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Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1998) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
男生女相：華語電影之性別
director: Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang actor: Tony Rayns / Chang Cheh …
other title: Yang ± Yin: Gender im chinesischen Kino / 男生女相：華語電影之性別 …
An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explored than in any other national cinema. Utilizing both film excerpts and interviews with many leading directors and academics, the film examines topics such as male bonding in kung fu movies, depictions of same-sex bonding and physical intimacy, the emphasis on women's grievances in melodramas, and the career of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.
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Rouge (1987) NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
胭脂扣
7.8 (6 ratings) director: Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang actor: Anita Mui / Leslie Cheung …
Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.
May 21, 2026 to watch
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A Samurai in Time (2024) NeoDB IMDb WikiData
侍タイムスリッパー
8.2 (6 ratings) director: Junichi Yasuda actor: Makiya Yamaguchi / Norimasa Fuke …
other title: 侍タイムスリッパー
A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
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Iron Monkey (1993) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
黃飛鴻之鐵馬騮
director: Yuen Woo-Ping actor: Yu Rongguang / Donnie Yen …
other title: O Macaco de Ferro / El mono de hierro (Iron Monkey) …
In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.
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The Fruit Machine (1988) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Fruit Machine
director: Philip Saville actor: Emile Charles / Tony Forsyth …
other title: Wonderland / The Fruit Machine – Rendezvous mit einem Killer
Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
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Sexmission (1984) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData NeoDB
Seksmisja
director: Juliusz Machulski actor: Olgierd Łukaszewicz / Jerzy Stuhr …
other title: Sex Mission: Misión en el futuro / Seksmisja …
Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.
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Down Terrace (2010) IMDb WikiData
Down Terrace
director: Ben Wheatley actor: Robin Hill / Robert Hill …
After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in..
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Jackdaw (2024) IMDb WikiData
Jackdaw
director: Jamie Childs actor: Oliver Jackson-Cohen / Jenna Coleman …
A former motocross champion and army veteran, now caring for his younger brother. Broke, he agrees to do an open water pick up of a mysterious illegal package in the North Sea. A resulting double cross and his brother’s disappearance set him and his old bike on a violent nocturnal odyssey through England’s northern rust belt.
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Outlaw (2007) IMDb WikiData
Outlaw
director: Nick Love actor: Sean Bean / Danny Dyer …
other title: Os Fora-da-Lei / Fuera de control (Outlaw) …
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
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Johnny Stecchino (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Johnny Stecchino
director: Roberto Benigni actor: Roberto Benigni / Nicoletta Braschi …
other title: Zahnstocher-Johnny / Johnny Palillo …
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
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Resurrection (2025) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB NeoDB
狂野时代
6.1 (29 ratings) director: Bi Gan actor: Jackson Yee / Shu Qi …
other title: Résurrection / 狂野时代
Follows a woman whose consciousness falls into the "eternal time zone" during a surgical procedure. In the year 2068, she wakes up to find she’s the only living being in a world lying in ruins. Trapped in many dreams, she finds a bionic half-man half-robot corpse and tries to wake it up by telling endless stories—a metaphorical tale recounting almost a century of solitude for China. The android then wanders within her stories and its senses gradually awaken. At the end of her stories, she must make a choice: return to the real world or remain alone with this bionic being, for whom she’s beginning to develop real feelings.
May 7, 2026 to watch
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Fer-de-Lance (1974) IMDb WikiData
Fer-de-Lance
director: Russ Mayberry actor: David Janssen / Hope Lange …
other title: Die Todesfalle unter dem Meer / El submarino de la muerte …
An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.
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Breaking Glass (1980) TMDB IMDb
Breaking Glass
director: Brian Gibson actor: Hazel O'Connor / Phil Daniels …
other title: La rockera
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's band are squeezed out and she is left to cope alone in the spotlight.
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Blonde in a White Car (1959) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Toi... le venin
director: Robert Hossein actor: Robert Hossein / Marina Vlady …
other title: Nachts fällt der Schleier / Toi... le venin …
Picked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced by the girl. Immediately thereafter, however, she dumps him, attempting to run him over as a final insult. Memorizing her license number, Pierre pursues the enigmatic motorist. Arriving at her home, Pierre is met by two young ladies (Marina Vlady and Odelle Versois), either one of whom might be the woman he's looking for.
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Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) IMDb TMDB
Gone in 60 Seconds
director: H.B. Halicki actor: H.B. Halicki / Marion Busia …
other title: Rollercar - Sessanta secondi e vai! / Væk På 60 Sekunder …
Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed "Eleanor", in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute.
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Rififi (1955) TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
Du rififi chez les hommes
director: Jules Dassin actor: Jean Servais / Carl Möhner …
other title: Guld På Gaden / Du rififi chez les hommes
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.