Innocent 2005

Innocent 2005

Innocent 2005
1h 20min | Drama, Romance | March 2005 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

17-year-old Eric follows his parents to immigrate to Canada and is thus forced to confront different emotional and cultural problems. He must not only adjust to the new environment, but also come to terms with his homosexuality. Standing at the brink of adulthood, he encounters a series of potential romantic interests – his handsome cousin, a schoolmate, a middle aged lawyer and finally a kitchen helper. They represent different stages in Eric’s development, from infatuation, sex, love to a sense of responsibility.

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Thief or Reality 2001

Thief or Reality 2001

Thief or Reality 2001

Thief or Reality 2001
Kleftis i I pragmatikotita (original title)
1h 23min | Drama | 11 January 2002 (Greece)

Storyline:

Angelidi’s highly theatrical, experimental and allegorical film is divided into three independently existing segments that intertwine because of the involvement of the Thief, the connecting link between the three reality perspectives. The three segments are The Net, The Dice and Free Will, each one representing a philosophical idea and a natural element, (Fate-Fire, Chance-Water, Free Will-Earth), respectively. A sculptress of funereal memorials has visions of the Last Judgment, a mother who lost her son attaches herself to remnants of memory and fantastical visions of encounters, and an actor prepares for Antigone, with fictional reality invading his existential realm. The film explores the different levels of reality that can be experienced: the metaphysical (Death, God and religion), the tangible (love and mother-son relationships), and the externalization of the soul through art (theater and fiction). The Thief stands for Time, as time is a thief and destroys everything.

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La lengua de las mariposas 1999

La lengua de las mariposas 1999

La lengua de las mariposas 1999
R | 1h 36min | Drama | 24 September 1999 (Spain)

Storyline:

For Moncho, it’s an idyllic year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he begins to figure out some of the mysteries of Eros, and, with his older brother, a budding saxophone player, he makes a trip with the band from their town in Galicia. But it’s also the year that the Spanish Republic comes under fire from Fascist rebels. Moncho’s father is a Republican as is the aging teacher, Don Gregorio. As sides are drawn and power falls clearly to one side, the forces of fear, violence, and betrayal alter profoundly what should be the pleasure of coming of age.

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The Chain Reaction 1996

The Chain Reaction 1996

The Chain Reaction 1996
1h 18min | Romance, Adult | Video 1996

Storyline:

Johan, an innocent and cute young guy, enters a gay bar for the first time. The bar’s quiet and Johan is clearly transfixed by the barman. He can’t take his eyes off him. His trance is broken by the arrival of the barman’s boyfriend who is also young and pretty, but obviously more confident than the naive young Johan. At first he’s amazed at their sensuous kissing across the bar and then he’s jealous. Johan contemplates leaving when a gorgeous hustler walks in. Johan, not knowing he’s a hustler, decides to stay to see if he can attract his attention… What follows is a chain of desire as Johan experiences real passion for the first time and eight gorgeous guys join him in a chain reaction of heated passions.

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True Adolescents 2009

True Adolescents 2009

True Adolescents 2009
1h 28min | Comedy, Drama | 29 July 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

Craig Johnson’s poised and poignant first feature follows Sam (Mark Duplass), an, unbeknownst to him, washed-up rocker in the early stages of haggard. Jobless and apartment-less, he crashes with his aunt (a compassionate Melissa Leo) as a last resort and becomes reluctant camping-trip chaperone to her teenage son and a pal. That the three males are on par, maturity-wise, makes for engaging ensemble juvenilia. But in the stirring Pacific Northwest wilderness a surprising discovery turns dire — and the distance from boy to man must be covered overnight. Duplass’s ballsy and at times balls-out performance is a winner, particularly when Sam at long last takes stock of himself: it ain’t pretty.

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Boys Love 2 (2007)

Boys Love 2 (2007)

Boys Love 2 (2007)
1h 28min | Drama | August 2007 (Japan)

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Aoi, a young teacher with striking good looks, has just learned that his newest student Sora is the alluring teen prostitute he once hired. Here the nightmare begins. As the walls of the prestigious academy become a percolating hotbed of sexual intrigue, prostitution and blackmail, other students, including Sora’s nerdy roommate and the sinister campus bully, are pulled down the same torrid path of unquenchable desire toward the inevitable moment when obsession turns deadly.

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El mar 2000

El mar 2000

El mar 2000
1h 47min | Drama, War | 14 April 2000 (Spain)

Storyline:

Two boys (Ramallo and Manuel) and a girl in the Spanish Civil War are involved in the death of other two boys, one killed, the other suicided. This terrible secret will be with them for all their lives. Years pass and they meet in a hospital for tuberculosis treatment. She is now a nun, Ramallo is a thief and Manuel is obsessed by religion. Reality is too hard to feel, only the sea should be the best place, where all is quiet…

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Q – Sexual Desire 2011

Q - Sexual Desire 2011

Q – Sexual Desire 2011
Q (original title)
1h 43min | Drama, Adult | 14 September 2011 (France)

Storyline:

In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cecile, a character who symbolizes desire. Amorous 20-year-old girl sets the French countryside ablaze by taking a series of lovers while attempting to recover from the recent death of her father.

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