"Actor: Raphael Barker"

• Shortbus | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm a dominatrix who is unable to connect a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship and the people who weave in and out of their lives all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art music politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11 Bush-exhausted New York City Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.

• Strapped | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A routine trick propels a tall dark cynical hustler (the strikingly handsome newcomer Ben Bonenfant) into a series of life-changing encounters in this stunningly photographed drama. But this amicable and sexually efficient rent boy begins to look at himself differently when he finds himself lost in a maze-like apartment building. As he wanders through the building he tricks with a variety of johns; sex is the commonality but out of that commodity comes raw unguarded emotions for all. Witty sexy and touching Strapped is an unforgettable look into one young man's moving journey towards understanding.

• The Stranger In Us | DVD | (27/02/2012) from £5.85   |  Saving you £10.14 (63.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The pleasures and pitfalls of the nocturnal urban landscape serve as the backdrop for Scott Boswell's beautifully moody debut feature. Anthony (Raphael Barker, Shortbus), an eager small-town newcomer to San Francisco who is dealing with an abusive ex-lover strikes up an unlikely friendship with Gavin, a barely legal runaway and homeless street hustler, who has a turbulent history of his own. Anthony uses his writing to make sense of his situation and his longing for stability. Using a non-chronological style, this vrit-style drama explores youthful impulsivity and perilous street life with both clarity and compassion.