Connection
Buddy Boy is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 24 march 2000 with Aidan Gillen
Buddy Boy (2000)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listBuddy Boy is a 2000 psychological thriller film written and directed by Mark Hanlon. The film premiered to a standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 1999 in the Cinema del Presente section. It subsequently bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival (World Cinema section) and South by Southwest Film Festival before being released theatrically by Fine Line Features in North America on March 24, 2000. Rex Reed of the New York Observer called it "a curious, unsettling, darkly conceived and absolutely fascinating little film. Not since Roman Polanski at the pinnacle of his European weirdness have I seen a film this strange and riveting." Following its North American premiere, Buddy Boy was released theatrically worldwide. International DVD releases have been made in Japan, Italy, Spain, France and the United Kingdom. The special edition DVD was released in North America by Image Entertainment on September 25, 2005. On September 11, 2007 it was released as part of a three-film DVD triptych along with Antonia Bird's Face and Peter Medak's Let Him Have It.
Synopsis
The film's title character, Francis, lives with his invalid, abusive mother in a dingy tenement apartment, and has suffered a life of unrelenting misfortune and brutality, further impacted by a stutter. Over time, he has withdrawn from the world and into himself, silently observing others rather than interacting with them. His only solace has been his Catholic faith, but he has begun to question his belief in a loving God who could countenance so much evil and pain. When he discovers he can see into the apartment of a beautiful, mysterious woman from his own back stairs, Francis cannot stop watching her, even after he meets her and they become romantically involved. Unable or unwilling to believe that she could actually love him, he becomes ever more obsessive in his voyeurism. And it is what Francis sees – or thinks he sees – that leads ultimately to his undoing.Actors
Aidan Gillen
(Francis)
Emmanuelle Seigner
(Gloria)
Susan Tyrrell
(Sal)
Mark Boone Junior
(Vic)
Harry Groener
(Père Gillespie)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Buddy Boy
There are 107 films with the same actors, 74759 with the same cinematographic genres (including 1253 with exactly the same 3 genres than Buddy Boy), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Buddy Boy, you will probably like those similar films :
Blackout (2008)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Amber Tamblyn, Jeffrey Wright, Aidan Gillen, Zoe Saldana, Armie Hammer, Melvin Van Peebles
Rating50%
Three strangers (two men and a woman) are riding in an elevator when a power outage leaves them stranded. The situation becomes unbearable when they find out one of them is a deranged killer. With hours before the power comes back on, the other two must find a way out.
, 1h35Directed by Kurt Voss
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic, Thriller, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Jaime Pressly, Michael Des Barres, Greg Vaughan, Susan Tyrrell, Athena Massey, Susan Ward
Rating48%
In 1987 Ivan and Catherine Greer live with their 9-year-old daughter, Joy, their housekeeper, Rebecca, and her two daughters, Ivy, 9, and Violet, 8. The three young girls live as sisters, but the more rambunctious Ivy is bored by their childish games of tea and rejoices at Ivan's unexpected early day return from the office, saying, "There's going to be fireworks."
Year of the Jellyfish (1984)
, 1h50Directed by Christopher Frank
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, La provence, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Le thème des vacances, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Bernard Giraudeau, Valérie Kaprisky, Caroline Cellier, Jacques Perrin, Pierre Vaneck, Emmanuelle Seigner
Rating56%
Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.
Bitter Moon (1992)
, 2h19Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Erotic thriller films
Actors Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote, Victor Banerjee, Stockard Channing
Rating71%
British couple, Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona Dobson (Kristin Scott Thomas), are on a Mediterranean cruise ship to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner), and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later Nigel meets her much older and crippled American husband Oscar (Peter Coyote), who is acerbic and cynical, having been jaded and a failure as a writer.
Lonesome Jim (2005)
, 1h31Directed by Steve Buscemi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Kevin Corrigan, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, Mark Boone Junior
Rating64%
Jim (Casey Affleck) is a perennially gloomy 27-year-old aspiring novelist from Goshen, Indiana who moved to New York City in hopes of finding success with his writing. After two years of barely making a living as a dog walker, he defeatedly decides to move back home to his parents' house in Goshen.
In the House (2012)
, 1h45Directed by François Ozon
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Les fantasmes, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films about the labor movement, Films based on plays, L'enseignement secondaire en France
Actors Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Ménochet, Yolande Moreau
Rating72%
Claude, un élève brillant, doué et manipulateur du lycée Gustave Flaubert, à tendance pervers narcissique, provoque l’enthousiasme de son professeur de français à qui il fait part de ses écrits voyeuristes, qu'il rédige au détriment d'un camarade de classe.
Nirvana (1997)
, 1h53Directed by Gabriele Salvatores
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Anticipation
Actors Christophe Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Stefania Rocca, Emmanuelle Seigner, Silvio Orlando, Amanda Sandrelli
Rating61%
The film tells the story of a virtual reality game designer, Jimi (Christopher Lambert), who discovers that the main character of his game, Solo (Diego Abatantuono), has achieved sentience due to an attack by a computer virus. Asked by his creation (who feels everything the character in the game feels, including multiple deaths) to eliminate its existence, Jimi sets out to erase the game from the server of his employer, Okasama Star, before it's commercially released on Christmas Day, and thus spare Solo further suffering.
Happily Ever After (2004)
, 1h50Directed by Yvan Attal
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat, Emmanuelle Seigner, Johnny Depp, Alain Cohen
Rating63%
Happily Ever After dissects the viability of fidelity via the story of three buddies and their tumultuous relationships with the opposite sex.
The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
, 1h48Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Jamie Dornan, Guillaume Canet, Mark Strong, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jason O'Mara, Michael McElhatton
Rating71%
En 1961, en pleine Guerre froide, l'Afrique, notamment le Congo, sont des lieux stratégiques pour les superpuissances et les compagnies minières à la recherche de cobalt et d'uranium. En pleine crise, le sud-est du pays est désormais sous le contrôle de Moïse Tshombe. L'ONU monte alors l'opération Morthor pour le faire tomber.
Frantic (1988)
, 2hDirected by Roman Polanski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, John Mahoney, Emmanuelle Seigner, Yorgo Voyagis, Gérard Klein
Rating67%
Dr. Richard Walker is a surgeon visiting Paris with his wife Sondra for a medical conference. At their hotel, she is unable to unlock her suitcase, and Walker determines that she has picked up the wrong one at the airport. While Walker is taking a shower, his wife mysteriously disappears from their hotel room.