Solos 2007

Solos 2007

Solos 2007
1h 17min | Drama, Romance | 18 April 2007 (Singapore)

Storyline:

Inspired by true events, SOLOS explores relationships among three individuals who are struggling to open up their feelings towards each other. Filmmakers Kan Lume and Loo Zihan co-directed this pathos that dramatizes the selfishness of love and its tragic outcomes. Set in contemporary Singapore, SOLOS follows the endeavors of BOY, MAN and MOTHER. Having been in a relationship with MAN (Lim Yu Beng) for years, BOY (Loo Zihan) eventually grows up and wishes to quit the relationship. Conversely, MAN still wants to be with BOY and for them to settle together. Meanwhile, MOTHER (Goh Guat Kian) is devastated that her son (BOY) has abandoned her and has been in relationship with MAN. As the three characters fight their own demons, SOLOS juxtaposes reality and surreal scenes in order to give clues of each character’s inner desires. The film has minimum conversation to give freedom to the audience individual interpretation of the film

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Weekend 2011

Weekend 2011

Weekend 2011
1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 4 November 2011 (UK)

Storyline:

On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what’s expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. Weekend is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms. It is about the search for identity and the importance of making a passionate commitment to your life.

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Salon Kitty 1976

Salon Kitty 1976

Salon Kitty 1976
2h 9min | Drama, War | 2 March 1976 (Italy)

Storyline:

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to “relax”. Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty’s help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

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The Canyons 2013

The Canyons 2013

The Canyons 2013
R | 1h 39min | Drama, Thriller | 29 July 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

When Christian, an LA trust-fund kid with casual ties to Hollywood, learns of a secret affair between Tara and the lead of his film project, Ryan, he spirals out of control, and his cruel mind games escalate into an act of bloody violence.

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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)

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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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Iki Haole: Nico’s Hawaiian Adventure 1995

Iki Haole: Nico's Hawaiian Adventure 1995

Iki Haole: Nico’s Hawaiian Adventure 1995

Iki Haole: Nico’s Hawaiian Adventure 1995
53min | Reality-TV, Adventure | Video 1995

Storyline:

15 year old Nico visits Hawaii and makes friends with David C. Naughton. Nico and the audience gets a tour of the beautiful state along with lots of surfing.

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