Jana und Jan 1992
1h 25m | Drama | Release date: May 28, 1992 (Germany)
Storyline:
Fall 1989: Jan is almost 16. Caught while trying to escape to West Germany, he is transferred from prison to a juvenile detention center. Here, he meets Jana … and what starts as a bet, becomes true love. When Jana gets pregnant, the situation spirals out of control. In the summer of 1990, Jana and Jan flee into the unknown, insecure future of a new Germany. In this film, the director, internationally known for his critical films about children and young people, cast non-professional actors – some from juvenile detention centers – in the leading roles.
The Lickerish Quartet 1970
1h 30m | Drama | Release date: October 13, 1970 (United States)
Storyline:
A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, “Who has the gun?” Will there be violence before it’s over?
Les ailes collées 2025
1h 31m | Drama | Release date: May 14, 2025 (France)
Storyline:
On his wedding day, Paul sees Joseph, whom he lost sight of for fifteen years, reappear. With the burning memories of their first meeting, doubts about their life choices and the emotion of this forbidden relationship overwhelm the two men. Their dazzling love, as teenagers, gave rise to incessant and particularly violent homophobic harassment, leading to the tragedy that changed their lives forever. Fifteen years later, this still painful past shakes the present, provoking incomprehension from their loved ones who know nothing of what once united them, then tragically tore them apart….
Het verdriet van België 1995
TV Mini Series | Drama | 1995
Storyline:
Belgium, during the Second World War. The story of young Louis, who survives despite war, hypocrisy, lies, oppression, his collaborating father and his bitter mother, who has an affair with a German officer. Louis has a talent for writing and partly because of that he knows how to distance himself and still enjoy life.
Európa messze van 1995
1h 45m | Drama, Family | 1995
Storyline:
The story starts in Romania in the last years of the Ceaucescu regime. The main character of the film is Petru, a ten-year-old Romanian boy. His world is one of action and dreams but, at the same time, presents an authentic vista of contemporary Eastern Europe. All the events are shown through his eyes. His odyssey is an amusing and grotesque tale of survival as well as a parable on the survival of the human spirit. He comes to grips with a hostile world with both humor and rage, imagination and innocence. Petru lives with his vegetarian father Mihai and his pianist mother Daniela, in a small idyllic village in the Carpathian Mountains. His best friends are his dog Ursu, with whom he shares all his joys and sorrows, and the buffalo Florica. One day the family has to leave the country for political reasons. A long journey to freedom full of thrills and adventures begins, which first leads them from Hungary to Austria. Here they are sent to a refugee camp where Petru’s parents are classified as economic refugees because they have no documents; they are be deported back to Romania. Petru flees on his own and has to encounter a number of dangerous situations. But there are also glimmers of hope when an old stationmaster and his wife from a tiny Bavarian village adopt him, nurse him back to health and enable him to integrate into a new community. But here too, the police are already on his tail.
Beautiful Blooming 2003
Kirei ni saita (original title)
59m | Drama | Release date: April 26, 2003 (Japan)
Storyline:
The third year of Keio. Picked up by Takamori Saigo, Hanjiro pledges his loyalty to him and joins an assassination group led by Kidaro. One day, Hanjiro was taken aback by a man he met on the street, and since then, the man’s presence has never left his mind.
Do You Want to Die in Indio? 2024
1h 41m | Drama | Release date: October 4, 2024 (United States)
Storyline:
Follows Salvi, a 17-year-old whose life gets complicated when his dreams are derailed by an enterprising drug dealer, an ethically challenged mentor, and a budding romance.
Life in Love 2022
13m | Documentary, Short | Release date: June 23, 2022 (United Kingdom)
Storyline:
Meet new couple Nick and Kaiden: they’re navigating an unconventional work life and the politics of London’s queer community, as well as their blossoming partnership. Will their relationship, first built on sexual desire and lust, turn into the year’s sweetest love story?
The Senator 2024
O Senador (original title)
1h 26m | Thriller | Release date: June 20, 2024 (France)
Storyline:
Renan is hot, young, handsome, and entangled in an illicit affair with an influential, closeted right-wing senator. When he falls in love with Victor, a journalist determined to expose the senator’s hypocritical life.
