Movies: Strand Releasing

  • 1997
    Steam: The Turkish Bath

    Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)

    Steam: The Turkish Bath

    6.61997HD

    Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives' Instanbul home that i...

    Steam: The Turkish Bath
  • 2005
    Ellie Parker

    Ellie Parker (2005)

    Ellie Parker

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    Ellie Parker, an aspiring actress from Australia, lives a hectic Hollywood lifestyle, perpetually trying to land the role that will elevate her career. Living with her lothario musician boyfriend, Justin, Ellie is far from happy, finding support prim...

    Ellie Parker
  • 2000
    Psycho Beach Party

    Psycho Beach Party (2000)

    Psycho Beach Party

    5.72000HD

    Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who's desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She's the typical American girl - except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza....

    Psycho Beach Party
  • 2008
    Kabei: Our Mother

    Kabei: Our Mother (2008)

    Kabei: Our Mother

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    Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two...

    Kabei: Our Mother
  • 2004
    First Love

    First Love (2004)

    First Love

    6.72004HD

    Vittorio is looking for a woman who matches his ideal. Through a classified ad he meets Sonia, a sweet, pleasant, intelligent girl. However, she weighs 125 pounds -- which according to Vittorio is way too much. A goldsmith by trade, Vittorio is obses...

    First Love
  • 1992
    The Living End

    The Living End (1992)

    The Living End

    6.71992HD

    Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree....

    The Living End
  • 2007
    Slipstream

    Slipstream (2007)

    Slipstream

    4.92007HD

    Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his cha...

    Slipstream
  • 1998
    Beefcake

    Beefcake (1998)

    Beefcake

    5.31998HD

    A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the pur...

    Beefcake
  • 2009
    The Missing Person

    The Missing Person (2009)

    The Missing Person

    5.62009HD

    John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to ...

    The Missing Person
  • 2010
    Happiness Runs

    Happiness Runs (2010)

    Happiness Runs

    4.22010HD

    The neglected child of parents living on a commune, Victor is helpless to resist the atmosphere of sex and drugs that permeates his world, but he's smart enough to know that if he is going to survive, he has to get out....

    Happiness Runs
  • 2019
    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)

    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

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    Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all sho...

    30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
  • 1997
    Office Killer

    Office Killer (1997)

    Office Killer

    5.21997HD

    When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench th...

    Office Killer
  • 2000
    Boys Life 3

    Boys Life 3 (2000)

    Boys Life 3

    5.12000HD

    Jason Gould satirizes coming out in Hollywood in Inside Out, starring Alexis Arquette and papa Elliot Gould. Lane Janger's Just One Time was a festival favorite recently expanded into a feature film that turns the tables on a groom-to-be and his fant...

    Boys Life 3
  • 1997
    Latin Boys Go to Hell

    Latin Boys Go to Hell (1997)

    Latin Boys Go to Hell

    4.51997HD

    A cute, openly gay latin boy's hormones go into overdrive when his hunky cousin Angel arrives for an extended stay. The two explore the young and sometimes dangerous gay scene in the city's Latin neighborhood, with surprising outcomes....

    Latin Boys Go to Hell
  • 2021
    Cicada

    Cicada (2021)

    Cicada

    5.72021HD

    Ben is a young bisexual man. He comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben's past crawls to the surface....

    Cicada
  • 2006
    Boys Life 5

    Boys Life 5 (2006)

    Boys Life 5

    5.62006HD

    Boys Life 5 is the fifth installment of the Boys Life series, which collects LGBT-related short films. Distributed by Strand Releasing. This gay anthology of short films about unrequited love should strike a universal chord with audiences of all pers...

    Boys Life 5
  • 1994
    Boys Life

    Boys Life (1994)

    Boys Life

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    Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the summer, he realiz...

    Boys Life
  • 2020
    Aggie

    Aggie (2020)

    Aggie

    12020HD

    An exploration of the nexus of art, race, and justice through the story of art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund who sold Roy Lichtenstein’s painting “Masterpiece” in 2017 for $165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarcera...

    Aggie
  • 2010
    Boys Life 7

    Boys Life 7 (2010)

    Boys Life 7

    3.62010HD

    A compilation of four gay shorts from Sundance includes a story of a disturbed black teen trying to seduce a much older AIDS prevention counselor; and a story of high school seniors pondering end of school and the end of their secret love. 4 Shorts:...

    Boys Life 7
  • 2018
    Happy New Year Tijuana

    Happy New Year Tijuana (2018)

    Happy New Year Tijuana

    42018HD

    Adventure, romance, and the resplendent cultural flavor of Tijuana permeate the air in this spirited, high-energy and imaginative film. When Alejandro, a Chicano Studies professor from Los Angeles, finds himself stranded in the unpredictable border t...

    Happy New Year Tijuana