Macho Dancer 1988
2h 16min | Drama | 18 January 1989 (Philippines)
Storyline:
Abandoned by his American lover, a handsome teenager from the mountains journeys to Manila in an effort to support his family. With a popular call boy as his mentor, Paul enters the glittering world of male strippers, prostitution, drugs, sexual slavery, police corruption and murder. Teeming with sex and Asian beefcake, Macho Dancer is a searing indictment of the hypocrisy and police corruption rampant under both the Marcos and Aquino regimes.
Dear Mr. Gacy 2010 UNRATED
R | 1h 43min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 11 May 2010 (Canada)
Storyline:
1993. Overachieving college student Jason Moss, fascinated by serial crime, decides to write his criminology class term paper on John Wayne Gacy, who is on death row and scheduled to be executed in six months time. Jason’s criminology professor, Mr. Harris, will only allow Jason to write his paper on Gacy if Jason can come up with a fresh angle, as he himself believes the topic of serial killers is already overexposed. After writing Gacy a nondescript letter and receiving a questionnaire from Gacy in return, Jason believes the fresh angle would be truly to get inside Gacy’s head, specifically to learn what makes him tick, by presenting himself in subsequent correspondence to Gacy as Gacy’s “type”, i.e. a vulnerable young man from a dysfunctional family and thus who is possibly at risk. Despite the advice that he needs to watch out for cunning Gacy, Jason is certain he can outsmart the serial criminal at his own game. Things take an unexpected turn for Jason when he starts receiving telephone calls from Gacy, who was able to find out his number. As Jason feels he has to do further field work based on things that Gacy wants him to report back on, Jason may find that he is not as well equipped emotionally to handle the situation than he first believed, potentially leading to serious consequences both for himself and those around him.
Mirella, a sultry middle-aged maths teacher, falls in love with a student, Alain. But her bourgeois upbringing comes in the way of this fantasy love, until she finds out that her best friend had sex with the young man.
Pourquoi Mon Fils 2015
Pourquoi mon fils? (original title)
21min | Short, Drama | 12 June 2015 (France)
Plot:
This is the time for Thomas and Louis to announce to their parents their homosexual bond. If for Louis everything seems to go for the best, on the other hand for the father of Thomas, Hervé, nothing goes more. He enters a state of uncontrollable rage, but how far is he ready to face this revelation? (google translated)
I Like You, I Like You Very Much 1994
Anata-ga suki desu, dai suki desu (1994)
58min | Drama | 19 April 1994 (Japan)
User review:
This is a relatively short film, running time 58 minutes. Shows a fairly gritty side of Japan. The basic plot is very simple and, to be honest, not very well developed.
I found it more interesting to see the living conditions and scenery, as well as seeing how much of my basic Japanese I remembered, rather than for the plot itself.
Overall the film is short enough to make it worth the effort of viewing.
Disconnect 2012
R | 1h 55min | Drama, Thriller | 5 July 2013 (USA)
Storyline:
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can’t find the time to communicate with his family. A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today’s wired world.
