Frisk 1995

Frisk 1995

Frisk 1995

Frisk 1995
Unrated | 1h 28min | Drama, Thriller | 22 March 1996 (USA)

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A first person narrative of the exploits of a gay serial killer in deeply disturbing, controversial drama about violence, sexuality, and the imagination. Dennis, the main character, whose lead we follow on this path between what is real and what we can only hope is surreal. His friends attempt to determine if he’s truly a psychopath. The story, is told in the form of a succession of ritual-like murders, comes to life through the letters he writes to his sometime lover and best friend Julian and the object of his desire, Julian’s younger brother, Kevin. The film is set in an erotic world of sado-masochism and portrays the sexual appetites of a young man for whom killing and engorging the victim become the ultimate thrill.

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Your Name Engraved Herein 2020

Your Name Engraved Herein 2020

Your Name Engraved Herein 2020

Your Name Engraved Herein 2020
The Name Engraved in Your Heart (original title)
1h 58min | Romance | 23 December 2020 (USA)

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In 1988, martial law ends in Taiwan and two schoolboys, A-han and Birdy, are about to enter into an illicit love affair after meeting in the school band led by a Canadian priest named Oliver. While the whole country commemorates the late president, the two boys bask in each other’s presence as A-han’s affection for Birdy is awakened. However, society is homophobic and the threat of violence and social shaming enacted by adults and their fellow teens causes the two to come into conflict as they edge closer to physically enacting on their passions for each other. Birdy pushes A-han away by pretending to fall in love with a girl and this misunderstanding separates them. In desperation, A-han confessed to Father Oliver about his sexuality, only to be cut off again but love knows no bounds and the boys are meant to be together – Inspired by real events, the film is emblematic of the changes in Taiwan which became the first country in Asia to legalise gay marriage.

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Boot Camp 2008

Boot Camp 2008

Boot Camp 2008

Boot Camp 2008
Not Rated | 1h 39min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8 May 2008 (Kuwait)
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When provocatively impish drug addict Sophie is forcibly shipped off by her passive mother and brutally domineering stepfather to dodgy, messianic and platitude-spouting Dr. Arthur Hail’s completely isolated Fiji island boot camp for wayward teens (a.k.a. Camp Serenity), her perfectly respectable boyfriend Ben refuses to stand passively by. He fakes a drug problem to get himself enrolled in Dr. Hail’s Advanced Serenity Achievement Program, where he plans to find and escape with Sophie. Meanwhile both teens witness and endure the physically harsh and psychologically brutal conditions fostered by the doctor and enforced by Logan, his militaristic and imposing chief of security – where all “enrollees” have “less rights than prisoners on death row.

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Mondo Weirdo 1990

Mondo Weirdo 1990

Mondo Weirdo 1990

Mondo Weirdo 1990
Jungfrau am Abgrund (original title)
55min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

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Young girl becomes Alice in dreamland during menstruation. Wild dreams and nightmares about sexuality, vampirism, death, obsessions and other bizarre things.

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The Stepmother 1972

The Stepmother 1972

The Stepmother 1972

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

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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)

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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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Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998
1h 49min | Drama | 14 October 1998 (Estonia)

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Quiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young mute boy is sent from the mainland to keep him company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about his younger days as a missionary in Africa.

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Satan’s Children 1975

Satan's Children 1975

Satan’s Children 1975

Satan’s Children 1975
Not Rated | 1h 27min | Horror | 1 June 1975 (USA)

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Runaway teen Bobby is given shelter by a cult of Satanists, but his presence and questionable sexuality leads to conflicts within Satan’s Children.

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Boy’s Choir 2000

Boy's Choir 2000

Boy’s Choir 2000

Boy’s Choir 2000
Dokuritsu shônen gasshô-dan (original title)
2h 9min | Drama, Music | 10 February 2000 (Germany)

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The lives of two orphan boys begin to intertwine when the choir and the feelings they share bring them closer to one another.

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