Talented young sketch artist Jerome Platz escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art college. Here his ambition is to become, like his hero Picasso, the world's greatest artist. Unfortunately the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an art class that he finds bewildering and bogus, neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers, though he does attract the attentions of his dream find out more...

Eric is seventeen and along with his best mate, Maggie, is working the summer hols at an amusement park. When Rod enters the scene, charming, handsome and quite obviously gay, Eric finds himself giving into desires that he has been hitherto so successfully repressing. A fast approaching classic of contemporary gay American cinema, both funny and thoughtful. find out more...

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The third of six 'Comedies and Proverbs', Rohmer creates an ebulliently witty and sparkling film. 15-year-old Pauline is on a seaside holiday, and by watching the antics around her she begins to see the hypocrisy that permeates adult sexual relationships. Beautiful performances all round. find out more...

From acclaimed director Gus Van Sant comes a quirky, coming-of-age love story between a young man who has given up on life and a beautiful, charming young girl who possesses a deep-felt love of it. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.

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If you thought Hedwig and the Angry Inch was a film unlike any other you'd seen before, get ready for Shortbus: a frank and fun film about the sex lives of humans, ostensibly set in New York, but relevant to every one of us. The plot plays a supporting role in what is, in many ways, a beautifully disguised self-help documentary. Sex therapist Sofia (played by Canadian radio star, Sook-Yin Lee) has frequent, athletic (yet frustratingly unfulfilling) intercourse with her boyfriend. Her seeming ina find out more...