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Is there anything more complex than a gay man's relationship with his mother? When writer Lorenz (Fabian Krüger) returns from Berlin to his native small town home he expects an uneventful break - maybe even a chance to get over his writers block.

But when he arrives he finds his fiercely independent, gregarious mother needs more than a little attention. And when a one night stand with a hot young local man begins to get seriously complicated, it becomes clear that this isn't going to be anything like a normal trip home!

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From the producers of 'The Fault in Our Stars' comes this heartfelt coming-of-age story about the adventure of finding yourself and falling in love. Everyone deserves a great love story.

But for seventeen-year-old Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) it's a bit complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online.

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"Coffeehouse Chronicles The Movie", based on the successful web series, covers two days and one night of love, hookups, heartbreaks, and hopes in queer LA.

A comedy that explores the many ways gay men connect in the world of the Internet, social media, and, of course coffee houses, 'Coffeehouse Chronicles' is the 'perfect blend' of romance and laughs!

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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.

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Swiss Toni is a proud man - proud of his car showroom, his happy marriage, his unique sense of style and his immaculately coiffured hair. He is a man's man, from a time when men wore driving gloves, curry had raisins in it and women stayed married.

In his world everything can be compared to making love to a beautiful woman and he knows that the way to a lady's heart is via fine wines, Belgian chocolates and the manly smell of a pipe. Sadly his life is careering off the rails. His marriage is crumbling, his business collapsing and his domineering mother (Elizabeth Spriggs) is convinced that he's actually gay. It is down to his staff to try and hold things together. Head salesman, Geoff (Simon Day), alcoholic, bitter and fatally attracted to Swiss's put-upon wife, Ruth (Matilda Zeigler). Paul, the naive junior salesman (Rhys Thomas) who worships Swiss and Miranda, the receptionist (Emma Rydal), a wild child who Swiss is both appalled and secretly drawn to.

Episodes Comprise:
Series 1
1. Cars Don't Make You Fat
2. Taxed and Tested
3. Power Assisted Steering
4. Part Exchange
5. Left Hand Drive
6. One Previous Owner

Series 2
1. Troubleshooter
2. Speed Date
3. Depression
4. Gellward
5. Cable Show
6. Pangolin
7. Mumble Jackets
8. Fothergill 2000
9. Listening
10. On Top of Old Smokey

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In 17th-century England, ambitious country gentleman Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) dared to challenge the political oppression and corruption which besieged his nation. Watching his power being usurped by a commoner, King Charles (Alec Guinness) springs to challenge his adversary.

One man will become absolute ruler; the other will be executed.

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Still pining for his ex-boyfriend, Géraud (Johnny Rasse) has come to a French seaside town to present his new experimental film, but the only person keen on seeing it is the cinema's sweet underage projectionist - who soon becomes smitten with the handsome director.

Brimming with an infectious charm 'My Life with James Dean' is a both a breezy, optimistic French romance, and an endearing paean to the power of cinema.

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Both Abel (Nelson A. Rodriguez), who works in social services, and Diego (Andrew L. Saenz), an auto mechanic, have waited a long time for the love they have yearned for. After several chance meetings, the two finally hook up and quickly fall deeply for each other.

But when tragedy strikes and Diego's immigration status is revealed, Abel and Diego discover the power of love during uncertain times.

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Frankie (Harris Dickinson), an aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn, is having a miserable summer. He escapes the bleakness of his home life by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online.

When his chatting and webcamming intensify, he finally starts hooking up with guys at a nearby cruising beach while simultaneously entering into a cautious relationship with a young woman. As Frankie struggles to reconcile his competing desires, his decisions leave him hurtling toward irreparable consequences.

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Benny Hill's Greatest Hits
All your favourite side-splitting routines are here, delivered in the usual zany style from the undoubted king of comic clowning. Who else but the comic genius of Benny Hill could turn the speeded-up chase scene into an art form?

The Crazy World of Benny Hill
Join Benny in his crazy world of saucy sketches, masterful word play and musical madness. This programme features many of Benny's regular characters and, of course, the glamorous singing and dancing Hill's angels.

On a sweltering night at London's Royal Opera House in June 2017, Jonas Kaufmann made his debut performance in Verdi's Otello - one of the most coveted and challenging roles in the tenor operatic repertoire.

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Beatrice (Juliet Stevenson) and her teenage son Elliot (Alex Lawther) spend a week packing up the contents of their remote holiday house in the South of France.

Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his sexuality and she in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément (Phénix Brossard) enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and finally, each other. "Departure" is an intimate story beginning at dawn on the first day and ending at night on the sixth day, charting the end of a summer, the end of a childhood and the end of an otherwise nuclear, middleclass family.

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"The Drummer and the Keeper" tells the story of Gabriel (Dermot Murphy), a rock'n'roll party animal newly-diagnosed with mental health issues, and Christopher (Jacob McCarthy), a 17-year-old goalkeeper with Asperger Syndrome who yearns to fit in.

When the young drummer is prescribed a weekly dose of therapeutic football, he's forced into the company of the isolated Christopher who's determined to make friends with the anarchic new arrival - whether Gabriel likes it or not. It's a meeting that will change both their lives.

Set amongst the privileged elite of Oxford University, 'The Riot Club' follows Miles (Max Irons) and Alistair (Sam Claflin), two first year students determined to join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.

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For Dennis (Jon Paul Phillips) 30th birthday, his sugar daddy says the three words no kept boy wants to hear - "Get a job". Interior Designer/Reality Show star Farleigh Knock (Thure Riefenstein) has a knack for keeping beautiful things, like the Adonic Dennis, around his home.

So when Fairleigh gives him this unthinkable ultimatum Dennis goes from Kept Boy to Lost Man. How will Dennis retain his identity, his autonomy, in a post gay marriage world, where vestiges of a minority cultures sexual mores remain?