I've always had kind of a love hate relationship with Chinese historical BLs. Some are genuinely excellent, but then there are others that cram in so much plot that keeping track of all the layers of betrayal and scheming gets exhausting, and I end up checking out mentally. Part of the issue is also just how much content is out there in this space, so something really has to stand out to keep me hooked. In this case, the production value is genuinely impressive, top tier stuff, but story wise, I just couldn't bring myself to actually care about these characters. There's a ton of political scheming and backstage manipulation running throughout. Somewhere in the middle of all that chaos, a hostage ends up falling for his own Prince Charming. The show runs eight episodes, each around 50 to 60 minutes long. After spending three years guarding the border, Fifth Prince Yin Qi gets called back to the capital because of a secret letter, only to end up walking straight into a deadly...
Henrik is a successful actor and comedian. In his private life he is lonely and insecure, struggling with adulthood. He is not homophobe but somehow circumstances always portray him to be one. When he joins yoga and makes a gay friend, will he end up losing him?
Hurt (Singapore)
Explores the theme of rejection, acceptance & hurt with the underlying theme of cheating in a relationship which seems to be the norm in the gay community.
A coming out of age story of 2 secondary school students who study in a Christian school. Ming, is in closet and Hei is openly gay., It is a story of self-discovery, struggle through love, loneliness & religion.
Do You, Andy? (Taiwan)
Andy is about to propose to his boyfriend but his parents walk into the restaurant, throwing him entirely. The foursome eat together and by the end Andy's parents let him know they accept him and his boyfriend.
Story of three gay men who are entangled in doomed romances. Silence usually comes with a backdrop, waiting to be stirred bu social pressures. Three gay guys and two marriages. When love and marriage can't go hand in hand, how can marital bliss be realized?
The Goodbye (UK)
A young gay man has to come to terms with the fact that he has 6 months left to live. Not everyone gets a chance to forgive people who have wronged them.
When his childhood friend, Caleb, returns from military, Macon's mind is filled with flashbacks to a violent and emotionally charged day in his adolescence involving Caleb and his younger brother, Eli. As the day goes on Macon tries to keep his cool while being tortured by the horrific secret about Eli's disappearance,
Eloi & Biel (Spain)
Two youths exploring an empty country house share a moment of uninhibited passion. 20 minutes of soft porn.
Ton and Champ study together in a technical school and live a secret love story. One day when Champ doesn't answer Ton's calls, he gets worried. A shocker in in store when Champ hears that Ton is dead. But is it really the truth or love had something else in store?
The Mountain King (USA)
A reserved young man meets an impulsive stranger on a secluded beach. Their brief friendship leaves each subtly changed.
Moonif, a young Syrian man, leaves the refugee camp to wander the streets of Berlin. When he is harassed he is saved by a Czech immigrant who helps Moonif realize the pleasures of flesh.
Das Wolfskind (Germany)
An overwhelming grief for the death of his partner, killed in the worst possible way, right in front of him. He is distant from everyone including his son since he prostitutes himself to support him.
2 teens are very close friends. One of them has struggling family conditions. He is stuck in middle between friendship and romance & he seeks for the sanctuary between lust and emotion. During the process, his weak characteristic leads his emotion to happiness, avoidance and pain.
Scorpio Rising (USA)
An army of gay bikers, leather gay bars, pain/pleasure. Sexual and sadistic symbols are intercut.
The protagonist is going through depression and doesn't leave home. He is visited by a supernatural presence and they have the most visual 10 minute sex scene. Is there a place for desire in the unknown?
Verona (Brazil)
Ten years after the end of the dance music duo Verona, Elias comes to Brazil to meet his former partner, Walter who is going to marry a young man.
David is a young apprentice jockey. To get closer to Elias, a handsome boy, & to seek his advice, David spies on him and covers for his nocturnal sorties. Eliab starts to open up, but does David wants more from him.
Hot Legs (South Africa)
Over six days of the tense psychological abusive relationship when a gay man kidnaps his childhood bully to show destructive impacts on him.
Two strangers met at a McDonald's, one follows the other into the toilet. The following day they met up again under a bridge, and the training begins for a master slave love.
Vibro Boy (France)
An old aztec statue brought back from Mexico to France by a transvestite suddenly releases Vibroboy, a superhero endowed with a phallic driller.
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