The turbulent, troubling 2012 Belgian drama film Beyond the Walls [Hors les murs] stars Matila Malliarakis as young pianist Paulo, who meets Albanian bartender Ilir (Guillaume Gouix). Ilir brings him home drunk and they become […]
The excellent New Zealand drama film Punch stars Jordan Oosterhof as 17-year-old Jim, who is training with his boozy dad (Tim Roth) for his first pro fight. But Jim has a life-changing rethink after getting […]
Renato Schuch stars in the exceptional 2019 German drama film Label Me as Syrian refugee Waseem, who lives in a German homeless shelter, and Nikolaus Benda plays wealthy German man Lars, who lives in a […]
The thoughtful 1995 Swedish drama film Sebastian [När alla vet] chronicles a teenage boy’s coming out. Happily, the main problems of 16-year-old Sebastian (Hampus Björck) are very Swedish: he has kind parents, great friends, and […]
A gay serial killer plays cat and mouse with a rookie gay police detective in the R-rated 1998 thriller film Hard. Unusually, it is both grisly and thoughtful. ‘A cop with a secret. A killer […]
The 2015 German film Sanctuary [Freistatt] is a complex, excellent drama, with Louis Hofmann brilliant as earnest young tearaway Wolfgang, who is sent off by his family in summer 1968 to the awful Church Welfare […]
Gerald Thomas’s 1963 British Eastmancolor film The Iron Maiden stars Michael Craig, Alan Hale Jr, Jeff Donnell, Cecil Parker and Anne Helm in this traction engine comedy set against the background of the dawn of […]
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