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When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.

The marketing department green-lights a red-light tie-in: 60 lost seconds of modern movie merchandising.

In the middle of night, Song goes out looking for a pho truck with her friend, Hoon, whom she met by chance.

Stani grows up in the wastelands. Far away from the next city and a gay youth group he discoveres his identity. During nights he meets other men at hidden places, who seek the same as him – until he gets to know a boy named Johannes.

Part two of the making of William Friedkin's 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

Inspired by films like “L’inconnu du lac” and “O Ornitólogo”, director Valentino R. Sandoli has created “Cruising,” a film that explores desire, erotism and flesh, using an almost voyeuristic style that mixes together with oneiric images that provides a metaphysic tone to the story. A man meets a group of young men while bathing in a lake at the end of summer, and he immediately falls for one of them, who seems to shine with his own light. He follows them into the woods, where he watches them as he finds them in different groups and sex scenes, until he arrives to the one he fell for.

Saturday, 12 p.m. The countdown has begun for four men on the make for women. Massage studios, last minute shopping, bodybuilding; our men ardently throw themselves into the ritual of appearance. It is impossible to resist the ferociously burlesque and remarkably stereotypical behavior of these characters. We will meet Gérard known as The Bull, Patrice known as The Lion, Jean-Jacques known as The Peacock and Serge known as The Earthworm. All of this is set in the clubs and bars of late night Montréal.

“Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders" peels back the layers of controversy surrounding the making of the 1980 thriller, "Cruising." Directed by William Friedkin, the film triggered fierce protests from the LGBTQ+ community for its portrayal of a serial killer targeting gay men in New York's leather bars. Friedkin drew inspiration from the brutal murder of Variety reporter Addison Verrill, blurring the boundaries between cinematic fiction and real-life tragedy.

A junior high school teacher who happens to be a homosexual and falls in love with an extremely handsome young man he meets by chance in Hatten Park. The directorial debut of Ryuji Yamamoto.

On the night before his court sentencing, Mark goes cruising round town with his best friend Rudy for something to do. However Mark has a favour to ask.

A dog named Luna and her owner interact with each other and other pets as they attempt to find Luna a significant other.

But in the night, the shadows merge and the wolf is never far away.

A docu-fiction about my trip to the American West Coast (August 2025), where I went in search of car rims that I enjoyed photographing. The sound, which I created myself, is a reading of letters I wrote to Alain.e, who stayed behind in Brittany, describing the cars I encountered, accompanied by Olga, the BMW I was driving. It's an affectionate reference to Chantal Akerman's *News From Home*. The short film opens with a series of archival images of a Virginia Woolf house that I photographed (2015). Like Alain.e, my van is my nomadic haven; it's an ironic wink. The twist lies in the VW painted by Virginia Woolf on one of her chairs, the meaning of which I subvert. I love humor, however, I have no irony whatsoever about my taste for car tuning, and queer tuning.

A low-resolution night, a camera dancing the choreography of cruising, the formal voice-over of a horny narrator, and bodies that imprint their absence. It is an ethnography of macho lust in the dark, spanning from the local to the European.

An update on William Friedkin's classic film CRUISING.

NIGHT CRUISING follows congenitally blind musician Hideyuki Kato as he pursues the realization of an expansive sci-fi short called Ghost Vision, a film within its own making-of documentary. Working with a media production team and wide range of collaborators—including color experts, facial roboticists, hair stylists, voice actors, fight choreographers and VFX engineers—Kato directs the execution of his story about a non-sighted fighter and a telepath searching for a mysterious ghost in a future world. His pursuit becomes a deep interrogation of how sensory environments are perceived and rendered, offering new ways for viewers to think through their own assumptions about cinema and imagination. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Select characters from Barcelona's flinta community sit in a driving car and and talk about cruising, desire and different forms of spaces. Rough HDV material and selected images draw on the city of Barcelona and a fictional narrative of a cab driver who explores various forms of cruising areas, creating an experimental docu-fiction narrative.

Ryuji Yamamoto, the president of a gay film production company, was troubled. Without a suitable model, he was at a dead end with his project. While searching for material, Yamamoto went to a paid cruising spot for gay men and discovered that a nearby park was now a hotspot. At midnight, Yamamoto went there to do an interview and saw a group of men flocking around a particular man. Yamamoto immediately started filming. However, he is found out.

Charlie and Lulu find themselves losing their sanity and forced to make choices that will either lead to their salvation or take them straight to hell. The choices they make aren’t necessarily the correct ones, but they are correct to them.

Franck spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love.

A heterosexual Beijing policeman and a young homosexual challenge each other's sexuality.

Each day after work, Carlos, a language school teacher, frequents the heady surroundings of his local cruising ground. One evening he encounters a teenage boy from his class named Toni, and the two engage in a brief sexual tryst. As the relationship between teacher and student begins to develop, some dark truths emerge about the young man and his mysterious group of friends.

A chronicle of gay culture in New York during the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDs era. Thirteen men and one woman look back at gay life and sex in Manhattan and Fire Island - from Stonewall (June, 1969) to the first reporting on AIDS (June, 1981). They describe the rapid move from repression to celebration, from the removal of shame to joy, the on-going search for "someone," the freedom before AIDS, the friendships, and brotherhood.

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.

Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.

Over two summers, between city streets and forest paths, young art student Adnan has a series of unexpected intimate encounters.

Simon's first time in a sauna, how much trouble can one boy get into, or out of?

In 70s Great Britain, a gay teacher is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night.

A cruising area takes on majestic proportions as we discover Greek-esque male bodies in the forest. The sonnets 18, 57, 20 by William Shakespeare add to the Midsummer Nights Dream like ambiance of the film.

When David, an ex-monk still in his twenties meets Mark, he falls hard; soon he's asked Mark if they can live together. Things go well for awhile, and then differences in their definition of "commitment" begin to push them apart. Mark wants other sexual adventures, David tries to go along. Can they talk through the crisis in their relationship or is a breakup in the offing? David sees his relationship with Mark as a marriage, so if it ends, can David's heart ever heal?

Two twenty-something boys in a public restroom. They sniff coke, talk about sex, get dirty. But the film takes on another tone as they reveal what it is that they really want.

A weekend in the city park is meant for recreational activities. During a twenty minute period, several men seek out a way to pass their time at a cruising spot located in the heart of a small peninsular grove.

A gay man impersonates men he has had sex with and brings this new persona with him to his next hook-up. Only by pretending to be someone else can he be truly himself.

Cruising an enchanted forest, a mirror-masked flâneur encounters a series of oracles, each with forgotten wisdom to impart to him through song. Borrowing the words and voices of gay elders from religious and mystical scholar Andrew Harvey to British essayist Quentin Crisp to founding Radical Faerie Harry Hay, The Legacy weaves together a spiritual manifesto for queer men, reigniting a battle cry for personal and collective metamorphosis.

Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about the tolerance of a family of four. The family spend an idealistic summer vacation together where each of the family members gets involved in a new or old relationship.

When Ocho, an Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, spots Javi from his balcony, the attraction is subtle but persistent. After a missed connection on the beach, a third chance encounter escalates to a seemingly random hookup. But are they part of each other’s histories, or maybe even destinies?

The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.