The Perfect David 2021

The Perfect David 2021

The Perfect David 2021

The Perfect David 2021
El perfecto David (original title)
1h 15m | Drama | 9 December 2021 (Argentina)

Storyline:

David is a young bodybuilder who obsessively trains to become his artist mother’s muse. As he dedicates himself to further developing his physique, he goes through an identity crisis that will mark his destiny.

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Normal 2007

Normal 2007

Normal 2007

Normal 2007
1h 40m | Drama | 7 October 2008 (USA)

Storyline:

A grieving mother cannot “move on” after her son’s death, keeping his room as it was, wanting her younger boy to be like his dead brother. A youth leaves juvenile detention, going home to an angry father and a lonely young step-mother. A college teacher whose brother has autistic behaviors separates from his wife and is attracted to a student. The narrative discloses slowly the mother, youth, and teacher’s connections to a car accident. The paroled youth talks to the dead boy’s girlfriend and must sort out his relationship with his step-mother; the professor encourages his brother to go on a date. Can the mother see her living son for who he is? In what ways can each be normal? In what ways can each be normal?

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Nijinsky 1980

Nijinsky 1980

Nijinsky 1980

Nijinsky 1980
2h 9m | Biography, Drama, Music | 21 March 1980 (USA)

Storyline:

Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant, but headstrong premier ballet dancer and aspiring choreographer of the Ballets Russes. The company is managed by the famous Sergei Diaghilev, a controlling and fiercely possessive impresario. The increasing tension between these powerful egos, exacerbated by homosexual desire and jealousy, becomes triangular when the young ballerina Romola de Pulsky determinedly attempts to draw the increasingly mentally unstable Nijinsky away from Diaghilev.

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Supernatural 2014

Supernatural 2014

Supernatural 2014

Supernatural 2014
Nua dhamma chat (original title)
1h 46m | Drama, Sci-Fi | 24 January 2014 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

In a futurist world, the Thai kingdom has been transformed by ‘The Leader’ into ‘the Realm of people who have done good deeds and earned merits’. It’s a nice place to be, even though the inhabitants are plagued by an indefinable nostalgia. In the old days, people could at least touch each other. Although the Realm has reached version 2.0, technical possibilities remain limited. This wondrous story of the future is interwoven with stories set in the present and past. According to Pansittivorakul, known for his independently-produced and taboo-breaking documentaries on homosexuality and politics, his first feature is science fiction, yet it is about today’s Thailand. For instance he criticizes the need for religion and superstition. But in the end, this very idiosyncratic, homo-erotically charged essay is above all about time: ‘Time influences everything. The past has to do with the present, and the present is linked to the future.

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Potato Dreams of America 2021

Potato Dreams of America 2021

Potato Dreams of America 2021

Potato Dreams of America 2021
1h 35m | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 16 March 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

An autobiographical dark comedy about a gay boy growing up in the Soviet Union, his mail-order bride mother and their adventurous escape to America.

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Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret’s Lake 2005

Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake 2005

Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret’s Lake 2005

Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret’s Lake 2005
Kim Novak badade aldrig i Genesarets sjö (original title)
1h 35m | Crime | Drama | 23 September 2005 (Sweden)

Storyline:

The year is 1962. Erik, his newly aquainted friend Edmund and his grown-up brother Henry are going to spend their summer holiday in a fairly decayed house just near the lake Genesaret. One day, Ewa Kaludis, who looks like Kim Novak, turns up at the place while the summer continous to be the best ever – until it comes to a halt as she begins a fatal relationship with Henry and “the terrible thing” happens … and nobody knows who dunnit.

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The Gate of Youth 1981

The Gate of Youth 1981

The Gate of Youth 1981

The Gate of Youth 1981
Seishun no mon (original title)
2h 25m | Drama | 15 January 1981 (Japan)

Storyline:

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner.

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