The Male Gaze : French Connection
Sep 30, 2024 | IMDB 0
104 min Watch NowDrama, Comedy
A love left unsaid on the football field, a third invite to a high-rise tête-à-tête, a fast-approaching farewell and a friendship that evolves into something complicated. Lose yourself in these five stories from France that are handled with grace, maturity and a tender touch. The 5 short films are: 9th Floor to the Right [9ème étage droite] (2022); Hugo: 6:30 [Hugo : 18h30] (2020); Cary & James (2023); For the Love of the Game [Pour l'amour du jeu] (2023); Youssou & Malek [Youssou et Malek] (2022).
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Hair
Far from Heaven
Jonathan
The Man-Woman Case
The Inner Shadow
Tab & Tony
Naked as We Came
Staying Vertical
Global Warming
Satdee Nite
Desert Hearts
Mambo Italiano
Apolo
The Daughters of Fire
Pain and Glory
Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh
Everything Is Illuminated
Summer Storm
Cockles and Muscles
Mala Noche
SIMILAR MOVIES
Hair
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1979
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.Far from Heaven
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 2002
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.Jonathan
IMDB 6.4 | May , 2016
A young man struggles with the pressure of caring for his terminally ill father while trying to unlock a secret that his father seems determined to keep from him. The story takes another dramatic turn when Ron, Burghardt’s long-lost friend from his youth, re-appears — and a well-kept family secret is uncovered.The Man-Woman Case
IMDB 6 | Apr , 2017
Sydney, Australia, 1920. A burnt female body is discovered. There is almost no evidence at the crime scene, but Commissioner Dick thinks that a homicide has been committed. Meanwhile, Eugène, a sailor, alone at his hotel room, immerses himself in his memories: the disappearance of his wife Annie is one of them.The Inner Shadow
IMDB 2.5 | Aug , 2018
Son of a patriarchal family in the country interior finds out something.Tab & Tony
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2025
Tab Hunter’s first-person account of his struggle to come to terms with his sexual orientation in 1950s Hollywood, an era in which being openly gay was taboo.Naked as We Came
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 2013
Love, loss and hope are tumultuously explored amidst a tranquil backdrop and asks us all the question: What is your dream? After an unexpected phone call, Laura and her brother Elliot rush to their family’s country estate to find Lilly their mother gravely ill and living with a handsome young stranger named Ted. Estranged for some time, their mother’s condition sets Laura and Elliot on a path to realizing where their own lives have gone wrong. Lilly, on the other hand, has mellowed from the controlling woman she was and is hoping to pass on some wisdom to her children. Now her kids find themselves dealing with their own feelings of resentment and broken dreams while trying to figure out how Ted fits into their mother’s life. Elliot even sleeps with Ted to break some barriers. But Ted has a secret of his own.Staying Vertical
IMDB 5.2 | Aug , 2016
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.Global Warming
IMDB 3.5 | Feb , 2015
A collection of two beloved gay short films. 'You Can't Curry Love' follows a handsome East Indian from London named Vikas who visits India on a work assignment and ends up falling for a local hotel clerk named Sunil. 'Performance Anxiety' follows two guys who are open-minded and gay-friendly, but embarrassed to sexually embrace one another and risk seeming vulnerable or overly-excited.Satdee Nite
IMDB 8 | Jan , 1973
A short observational account of one Saturday night in the mundane life of Stuart. He gets drunk, goes out to clubs,, searches for love and falls asleep unfulfilled on the floor of the club.Desert Hearts
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1985
While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly attracted by a carefree, spirited young woman named Cay.Mambo Italiano
IMDB 6 | Jun , 2003
When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.Apolo
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2025
After naturally conceiving a child during the COVID-19 pandemic, trans-centered couple Isis and Lourenzo begin a journey across Brazil in search of respectful and specialized prenatal care, while fighting for their family's rights in what kills the most trans people in the world.The Daughters of Fire
IMDB 4.3 | Oct , 2018
Three women meet by chance at the end of the world, in Argentinian Patagonia, and set out on a polyamorous journey, caught up in the search for new kinds of relationships, far from possession and pain. They become the Daughters of Fire, a band dedicated to helping those women who look for their own path to erotica.Pain and Glory
IMDB 7.4 | Mar , 2019
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh
IMDB 2 | Jan , 1985
Inspired by the early trash films of John Waters, the film stars Estdelacropolis as Demira, a gay porn actor struggling with both his emotionally complicated relationship with his mother Esther and his desire to break out of porn and into mainstream movies. He connects with a Freudian psychiatrist who is convinced that his homosexuality stems from an unresolved Oedipus complex which he has repressed by denying his natural attractions to women, to which the psychiatrist's proposed solution is to hypnotize Esther into believing that she is a man so that men will become the gender that sexually repulses Demira; in his career, he is ambivalent when the first "mainstream" role he is able to land is a gore film in which he will play the victim of a cannibal family for which Esther has also been cast as the mother.Everything Is Illuminated
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2005
A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.Summer Storm
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2004
Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Then the gay team from Berlin arrives and Tobi is totally confused. The evening before the races begin, the storm that breaks out is more than meteorological.Cockles and Muscles
IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 2005
Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about the tolerance of a family of four. The family spend an idealistic summer vacation together where each of the family members gets involved in a new or old relationship.Mala Noche
IMDB 6.1 | Jun , 1987
Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — including a shared language — his desire to possess Johnny prompts a sexual awakening that results in a tangled love triangle.