Typhoon Club 1985

Typhoon Club 1985

Typhoon Club 1985
Taifû kurabu (original title)
1h 55min | Drama, Romance | 31 August 1985 (Japan)

Plot:

The setting is a “new” Tokyo suburb. The school is clean, well run, and the movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which five of the students endure while marooned in the school’s gymnasium.

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Wilde 1997

Wilde 1997

Wilde 1997
R | 1h 58min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 1 September 1997 (Italy)

Storyline:

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosie’s father, the enraged Marquise of Queensberry, Wilde refused to flee the country and was sentenced to two years at hard labor by the courts of an intolerant Victorian society.

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Love Steaks 2013

Love Steaks 2013

Love Steaks 2013
1h 29min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 27 March 2014 (Germany)

Storyline:

A luxury hotel. Steaks frizzle, muffintops getting massaged. Clemens (rare) joins the wellness area as a rookie. Lara (well-done) needs to assert herself in the kitchen pack. The elevator brings the two of them together. Hanging in dependence. They encounter each other, until they clash.

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Head On 1998

Head On 1998

Head On 1998
1h 44min | Drama, Romance | 13 August 1998 (Australia)

Storyline:

Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he’s facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.

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Frysninger 2015

Frysninger 2015

Frysninger 2015

Frysninger 2015
18min | Short | 2015

Storyline:

Kristoffer brings a girl home for the first time. His mother disturbs them and invites Kristoffer’s girlfriend to dinner. At the dinner table, underlying tensions emerge. The atmosphere is charged, the mother unmistakably jealous. After the girlfriend is brought home, the truth comes to light. Portrait of an unhealthy mother-son relationship.

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Una noche 2012

Una noche 2012

Una noche 2012
1h 30min | Drama, Romance | 18 January 2013 (Taiwan)

Storyline:

Mired in the nervous desperation of Havana, Raul dreams of escaping to Miami. When accused of assault, his only option is to flee. He appeals to his best friend, Elio, to abandon everything and help him reach his destiny, 90 miles across the ocean. Elio’s commitment is tested when he is torn between protecting his sister and his own desire to get out. On this one night, full of hope and fraught with tensions, they face the biggest challenge of their lives.

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Some Freaks 2016

Some Freaks 2016

Some Freaks 2016
1h 37min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 4 August 2017 (USA)

Storyline:

When one-eyed high school senior Matt falls meets 250 lb Jill, he falls more in love than he ever thought possible. However, when graduation comes and Jill moves cross-country to go to college, she then loses over 50 lbs – much to Matt’s surprise when he arrives to visit her. While Matt struggles to accept Jill’s new body, Jill begins to question whether Matt is really the man she wants to date. As the distance widens between them, the characters are propelled onto a collision course with brutality and loss, forcing them to confront who they are, who they were, and who everyone thinks they’re supposed to be.

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