Strand Releasing (Firm)
1) Ecstasy
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Love is immortal. Seduction is inevitable. Revenge is irresistible. A journey into America in the year 2019. A man in search of a lost love. A woman lost in desire for revenge. A country paralyzed by heat and lost in suspicion and paranoia. And a twenty-year-old diary that evokes memories and the yearning to waste yourself in destruction.
2) Suzhou River
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Along the banks of the Suzhou River, Mardar falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Moudan. When he tries to kidnap her in order to demand ransom money from her rich father, she escapes him, jumping in to the river and disappearing forever. Mardar serves a three-year jail sentence for his attempted crime. Upon his release, he meets a woman who looks exactly like Moudan, named MeiMei.
3) 99 Moons
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Bigna, a twenty-eight-year-old scientist, is used to having everything under control, even her erotic desires always follow rules. Thirty- three-year-old Frank searches for meaning in a haze of drugs, feeding on other people’s affection. Their different worlds collide, and they become obsessively entwined in a passionate affair.
4) Petrov's Flu
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A deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia. With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath the layers of the ordinary, things turn out to be quite extraordinary. Based on the novel The Petrovs In and Around the Flu by Alexey Salnikov.
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Petr and Hana, who after years together share their unspoken erotic fantasies. What begins as an innocent conversation gradually turns into experimentation with other partners and increasingly pushing the limits of just how far the can go with a non-monogamous relationship before it gets out of hand..
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The twisted and erotic FRAGMENTS OF LOVE follows perfectionist composer Rodrigo’s new obsession with the mysterious and alluring Susana. Cocooned in her home, the two enter a torrid love affair as Susanna opens up and tells Rodrigo stories of sexual encounters with her past lovers. As Rodrigo is both artistically inspired and romantically tormented by Susana’s stories, they turn out to be the least of Susana’s dark secrets.
8) The Swimmer
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Erez, a rising star in the Israeli swimming scene, arrives at a godforsaken training camp held in a boarding school, where the one to win the competition gets a ticket to the Olympics. There he meets the beautiful and talented Nevo, who awakens subconscious desires in him. However, their swimming coach does not believe in friendship between competitors.
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An intriguing and intimate tale involving pleasure seekers and pleasure providers in Geyland: Singapore's popular but little-known red-light district. Over the course of one night, a young cadet loses his virginity; a teenage girl gets initiated into the pleasure manufacturing process; and a jaded prostitute pays a young man good money in exchange for a song he never gets to sing.
10) Burning days
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"Emre, a young and dedicated prosecutor, is newly appointed to a small town hit by a water crisis and political scandals. After an initial welcome, he experiences an increasing number of tense interactions and is reluctantly dragged into local politics. When Emre forms a bond with the owner of the local newspaper pressure escalates under heated rumors." --container.
11) Tony Takitani
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Tony Takitani is an illustrator who has been alone all his life, until he meets a beautiful woman who transforms his world. The only problem is that she has a secret, she is a compulsive shopper with a penchant for high end couture fashion that leads to darkly satiric consequences. Based on the short story by Haruki Murakami.
12) The Blue Caftan
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Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. The talented apprentice shows an utmost dedication in learning the art of embroidery and tailoring from Halim. Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
13) Head On
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Over a 24-hour period, 19-year-old Ari confronts his sexuality and his Greek background. Ari is obsessed with sex and has sexual encounters with multiple people, most of them gay, and attempts to fulfill the sister of one of his best friends. At the same time, he is facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual and drug taking activities.
14) Sparkler
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Melba May is a trailer park princess who decides she needs to radically change her life when she catches her husband in bed with her best friend. After a night of drinking at the local bar she befriends three recent college grads from Los Angeles who are en route to Las Vegas to hopefully win some money to pay rent. She joins them, happy to leave her husband for good -- until he finds out that she has won a million dollar sweepstakes and must hunt...