Movies: Masculinity

Mom and Me takes a look at tough guys and the even tougher women who raise them. Set in Oklahoma City, apparently voted the manliest city in the United States, this creative documentary from Irish director Ken Wardrop ("His & Hers") chronicles th...

Provocative, feminist critique of man’s technological progress....

A crypto-trader and an ex-clergyman travel to Berlin to throw a sex party. Filmmaker Ayoto Ataraxia documents them and their sex-positive community with a phone during the week leading up to the event, discussing sex and life. But will they cum?...

Selfhood follows 5 individuals and the difference between their sense of self compared to how they present theirselves to the outside world....

A pair of teenage friends grapple with their pride and masculinity as they attempt to connect on an eventful night out....

Dorothy (Fiona Samuel), a lone swimmer, luxuriates in tranquil bliss at a deserted pool — only to have her solitude rudely interrupted by a squad of swimmers. A wordless, strikingly choreographed conflict ensues as Dorothy attempts to assert herself ...

Komt Wel Goed is an intimate, raw and human film about two young adults who are stuck in life in completely different ways. Saar is confronted with sexism and gender equality in the workplace on a daily basis, while Mark struggles with mental problem...

At times of changing gender roles, a tinder date encourages young Leonid to live his own definition of "masculinity". A current reflection on love, sexuality and role models....

Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing com...

Ten-year-old Emil lives with his dad in an apartment in Taastrup. Following the death of Emil's mother, his father struggles with the role of single parent. In an effort to deal with this lack of fatherly attention and authority, Emil has come up wit...

Cara de Ángel's sexuality is about to explode. His masculinity is constantly being tested, threatened by Colorete and the pack from his neighborhood. To prove his manhood, he joins a robbery; however, driven by his hormones and his attraction to Gabr...

After the suicide of a childhood friend, Connor and Liam are reunited by the difficult task of choosing their friends burial clothes....

After being emasculated at a sales conference, gay couple Reese and Peyton set out to do the most masculine thing they can think of - sleep with some women....

When there's a shortage of bouncers at a busy inner-city nightclub, a scrawny glasswasher is asked to step in as security for the night but the eccentric patrons make it difficult to keep things running smoothly....

Chilo and Omar seem to be the only two men on earth. They live on a solitary beach and their constant activity is fishing to survive. Their friendship, surrounded by sensuality, becomes a kind of a love story. Through their conversations and their re...

After his father gets into a fight at a bowling alley, Darious begins to investigate the limitations of his own manhood....

On furlough from his military service, Niko pays his estranged father a visit. Can old wounds heal?...

A young black ballet dancer from a South London Council Estate must learn how to survive in two opposing worlds in order to spread his wings....

Carl is forced to confront his idea of masculinity when an obsession with a mysterious member of his badminton club spirals out of control....

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