Spanish and Portuguese Language LGBT films on dvd
Post date: Jan 18, 2016 8:18:10 PM
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE LGBT FILM ON DVD
20 CENTÍMETROS/20 CENTIMETRES (18) 2005 SPAIN SALAZAR, RAMON £19.99
Transvestite yearns to become a transsexual and dreams up elaborate musical numbers in which she’s the star.
A MAP FOR LOVE (15) 2012 CHILE CONSTANZA, FERNÁNDEZ £14.99
Lesbian single mother Roberta (Moro Andrea) lives with her young son in Santiago and spends is romantically involved with Javiera (Francisca Bernardi). Roberta is determined that her mother should meet Javiera so she arranges a boat trip for the three women to spend some time together, but through a number of heated confrontations she learns a lot about where she has come from and where she is perhaps destined to go.
AMOR ETERNO/EVERLASTING LOVE (18) 2014 SPAIN FORÉS, MARÇAL £15.99
Gay school language teacher Carlos has a relationship with Toni, one of his teenage student. However when Carlos wants to end the relationship Toni is stricken with heartache and jealousy as the film takes a dark turn.
AUSENTE/ABSENT (15) 2011 ARGENTINA BERGER, MARCO £14.99
Argentinean drama exploring the developing tension between a 16-year-old boy and the swimming instructor he has a crush on.
AMOR ETERNO/EVERLASTING LOVE (18) 2014 SPAIN FORÉS, MARÇAL £15.99
Gay school language teacher Carlos has a relationship with Toni, one of his teenage student. However when Carlos wants to end the relationship Toni is stricken with heartache and jealousy as the film takes a dark turn.
AYA ARCOS (18) 2014 BRAZIL MOLL, MAXIMILIAN IN PORTUGUESE £15.99
Successful, middle-aged writer Edu (César Augusto) falls in love with a young male prostitute, Fabio (Daniel Passi). Unable and unwilling to demand that stops being a prostitute, Edu attempts to block Fabio’s lifestyle and submit to his emotions.
EL CUARTO DE LEO/LEO’S ROOM (15) 2009 ARGENTINA BUCHICHIO, ENRIQUE £15.99
Touching and sensitive story of a young gay man coming to terms with his own sexuality
DISHOUNOURED BODIES – JUANMA CARRILLO SHORTS (18) 2012 SPAIN £15.99
Collection of nine intriguing short films from Spain’s most exciting queer filmmaker.
DO LADO DE FORA/BOYS IN BRAZIL (E) 2014 BRAZIL CARVALHO, ALEXANDRE IN PORTUGUESE £15.99
After a homophobic attack four friends vow to reveal the truth about their sexuality within the following year. However, in this Brazilian comedy, they all find it difficult to fulfill their promise.
ESCONDIDAS/HIDDEN AWAY (15) 2014 SPAIN RUEDA, M. £14.99
14-year-old Moroccan immigrant Ibrahim strikes up a friendship with local teenager Rafa.The pair find themselves having to suppress their desires as their relationship clashes with the ideologies of those around them.
DISHOUNOURED BODIES – JUANMA CARRILLO SHORTS (18) 2012 SPAIN £15.99
Collection of nine intriguing short films from Spain’s most exciting queer filmmaker.
FERIADO/HOLIDAY (15) 20154 ECUADOR ARAUJO, DIEGO £15.99
Set during the collapse of Ecuador’s banking system of 1999, 16 year old Juan Pablo travels to a remote town in the Andes to visit his uncle who, with his family, is involved with the banking scandal. Here Juan strikes up a fragile romance with Juano, a heavy metal and motorcycles fan, and finds himself in an honest, independent world separate from the corrupt of his family
FRESA Y CHOCOLATE/STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE (18) 1993 CUBA GUTIERREZ ALEA, TOMAS £13.99
David (Vladimir Cruz) is an uptight macho communist student who meets Diego (Jorge Perugorría), an extravagant gay artist with an irreverent attitude to Castro. Appalled by Diego’s attitude, David decides that it is his duty to convert him, and a friendship is born.
FUERA DE CARTA/CHEF’S SPECIAL (15) 2008 SPAIN VELILLA,NACHO £15.99
Comedy about a chef who is running a busy restaurant, being reunited with his estranged children , having a blossoming gay romance and now the Michelin Guide food critic is coming to review his restaurant.
FUTURO BEACH (15) 2014 PORTUGAL AÏNOUZ,KARIM £15.99
After failing to save a tourist from drowning at Futuro beach in Fortaleza, lifeguard Donato (Moura) moves from his home in Portugal to Berlin to pursue a new life with the victim’s friend Konrad (Schick).
HABITACIÓN EN ROMA/ROOM IN ROME (18) 2010 MEDEM, JULIO DVD – £19.99 BLU RAY- £22.99
Julio Medem writes and directs this sensual drama about two lesbian women who meet in Rome and decide to spend the night together in a hotel room.
HOJE EU QUERO VOLTAR SOZINHO/THE WAY HE LOOKS (12) 2014 PORTUGAL RIBEIRO, DANIEL £14.99
Blind teenager Leonardo seeks independence from his overbearing parents and befriends Giovana, who looks out for him . Soon the two young men begin to realise they have more than just friendly feelings for one another.
JESS AND JAMES (18) 2015 ARGENTINA GIRALT, SANTIAGO £15.99
Bohemian young man Jess hooks up with James after a sexual encounter and they
sets out on a road trip across rural Argentina to reunite with Jess’ estranged brother,
in this coming-of-age road-trip set against the stunning landscape of the Pampas.
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (15) 1985 BRAZIL BABENCO, HECTOR IN ENGLISH
DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
Gay Luis (William Hurt ) shares a prison cell political activist Valentin (Raul Julia) and they pass the time acting out scenes from films and Valentin reminisces on a past affair with a wealthy woman.
LA MALA EDUCACIÓN/BAD EDUCATION (15) 2004 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
Semi-autobiographical melodrama follows the intertwining stories of two boys who fall in love at an abusive Catholic school. The film follows the lives of two boys growing up through the 70s and 80s, in pre and post-Franco Spain.
MI ULTIMO ROUND/MY LAST ROUND (15) 2011 CHILE ARRIAGADA, JULIO JORQUERA £14.99
Retired boxer Octavio (Roberto Farías) is fighting a losing battle against time as his health has begun to deteiorate.When he meets Hugo (Héctor Morales), a young troubled man, they strike up a rapport that quickly turns into something neither of them expected.
O HOMEM DO FUTURO/MAN FROM THE FUTURE (12) 2011 BRAZIL TORRES, CLÁUDIO IN PORTUGUESE £12.99
Time-travelling comedy about a scientist seizing the opportunity to travel back 20 years in time to a humiliating college party in an attempt to rewrite his future.
PLAN B (15) ARGENTINE 2009 BERGER, MARCO £15.99
Set in Buenos Aires, this witty romantic comedy, confronts our expectations by testing the boundaries of gender and social demarcations. In so doing, the film invites us to explore contemporary ideas of freedom and desire, and to question what it means to play with love.
SPINNIN’ (15) 2007 SPAIN PASTRANA, EUSEBIO £15.99
Set in 1990s Madrid, committed gay couple Garate and Omar want to have a child and approach their various female acquaintances to find the right surrogate mother for their potential offspring.
TATUAGEM/TATTOO (15) 2013 BRAZIL LACERDA, HILTON £15.99
Set Recife in 1978 with Brazil under the rule of a military dictatorship, Clécio Wanderley runs an anarchist theatrical group that practices political resistance through anarchy and mockery. However Wanderley’s life changes when he falls in love with an 18 year old soldier.
TODO SOBRE MI MADRE/ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (15) 1999 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
On the death of her son a single mother goes to find the boys father,
a transvestite named Lola who does not know he had a child
VELOCIRAPTOR (18) 2014 SPAIN QUINTERO, CHUCHO E £15.99
With the Earth facing an impending apocalypse, two young gay friends Álex (Pablo Mezz) and Diego (Carlos Hendrick Huber) wander around town conversing about their lives and differing sexualities in this exploration of what it means to be a young man, exploring male friendship and desire .
WHO’S AFRAID OF VAGINA WOLF? (15) 2013 USA ALBELO, ANNA MARGARITAIN SPANISH AND ENGLISH £15.99
All-female romantic comedy about a struggling gay film-maker Anna who is suffering a midlife crisis. However on meeting feminist Katia, she tries to impress her by staging a remake of Edward Albee’s play ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’and casting Katia and her other friends in the play.
ALL DVDS ARE IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES , UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE.
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