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Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
TWILIGHT’S KISS (SUK SUK) presents the story of two closeted married men in their twilight years. One day PAK, 70, a taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets HOI, 65, a retired single father, in a park. Despite years of societal and personal pressure, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet in that brief initial encounter, something is unleashed in them which had been suppressed for so many years....
Publisher
Donald Goldmacher
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Ruthie and Connie are in many ways typical Jewish New Yorkers. They married men in the 1950s, became mothers, and eventually divorced. But when Ruthie and Connie fell in love, these "ordinary" housewives became plainspoken activists and international icons of equality.. Audience Award Winner for Outstanding Documentary at L.A. Outfest, and Winner of Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival.. “Two of the funniest and most outrageous...
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Nina Geld (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is an up-and-coming comedian in New York City. She’s funny, smart and has worked hard to build a career for herself in the male-dominated world of stand-up. But when it comes to romantic relationships, Nina’s life is a mess. Random guys in bars, abusive married men (Chace Crawford), and an inability to stand up for herself finally convince Nina it’s time for a change. She packs up and moves to Los Angeles,...
4) Bear nation
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While the LGBT community has long had to struggle with stereotyping by outsiders, gay men also have to deal with widely held perceptions from their peers that they're supposed to fit a certain image - men who are stylish, carefully groomed, trim and to a certain degree effeminate. But not all gay men fit this profile, and this has led in part to the rise of "Bears" - gay men who are stocky, hirsute, outwardly masculine and proud of it. As gay culture...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Teenager, Jessie Bartlett Nungarrayi, takes us on a journey from Alice Springs to the ancestral homelands of her Pintubi grandmothers where the old ladies propose to teach her about relationships with men, the lore of love, the traditional way. With her teenage skin sister, Lizzie, Jessie travels into the remote area around the dried salt-bed of Lake Mackay, straddling the border between the Northern Territory and Western Australia, where her grandfather...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the Land of the Rising Sun, love and relationships are in danger. A quarter of all Japanese people aged 30 to 40 are virgins and 50% of the population admits to not having sex regularly. Unsurprisingly, this has led to birth rates plummeting, and 30% of Japan's population could disappear by 2060. What are the reasons for this detachment from the world of love and sex? Tough jobs, stress, and money problems don't exactly provide the ideal environment...
Publisher
Stourwater Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"HONOR THY MOTHER” is the untold story of 36 Aboriginal women from Canada and Native women from tribes in Washington and Alaska who migrated in the 1940s to Bainbridge Island, the traditional territory of the Suquamish people. As survivors of Indian residential schools, they came, some still in their teens, to pick berries for Japanese American farmers, fell in love and married Filipino immigrants. They settled on the Island to raise their mixed-heritage,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This controversial and daring film from director Lynne Stopkewich (Kissed, The L Word) focuses on a young, married woman who seduces the faceless men that pass through her stifling world. Feeding her growing desire to test the waters between emotional pleasure and pain, she dives deeper into her own unrealized darkness, uncertain whether she will survive the Suspicious river.
9) Lolita
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
An iconic adaptation of the Vladimir Nabokov Classic, starring Oscar Winner Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith and Dominique Swain, LOLITA tells a disturbing tale of tortured and forbidden love. Humber Humbert, a professor of French literature, travels to a small New England Town to take a teaching position, searching for lodging he visits the home of a single mother Charlotte and her 14 year old daughter Dolores (Lolita). Upon seeing Dolores, Humbert...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Shakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, The Taming of the shrew examines the comedy of courtship of a beautiful but sharp-tempered women...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Cultures can be better understood by a close-up look at their courting rituals. Through the eyes of a Western woman, who wed a Pakistani and has lived in the Punjab for decades, we gain extraordinary access to the private lives and thoughts of her young chef Nawaz and her maid, Mehnaz. The love affairs of the young men and women of Jaranwala - a village just a few hours out of Lahore - keeps entire families entertained with gossip and sexual intrigue....
12) The Silent Enemy
Publisher
Blackhawk Films
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
English
Description
A documentary showing us the life of an Indian tribe, who has to decide where to head next in order to find food which became rare. The situation is hardened by the fact two of the men both want to marry the Chief's daughter…
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What's motivating the thousands of Russian women who sign up with agencies to meet and marry American men? From the gray skies of St. Petersburg to sunny California ranches, we see the financial and emotional pros and cons of exporting one's heart. The film grapples with the tremendous economic challenges and difficult decisions facing Russian women today. In the Name of Love is perfect for courses in Women's Studies, Russian Studies, Sociology, Psychology...
14) Straight Jacket
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It's the mid-'50s, and Guy Stone is a very successful movie star. Tall, good-looking, and boyishly charming, Stone has a reputation as a ladies' man, but in reality he prefers the company of men. When his handlers decide he must marry a naive young secretary, he makes the most out of his sham marriage. That is, until he meets Rick Foster and falls in real love.
15) Old Boyfriends
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
After a failed marriage, Diane (Talia Shire) is obsessed with the idea of reconnecting with the men that were influential in her life: Lewis, her first lover, Eric (John Belushi), her school-mate, and Jeff (Richard Jordan) who she nearly married.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Ivory Coast is full of contrasts. It is a free society which promotes women’s rights, but taboos and persecution of minorities are also common. Up until recently, men always took the lead in any seduction. Now young women in Ivory Coast are free to have more casual relationships. They call it “mougoupan” – a hook up without emotional attachment. Madoca, a young Ivorian, says that it’s a way for her to claim her independence. It’s a...
17) The Very Edge
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Tracey is pregnant and happily married to Lawrence, an architect. She has few cares in the world until the day a maniac breaks into the house, rapes her, and ultimately causes her to miscarry. Tracey falls to pieces and is so affected by the encounter she finds men repulsive, including her husband. Her attitude does not soften with time, and sooner rather than later, her husband takes up with his secretary. But in the meantime, the Scotland Yard detective...
18) Madame Bovary
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
Français
Description
Romantic drama of a woman’s abandoned pursuit of love and the three men who loved her. Emma Rouault is a daughter of a peasant. Eager to get away from her mediocre life, she marries a health officer, Charles Bovary. Emma soon gets bored, and fancies luxury. She takes one lover after the other, contracts debts, ruining her life. Desperate, she poisons herself, to her husband’s helpless eyes.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The film starts with Roxanne, a pretty 41-year-old woman, flying to Morocco for the eighth time in two years. She has already submitted the sponsorship papers to bring her lover, Abdelrafour, who is 14 years younger, to Canada as her husband. Roxanne is a worldly, confident, self-confessed short-tempered woman who is fully financially responsible for her life as well as her son's. Abdel is a charming, soft-spoken guy with little education and no job...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The final video in this series necessarily focuses on the end of late adulthood, which for human beings is death. Dying and bereavement are experienced very differently in different cultures. This sociocultural context of dying is explored in depth from a variety of perspectives. The pioneer in the discussion of death in our culture is Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Her seminal work is presented as a way of conceptualizing the dying process. Bereavement is...
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