The Stepmother 1972

The Stepmother 1972

The Stepmother 1972

The Stepmother 1972
R | 1h 34min | Drama | 22 March 1972 (USA)

Storyline:

Returning home late one night from a business trip to Mexico, architect Frank Delgado finds the car of wealthy client Alan Richmond in his driveway. Suspecting that his wife Margo and Richmond are having an affair, Frank attacks Richmond when he steps outside and strangles him to death. Although stunned by his action, Frank drives Richmond’s body to the beach and, using a spade he brought from his home, buries the body in the sand. As he finishes the burial, Frank overhears a nearby, young, Latin couple’s argument escalate into a fight, but drives away without being seen. The next morning as the police receive a report of the discovery of two bodies at the beach, Frank and Margo are awakened by the arrival of Frank’s business partner Dick Hill, his wife Sonya and their friends, pornographic film director Goof and his wife Rita. Although reluctant, the tense Frank agrees to accompany the others to the beach house belonging to Richmond, for whom he and Dick are building another property.

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Lan Yu 2001

Lan Yu 2001

Lan Yu 2001

Lan Yu 2001
R | 1h 26min | Drama, Romance | 22 November 2001 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.

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Mary Lou 2009

Mary Lou 2009

Mary Lou 2009

Mary Lou 2009
Tamid oto chalom (original title)
35min | Drama, Musical, Romance | TV Series (2009– )

Storyline:

A musical series composed of songs by Israeli singer Tsvik Pick tells the story of a boy named Meir. Meir’s mother, stage name Mary Lou, is a talented singer and a great Tsvik admirer. One day, however, he suddenly leaves Meira and his father without explanation. The boy sets out to look for her and firmly believes that one day they will meet again. In addition to Tsvick Pick’s songs, he is accompanied during his search by Shuli’s best friend. The last part of the triangle of young people is Gabriel.

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Jelgava 94 (2019)

Jelgava 94 (2019)

Jelgava 94 (2019)

Jelgava 94 (2019)
1h 20min | Adventure, Drama | 20 September 2019 (Latvia)

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“JELGAVA’94” is a film, which with equal parts of coming of age film and a portrait of the cultural chaos that reigned in former communist states during the 1990s, serves as a stark reminder of what has been left behind when border countries such as Latvia, regained their independence. The film is based on the novel by Janis Jonevs – a winner of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014.

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Las olas 2017

Las olas 2017

Las olas 2017

Las olas 2017
1h 27min | Drama | 14 June 2018 (Uruguay)

Storyline:

Exhausted after leaving work, Alfonso goes to the beach and dives into the sea. Coming to the surface, he finds himself on another beach, in another time. His parents are waiting for him, calling to him from the water’s edge. Alfonso sees and understands everything from his adult’s body, even if they treat him like an 11 year old. This is the beginning of a fantastic voyage through the different holidays in his life, where the situations come one after the other with no chronological order, interrupting with a tone of intimacy and entertaining nostalgia his meetings with girlfriends, teenage and childhood pals, his daughter, and his loneliness.

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Oh, Mando (2020) S01E05

Oh, Mando (2020) S01E05

Oh, Mando (2020) S01E05

Oh, Mando (2020) S01E05
Comedy, Romance | Episode aired 3 December 2020

Storyline:

Charming but timid college student Mando is your typical hopeless romantic. He meets Barry, an out-and-proud basketball star who is practically a prince from a fairytale. The only thing spoiling Mando’s happy ending is the fact that Barry already has a boyfriend. To move on, Mando goes out with liberated architecture student Krisha and the two become lovers. One fateful day, Barry walks back into Mando’s life. Now, he needs to choose – will it be mind over heart or heart over mind?

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Thieves 2007

Thieves 2007

Thieves 2007

Thieves 2007
Ladrones (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 41min | Drama, Romance | 22 June 2007 (Spain)

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The main character is a nameless boy (Juan Jose Ballesta) who was taught to steal wallets by his absent mother. He is able to do the trick effortlessly, using his “earnings” to survive while he looks for his mom. As he runs into an antique store owner, he might have found a trace that will lead to her. First, however, he will have to pull off a few “jobs” for the store owner, and he can’t do it alone: enter a nameless girl (Maria Valverde) who gets to learn all the secret techniques the young boy has been using all his life.

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Alice Júnior 2019

Alice Júnior 2019

Alice Júnior 2019

Alice Júnior 2019
1h 27min | Comedy | 17 September 2020 (USA)

Storyline:

Alice Junior is a fiction feature film, a teen comedy that tells the story of Alice, a 17 years old teenager transgender (with a lot of personality!), that moves from Recife, a big town from Northeast of Brazil, to a fictional small town called Araucárias do Sul, from South of Brazil. Do you remember your first kiss? I bet you do. And it would turn into a good story? So imagine the first kiss of a transgender teenager, who leaves the big city and moves to a conservative small town in the south of Brazil, and is registered in a school that seems to have come out of the dark ages. All of it because of the perfumer Jean search, Alice’s father, for the aromatic essence of the legendary Imperial Flower, exclusive of the region. This is the story of Alice Junior, a transgender girl full of life, who wants to give her first kiss, but first, she just want to be who she really is.

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