No End 1985

No End 1985

No End 1985

No End 1985
Bez konca (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 47min | Drama, Romance | 17 June 1985 (Poland)

Storyline:

It’s 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and Antek continues to appear to her. She seeks to free herself in her work, in her relationship with her son, in sex, and in hypnosis. In a subplot, Ulla refers the wife of one of her husband’s clients – Darek, a jailed Solidarity strike organizer – to Labrador, a world-weary, aging attorney, who works to free Darek by various political manipulations and psychological ploys.

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Hell, or Pool Cleaning 2011

Hell, or Pool Cleaning 2011

Hell, or Pool Cleaning 2011

Hell, or Pool Cleaning 2011
O Inferno (original title)
20min | Short, Drama, Thriller | May 2011 (Portugal)

Storyline:

You can think of swimming pools, shinny wet grass, maybe heat and sex. There is no subway, no train station. You take three buses if you don’t have a car. You can live well there. Probably nothing else comes to mind.

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Gerontophilia 2013

Gerontophilia 2013

Gerontophilia 2013

Gerontophilia 2013
Unrated | 1h 22min | Comedy, Romance | 4 July 2014 (Canada)

Storyline:

An eighteen-year-old boy gets a summer job in a nursing home and develops a deep emotional attachment to an old man. Discovering that the old man, along with the other patients, is being over-medicated to make him easier to manage, the boy weans the old man off his meds and helps him escape, resulting in a road trip across the country.

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Too Cool for School 2015

Too Cool for School 2015

Too Cool for School 2015

Too Cool for School 2015
11min | Short, Fantasy, Thriller | May 2015 (France)

Storyline:

An apathetic teenager with sex on his brain decides to ditch school. The decisions he makes culminate into something of a waking nightmare, tearing apart any facade he has put on and revealing his true personality.

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Picco 2010

Picco 2010

Picco 2010

Picco 2010
1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Horror | 3 February 2011 (Germany)

Storyline:

Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc. A partnership of convenience in a system where only the strong prevail and which is dominated by violence and latent aggression. Oppression and beatings are a daily occurence. It is hard for Kevin to establish himself. Especially Marc and Andy are after him. He’s afraid of not sticking it out. Only Tommy gives him an amicable advice: In this system, you’re either a victim or a culprit. If he doesn’t want to be a loser anymore, he has to start fighting. A piece of advice that will trigger most dire consequences…

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Head Burst 2019

Head Burst 2019

Head Burst 2019

Head Burst 2019
Kopfplatzen (original title)
1h 37min | Drama | 2 April 2020 (Germany)

Storyline:

Markus, a good-looking, likable and respected architect, is a paedophile. Bodies of little boys excite him. He suffers tremendously because of this inclination. He tortures himself for it and is disgusted by himself. Nevertheless, the arousal is there. And there is nothing he can do about it. He struggles the most when he is about to become sexual with a boy for the first time. That is when he senses that he will not be able to keep his desire under control for much longer. He is getting more and more isolated. Markus struggles to resist the ever-rising calls in his head to finally ‘do more’ with a boy.

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Saturday Church 2017

Saturday Church 2017

Saturday Church 2017

Saturday Church 2017
1h 22min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical | 12 January 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.

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