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Nerolio (1996)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was best known to Americans for his film The Gospel According to St. Matthew. However, in his native Italy, he was at least as well known for his writing and poetry as for his filmmaking. In the first episode, Pasolini (Marco Cavicchioli) waxes poetic about the beauty of young men during a visit to Sicily. The second and more interesting segment concerns a meeting with a young man who visits Pasolini thinking that though he is an old has-been, Pasolini may be able to do him a favor. Pasolini twigs to the boy's intentions, and a sparring session ensues. The final episode shows him picking up a young man at Rome's train station and the events that led to his beating death in 1975.
Style:
art house, psychological, melancholic, controversial, intense, independent film, period piece, existential, gay cinema, nostalgic
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, lgbtq, character study, biopic, murder, tragedy, seduction, poetry, sexual tension, realism, sexploitation, social commentary, literary, writers, art, scandal, coming of age, gay subtext, gay sex, beach, male nudity, poet, erotic fantasy, lust ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 1960s
Place:
rome italy, sicily
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
controversial, art house, intense, realistic, sensitive ...
Plot:
gay, coming of age, sexual exploration, autobiography, taboo, jealousy, lgbtq, possession, social realism, hypocrisy, friendship, city life ...
Time:
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Place:
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61%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
sicily, italy
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60%
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Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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181
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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53%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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211
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Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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46%
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Country: Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Chile
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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138
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, rough, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
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chick flick
Plot:
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