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Cactus Pears
Rohan Kanawade · 2025
A thirty-year-old city-dweller compelled to spend ten-day mourning of his father in the rugged countryside of Western India tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, he must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress.
Soulmate
Min Yong-keun · 2023
Mi-so and Ha-eun meet in elementary school and quickly become best friends. In high school, Ha-eun meets Jin-woo and starts to have feelings for him, but he starts to have feelings for Mi-so. When they all meet again as adults, they are very different people, but they try to remember what friendship is really about.
License to Live
Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 1999
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
The Medium
Banjong Pisanthanakun · 2021
A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.
Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-wai · 1995
An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
Sad Temptation
Pyo Min-soo · 1999
A closeted middle aged man named Suh Moon Gi is unsatisfied with his wife Suh Jung Hye. He meets a young homosexual employee Shin Joon Young at his company and falls in love.
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
พัฒน์ บุญนิธิพัฒน์ · 2024
Молодой человек бросает работу и переезжает в захолустный городок, чтобы заботиться о смертельно больной бабушке. Правда, делает он это не по велению сердца, а в надежде унаследовать её миллионное состояние. Но чем больше времени бабушка и внук проводят вместе, тем лучше они узнают друг друга, и их отношения становятся более тёплыми и близкими.
The Paradise of Thorns
Naruebet Kuno · 2024
When his partner Sek dies, Thongkam loses his property to his late love's eager family and must fight to reclaim the home they built together.
Flat Girls
Jirassaya Wongsutin · 2025
Two teen girls grapple with the realities of love, friendship and burgeoning adulthood when one of them has to leave the home where they both grew up.
Where We Belong
Kongdej Jaturanrasmee · 2019
A teenager creates a checklist to complete before she studies abroad and realizes that her toughest task is leaving behind her best friend.
Blissfully Yours
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 2002
Min is an illegal Burmese immigrant living in Thailand who has contracted a mysterious painful rash covering his upper body. His girlfriend, Roong, and a middle-aged woman, Orn, take him to see a doctor. Min pretends that he cannot speak because he is not fluent in Thai and speaking would reveal him to be an illegal immigrant.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 2010
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
Tropical Malady
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 2004
The passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.
Syndromes and a Century
Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 2006
A story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s parents who were both doctors, and his memories of growing up in a hospital environment.
Krabi, 2562
Anocha Suwichakornpong · 2019
Explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.
Die Tomorrow
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit · 2017
Die Tomorrow entails six short segments about the impermanence of life, all inspired by deaths reported in Thai daily newspapers.
By the Time It Gets Dark
Anocha Suwichakornpong · 2016
Film-maker Ann has an upcoming project about the 1976 massacre of Thai students. She interviews Taew, a survivor, at a mountain retreat only to have her perspective change as the project progresses.
36
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit · 2012
A young location scout meets the art director of her project in a day they will keep in their memories for a while, each for their own reasons.
GIFT
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi · 2023
We follow Takumi and his daughter who lead a modest life in the village in the middle of nature. One day Takumi receives word that there are plans to build a glamping site near his home. The discovery that wastewater will be piped into the village’s water source not only causes unrest among the residents, but also affects Takumi’s life.
2/Duo
Nobuhiro Suwa · 1997
The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.
I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
Isao Yamada · 1992
A young geologist is traveling by train to visit his sister in the countryside after having received a mysterious letter from her.
Love & Pop
Hideaki Anno · 1998
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
My Broken Mariko
Yuki Tanada · 2022
Shiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching Mariko's urn from her abusive father, Shiino heads to Marigaoka Cape, a place Mariko always wanted to go.
Sansho the Bailiff
Kenji Mizoguchi · 1954
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
Dersu Uzala
Akira Kurosawa · 1975
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Jia Zhangke · 2021
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
Mundane History
Anocha Suwichakornpong · 2009
A friendship develops between a young paralysed man from a wealthy Bangkok family and his male nurse from Isan in the North of Thailand.
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Masaki Kobayashi · 1961
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
OMG! Oh My Girl
Thitipong Kerdtongtawee · 2022
Over the years, awkward Guy keeps falling for confident June in the wrong places at the wrong times, leading him to believe fate is playing tricks on them.
Nobody Knows
Χιροκάζου Κόρε Έντα · 2004
Τέσσερα αδέλφια ζουν με τη μητέρα τους σε ένα μικρό διαμέρισμα στο Τόκιο. Τα παιδιά έχουν διαφορετικούς πατέρες και δεν πήγαν ποτέ στο σχολείο. Η ύπαρξη τους στο διαμέρισμα είναι κρυφή από τον ιδιοκτήτη. Μια μέρα, η μητέρα φεύγει και αφήνει ένα σημείωμα και λίγα χρήματα, αναθέτοντας στο μεγαλύτερο αγόρι να φροντίσει τα αδέλφια του. Έτσι αρχίζει η οδύσσεια των παιδιών...
Eternal Summer
Leste Chen · 2006
Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
In the Mood for Love
王家衞 · 2000
Hong Kong, 1962. Chow, redactor jefe de un diario local, se muda con su mujer a un edificio habitado principalmente por gentes de Shanghai. Allí conoce a Li-zhen, una joven que acaba de instalarse en el mismo edificio con su esposo. Ella es secretaria de una empresa de exportación y su marido está continuamente de viaje de negocios. Como la mujer de Chow también está casi siempre fuera de casa, Li-zhen y Chow pasan cada vez más tiempo juntos y se hacen muy amigos. Un día, ambos descubrirán que sus respectivos cónyuges los están traicionando.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Tsai Ming-liang · 2003
On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn".
Happy Together
Wong Kar-Wai · 1997
A gay couple from Hong Kong takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning but instead begins drifting even further apart.
Farewell My Concubine
Chen Kaige · 1993
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
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Memories of My Body
Garin Nugroho · 2019
Juno was just a child when his father abandoned him from their village in Central Java. Abandoned and alone, he joins a Lengger dance centre where men shape their feminine appearance and movement. The sensuality and sexuality that came from the dance, mixed with the violent sociopolitical Indonesian environment, forces Juno to move from village to village.
The King and the Clown
Lee Joon-ik · 2005
Two clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.
Song Lang
Leon Lê · 2018
Set against a gloriously filmed backdrop of the distinctly jaded charm of mid-90s Saigon, the lives of two men intertwine as they are both bound by traditions and honor. One to his mafia family, the other to the traveling troupe that performs elaborate classic operas. Yet they have much more in common than either wants to admit.
