Peccadillo’s Fruitful Autumn Selection of Films
PECCADILLO’S FRUITFUL AUTUMN SELECTION OF FILMS AVAILABLE ON BOTH STREAMING PLATFORMS AND EXCLUSIVE BLU-RAY RELEASES
Now that the colder, darker Autumn nights are here, Peccadillo is offering a selection of LGBTQ films from across the world to enjoy from the comfort of your own home, available on both streaming platforms and Blu-ray releases with exclusive extras.
OCTOBER
BLUE FILM
(US, 2025, 83 mins)
Director: Elliot Tuttle
Starring Kieron Moore, Reed Birney
A camboy is in control in front of the camera. But his new client isn’t paying to watch a show, he’s paying to settle something much older.
Arguably the most provocative yet critically acclaimed film of the year, BLUE FILM marks the feature debut for director Elliot Tuttle and the astonishing film debut for UK actor Kieron Moore.
You can view the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4hYqrWh5cA
BLUE FILM will also be released on exclusive Blu-ray in 2027
Available on the following streaming platforms; Apple TV, Sky Store, Prime Video, You Tube Movies, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema and Peccadillo Player
MARIA’S PARADISE
(Finland, 2019, 110 mins)
Director: Zaida Bergroth
Starring Pihla Viitala, Satu Tuuli Karhu, Saga Sarkola
Finland, 1927. Maria Åkerblom is magnetic, imperious, and utterly dangerous — a self-proclaimed prophet who has built a devoted flock of followers who have surrendered everything to her divine vision.
At the edges of this world lives Salome, a teenage orphan who has known no other life. When Maria draws her close, elevating her above the others, Salome’s world is turned upside down by a chance encounter with a girl from outside the cult — and for the first time, she dares to question everything.
Inspired by a true story. Some heavens are prisons in disguise.
Directed by Zaida Bergroth (TOVE), this is a lush period drama with an intense emotional triangle at its heart.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqfpS3cYe3o
Available on Prime Video, BFI Player, Peccadillo Player
THE PLEASURE IS MINE (El Placer es Mío)
(Argentina-Brazil-France, 2024, 94 mins) Spanish, with English subtitles
Starring: Max Suen, Sofía Palomino, Katja Alemann
Twenty-year-old Antonio wanders the streets of Buenos Aires, using his magnetic charisma and sexual confidence to survive through hustling, drug dealing, and stealing from his various hookups, living with a sense of impunity despite his inability to form genuine connections.
His volatile relationship with his mother oscillates between intimacy and hostility until she finally confronts him and pushes him to leave. His escape transforms from a simple pursuit to recover stolen money into an unexpected journey where Antonio seeks real intimacy in surprising places and discovers a chance for redemption in this sexually charged film of desire versus love.
THE PLEASURE IS MINE is the feature debut of Brazilian director, Sacha Amaral, winning Best Film Award at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. It features rising young Brazilian star of stage and screen, Max Suen (A FEW FEET AWAY) who gives a charismatic performance as Antonio, offering a complex character study.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqfpS3cYe3o
Available on Prime Video, BFI Player, Peccadillo Player
NOVEMBER
DOWNRIVER
(Australia, 2015, 99 mins)
Director; Grant Scicluna
Starring Reef Ireland, Kerry Fox, Robert Taylor
Eight years ago, a boy drowned in a river at a caravan park. James, then ten, was the one who took the blame.
Now a young man, paroled from juvenile detention, James returns to the scene. He wants to find the body that was never recovered, return it to a grieving mother, and prove that the story that defined his life was constructed by others.
But the caravan park keeps its secrets. Old bullies still circle. Anthony, the childhood friend whose account sent him away, has his own reasons for silence. And Damien, a young man staying nearby, becomes sexually involved with both of them, tying the two together in ways neither will fully explain. In a place where intimacy and betrayal are hard to tell apart, everyone is protecting something.
Scicluna’s debut is a moody, slow-burning mystery in the tradition of WINTER’S BONE and TOP OF THE LAKE. Beneath its sleepy rural surface runs a current of abuse, blackmail and desire, and its gay relationships are woven into that web rather than set apart as an issue. Layered with flashbacks and anchored by a breakout performance from Reef Ireland, alongside Kerry Fox, Helen Morse and Robert Taylor, DOWNRIVER asks how far you’ll go to reclaim a stolen past, and what you’ll find when the water gives it back.
You can view the trailer here: https://youtu.be/jFmIq3NqvFg?si=Xqs62poPIZhrR0WS
Available on Prime Video, BFI Player, Peccadillo Player from 9TH November
DECEMBER
BOYS ON FILM 25: SILVER BULLET
(UK/ international, 137 mins (total)
It’s all about the trials and tribulations of consequence and chance encounters, BOYS ON FILM 25: SILVER BULLET bids you to make a move. When a door is presented to you, do you walk through it? Do you abide by the status quo, or do you dare to truly love yourself and finally embrace yourself? And what happens when you make bad decisions?
Eight queer stories from Singapore, USA, UK, Taiwan and Germany, proving that every bullet has its billet.
This marks the special 25th anniversary of Peccadillo’s highly popular short film collection that includes award-winning Welsh film G FLAT (dir Peter Darney), starring Richard Wilson (ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE); 302 (dir. Leon Cheo); MISS TEMPERANCE (dir. Jeremy McClain), starring Drag Race UK’s Chanel O’Connor; NEXT DOOR (dir. Lukas März), SOME KIND OF PARADISE (dir. Nicholas Finegan); RIPPLES (dir. Rhys Marc Jones); J IS FOR JUST AN AFTERNOON STORM (dir. Chuang Yung-Hsiang); and I HOPE HE DOESN’T KILL ME (dir. Lyndon Hanrahan & Nora Dahle Borchgrevink).
Available to stream on both UK & US platforms and worldwide from December
JANUARY 2027
SOME NIGHTS I FEEL LIKE WALKING
(Philippines, 2024, 103 mins)
Director: Petersen Yargas
Starring Miguel Odron, Jomari Angeles, Argel Saycon
Manilla’s underbelly – the seedy side of the city – is skillfully captured by Filipino director Petersen Vargas. When a member of a group of young street hustlers dies tragically from a drug overdose his friends set out on a road trip to return his body to his rural home. Some Night I Feel Like Walking is a story of queer belonging, loss and found families. Winner Best Original Score, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024.
Coming soon on streaming platforms
BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY
(New Zealand, 2025, 100 mins)
Director: Paloma Schneideman
Starring Ani Palmer, Rain Spencer, Noah Taylor
Summer 2006, rural New Zealand. teenager Sid Bookman is caught between childhood and adolescence, navigating a burgeoning sexual curiosity and a desperate desire for acceptance. Her coastal town is quiet and contained but everything changes when her sister returns from university with Freya, a magnetic friend from America, whose attention awakens something Sid can’t yet name, Big Girls Don’t Cry is a tender, unflinching portrait of queer adolescence, class shame, and identity.
Big Girls Don’t Cry is released in cinemas on 27th November
