The French Connection is a prolific producer of gay

Gay

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 pornographic

Pornography

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 videos

Videotape

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Although the company produces several lines of films in different categories, almost all of these feature young men with little or no body hair and who have not been circumcised

Circumcision

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. Many are produced and directed by Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

lian videographer

Videography

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 Nelson De Olivera.

Most of the company's videos are filmed in Brazil or Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

 and feature local actors. Many of their videos have been successful enough to spawn sequels. This sequalization reached its most extreme extent with the Capoeira

Capoeira

Capoeira is a Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, sports, and music. It was created in Brazil mainly by descendants of African slaves with Brazilian native influences, probably beginning in the 16th century...

films, the 27th installment of which was released circa 2007.

French Connection videos

The French Connection produced the following lines of videos, many of which were produced and directed by Nelson De Olivera:

18 Today

18 Today (also known as "18 Today International") is a line of twink

Twink (gay slang)

"Twink" is a gay slang term describing a young or young-looking gay man with a slender, ectomorph build, little or no body hair, and no facial hair. In some societies, the term chick or chicken is preferred. The related term twinkle-toes, which implies that a man is effeminate, tends to be used in...

 videos. Most of these are filmed in Brazil although some are made in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 and at least one uses actors from the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. Many of these videos fetishize

Sexual fetishism

Sexual fetishism, or erotic fetishism, is the sexual arousal a person receives from a physical object, or from a specific situation. The object or situation of interest is called the fetish, the person a fetishist who has a fetish for that object/situation. Sexual fetishism may be regarded, e.g...

 youthful activities such as scouting

Scouting

Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, that they may play constructive roles in society....

, secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 attendance and sports through the use of appropriate costumes and settings.

Black and Tan

Black and Tan is the line which produced the company's more than two dozen Capoeira videos based upon the Brazilian sport of that name and featuring mostly actors of discernible Afro-latino ethnicity. As in most other Latin Connection videos, sexual encounters are presented with a degree of tenderness indicated by kissing and playfulness. Highlighting the contrast between these and many American gay porn movies with banjee

Banjee

Banjee or banjee boy is a term from the 1980s or earlier that describes a certain type of young Latino, Black, or multiracial man who has sex with men and who dresses in stereotypical masculine urban fashion for reasons which may include expressing masculinity, hiding his sexual orientation and...

-type actors, the company advertises these as having "No thugs, no gangsta

Gangsta

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s, just the hottest, most beautiful black men in the Southern Hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earth that lies south of the equator. The word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' or "half sphere"...

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Belo Amigo

Belo Amigo is a line of videos produced in Brazil and mostly centered around sports themes such as futebol, swimming

Swimming (sport)

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 and auto racing

Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

. Other videos in this line fetishize the criminal underworld of the favela

Favela

A favela is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil. In the late 18th century, the first settlements were called bairros africanos . This was the place where former slaves with no land ownership and no options for work lived. Over the years, many freed black slaves moved in...

s and at least one uses the sexual exploits of a Catholic priest as its focus. The Belo Amigo series seems to be a thematic mid-point between the 18 Today line and the Black and Tan line and uses actors from both.

Cream of the Crop

Cream of the Crop is a series of videos produced primarily in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 but a some were made in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 and elsewhere. Directed by names such as Tulani Cosi and Stephane Berry, these may be the videos from which French Connection gets its name. They are not, however, featured on the company website and the company may no longer hold the right to their distribution.

JNRC America

JNRC America are Brazilian-made videos that take their name from French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 videographer Jean Noel Rene Clair. These videos feature "more masculine group of models" that tend to be a little older and more hirsute than those in the video lines previously mentioned.

Young and Uncut

Young and Uncut is a series of videos made in Europe with both solo

Masturbation

Masturbation refers to sexual stimulation of a person's own genitals, usually to the point of orgasm. The stimulation can be performed manually, by use of objects or tools, or by some combination of these methods. Masturbation is a common form of autoeroticism...

 scenes and sex scenes. As the title indicates, special attention is paid to the actors' foreskin

Foreskin

In male human anatomy, the foreskin is a generally retractable double-layered fold of skin and mucous membrane that covers the glans penis and protects the urinary meatus when the penis is not erect...

s. As these videos no longer appear on the company website, French Connection may no longer possess the distribution rights.

Other videos distributed

The following product lines are also featured on the French Connection website and are distributed but not produced by the French Connection:

Amateur Straight Guys

Amateur Straight Guys is a line of videos made from material produced for the website

Website

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 of the same name. As the title indicates, these videos feature ostensibly heterosexual

Heterosexuality

Heterosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the opposite sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, physical or romantic attractions to persons of the opposite sex";...

 men performing a variety of sexual acts. Like videos made by Brad Posey

Brad Posey

Brad Posey is an American artist and video director. Posey began his art career as a painter at age 18, selling works in the Los Angeles area. While studying at UCLA his focus shifted away from painting to photography and video, and Posey became a professional photographer in 1983...

 and Sean Cody

Sean Cody

Sean Cody is a gay pornographic film director and the founder of Seancody.com, his namesake gay-pornography film company. Cody's site is one of the top names in gay pornography pay sites and is famous for its quality movies featuring a large collection of young, muscular amateur men talking about...

, the Amateur Straight Guys videos have no "fourth wall

Fourth wall

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G.F.I.

G.F.I. is a line of older videos made in the United States to which the French Connection company has acquired the copyright

Copyright

Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...

s. One takes place in a jail

Jail

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, another in a public park

Park

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 and a third focuses on an incest

Incest

Incest is sexual intercourse between close relatives that is usually illegal in the jurisdiction where it takes place and/or is conventionally considered a taboo. The term may apply to sexual activities between: individuals of close "blood relationship"; members of the same household; step...

uous relationship.

Manhunter

Manhunter is a line consisting of a handful of Bear

Bear community

"Bear" is a LGBT slang term that refers to members of a subculture in the homosexual and bisexual male communities and to an emerging subset of LGBT communities with events, codes, and a culture-specific identity...

 videos distributed by French Connection.

On Top Productions

On Top Productions is line consisting of a few movies featuring muscular American actors akin to the material produced by Colt Studios and similar operations.

Pantheon Productions

Pantheon Productions is a line represented by the Daddy Hunt series which focuses on sexual encounters between young men and older men. The Real Men series features mature actors and barebacking.

Talos Entertainment

Talos Entertainment produces films that are "Part smut flick, part horror movie" and feature light S&M

Sadism and masochism

Sadomasochism broadly refers to the receiving of pleasure—often sexual—from acts involving the infliction or reception of pain or humiliation. The name originates from two authors on the subject, Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch...

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Wholesome Films

Wholesome Films is a newer and smaller line that features muscular Czech

Czech people

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 actors barebacking

Barebacking

Bareback is a slang term to describe acts of sexual penetration without the use of a condom.The term comes from the equestrian term bareback, which refers to the practice of riding a horse without a saddle...

. One of these videos is based around a construction site

Construction Site

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 and another takes place in a reform school

Reform school

A reform school in the United States was a term used to define, often somewhat euphemistically, what was often essentially a penal institution for boys, generally teenagers.-History:...

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