A Thousand Clouds of Peace 2003

A Thousand Clouds of Peace 2003

A Thousand Clouds of Peace 2003

A Thousand Clouds of Peace 2003
Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 23min | Drama, Romance | 2 April 2004 (USA)

Storyline:

Gerardo, a 17-year old guy has just finished his relationship with Bruno and starts wandering hopeless through the streets of the city. In his wandering he’s tortured by images: each masculine body he sees reminds him of his lover. Gerardo is determined to keep what’s left of his dying love. The only comfort he has is a letter that Bruno left him with his boss.

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Touched in the Head 1974

Touched in the Head 1974

Touched in the Head 1974

Touched in the Head 1974
Les doigts dans la tête (original title)
1h 44min | Drama | July 1977 (USA)

Storyline:

Baker’s apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.

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Julio Begins in July 1979

Julio Begins in July 1979

Julio Begins in July 1979

Julio Begins in July 1979
Julio Comienza en Julio (original title)
2h | Drama | 30 April 1979 (Chile)

Storyline:

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.

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Temptation of the Mask 1987

Temptation of the Mask 1987

Temptation of the Mask 1987

Temptation of the Mask 1987
Kamen no yûwaku (original title)
1h 8min | Drama | December 1987 (Japan)

Storyline:

Sano plays an adopted orphan who is in love with his stepmother and repeatedly raped by his new father. When he grows up, the traumatized boy becomes an arsonist, only to find some fleeting taste of love with the male detective investigating him.

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Dog Pound 2010

Dog Pound 2010

Dog Pound 2010

Dog Pound 2010
Not Rated | 1h 31min | Crime, Drama | 23 June 2010 (France)

Storyline:

When 17-year-old Butch is sent to the Enola Vale Youth Correctional Center in Montana for blinding an abusive correctional officer, he brings with him a deep-seated intolerance for injustices and a penchant for meting out retributions on his own. No one had better mess with him or anyone else while he’s there. Unfortunately, many do.

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Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)

Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)

Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)

Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)
Jan Dara pathommabot (original title)
2h 17min | Drama, Romance | 13 September 2012 (Singapore)

Storyline:

Set in the 1930s the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. The story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies while giving birth to him and who’s intensely hated by his father. Jan grows up with Aunt Wad, his stepmother, and he struggles to reconcile his guilt and longing with different women in his life, including a girl called Hyacinth, whom he adores, and later Madame Boonleung, his father’s mistress who becomes a key to Jan’s sexual awakening.

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Poppy Field 2020

Poppy Field 2020

Poppy Field 2020

Poppy Field 2020
1h 21min | Drama | 2021 (Romania)

Storyline:

“Poppy Field” follows the struggle of a young Romanian gendarme, Cristi, who tries to find the balance between two apparently opposing parts of his identity: that of a man working in a macho hierarchical environment and that of a closeted gay person who tries to keep his personal life a secret. While his long-distance French boyfriend, Hadi, is visiting him, Cristi is called in for an intervention at a movie theatre, where an ultra-nationalist, homophobic group has interrupted the screening of a queer film. After one of the protesters threatens to out him, Cristi spirals out of control.

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Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010

Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010

Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010

Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010
José Martí: El ojo del canario (original title)
1h 45min | Drama, History | 8 March 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

The story of José Martí’s (Cuba’s National Hero) youth.

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