richard-1's - Rented List

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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?

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Hugh Jackman leads an all-star cast in this bold and original musical filled with infectious showstopping performances that will bring you to your feet time and time again. Inspired by the story of P.T.

Barnum (Hugh Jackman) and celebrating the birth of show business, the film follows the visionary who rose from nothing to create a mesmerising spectacle.

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"The Disaster Artist" is based on the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult-classic disasterpiece 'The Room' ("The Greatest Bad Movie of All Time").

Director and star James Franco transforms the true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau - an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable - into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.

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Inspired by the 1986 newspaper headline, which broke during Boy George's heavily reported drug problem, 'Worried About The Boy' is a compassionate biography following the much-loved icon's formative years.

The film takes a wry look at a young George O'Dowd's determination to stand out from the crowd, and his subsequent success in changing a whole generation's attitude to music and gender.

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Desire is mysterious. Desire is overwhelming. Desire is tragic. Desire is Furious. The many permutations of that strange thing called desire are on full display in this stunning collection of short films: 'Daytime Doorman' tracks the burgeoning desire between Marcelo and his sexy doorman Marcio.

'Xavier' charts the beginnings of desire, when Nicholas begins to notice his son, Xavier, only pays attention to certain types of boys. 'The Other Side' is about the frustrations of unfulfilled desire when the object of your lust is beyond your reach- literally. 'The Tigers Fight' explores what happens when one man, unbound by the ancient traditions, decides to subvert what s expected of him to declare his desire for his best friend, and finally, in 'Loris Is Fine' we learn about the lengths two young lovers will go to prove that their love is beyond desire.

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At the age of 21, Saar Maoz is kicked out of his Kibbutz for not being 'religious'. Cutting all ties with his family, Saar flees to London and embraces the freedoms of London life in the 90s. Then one day the highs of his new-found freedom come crashing down around him.

With no family of his own, Saar seeks solace in the arms of the London Gay Men's Chorus. Suddenly life has a new meaning. After 17 years Saar reaches out to his conservative Israeli family in an attempt to reconcile. Now his parents are coming to visit… 'Who's Gonna Love Me Now?' isn't Saar Maoz's singular journey, it is a monumental trek undertaken by his entire family.

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Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - has ever walked in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.

Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan. Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis uses advanced technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story. 'The Walk' is a love letter to Paris and New York City in the 1970s, but most of all, to the Towers of the World Trade Center.

The Monteiro and Campelo families live in the shadow of a crime committed ago. But when chance puts Ramon (João Mesquita) and Rômulo (Arthur Chermont) face to face, hatred turns into an unlikely and passionate love affair that could hurt their parents, siblings, friends, and even themselves.