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Plot Summary:
Boys On Film comes of age with uplifting and powerful tales recounting the lives of everyday heroes striving for their own identities and fighting for the right for us all to be ourselves. Volume 18: Heroes includes ten complete films: Dean Loxton's "Dániel" starring Csémy Balázs, Hilda Péter, and Henry Garrett; Niels Bourgonje's "Buddy" starring Daniel Cornelissen and Tobias Nierop; Tamara Shogaolu's animated "Half A Life"; Victor Lindgren's "Undress Me" starring Jana Bringlöv Ekspong and Björn Elgerd; Sam Ashby's "The Colour Of His Hair" starring Sean Hart and Josh O'Connor; Hope Dickson Leach's "Silly Girl" starring Ciara Baxendale, Mollie Lambert, and Jason Barker; Søren Green's "An Evening" starring Jacob Ottensten and Ulrik Windfeldt-Schmidt; Alejandro Medina's documentary "AIDS: Doctors And Nurses Tell Their Stories"; Kai Stänicke's "It's Consuming Me" with Volkmar Leif Gilbert; and Mikael Bundsen's "Mother Knows Best" starring Alexander Gustavsson and Hanna Ullerstam.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, gay cinema, queer cinema
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 427
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 460
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 542
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Drama
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 189
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 189
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 162
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama
Country: France, UK
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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A four-part anthology film dealing with homosexuality from the young to the old. Crush, detailing the budding friendship of a 12-year old girl and a 16-year old boy, who bond over their favorite TV program and musical tastes. The Mountain King, details a young street hustler who makes a play for a straight man on a deserted beach one afternoon. . Lost is a look at a day in the life of a young man who is first seen engaging in unsafe sex with a random partner,. The Confession, a dying Catholic asks his partner of 35 years to send for a priest, even though the partner is greatly opposed to such a request. ~ Jason Clark, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, anthology, queer cinema
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An ageing Glaswegian psychoanalyst finds his lust for life renewed following an encounter with the charismatic partner of a young patient.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 82 min
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Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
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IMDB Votes: 592
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 78
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Experience an alternative take on attraction with Boys On Film. Bad Romance explores the darker side with a collection of edgy and sexy short films, including: Alain Hain's "Curious Thing" starring Danny Bernardy and Matthew Wilkas; Christoph Scheermann's "Cake and Sand" starring Bartholomew Sammut and Jan Andreesen; Michael Rozanov's "Watch Over Me" starring Guy Kapulnik and Davidi Hoffman; Joachim Back's "The New Tenants" starring David Rakoff and Jamie Harrold; Kim Jho Gwang-soo's "Just Friends?" starring Lee Je-hoon and Yeon Woo-jin; Étienne Desrosiers's "Mirrors" starring Xavier Dolan, Stéphane Demers, and Julie Beauchemin; Christopher Banks's "Communication" starring Rudi Vodanovich and Alexander Campbell; Tomer Velkoff's "The Traitor" co-starring Shmulik Goldstein; Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein's "The Strange Ones" starring David Call, Tobias Campbell, and Merritt Wever; and Tamer Ruggli's "Cappuccino" starring Benjamin Décosterd and Manuela Biedermann.
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IMDB Votes: 101
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 487
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 531
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IMDB Votes: 122
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IMDB Votes: 474
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
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IMDB Votes: 87
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
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