Amphetamine

Amphetamine

There is no way to quit a fateful love.

NR 2010 · 97 min · ★ 5.7 · Drama, Romance

Daniel, a gay banker, falls for Kafka, a straight instructor battling addiction, believing love can conquer all, but past memories threaten their bond.

Directed by Scud · Written by Scud

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

3h 19m together

Amphetamine

Mary Forever

A close match in mood and era.

The Extreme TrilogySee all →

More from ScudSee all →

Permanent ResidencePermanent Residence · 2009
Permanent Residence
5.62009
MovieRomanceDrama
The life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved ones.
Ghosts Just Want to Have FunGhosts Just Want to Have Fun · 2024
Ghosts Just Want to Have Fun
5.02024
MovieDrama
A young soldier was raped four times in one night. Refusing to live with the humiliation, he became a wandering spirit. However, death turned out to be his stroke of luck, granting him the ability to possess others, even influencing their thoughts. Naked, he traveled across countries, embarking on a series of fantastical and hedonistic human experiences. In the end, despite gathering with other wanderers, these spirits still couldn't let go of their obsessions with human love, eventually falling into the emotional whirlpool of Stockholm Syndrome. This is a reimagined and enhanced version of Scud's Bodyshop (2022), offering an even more intense experience.
Thirty Years of AdonisThirty Years of Adonis · 2017
Thirty Years of Adonis
4.72017
MovieDrama
Yang Ke, a Beijing Opera actor, is fatefully driven into the underworld of masculine sex workers, and becomes a class of his own. He finds himself on a roller coaster between heavenly love with both men and women, and a living hell ensnared by devious villains and hypocrites. Despite his faith, endeavor and willingness to give, he remains a prisoner to his karma. Hell awaits when heaven seems near, and the ultimate truth is revealed only in a heartbreaking moment from which there is no return.
City Without BaseballCity Without Baseball · 2008
City Without Baseball
4.72008
MovieDrama
In a Hong Kong city where baseball culture is non-existent, baseball players are a minority by choice. The experience teaches them to be free-thinkers in dealing with love, friendship and their own sexuality.
Love Actually... Sucks!Love Actually... Sucks! · 2012
Love Actually... Sucks!
4.52012
MovieDramaRomance
It tells a variety of stories about love that has gone wrong: a brother and sister in an illicit relationship, a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who is besotted with his senior student, and a lesbian couple, one of whom has role-play paranoia, and is caught in a complex love triangle.
UtopiansUtopians · 2015
Utopians
4.42015
MovieComedyDrama
This visually stunning erotic drama follows a young man who finds himself unexpectedly attracted to his handsome, outspoken male professor. Despite — or perhaps because of — his conservative upbringing, Hins is intent on getting close enough to Ming to understand him. It’s an experience that transforms his life and comes to define his adult identity.
BodyshopBodyshop · 2023
Bodyshop
4.42023
MovieFantasyDrama
A ghost soldier bids farewell to his mother then possesses bodies worldwide to meddle in unfaithful relationships in Taiwan, Japan, Spain and Thailand. In Hong Kong he encounters his soulmate amid protests and they take refuge in a garage.
ApostlesApostles · 2022
Apostles
4.02022
MovieDrama
A dying scholar gathers 12 young men at his remote manor to explore death through philosophy, ritual, and transgressive acts—blurring the line between thought and obsession.
VoyageVoyage · 2013
Voyage
3.02013
MovieDrama
A young psychiatrist ventures into a lone voyage to fight his depression. While at sea, he records stories of people departed from this world prematurely, while what awaits him on the shore is the ultimate irony of life.
Naked Nations – Tribe Hong KongNaked Nations – Tribe Hong Kong · 2024
Naked Nations – Tribe Hong Kong
2024
MovieDrama
Naked Nations is a deeply human, joyful, poignant and heartbreaking film about freedom and its many manifestations, fragility and limits, a film about life, depression and difficult decisions. But above all, a film about love.

More Like This

The DamnedThe Damned · 1969
The Damned
7.31969
MovieDramaHistory
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Savage NightsSavage Nights · 1992
Savage Nights
6.51992
MovieDrama
Jean is young, gay, and promiscuous. Only after he meets one or two women, including Laura, does he come to realize his bisexuality. Jean has to overcome a personal crisis and a tough choice between Laura and his male lover Samy.
PixotePixote · 1980
Pixote
7.91980
MovieCrimeDrama
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
From the Life of the MarionettesFrom the Life of the Marionettes · 1980
From the Life of the Marionettes
7.31980
MovieDrama
An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
In a Year with 13 MoonsIn a Year with 13 Moons · 1978
In a Year with 13 Moons
6.61978
MovieDrama
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Mary ForeverMary Forever · 1989
Mary Forever
7.41989
MovieCrimeDrama
Marco, a teacher from Milan, relocates to Palermo and takes a temporary job teaching in a juvenile detention centre while he waits for a high school teaching position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories: Natale, in for murder and enamored with the Mafia; Pietro, who can't seem to stay out of jail; Claudio, barely 14 and learning to stand up for himself; and Mery, a trans sex worker, who was arrested after a fight with a trick who didn't want to pay her, and is now stuck in a male prison.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter