Queer Cinema(s)

  • Shûsuke Kaneko – Yuri no Amaoto AKA When the Rain Falls (2022)

    2021-2030DramaEroticaJapanQueer Cinema(s)Shûsuke Kaneko
    Yuri no Amaoto (2022)
    Yuri no Amaoto (2022)

    “A film, which, despite a plot where almost all protagonists have sex with each other, is quite grounded in reality…” ~ Asian Movie Pulse

    Synopsis:
    Hazuki clips her nails every time it rains. She caressed ‘her’ with these fingers back then. Hazuki, an editor of a publishing company now, is attracted by Shiori, the head of planning. On a day when the two women soaked wet in the rain, they enter an motel for shelter and take a shower. There Hazuki sees the image of her lost “girlfriend” in Shiori and eventually they reach out to each other.Read More »

  • Nancy Meckler – Sister My Sister (1994)

    Nancy Meckler1941-1950DramaQueer Cinema(s)United Kingdom
    Sister My Sister (1994)
    Sister My Sister (1994)

    This all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930’s. Two young, country sisters enter domestic service in the bourgeois household of a penurious widow and her homely daughter. Neither pair speaks to the other: two sets of women separated and confined by social convention, personality, and the house itself. The relationship of the sisters slowly evolves into obsession, brought about by isolation and by emotions left from childhood. Trapped in a garret room, the sisters’ violent downstairs-upstairs collision with Madame Danzard and the lumpy Isabelle seems certainRead More »

  • Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping – Femme (2023)

    Sam H. Freeman2021-2030Ng Choon PingQueer Cinema(s)ThrillerUnited Kingdom
    Femme (2023)
    Femme (2023)

    Follows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after that event he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge.Read More »

  • Roman Perez Jr. – Putahe (2022)

    2021-2030DramaEroticaPhilippinesQueer Cinema(s)Roman Perez Jr.
    Putahe (2022)
    Putahe (2022)

    When Euka arrives on the island, Jenny, a young barrio lass aspires to be like her. When Euka teaches her everything, Jenny realizes she has taken a dose of her own medicine.Read More »

  • Fred Halsted – Dirty Books (1981)

    1981-1990DocumentaryEroticaFred HalstedQueer Cinema(s)USA
    Dirty Books (1981)
    Dirty Books (1981)

    A rare film from Fred Halsted (known for LA Plays Itself). This encode is based on chef’s upload of the Alpha Blue Archives release.

    Quote:
    Part pseudo-documentary, it switches from group stroking, mutual masturbation, oral sex and a bit of anal intercourse with historic images and art photo set.Read More »

  • Eloy de la Iglesia – Los placeres ocultos AKA Hidden Pleasures (1977)

    Eloy de la Iglesia1971-1980DramaEroticaQueer Cinema(s)Spain
    Los placeres ocultos (1977)
    Los placeres ocultos (1977)

    A highly controversial film upon its release in Spain as the first feature narrative with homosexuality openly discussed, Hidden Pleasures follows Eduardo, a wealthy banker who has a pastime for hiring young street hustlers to keep his bed warm, yet ignores requests from a friend to join the social gay movements. One day while cruising around town he spots Miguel, an extremely handsome teen who has a penchant for women and motorcycles. Eduardo offers Miguel a job and eventually gets closer and closer with him. Eduardo’s building lust and the jealousy of others in their lives creates havoc for all.Read More »

  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve (1950)

    Joseph L. Mankiewicz1941-1950DramaQueer Cinema(s)USA
    All About Eve (1950)
    All About Eve (1950)

    Quote:
    “All About Eve” is a literate, adult film of the calibre that will do big league, big town business. In addition it has all the elements for the general runs.

    The whyfore of the producer’s insistence for “scheduled performances” becomes obvious as the story unfolds from its banquet scene that honors a new Broadway legit great and the flashbacks which deal with the brittle, hard-bitten and frequently bitter saga that tells us “All About Eve.”

    Anne Baxter, in the title role, is the radiant newcomer who has attained the thespic heights. And as she mounts the podium to receive the supreme accolade, the intimates who figured in her breathless success story project their own vignettes on what made this hammy glammy run.Read More »

  • Cristina Comencini – La bestia nel cuore AKA Don’t tell (2005)

    2001-2010Cristina ComenciniDramaItalyQueer Cinema(s)
    La bestia nel cuore (2005)
    La bestia nel cuore (2005)

    Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her “beast inside the heart”.Read More »

  • Pepa San Martín – Rara (2016)

    2011-2020ChileDramaPepa San MartínQueer Cinema(s)
    Rara (2016)
    Rara (2016)

    Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is very similar to that of other families. But not everyone sees it that way.Read More »

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