City After Dark 1980

City After Dark 1980

City After Dark 1980

City After Dark 1980
2h 30min | Drama | 28 November 1980 (Philippines)

Storyline:

The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families’ conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs and prostitution. The outstanding narrative explicitly unravels the various characters and episodes. This landmark film of Ishmael Bernal depicts the darkness of city life so vividly that it was once prohibited to use the word ‘Manila’ on its title.

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Veneno e05 (2020)

Veneno e05 (2020)

Veneno e05 (2020)

Veneno e05 (2020)
1h | Biography, Drama | Episode aired 4 October 2020

Storyline:

Cristina Ortiz, La Veneno, lands in ‘Esta noche cruzamos el Mississippi’. Pepe cannot settle for just one program and invites La Veneno to be a regular panelist in exchange for doing what the public demands: delving into his past. If Cristina wants to leave the streets and enter fully into the world of television for which she seems to be predestined, she will have to face the demons of her past and re-incorporate her family and Adra into her life.

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Darkroom 2019

Darkroom 2019

Darkroom 2019

Darkroom 2019
Darkroom – Tödliche Tropfen (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 29min | Crime | 30 January 2020 (Germany)

Storyline:

Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves with his lover Roland to Berlin. They renovate an apartment with the intention of finally living together. Their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesn’t know: while secretly checking out Berlin’s night life, Lars is experimenting with a deadly poison.

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Goodbye First Love 2011

Goodbye First Love 2011

Goodbye First Love 2011

Goodbye First Love 2011
Un amour de jeunesse (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 50min | Drama, Romance | 4 July 2011 (France)

Storyline:

Spring of 1999: 15-year-old Camille and 19-year-old Sullivan are mad about each other. Sullivan, however, wants to go to South America for a year and this drives Camille to despair. He leaves in the fall and after a while he stops writing to her. After a suicide attempt, she ends up in the hospital. After four years she works, studies architecture and lives alone. She meets a famous architect, Lorenz, who restores her self-confidence. In 2007, Camille and Lorenz have a strong relationship. She is his assistant but she feels strong enough to set up an agency soon. She develops into a more fully formed woman, with new interests. After 7 years she sees Sullivan again. After their first meeting everything seems to go well, but a few months later the old feelings come back and her heart is torn again.

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Le pornographe 2001

Le pornographe 2001

Le pornographe 2001

Le pornographe 2001
Unrated | 1h 48min | Drama | 3 October 2001 (France)

Storyline:

Jacques made pornographic films in the 1970s and ’80s, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the ’60s counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier, he is now directing a porno again. Jacques’s artistry clashes with his financially-troubled producer’s ideas about shooting hard-core sex. He has been estranged from his son Joseph for years, since the son first learned the nature of the family business. They are now speaking again. Joseph and his friends want to recapture the idealism of 1968 with a protest. Separated from his wife, Jacques strives for personal renewal with plans to build a new house by himself.

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Narcissus and Goldmund 2020

Narcissus and Goldmund 2020

Narcissus and Goldmund 2020

Narcissus and Goldmund 2020
Narziss und Goldmund (original title)
1h 50min | Drama | 12 March 2020 (Germany)

Storyline:

The young Goldmund is sent by his father to study in the monastery Mariabronn and meets there on the religious monastic student Narcissus. Narcissus has dedicated himself to the ascetic and austere life in the monastery with heart and soul and Goldmund first tries to imitate him. An intimate friendship soon develops between the two, but the boisterous and fun-loving Goldmund soon realizes that the life perspective the convent offers does not match his ideas of freedom and, emboldened by Narcissus, embarks on a journey full of adventure in which he finally meets his great love Lene. But years later, Narcissus and Goldmund meet again under dramatic circumstances.

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Wild Side 2004

Wild Side 2004

Wild Side 2004

Wild Side 2004
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 14 April 2004 (France)

Storyline:

In Paris, the thirty-two years old travesty Stéphanie a.k.a. Pierre is a streetwalker that lives with the Egyptian gay hustler Djamel and the Russian gay Mikhail that works in a restaurant. When the hospital where her mother Liliane is terminal calls her, she travels with her two lovers to the countryside to look after her dying mother. While at home, she recalls her childhood and how she met Djamel and Mikhail.

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