1. Coming of Age: Vol. 6 - The Roger Lambert Anthology
Puberty is an ordeal and a joy. Children become adolescents: how do they react to this development? With the help of four different short films, the Brit Roger Lambert succeeds in wonderfully fathoming this important time. In "Split" , a boy with behavioral difficulties tries to make life bearable with imaginary aliens. In "I Want To Be Famous" , it's Steve, the youngest and smallest in his class, who creates a fantasy world for himself until his best friend Stuart, down-to-earth and clever, forces him to face reality. "Follow You Follow Me" observes the vulnerable friendship between two boys: shy Joseph and confident Peter. But Joseph's father is Peter's father's employer. With "A Seaside Story" we meet again two friends, this time they are seventeen, who are vacationing together at the sea: the self-confident Martin and Sam, the dreamer. At a beachfront guesthouse run by an eccentric lady, the two have an unforgettable time.
2. A Wonderful Day
During the Sydney Olympics, a young drag queen runs her own race.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
3. Gym Classes (Lezioni di Ginnastica)
Siblings Clara and Pietro aren't close, but they share a hatred for the high school that she's recently started attending and that he graduated from years before. Forced to wait in the school with their father, familial tensions arise.
4. Beautiful Mystery (巨根伝説 美しき謎)
Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an early “special” training session the two develop a lasting and loving relationship.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
5. An Actor's Revenge (雪之丞変化)
An onnagata of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
6. Johnny (Johnny)
Johnny is an alcoholic, Johnny is fatalistic, Johnny is tormented, Johnny isn’t able to behave, Johnny is impetuous, Johnny is moody, Johnny believes in nothing, Johnny is footloose, Johnny isn’t brave. But Aurélien doesn’t care because first and foremost Johnny is radiant.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
7. Goodbye Seventies
In the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the "art" films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together and they start making their own hardcore movies. Against all odds the films are wildly successful until drugs, AIDS and cheap video technology bring it all crashing down
It has an average vote of 4.8 on TMDB.
8. Ever
While struggling to cope with the death of her boyfriend, a young woman begins to form romantic feelings for her new supportive female friend.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
9. The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
It has an average vote of 6.378 on TMDB.
10. Heroes in Love (戀愛起義)
"Heroes in Love" is a collection of short films about young love in Hong Kong.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
11. Life Is Journey (Life Is Journey)
LIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn for togetherness. Each day brings chance meetings and reluctant partings, joy and pain. The first vignette, "Life", portrays half of a woman's life in one-scene, one-cut, nine-minute sequence. "N" is a comical take on a man abandoned by his lover. "Ya" explores the bond of female friendship as one woman consoles a brokenhearted girlfriend. In "Nowhere", a man and a woman roam the streets of a foreign land in search of lost time.
12. Love Spell
In 1999 in a high school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a teenage girl casts a spell to make her best friend fall in love with her.
13. Laika (ライカ)
Laika, a Japanese woman studying in Moscow, moves in with Yulia, an aspiring actress, and they develop an intimate relationship.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
14. Drawn Back Home
The awkward reacquaintance of two men, former best friends separated by different life choices who try to find their way back home, gives way to a depth of feeling they both must navigate to resolve issues of the past while dealing with uncertainties of the future.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
15. Ringolevio
Ada, a reserved young woman with a passion for entomology, travels north with Marissa, her free-spirited musician girlfriend. She's finally meeting the three brothers who helped raise Marissa: the paternal Ozzie, sensitive Arthur, and wild child Wren. As Marissa and her kin settle into their familial dynamics, Ada finds herself on the outside looking in. Desperate to make a good impression over the course of a weekend packed with fun and frivolity, Ada instead struggles to find common ground, opening fissures in the one relationship she needs the most.
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
16. My Life in Pink (Ma vie en rose)
Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl -- and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt -- as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble. As suburban prejudices close around them, family loves and loyalties are tested in the ever-escalating dramatic turns of Alain Berliner's critically acclaimed first feature. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and a favorite at festivals around the world, this unique film experience delivers magic of the rarest sort through a story of difference, rejection, and childlike faith in miracles.
It has an average vote of 6.98 on TMDB.
17. Steam: The Turkish Bath (Hamam)
Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives' Instanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
18. My Life on Ice (Ma vraie vie à Rouen)
Etienne is crazy about ice skating and videoing his daily life with a digital camera. He records his mother, friends, and geography teacher. Initially his intention is to setup a date between his mother and his teacher, however, he starts to realize that he is infatuated with the teacher himself.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
19. Gone, But Not Forgotten
Questions about the identity of an amnesiac threaten his romance with the park ranger who rescued him.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
20. O Fantasma (O Fantasma)
Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he becomes obsessed with the stranger until loneliness and unfulfilled desire propel him finally into a dark and dangerous animalistic state.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
