Back in his hometown, Hotae reunites with Donghee—now quiet, distant, and hiding more than just stress from school.
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The people behind it
Won Tae-min
Go Ho-tae
Han Do-woo
Kim Dong-hee
Gongchan
Ji Won-young
Lee Woo-tae
Ji Su
A newly married gay couple, still in their honeymoon phase, are disturbed when an old school-friend of the younger guy moves near by, and wants to re-establish their friendship. The older, more insecure partner, is immediately jealous, and asks another friend his age what he should do. However everything is not the way it seems.
As the second work of young director Ran Yinxiao, "May the Rivers and Seas Flow Upward" is set in Chongqing and tells a different kind of family story between three people who are not related by blood. The film has a time span of nearly a century and records the life trajectories of two generations and two families.
The protagonist's sexual orientation is male. He can't tell anyone about his sexual orientation. One day, he hits it off with a friend from his seminar. The friend casually mentions that he's gay, and the two start dating. However, as they begin to date, various obstacles arise, and the protagonist begins to feel inferior, thinking that he's not normal. Meanwhile, a childhood friend confesses his love to the protagonist. However, he begins to feel frustrated that he's lying to himself. Will he be able to overcome the high obstacles and find happiness? Will he be able to find happiness by dating his childhood friend, despite the frustration of lying to himself? This is a story that asks viewers not to understand sexual diversity, but to live their lives as "normal" people.
Convinced that his beloved Gio left him for money, Ace’s life spirals downward as he drowns his sorrows in a drinking binge. Hopefully, a plan devised by Ace’s sister, Malou, can reignite their spark while keeping their meddling family at bay.
The encounter between a "Dog" and a "Cat" begins with an all-too-common affair. The Cat is impatient and wants to break the rules of the game. He hopes to develop a longer-term relationship with the Dog. And even though the Dog already has a boyfriend, he still lets the Cat come into his life. So, can this relationship, which began in the flesh, go beyond that? Is it really possible for this "carnal"' connection to transcend into "love" ?
Hao, a chubby gay man, works as a janitor at a gay spa. For him, romantic relationships are an unreachable dream. One day, an attractive customer, Kai, walks into the place, and Hao has the opportunity to massage him.
A boy with a secret crush struggles with his feelings as he watches the one he loves grow closer to others, sinking deeper into his own emotional turmoil.
Five people, who have never met face-to face before, become friends through an online university class. They decide to finally meet and take a road trip together after exams. What starts off as a fun trip, turns hectic when they become lost. They meet new people along the way and encounter various problems that test the friendship they just started to build.
Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday, but the trip ends up uncovering a painful topic.
Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.
Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an early “special” training session the two develop a lasting and loving relationship.
When Shima nearly drowns trying to retrieve a picture, he’s saved by a merman named Isaki. Despite their differences, they begin to bond, but love across species isn’t simple.
Two men from different generations might be a father and a son, brothers, friends… even lovers or enemies. They encounter each other in a parallel universe. The battle between your past and future might be inevitable. What should happen, must happen…
Soo-hyuk works for a dating agency and changes partners several times a day. He's tired and skeptical of clients who want violent sex, but when he enters a strange house today, the man is strangely sweet.
Tam, an introvert, finds solace in his unlikely friendship with the optimistic Kimhan by the sea, but as they grow close, their future together remains uncertain.
Lonely and living with his hardworking single mom, a studious teen begins to grasp the ideas of sex and his sexuality until a stranger makes a move.
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.
For Jung Han, dancing is a direction of life and an escape from reality. Jeonghan dances at a gay club at night. Jeonghan's mother, Insuk, is not happy with such a son.
The four vampires tired of living try different ways to die, but they cannot. While pondering the last hypothesis that'if you sleep with a vampire, you die', Jong-su declares that he will sleep with Sun-a.
A tense love triangle unfolds as You struggles with his affair, questioning his identity and desires while caught between two men who change his life forever.
Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?
Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.
In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
A college student in 1999 discovers a mysterious ham radio that connects him to a woman from 2022, sparking an impossible love story across time.
Sunhi, a film major graduate, visits her school to ask her Professor Choi for a recommendation letter to study in U.S. Knowing the professor favors her, she expects a good recommendation from him. Out from her shell after a long time, Sunhi also ends up meeting two men from her past: Munsu, her ex-boy friend, and Jaehak, a director who graduated from the same film school. Through the encounters between Sunhi and the three men, they give each other an 'advice on life' with good intentions. The three men who all have strong interests in her are led to guess and define her, unable to tell how she really feels inside. Strangely, the mentioned advices and traits of her are similar and seem to pass from one person to the next. The words of 'advice on life' seem doubtable and slip away as the three men's thoughts on Sunhi become more and more irrelevant.
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievous and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
