Harry Dodge – By Hook or by Crook (2001)
From IMDB:Shy, a small-town butch with a nagging messiah complex, heads to the big city to immerse herself in a life of crime. On her journey, she meets her match in Valentine, a wise-acre adoptee who...
View ArticleMarlon Riggs – Tongues Untied (1989)
Quote:Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill...
View ArticleAntonio D’Agostino – Eva man (Due sessi in uno) [Uncut XXX Version] (1980)
Quote:Beautiful Eva, hermaphrodite from birth, with clear signs of both sexes, under the strict guidance of his uncle, Professor, masters the secrets of sexual energy, which give the possibility of a...
View ArticleRodjara – Dimorfo AKA Dimorphic (1980)
Quote:This is one of the most weird, bizarre and oscure movies from Spain. Very hard to find nowadays and a total masterpiece for the collectors of hidden spanish gems. The plot is about a man,...
View ArticleKimberly Peirce – Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who’ve never met...
View ArticleFilippo Meneghetti – Deux AKA Two of Us (2019)
Quote:Pensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades, but their bond is put to the test when they are suddenly unable to move freely between each other’s...
View ArticleGustavo Vinagre – Vil, Má AKA Divinely Evil (2020)
Now in her seventies, Wilma Azevedo—Brazil’s ‘queen of sadomasochistic literature’—narrates her turbulent, sexually explicit life story, once as her pseudonym and once as herself. As her memory fails...
View ArticleYannis Smaragdis – Kavafis AKA Cavafy (1996)
“Constantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης) (April 29, 1863 – April 29, 1933) was a renowned Greek poet who lived in...
View ArticleWilliam A. Wellman – Beggars of Life [+commentaries] (1928)
Synopsis:After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a...
View ArticleFons Rademakers – Als twee druppels water AKA The Spitting Image (1963)
Quote:Transformation under duress is at the nexus of this excellent wartime drama by noted Dutch filmmaker Fons Rademakers. The setting is Holland under German occupation and young Ducker (Lex...
View ArticleEmma-Kate Croghan – Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
wikipedia wrote:Love and Other Catastrophes is a quirky 1996 Australian romantic comedy film featuring Frances O’Connor, Radha Mitchell, Alice Garner, Matthew Dyktynski, Matt Day and Kym Gyngell. The...
View ArticleSébastien Lifshitz – Les Corps ouverts AKA Open Bodies (1998)
Eighteen-year-old Rémi goes to a casting where the director appears to be drawn to his acting as much as his physique. Confused by his first experience, Rémi wanders around Paris in search of himself....
View ArticleBernhard Wicki – Das Spinnennetz AKA Spider’s Web (1989)
Spider’s Web is a 1989 West German film directed by Bernhard Wicki. It is based on the eponymous 1923 novel by Joseph Roth. It was chosen as West Germany’s official submission to the 62nd Academy...
View ArticleAngelina Maccarone – Fremde Haut aka Unveiled (2005)
SYNOPSISUnveiled is about a woman’s identity crisis, so it’s probably fitting that the film itself is torn between its affections to the shrill Yentl and grim Boys Don’t Cry. Fariba (Jasmin Tabatabai)...
View ArticleAngelina Maccarone – Fremde Haut aka Unveiled (2005)
SYNOPSISUnveiled is about a woman’s identity crisis, so it’s probably fitting that the film itself is torn between its affections to the shrill Yentl and grim Boys Don’t Cry. Fariba (Jasmin Tabatabai)...
View ArticleJulia Ducournau – Titane (2021)
Quote:Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years. Titane: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength...
View ArticleAna Kokkinos – Head On (1998)
Quote:Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari...
View ArticleJon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga – 80 egunean AKA For 80 Days (2010)
Two women in their 70s, were close best friends when teenagers but never quite acted on their attraction to each other. The women meet again 50 years later by accident, with one a traditional farm...
View ArticleEmma-Kate Croghan – Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
wikipedia wrote:Love and Other Catastrophes is a quirky 1996 Australian romantic comedy film featuring Frances O’Connor, Radha Mitchell, Alice Garner, Matthew Dyktynski, Matt Day and Kym Gyngell. The...
View ArticleLuchino Visconti – Gruppo di famiglia in un interno AKA Conversation Piece...
Quote:The year is 1972. Master Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti is struck down by a stroke, rendering him, one would think, unable to continue making films—and this just two years after hitting a...
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