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Film · 10 connectionsDaniel (Johan Paulik), an innocent and cute young guy, enters a gay bar for the first time. The bar's quiet and Daniel is clearly transfixed by the barman. He can't take his eyes off him. His trance is broken by the arrival of the barman's boyfriend who is also young and pretty, but obviously more confident than the naive young Daniel. At first he's amazed at their sensuous kissing across the bar and then he's jealous.
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1990 · 85 min · Drama
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
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2004 · 127 min · Drama
Three tales that center around sex and citizens of Tokyo: A repressed woman embraces her sexuality, ("Birthday"), an unexpected reunion disrupts a sex worker's routine ("Night Lovers"), and a sex blogger discovers connection in the depths of loneliness ("Girl's Life").
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1992 · 86 min · Drama · Romance · Thriller
HK businessman Kiu doesn't have time to woo a girl. On a trip to Saigon, he offers financial help to poor girl Shun's (very troubled !) family if she'll come and live with him. With a sense of duty but no love, she agrees, too timid to even tell boyfriend Lik just after losing her virginity to him. Love fails to blossom between Shun and Kiu in HK, and Kiu starts to drink heavily. Sandy, Kiu's luscious secretary takes advantage and gets it off with him in the gym and digusts Shun in the process. Shun gets drunk and is picked up in a bar, nearly raped, and rescued then befriended by a fellow Vietnamese, a photographer, in what is clearly a setup. Turns out Sandy is behind this ruse as well, to get Shun out of the way and have Kiu all to herself. But things don't go according to anyone's plan. Will Shun give up Kiu and his money to go back to Lik ? Will Sandy hold her nerve and push ahead ? Will the guys Sandy paid to set up Shun have their way with Sandy instead ?
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1989 · 88 min · Drama · Romance
A middle-aged fisherman and a young college co-ed fall in love with each other.
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1981 · 65 min · Drama
A fast talking, money stealing, gambling, womanizing low level yakuza bum takes advantage of a bar owner’s virgin daughter. But even after he does the right thing his bad habits don’t change.
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1988 · 94 min · Drama · Family
A story about friendship between two boys coming from different social backgrounds, but with the equally bitter family experiences.
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2001 · 130 min · Drama · Romance
The hunky John is a closeted small-town cop who moves to L.A., where he is quickly seduced into the gay life of workouts and dusk-to-dawn parties. With actual circuit party footage and mounds of glistening and chiseled flesh, the pulsating Circuit is bound to get your juices flowing.
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1999 · 89 min · Comedy · Romance
Gabriel is a young, aspiring musical composer whose life seems stuck in the First Act. When his new musical number gets a critical reception, a theatre colleague, Perry, tells Gabriel that he needs to get a life before he can write about one – so he heads straight for his local gay bar.
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1983 · 114 min · Crime · Drama
The first soft core porn flick made in former Yugoslavia (today Croatia). It was a huge cause celebre for the participants and equally infamous for its innumerable shortcomings ranging from the lack of coherent plot-line to the most basic elements of film making. However, in time, it has gained a somewhat cult reputation. A priceless insight into an odd culture and its lax sexual mores and follies!
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2004 · 82 min · Drama · Romance
Two psychologists start an experiment which is meant to explore various persons' behaviour towards each other. It soons turns to sex.
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