The Beautiful Beast 2006

The Beautiful Beast 2006

The Beautiful Beast 2006
La belle bête (original title)
1h 50min | Drama | 3 November 2006 (Canada)

Storyline:

La Belle Bête is a powerful study of the conflict between beauty and ugliness, hate and love. The story revolves around three main characters. At the center, Patrice, a beautiful but mindless youth stands gazing at his image in the water. Around him move his ugly sister Isabelle-Marie, and his frivolous mother Louise, the first lost in love and hate for her brother’s beauty, the second seeing it as an adornment for herself. Into this small, obsessed universe come a blind boy and an elegant fop from the outside world. At once, the pattern breaks and events move forward into a terrifying denouement.

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Boundaries 2018

Boundaries 2018

Boundaries 2018
R | 1h 44min | Comedy , Drama | 13 September 2018 (Brazil)

Storyline:

Single mom Laura (Farmiga), along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry (MacDougall) is forced to drive Jack (Plummer), her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he’s kicked out of yet another nursing home. The road trip veers off course when Jack decides to make a couple ‘stops’ and Henry asks to see his ne’er-do-well dad Leonard (Cannavale), completely upending Laura’s attempt to hold her family together and ultimately forcing her to finally see her father for the man he really is.

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Skin And Bone 1996

Skin And Bone 1996

Skin And Bone 1996
Unrated | 1h 50min | Comedy , Drama | 25 September 1998 (USA)

Storyline:

Harry, Billy and Dean are three hustlers at different stages in their careers. All must deal with the realities of their profession. One falls in love with a client, another enters deeper into denial, and another begins to learn the ropes.

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2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten 2016

2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten 2016

2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten 2016

2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten 2016
1h 35min | Drama | 15 March 2017 (Philippines)

Storyline:

Felix is a friendless achiever in high school whose life changes after the arrival of the half-American Snyder brothers, entangling him in their dark ambitions.

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This Is My Body 2001

This Is My Body 2001

This Is My Body 2001
Ceci est mon corps (original title)
1h 27min | Drama | 29 August 2001 (France)

Storyline:

Young student Antoine is at a crossroad in his life. He wants to jump off studies shortly before exams, and are not keen on taking over his fathers firm. Instead he wants to follow an acting career. He is offered a big chance in a main role as the female directors second choice, and after a small quarrel with his father, he takes the job, which men h quits school of nine weeks of filming. As a star he researches why the first choice of an actor, Lucas, was perfect for the role, being gay in a gay role. He finds out that the director has lied to him. Lucas killed himself due to complications after episodes with the director, which was wildly in love with him, despite his sexual prefer action. But Antoine doesn’t get much from contacting her, getting all kinds of mixed signals as her leading role. Talking to the father, or the girlfriend isn’t working for him at his crossroad. And his father cuts him short when he get to know he has signed the film contract. Running off from his father and girlfriend he seeks to stay over at the directors place, though he’s warned about her.

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The Year I Lost My Mind 2017

The Year I Lost My Mind 2017

The Year I Lost My Mind 2017
Jahr des Tigers (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Thriller | 28 August 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

From prolific director Tor Iben comes a new thriller about a lonely young man who becomes dangerously obsessed with a stranger. After encountering him during a burglary, Tom begins stalking and antagonizing the attractive young Lars. When Lars finds out about Tom’s intentions, he manages to turn the tables on him, leading to a shocking confrontation.

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Cola de Mono 2018

Cola de Mono 2018

Cola de Mono 2018
1h 42min | Thriller | 12 October 2018 (Chile)

Storyline:

It’s Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his extended family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. This hypnotic story from Chile is both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller about the ways that passion and desire control our lives – from our pop-culture tastes to our sexual fantasies.

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The Happy Prince 2018

The Happy Prince 2018

The Happy Prince 2018
R | 1h 45min | Biography , Drama | 10 October 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed. The past floods back, taking him to other times and places. Was he once the most famous man in London? The artist crucified by a society that once worshipped him? Under the microscope of death he reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his long suffering wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross, who tried and failed to save him from himself. Travelling through Wilde’s final act and journeys through England, France and Italy, the transience of lust is laid bare and the true riches of love are revealed. It is a portrait of the dark side of a genius who lived and died for love.

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