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Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Raoul Wallenberg Tragic Hero or Agent 103? (2018)
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Raoul Wallenberg born 1912 Stockholm is send to Budapest 1944 July. His job is to save Jewish from Holocaust, his methods are non conventional. January 1945 arrested by Russians at Budapest Siege. Man who saved lives never returns home.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 720 min
Plot tags: captivating, experimental, avant garde, queer cinema
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Enter the Clowns (2002)
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Xiao Bo (Yu Bo) lives in a world where the lines defining men from women are constantly dissolving.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 82 min
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No Way Out (2008)
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Joaquin (Polo Ravales), an unassuming fisherman, is forced to confront his homosexuality when his sex-starved wife Cynthia (Althea Vega) returns from her overseas job eager to get pregnant. His young and impulsive lover, Waldo (Joseph Bitangcol), flees to Manila in disgust. After a month of hesitation, Joaquin leaves his wife to follow Waldo. His search takes him on a seamy yet colorful trip through Manila's gay underbelly. He discovers Waldo's dangerous flirtation with Rufo (Emilio Garcia), a bisexual rogue cop who holds the clue to Waldo's disappearance. Rufo lures Joaquin into his home and introduces him to his submissive wife, Beng (Jean Garcia). A sadist who beats up Beng regularly, Rufo turns Joaquin into a prisoner and sex slave - like he did to Waldo. When Joaquin is finally reunited with Waldo, he discovers that Rufo is about to sell them like fish to an international sex trafficking ring, along with his personal harem of male and female captives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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All the Ways of God (2014)
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A contemporary evocation of Judas Iscariot trying to escape from his own guilt after betraying his best friend. He wanders into a forest and lost in himself, meets a mysterious young man. The young companion will accompany him on this path of repentance and penance and help him deal with his feelings, understand his guilt and cope with he has done. This is the story of the last three days of a repentant.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, queer cinema
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Daydream Obsession 2: Infidelities (2004)
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In this sequel to the ever-so-campy, wanna-be gay soft porn, Daydream Obsession, the naked-body-obsessed Clayton (Joseph Dain), whose previous demented daydreams turned to kidnapping and bondage nearly destroyed his friendship in the last film with his straight roommate Brian, now turns his fixated attentions upon his boyfriend Luke, who he suspects is cheating on him. Will the relationship survive Clayton's delusional fantasies? Written by Joe Fowler.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Intimidades en un cuarto de baño (1991)
Plot Summary:
A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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New old (1979)
Plot Summary:
Experimental film.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Chelsea Girls (1966)
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Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: underground film, experimental, avant garde, psychedelic, art house, art film, cult classic, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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God Made Man (2020)
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Leading double lives and seeking redemption, a transgender man, a drag queen and a corrupt lawyer collide in this urban purgatory.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, queer cinema
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I, a Man (1967)
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I, A Man is Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish [film] I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I, A Man. They created the story of this male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women over the course of the film. The women are: a young woman who worries about parental acceptance of her sexuality, a woman who is on a couch, a woman with whom he does a seance, a woman who speaks French, a lesbian, and a married woman. Almost of these scenes seem to be totally improvised and just so bored. Except, the most interesting part about I, A Man is also the most interesting scene of I, A Man. The second to last woman of the movie is Valerie Solanas, who would eventually shoot Warhol […]. (cont. http://theotherfilms.blogspot.de/2013/11/i-man-1967-women-and-sex.html).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film
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William, the New Judo Master (2016)
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Portrays the universe of an eternal being that exists within a lifecycle filled with disappointments and hopelessness. It's the chronicle about the search for love and the fight against oblivion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Central Bazaar (1976)
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For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like TV's Big Brother. The ceremonial gowns and make-up here not only evoke the eroticism of European horror movies but also highlight the film's interplay between performance and intimacy. Jonas Mekas called it 'theatre of life'.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: avant garde, erotic, experimental, independent film, weird
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In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986)
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300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang, and the government hides the dead. Pierre Clémenti’s In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (À l’ombre de la canaille bleue) is an experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Er Moretto - Von Lieben leben (1984)
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This is the story of a runaway desperate poor 14 years old boy, becoming a prostitute and suffering all kinds of tribulations in Rome in the 80s. And the gay scene is somewhat accurate of those days.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
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Duffer (1972)
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'Duffer' (1971) is a rarely seen cult British movie that has languished in the vaults of the British Film Institute for the best part of forty years until they decided to release it on DVD/BluRay for the first time last month. It's a black and white movie set in a declining Notting Hill with pretty much no dialogue spoken by those taking part in it. Almost everything is spoken as a commentary by Duffer, a lost teenage boy whose life bounces between homosexual and heterosuxual worlds. This movie anticipates David Lynch's 'Eraserhead' by five years.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
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Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (2016)
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Mathieu Denis (Corbo) and Simon Lavoie (Le torrent) evoke Godard’s La Chinoise with this stunning fusion of fiction and documentary about a radical Quebec leftist cell seeking to sow mayhem in Montreal as a prelude to overthrowing the government.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: avant garde, serious, realistic, disturbing, political, experimental, crying
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Dinah East (1970)
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A glamorous movie queen of the 1950s is revealed to be a man whose secret led to complicated relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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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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7 Kinds Οf Wrath (2014)
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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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Praxis (2008)
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Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to discover his true core. Fighting against fear and the indifference of society - aptly symbolized by the medical establishment - his quest reflects the classical mythos of Proteus and the human search for meaning in the universe.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Body Electric (2017)
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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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India Blues: Eight Feelings (2013)
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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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Joyland (2022)
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As a patriarchal family yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for a transgender starlet.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: iconic
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Ixe (1980)
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“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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Twice a Man (1963)
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A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physician.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, deviant, independent film
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Fixing Frank (2002)
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Frank (Miller) is a gay journalist who goes undercover at the urging of his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza) to write an exposé of Dr. Apsey (Butler). Apsey performs conversion therapy on gay male clients, a practice which Jonathan finds reprehensible. Frank quickly comes clean with Apsey but continues to meet with him under the pretense of interviewing him, but finds himself questioning himself, Jonathan and their six-year relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: queer cinema, cult film
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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
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A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks, Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-’60s Tokyo underworld. In Toshio Matsumoto’s controversial debut feature, seemingly nothing is taboo: neither the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the worlds of contemporary graphic-design, painting, comic-books, and animation; nor the unflinching depiction of nudity, sex, drug-use, and public-toilets. But of all the “transgressions” here on display, perhaps one in particular stands out the most: the film’s groundbreaking and unapologetic portrayal of Japanese gay subculture.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: avant garde, disturbing, mind bending, surreal, psychedelic, social, sad, experimental, controversial, art house
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Crocodile (1996)
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Crocodile is a 1996 South Korean film. It was the directorial debut of Ki-duk Kim and stars Cho Jae-hyun as "Crocodile".The film tells the story of a man living at the edge of the Han River in Seoul, who saves a woman trying to commit suicide. He then proceeds to rape and abuse her until an odd relationship develops between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: depressing, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, avant garde
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Quick Change (2013)
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Dorina is a transsexual woman. She’s got herself a flourishing career, albeit in an illegal cosmetic surgery business. She is a mother figure to Hero, her eight year old nephew, and a devoted wife to Uno. Between her job and her family, Dorina feels that she is one lucky woman. Until Uno falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak
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Queen Antigone: Three Acts (2014)
Plot Summary:
Brother and sister live in Athens; then they start a road trip.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: avant garde, psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, experimental, queer cinema