La virgen de los sicarios (2000)
Género : Crimen, Drama, Romance
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 41M
Director : Barbet Schroeder
Escritor : Fernando Vallejo
Sinopsis
Después de treinta años, el escritor Fernando Vallejo vuelve a Medellín (Colombia), ciudad donde creció. No queda gran cosa de lo que había dejado: sus padres están muertos, una parte de la ciudad ha sido destruida y la mafia de la cocaína siembra el terror... En un burdel de chicos encuentra a Alexis, de dieciséis años. Alexis es un sicario, asesinos que matan a sueldo y que a su vez, antes o después son asesinados. En esta ciudad de horror, Fernando enamorado del chaval hace lo imposible para salvarlo.
Nueva York, años 40. Narra el crimen que se cometió en la Universidad de Columbia en 1944. Entre los personajes destacan los escritores Jack Kerouac y Allen Ginsberg. Basada en hechos reales.
On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during first period. When Larry died two days later, his murder shocked the nation. Was this a hate crime, one perpetrated by a budding neo-Nazi whose masculinity was threatened by an effeminate gay kid who may have had a crush on him? Or was there even more to it?
"Jealous" man-killer Mayumi (Hitomi Kozue) is sent back into solitary confinement after being re-arrested for the murder of the doctor who fingered her for a botched surgery. After emerging from solitary confinement to find an all-new gang of bullies picking on a meek, young female prisoner, Mayumi is now a much harder soul who takes no attitude from anyone, and she turns savage when the poor girl is enslaved by Yakuza.
Dos hombres de clase trabajadora gays en un pequeño pueblo de Texas y un amor que no está del todo fuera de su alcance.
Enormous tree trunks. The nature of leaves, the roots of desire and a house hidden deep in the forest. A journey to the other side. Something like a "punk" existential fairytale.
A six-year-old boy in pre-hippie 1960s United States endures ridicule from his schoolmates and worry from his father over his fixation with a TV star named Dottie.
Colombia años 20. El país recibe la indemnización por la separación de Panamá y se abre al crédito externo para emprender grandes obras de desarrollo. Crece la masa de trabajadores¸ aunque no mejoran sus condiciones¸ pues siguen sometidos a las implantadas desde la época colonial. El clima es más que propicio para las luchas reivindicativas y para el surgimiento de aguerridos líderes: María Cano fue una de las más destacadas. Su trabajo a favor de los obreros se dió también en pro de la mujer¸ enfrentó al gran poder¸ recorrió el país e incursionó en la literatura. Ella y sus compañeros hacen esta historia.
En El Mismo Equipo (On The Same Team, in English) is about the mixed feelings of a young rugby player. He tries to keep in the secret that he is gay, due to conformity mostly, but he struggles with it almost everyday. He longs to be free, but what exactly is freedom to the young man? He isn’t so sure himself.
A melodic massacre featuring a young love struck lesbian couple, two bigoted old ladies, a postman delivering death and a chorus line of fabulous feathered flesh eating zombies.
A drag queen applies his friend's makeup as they reflect on the business and their sexuality.
Discussing what it means to be LGBT in today's society, PROUD, a short documentary, shares the experiences of young members of the LGBT community by exploring sexuality, gender identity and the positives that come with it.
Tom of Finland, protagonizada por Pekka Strang, sigue los pasos de esta figura pionera de la cultura gay, que sufrió la opresión y homofobia durante su juventud. Volvió como héroe de la Segunda Guerra Mundia, pero la vida en Finlandia en tiempos de paz no fue como esperaba. Perseguido por su homosexualidad, se encontró sumergido en relaciones secretas y presionado para casarse con una mujer. Encontró una válvula de escape a través de su arte, especialmente por sus dibujos homoeróticos con un estilo marcado por musculados cuerpos masculinos vestidos de cuero. Su fama llegó a ser revolución en Estados Unidos bajo su nombre artístico, Tom of Finland.
La relación estable de Pepijn y George durante siete años se ve sacudida después de permitir que un joven estudiante llamado Cas duerma en su sofá hasta que encuentre un lugar propio. Gradualmente, ambos hombres caen locamente por el encanto lacónico de Cas y los obliga a reconsiderar sus muchos planes a largo plazo. ¿Está la presencia de Cas poniendo en peligro su relación o es realmente una bendición disfrazada?
A police detective investigating a vicious string of homosexual murders discovers that the latest victim appears to be the married executive who was his college lover ten years before.
“Panic Bodies consists of six parts or chapters, varying in length and style. Each suggests a new approach to these returning questions: what does it mean to have a body; to be a body, and what does this body want? Hoolboom appears in the framing chapters, and in between others take his place, submitting their bodies to a probing research. The treatment and effects of AIDS reform these subjects, but also the sexual body with all its desires and questions, and the almost dying body that can temporarily leave the world to be absorbed by what is called ‘the white light’ in Eternity… The fifth chapter is entitled Moucle’s Island and features Vienna avant filmmaker Moucle Blackout. It rhymes her movements with the gestures of a small child, and then projects her into a dreamy sexual reverie.” Esma Moukhtar, Montevideo Catalogue
"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama of emotionally charged recollections of strange relatives and estranged siblings, staged recreations of fast-fading pasts and personal mythologies, and reflections on the anxious states created by the body's fragile claims on time and space. It's about being a stranger in your own skin. Panic Bodies perfects the phantom quality of any good work about mourning, but it is not reducible to that. It is also enlivened by the intimacy that comes from having made a spectacle of personal secrets." (Kathleen Pirrie Adams, Xtra)
Alex is a 23 year old gay girl based in Manila. She is out to most people except her best friend Jess who she has been secretly in love with since they were kids. When Jess discovers the truth about Alex, they are forced to confront the feelings they have for each other.
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Kylie, a wedding planner, has had a string of boyfriends who have all turned out to be gays, including Benj. Eventually, the two became best friends and business partners. When Diego, Benj's childhood friend, resurfaces and asks them to plan his wedding, Kylie sets out to prove that she's right again--that Diego, is indeed another closet case. Will she succeed?
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