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Plot Summary:
A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her colleagues and considered the best PI at her agency by her boss. While Maxime has romantic dalliances with both men and women, she hasn't been involved in a long-term relationship since she left her husband 15 years ago. However, Maxime is hired to look into a case that suggests that her former husband has become involved with insurance fraud, which brings her into contact with her 17-year-old son Baptiste (Gregoire Colin) for the first time since the divorce. Just as Maxime is trying to mend fences with her son and find out what her ex has gotten himself into, she finds herself falling in love with Jacques (Michel Didym), an economist.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
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Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies (1994)
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Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda Swinton and Rupert Everett in lead roles, the tape confronts the conventions of world television and satellite broadcast, drawing on the fragmentary nature of the medium and the clich_s of the three minute attention span. At the same time, it replaces bland mainstream images with darker, more satirical observations and studies. The environment is surreal, a virtual reality television land of landscapes and imaginary cities, enhanced by Marvin Black's dark, dense soundtrack. It is a cyberspace where the impossible is all too possible. Within this parallel world, a series of archetypes act, observe and comment, informed by a strong sexual sensibility. '..a mesmerising, sometimes hysterically funny, cinematic bricolage with a strong sexual and mostly gay sensibility'. - Cordelia Swann.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: experimental, expressionism, independent film
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Sono Positivo (1999)
Plot Summary:
A Southern Italian family is suddenly faced with AIDS. One of them has it. Which friend or family member could have begun this cycle of infection? The characters include a vain housewife, her straight-laced husband, her gay brother, and her husband's and brother's best friend. Hilarious mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Uncut (1997)
Plot Summary:
Freely drawing from a variety of film genres, including musicals, the sudsy melodramas and documentaries and combing them with a free-flowing narrative and bright pop-art sensibilities, this hard-hitting experimental romp from Canadian filmmaker John Greyson packs a political wallop while satirically comparing and contrasting the issues of censorship and circumcision. The tale centers on the exploits of three homosexuals named Peter. Peter Koosens is obsessed with the semi-scandalous behavior of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau while college student Peter Cort, ponders the significance and necessity of male circumcision. Peter Denham is an artist who seduces the other two and freely borrows from their work to make something of his own. Their exploits land the trio in prison after an operatic number (the police sing songs adapted from Bizet's Carmen).
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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It Gets Better (2012)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the It Gets Better Project this documentary film follows the stories of three real-life subjects who are at unique impasses related to their identities as gay or transgender people.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags:
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North of Vortex (1991)
Plot Summary:
A bisexual junkie poet (Stavros Zalmas) driving coast-to-coast first picks up a hunky hitchhiking sailor (Howard Napper) and then an androgynous waitress (Valda Drabla) as companions. They form an uneasy erotic triangle that will finally implode in a fateful desert episode. Greek director Constantine Giannaris' moody short black-and-white feature, set to British trumpeter John Eacott’s old-school jazz combo score, is very much in the mode of the New Queer Cinema movement of its era. It unfolds almost entirely without dialogue (although with the voice of Kevin Graal as an all-seeing narrator) as the photogenic protagonists’ classic convertible travels west across a timeless America of diners, pool halls and prairie landscapes.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: sexy, surreal, road movie
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The Haven (1997)
Plot Summary:
Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Club V.R. (1996)
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Apparently, the charming lover, Tam, died during his last virtual reality session at club V.R. The coroner believes he died of heart failure, but detective Drew (Kate Rodger) does not agree. To prove he was murdered, she wears the VR electro-suit and plugs into his virtual reality floppy disks. Upon hearing and watching him, she becomes part of his sessions and he begins to talk to her about his death - and other things.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective
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Topless (2008)
Plot Summary:
The ever-lively and upbeat Natsuko tries to mend a broken heart by carrying on with a string of short-lived affairs after her break-up with Tomomi. But when Tomomi announces her plans to marry - a man - Natsuko becomes inconsolable. While all this is taking place, Natsuko's straight male roommate is grappling with his own feelings for her, and a young high school girl comes to Tokyo searching for the mother that long ago left her for a female lover. Each character - queer, straight, male, female, young, old, and in-between - struggles to make peace with him/herself as all their lives overlap. This story captures the power of young love, and the web of the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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The Young, the Gay and the Restless (2006)
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An aging, wealthy diva, Ms. Victoria Gaylord, in her late 50's learns that she has a mysterious illness and will soon be dead. Her family, friends, and entourage gather at her fabulous estate to assist her during this time of ill health. Some of these guests are loyal while others are vultures creeping their way into Ms. Gaylord's finances.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Ma saison super 8 (2005)
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A cinematic homage to the Front Homosexual d'Action Révolutionnaire, the first gay rights movement in France, AllesandroAvellis' compassionate drama tells the tale of a young activist living in Paris when homosexuals had no place in society. The year is 1968; Marc is adrift in the city after failing in his efforts to gain national acceptance for gay rights. One day, during a park pick-up, he meets Andre, a small town factory worker still exploring his sexuality but convinced that he will one day marry and start a family. Over the course of the next three years, Marc and Andre continue their heated affair as Marc continues to advocate fiercely for gay rights while butting heads with his close-minded father, a Paris police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: period piece, queer cinema
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Monaco Forever (1984)
Plot Summary:
An American jewel thief in Monaco encounters various characters while trying to set up a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Color of Lies (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: art house, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, detective
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Cold as Summer (2002)
Plot Summary:
A female detective investigates the case of a young mother whose infant left behind has died.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Charlotte for Ever (1986)
Plot Summary:
Stan, screeplay writer, had his time of glory in Hollywood. Today, alcoholic with a certain envy for suicide, his only link to life is his daughter, Charlotte.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: crying, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Schoolgirl Hitchhikers (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse
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Massacre for an Orgy (1966)
Plot Summary:
A police officer attempts to shut down an illegal girls-for-drugs operation (American version).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Detective (1985)
Plot Summary:
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, psychological, tense, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy
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Trouble on the Corner (1997)
Plot Summary:
Jeff Steward, a psychologist, takes good care of his patients mostly living in the same apartment. One day a piece of the bathroom ceiling collapses so he can watch the woman living in the upper apartment taking a bath. This causes total disorder of his normal life and he starts mixing the patients' psychoses up with his own.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, dark comedy
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Addicted to Fresno (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two co-dependent sisters, a recovering sex addict and a lonely lesbian who work as hotel maids in Fresno, go to ludicrous lengths to cover up an accidental crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, light, funny, dark comedy, queer cinema
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Bastard Brood (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American actress, do not know each other and do not have much in common. However, they all have the same father, a scammer named Julius.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mind bending, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, dark comedy
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Condemned to Hell (1984)
Plot Summary:
Silvia is incarcerated in a corrupt women prison and forced to participate in drug distribution. When she refuses she is punished and her sister murdered. She will try to get free and get her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, heterosexual piano player who gets a job at the notorious nightclub and must therefore reconsider his attitudes. His girl friend helps him too. In the end, he winds up becoming sure of his sexuality when he tries to sleep with a gay man.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Cowboys & Angels (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns a hapless civil servant who gets more than he bargained for when he moves into an apartment with a gay fashion student and finds himself on the catwalk. The film sets out to explore the difficulties for young people in keeping their identities in a fast moving culture of drugs and clubs.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, crying, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Double Whammy (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair of screenwriters across the hall keep bugging him for help. The superintendent of his building is stabbed by hoodlums hired by his own rebellious daughter. To top it off, a sexually aggressive chiropractor may just be Ray's undoing.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspense, entertaining, semi serious, realistic, witty, detective, clever, stylized, black comedy
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If Looks Could Kill (1996)
Plot Summary:
The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The Wounded Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the object of his affection, Henri builds up so much unrequited lust that it explodes with horrible results.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual, neorealism, homoerotic, sexy
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Evening Dress (1986)
Plot Summary:
Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier aspects of Parisian life. Gerard Depardieu plays a crude but charismatic thief, whose own gayness does not prevent his commiserating with those of the opposite sex. Miou-Miou and Michel Blanc are young, impoverished lovers who fall under Depardieu's influence. He gains their confidence by introducing them to kinky sex, then sucks them into a vortex of crime. Director Bertrand Blier, who in most of his films has explored the awesome power (rather than pleasure) of sex, nearly outdoes himself in Menage (aka Tenue de Soiree).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, queer cinema
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Love & Human Remains (1993)
Plot Summary:
Dreary urban landscape of an anonymous Canadian city. Dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the '90s. The film focuses on roommates David, a gay waiter who has has given up on his acting career, and Candy, a book reviewer who is also David's ex-lover. David and Candy's lives are entangled with those of David's friends and Candy's dates.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, clever, sexual, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Sorrel Flower (1967)
Plot Summary:
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Sweet Killing (1993)
Plot Summary:
A business man decides to kill his wife but the plan sets off a chain of weird events that cause his life to become a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy