Den unge ægyptolog Daniel Jackson skal tyde nogle mystiske tegn på en gigantisk ring fundet på en ekspedition i 1928. Ringen viser sig af give adgang til et andet univers, Stargate. Daniel og en gruppe commandosoldater, anført af Jack O'Neill, går igennem til den anden side - men her venter en skrækindjagende fjende.
På sit dødsleje giver Dronning Elizabeth den Første et fornemt slot til en ung adelsmand, Orlando, og beder ham samtidig om aldrig at blive gammel og visne hen. Dette løfter holder den unge mand, endda gennem flere århundreder, båret oppe af sin kærlighed til kunsten og poesien.
In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.
Drengen Oskar på 12 år er et mobbeobjekt i skolen og bor i en lejlighed med sin mor i et trøstesløst kvarter. Det er midt om vinteren, og sneen ligger i et tykt lag, frosten har bidt sig fast. På den diminutive legeplads i gården foran etagebyggeriet møder Oskar en dag den mystiske pige Eli, der med sin sære væremåde og stærke udstråling tryllebinder Oskar, der samtidig har hårdt brug for en ven, han kan stole på. Men Eli gemmer på en helt vanvittig hemmelighed, en fuldkommen ubegribelig sandhed: hun lever af frisk menneskeblod og er i teknisk forstand en vampyr.
An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.
Pat Riley, an obnoxious busybody of indeterminable sex, meets and falls in love with Chris, a sensitive, caring person also of indeterminable sex. Their relationship suffers because Pat's a lout, and cannot decide on a direction for their life. Meanwhile, Pat's neighbor Kyle falls further and further into obsession with Pat, fascinated by their indeterminate sexuality.
Filmed live from the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. Jane Horrocks stars as cabaret girl Sally Bowles, Adam Godley as the bicurious Cliff, and Alan Cumming as the eccentric Emcee. Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally and the impish Emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside, a notorious political party grows into a brutal force.
Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.
Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.
To compensate the loss of Lu’s brother, Lu, the captain of judo team at school, has been brought up by her mother as a substitute of her brother in Beijing. In the seemingly masculine appearance, she secretly falls in love with Nicole, the internet celebrity girl from Taiwan. Lu and Nicole meet each other in a judo competition of which the winner would have the chance to become the leading actress in an action film. Nicole wins the competition, but she disappears right before the movie start shooting. As Nicole’s substitute, Lu then has the chance to play the leading actress of the action movie. But the thing is, is Lu able to find her own self-identity and be the real her in one’s life?
CQ2 (seek you too) is the story of an teenager, with an uncertain future, who canalises her lust for life in the study of contemporary dance.
London-based artist and photographer Muzi Quawson examines the lives of people situated at the fringes of the mainstream. She is drawn to individuals who tend to assert their identity via a blending of references informed by cinema, music and the history of popular culture. Doll Parts functions as a quiet study on the nature of identity.