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Ida (2014)Sister of Mercy
From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski comes "Ida", a poignant and powerfully told drama about 18-year-old Anna, a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, who is preparing to become a nun when she discovers that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism. Powerfully written and eloquently shot, "Ida" is a masterly evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment. - Director:
- Pawel Pawlikowski
- Cast:
- Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
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You know who they are: guys with close - cropped haircuts, buffed and shaved bodies. Boys who are into the circuit scene... a brotherhood... a total roving party from one city the next. Within the glorious puddles of men are individuals with stories to tell: why they love the circuit, how they got there, and what happens after the music ends. "When Boys Fly" is a sexy, lively reality based-film that follows four such men at the Miami White Party:
- Tone, 21, is an outgoing biology student with a substance abuse problem.
- Brandon, 23, is a circuit party virgin is close to his mom and doesn't do drugs.
- Todd, 35, is a twinkie-loving circuit veteran who brings past and present boyfriends to the party.
- Jon, 19, is Todd's new lover and wonders if their relationship will survive the scene.
Away from the ecstasy of the dance floor, 'When Boys Fly' examines a unique breed who live for the perfect party.- Director:
- Stewart Halpern-Fingerhut
- Cast:
- Jeff Anderson, Jason Cavallo, Brandon Delcampo
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100 Days Before the Command (1990)Sto dney do prikaza
Zyrin, Belikov and Elin are just three of the recruits trying to survive the last hundred days of training before becoming real soldiers. But even those who pass may not survive their release. 100 Days is an extraordinary work of fiction made using the real Red Army during the decline of the Soviet Union. The stark, compelling landscape swamps the recruits in a world of entropy and despair as they try to survive insanity and the ever-watchful angel of death. Avoiding formal narrative, the vignettes of the film gradually merge to form a story of frustration and despair, mirroring the plight of the entire Soviet block at the time. The young soldiers endure their daily routines of washing one another, eating, training and sleeping together with no will of their own. Subdued, they wander without purpose through their alarmingly compelling, insular and overtly homoerotic world. - Director:
- Hussein Erkenov
- Cast:
- Vladimir Zamanskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Oleg Vasilkov
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Eddie Redmayne gives the performance of a lifetime as renowned scientist Stephen Hawking. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking receives an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age just as he meets and falls in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones). With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of - time. Together, they defy impossible odds achieving more than anyone could ever have dreamed. - Director:
- Jamie Marsh
- Cast:
- Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior
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Come and See (1985)Idi i smotri
"Come and See" is one of the greatest war films ever made and one of the finest achievements of Soviet cinema. A devastating account of the Nazi occupation of Belarussia during World War II, it tells the story of a young boy's abrupt loss of innocence when he joins the Soviet resistance and is thrust headlong into the brutal horrors of combat. Featuring terrifyingly authentic battle scenes and poetic, almost surreal imagery, director Elem Klimov has fashioned a vivid and unforgettably powerful portrait of the terrible atrocities committed by men in the name of war. - Director:
- Elem Klimov
- Cast:
- Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
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Goodbye Lenin! (2003)Good Bye Lenin!
The year is 1989 and East and West Germany are still divided. Alex (Daniel Brhl) and his sister Ariane (Maria Simon) live in East Germany with their single mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass) who is a staunch Socialist. When Alex's mother witnesses his arrest on a protest march, she suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma for eight months, just enough time for the Berlin wall to come tumbling down along with all of East Germany's ideals. Eight months later, Christiane wakes up and things have changed. The doctors warn Alex that any shock could bring on a fatal heart attack. He then realises he must convince his mother that her beloved Communism has not been overthrown but is in fact triumphing over Capitalism. Alex then sets out to recreate every detail of the old East inside the four walls of their tiny council flat... what begins as a little white lie, soon turns into a major deception! - Director:
- Wolfgang Becker
- Cast:
- Daniel Brühl, Andreas Thieck, Katrin Sass
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Living on social security in the protected environment of his mothers home, Hilmir has never felt the urge to venture beyond the confines of his neighbourhood, 101 Reykjavik, and is determined to resist adulthood at all cost. However he soon finds out that life is busy making other plans for him when he discovers that the woman he had just been to bed with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover, and may be carrying his child. - Director:
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Cast:
- Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Victoria Abril, Hanna María Karlsdóttir
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Includes all episodes from fourth season.
- Director:
- Not Available
- Cast:
- Zöe Lucker, Jason Canning, Laila Rouass
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G.B.F. (2013)Gay Best Friend
Meet Tanner and Brent. They are two best friends. Brent longs for the spotlight and believes that coming out will make him instantly popular as North Gateway High's very first G.B.F. (or Gay Best Friend). Tanner on the other hand, would rather fly under the radar and finish high school without ever being noticed. When things don't go according to plan and Tanner is outed instead of Brent, the two boys go from B.F.Fs to instant frenemies, and the three most popular girls in school launch an all-out social war to win Tanner's status enhancing friendship. - Director:
- Darren Stein
- Cast:
- Michael J. Willett, Paul Iacono, Sasha Pieterse
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Do you believe in "love at first sight"? Outsiders in a busy Berlin, Mario and Kirill certainly did not. In fact both boys thought they would never find that special someone. They didn't even notice each other until they had passed in the street, their hands gently brushing together and their parting glance causing an instant attraction, which catapults them into another world. "Silent Youth" is a powerful tale of those oft-forgotten moments of finding love and acceptance. - Director:
- Diemo Kemmesies
- Cast:
- Martin Bruchmann, Josef Mattes, Mathias Neuber
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This box set contains all episodes from Season 3.
- Director:
- Mike Adams
- Cast:
- Zöe Lucker, John Forgeham, Alison Newman
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Queer cinema pioneer, Travis Mathews returns with a collection of erotic portraits of gay men. Travelling to three of the most progressive cities in the world - San Francisco, Berlin and London - Mathews captures the raw emotion and essence of gay men's lives in a provocative, sensual and unique way. The series veers from bedroom to bedroom, watching these men navigate relationships with themselves and those around them; lovers, partners, friends. Some single, others coupled, some hooking up - all over the course of one day. For the first time ever, all three of Mathews' real-life narratives are brought together in one intimate collection. - Director:
- Travis Mathews
- Cast:
- Ginno Castro, Kevin Langson, Eli Magid
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Paris, 1957. 21 year old Yves Saint Laurent is catapulted to international stardom as the successor to Christian Dior, only to be subjected to the public humiliation of being fired a few years later. Refusing to succumb to his critics, Yves creates the YSL fashion house arid presents to the world the first ever 'ready to wear' collection, shocking the world of couture. It becomes one of the most famous brands in fashion and despite his own doubts and demons, Yves manages to turn the sleepy world of fashion upside down. - Director:
- Jalil Lespert
- Cast:
- Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon
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The fast cars, the suntans, the diamonds, the blackmail...welcome to the world of Footballers' Wives.
- Director:
- Not Available
- Cast:
- Nathan Constance, Billie Wackrill, Katherine Monaghan
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Land of Storms (2014)Viharsarok
A hot three-way love story that's fresh, engrossing and sumptuously shot, best friends Szabolcs and Bernard are playing on the same German football team. After a lost game and a bad argument between the two, Szabolcs decides to get away from it all and return home to Hungary for more solitude. He soon meets Aron, and a mutual attraction between the two boys develops when suddenly Szabolcs gets an unexpected phone call that Bernard has come to Hungary and is looking to reconnect with his friend. Szabolcs finds himself in the middle of a love triangle, torn between two loves. Land of Storms is a strong, personal story of sexual awakening, self-discovery, and intolerance. - Director:
- Ádám Császi
- Cast:
- András Sütö, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Ádám Varga
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