Chronicles the relationship between two gay teenagers in the rural south in the late 70’s.Read More »
Romance
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James Bolton – Dream Boy (2008)
2001-2010DramaJames BoltonQueer Cinema(s)RomanceUSA -
Claire Denis – Both Sides of the Blade AKA Fire AKA Avec amour et acharnement (2022)
Drama2011-2020Claire DenisFranceRomanceA love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.Read More »
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Sidney Franklin – Wild Orchids (1929)
1921-1930DramaRomanceSidney FranklinUSAPlot: Lillie Sterling comes with her husband, John, on a business trip to Java, expecting a second honeymoon. On the ship, she witnesses Javanese Prince De Gace mercilessly whipping a servant and shrinks in horror from the sight. When John is befriended by the Prince, who is very attracted to Lillie, she tries to have little to do with him. During a conversation in their room, John is called away to answer a wire, and the Prince steals a kiss in his absence, for which she slaps him. So she is understandably upset when John accepts the Prince’s invitation to stay at his plantation in Java when he promised to arrange a tiger hunt. She tries to dissuade John from going, but John says he always wanted to shoot a tiger and she is being unreasonable.Read More »
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Isao Yukisada – Seventh Anniversary (2003)
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Gérard Blain – Pierre et Djemila (1987)
France1981-1990DramaGérard BlainRomance
Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is a 16-year-old French lad who loves 14-year-old Djemila (Nadja Reski), the offspring of Algerian immigrants. Pierre’s father is an Algerian war veteran who tolerates living with the immigrants at the low-income housing project as long as the two factions are separated. Djemila’s older brother carries bitter hatred for the French over their invasion of Algeria. Both young lovers fall victim to the intolerance of their families when their relatives discover that the two are engaged in a passionate love affair. © Dan Pavlides, RoviRead More »
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Peter Bogdanovich – Daisy Miller (1974)
1971-1980DramaPeter BogdanovichRomanceUSAIt’s the late nineteenth century. Annie Miller, more regularly referred to as Daisy, of Schenectady, New York, is on a grand tour of Europe with her mother, Mrs. Ezra Miller, her precocious adolescent brother, Randolph Miller, and their manservant, Eugenio. It is at their stop in Vevey, Switzerland that Daisy meets Frederick Winterbourne, an American expat studying in Geneva. Frederick has mixed emotions about Daisy. On the one hand, he is captivated by her beauty. On the other, he believes her to be uneducated and improper in her modern American attitude and behavior, she basically doing whatever she wants regardless of the possible perception of impropriety by those in Frederick’s social circle.Read More »
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John M. Stahl – When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
1931-1940DramaJohn M. StahlRomanceUSAA concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.Read More »
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Aldo Lado – La cosa buffa AKA The Funny Thing (1974)
1971-1980Aldo LadoComedyItalyRomanceA young provincial elementary school teacher, falls in love with a Venetian girl, daughter of a rich industrialist.Read More »
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Lucian Georgescu – Tatal fantoma AKA The Phantom Father (2011)
2011-2020DramaLucian GeorgescuRomanceRomaniaQuote:
American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous.Read More »








