems when he reaches his difficult teen years when peer pressure affects what he and many of his peers do, unless he follows Juan’s advice of truly making his own decisions for himself.

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I’m a Porn Star 2013

I'm a Porn Star 2013

I’m a Porn Star 2013
1h 21min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy | 17 August 2013 (Canada)

Storyline:

I’m a Porn Star follows the lives of guys in the neighborhood who are likely a lot more famous than you – at least on the Internet. There are an estimated 370 million pornographic websites on-line. Porn is now a thirteen BILLION dollar business. So who’s doing all this moonlighting? Turns out — probably some people you know.

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