The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships (2008)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 55M
Director : Miguel Picker, Chyng Sun
Sinopsis
Interviewing scholars, industry insiders and consumers, this probing documentary delves into the effects of pornography on one's sexual identity and relationships, as well as its influence on business and American popular culture overall.
Welcome to the curious, surprising and always outspoken world of straight men who go Gay4Pay. Curiously, there is a disproportionate percentage of men working in gay porn who identify as straight. Why would a straight man do gay porn? What motivates him to try this or make a career of it? Why is there such keen interest and debate into the sexuality and personal lives of these men? And what does it say about us, the viewer that so much of gay porn is dominated by images of straight men?
I'm a Porn Star follows the lives of guys in the neighborhood who are likely a lot more famous than you - at least on the Internet. There are an estimated 370 million pornographic websites on-line. Porn is now a thirteen BILLION dollar business. So who's doing all this moonlighting? Turns out -- probably some people you know.
A los 17 años, un joven sexualmente bien dotado (Mark Wahlberg) es descubierto por un director veterano (Burt Reynolds), que lo transforma en una celebridad de la subcultura del mundo del porno en pleno apogeo de los 70. Sin embargo, la fama repentina puede pasar factura
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Rocco Siffredi es para la pornografía lo que Mike Tyson es para el boxeo o Mick Jagger es para el rock'n'roll: una leyenda viviente. Su madre quería que fuera un sacerdote; con su bendición se convirtió en un actor incondicional, dedicando su vida a un solo Dios: el Deseo. Rocco Siffredi revela todo, incluso si a veces signifique romper su propio mito: su verdadera historia, principios, carrera, esposa e hijos ... y la revelación definitiva que cambiará su vida para siempre.
Milo, una estrella del porno ya retirada que vive con su mujer y su hijo, está pasando por apuros económicos. Una cita con una antigua compañera de rodaje, la pornostar Layla, le presenta la oportunidad de trabajar con un tipo llamado Vukmir en su nueva película de porno experimental. Milos acaba aceptando sin saber exactamente lo que va a rodar y acaba sumergido en una tormenta de depravación violencia, snuff, pedofilia, y drogas que lo dejan en un abismo de locura.
Linda Lovelace es conocida principalmente por el notorio éxito de taquilla de la película porno de 1972, 'Garganta Profunda'. Más tarde, cuando dejó el negocio del porno, la actriz se divorció de Chuck Traynor y recuperó su verdadero nombre: Linda Boreman. Además, acusó a su exmarido de haberla obligado a prostituirse y dedicarse a la pornografía, recurriendo a todo tipo de violencia e incluso al hipnotismo.
Drama sobre el asesinato de Bryan Kocis, productor y fundador de Cobra Videos, industria del porno gay. En enero de 2007 Kocis fue encontrado muerto en su apartamento, 28 veces apuñalado. Por el juicio posterior a dos scorts, condenados como autores de su muerte, desfilaron famosas figuras del porno como Bret Corrigan, estrella en varias de sus películas.
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Matthew, un ambicioso joven de un instituto con aspiraciones a ser político en el futuro, se enamora de la chica de sus sueños: la bella y joven vecina de la puerta de al lado. Ambos comienzan un idílico romance, pero un sorprendente descubrimiento pondrá a prueba su relación: ella es un famosa actriz porno.
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.
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Oscar nominated documentary short from 1992
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Roman Baskin's debut as a film director is an allegorical story of a man (Sulev Luik) who happens to step out of a train in a small town named Vernanda. He buys some bread only to discover that it has got a bomb inside and "souvenirs" of this kind are the town's trademark. While the man wants desperately to get rid of the bomb the townsfolk is not amused by such rude behaviour.
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Documentary on the concept of white privilege and how it effects white people and other cultures.
Lonely secret service officer Gustav meets a mysterious gypsy woman. It soon comes clear that it is a trap set by the Russian intelligence. Gustav is ordered to continue the relationship to get a better understanding of the enemy's plans. Unfortunately, Gustav finds himself struggling with the task, as he is falling in love with the enemy. Is there a way out of this situation?
Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching frontline. Some seashore villages remain completely empty. A young woman with huge grey eyes gets off the boat. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her last chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of September, she returns to the lighthouse which is unexpected to her father Gottfrid, the lighthouse keeper, and herself. Eetla's return becomes her self-encounter and self-recognition.
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An undercover police officer must prove that a lonely man's missing wife was murdered.
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