The Pillow Book 1996

The Pillow Book 1996

The Pillow Book 1996
2h 6min | Drama | 12 May 1996 (France)

Storyline:

As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko’s father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from “The Pillow Book”, the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a “parfait mélange” of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.

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Utopians 2015

Utopians 2015

Utopians 2015
Tung lau hap woo (original title)
1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 16 January 2016 (Japan)

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This film tells the story of a university student in Hong Kong, who lives with his mother and has a Catholic girlfriend. One day, he attends a class on Greek philosophy, and he gets intrigued by the professor. Deeper and deeper, he is drawn into the mysterious world of sexual seduction.

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Eating Out 3 – 2009

Eating Out 3 - 2009

Eating Out 3 – 2009
Eating Out: All You Can Eat (original title)
1h 20min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 9 October 2009 (USA)

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Tiffani and her friend Casey try to lure the gorgeous Zack with a phony online profile using the image of Tiffani’s buff ex, Ryan… which works fine until the real Ryan shows up. Only through some fancy footwork, advice from his Aunt Helen and mentor Harry, and a daring sexual escapade can Casey figure out how to set things right and perhaps even find the love he’s been seeking.

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My Bodyguard 1980

My Bodyguard 1980

My Bodyguard 1980
1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 26 September 1980 (USA)

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Clifford Peache is the new kid in Lake View High School. Faced with all the stress that role entails he makes his situation worse by insulting Moody, the leader of a group of toughs who extort lunch money from kids. These punks pretend to be bodyguards for the kids to protect them from Linderman who, it is rumored, killed his brother in cold blood. Clifford befriends the sullen Linderman and hires him as his bodyguard. When Moody ups the ante, Linderman must decide whether fighting for what he believes in, with his haunted past and image, is justified.

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Not Angels But Angels 1994

Not Angels But Angels 1994

Not Angels But Angels 1994

Not Angels But Angels 1994
1h 20min | Documentary | 1994

Storyline:

Exploitative mockumentary with interviews with a procurer and with nineteen boys and young men who are prostitutes in Prague. The youths range in age from 14 to 19. They hustle at the central train station and at clubs. Most of their clients are foreign tourists, many are German. The youths talk about why they hustle, their first trick, prices, dangers, what they know about AIDS, their fears (disease and loneliness), and how they imagine their futures. The film’s title, its liturgical score, much of it elegiac, and shots of the city’s statues of angels underline the vulnerability and callow lack of sophistication of the young men.

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