Islands 2017

Islands 2017

Islands (2017)
Les îles (original title)
23min | Short, Drama, Fantasy | 15 August 2018 (France)

Storyline:

A melancholy reflection on the power of desire, suspended between the dream and urgency of the flesh, in which attraction is also horror. A mysterious and retro-technical nightmare at Leos Carax, where the fiction is reality and only those who love can get out of it.

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Futuro Beach 2014

Futuro Beach 2014

Futuro Beach 2014
Praia do Futuro (original title)
Unrated | 1h 46min | Drama, Romance | 27 February 2015 (USA)

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Shortly after failing to rescue a drowning man, Donato meets Konrad, a friend of the victim. They soon begin a relationship which seems doomed from the start, while Donato’s past catches up with him.

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About a Young Man 2014

About a Young Man 2014

About a Young Man 2014
1h 15m | Drama | 2013

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Shy Niklas, together with other young men of his age, must undergo the compulsory medical examination preceding the obligatory military service. He feels deeply humiliated and gets seriously traumatized, as he by hazard has the misfortune of being thoroughly examined naked by a young female physician who lives next door to him (and whom he is secretly in love with). This trauma turns his immediate daily life into a nightmare, with both suicide and murder thoughts troubling his confused mind. And he will soon be given a military weapon…

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Beefcake 1998

Beefcake 1998

Beefcake 1998
1h 31min | Drama | 14 October 1999 (Singapore)

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This film looks at the 1950’s muscle men’s magazines and the representative industry that were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men’s films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs. At the end, the film moves into a court room drama as Mizer is tried for running a male-prostitute ring in the early 60’s. Clips of Mizer’s actual films starring individuals, such as Jack LaLanne and Joe Dallesandro, are included.

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Discreet 2017

Discreet 2017

Discreet 2017

Discreet 2017
Unrated | 1h 21min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 1 June 2018 (USA)

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After years in hiding and struggling to control his demons, an eccentric drifter returns home and discovers that his childhood abuser, the center of his pain, is still alive. Armed with this knowledge, the drifter plots his revenge, all the while navigating the perilous land of masculine fragility in modern-day America.

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Amazon Forever 2004

Amazon Forever 2004

Amazon Forever 2004
1h 30min | Drama | 16 October 2004 (France)

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Nicholas is a young cinematographer, shooting a documentary about the ancient tribal ritual in an Indian village near the Amazon, where he fell in love with the daughter of a chief, at the same time more and more like the side of the original daily life, and a more in-depth understanding of their ancient customs, however, he found where deforestation has become increasingly serious.

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Lilies 1996

Lilies 1996

Lilies 1996
Lilies – Les feluettes (original title)
R | 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy | 16 August 1997 (Japan)

Storyline:

1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a québécois prison to hear the confession of a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. The inmates force the prelate to watch a play depicting what really happened in 1912. We meet him as a young man, strait-laced, intent on convincing Simon (now the convict) to join the seminary with him. Vallier, the son of an impoverished and eccentric countess, loves Simon and he is drawn to Vallier, but in fear of his father’s wrath for kissing Vallier during drama rehearsal, Simon courts a visiting Parisian, asking her to marry him. Vallier, encouraged by his mother, attends the engagement party to declare his love for Simon. And what does the watchful Bilodeau do?

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