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Dazed and Confused (1993)Dazed & Confused
America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, 'Dazed and Confused' eavesdrops on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshmen. A launching pad for a number of future stars, the first studio effort by Richard Linklater also features endlessly quotable dialogue and a blasting, stadium-ready soundtrack. Sidestepping nostalgia, 'Dazed and Confused' is less about "the best years of our lives" than the boredom, angst, and excitement of teenagers waiting...for something to happen. - Director:
- Richard Linklater
- Cast:
- Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey
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You and I (2014)You & I
Summer in Berlin. Jonas is planning a trip through the little know area of the Uckermark In preparation for a photography project. He invites his best friend, Phillip, to come along. They've only seen each other a few times since their time together in London. So they pack up their Mercedes camper and take off across uncharted territory, stopping when they see something nice, taking pictures and generally enjoying a laid-back road trip. That Phillip's gay is not an issue for either of them. When they pick up a hitchhiker named Boris who shows Jonas interesting spots and starts to make moves on Phillip. The friendship of the two starts to fray. Maybe three's a crowd after all? By the end of the summer, things between Jonas and Phillip will never be the same. "You and I" is a road movie across an unknown area of Germany, a romantic comedy about friendship, with little baggage, but spontaneous humor and wit. In short: images of a summer you're not likely to forget. - Director:
- Nils Bökamp
- Cast:
- George Taylor, Eric Klotzsch, Michal Grabowski
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Microbe and Gasoline (2015)Microbe et Gasoil
Daniel (aka Microbe, Ange Dargent) is a shy boy, often lost in the his drawings. Theo (aka Gasoline, Théophile Baquet) is a smart, inventive kid, who arrives at school in the middle of the year. The two instantly become great friends, and as the summer holidays draw closer, they both know that neither wants to spend two months with their respective families. Thanks to a lawnmower engine and a few planks, they build their own "car" and set off an adventure on the roads of France... - Director:
- Michel Gondry
- Cast:
- Ange Dargent, Théophile Baquet, Diane Besnier
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Nevrland (2019)Neverland
17-year-old Jakob (Simon Frühwirth) lives with his grandfather (Wolfgang Hübsch) and father (Josef Hader) in a small apartment in Vienna. In order to earn some money for his studies, he works part time with his father at the slaughterhouse. Jacob is struggling with an anxiety disorder that makes life increasingly difficult for him. In a sex cam chat, he meets the 26-year-old artist Kristjan (Paul Forman). At first, a virtual friendship develops between the two of them, without a real meeting taking place for the time being. Only after a heavy stroke of fate does Jakob gather his courage and make an appointment with Kristjan in his apartment, leading to an extremely unexpected chain of events. - Director:
- Gregor Schmidinger
- Cast:
- Simon Frühwirth, Paul Forman, Josef Hader
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Mektoub, My Love (2019)Destiny, My Love: Second Song / Mektoub, My Love: Canto / Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
Amin (Sham Boumedine), an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer to a fishing village in the South of France to reconnect with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony (Salim Kechiouche) and his best friend Ophelie (Ophelie Bau), he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday. Armed with his camera and guided by the bright summer light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. When it comes to love, only Mektoub ('destiny'in Arabic)... - Director:
- Abdellatif Kechiche
- Cast:
- Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kechiouche
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Telling a terrifying tale of some teenagers who opt to spend the night in a morgue but awake a demonic force that takes none too kindly to trespassers - 'One Dark Night ' has not been seen in the UK since the VHS era! However, this colourful bout of eighties carnage is back to frighten a new generation - and with a leading lady turn from the beautiful Meg Tilly is it any wonder this decade defining ghost story has never been forgotten by those who first encountered its eerie charms? - Director:
- Tom McLoughlin
- Cast:
- Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans
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Crafted from the treasure trove that is the BFI National Archive, 'Queerama' traverses a century of gay experience, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love and desire, identity, secrets, forbidden encounters, sexual liberation and pride. Weaving the lyrics and music of John Grant, Goldfrapp and Hercules and Love Affair, Daisy Asquith guides us intimately through the relationships, desires, fears and expressions of gay men and women against the backdrop of a century of incredible change. 'Queerama' offers a wealth of unknown newsreel and amateur film, alongside the sub-textual references scattered throughout 20th-century cinema, the sexual liberation of the early 21st-century queer and transgender scene, and the gay parenting and marriage campaigns of recent years. - Director:
- Daisy Asquith
- Cast:
- Simon McCallum, Daisy Asquith, Bryan Magee
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Water Boys (2015)Non accettare i sogni dagli sconosciuti
At an International swim meet in St. Petersburg, Massimo, a young and sexy Italian swimmer catches the eye of Vladimir, a handsome Russian reporter. A relationship is soon formed and the men fall in love at almost breakneck speed. Things begin to get complicated, however, as the two men are challenged by strong cultural differences, and plagued by the backdrop of Russia's newly passed Anti-gay laws. Will their love survive all of these obstacles, or are they destined to part forever? - Director:
- Roberto Cuzzillo
- Cast:
- Daniel de Rossi, Giuseppe Claudio Insalaco
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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire
The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe Bernard Milan covets Louis Toulouse's job - director of a secret service. To get rid of his overly ambitious assistant, Toulouse sends Milan off on a wild goose chase after a dangerous spy who is in fact just an ordinary Joe. So Milan starts shadowing Francois Perrin, an absentminded violinist. This odd game of espionage entraps the three men in a web of hilarious situations as they go from one surprise to the next.
The Return of the Tall Blond Man
After a host of misadventures, the Tall Blond Man, with the charming Catherine by his side, has left for Brazil wearing his black shoe and carrying his violin. Tought Toulouse's killers are too ham-handed to upset his well-deserved holiday. Everything would be fine if, in Paris, a lowly police captain with an acute sense of justice, weren't investigating Milan's bizarre death. Colonel Toulouse has a major problem when the Tall Blond Man returns....And everything starts all over again.- Director:
- Yves Robert
- Cast:
- Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort
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Les Enfants Terribles (1950)The Terrible Children / The Strange Ones
In this compelling tale of obsession, teenage siblings Paul (Edouard Dermithe) and Elisabeth (Nicole Stéphane) create an intense, private world in their shared room. They live, sleep, bicker and play out erotically charged games within their chambre, without heed to the world around them. However, when outsiders intrude into their disturbingly private realm, the scene is set for tragedy. - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Cast:
- Jean Cocteau, Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe
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Succubus (1968)Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden
Beautiful Lorna is a nightclub dancer in one of Lisbon's most fashionable bars, the Snob Club. Her story is composed of the deep blues of reality, the blood reds of fantasy and the fearful blacks of the supernatural. Her show, which she performs every night, is full of sensuality and ultimately ends with a killing. Her performance is a fantastic success but Lorna, mentally influenced by the character she portrays, slowly loses contact with reality and becomes lost in the twilight zone of her schizophrenic mind. Her manager, Bill Mulligan, has more than just a business interest in Lorna and tries to help. Little does he know that his search for the cause of her behaviour will turn into a nightmare that even he cannot escape. - Director:
- Jesús Franco
- Cast:
- Janine Reynaud, Jack Taylor, Adrian Hoven
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In less than 24 hours, the city of Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. When Odd (Anton Yelchin), a fast food chef with the ability to see the dead and sense impending danger, discovers a dark secret about a stranger in his town, he is compelled to unravel the truth. His soul mate, Stormy (Addison Timlin), and Police Chief Porter (Willem Dafoe) help him on his mission. However, in pursuit of justice, Odd's actions trigger a violent chain reaction that will not be stopped unless he commits the ultimate sacrifice. - Director:
- Stephen Sommers
- Cast:
- Anton Yelchin, Ashley Sommers, Leonor Varela
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It's 1846 and three sailors, Oliver (Alex Hassell), Jim (Graham Butler) and Cailean (Fisayo Akinade) are the only survivors of a terrible shipwreck. On their leaky lifeboat they make it to a mysterious island off the Scottish coast. Here they meet the four sole inhabitants, Douglas (Conleth Hill), his niece Lanthe (Tori Butler-Hart), the harbour man Fingal (Dickon Tyrell) and his daughter Korrigan (Alex Wilton Regan). They clearly have a terrible secret that they're hiding and when fully recovered the sailors are desperate to leave and return to the mainland, but the promised boat never appears. Oliver starts to investigate and unearths a myth of a ghostly siren that haunts the island. - Director:
- Matthew Butler Hart
- Cast:
- Louis Devereux, Alex Hassell, Fisayo Akinade
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The Acrobat (2019)L'acrobate
In an American town undergoing a construction boom, a working man enters a romantic relationship with a Russian acrobat visiting an apartment. Following a trapeze accident, Micha (Yury Paulau) has a broken leg and goes around on crutches. The two men meet every night in the apartment Christophe (Sébastien Ricard) has bought hastily. The two lovers cut themselves off from the outside world, at the heart of winter, and explore their lust without restraint. 'The Acrobat' is a fiercly sexy drama, a no holds barred look at an unbridled animal connection between two unashamed men. - Director:
- Rodrigue Jean
- Cast:
- Sébastien Ricard, Yury Paulau, Victor Fomine
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)Le fantôme de la liberté
Episodic in structure, the film is a series of anarchic and frequently surreal series of events through which the director ravages a complacent European culture and the various sexual hang-ups and historical and cultural disconnects of its inhabitants. A man sells postcards of French tourist attractions, calling them "pornographic". A sniper in Montparnasse is hailed as a hero for killing passers-by. A missing child helps the police fill out the report on her. A group of monks play poker, using religious medallions as chips, and in the most infamous sequence, a formally dressed social group gathers at toilets around a table, occasionally excusing themselves to go into little stalls in a private room to eat. Best approached as a literal comedy of manners - the film is perversely funny and punctuated with a series of quite brilliant sight gags - 'The Phantom of Liberty' argues against the acceptance of strict moral codes, suggesting that the only way to live freely is to embrace the coincidences of the world. - Director:
- Luis Buñuel
- Cast:
- Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli
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