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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男: Tetsuo) is a 1989 Japanese Cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Tetsuo established Tsukamoto internationally and created his worldwide cult following. It was fo…

Homerun (film)

Homerun (Chinese: 跑吧！孩子 pinyin: pǎo bà hái zǐ, lit. Run, Child!) is a 2003 Singaporean film. A remake of the award-winning Iranian film Children of Heaven, Homerun is a comedy about two poor siblings and their adventures over a lost pairs of shoes. The movie emphasises the importance of friends and kinship. Set in 1965, the year Singapore separated from Malaysia, the film satirises p…

Round Midnight (film)

Round Midnight is a 1986 film directed by Bertrand Tavernier that tells the story of an African American tenor saxophone player in Paris in the 1950s who becomes befriended by an unsuccessful French graphic designer who idolizes the musician and tries to help him to get out of his life of alcohol abuse. The protagonist jazzman, "Dale Turner," was based on a composite of real-life jazz legends Lest…

The Curiosity of Chance

The Curiosity of Chance is a 2006 film starring Tad Hilgenbrink from American Pie Presents: Band Camp.Set "somewhere in the '80s", flamboyant and gay 16 year old, Chance Marquis (Tad Hilgenbrink) shows up at an international high school in a top hat and tails, immediately attracting the attention of the 'queer-hating' resident bully, among others. Through his involvement in the school newspaper, h…

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