17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
Syrjäytynyt ja vakavasti ylipainoinen englannin opettaja yrittää muodostaa uuden yhteyden hänestä vieraantuneeseen teini-ikäiseen tyttäreensä.
Lukijan tapahtumat alkavat toisen maailmansodan jälkeisestä Saksasta, jossa äkillisesti tulirokkoon sairastuneen nuoren Michaelin auttaa kotiin tuntematon, kaksi kertaa hänen ikäisensä Hanna. Parannuttuaan Michael etsii Hannan käsiinsä kiittääkseen tätä. Pian kaksikko ajautuu intohimoiseen mutta salamyhkäiseen suhteeseen. Michael huomaa Hannan pitävän siitä, että tälle luetaan, ja heidän suhteensa syvenee. Hanna kuuntelee lumoutuneena Michaelin lukiessa hänelle. Eräänä päivänä Hanna kuitenkin katoaa mystisesti jättäen jälkeensä hämmentyneen Michaelin. Kahdeksan vuotta myöhemmin, Michael kohtaa Hannan natsien sotarikosoikeudenkäynnissä. Samalla, kun Hannan menneisyys alkaa paljastua, saa Michael selville salaisuuden, jolla on vaikutus heidän molempien elämään.
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.
Christian on nykytaiteen museon arvostettu kuraattori, jolle työ on kaikki kaikessa. Hänen tuleva näyttelynsä ”The Square” on kantaaottava tilataideteos, jossa yleisö haastetaan auttamaan lähimmäistään. Mutta joskus on vaikea yltää omiin yleviin periaatteisiinsa: Christianin kännykkä varastetaan ja hänen oma tökerö käytöksensä johtaa nolojen tilanteiden kierteeseen. Samaan aikaan museon PR-toimisto on luonut tulevalle näyttelylle epätavallisen kampanjan, jonka synnyttämä kohu ajaa Christianin ja koko museon kriisin syövereihin.
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Noël Cowardin näytelmään perustuva klassikko, jossa salaiset rakastavaiset alkavat tavata toisiaan juna-asemalla.
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires.
The siblings Linus, 19-years-old, who are taking driving license and Vanja, 17-years-old, who's still in school. Their mom Eva works night shift at a hotel. We get to follow them during one month. Linus and Vanja begin to realize that they are living in a universe of their own. And there is neither room for the mom or boy- and girlfriends. At first it is only the longing love in unspoken thoughts. But when thought gets into words they realize that they are each others perfect half. They are drawn closer to each other and finally can't resist the taboo temptation in each others bodies. At first they deny, lie and try to resist. It's about shame and guilt and forbidden feelings which leads to a point where everything is at stake.
Pitkää vankeusrangaistusta kärsivä mies on jo heittänyt lähes kaiken toivonsa, kunnes hänet siirretään vankilamaatilalle, jossa hoidetaan loukkaantuneita lintuja.
Through his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.
20-year-old Will is on his stag-do when, handcuffed to a lamppost, he is rescued by Michael. The attraction between the two men is immediate. But back at Michael's apartment, Will is sent into a tailspin of shame and confusion.
A man comes face-to-face with the dark choices of his past.
Thanks to a roommate's practical joke, bookish college student Joanna Halbert finds herself signed up with a Malibu-based escort service which promises her big money and an easy ride. Instead, she becomes entangled in a web of corruption, sleaze, and violence.
When Johannes gets caught by his girlfriend while laying on the bathroom floor watching porn and masturbating she doesn’t care and wants him to enjoy himself. That makes Johannes lose the feeling of shame he needs and sends him into an existential crisis and loses his ability to masturbate. Trying to regain that shame leads to an explosive confrontation for them as a couple.
Sociologist David W. Wahl explores the identity work involved in Kay Parker shifting from being a legend of the adult film industry to her current occupation as a metaphysical counselor.
In a secluded cove on the South African coast, a middle-aged writer grieving the deaths of his wife and daughter is drawn into an affair with an alluring teenage girl who is grappling with demons of her own, in this gripping psychological thriller adapted from the award-winning novel by Alistair Morgan. (TIFF)