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Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the last days of a factory that is about to shut down. Among the workers forced to idle away until the end of the week, Jacques, a young technician is busy dismantling a machine while, without noticing it, turning on some of the men around him!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, queer cinema
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Staying Vertical (2016)
Plot Summary:
Screenwriter Leo is searching for the wolf in the south of France. During a scouting excursion he is seduced by Marie, a free-spirited and dynamic shepherdess. Nine months later she gives birth to their child. Suffering from post-natal depression and with no faith in Leo, who comes and goes without warning, Marie abandons both of them. Leo finds himself alone, with a baby to care for.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, captivating, entertaining, erotic, art house, sexual, deep, allegory, sexy
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Time Has Come (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a time and place indeterminate a bandit has kidnapped Rixo Lomadis Bron’s daughter. Bron is a wealthy landowner who reigns over the shepherds of the Purple Mountain. The time has come when Rixo Lomadis Bron accuses Manjas-Kebir of killing his daughter and urges all the country’s inhabitants to track down the assassin. It’s the time when Radovan Remila Stoï, the land’s greatest warrior, rises up against this foolhardy act which has every chance of leading to war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Ma saison super 8 (2005)
Plot Summary:
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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Maggie (2018)
Plot Summary:
A couple’s hospital tryst is caught on X-Ray. Thinking she and her boyfriend are the ones in the compromising radiograph, nurse Yoon-young goes in the next day to resign only to find that everyone has called in sick except the head doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, intelligent, independent film
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The Wicked Uncle (2011)
Plot Summary:
In a small Swiss village, a school sports coach is accused of molestation by the mother of one of his pupils. The citizens are outraged…that the mother could make such a claim – for the coach she accuses is a local hero, a former world champion who has become the town’s closest thing to a sporting legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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Lieve Jongens (1980)
Plot Summary:
Lieve Jongens (“Sweet Boys”) explores the sexual fantasies of a middle-aged writer and the handsome young men who dominate his life. Wolf, a successful writer of romantic novels, is plagued by self doubt and writer's block. Though pleasant looking and well-preserved, he fears age will rob him of the youthful companionship he so desperately craves. With the help of his equally randy and manipulative young sex partner, Wolf plots to seduce the gentle Muskrat from the arms of a much older lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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April in Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
Avril is a novice in a convent of "Baptistine" sisters, a monastic order which was officially dissolved by the end of the nineteenth century but that is kept alive by Mère Marie Joseph, the sadistic superior. While Avril is on retreat, locked in for a fortnight in a chapel prior to taking her vows, Soeur Bernadette, a sympathetic sister, discloses a secret to her: she has a twin brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, queer cinema
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The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the death of Jean, Matthias, the coach, decides to take Selime, a young man from the suburbs he believes is gay, to accompany the Shiny Shrimps to the Gay Games in Tokyo, on a trip to pay tribute to their friend who left too early. But after they miss their connection, they find themselves stranded in Russia, in one of the not the most gay-friendly regions in the world. The start of a crazy adventure as incredible as it is perilous.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, queer cinema
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Puppy Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
A prophetic young dishwasher with brain-damage and a homeless prostitute are brought together through obscene circumstances and embark on a perverse journey through the gutter.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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I'll Go Where You Go (2019)
Plot Summary:
Vali and Mina are two sisters who are polar opposites, pushed apart by life’s hardships and trials. One is a singer, a dreamer and emotional. The other is a therapist, distant and rational. Their loving father has finally found the perfect opportunity to bring them together, if only for a weekend, in order to hopefully patch things up between them: Vali has an audition in Paris and it’s mina who has to accompany her despite her contempt for her sister’s passion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Dial a Prayer (2015)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young woman working at a prayer call center makes a difference in other people's lives, forcing her to reconcile with her troubled past with the faith she brings out in others.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Nobody's Hero (2022)
Plot Summary:
Clermont-Ferrand, central France. Médéric meets and falls in love with middle-aged sex worker Isadora, who is married. When the city center is the scene of a terrorist attack, Selim, a young, homeless guy, provokes a wave of paranoia by taking refuge in Médéric's building. Sympathizing with Selim, crazy about Isadora, Mederic's life suddenly turns into a mess.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
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Bulldog In The White House (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Bulldog in the Whitehouse" takes political satire to obscene new heights: portraying the Bush administration as a cabal of lustful and traitorous gay men who are too busy having sex to notice the empire crumbling down around them. An explosive and darkly comic adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel Dangerous Liaisons, the film's web of sex and deceit centers on Bulldog, a hustler who seduces his way into the Washington press corps to gain access to the halls of the political elite. At the bidding of his puppet master, a corpulent and power mad Karl Rove, Bulldog engages in manipulative trysts with Whitehouse hotties like the demure press secretary, the religious leader and the confused, imbecilic good ol' boy president himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical
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7 Kinds Οf Wrath (2014)
Plot Summary:
Petros is an archaeologist who experiences the naked Greek paranoia in the center of Athens. Either by choice or coincidence, he comes into contact with people who are "different": An Arab immigrant, who comes to Greece, a land of "infidels", determined to conquer it by any means; A Greek-French cello player, who is burdened by the agony of her alcoholic mother; A young Albanian pianist, who carries the curse of his own personal genius and divinity; A Greek immigrant, who was repatriated but now has nowhere to call home; A bank director, who believes everything can be bought, even love; A patrolman, who creates his own version of socio-political reality. Petros' contact with these people is in fact a traumatic experience. For each encounter he has to pay a price. Sometimes the price is material, while other times it's emotional. At times it is both. Will the experience gained make up for the loss?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Body Electric (2017)
Plot Summary:
Elias is a handsome young deputy manager in a garment factory in São Paulo. When he’s not working, he enjoys casual encounters in the big city. The arrival of a young African, Fernando, on the production line piques his interest and Elias finds himself increasingly drawn into socialising with his work colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Daydream Obsession 3: Legacy (2008)
Plot Summary:
While visiting his recently-divorced father, Wylie discovers the camera and video diaries of Clayton. With his college friends over, Wylie begins to explore his desires through daydreams and reality. His roommate Greg is the object of his obsession. Can their friendship survive?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Accidental Family (2017)
Plot Summary:
Loïc Le Tallec never really took care of his son. When the latter disappears in a road accident, Loïc is devastated. He has only one idea in mind: to find the one who lives now with the heart of his son. He falls on Hugo, a young man that this brand new heart makes totally unreasonable and uncontrollable. Their meeting promises to be explosive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Et + si @ff (2006)
Plot Summary:
The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, erotic, queer cinema
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Queer You Are (2021)
Plot Summary:
It shows the life trajectory of a gay village boy in search of his own identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi autobiographical
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Kept Boy (2017)
Plot Summary:
A story of love, greed - and moisturizer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, queer cinema
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In Between Men (2010)
Plot Summary:
All-American guys feel caught between two worlds, not truly knowing where they fit in.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, queer cinema
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Natural Enemy (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father. Shattered by the suicide of the main witness, Nicolas lets himself get snared by the strange and fascinating influence that the father exerts on everyone around him. Eventually, Luhel discovers the truth about the murder and feels that the law is inadequate to deal with it. As a consequence, he decides to destroy the evidence and keep it a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Little Gay Boy (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young gay boy, from his birth to his teenage years, in which he experiments his sexuality and his own boundaries, to the day he finally meets his father.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, experimental, avant garde, queer cinema
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The Devil Wears Nada (2009)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca works as an assistant to the highly demanding Julia Crimson and is about to be promoted if she can take care of the last week and find a capable replacement.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, disturbing, sex comedy
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Radio Star (2006)
Plot Summary:
Once a famous singer, Choi Gon is reduced to doing gigs in cafes after being involved in a scandal. When Choi Gon gets arrested after an argument, Park Minsu, his manager, seeks help from a director of a radio station, who agrees, with a condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Seat in Shadow (2016)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, erotic, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Kitchen Brigade (2022)
Plot Summary:
Cathy is a sous-chef wanting to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hates the job then her passion for cuisine starts to change children's lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Lost and Found (2019)
Plot Summary:
Franck wants a quiet life and a fresh start. After 15 years of a failed theatre career, he finds a seemingly perfect job: museum guard. But that is before he meets Sybille, his neurotic colleague.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Danda Rin - The Labour Standards Inspector (2013)
Plot Summary:
Labor Standards Inspectors... are you aware of their existence? For the sake of the 52 million actively employed people across the nation, the government had set up this body to help ensure that there is safety at workplaces. Danda Rin, is an example of a very diligent and strict inspector. She doesn't compromise when it comes to the rules. The story opens with the transfer of Danda Rin to the new Labor Standards Inspector office. "She had caused her boss at her ex-office to go bald!!" is the rumor that accompanies her to her new office. Danda Rin is someone who doesn't do things in half measures, which is totally unlike the laidback male colleagues in the office. "Unpaid overtime", "Managers in name only", "Power harassment by managers"; these are all the things she fights against!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, detective
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One Boat One World (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Dreamland of the Ocean cruise can accommodate 6000 guests and staff members, it is like a city in the sea. Visitors' joys and sorrows and staff members' struggles are presented in the same voyage. Security officer Ding Kai and tour leader Tian Yue meet and fall in love, colliding with travelers, colleagues and relatives.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, nautical
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