My Lover, My Son

Thawing Out

2009 · ★ 5.6

Léo is dragged to a nudist camping resort by his mother. Like most boys at the age of 12 or 13, being nude in public holds little appeal for Léo, who protests by wearing extra layers. Until he meets a certain special girl, who captures his heart and releases his inhibitions.

Caravan

2025 · ★ 5.8

Overwhelmed by motherhood, Ester steals a caravan and flees to southern Italy with her son David, with an intellectual disability. They meet a young drifter whose open heart transforms their makeshift family into something freer, lighter, and full of unexpected hope.

Appassionata

1974 · ★ 5.6

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.

Taher

1973

The architect entrusts his daughter, Lida, and his son, Taher, to an engineer before his death. The engineer goes to Ahvaz and takes Lida with him to raise her alongside his son Shahram - and the neighbors raise Taher among them. Years later, Shahram rapes Lida, and the the engineer, suspecting that Lida is a promiscuous woman, kicks her out of his house.

Exploits of a Young Don Juan

1986 · ★ 6.1

In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold the men.

Queen of Hearts

2019 · ★ 6.9

Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.

Pain and Glory

2019 · ★ 7.4

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

Materia

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Jeff, Who Lives at Home

2012 · ★ 6.2

Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.

Reflective Light

A fragile mother has a hard time keeping her life together while raising her teenage daughter and 13-year-old sun who is diagnosed with XP, a rare medical condition causing him to be lethally sensitive to light.

Starcrossed

2005 · ★ 6.4

Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.

The Sting

2025 · ★ 10

Lucien is on vacation in the country with his mother and grandmother. He finally decides to write to his uncle. When his mother finds out, she explodes with rage.