The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 2005

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 2005

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 2005

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 2005
Ang pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (original title)
1h 40min | Comedy, Drama | 4 April 2007 (France)

Storyline

Can a 12-year old lad who wishes he were a girl navigate the mean streets of Manila? Maxi cooks, cleans, and sews for his father and older brothers who are petty criminals. He’s sweet, clever and hardworking, at ease with being gay, pinning a flower in his hair, swinging his hips when he walks, vamping with friends. He’s seen adults hug and kiss and he’s watched romantic movies, so on the verge of puberty, he develops a crush on Victor, a kindly young cop. Maxi’s heart and loyalties are on a collision course: Victor is investigating crimes that lead him to Maxi’s family. In the land of the morning, is there a place for this child of the sun returning?

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Mysterious Skin 2004

Mysterious Skin 2004

Mysterious Skin 2004

Mysterious Skin 2004
1h 45min | Drama | 24 June 2005 (USA)

Storyline:

Brian Lackey is determined to discover what happened during an amnesia blackout when he was eight years old, and then later woke with a bloody nose. He believes he was abducted by aliens, and N. McCormick, a fellow player on Brian’s childhood baseball team, may be the key as to exactly what happened that night. As Brian searches for the truth and tries to track him down, Neil McCormick takes up hustling and moves to New York, in attempts to forget childhood memories that haunt him. Together, the two of them uncover the terrible truth of the scars they share.

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Enemies with Benefits 2016

Enemies with Benefits 2016

Enemies with Benefits 2016
1h 5min | Adult, Comedy | Video 15 January 2016

Storyline:

19 year old Jamie just wants someone to love. With no one to call his own he just decides to put an end to it all. That is until a visitor from beyond shows Jamie that his life has meaning and that he needs to stay alive and fulfill his destiny. But the visitors motives may not be all for the good in this over the top throwback to the casual sex, clothes optional adult comedy.

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Europa Europa 1990

Europa Europa 1990

Europa Europa 1990

Europa Europa 1990
R | 1h 52min | Drama, History, War | 14 November 1990 (France)

Storyline

A Jewish boy, separated from his family in the early days of WWII, poses as a German orphan and is thereafter taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a ‘war hero’ and eventually made a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are cornerstones of the film, it is based upon a true story.

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La ville dont le prince est un enfant 1997

La ville dont le prince est un enfant 1997

La ville dont le prince est un enfant 1997
1h 31min | Drama | TV Movie 7 March 1997

Storyline:

Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.

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I killed my mother 2009

I killed my mother 2009

I killed my mother 2009
J’ai tué ma mère (original title)
1h 36min | Drama | 15 July 2009 (France)

Storyline

Teenager Hubert haughtily regards his mother with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters and kitsch decorations. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parent’s cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of adolescence – artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, and ostracism. The turbulent relationship between mother and son unfolds with a compelling combination of savage fury and melting affection. The stunning, semi-autobiographical directing debut of 20-year-old actor Xavier Dolan.

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Red wine in the dark night 2015

Red wine in the dark night 2015

Red wine in the dark night 2015

Red wine in the dark night 2015
Thriller | 23 July 2015 (Thailand)

Storyline:

Tossed on the trash heap of society, gays have carved out their own weird little world in Tanwarin Sukkhapisit’s Khuen Nan Red Wine in the Dark Night (คืนนั้น red Wine in the dark Night).

The story involves an innocent young soul named Wine, a petite guy who is introduced stripping down to his tighty-whities for a hot make-out session with his current boyfriend, a jock named Tee. There’s trouble between the two, because Tee won’t come out as gay, and he says the time has come to knuckle down, find a girlfriend, get married, etc. All that boring stuff.

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