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LA FUGA (1964) dir. Paolo Spinola Piera, a typical Italian housewife with a child and a well-off unfaithful nuclear physicist for a husband, is desperately unhappy in her marriage. Her life changes when mysterious interior decorator Luisa enters her life, bringing temptaions and dangers along with her. (link in title)

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LA GARÇONNE (1936) dir. Jean de Limur The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a love affair by a chanteuse (played by Edith Piaf), ensuring the film became a succès de scandale. (link in title)

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MADAGASCAR SKIN (1995) dir. Chris Newby Harry is a very shy young gay man who has a birthmark in the shape of Madagascar across much of the left-hand side of his face. On fleeing the city and the shallow gay scene, Harry ends up at a rugged stretch of coastline where he meets Flint, a seemingly heterosexual older man. The two are wary of each other at first, but their relationship is transformed from distrust, through respect, and, ultimately, to attraction. (link in title)

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بول | BOL (2011) dir. Shoaib Mansoor Zainub Khan has been found guilty by Pakistan’s Courts and is to be hanged. Her last wish is to tell her story before the media, and after approval, she relates how her family was compelled to leave Delhi during 1948 and re-locate to Lahore. This is where her father, Hakim Sayed Hashmutallah Khan, married Suraiya, and hoping to sire a son, instead ended up with 7 daughters and an intersex son whom he does not accept. (link in title)

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VESTIDA DE AZUL (1983) dir. Antonio Giménez Rico 1983. Democracy has just arrived in Spain and the transsexual universe, hidden during the dictatorship, begins to emerge. Lorena, Renée, Nacha, Eva, Tamara and Jossete talk honestly and openly about their transitions, prostitution, family life, and love life with each other and the audience. (link in title)

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PLAYDURIZM (2020) dir. Gem Deger Demir, a young adult with a love of art who wakes up one day with amnesia - and as a third-wheel in Andrew (his favorite actor) and Drew’s drug-fueled BDSM-styled affair. In their techno-colored world, Demir feels out of place, and on a much deeper level, out of touch with himself. One thing is for certain, however, Demir develops romantic and lusty feelings for Andrew and does his best to repress both this truth and the reason for his sudden appearance in their home. (link in title)

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ALUCARDA, LA HIJA DE LAS TINIEBLAS (1977) dir. Juan López Moctezuma Young Justine’s arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows, and the convent is turned upside-down, affecting the lives of Alucarda, Justine, the nuns, Father Lázaro, and the skeptic Dr. Oszek. A loose adaptation of the gothic novela Carmilla from 1872. (link in title)

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MA VIE EN ROSE (1997) dir. Alain Berliner Seven-year-old Ludovic announces to her startled parents, Pierre and Hanna, that she is in fact a girl. Her parents first view her newfound taste for girls’ clothes and toys as a harmless phase, but as other neighborhood parents grow concerned - particularly Albert, Pierre’s prudish boss and the father of Jerome, the boy Ludovic has decided she wants to marry - they take steps to “cure” her. (link in title)

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PROTEUS (2003) dir. John Greyson Set in 18th-century South Africa, the film dramatizes the true story of two prisoners on Robben Island: Claas Blank, a black Khoi, and Rijkhaart Jacobsz, a white Dutchman. Herder Claas Blank was serving 10 years for “insulting a Dutch citizen” and Rijkhaart was a Dutch sailor convicted of committing “unnatural acts” with another man. The two men, initially hostile to each other, form a secret relationship, using trips to a private water tank to bond. (link in title)

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FLICKA OCH HYACINTER (1950) dir. Hasse Ekman Dagmar Brink, a young female pianist, dies by suicide in her Stockholm apartment. She leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbors, an author and his wife. Perplexed and curious, they investigate the girl’s reasons for taking her life. As they visit Dagmar’s friends, acquaintances and former boyfriends, her story unfolds. She stands out as loner, a woman no one could really grasp, always in want of something that nobody she met could make out. (link in title)

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DRUNKTOWN’S FINEST (2014) dir. Sydney Freeland Three young Navajo Native Americans - an adopted Native girl, a young father-to-be, and a trans woman who dreams of being a model - strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation. Nizhoni seeks out her past, well after being adopted by a white Christian family, Felixia, a trans woman, pursues a spot in the “women of the tribe” calendar, and Sickboy is headed to basic training so he can take care of his soon-to-be-born child. (link in title)

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ROME & JULIET (2006) dir. Connie Macatuno Conservative pre-school teacher Juliet is a bride to be who befriends and hires liberated businesswoman Rome as her wedding planner. As they go through the preparations, Rome and Juliet develop a deep friendship, a soulful connection that soon devolves into romantic love. But conflicts arise when Marc, the groom, shockingly discovers the ongoing relationship between the two women. (link in title)

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A RAINHA DIABA (1974) dir. Antonio Carlos da Fontoura Rio’s criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can trust her subjects, however fabulous? When she sets up a stoolie to take the fall for her boy, a plot against Her Majesty arises! Loosely based on real-life drag performer and part-time criminal João Francisco dos Santos, known by the stage name Madame Satã. (link in title)

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tumblr won't let me reblog it (can't process) but I was checking how far my blog goes and guess what I fucking found

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आग | FIRE (1996) dir. Deepa Mehta In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha’s life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage. (link in title)

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新宿ボーイズ | SHINJUKU BOYS (1995) dir. Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams In the glitzy Shinjuku neighbourhood of Ni-Chome, the elegantly dressed hosts of the New Marilyn Night Club pour champagne and charm female guests. ‘Each customer thinks we’re her special boyfriend, but they’re fooled,’ explains one host, Kazuki. ‘Thats how we do business.’ But the employees of New Marilyn are all onabe, Japan’s transgender men, living a lifestyle not openly accepted by society while running an elaborate business that caters to its lonely core. (link in title)