Todd Verow
Also Known As: Hook, Todd Versatile
Biography: Todd Verow (born 11 November 1966) is an American film director who now resides in New York City, New York. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the AFI Conservatory. Together with his creative partner, James Derek Dwyer, he formed Bangor Films in 1995. He was also the cinematographer for Jon Moritsugu's film Terminal USA (1993). He has been called a veteran of the New Queer Cinema.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Bangor, Maine
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Little Shots of Happiness
Overview: An urban comedy of identity lost and found via sexual indiscretions, Frances is initially a bored 9-to-5-er. She comes to the much-prolonged decision to leave her mentally unstable husband and begins to live out of her office, unbeknownst to her co-workers. Each night she goes to a different nightclub or a bar in Boston and forces herself out of her protected prim existence by meeting and picking up different men. Through exploring different persona's and what she is capable of, she hopes to find herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-14
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Deleted Scenes
Overview: When 30 something Sean meets Eastern European immigrant Wolf, sparks fly. They return to Sean’s apartment and begin a high energy and hugely sexual affair. What starts as a mere chance meeting slowly evolves into something more. Wolf is easy going, turning tricks to supplement his living, while Sean is needy, talkative and neurotic. Creating a stable relationship is fraught with problems. With Wolf disappearing for hours at a time and Sean doing drugs the two of them seem to be headed down a path of destruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Bad Boy Street
Overview: Two men embark on an unconventional romance in Todd Verow's sexy Parisian-set drama. Claude finds a young man passed out in the street and, taking pity on him, decides to take him to his apartment to safely sleep. Awakening the next morning, the sexy stranger soon makes a play for his forty-something host, kick-starting a passionate romance. But will the chance meeting develop into more than just lust or will the pair's differences drive them apart? An accomplished, serious and very modern gay romance .
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-22
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Xx: Where Your Heart Should Be
Overview: Todd Verow's experimental narrative feature heralding the end time. Split up into 20 short films, the film explores the fear and longing of several characters as they wait for some unspecified apocalyptic event. Some try to escape physically, emotionally or sexually while others welcome the end with open arms. A woman (PHILLY) is busy dragging her own corpse, trying to find a resting place for it, when she encounters an old lover (MICHAEL BURKE) who used to be a she but has transitioned to a man. He wants to get out of town but she wants to stay it's the end of time when nothing is a crime. Several gay men engage in more and more extreme sexual activity, they want to experience it all before the big collapse. Two gay ex-lovers try to reconnect and feel something, anything but total emptiness. Porn actors and producers make more unsafe films as fantasies grow darker and more violent. Will the world end with a whimper or a bang? Or worse will it not end at all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-01
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Leave Blank
Overview: A lonely man hires a male prostitute to spend the weekend in New York City with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-27
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The Gay Agenda 24
Overview: In this anthology of shorts, the phrase "Gay Agenda" is reclaimed from the religious right and transformed into a celebration of gay culture. Sit back and enjoy "Country People," "Brothers," "Son of a Dancer," and "Swimming to the End of the World."
Genres: Drama Romance Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-01
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Last Year at Belvedere
Overview: Two gay men try to remember if they had met before as they spend the summer on Fire Island. A homage to/parody of the classic film Last Year at Marienbad set in the present day at the notorious gay guest house the Belvedere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-16
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Frisk
Overview: A first person narrative of the exploits of a gay serial killer in deeply disturbing, controversial drama about violence, sexuality, and the imagination. Dennis, the main character, whose lead we follow on this path between what is real and what we can only hope is surreal. His friends attempt to determine if he's truly a psychopath.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Required Field
Overview: Serial killer 'NO1KNOWS' managed to elude the police for years. In fact they didn't even know he existed until, by chance, his video and audio recordings were found. By examining the recordings police were able to solve a number of murders around the world - although many men featured in the recordings were never found and it is unclear how many other victims there were since most of the video and audio recordings were destroyed (presumedly by NO1KNOWS himself).
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-08
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F***ed in the Head
Overview: Scott is still sleeping with his ex-boyfriend and floundering through life when his mother calls to tell him his older sister Maggie is in the hospital with a brain tumor. Scott rushes to be by her side. As she lies unconscious he remembers the times their lives intersected. She was a party girl, a popular girl, she got around. Scott imagines what Maggie would say but ultimately realizes that you can never truly know anyone and decides to take a chance on love and life.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-20
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Die, F*ggot, Die!
Overview: Two lesbians decide to kill their gay roommate.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-19
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The End of Cruising
Overview: A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-25
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Tumbledown
Overview: Inspired by true events, Todd Verow’s Tumbledown is an explosive cocktail- an emotional rollercoaster ride through the dark sides of sexuality. A complicated love triangle develops after hunky Jay meets bartender Nick and invites him to spend the weekend with him and his partner in their country cabin. Soon, copious amounts of sex, drugs and alcohol lead to a dark obsession and even darker complications. Always bold and never less than riveting, Tumbledown is sure to leave you breathless.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-25
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Anonymous
Overview: A man finds himself homeless after a fight with his significant other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Available Light
Overview: An experimental feature film about people in different cities who are trying to escape their loneliness through love, lust or a combination of both. The film was shot in real locations using only available light. The viewer is both a voyeur - watching the characters in intimate situations that are not meant to be seen - and an active participant - imagining what the characters are going through and making connections between them that may or may not be real.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-11
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Tom's Gift
Overview: Voice-over narration describes Tom's Gift, a sex shop in rural America closed by municipal ordinance.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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Davy & Goliath
Overview: An afternoon visit to a small city Sex Shoppe yields excitement, surprise and comic relief.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-05
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Keep the Lights On
Overview: Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers — compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-27
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Fire Island '79
Overview: Filmmaker Chase Hook committed suicide on December 31st, 1979. His conservative family destroyed all of his films. Recently Super 8 home movies of his last summer on Fire Island were found. Also recovered was the tape from his answering machine.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-18
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Bulldog in the White House
Overview: "Bulldog in the Whitehouse" takes political satire to obscene new heights: portraying the Bush administration as a cabal of lustful and traitorous gay men who are too busy having sex to notice the empire crumbling down around them. An explosive and darkly comic adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel Dangerous Liaisons, the film's web of sex and deceit centers on Bulldog, a hustler who seduces his way into the Washington press corps to gain access to the halls of the political elite. At the bidding of his puppet master, a corpulent and power mad Karl Rove, Bulldog engages in manipulative trysts with Whitehouse hotties like the demure press secretary, the religious leader and the confused, imbecilic good ol' boy president himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-28
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Goodbye Seventies
Overview: In the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the "art" films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together and they start making their own hardcore movies. Against all odds the films are wildly successful until drugs, AIDS and cheap video technology bring it all crashing down
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-28
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Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 13: Off-Duty Cops
Overview: No matter what the theme of any Joe Gage flick is, you almost always feel like you're watching real men having real sex -- and here, even though it's a police theme, the action is no different.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-30
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Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 14: Lunchtime Milking Club 2.0
Overview: This one is a return to the no-frills basics that inspired the series in the first place. No scripted dialogue, no music, just an intense zen-like focus on penis. Lunchtime Milking Club isn't for everybody: due to its niche subject matter, it is being released in a specially-priced low-cost limited edition--it is stiff dick-play for sperm-lovers' viewing pleasure, and it's available now.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-16
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The Endless Possibility of Sky
Overview: Sex and drugs-getting hooked and getting off –can be addicting. For Drew (Brad Hallowell), eking out a mundane life in Waterville, Maine, it is resisting the illicit pleasure in New York; for Mistress Datina (Philly), it means operating a sex and drug den to cope with her life. In his visually and sexually stimulating film, director Verow introduces multiple characters and overlapping narratives that portray the physical and emotional faces of addiction. For Rob (newcomer Rob Ordonez), drugs and sex are means of finding a bed to sleep in every night – while they provide Christian (Michael Vaccaro) a means of dealing with his helplessness and loss. A writer records these characters and their unforgettable stories. The themes are universal, but the possibilities are endless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Cruising 2020
Overview: An update on William Friedkin's classic film CRUISING.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2020-04-22
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Hooks to the Left
Overview: Based on the journals of Nail, a male hustler who reentered the prostitution ring after 10 years in a relationship, Todd Verow's experimental documentary (shot entirely on a cell phone camera) examines the changing landscape of male prostitution. Nail's narrated journal entries accompany dreamy and abstract imagery shot all over the world. Verow also explores how the Internet has shaped the sex trade.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-22
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Built for Endurance
Overview: A tall and torrid story BUILT FOR ENDURANCE is an experimental short film based on a true story about a violent gay hustler and his so-called girlfriend who attack a man who has been stalking them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Death of Dottie Love
Overview: Based on the true stories of 3 people who where murdered in Bangor, Maine in the 1980's. Charlie Howard (who was also the inspiration for Stephen King's book "IT".) a gay man who was beaten and thrown off a bridge, Sherri, who was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, and Dottie Love a prostitute who arrived in Bangor and disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-19
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V Is for Violet
Overview: A tale of two teens: Violet an actress wandering through the years of her career with remarkable ease and media attention despite her lack of an attention span or talent. And a young man also tries to make it in New York City, but his naivety leads him to a life of hustling. Violet and the hustler may be the same person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-06
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The Flesh Is Willing
Overview: An experimental short film by Todd Verow about an unhappy marriage of convenience between a gay man and a lesbian who yearn for the pleasures of the flesh with other men and women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Covid Summer
Overview: Shot on super8 film using single frame photography, Covid Summer condenses all the anxiety, insanity, and stir-crazy sexual tension of the summer of 2020.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2021-05-27
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Swimming to the End of the World
Overview: A world-weary gay man remembers lost lovers as he swims from the Christopher Street Piers in New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-06
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Shucking the Curve
Overview: Suzanne Fountain moves to NYC and plummets headlong into a twisted wonderland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Memorabilia
Overview: As an older gay man lies dying in a hospital room, he tries to remember all of his past lovers. Over the years, he had filmed many of his lovers as a way to capture them, but now the films are disintegrating – fading away just like his memories. Shot entirely on super8 film, this touching new film incorporates archival footage shot by Charles Lum in the 1970s and '80s (including footage from his time as an exchange student in Norway), archival footage shot by Todd Verow in the 1980s and '90s, as well as new footage by Verow. With a script based on Lum's stories and cruising diaries, and stories written by Verow, Memorabilia is a beautiful visual homage to love, as well as a testament to its creators' close friendship and mutual understanding in how to tell a story. Charles Lum never saw this film come to life, but he would no doubt have been proud of the result.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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Between Something & Nothing
Overview: After being accepted into a prestigious New England art school, sexy small-town Joe and townie mastermind Jennifer quickly join forces. They are determined to succeed on a campus over-populated with jaded mega-rich kids awash in trust funds, abortions, and drugs galore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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