Todd Verow

Todd Verow

Born: November 11, 1966
in Bangor, Maine
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.

Movies for Todd Verow...

The Gay Agenda 24
Title: The Gay Agenda 24
Released: June 1, 2023
Type: Movie
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."
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Last Year at Belvedere
Title: Last Year at Belvedere
Released: March 16, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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F***ed in the Head
Title: F***ed in the Head
Released: June 20, 2022
Type: Movie
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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Swimming to the End of the World
Title: Swimming to the End of the World
Released: June 6, 2021
Type: Movie
A world-weary gay man remembers lost lovers as he swims from the Christopher Street Piers in New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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Covid Summer
Title: Covid Summer
Released: May 27, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Goodbye Seventies
Title: Goodbye Seventies
Character: Nob Hill Manager
Released: September 28, 2020
Type: Movie
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
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Cruising 2020
Title: Cruising 2020
Released: April 22, 2020
Type: Movie
An update on William Friedkin's classic film CRUISING.
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Davy & Goliath
Title: Davy & Goliath
Character: Lurker
Released: April 5, 2018
Type: Movie
An afternoon visit to a small city Sex Shoppe yields excitement, surprise and comic relief.
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Required Field
Title: Required Field
Released: July 8, 2016
Type: Movie
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).
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Available Light
Title: Available Light
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
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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Tumbledown
Title: Tumbledown
Character: Jay
Released: October 25, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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The End of Cruising
Title: The End of Cruising
Released: October 25, 2013
Type: Movie
A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.
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Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 14: Lunchtime Milking Club 2.0
Title: Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 14: Lunchtime Milking Club 2.0
Released: September 16, 2013
Type: Movie
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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Fire Island '79
Title: Fire Island '79
Released: July 18, 2013
Type: Movie
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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Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 13: Off-Duty Cops
Title: Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 13: Off-Duty Cops
Character: Field Training Officer Sutter
Released: April 30, 2013
Type: Movie
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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Tom's Gift
Title: Tom's Gift
Released: October 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Voice-over narration describes Tom's Gift, a sex shop in rural America closed by municipal ordinance.
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Bad Boy Street
Title: Bad Boy Street
Character: Michael
Released: October 22, 2012
Type: Movie
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 .
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Keep the Lights On
Title: Keep the Lights On
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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The Endless Possibility of Sky
Title: The Endless Possibility of Sky
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Leave Blank
Title: Leave Blank
Character: Todd
Released: October 27, 2010
Type: Movie
A lonely man hires a male prostitute to spend the weekend in New York City with him.
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Deleted Scenes
Title: Deleted Scenes
Character: John
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Xx: Where Your Heart Should Be
Title: Xx: Where Your Heart Should Be
Released: October 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Hooks to the Left
Title: Hooks to the Left
Released: October 22, 2006
Type: Movie
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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Bulldog in the White House
Title: Bulldog in the White House
Character: Bulldog
Released: January 28, 2006
Type: Movie
"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.
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Anonymous
Title: Anonymous
Character: Todd
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A man finds himself homeless after a fight with his significant other.
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Die, F*ggot, Die!
Title: Die, F*ggot, Die!
Released: November 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Two lesbians decide to kill their gay roommate.
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Shucking the Curve
Title: Shucking the Curve
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Suzanne Fountain moves to NYC and plummets headlong into a twisted wonderland.
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Little Shots of Happiness
Title: Little Shots of Happiness
Character: Frances' Husband
Released: February 14, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Frisk
Title: Frisk
Character: Blond Man in bathroom
Released: March 22, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Built for Endurance
Title: Built for Endurance
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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The Death of Dottie Love
Title: The Death of Dottie Love
Released: August 19, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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The Flesh Is Willing
Title: The Flesh Is Willing
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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V Is for Violet
Title: V Is for Violet
Released: October 6, 1989
Type: Movie
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.