Drama
In rural Iowa, a grocery cashier watches helplessly as classmates conceal their act of sexual violence against his teenaged step-sister. A hustler tricks for food, shelter, and intimacy during a winter in New York City. Mortality compels a father to leave his home in Los Angeles and move in with his daughter. Jonah Greenstein's gorgeously shot feature debut laces loneliness with beauty to create a film of startling cinematic intimacy.
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SIMILAR MOVIES
The Astronaut Lovers
El otro
Apt Pupil
Caligula
101 Reykjavik
Farewell My Concubine
Wonder Boys
Forbidden Relationship
Lilting
Pools of Desire
The Affair
Praxis
Hinala
Flamboyants
Mysterious Skin
One More Night
Loggerheads
The Exterminating Angels
Mulligans
Dyketactics
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The Astronaut Lovers
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 2024
Pedro travels from Spain to Argentina for a vacation at his uncle's home, where he meets Maxi again, a childhood friend. Maxi is surprised when he finds out Pedro is gay. When Maxi finds his ex-girlfriend is also there, he asks Pedro to pretend to be his boyfriend to win her back. Pedro accepts the game, unaware of the dangers of playing with love.El otro
IMDB 4.4 | Apr , 1986
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.Apt Pupil
IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 1998
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.Caligula
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1979
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.101 Reykjavik
IMDB 6.1 | May , 2000
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.Farewell My Concubine
IMDB 7.9 | Jan , 1993
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.Wonder Boys
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 2000
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.Forbidden Relationship
IMDB 1 | Oct , 1987
A married woman starts a lesbian relationship.Lilting
IMDB 7 | Aug , 2014
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.Pools of Desire
IMDB 1 | May , 2001
The amazing wartime saga of a young American GI who travels to Budapest to find his former companion, a French soldier who told him of the spectacular bathhouses he visited there. The GI explores the fraternal joy of these Turkish baths and loses himself in passion - only to discover his real sexual self!The Affair
IMDB 2.8 | Jul , 2010
An ex-seminarian slash communist runs a hotel in Baguio. He then meets a handsome upcoming lawyer. A once-a-year trip to Baguio by the lawyer and conversations with the hotel owner develop into an affair which encompasses decades of socio-political changes in the country.Praxis
IMDB 3.4 | Jan , 2008
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.Hinala
IMDB 2.7 | Mar , 2011
Cris discovers that his five years relationships is about to end when his live-in boyfriend Michael leaves him supposedly for an out of the country business trip. He then embarks on a long journey to catch his lover and the third party, passing by his boyfriend's maternal home, his boyfriend's best friend, his own best friend and a mysterious acquaintance. Will Cris catch his boyfriend and will he be able to prevent their relationship from its inevitable ending? Not until someone dies so another can move on. Hinala is not only about fidelity but more about that long journey we take when a relationship bitterly ends and we are broken. How many times must we die so we can be free from the baggage?Flamboyants
IMDB 4 | Dec , 2021
The trajectory of flamboyant bodies that expose themselves in their social networks, whether artistic or not, and use these spaces freely.Mysterious Skin
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 2005
A gay teenage hustler and another teen obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.One More Night
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 2012
The end of a love story between a young boy and a man with too many regrets which, for the latter, becomes an obsession.Loggerheads
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2005
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.The Exterminating Angels
IMDB 5.3 | Sep , 2006
A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his latest project: a thriller on the subject of female pleasure.Mulligans
IMDB 6.1 | May , 2008
When Tyler Davidson brings his college buddy Chase home for the summer holidays a secret is revealed that threatens to tear his perfect family apart.Dyketactics
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 1974
Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minute, hippie wonder consisting of frolicking naked women in the countryside, broke new ground for its exploration of lesbian identity, desire and aesthetic. (from bfi.org.uk)