Star Boys 2017

Star Boys 2017

Star Boys 2017

Star Boys 2017
Kaiken se kestää (original title)
1h 22min | Drama | February 2017 (Sweden)

Storyline:

The movie tells what happens when sexual revolution arrives into a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland, as seen by the 13-year-old Star Boy singers who are forced to observe their parents’ sexual liberation and its consequences at too close range. It’s a powerful story of two families of architects being torn apart by crumbling of moral conceptions and the parents’ endless need for love and freedom. After a fatal toga party, no one and nothing is the same, and the boys’ confusion erupts violently – Even though Star Boys deals with heavy themes, it is ultimately a warm and positive survival story that portrays the persistence and capacity of children to get over even most difficult experiences in life.

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Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998
Los amantes del Círculo Polar (original title)
R | 1h 52min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 28 August 1998 (Spain)

Storyline:

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.

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Dry Wind 2020

Dry Wind 2020

Dry Wind 2020

Dry Wind 2020
Vento Seco (original title)
Unrated | 1h 50min | Drama | 22 August 2020 (USA)

Storyline:

The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertilizer factory and divides his days between the city club, work, soccer with friends and city parties. He has a purely sexual relationship with his colleague Ricardo. He always seems to be a bit of an outsider, not comfortable in his own skin, not really belonging. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, his burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.

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The Northerners 1992

The Northerners 1992

The Northerners 1992

The Northerners 1992
De noorderlingen (original title)
1h 48min | Comedy, Drama | 17 April 1992 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960’s housing development. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas, a young boy, becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news. The liberation of the Belgian Congo is taking place and Thomas becomes Lumumba, one of the contenders as the Congo’s new leader. He is encouraged in this escapism by Plagge, the postman who reads all the mail and knows all of the bizzarre and intimate secrets of the eccentric inhabitants of the estate.

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Dance with the Devil 1997

Dance with the Devil 1997

Dance with the Devil 1997

Dance with the Devil 1997
Perdita Durango (original title)
R | 2h 9min | Action, Crime, Horror | 31 October 1997 (Spain)

Storyline:

Rough girl Perdita and her demonic lover Romeo Dolorosa need humans to sacrifice following Romeo’s religion before he can go on a mission ordered by mob boss Santos. They kidnap teen sweethearts Duane and Estelle and travel with them to Las-Vegas.

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Mammal 2016

Mammal 2016

Mammal 2016

Mammal 2016
Unrated | 1h 36min | Drama, Romance | 1 April 2016 (Ireland)

Storyline:

The compelling story of a woman who has lost her son and develops an unorthodox relationship with a homeless youth that she seems to fall in love with but doesn’t realize it cause she Is stuck in the past with a older man. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband’s grieving rage.

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The day began yesterday 2020

The day began yesterday 2020

The day began yesterday 2020

The day began yesterday 2020
El día comenzó ayer (original title)
31min | Short, Drama | March 2020 (Mexico)

Storyline:

Orlando and Saul meet by accident. The first one is a self-confident young man, university gymnast who avoids that his HIV-positive status defines him; while Saul, on the opposite, is insecure and barely understands what having an active sexual life means. The meeting will result in a new way of seeing life, one without fear where sex is an encounter and not a way of getting away from others.

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