Reminisces of a rent boy
Ricky is a young man who takes care of his sick mother. His father hovers at the edge of the picture, so Ricky provides for himself and his mom through prostitution, running errands, and acting as a caregiver for a blind man. Through the course of the film, Ricky befriends Janey, a young woman he finds beaten by her ex-boyfriend, and Trenn, a mysterious young man in trouble with the law. The three of them navigate a dark and confusing world. It uses many of the actors who have come to constitute the Dar A Luz company, including Tony Torn, Tom Fitzpatrick, Juliana Francis, and Tom Pearl. It will disappoint those who approach it looking for a film analogue of the “faster and louder” aesthetic that critics have used to characterize much of Abdoh’s stage work. The Blind Owl does use a variety of techniques reminiscent of his stage direction, giving it an unusual theatricality.
Adrian is a young fame seeker who rents himself out at social events. He cries at funerals, tells jokes at parties and applauds on opening nights. Suddenly, his luck changes and Adrian becomes an overnight smash...
In the final moments of his accomplished life Alan Driscol reaches out for the one experience he would never have allowed himself to have...until now.
In this verité-style drama, Anthony, a newcomer to San Francisco, attempts to come to terms with his abusive ex-lover when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a street hustler.
When a banker invites a sex worker to his London apartment, he finds himself coming face to face with both his own past, and one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.
Paid 50 dollars for their time, 101 male prostitutes -- spanning all ages, ethnicities, and personal backgrounds -- are questioned by the filmmakers about their lives.
Struggle is the story of Darren, a young gay man, who arrives in Toronto seeking a new life. Running out of money, and with nowhere to live, he quickly falls in with a group of gay rent boys. Complicating matters for himself, he falls in love with Steve, one of the group. Steve already has a boyfriend. While desperately trying to avoid becoming a prostitute himself, Darren's loneliness and infatuation with Steve eventually sets him on a downward spiral with tragic circumstances.
Jasper, a 20 something playboy with little empathy, has a date in a rather obscure motel Petit Ami with Vincent, a mysterious older man. For Jasper just another day on the job, until he discovers Vincent's secret.
Rozhovory s chlapci a mladými muži, kteří se v Praze živí prostitucí. Mladíci jsou ve věku od 14 do 19 let. Pohybují se na Hlavním nádraží a v klubech. Většina jejich klientů jsou zahraniční turisté, mnozí z nich jsou Němci. Mladíci hovoří o tom, proč se živí prostitucí, o svém prvním "kšeftu", cenách, nebezpečí, o tom, co vědí o AIDS, o svých obavách (nemoc a samota) a o tom, jak si představují svou budoucnost. Název filmu, jeho liturgická hudba, z velké části elegická a záběry na sochy andělů ve městě podtrhují zranitelnost a bezelstnost mladých chlapců.
Just as doctors, lawyers and others strive to reach the top of their professions, Greek Pete longs to reach the pinnacle of his. The only difference is that he's a rent boy, and the recognition he seeks is a nod from the World Escort Awards.
Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having some familial, financial difficulties. But the girl is a junkie too.
It is a sweltering day in Buenos Aires, Miserere square and the railway station are packed. Almost unnoticed, a group of guys prostitute themselves for little money. Their thoughts emerge, deadening the oppressive hustle and bustle of the square and the station. Miserere reveals an invisible problem: the prostitution of needy men in the big Latin American cities.
Brothers Joel, Dennis and Sonny work together as dancers at a low-rent gay bar in downtown Manila, in the Philippines. Despite his mother's pleas, Sonny decides to quit college to work full-time at the bar, while Dennis has moved beyond dancing into prostitution at the urging of the manipulative club manager. Joel, the eldest, tries to balance his secret gay life with his socially respectable role as a husband and father.
A poet sells his collection of comic books and action figures in order to afford to hire a male stripper on New Years Eve.
Jean-Christophe lives with his mother, an English prostitute, in Paris. He dreams of becoming a model. Over the course of a day, he endures a series of abusive encounters that will change him forever. He goes from innocence to experience as he, and his dreams, are destroyed by those around him. The violence of the film is accentuated by the use of BDSM, Performance Art and Dance.
Hrdinou filmu je naivní Jim, který utíká z rodného pastelového maloměsta v Essexu do neonového kosmopolitního Londýna za uměním, o kterém nic neví. Svou krásnou tváří upoutá pozornost skupinky mladíků, kteří se pro vzrušení svých klientů stylizují do ikonických obrazů. Jim se zdá být pro takovou práci jako stvořený – je sladký svou naivitou i vzhledem. Kontakt s uměním pro něj ale není tak jednoduchý jako pro ostatní.
An intimate evening between a film director and an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.
Fei patří mezi moneyboys – tak se v Číně nazývají sexuální pracovníci pro bohaté muže. Nelegální a rizikové povolání zajišťuje pohodlný život nejen jemu, ale i jeho příbuzným žijícím na odlehlém venkově. Když při rodinném setkání vyjde najevo, že Feiovi blízcí jeho sexualitu a profesi nikdy nepřijmou, vrací se zlomený Fei zpět do města. Podaří se mu vyrovnat s minulostí, aniž by zranil všechny kolem sebe?
It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the "House of Boys", a bar-cum-brothel run by a strict Madame who has an eye for what his punters crave. Frank works his way up from barman to on-stage dancer and falls in love with some of his housemates, Jake. The first intimations of what is described as 'the gay cancer', casts a long shadow over Frank's tight-knit group of friends. Yet despite the troubles that cloud the hopes and dreams of young Frank, his perseverance, along with support from a willing doctor, will carry him through.