Ester Martin Bergsmark – Pojktanten AKA She Male Snails (2012)
Quote: “Caught between two genders, the artist Eli Leven and Ester Martin Bergsmark touch and caress each other, while they bath together in clouds of steam. A persuasive voice-off describes the often...
View ArticleCurtis Harrington – Usher (2002)
Quote: Harrington s final film before he died in 2007, Usher is a remake of a short he made in high school based on the classic Edgar Allan Poe story The Fall of the House of Usher. He once again...
View ArticlePedro Almodóvar – Kika (1993)
Quote: Harshly treated by the critics on release, of Pedro Almodovar’s work, Kika is perhaps the one that most benefits from re-viewing and re-assessment. The story of Kika (an astonishing Veronica...
View ArticleRatchapoom Boonbunchachoke – Aninsri daeng AKA Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on...
Ang, a transgender sex worker with a pretty, feminine voice is assigned a special mission as an undercover spy. She disguises herself as a cisgender man to enter into a romantic relationship with Jit,...
View ArticleRyosuke Hashiguchi – Hatachi no binetsu AKA A Touch of Fever (1993)
Quote: An audacious teen movie from Japan, concentrating on a bored middle-class quartet: two hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin, and their two female best friends. Tatsuro is the better hustler. He spends...
View ArticleKiko Goifman & Claudia Priscilla – Bixa Travesty AKA Tranny Fag (2018)
Synopsis: A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly...
View ArticleNeil Jordan – Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Quote: In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick “Kitten” Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond...
View ArticleHarvey Hart & Jules Schwerin – Fortune and Men’s Eyes (1971)
Young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months and bunks with other convicts, specifically quiet cocky bully Rocky. Eventually Rocky offers protection to Smitty for a price and Smitty becomes a...
View ArticleAlbert Lewin – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Quote: From 1945 comes one of the best adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Remarkably we get a dry and witty George Sanders (Addison DeWitt in All About Eve), a...
View ArticleAndré Téchiné – Quand on a 17 ans AKA Being 17 (2016)
Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne...
View ArticleMinh Quy Truong – Trong lòng dat AKA Viet and Nam (2024)
In the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam’s father’s remains, a soldier lost in a faraway...
View ArticlePier Paolo Pasolini – Teorema AKA Theorem (1968)
Quote: A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who...
View ArticleHari Sama – Esto no es Berlín AKA This Is Not Berlin (2019)
In the 1980s, an outsider gets invited to a mythical nightclub where he’s unleashed to punk, sexual liberty and drugs. Hari Sama - (2019) This Is Not Berlin.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1 h...
View ArticleToshio Matsumoto – Bara no sôretsu AKA Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Quote:What can be said about Funeral Parade of Roses other than that it is the personification of a fever dream, and the definition of a “mindfuck.” Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 cult film is nothing but a...
View ArticlePaolo Spinola – La fuga (1964)
Another case rather isolated in the background of Italian cinema during 60s is Paolo Spinola, who made the best debut as a director in 1964: “La fuga”, a movie which Spinola shot aged 35 after a long...
View ArticleEdward Fleming – De uanstændige AKA Topsy Turvy (1983)
Quote: The act is going on in the year of 1939. The 18 year old Thomas has other things to worry about than what is going on around the world. He’s from a bourgeois home, but when he meets the Thamms;...
View ArticleJulia de Castro, María G. Royo – On the Go (2023)
“…a queer, feminist road movie, both hilarious and militant, which urges us to tackle life head-on without fear of the future…” Cineuropa Quote: Travelling across an Andalusia reminiscent of the Wild...
View ArticleÁngeles Cruz – Nudo mixteco (2021)
Quote: Chabela, María, and Toña live in a Mixtecan town where they have to confront their own sexuality. NUDO MIXTECO_SubEsp_H264_20.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1h 31mnSize: 7.78...
View ArticleJohn Waters – Desperate Living (1977)
Quote: A neurotic society woman murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled over by a fascist queen....
View ArticleBruce LaBruce – The Visitor (2024)
A refugee arrives at the home of an upper-class family in London and seduces each member of the family. When he suddenly is gone, he leaves behind a void that the rest try to fill in different ways....
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