Occidental

Mar 28, 2018

1h 13m

★ 5.5

Overview

The mood is heated. Demonstrations are taking place across France, also in front of the Paris hotel where an Italian named Giorgio is booking the bridal suite for him and his boyfriend Antonio. Hotel manager Diana doesn’t trust them and calls the police to get rid of the odd couple. Italians? Homosexuals? Criminals? In the charged atmosphere of the Hotel Occidental, little is needed for initial suspicions to be aroused.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Thriller

Production Companies

Bad Manners

Neil Beloufa Studio

Le Fresnoy

Occidental Trailers

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Cast

Diana

Anna Ivacheff

Antonio

Idir Chender

Giorgio

Paul Hamy

Romy

Louise Orry-Diquéro

Khaled

Hamza Meziani

Karim

Brahim Tekfa

Sophie

Françoise Cousin

Christophe

Pierre Rousselet

Vanessa

Brune Renault

Christophe Perez

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3.3

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2.8

According to Mateo

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3.5

Beast

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4.2

Petit ami

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4.2

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7.0

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7.5

mid90s

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8.2

Buddies

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3.0

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5.0

Animals

Jun 23, 2022

Brahim is a young man, and secretly gay. At his mother’s birthday party, tensions around his unaccepted sexuality become unbearable. Brahim flees the oppressive family home into the night, where a terrible encounter awaits...

10.0

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1.0

Good Night

Mar 5, 2019

Two boys meet late at night.

5.8

The Wounded Man

May 25, 1983

A fleeting encounter in a train station draws a withdrawn young man into a shadowy world of desire and danger. As obsession deepens, innocence destroyed, and an irreversible transformation begins.

4.0

Sun in My Mouth

Jun 9, 2010

A young man confesses his sexual past to an unseen phone sex operator. He reflects on his sexual identity as we follow him on a solitary excursion to a beach.

3.6

Open Relationship

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3.3

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