Peter Winkler’s new job offer is about to take him away from his lover Hella, but he has been keeping it a secret from her. Mutual lack of trust and vicious gossip threatens their relationship as they plan to make their farewells.
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Author Archives: rarefilm
Raven’s Cabin (2012) Loren Johnson, Andrea Burdett, Luke Ledger, Pia Prendiville, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Bound, gagged and blindfolded, several teens are grabbed in the middle of the night and taken to Redback, a youth behavior modification facility deep in the Australian bush. They’re completely cut off from the rest of the world; isolated and tested in the unforgiving camp. Rumors travel through the camp that a few years earlier a girl reportedly hanged herself. But that’s just a rumor. Only the dead girl and her murderer know the truth and the dead don’t talk… unless they find someone who can hear them.
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El tercero / The Third One (2014) Rodrigo Guerrero, Carlos Echevarría, Emiliano Dionisi, Nicolás Armengol, Drama, Romance
After meeting in a chat room, Fede (22) arrives at a downtown building to have an intimate encounter with a gay couple older than him. As the night unfolds, Fede has an intense and telling experience. The next morning finds him different, as if suddenly he had found a new possible way to love.
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Cachorro / Bear Cub (2004) Miguel Albaladejo, José Luis García Pérez, David Castillo, Empar Ferrer, Comedy, Drama
Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and big circle of friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When it appears as though it might become a permanent arrangement, however, Pedro turns to his friends for guidance as he and 9-year-old Bernardo begin to forge a household together.
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Yo soy la felicidad de este mundo / I Am Happiness on Earth (2014) Julián Hernández, Hugo Catalán, Gabino Rodríguez, Andrea Portal, Drama
Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.
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Factotum (2005) Bent Hamer, Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Self-declared aspiring writer Hank Chinaski has neither qualifications, ambition nor ethics. Any dead-end job he lands is soon lost through laziness or mischief. His relationship with fellow deadbeat Jan gets strained to crisis through her insecurity, so he even gives up betting on horses which brought in easy money.
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Dream On (2013) Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, Bradley Cross, Joe Gosling, Janet Bamford, Drama, Romance
The course of true love does not run smoothly for two young lads in Norman’s Cozy Welsh campsite in the mid 80s. Paul, an innocent northerner from Rochdale, meets George, a jack the lad, nervy young man from London. Paul has come on holiday with his domineering mum Denise and her attempts to control him, though comic, throw him further into thrall with George. Both teenagers dream of escape but their dreams go through many ups and downs in the course of Dream On.
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Aya Arcos (2014) Maximilian Moll, César Augusto, Daniel Passi, André Vieira, Drama
When successful writer Edu falls in love with a young hustler, Fabio, his initial fear is about contracting HIV, but emotional matters soon loom large as well.
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Godless (2015) Joshua Lim, Craig Jordan, Michael E. Pitts, Garrett Young, Drama
The talented Craig Jordan plays Nate, a college graduate whose life plans change after he has to move back in with his mother following the death of his father. Through flash backs we get a rather brief sampling of his maternal bond, but there is just enough to discover the true focus of the drama—his undying love for his brother, Steven. Michael E. Pitts portrays the sibling who returns home to comfort his brother and share the grieving process, knowing all too well that their time together could rekindle a physical affection they’ve shared since puberty.
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Der Nachtmahr / The Nightmare (2015) Achim Bornhak, Carolyn Genzkow, Sina Tkotsch, Wilson Gonzalez, Drama, Mystery
After a night of partying in a mansion with a swimming pool, teenager Tina starts to experience weird things. She hallucinates a violent deja-vu, and hears discomforting sounds. At home she is haunted by a mysterious creature that only she can see. The film suggest several explanations for her visions. Is she overly tense? Psychotic? Drugged? Jealous? Her parents and friends seem to think she is going through a phase. Tina is convinced that the creature is for real, and she starts identifying with in a way that prompts her parents to take drastic measures on her behalf.
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