Drama
Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match in Lars: a kind, affluent professional with a growing personal interest in Waseem. This gripping tale of transactional identity explores the tactical exchange of trust and intimacy in a partnership, and the divisions between immigrants and their host countries in contemporary Europe.
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Softie
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Never Met Picasso
Viral
The Basketball Diaries
Numero 69
Romper Stomper
Winter
My Brother's Shoes
Nobody Loves Me
Shiva Baby
ErOddity(s)
Arrival
Spun
Oi! Warning
Romeo & Romeo
Boy Erased
The Color of Money
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari
The Male Gaze: Boy Trouble
SIMILAR MOVIES
Softie
IMDB 7 | Mar , 2022
Ten-year-old Johnny stands out from his family and his tough neighborhood in Eastern France. He's sensitive, intelligent and interested in all kinds of things way beyond his years. With curiosity, he observes the ups and downs of his young single mother's turbulent love life. Things change when a new teacher, fresh from the big city, takes over Johnny's class. Mr. Adamski believes in Johnny and wants to open a new world to him. The sophisticated young teacher also intrigues the boy.The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 1972
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.Never Met Picasso
IMDB 3.8 | Nov , 1997
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic Jerry.Viral
IMDB 8 | Oct , 2012
GLEISDREIECK is a story about love, its different forms and the lies that are told in its name. In an austere audiovisual style, where the story unfolds supported by the performance of its three characters. Two very different departments located in opposite parts of Berlin, which Hedda visits to Petra and Zazie.The Basketball Diaries
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 1995
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.Numero 69
IMDB 8.5 | Jul , 2018
Two friends enter an Emergency Room, seeking help after an incident. They will find themselves living a series of surreal experiences through the eccentric characters that populate the waiting room. But will they get the help they need?Romper Stomper
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1992
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?Winter
IMDB 10 | Oct , 2021
Nico's father, with whom he has a distant relationship, comes to town for medical reasons. Nico must hide his homosexuality in addition to his new life as a drag queen.My Brother's Shoes
IMDB 4.7 | Sep , 2015
Dallas, a successful executive with a beautiful wife, dreams of having a family, while his gay brother Austin dreams of winning a local drag show. By a twist of fate, the brothers switch bodies and have to see how the other lives.Nobody Loves Me
IMDB 6.2 | Nov , 1994
On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening classes on dying, so it seems fitting that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a Black, gay, self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet "him". But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager ...?Shiva Baby
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 2021
College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.ErOddity(s)
IMDB 4 | Apr , 2014
ErOddity(s) is a collection of four exceptional short stories set in the world of erotic fantasy. In "Forever Mine", a confused boy seeks a love that will last him a lifetime. A teen's long forgotten past leads to his short lived future in "A Mind of Their Own"; proving some things should remain in the closet! A Christmas present, in the hands of a young voyeur, leads to a holiday tale of woe in an "Unsolved Christmas". And finally, in "The Way To a Man's Heart", an abused lover gets his revenge from beyond the grave.Arrival
IMDB 4.9 | May , 2016
This traditionally animated film tells the journey of how a young boy's personal discovery affects the long-distance relationship he keeps with his mother.Spun
IMDB 6.6 | Feb , 2003
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.Oi! Warning
IMDB 5.5 | Jul , 1999
A young man gets caught up in a conflict between his friends, a skinhead and a gay anarchist.Romeo & Romeo
IMDB 3.2 | Jun , 2017
Zak faces the past head on, finding out burried secrets which test his sobriety. A heartfelt gay film full of love and heartbreak.Boy Erased
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2018
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.The Color of Money
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1986
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.Soldiers. Story from Ferentari
IMDB 5.5 | Feb , 2018
Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.The Male Gaze: Boy Trouble
IMDB 10 | Mar , 2024
Four countries, four men - and four encounters that will call into question everything about themselves they thought they were sure of. Just when you thought things couldn't get any more complicated, along comes a boy to add a fresh perspective. The 4 short films are: Billy Boy (2021); Summer [Verano] (2022); Fabiu (2023); Czechoslovakia [Checoslovaquia] (2022).