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Does anyone ever forget the time they felt the incredible force of first love? When Mike's English teacher pairs him up for a class assignment on "Romeo and Juliet" with hot new kid William, Mike can't believe his luck! As the two spend more and more time working together on a monster movie version of the Bard's classic tale, they soon realise their feelings for one another may be more powerful than either is truly ready for. A touching and original take on the all encompassing power of first love, 'Monster Pies' is sure to move even the hardest of hearts. - Director:
- Lee Galea
- Cast:
- Tristan Barr, Lucas Linehan, Rohana Hayes
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Stranger by the Lake (2013)L'inconnu du lac
Summer time. A cruising spot for gay men seeking nameless sexual encounters, is tucked away on the shores of a picturesque secluded lake in rural France. Franck is an attractive young male who falls in love with Michel, a striking, extremely potent but lethally dangerous man. Franck has witnessed this first hand, but his desire for Michel knows no bounds, this is a relationship he must have - at any cost. - Director:
- Alain Guiraudie
- Cast:
- Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d'Assumçao
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Prepare yourself for the ultimate voyeuristic experience as a group of young, hot jocks put themselves under the spotlight in College Boys Live. The intimate and provocative documentary follows the goings-on of a group of gay exhibitionists as every aspect of their lives is captured by one of 32 hidden cameras for the paying customers at controversial website Collegeboyslive.com. Set in and around a sprawling house in a quiet Florida suburb, the attention-hungry twinks soon find themselves in a bitter battle with their conservative neighbours while trying to deal with the daily dramas of being internet sex stars. A winning mix of Big Brother-style surveillance and Queer As Folk-esque drama, College Boys Live gives a unique insight into the notorious web sensation. - Director:
- George O'Donnell
- Cast:
- Zac Adams, Jonathan Greer
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'The Butler' is set against the tumultuous political backdrop of 20th century America. Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels' epic drama tells the story of White House butler Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), who serves during seven presidential administrations between 1957 and 1986. The film is inspired by Wil Haygood's 2008 Washington Post article "A Butler Well Served by This Election" which chronicled the real life of former White House butler Eugene Allen.
Through the eyes and emotions of the Gaines family, Daniels' film follows the changing tides of American politics and race relations; from the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, to the Freedom Riders and Black Panther movements, to the war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal, Cecil experiences the effects of these events as both an insider and a family man.- Director:
- Lee Daniels
- Cast:
- Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack
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To Get to Heaven, First You Have to Die (2006)Pour aller au ciel il faut mourir
Sparer, bleaker and much more unsettling than his previous films it stars Khurched Golibekov as the sullen, wide-eyed Kamal, who has been married for a few months, but is unable to consummate his marriage. Learning that there is nothing physically wrong with him after visiting a doctor, Kamal sets off to the city in an attempt to cure impotence. With his child-like, country-boy naivete, he struggles to meet anyone until a chance encounter on a bus when he picks up a young married Russian factory worker. This accidental meeting takes him on a far more troubling and darker journey than he was counting on... - Director:
- Jamshed Usmonov
- Cast:
- Khurshed Golibekov, Dinara Drukarova, Maruf Pulodzoda
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Silent Souls (2010)Ovsyanki
When Miron's beloved wife Tanya passes away he asks his best friend Aist to help him assist in her burial according to the rituals of the Meryan people, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from West-Central Russia. The two men set out on a road trip across the boundless landscape, accompanied only by two small caged birds. Along the way Miron shares intimate memories of his conjugal life but as they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will forever part with the body, he realises he wasn't the only one in love with Tanya... - Director:
- Aleksei Fedorchenko
- Cast:
- Yuliya Aug, Larisa Damaskina, Olga Dobrina
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How I Ended This Summer (2010)Kak Ya Provyol Etim Letom
The film is set on a remote weather station in the Arctic manned by old hand Sergei and the novice Pavel. When Pavel receives an important radio message, his fear of the older man prevents him telling Sergei the shocking news. From this deception, lies and suspicions poison relations between the two to such an extent that Pavel is in fear of his life, not just from the polar bears that roam the island, but from Sergei. - Director:
- Aleksey Popogrebskiy
- Cast:
- Grigoriy Dobrygin, Igor Chernevich, Artyom Tsukanov
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On the morning of his thirty-seventh birthday Michael Brown receives a telephone call from his estranged brother Tobey which sends the two off on a day-long odyssey across a wild and weird Los Angeles in search of Tobey's "reason for living". Behind the wheel of a beat up old BMW the brothers' search leads them through a bizarre, beautiful land filled with surprising, comical characters to an unexpected twist of fate. - Director:
- Matt Bissonnette
- Cast:
- Adam Scott, Joel Bissonnette, Richard Medina
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Gagarin: First in Space (2013)Gagarin. Pervyy v kosmose
In 1961 Yuri Gagarin blasted off from Vostok to become the first man in space. It was a mission fraught with danger as he rocketed into unknown territory and an uncertain fate. Part of an elite squad of cosmonauts Gagarin rose through the ranks, his awe-inspiring bravery setting him apart as the best of the best. At last the untold story of this visionary pioneer is brought to the screen in 'Gagarin', an awe-inspiring story of what can happen when you reach for the stars. - Director:
- Pavel Parkhomenko
- Cast:
- Yaroslav Zhalnin, Mikhail Filippov, Olga Ivanova
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Three hot couples head to the beach for a New Year's break. Throw a spunky surf life saver into the equation and there's going to be nothing but trouble. Monogamy becomes a thing is the past and infidelity becomes the name of the day. Mike Esser takes all seven guys on a sexed up ride on Australia's New South Wales Coast. - Director:
- Mike Esser
- Cast:
- Aiden Burrows, Jake Harvey, Jimmy Brooks
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A young woman is discharged from hospital after being treated for a cancer is seems unlikely she will survive. With the treatment having caused her hair to fall out her sister, Ji-hyeon buys her a wig in attempt to give her more confidence. It appears that the wig is having the right effect when Su-hyeon embraces a new lease of life. Soon the changes in her sister's behavior and appearance begin to cause concern and Ji-hyeon soon comes to the conclusion that the wig is in fact cursed and is manipulating its new owner in order to fulfill its own terrifying purpose. - Director:
- Won Shin-Yeon
- Cast:
- Min-seo Chae, Hyon-Jin Sa, Seon Yu
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A 16-year-old boy with an angelic face and a freshly stolen jacket arrives at the main train station in Prague. He's immediately spotted by a man named Honza, who asks him if he wants to earn some quick cash. The boy is too naïve to realise that he's being set up as a prostitute. Honza drugs him and delivers him to his first trick. The boy wakes in the room of a homosexual client who has just had sex with him. Shaken, he takes his payment from the man and returns to the train station where Honza demands his cut. Other hustlers spot the boy as a new kid in town and demand taxes from him. He can't pay, so they beat him up. When Honza sets up a second client, the boy goes along with it. It has taken only a few hours to make a prostitute of this boy... - Director:
- Wiktor Grodecki
- Cast:
- Miroslav Caslavka, David Svec, Pavel Skrípal
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The Story of Sin (1975)Dzieje Grzechu
The life of a beautiful, young and pious woman (Grazyna Dlugolecka) is thrown into chaos when her parents takes in a dashingly handsome lodger. Having embarked on a torrid affair, the lodger goes off to Rome to seek a divorce from his estranged wife. Unable to live apart from her beloved, our hero leaves home only to fall prey to the infatuations and lusts of a band of noble admirers, unsavoury criminals and utopian do-gooders... - Director:
- Walerian Borowczyk
- Cast:
- Grazyna Dlugolecka, Jerzy Zelnik, Olgierd Lukaszewicz
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Suicide Room (2011)Sala Samobójców
Prescient and timely, "Suicide Room" deals with a young gay man's coming of age in a truly gritty heart-stopping way. Moody, dark and handsome Dominik is tormented by homophobic classmates after video footage of his drunken kiss with school bully Alex is spread across the internet. Grappling with the public humiliation, Dominik seeks solace in an avatar based virtual network 'Suicide Room' where he meets a pink-haired avatar - providing him with an outlet he had so desperately sought. Quickly drawn into her murky world, with his depression worsening, Dominick finds himself in a fight for his very existence. - Director:
- Jan Komasa
- Cast:
- Jakub Gierszal, Roma Gasiorowska, Agata Kulesza
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The unforgettable original version of acclaimed filmmaker Michael Haneke's classic exploration of screen violence is an uncompromising, sometimes uncomfortable, but never less than compelling experience. Arriving at their remote lakeside holiday home, a middle class family are alarmed by the unexpected arrival of two young men who soon begin to subject them to a twisted and horrifying ordeal of terror. With characteristic mastery, Haneke turns the conventions of the thriller genre upside down and, directly challenges the expectations of his audience, forcing viewers to question the complacency with which they receive images of casual violence in contemporary cinema. - Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Cast:
- Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch
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