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Directed by Andrzej WajdaOrigin GermanGenres DramaThemes Films about sexuality,
Political filmsActors Hanna Schygulla,
Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Ralf Wolter,
Daniel Olbrychski,
Marie-Christine Barrault,
Bernhard WickiRating65%
The story takes place in a little German town at the border to Switzerland. The owner of the local fruit-and-vegetables shop has been called up. His shop has a key function for the town's supply situation. His customers know from World War I how rationing can make the owner of such a shop very rich if only he's egoistic enough to get corrupted by well-heeled customers who don't care whether their poorer country fellowmen's families starve. So when his wife Paulina starts to run the shop alone, her character is subsequently of public interest for all citizens who are concerned about the well-being of their families during the ongoing war. Paulina shares the fate of other soldier's wives who constantly face the fear her husband might return crippled, maimed or not at all. But because her husband's shop is highly important for the town's community, she gets somebody who can ease her working load. She is also luckier than other women for she is still young and attractive. So is the prisoner of war named Stanislaus who must serve her. She obviously finds him handsome and relishes that he has to obey all her commands. So she decides she doesn't need to be one of the lonesome wives anymore. When she seduces him she finds him very virile and they sometimes celebrate their love even literally in the open. Finally a town's official informs her that her evident bliss leads other women to doubts about her integrity. Still she doesn't let go of her love affair although the town official keeps on warning her that under the prevailing Nazi laws her adultery is punishable as "Rassenschande". Paulina keeps on putting the Polish POW in lethal danger until he is finally taken to court and sentenced to death. Paulina is imprisoned for two years. Decades later her son and her grandson visit the still existing little town in order to confront the man who warned Paulina repeatedly but in the end let her go down. The both of them are appalled when they realise he still lives in the very town where the citizens forced him to take action on Paulina and he doesn't hide., 1h27
Directed by Volker SchlöndorffOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
Thriller,
HistoricalThemes L'adolescence,
Films about education,
Films about children,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
La sexualité des mineurs,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Mathieu Carrière,
Barbara Steele,
Lotte LedlRating72%
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century. When Thomas Törless (Mathieu Carrière) arrives at the academy, he learns how Anselm von Basini (Marian Seidowsky) has been caught stealing by fellow student Reiting (Fred Dietz), and is obliged to become Reiting's "slave," bowing to Reiting's sadistic rituals. Törless follows their relationship with intellectual interest but without emotional involvement., 1h30
Directed by Roger VadimOrigin FranceGenres DramaThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Lesbian-related filmsActors Brigitte Bardot,
Robert Hossein,
Maurice Ronet,
Mathieu Carrière,
Jane Birkin,
Robert Walker Jr.Rating50%
Jeanne (Bardot) plays a modern-day Don Juan–styled woman who prides herself in the destruction of men who have fallen for her charms. She reveals to a priest a murder she committed and frankly details her past sexual encounters., 1h37
Directed by Volker SchlöndorffOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes French war films,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Political films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Matthias Habich,
Margarethe von Trotta,
Marc Eyraud,
Mathieu Carrière,
Henry van LyckRating69%
In 1919 Latvia, a detachment of German Freikorps soldiers is stationed in a chateau in the town of Kratovice to fight Bolshevik guerrillas. The chateau is the home of the soldier Konrad de Reval and his sister Sophie de Reval. Sophie is attracted to another soldier, a close friend of Konrad's named Erich von Lhomond. However, the reticent Erich rebuffs her advances. In retaliation, Sophie has trysts with other members of the military troop. Erich is noticeably angered by her behavior. Eventually, Sophie learns that Erich and Konrad are lovers. After this discovery, she joins the leftist guerrillas, whom she had been in contact with previously. Erich's soldiers capture her and her comrades. Sophie asks that Erich execute her himself, and he obliges. In a striking single tracking shot, we see Erich casually shoot Sophie in the head before joining in a photo with the other soldiers. As all board a train, the camera pans back to the corpses of the executed., 1h35
Directed by David Hamilton,
Alain NahumOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Erotic,
RomanceThemes Poésie,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Adaptation d'un poème,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Lesbian-related filmsActors Patti D'Arbanville,
Bernard Giraudeau,
Mathieu Carrière,
Gilles Kohler,
Irka Bochenko,
Madeleine DamienRating53%
A teenage schoolgirl spends the summer with a couple whose marriage is on the rocks, and develops a lesbian crush on the wife. Meanwhile, she pursues a local teenage boy and tries to find a "suitable male lover" for the wife., 1h41
Directed by Andrzej WajdaOrigin PologneGenres Drama,
War,
Historical,
RomanceActors Daniel Olbrychski,
Aleksander Bardini,
Stanisława Celińska,
Tadeusz Janczar,
Zygmunt Malanowicz,
Mieczysław StoorRating69%
The Landscape After the Battle film tells a story of two young concentration camp survivors. A young Polish poet (Tadeusz) is asked by a pretty Jewish girl (Nina) to go with her to the West. His camp experience, however, prevents him from realizing the depth of her love for him, and he is reluctant to commit. The woman is accidentally shot dead by an American soldier, causing the poet to cry for the first time in years. The shock of her death brings back the world of feelings suppressed by his Nazi captors, and allows for his original creativity to reemerge., 1h54
Directed by Morten TyldumOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Films about computing,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Political films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Benedict Cumberbatch,
Keira Knightley,
Mark Strong,
Matthew Goode,
Charles Dance,
Allen LeechRating80%
In 1951, two policemen, Nock and Staehl, investigate mathematician Alan Turing after an apparent break-in at his home. Turing's suspicious behaviour and lack of war records triggers Nock's suspicion that he might be a Soviet spy. During his interrogation by Nock, Turing tells of his time working at Bletchley Park., 1h24
Directed by Abel FerraraOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Willem Dafoe,
Maria de Medeiros,
Riccardo Scamarcio,
Adriana Asti,
Ninetto Davoli,
Giada ColagrandeRating58%
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Willem Dafoe) is fifty, and lives in the rowdy Rome of the 1970s. He has just finished shooting his latest film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, a film that has shocked both critics and audiences. Pasolini is increasingly opposed by the people, critics and politicians, both for his homosexuality, and because he is considered impulsive and scandalous in showing his reality to the public. Pasolini is going to shoot a new film (which was never made), in which he cast the famous actor Eduardo De Filippo (Ninetto Davoli) and the young Ninetto Davoli (Riccardo Scamarcio)--with whom he has a special relationship. While Pasolini is working on the film, his mother (Adriana Asti) and his sister try to dissuade him from the project, because it turns out to be too wild and visionary for the Italian public., 2h59
Directed by Andrzej WajdaOrigin PologneGenres Drama,
HistoricalActors Daniel Olbrychski,
Wojciech Pszoniak,
Andrzej Seweryn,
Anna Nehrebecka,
Kalina Jędrusik,
Franciszek PieczkaRating77%
Karol Borowiecki (Daniel Olbrychski), a young Polish nobleman, is the managing engineer at the Bucholz textile factory. He is ruthless in his career pursuits and unconcerned with the long tradition of his, now financially declined, family. He plans to set up his own factory with the help of his friends Max Baum (Andrzej Seweryn), a German and heir to an old handloom factory, and Moritz Welt (Wojciech Pszoniak), an independent Jewish businessman. Borowiecki's affair with Lucy Zucker (Kalina Jędrusik), wife of another textile magnate, gives him advance notice of a change in cotton tariffs and helps Welt to make a killing on the Hamburg futures market. But more money has to be found, so all three characters cast aside their pride to raise the necessary capital.