Movies: Cruising

A crumbling pier, its walls covered with graffiti and erotic frescoes reminiscent of pagan Pompeii, the locus of the seduction rituals of men longing for men, is the focus of this meditation on gay cruising at the height of sexual freedom before AIDS...

It's Tonio's first time in Corsica. He wanders across the island and on dating apps until stumbling upon the Oracle, a user who tells him about gay life in Corsica. Their conversation is reenacted with an actor who seems to connect deeply with the Or...

Two twenty-something boys in a public restroom. They sniff coke, talk about sex, get dirty. But the film takes on another tone as they reveal what it is that they really want....

Like ghosts, the temporarily shut down cruise ships lie in the port of Hamburg. A young man comes into town and is stranded on the riverbank, waiting for a message. He watches couples strolling along in the sunset and gets himself some sweets. In a ...

A regular, scheduled hookup between two men becomes more complicated than intended, because of some unexpected conversation. Does one man want more than the other is capable of giving?...

The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus....

A repressed young man visits an adult theater....

A gay man impersonates men he has had sex with and brings this new persona with him to his next hook-up. Only by pretending to be someone else can he be truly himself....

When a nerd observes the nice things that can happen when a stream accidentally goes astray, he decides to try the same tactic....

A cruising area takes on majestic proportions as we discover Greek-esque male bodies in the forest. The sonnets 18, 57, 20 by William Shakespeare add to the Midsummer Nights Dream like ambiance of the film....

In Hatten after Hatten, a man who has become insensitive to love somehow ends up falling in love......

Stani grows up in the wastelands. Far away from the next city and a gay youth group he discoveres his identity. During nights he meets other men at hidden places, who seek the same as him – until he gets to know a boy named Johannes....

The cinema hall as a liminal space during a matinee show, and the experience it evokes....

Cruising an enchanted forest, a mirror-masked flâneur encounters a series of oracles, each with forgotten wisdom to impart to him through song. Borrowing the words and voices of gay elders from religious and mystical scholar Andrew Harvey to British ...

A love letter to early ’90s cruising in NYC....

A young man's body is overtaken by an undefined itching fever, leading his parents to seek healing....