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Plot Summary:
Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest. One of them wanders off course and comes across Canh, a Filipino, sitting on top of a giant heap of earth and who is about to go back to his strange, beautiful home town, where he too has a miserable job.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Portugal
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, humorous, experimental, disturbing
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Pornomelancholia (2022)
Plot Summary:
Lalo is a sex influencer: he posts photos of his naked body and homemade porn videos for his thousands of social media followers. Lalo directs his own life, but in private, when out of character, he seems to live in constant melancholy.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Brazil, Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Boylets (2009)
Plot Summary:
School friends who pass the time stealing copper electric wires and steel, betting cash in online computer games and doing sexual services to gay patrons. Krys’ best friend Joef is the leader of the pack and he is turning eighteen and is leaving the next day. Krys tries to control Joef’s last day and birthday celebration as he attempts to stop him from his plans. But will Krys be able to stop the guy he likes from leaving?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Anonymous (2004)
Plot Summary:
A man finds himself homeless after a fight with his significant other.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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La rabbia (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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The Male Gaze: Nocturnal Instincts (2021)
Plot Summary:
Strap yourself in for an exhilarating journey into darkness with these five award-winning short films from across the globe that delve into heart-pumping escapades varying from the intensely erotic to the ultra-violent to the warm-inside feels. The night has never looked so inviting. Segments: After Dawn [Passée l'aube] (2017), Poof (2018), Spiral (2018), Night of Love (2018), Floating Melon [浮果] (2015).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Israel, China, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, anthology
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First Taste (2008)
Plot Summary:
The title "Binyag" translates to 'loss of innocence,' and this little-known film from the Philippenes shows, very effectively, the process in which one young person loses his own innocence. A boy living a quiet, picturesque life in the Filipino province, spending his days swimming in the sea, is offered a job as a "film star" when a shady "talent scout" visits his small village. He promises the naive Leo that he can "make him a star." Leo, excited at the idea of escaping his seemingly mundane life, accepts the offer, thus beginning his journey to the city of Manila, where he will learn some hard facts about the world he lives in.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Voyage (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young psychiatrist ventures into a lone voyage to fight his depression. On the sea he records stories of people departed from this world prematurely, while what awaits him on the shore is the ultimate irony of life. Shot in Mongolia, Malaysia, Australia, Germany, Amsterdam and Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hooks to the Left (2006)
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Based on the journals of Nail, a male hustler who reentered the prostitution ring after 10 years in a relationship, Todd Verow's experimental documentary (shot entirely on a cell phone camera) examines the changing landscape of male prostitution. Nail's narrated journal entries accompany dreamy and abstract imagery shot all over the world. Verow also explores how the Internet has shaped the sex trade.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: experimental, suspense, disturbing, avant garde
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Hard Paint (2018)
Plot Summary:
While facing criminal charges, Pedro must grapple with his sister's sudden decision to move away and leave him behind. Alone in the darkness of his bedroom, he dances covered in neon paint, while thousands of strangers watch him via webcam.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, melancholic, disturbing, independent film, 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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Night Watch (2005)
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A long night's journey into day: Victor, a street hustler in the Santa Fe and Pueyrredón neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, from the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, to the dawn of November 2, All Souls Day. Victor's odyssey takes him from clients to friends to a gay gym then a hotel room and an all-night café. He plays pick-up soccer with kids whose parents are going through trash or waiting in parks. A vendor gives him a chrysanthemum. It seems he's being followed, and on the night streets, death is close at hand. Can Victor survive until dawn?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Moneyboys (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fei works illegally as a hustler in order to support his family, yet when he realizes they are willing to accept his money but not his way of life, there is a major breakdown in their relations. Through his relationship to the headstrong Long, Fei seems able to find a new lease on life, but then he encounters Xiaolai, the love of his youth, who confronts him with the guilt of his repressed past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Belgium, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, gay cinema, interesting
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India Blues: Eight Feelings (2013)
Plot Summary:
INDIA BLUES is an edgy, bold and passionate love story between two young men who are sometimes afraid to love each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Ixe (1980)
Plot Summary:
“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the four ends of the cross, War, Sex, Religion and Drugs, the double exposures, the colliding glimpses the eye barely recognizes, the skillful repetitions of themes, remind us that Sex is also the war of bodies, and the pope, the Drug of the people. And the story of this young man, shooting up in order to experience all the horror of the world in front of his TV set, reminds us that the heroin orgy is indeed the subjective locus of the monsters of the modern unconscious.” - Guy Hocquenghem.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, gay cinema
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Luna Park (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alexia Bissett, ex actress turned producer, lives in New York where she now produces gay cinema. After being called to take care of a situation which involves her young mute brother Christi, she decides to send her right hand man Maxwell to deal with it instead. Alexia owns an apartment complex in California called Luna Park, where her young actors stay while on location. Christi is the apartment caretaker and has been caught hiding in the closet of one of her actors he has a crush on. Maxwell feels indebted to Alexia for taking him off the streets and accepts the task with little protest. When Maxwell and Christi fall in love, Alexia is suddenly forced to deal with the secrets of her past, one of which threatens the boys young love in a way they can't even imagine.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, queer cinema
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I Am Happiness on Earth (2014)
Plot Summary:
Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, 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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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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A Day for Women (2016)
Plot Summary:
A new swimming pool opens in a Cairo district, with the announcement that Sundays will be only for females. This causes ripples throughout the local community, while three women - Shamiya, Azza, and Lula - assess their varying lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Love in the Time of Civil War (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious
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Three Veils (2011)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three young Middle Eastern women intertwine as they struggle to defy tradition and create their own realities. From an arranged marriage and a lesbian love affair to an abusive family situation, the film delicately tackles some of the issues Middle Eastern women are confronted with today.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, 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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New Dubai (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a middle class neighborhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about love? Is love just a construction?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: explicit, experimental, avant garde, queer cinema, gay cinema
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The Night of the Wolf (2014)
Plot Summary:
A mythical journey of the customs of homosexuality.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, sexy, psychological, light, art house, homoerotic, gay cinema
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Dry Wind (2020)
Plot Summary:
The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, Sandro’s burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, lgbt cinema, erotic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Boy Undone (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, experimental, queer cinema
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Cowboys (2020)
Plot Summary:
Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, social, queer cinema
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The Phantom (2000)
Plot Summary:
Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets an man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he becomes obsessed with the stranger until loneliness and unfulfilled desire propel him finally into a dark and dangerous animalistic state.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, art house, erotic, gloomy, sexy, homoerotic, atmospheric, rough, serious
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Spring Awakening (2009)
Plot Summary:
Young adults growing up in an oppressed society, finding ways to fight back and discovering as individuals who they truly are.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)
Plot Summary:
Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews re-imagine the lost 40 minutes from "Cruising" as a starting point to a broader exploration of sexual and creative freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, sexual, offbeat, serious, realistic, independent film, sexy, queer cinema