tokyo skin (1996)

Un detective privado consigue mantener dignamente a su familia ocupándose de resolver casos sencillos e irrelevantes. Pero, de repente, su vida cambia radicalmente cuando, durante la investigación de un caso, queda atrapado dentro de un sórdido mundo de espeluznantes snuff-movies.

Un policía se ve obligado a infiltrarse en los ambientes gays más sórdidos de Nueva York para atrapar a un asesino de homosexuales.

La película explora las 'Houses' del barrio neoyorquino de Harlem de finales de los 80. Una 'House' es una sociedad de gays y drag queens (drag queen en el sentido neoyorquino del término que incluye a las travestis), que tiene forma de banda callejera. Las 'Houses' están formadas por una 'mother' o madre y los y las 'children', hijos e hijas, la función de la madre es la de presidir la sociedad y aconsejar y mirar por sus integrantes. Los 'Balls' son los bailes que organizan las 'Houses' en los 'Ballrooms' (literalmente salones de baile) que se convierten en una especie de club para reunirse y competir entre sí. "Paris is burning" refleja el fenómeno de los 'balls' desde 1987 hasta 1989 cuando ya ha llamado la atención de los medios de comunicación y las industrias culturales perciben beneficios de lo que súbitamente es la nueva moda.

La hija de un hombre que vive en un pueblo del Midwest desaparece durante un viaje con su instituto a California. Un detective encuentra una pista que lo lleva al mundillo de las películas porno. A continuación, el padre viajará al lugar para recuperar a la joven.

Franz Biberkopf es un joven homosexual, vulgar, ingenuo y bonachón que, después de trabajar como "Fox, la cabeza parlante" en una feria, gana medio millón de marcos en la lotería, lo que le permite frecuentar círculos gays más selectos. En este exquisito ambiente se enamora de Eugen, hijo de un empresario que posee una imprenta al borde de la bancarrota. Eugen, que ha dejado a su amante, inicia con Franz una relación interesada: en varias ocasiones le saca dinero para la empresa paterna, le hace comprar el piso y los muebles que compartirán, e intenta incluso corregirle sus toscos modales tan alejados de la educación burguesa. Además, programa un viaje a Marrakech.

La escena de la música punk de Los Ángeles alrededor de 1980 es el tema central de esta película. Con Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Este documental sigue algunos grupos de Furries, como un comentario social de este fandom, sus estigmas y cómo se percibe a través de la cobertura sensacionalista de los medios.

Michelle lives in Paris with René, who is influential politicians. One morning as Michelle discovers that her 18-year-old daughter Lauren has not come home from a pub tonight. René does not want to involve the police, because he does not want a scandal that could affect his political career negative. They decide instead to hire a private investigator. It turns out that Lauren has been kidnapped to be used by a gang producing snuff. Detective withdraws from the case, however, because he fears for his life and Michelle decides to find their own daughter. The hunt goes by porn swamps in Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg.

A review of the wild New York City nightlife of the 90s. The cast of characters who made up the infamous Club Kids speak candidly about that era, culminating with Alig's release from incarceration.

Straight off the streets of South Central L.A., CJ Mac brings you a documentary about a gang ritual that has become a popular dance craze. Hear the opinions from the artists who made the C-Walk mainstream through music videos and live performances, and meet the original Crip gang members who started the walk. Is it a dance... or a gang ritual? You decide! Features Snoop Dogg, WC, Ice-T, Kurupt, Ras Kass, Malik Yoba, Warren G and Jonathan Davis.

An inside look into the world of taxidermy and the passionate artists from all over the world who work on the animals.

It is the summer of 1984 in Schmalenstedt, in the middle of Holstein Switzerland, directly on the Baltic Sea. The 17-year-old Malte Ahrens, who calls himself Roddy Dangerblood, lives with his elderly parents in a farmhouse, is trained as a potter and has discovered for himself the punk that has made its way into Schmalenstedt with some delay.

In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...

Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in New York City. Officer Charles Banks finds young Danny tagging subway cars and then catches Teiresa selling drugs for another mislead teen, Kirk. The officer, instead of turning both of them in, gives both teens a chance to make more of their lives together. Changing their ways turns out to be more challenging than first thought.

What does it mean to be goth—to be an outsider, to live both on the margins and in the midst of society? Filmmakers Jordan Hemingway and Alban Adam prize open the coffin on a world of darkness and light, exploring its multiplicities and intersections with subcultures and the ever-present experience of queerness.

Amidst the swirl of Tokyo's seamy nightlife of designer drugs, casual sex, and American slang, Zhou turns 30. It's a spiritual crisis for this Chinese immigrant who quotes Confucius, this Lothario and con artist who fences stolen goods. He falls for Kyōko, a seemingly shy provincial woman looking for the man who jilted her sister. As their relationship plays out, Hanawa intercuts stories of Kazuo, a hyperkinetic artist who loves the trendy Yōko (Kazuo bores her, and she pursues the indifferent Zhou), and Ali, a Pakistani Muslim who, broke and forlorn, stands outside a convenience store, love-struck by a clerk because she looked into his eyes (she thought he was shop-lifting)

A sub culture evolved in Sweden in the 1950’s, Swedish greasers. The greasers were young and wild, drove American cars and rebelled against society. We meet the next generation of motorised youth the “Neo-Greasers”. What price are they willing to pay to live a demand-less life?

In the 1980's, something changed the world forever. Computer technology, mostly due to the appearance of affordable Commodore 64's, entered households worldwide, providing the opportunity for everyone to create digital art. Moleman 2 is about the demoscene subculture, told by mostly Hungarian sceneres, but it features also some other nationalities.

Norwegain cult drama about Eva (16) and Arne (17), both from well established homes, attend a class where a professor says that cannabis is harmless. Together with some friends they decide to try. The start of a drug Hell for all involved. The film was poorly received by the critics, but it nonetheless became one of the highest-grossing theater films in Norway in 1969