Movies: Masculinity

A rugby stadium in southwestern France. Each and every Sunday, bodies collide. Along the sidelines, Louis and his juniors comrades are fascinated by the feats of the senior team....

You could be forgiven for mistaking Charlie Siem for James Bond. Whether he's driving an orange Porsche to his cliff-top Monaco mansion, ordering martinis or looking suave in a designer suit, he is a man on a mission. It isn't to hunt down SPECTRE, b...

A mother tries to support her son and his gender identity by inviting a new friend to dinner....

A meditation on the complex relationship of two brothers, exploring the interplay of notions of brotherhood, patronage, masculinity, and sexuality....

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A chess game between two brothers gets ugly....

Wild Youth is an ode to being young. A sensitive and intimate story of the first experiences of losing one's childlike innocence, questioning the imposed "masculinity" and (re)discovering yourself in the function of others....

Two men in the moors alone, fighting their free will and masculinity (or lack thereof)....

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Masculinity, race and boyhood simmer in this stylish slow-cinema debut about a Filipino-Australian father and his six-year-old son, who are navigating a family divorce. Exploring the complexities of family, society and culture that shape young Filip...

An experimental short film exploring fragile masculinity, small town mentality and cultural confusion, following a young Australian man on a spirit quest for significance and identity....

In 'Quédate' we meet Ana, a young prostitute, who has a disturbing encounter with Manuel, a lonely man who seeks consolation for a painful breakup....

Aslam sells medicines for sexual problems on the pavements of Meena Bazar near Jama Masjid in Delhi. Khalifa Barkat presides over an wrestling gym (akhara) in the adjacent park and puts a group of young men through the moral and physical grind of wre...

A documentarian observes their fellow gym bros behaving more... openly... in the gym than they usually are outside of it....

Gender activist Diane Torr’s worldwide appearances and workshops are now legendary. For the past thirty years, the main focus of this performance artist’s work has been an exploration of the theoretical, artistic as well as the practical aspects of g...

An intense bromance between a gay football player and a straight military guy....

After the death of his girlfriend, Daniel struggles to deal with the grief, leading to an impulsive mistake....

In this musical documentary, alter egos Jonny Toxic and Jacco Macho set out on a journey across Italy and The Netherlands, exploring masculinity in contrasting cultural settings. Italy's shameless machismo and the frugal Calvinist-influenced Netherla...

A tailor named Ricardo, a classic Filipino film enthusiast, embraces these toxic masculine ideas, cultures, and behaviors from the films he watches. His wife Linda and their worker Jun will soon face the consequences of these behaviors....

Months after the unexpected death of his wife, an embittered, middle-aged painter flees to a cabin in rural New England where her presence, and more, waits for him....