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Monster (Kaibutsu) (2023): Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa; Director Hirokazu Kore–eda returns home with his first Japanese film since the Palm d'Or–winning "Shoplifters" (2018) with this…
Blue Caftan, The (2022): Dir. Maryam Touzani
Feat. Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui; A rare peek into Moroccan culture, and the dying craft of hand–made caftans that are painstakingly embroidered with a needle and thread. And…
Blue Jean (2022): Dir. Georgia Oakley
Feat. Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Stacy Abalogun…; The story of a closeted lesbian P.E. teacher in Thatcher’s Britain that feels like it could have (and should have) been made in the early 1980's,…
Close (2022): Dir. Lukas Dhont
Feat. Eden Dambrine, Léa Drucker, Kevin Janssens; Another closely–observed Belgian drama that, along with "Playground", explores a traumatic rite–of–passage. Here the protagonists…
Tár (Tar) (2022): Dir. Todd Field
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant…; A striking and rigorously intelligent drama from the director of IN THE BEDROOM that interrogates the process, pressures and politics in the…
Benedetta (2021): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Virginie Efira, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin…; Typically provocative yet playful psychodrama from Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, starring Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini, a novice nun in the…
Language Lessons (2021): Dir. Natalie Morales
Feat. Mark Duplass, Natalie Morales; A Spanish teacher and her American student develop an unexpected friendship over a series of conference calls in this quirky, Co–Vid inspired…
Ammonite (2020): Dir. Francis Lee
Feat. Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones…; A speculative lesbian period drama from the director of the acclaimed gay male romance, GOD'S OWN COUNTRY. Kate Winslet plays British palaeontologist…
It's a Sin (TV Mini-series) (2020): Dir. Peter Hoar
Feat. Olly Alexander, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells…; Another rich and satisfying drama created and written by Russell T Davies (QUEER AS FOLK, DOCTOR WHO, YEARS & YEARS), this time set in London in 1981…
Supernova (2020): Dir. Harry Macqueen
Feat. Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Pippa Haywood…; A poignant modern love story with Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci playing a couple who have been in love for 20 years. After a wrenching diagnosis…
Mapplethorpe (2019): Dir. Ondi Timoner
Feat. Matt Smith, Marianne Rendon, John Benjamin Hickey; Biopic of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, with Matt Smith portraying the brilliantly provocative photographer and gay icon.
Monsoon (2019): Dir. Hong Khaou
Feat. Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers, David Tran…; A sensitive and detailed portrait of the emigrant experience, following a Vietnamese man who returns to Saigon after three decades living in…
Summerland (2019): Dir. Jessica Swale
Feat. Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lucas Bond…; A love–story set in the timeless and enchanting world of Summerland; sun–dappled days by the sea over one achingly beautiful summer.…
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018): Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Ben Hardy…; A stonking, irrepressibly popular chronicle of Freddie Mercury and the band Queen's ascension to popular music royalty through the years leading up…
Love, Simon (2018): Dir. Greg Berlanti
Feat. Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Garner; A high school love story taking the best of the genre cliches (yes, John Hughes) and translating them into a gay context – an unprecedented…
Miseducation of Cameron Post, The (2018): Dir. Desiree Akhavan
Feat. Chloe Grace Moretz, Jennifer Ehle, John Gallagher, Jr.…; Surprise winner of the U.S. Grand Jury prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, this heart–breaking indie drama stars Chloe Grace Moretz as a…
Sorry Angel (2018): Dir. Christophe Honore
Feat. Pierre Deladonchamps, Vincent Lacoste, Denis Podalydes; Articulate and powerful love story set in Paris in the 90's, where a worldly writer falls for a younger, carefree university student.
Beach Rats (2017): Dir. Eliza Hittman
Feat. Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge; A sensuously shot film exploring the life of a sexually conflicted Brooklyn teen, as he navigates the dangers of casual hookups and youthful…
BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017): Dir. Robin Campillo
Feat. Nahuel Pérez Biscayar, Arnaud Valois, Adele Haenel; Remarkable and inspiring drama by the director of EASTERN BOYS, set in 1990's France and following a group of passionate AIDS activists who take on…
Call Me By Your Name (2017): Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg…; Completing the "Desire" trilogy with I AM LOVE and A BIGGER SPLASH, this coming–of–age drama is set in Northern Italy in 1983, where a 17…
God's Own Country (2017): Dir. Francis Lee
Feat. Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Ian Hart…; Deeply affecting drama set on a remote Yorkshire farm, exploring the troubled life of young farmer Johnny Saxby, who numbs his frustrations in binge…
Screwed (Pihalla) (2017): Dir. Nils-Erik Ekblom
Feat. Mikko Kauppila, Sanna Majuri, Valtteri Lehtinen; Sweet–natured Finnish coming–of–age drama about two teenage boys who fall in love during a summer in the countryside.
Wound, The (Inxeba) (2017): Dir. John Trengove
Feat. Nakhane Toure; An unforgettable South African drama following a closeted relationship between two Xhosa men participating in a coming–of–age initiation…
Handsome Devil (2016): Dir. John Butler
Feat. Fionn O’Shea, Nicholas Galitzine, Andrew Scott; This sweet and amiable Irish coming–of–age story in which a loner and the star athlete at a rugby–mad boarding school become…
Lazy Eye (2016): Dir. Tim Kirkman
Feat. Lucas Near-Verbruggh, Aaron Costa Ganis, Michaela Watkins; A graphic designer in his 40's reconnects with a lost love over a weekend away in the Californian desert in this gay–themed romantic drama.…
Moonlight (2016): Dir. Barry Jenkins
Feat. Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders, Andre Holland…; Critically lauded and Oscar–awarded drama that chronicles two decades in the life of a black gay man growing up in a poor Miami neighbourhood.…
Shared Rooms (2016): Dir. Rob Williams
Feat. Daniel Lipshutz, Alex Neil Miller, Enzo Nova; Queer rom–com telling three interconnected stories of gay men seeking love during the holiday season. A married couple take in a teenage…
Carol (2015): Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson…; Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara star in this spellbinding adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's groundbreaking romantic novel. Set in 1950's New York it…
Freeheld (2015): Dir. Peter Sollett
Feat. Julianne Moore, Elliot Page, Steve Carell…; Julianne Moore and Elliot Page headline this fact–based drama as a couple battling to secure their financial future in the face of a terminal…
Girl King, The (2015): Dir. Mika Kaurismaki
Feat. Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist…; Lush period drama about Queen Christina, Sweden's convention flaunting monarch, and her battle with the conservative forces determined to halt her…
Holding the Man (2015): Dir. Neil Armfield
Feat. Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Guy Pearce…; Moving adaptation of the classic Australian memoir chronicling the 15–year romance between an aspiring actor and the captain of the high school…
I Am Michael (2015): Dir. Justin Kelly
Feat. James Franco, Emma Roberts, Zachary Quinto; The fascinating true story of a gay activist who rejects his sexuality and becomes a Christian pastor. James Franco is above average in his portrayal…
It's Only the End of the World (2015): Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard…; French–Canadian prodigy Xavier Dolan returns with this Cannes–winning melodrama about a terminally ill gay writer who returns to his…
Nasty Baby (2015): Dir. Sebastián Silva
Feat. Kristen Wiig, Sebastián Silva, Tunde Adebimpe…; Disturbing drama about a gay couple's attempts to create a family irrevocably altered by a fatal encounter with a disturbed homeless man.
Soft Lad (2015): Dir. Leon Lopez
Feat. Jonny Labey, Laura Ainsworth, Daniel Brocklebank; Melodrama set in Liverpool about a married man who has been having an affair with his wife's brother, a young dance student. A love triangle with a…
Stonewall (2015): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Jeremy Irvine; Hollywood "disaster" specialist Roland Emmerich directs this account of a young gay man's political awakening and coming of age during the days and…
Wasp (2015): Dir. Philippe Audi-Dor
Feat. Hugo Bolton, Elly Condron, Simon Haycock; Romantic drama about two gay men whose vacation in the South of France is interrupted when one of their female friends show up, leading to sexual…
Duke of Burgundy, The (2014): Dir. Peter Strickland
Feat. Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Monica Swinn; BORGEN star Sidse Babett Knudsen throws aside the responsibilities of leading the Danish nation to star in this slice of arty–kink from the…
Hidden Away (A escondidas) (2014): Dir. Mikel Rueda
Feat. German Alcarazu, Adil Koukouh, Joseba Ugalde; Spanish romantic drama filmed in neighbourhoods throughout Bilbao, exploring themes of sexual awakening, racism and deportation through the story of…
I Am Happiness on Earth (2014): Dir. Julien Hernandez
Feat. Hugo Catalan, Gabino Rodriguez, Andrea Portal; Gay–themed Mexican film about the infatuation a commitment–phobic film director has for a talented dancer. Director Julian Hernandez…
Lilting (2014): Dir. Hong Khaou
Feat. Ben Whishaw, Pei Pei Cheng, Andrew Leung…; In the wake of the sudden passing of a young Anglo–Chinese man, his gay lover (Ben Whishaw) is compelled to connect with his widowed mother, a…
Looking (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Álvarez, Murray Bartlett…; A funny and earnest HBO dramedy about the lives of a group of gay friends living in contemporary San Francisco. Co–produced by Andrew Haigh…
Love is Strange (2014): Dir. Ira Sachs
Feat. John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei; Poignant drama with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina starring as a recently married gay couple who are forced to move into separate households after…
Normal Heart, The (2014): Dir. Ryan Murphy
Feat. Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch…; Powerful HBO–produced adaptation of Larry Kramer's stageplay about the AIDS crisis in New York City in the 1980s and the efforts of HIV…
Pride (2014): Dir. Matthew Warchus
Feat. Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West…; An inspired and inspirational dramatization of true events that took place when a group of Gay Rights activists in London offered generous support to…
Saint Laurent (2014): Dir. Bertrand Bonello
Feat. Gaspard Ulliel, Jeremie Renier, Louis Garrel…; A decadent alternate portrait of the iconic fashion designer covering the peak of his career from 1967 to 1976. From the dir. of HOUSE OF PLEASURES.
Behind the Candelabra (2013): Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Scott Bakula…; Steven Soderbergh directs this classy HBO–produced biopic of flamboyant pianist Liberace (Michael Douglas) and his rocky relationship with…
C.O.G. (2013): Dir. Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Feat. Jonathan Groff, Denis O'Hare, Casey Wilson…; Coming–of–age dramedy based on the story of the same name by David Sedaris. A young man (Jonathan Groff) travels to Oregon to work on…
Dallas Buyers Club (2013): Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto…; Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto both won Oscars for their performances in this dramatization of the story of Ron Woodroof, an AIDS–afflicted…
Eastern Boys (2013): Dir. Robin Campillo
Feat. Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Danil Vorobyev; Unconventional thriller explores the shifting dynamics in a relationship between an older man and a young immigrant male hustler.
Geography Club (2013): Dir. Gary Entin
Feat. Cameron Deane Stewart, Meaghan Martin, Justin Deeley; A sweet–centred dramedy of queer coming–of–age, focused on a teenager whose struggle with sexuality is comforted after he joins an…
I Do (2013): Dir. Glenn Gaylord
Feat. Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Alicia Witt, Maurice Compte…; A gay man marries his bestie to get a green card in this politically motivated family drama.
Keep the Lights On (2013): Dir. Ira Sachs
Feat. Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth; Director Ira Sachs' fearlessly personal screenplay chronicles an emotionally and sexually charged journey of two men in New York City through love,…
Perfect Wedding, The (2013): Dir. Scott Gabriel
Feat. James Rebhorn, Eric Aragon, Kristine Sutherland; Nobody's going for the Best Actor Oscar in this Hallmark–but–gay Xmas movie from New York Times Bestselling Author Suzanne Brockmann.…
Please Like Me (TV Series) (2013): Dir. Matthew Saville
Feat. Josh Thomas, Debra Lawrance, David Roberts…; A charming (if cute) Australian comedy–drama series created by and starring Josh Thomas, who plays a twenty–something who's girlfriend…
Reaching for the Moon (2013): Dir. Bruno Barreto
Feat. Gloria Pires, Miranda Otto, Tracy Middendorf…; A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
Tattoo (Tatuagem) (2013): Dir. Hilton Lacerda
Feat. Irandhir Santos, Jesuíta Barbosa, Rodrigo Garcia; Singular Brazilian film set in the 70's, where the leader of a debaucherous cabaret theatre troupe falls in love with a soldier, and is torn between…
Test (2013): Dir. Chris Mason Johnson
Feat. Kevin Clarke, Kristoffer Cusick; Drama set in San Francisco in 1985, exploring the effects that the HIV/AIDS crisis had on a professional dance company working in the city. The test…
Turtle Hill, Brooklyn (2013): Dir. Ryan Gielen
Feat. Brian W. Seibert, Ricardo Valdez, Joie Bauer; Micro–budget indie dramedy about a gay couple who invite their friends over for a 30th birthday party, with all kinds of drama ensuing. A well…
A Perfect Ending (2012): Dir. Nicole Conn
Feat. Barbara Niven, Jessica Clark, John Heard…; Romantic drama about a terminally ill women in a loveless marriage who turns to an escort service seeking seeking sexual fulfillment, and meets a sex…
Any Day Now (2012): Dir. Travis Fine
Feat. Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Frances Fisher…; A gay couple in the 1970s fight to earn custody of the Downs Syndrome teenager they've taken in and raised as their own in this poignant family drama.
Dead Europe (2012): Dir. Tony Krawitz
Feat. Marton Csokas, Ewen Leslie, Kodi Smit-McPhee; An Australian photographer journeys to Greece to explore his heritage and lay to rest his father's ashes, only to encounter a tide of hatred and the…
Jack & Diane (Jack and Diane) (2012): Dir. Bradley Rust Gray
Feat. Riley Keough, Juno Temple, Kylie Minogue…; Juno Temple and Riley Keough star in this romance between two teenage girls that quickly manifests as terrifying, violent and inexplicable.
Laurence Anyways (2012): Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye…; Young French–Canadian actor/director Xavier Dolan stays behind the camera of his third film (made at 23 years of age, no less), an assured…
My Straight Son (Azul y no tan rosa) (2012): Dir. Miguel Ferrari
Feat. Guillermo Garcia, Nacho Montes, Hilda Abrahamz; Venezuelan drama about a successful gay photographer living in Caracas whose teenage son from a past relationship comes to stay. Unfamiliar with the…
Silent Youth (2012): Dir. Diemo Kemmesies
Feat. Martin Bruchmann, Josef Mattes, Linda Schule; Low key German indie drama offering a story of gay first love, replete with palpable sexual tension and interesting, honest performances. Like so…
Yossi (2012): Dir. Eytan Fox
Feat. Ohad Knoller; A satisfying, exploratory follow–up to Israeli gay drama YOSSI AND JAGGER, this catches up with the titular Yossi, now ten years older and no…
Beginners (2011): Dir. Mike Mills
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent…; Semi–autobiographical tale from the dir. of THUMBSUCKER reconciles two relationships in the life of a 38–year–old graphic artist…
Circumstance (2011): Dir. Maryam Keshavarz
Feat. Sarah Kazemy, Nikohl Boosheri, Reza Sixo Safai…; A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession in this courageous, if…
Cloudburst (2011): Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Ryan Doucette; A longtime lesbian couple hit the road for Canada so they can legally marry in this moving road movie.
Green, The (2011): Dir. Steven Williford
Feat. Jason Butler Harner, Cheyenne Jackson, Illeana Douglas…; Drama about a gay couple who relocate from NYC to Connecticut seeking some quiet, but find their lives disrupted when one is accused of inappropriate…
Sal (2011): Dir. James Franco
Feat. Val Lauren, Jim Parrack, James Franco; James Franco directs this chronicle of the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one–time teen idol and star of the blockbuster film…
Weekend (2011): Dir. Andrew Haigh
Feat. Tom Cullen, Chris New, Kieran Hardcastle; A thematically rich, dramatically articulate gay romance between a semi–closeted man and a free–spirited cynic who casually hook up over…
3 (Three) (2010): Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow; Dir. Tom Tykwer energises this simple love story of a forty–something couple who fall for the same man with the frenetic visual and narrative…
Bloomington (2010): Dir. Fernanda Cardoso
Feat. Allison McAtee, Sarah Stouffer; Coming–of–age drama following a former child actress who decides to enroll in college to gain more independence, but is drawn away from…
Elena Undone (2010): Dir. Nicole Conn
Feat. Necar Zadegan, Traci Dinwiddie, Gary Weeks; Lesbian drama about a pastor's wife who falls in love with a well–known writer. The ensuing secret relationship upends her marriage just as she…
Heartbeats (2010): Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Xavier Dolan, Niels Schneider, Monia Chokri; A quick turnaround for precocious French Canadian dir. Xavier Dolan; his sophomore feature an equally painful and amusing bifurcated romance, in…
Howl (2010): Dir. Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Feat. James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm…; A fitting celebration and account of the making and hostile reception of Allen Ginsberg's famously controversial poem, with James Franco superb as…
Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Kawa) (2010): Dir. Katie Wolfe
Feat. Calvin Tuteao, George Henare, Dean O'Gorman…; Psychological drama of a family man coming to terms with his homosexuality and whose decision to come out plunges his family into crisis. Based on…
Sasha (2010): Dir. Dennis Todorovic
Feat. Sasa Kekez, Predrag Bjelac, Ljubisa Gruicic; Compassionate gay drama about a Yugoslav–German piano prodigy who is trying to gain admittance to a prestigious music school but who becomes…
Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, The (2010): Dir. James Kent
Feat. Maxine Peake, Anna Madeley, Susan Lynch…; Quality BBC biopic from director James Kent (TESTAMENT OF YOUTH) about the life of Anne Lister, a 19th–century Yorkshire landowner who defied…
Worried About the Boy (2010): Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Douglas Booth, Mathew Horne, Mark Gatiss…; Compassionate, but never fawning, biopic of the eighties icon Boy George jumps between his early taste of pop stardom to post–fame despair.…
A Single Man (2009): Dir. Tom Ford
Feat. Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult…; Colin Firth gives a career–best performance as a gay English professor who grieves for his long–time lover in this impeccable and…
An Englishman in New York (2009): Dir. Richard Laxton
Feat. John Hurt, Swoosie Kurtz, Jonathan Tucker…; Sequel to THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT with John Hurt reprising his role as gay raconteur Quentin Crisp as he spends the latter parts of his life in New…
From Beginning to End (Do Começo ao Fim) (2009): Dir. Aluizio Abranches
Feat. João Gabriel Vasconcellos, Rafael Cardoso, Júlia Lemmertz; Controversial Brazilian ode to incestuous half–brothers that's evocatively shot and titillatingly steamy but strangely coy on the consequences.
Greek Pete (2009): Dir. Andrew Haigh; An intimate and explicit insight into the actual life experiences of a group of young male escorts.
I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) (2009): Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément…; An angst ridden teen grapples with growing up gay and his neurotic, overbearing mother in this feisty first feature from young French Canadian…
Plan B (2009): Dir. Marco Berger
Feat. Manuel Vignau, Lucas Ferraro, Mercedes Quinteros; Languid drama where a man's efforts to sabotage his ex–girlfriends new relationship – with a half baked plan of seducing her boyfriend,…
Prayers for Bobby (2009): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley…; Tragically true tale of a zealous christian whose attempts to convert her gay son to heterosexuality lead ultimately to his death and sets her on an…
Redwoods (2009): Dir. David Lewis
Feat. Brendan Bradley, Matthew Montgomery, Elinor Bell…; Low–key drama has a man trapped in an emotionally unsatisfying relationship contemplating an affair with a brooding stranger.
Shank (2009): Dir. Simon Pearce
Feat. Wayne Virgo, Marc Laurent, Alice Payne…; Harrowing coming–of–age drama which makes up for a few cliches with a lot of raw power. Set in Bristol, where a closeted gay youth…
Undertow (Contracorriente) (2009): Dir. Javier Fuentes-Leon
Feat. Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona; A beguiling drama set in a remote seaside Peruvian village, where a fisherman mourns for his deceased lover and experiences his ghost lingering in…
Ciao (2008): Dir. Yen Tan
Feat. Adam Neal Smith, Alessandro Calza; Low–budget indie gem about two men who form a romantic bond over two days when their mutual friend dies in a car crash in Dallas, Texas.
Little Ashes (2008): Dir. Paul Morrison
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty, Javier Beltran…; Meandering and soapy look at three of Spain's artistic enfant terribles; Luis Bunuel, Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali. Focussing on the…
Milk (2008): Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin…; Saying it proud but not too loud, this dramatized biopic of the first openly–elected gay official fittingly tributes the legacy of San…
Mulligans (2008): Dir. Chip Hale
Feat. Thea Gill, Derek James, Dan Payne; Earnest gay drama from Canada centered around an affair between a married man and his son's best friend. Although there's plenty of scope for…
Telstar (Telstar: The Joe Meek Story) (2008): Dir. Nick Moran
Feat. Con O' Neill, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris…; Suitably poppy biopic of the rise and fall of flamboyant music producer Joe Meek whose pioneering sound experiments briefly made him the toast of…
Breakfast With Scot (2007): Dir. Laurie Lynd
Feat. Tom Cavanagh, Ben Shenkman, Noah Bernett; Tom Cavanagh (from TV's ED) plays up his character's awkward machismo – a closeted sportscaster whose 11–year–old adoptive son is…
Running Deep (2007): Dir. Mark Kokkoros
Feat. Douglas. A. Hary; Affecting drama involving a scattered family unit who upon hearing of the death of their mother decide to meet up with unpredictably tragic results.…
Savage Grace (2007): Dir. Tom Kalin
Feat. Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne…; Featuring another fearless performance from the great Julianne Moore, this takes the family dysfunction drama to a disturbing extreme as it maps the…
Save Me (2007): Dir. Robert Cary
Feat. Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Judith Light…; Drama following a gay man who checks into a Christian "conversion therapy" retreat in the New Mexico desert, to try to heal himself of a dangerous…
Shelter (2007): Dir. Jonah Markowitz
Feat. Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe, Tina Holmes; Gay surfing drama following young surfer Zach (Wright), who, when forced to give up dreams of art school to help care for his family, finds solace in…
This Kiss (2007): Dir. Kylie Eddy
Feat. Melanie Lockman, Tamsin Gatewood; Drama about the relationship between two women, best friends since childhood but torn apart by a heartbreaking incident. One has become a successful…
Witnesses, The (2007): Dir. Andre Techine
Feat. Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Beart, Sami Bouajila…; Told in three chapters, this matter–of–fact ensemble drama centred on the AIDS crisis as it hit Paris during the eighties, develops into…
Boy Culture (2006): Dir. Q. Allan Brocka
Feat. Derek Magyar, George Jonson, Patrick Bauchau; Gay 'guy' movie exploring an enigmatic hustler's most intimate thoughts and desires, in strict contrast to his macho exterior. Although the thick…
Grimm Love (Rohtenburg) (2006): Dir. Martin Weisz
Feat. Keri Russell, Thomas Kretschmann, Thomas Huber; Morbidly fascinating drama based on the sensational true story of Armin Meiwes, a cannibal who searched the internet for a companion willing to be…
History Boys, The (2006): Dir. Nicholas Hytner
Feat. Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Samuel Anderson…; Alan Bennett's hit stageplay about the precocious lads and frustrated teachers at a well–bred English boarding school is transposed directly to…
Infamous (2006): Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig…; Beaten to the punch, this second take on Truman Capote’s infamy suffers inevitably from de–ja vu, yet has plenty new to offer as an alternate…
Line of Beauty, The (2006): Dir. Saul Dibb
Feat. Tim McInnerny, Oliver Coleman, Dan Stevens; BBC serial adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker award–winning novel about a young, gay man who gains entree to an upper class milieu during…
Quinceañera (2006): Dir. Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer
Feat. Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo Gonzalez; Accessible indie about a Mexican–American teen approaching her Quinceañera ( "sweet 15"), who is forced to seek refuge with her great uncle…
Shortbus (2006): Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
Feat. Sook-Yin Lee, Lindsay Beamish, Paul Dawson…; A raucous, freewheeling comedy of intercourse from gay auteur John Cameron Mitchell, audacious in its employment of explicit sex, unknown actors and…
Tan Lines (2006): Dir. Ed Aldridge
Feat. Jack Baxter, Lorena Arancibia, Jed Clarke…; Sun–soaked coming of age drama with a hard partying surfer stuck in small town Australia falling under the spell of a worldly older surfer.…
Time to Leave (2006): Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi…; Dir. Ozon expands on the theme of death and mourning, first explored in UNDER THE SAND, with this carefully composed, if somewhat underdeveloped male…
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005): Dir. Stewart Main
Feat. Rima Te Wiata; Rural New Zealand forms a stylised background to this unusual rites–of–passage drama which combines whimsy, pathos and cruelty for a…
Brokeback Mountain (2005): Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams…; A 'cause celebre' of recent cinema, this epic romantic drama is set around the terse and smouldering long–term love affair between two cowboys…
DL Chronicles, The (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Damian T. Raven, Sheilynn Wactor, T. Ashanti Mozelle; Pioneering TV series about a group of gay African–American males who choose to lead double lives and attempt to keep their homosexual…
Happy Endings (2005): Dir. Don Roos
Feat. Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Maggie Gyllenhaal…; A clutch of hedonistic Americans collide, abuse and impregnate each other in this typically light yet smart black comedy from the dir. of THE…
Hard Pill (2005): Dir. John Baumgartner
Feat. Jonathan Slavin, Scotch Ellis Loring, Susan Slome…; Provocative comedy–drama dares to posit a scenario in which a little pill can induce heterosexuality and when a depressed gay man wonders if…
Stupid Boy (Garçon Stupide) (2005): Dir. Lionel Baier
Feat. Natacha Koutchoumov, Pierre Chatagny, Rui Pedro Alves; Raw drama focused around Loic, a young gay swinger in Switzerland, and his attraction to an older man who offers unexpected emotional stability.…
Transamerica (2005): Dir. Duncan Tucker
Feat. Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers; Gender–bender road drama with a winning central performance by 'Desperate Housewife' Felicity Huffman as a transsexual about to take the final…
A Home at the End of the World (2004): Dir. Michael Mayer
Feat. Colin Farrell, Robin Wright, Sissy Spacek; A strange dramatic creation from the writer of THE HOURS, concerns an unusual orphan manchild (Farrell) with a desire to make 'everyone happy' who…
Angels in America (TV Mini Series) (2004): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson…; An ambitious, multi–leveled portrait of the fractures, politics and metaphysical crises of 1980s America based on the stageplay by Tony…
Bad Education (Mala Educación, La) (2004): Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Javier Camara; Another fascinating work from Almodovar who, after TALK TO HER, again matches his renowned taste in decor with adventurous yet controlled…
Brother to Brother (2004): Dir. Rodney Evans
Feat. Anthony Mackie, Larry Gilliard, Jr, Duane Boutte…; Heartfelt drama delves deep into the quagmire of identity politics in its depiction of the challenges faced by gay black artists in America set both…
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Crazy) (2004): Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Michel Côté; Rockin' and colourful rites–of–passage drama evolves out an adolescent boy's (Grondin) experiences as part of an unusual family during…
De-Lovely (Delovely) (2004): Dir. Irwin Winkler
Feat. Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce; Refined and dandy musical biopic of legendary tunesmith Cole Porter, who composed some great music while leading a gay double–life during his…
Do I Love You? (2004): Dir. Lisa Gornick
Feat. Harri Alexander, Birghitta Bernhard, Darren Black; Lesbian drama made on a shoestring budget exploring the life of a women in crisis. In her 30's, she is questioning her relationship with her…
Kinsey (2004): Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell…; Polished dramatization of the life and work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, who boldly pioneered research into human sexuality in an ultra–conservative…
L Word, The (TV Series) (2004-2009): Feat. Jennifer Beals, Mia Kirshner, Pam Grier…; A fiercely determined "queer" series exploring Los Angeles' liberal gay scene, canvasing a tight–knit community of attractive lesbians and…
Mysterious Skin (2004): Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Michelle Trachtenberg…; An acclaimed realisation of 'New Queer Cinema' dir. Araki's early promise, with an uncompromising fable based around a teenage hustler who is…
Poster Boy (2004): Dir. Zak Tucker
Feat. Karen Allen, Michael Lerner, Jack Noseworthy…; A campaigning right–wing senator conscripts his closeted gay son to play happy families for the public, but the stakes are raised when the son…
Producing Adults (2004): Dir. Aleksi Salmenpera
Feat. Minna Haapkyla, Kari-Pekka Toivonen, Minttu Mustakallio…; Finnish comedy–drama about a woman who develops an unlikely relationship with the female doctor she meets at the fertility clinic, while she is…
Rice Rhapsody (Hainan ji fan) (2004): Dir. Kenneth Bi
Feat. Sylvia Chang, Mélanie Laurent, Maggie Q; Light, good–natured familial farce about a sturdy single mother who, fearing a drought of grandchildren, plots to ‘straighten’ the…
Summer Storm (Sommersturm) (2004): Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner
Feat. Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann; Two best friends – the pride of the local rowing club – find their loyalties and chances of winning threatened, as one gets serious about…
Three Dancing Slaves (2004): Dir. Gaël Morel
Feat. Nicolas Cazalé, Stephane Rideau, Thomas Dumerchez…; French romantic drama set in a working class Annecy neighbourhood where three brothers are in and out of the criminal world after their mother dies,…
Tropical Malady (2004): Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Feat. Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee; A gorgeous two–hander from the dir. of BLISSFULLY YOURS begins as a tender romance between a farmer and a solider, before transforming into a…
15 (2003): Dir. Royston Tan
Feat. Melvin Chen, Erick Chun; Doing for the tiny island nation of Singapore what LA HAINE did for France, this box–office hit follows the misfiring antics of three teenagers…
Event, The (2003): Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley…; The taboo of assisted suicide is broached in this measured Canadian ensemble drama about an AIDS–afflicted musician (McKellar) who takes his…
Latter Days (2003): Dir. C. Jay Cox
Feat. Steve Sandvoss, Wes Ramsey, Jacqueline Bisset; Putting a slight twist on the conventions of romantic gay comedy, a Los Angeles party animal falls for and becomes involved with a young Mormon…
Normal (2003): Dir. Jane Anderson
Feat. Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Lange, Clancy Brown; Tom Wilkinson takes on the brave role of an All–American husband and family man who one day tells his wife (Lange) that he "is a woman trapped…
Party Monster (2003): Dir. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Feat. Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloe Sevigny; A dramatization of the rise and fall of dandy NY nightclub promoter Michael Alig, who murdered one of his acolytes in the late 1980s, this depicts…
Twist (2003): Dir. Jacob Tierney
Feat. Nick Stahl, Gary Farmer, Stephen McHattie…; 'Gay hustler' recasting of the Charles Dickens classic, set amid a group of heroin addicts who inhabit the inner–city dark corners of modernday…
Watching You (2003): Feat. Diane Flacks, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Cara Pifko…; A collection of award–winning international lesbian short films, which will be a treat for the target audience. There's a huge variety of…
Close to Leo (Tout contre Léo) (2002): Dir. Christophe Honore
Feat. Yaniss Lespert, Pierre Mignard, Marie Bunel…; French drama exploring the tensions in a family when a closeted gay man is diagnosed HIV positive and his parents attempt to hide the news (and the…
Far From Heaven (2002): Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert; An exquisitely designed pastiche of 50s soap opera that mimics the look and acting style of vintage–movie melodrama but cleverly deviates by…
Laramie Project, The (2002): Dir. Moisés Kaufman
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Clea Duvall, Jeremy Davies…; Moisés Kaufman directs this film based on his own play, set in the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student in…
Madame Sata (2002): Dir. Karim Ainouz
Feat. Lazaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Felippe Marques…; The underbelly of 1930s Rio de Janeiro glistens in this atmospheric drama about the celebrated João Francisco dos Santos (Ramos), a flamboyant gay…
Suddenly (2002): Dir. Diego Lerman
Feat. Carla Crespo, Tatiana Saphir, Veronica Hassan; Grimy, punkish road movie morphs that into a rather tender tale with two tough girls from the hood kidnapping a local shop girl and taking her on an…
Yossi and Jagger (2002): Dir. Eytan Fox
Feat. Ohad Knoller; Subversive, sweetly–natured gay drama set amid the close–quarters comraderie of the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) where a commanding…
Bob and Rose (TV Series) (2001): Dir. Julian Farino, Joe Wright
Feat. Alan Davies, Lesley Sharp; Smart, open–minded relationship drama contemplates the possibility of a gay man and a straight woman falling in love. Devoid of stereotypes,…
Fluffer, The (2001): Dir. Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland; Salacious piece of fluff about an aspiring filmmaker whose fascination with a male porn star leads him to scoring a job on the set. He soon rises to…
Further Tales of the City (TV Series) (2001): Dir. Pierre Gang
Feat. Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis; Armistad Maupin’s tales of San Francisco friends, families and lovers continues in its likeable way.
Ignorant Fairies, The (His Secret Life) (2001): Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek
Feat. Stefano Accorsi; A woman's life in Rome is thrown into relief after the death of her doctor husband – especially when she discovers a secret inscription on the…
Lawless Heart (2001): Dir. Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
Feat. Douglas Henshall, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy; A triptych of inter–related stories set in a coastal village in Essex, from the points–of–view of three different men who convene…
Before Night Falls (2000): Dir. Julian Schnabel
Feat. Javier Bardem, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp; The life and times of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem) told as a florid visual collage – dream, memory and history merging on the…
Big Eden (2000): Dir. Thomas Bezucha
Feat. Arye Gross, Louise Fletcher, George Coe; Benignly wishful drama set in the small Montana hometown of a slightly stressed gay NYC painter (Gross), who has returned to nurse his ailing…
Borstal Boy (2000): Dir. Peter Sheridan
Feat. Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Michael York; Well–mannered adaptation of playwright Brendan Behan's classic memoir of being sent to a youth prison in WW2 England after being caught with…
Chuck and Buck (2000): Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Chris Weitz, Mike White, Paul Weitz…; Squirmingly funny independent film that makes exemplary use of its small budget with a sustained, original script and handsome digital videography.…
Common Ground (2000): Dir. Donna Deitch
Feat. Edward Asner, Beau Bridges, Harvey Fierstein…; Compassionate, quality trilogy of short stories dealing with gay issues over three different eras. "A Friend of Dorothy" concerns a woman…
Edge of Seventeen (2000): Dir. David Morton
Feat. Thomas Arklie; With its drab mid–1980s Ohio setting, complete with pastel clothing, Boy George–inspired haircuts and Bronksi Beat music, this puts a…
Flawless (2000): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman; After suffering a stroke that leaves him part–paralyzed, an arch–conservative, retired security guard (Robert De Niro) agrees to let a…
Phantom (Fantasma, O) (2000): Dir. João Pedro Rodrigues
Feat. Ricardo Meneses; This plunge into Portugal’s gay underground concerns an alienated garbage collector who seeks out anonymous sexual encounters in Lisbon’s…
Presque Rien (Almost Nothing) (2000): Dir. Sebastien Lifshitz
Feat. Jérémie Elkaïm, Stephane Rideau; French drama of melancholic first love that, despite the common themes, sets itself apart with sensitive acting and a deeply felt approach to the…
Queer As Folk (TV Series) (2000-2005): Feat. Hal Sparks, Gale Harold, Peter Paige…; An American variation on the groundbreaking British series (currently unavailable due to censorship restrictions) which is likewise completely set…
Urbania (2000): Dir. Jon Shear
Feat. Dan Futterman, Alan Cumming, Matt Keesler; Edgy indie hit following the insomniac wanderings of a dashing yuppie who is coping with the death of his partner. A hit at the 2000 Sundance Film…
Five Senses, The (1999): Dir. Jeremy Podeswa
Feat. Mary-Louise Parker, Pascale Bussieres, Daniel MacIvor…; Austere relationship drama in which five loosely–connected characters serve as metaphors for the five senses, including a bisexual housecleaner…
Gohatto (Taboo) (1999): Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. Takeshi Kitano; Visually stunning evocation of the tensions in a samurai–training school in 1860s Japan, with Kitano playing a captain who agonises over his…
Queer as Folk (TV Series) (1999): Feat. Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, Charlie Hunnam…; Groundbreaking television drama that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Eight…
Story of a Bad Boy, The (1999): Dir. Tom Donaghy
Feat. Jeremy Hollingworth, Christian Camargo; Taken from the dir.’s stageplay, this not–so–bad gay teen drama sets itelf in early 80s New Jersey with student Jeremy Hollingworth…
When Love Comes (1999): Dir. Garth Maxwell
Feat. Rena Owen, Simon Prast, Nancy Brunning…; Earnest tableaux of straight, gay, lesbian and platonic relationships underscored by a music motif and sombre themes of compromise and loss.…
Get Real (1998): Dir. Simon Shore
Feat. Ben Silverstone; This British tale of a teen schoolboy's frustratingly closeted affair with the athletic head boy of his high school makes the grade to appeal to…
Gods and Monsters (1998): Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave; In one of the more quietly celebrated dramas of the year, Sir Ian McKellen creates a finely shaded, Oscar–nominated role as real–life gay…
Head On (1998): Dir. Ana Kokkinos
Feat. Alex Demitriades; Touted as a 'rebel without a cause'–pinup for the 90s, former soap–star Alex Dimitriades grapples with homosexuality and…
Last Bus Home, The (1998): Dir. Johnny Gogan
Feat. Annie Ryan, Brian F. O'Byrne, Anthony Brophy…; Opening to the angry punk–rock culture of late '70s Dublin and a 'COMMITMENTS'–style band–struggle, this changes its tune midway…
Like It Is (1998): Dir. Paul Oremland
Feat. Steve Bell, Roger Daltrey; Amateur boxing champ Steve Bell does well in his acting debut as a naïve prizefighter who abandons violent life in Blackpool's underworld to find…
Love is the Devil (1998): Dir. John Maybury
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton; Audacious biopic of great British painter Francis Bacon (he of the 'screaming pope' paintings), travels the raw–nerve edge of artistic…
Relax...It's Just Sex (1998): Dir. P.J. Castellaneta
Feat. Mitchell Anderson, T.C. Carson, Lori Petty…; Centring around an eclectic group of friends – gay, straight and lesbian – in LA, a struggling gay playwright is desperately looking for…
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998): Dir. Patrice Chereau
Feat. Pascal Greggory, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Charles Berling…; Friends and associates of a deceased painter make a procession, via train, to the artist’s burial in this superb French drama. A highly nuanced…
Velocity of Gary, The (1998): Dir. Dan Ireland
Feat. Vincent D'Onofrio, Salma Hayek, Thomas Jane; Urban soap–opera set in a Manhattan fringe world of hustlers, trannies and coke–heads, with Vincent D'Onofrio as a bisexual…
Velvet Goldmine (1998): Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette…; An intriguing, visually sensational 'faction' history of 70s British 'glam' music, centring itself on the rise and nosedive of Ziggy–type…
Wilde (1998): Dir. Brian Gilbert
Feat. Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Jennifer Ehle; It seems this belated dramatisation of the life of Oscar Wilde was simply waiting for the right man for the job and they found him in Stephen Fry,…
Alive and Kicking (Indian Summer) (1997): Dir. Nancy Meckler
Feat. Jason Flemyng; Solid British drama takes the post–AIDS–revelation scenario and couples it with an interesting setting – a crisis in a…
Bent (1997): Dir. Sean Mathias
Feat. Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen…; Martin Sherman adapts his award–winning and extensively performed play about Nazi persecution of homosexuals, and the agonizing love story of…
Grace of God, The (1997): Dir. Gerald L’Ecuyer; Biographical ‘essay’ that’s a genuinely moving patchwork of scenes from the director’s life, sharing stories of his loves, losses, emerging…
Hamam - The Turkish Bath (1997): Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek
Feat. Alessandro Gassman, Francesca d'Aloja, Carlo Cecchi; Beautifully presented, exotic drama about a young Italian designer whose sexual and spiritual life takes a profound turn after inheriting a steam…
Hanging Garden, The (1997): Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Chris Leavins, Kerry Fox; Family secrets come to light in odd and interesting ways in this small–scale drama set on a wedding–day in sunny, seaside Canada.…
Happy Together (1997): Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Feat. Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Chen Chang; Wong Kar Wai's South American gay love story features the usual dazzling Christopher Doyle camerawork, but replaces the genre thrills of FALLEN…
Love and Death On Long Island (1997): Dir. Richard Kwietniowski
Feat. John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Sheila Hancock…; Delightful central conceit sees John Hurt fall in love with flaky teen–movie actor Jason Priestley in this decidedly genre and…
Star Maps (1997): Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Douglas Spain, Efrain Figueroa; With dreams of Hollywood stardom, a Mexican teen migrates to California, settles for work in his father's prostitution ring, and makes 'progress' as…
Beautiful Thing (1996): Dir. Hettie MacDonald
Feat. Linda Henry, Meera Syal, Glen Berry; An effervescent take on first love between two teenage boys living in the un–secluded environ of a London council tenement block. Their…
Boys Life (1996): Dir. Raoul O'Connell, Robert Lee King, Brian Sloan
Feat. Josh Phillip Weinstein, Raoul O'Connell, Russell Scott Lewis…; Three half–hour short films that examine the gay perspective in America through three adolescent characters. 'Pool Days' – For…
East Palace / West Palace (1996): Dir. Zhang Yuan
Feat. Vicki Zhao, Si Han, Jun Hu; This rare independent mainland Chinese film is a difficult, often devastating two–hander between a gay man and the policeman sent to arrest him…
Eclipse (1996): Dir. Jeremy Podeswa
Feat. Von Flores, John Gilbert, Pascale Montpetit; Canadian festival fave is a fluent, quirky first feature that follows a chain of disparate sexual encounters that come full circle under the…
Hollow Reed (1996): Dir. Angela Pope
Feat. Sam Bould, Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson…; An exceptional and gripping British drama is made of delicate subjects –child abuse, custody rangling, homosexuality. The women…
It's My Party (1996): Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. Eric Roberts; Eric Roberts is bravely cast against as an LA professional dying of AIDS, who decides to host a farewell party before taking his own life. His…
Lilies (1996): Dir. John Greyson
Feat. Marcel Sabourin, Aubert Pallascio, Matthew Fergusson; Stylised, ripely sensual adaptation of Michel Marc's play 'Les Feluettes' set in a men's prison in 1950s Quebec, where the inmates kidnap a local…
More Tales of the City (TV Series) (1996): Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Colin Ferguson…; The second series of the much–loved TV show set among the varied folk of San Francisco.
Stonewall (1996): Dir. Nigel Finch
Feat. Guillermo Diaz, Fred Weller, Brendan Corbalis…; Mismarketed as a comedy to cash in on the post–Priscilla 'drag' craze, this has serious things to say about what it was like to be 'gay' well…
Campfire (Short Films by Bavo Defurne) (1995-2000): Dir. Bavo Defurne; Four short films by the renowned gay Belgian filmmaker Bavo Defurne, whose work is distinguished by an aesthetic that combines an astute sense of…
Like Grains of Sand (1995): Dir. Hashiguchi Ryosuke
Feat. Yoshinori Okada, Kouta Kusano; Remarkable, intense Japanese high school romance is centrally about a gay relationship, though it essentially captures the universal,…
Madagascar Skin (1995): Dir. Chris Newby
Feat. Bernard Hill, John Hannah; Intimate drama that portrays the unlikely relationship between two outsiders in a remote seaside cottage in South Wales. Hannah plays a disfigured…
My Brother's Keeper (1995): Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. John Lithgow; Courageous true story of twin–brother teachers, one of whom required a precarious bone marrow transplant from the other to keep his HIV from…
Red Ribbon Blues (1995): Dir. Charles Winkler
Feat. Paul Mercurio, RuPaul , Debi Mazar; Seeking to liberate an AIDS wonder–drug from commercial interests, Paul Mercurio, RuPaul and Debi Mazar, embark on a Robin Hood–style…
Total Eclipse (1995): Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis; Voraciously dueling bohemians of late 19th century Paris, Leonardo Di Caprio and David Thewlis impersonate Rimbaud and Verlaine – French poet…
Wild Reeds (Les Roseaux Sauvages) (1995): Dir. Andre Techine
Feat. Frederick Gorny, Gael Morel; Beautifully studied coming–of–age saga set in rural France at the end of the Algerian war, as four young friends on the cusp of adulthood…
No Ordinary Love (1994): Dir. Doug Witkins
Feat. Smith Forte, Erika Klein, Robert Pecora…; Intriguing clash of styles marks this MELROSE PLACE spoof as one to watch, with five sexy and possibly dangerous housemates coping with a unexpected…
Postcards From America (1994): Dir. Steve McLean
Feat. James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe; Important film of the New Queer Cinema is a fierce, impressionistic drama inspired by the writings of performance artist David Wojnarowicz, who died…
Priest (1994): Dir. Antonia Bird
Feat. Linus Roache; Provocative working–class drama about a gay priest wrestling with multiple dilemmas – his sexuality, a new parish and his exclusive…
Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y Chocolate) (1994): Dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabio
Feat. Jorge Perugorria, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra; Oscar–nominated for Best Foreign Film 1995, a red–blooded conservative is befriended by a gay communist who challenges his prejudices.…
Sum of Us, The (1994): Dir. Kevin Dowling, Geoff Burton
Feat. Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe; Jack Thompson and Russell Crowe star in this screen adaptation of David Stevens' heralded stageplay as the ultra–liberal widower and his…
And the Band Played On (1993): Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Richard Gere, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin…; The story of the AIDS epidemic from a medical viewpoint and their immediate patients is satisfying once it cuts through laboratory double–talk.
Blue (1993): Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Derek Jarman, John Quentin, Nigel Terry…; Against a simple, unchanging blue screen, Derek Jarman weaves intricate collages of sound, music and poetry. A moving self–portrait, as the…
Boy's Life, A (1993): Dir. Todd Haynes, Raoul O'Connell, Peggy Rajski; Three short – and very different – short films about growing up gay, from the little boy who likes a soap star in Todd Haynes' remarkable…
Desperate Remedies (1993): Dir. Peter Wells, Stewart Main
Feat. Michael Hurst, Cliff Curtis, Kevin Smith…; An audacious, decadent soap–opera which proudly flaunts its contempt for traditional local film–making with drugs, kinky sex,…
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993): Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Sean Young…; A joyously ropey adaptation of Tom Robbins beloved 1970s novel in which a big–thumbed hitch–hiker (Uma Thurman) eventually hooks up at a…
Farewell My Concubine (1993): Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Gong Li, Leslie Cheung; Lavish, episodic journey through 20th Century Chinese history, encompassing more revolutions than a 45. Joint winner of the Palm D'Or at Cannes is…
For a Lost Soldier (1993): Dir. Roeland Kerbosch
Feat. Maarten Smit, Jeroen Krabbe, Andrew Kelley; A dance teacher recalls his childhood love affair with a Canadian soldier at the end of WW2. Taboo subject is subtly drawn and fulfils the director's…
M Butterfly (1993): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jeremy Irons, John Lone; Bizarre true–story of a French diplomat's long–term sexual relationship with a Chinese opera singer who managed to conceal the fact that…
Philadelphia (1993): Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington; First major Hollywood AIDS movie is more concerned with prejudice than the disease itself, and is effective in its aim to educate as much as…
Tales of the City (TV Series) (1993): Dir. Alastair Reid, Pierre Gang
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney; A rich, entertaining tele–translation of Armistead Maupin's lauded short–stories set in 1976 San Fransisco, that cleverly interweaves the…
Wittgenstein (1993): Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Clancy Chassey, Jill Balcon, Sally Dexter; A fittingly unorthodox tribute to the life of the gay millionaire's son turned philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Unmistakably Jarmanesque, it probes…
Doing Time On Maple Drive (1992): Dir. Ken Olin
Feat. James Sikking, Bibi Besch, Jim Carrey…; Effective tragic farce about an 'ordinary' family in crisis over several coinciding issues, including alcoholism, closet homosexuality, abortion and…
Edward II (1991): Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry; Self–conscious updating of the Elizabethan play by Phillip Marlowe, imbued with a stagey panache by dir. Jarmen (a la WITTGENSTEIN),…
Hours and Times, The (1991): Dir. Chris Munch
Feat. David Angus, Ian Hart; Intriguing gem posits what might have gone on between John Lennon and his gay manager, Brian Epstein, a weekend in Barcelona, just before The Beatles…
My Own Private Idaho (1991): Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, James Russo…; Melancholic tale imbued with the director's stylistic flair stars Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix as a pair of young hustlers with opposing personal…
Our Sons (1991): Dir. John Erman
Feat. Julie Andrews, Ann-Margret; Middle–aged Julie Andrews and Ann–Margret discover their estranged gay sons have only weeks to live. In other words they have AIDS,…
Poison (1991): Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith…; Personal, arty dissertation about AIDS, alienation and childhood rebellion cross–cutting three disparate stories – a mock–tabloid…
Swoon (1991): Dir. Tom Kalin
Feat. Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester; A stylised interpretation of the famous Loeb–Leopold murder case of 1924. The fateful gay lovers entwined their clandestine sex life with that…
Together Alone (1991): Dir. P.J. Castellaneta
Feat. Terry Curry, Todd Stites; Two disparate gay men share their thoughts 'the morning after' on everything from gay issues and abortion to poetry, dreams and betrayals. This…
Young Soul Rebels (1991): Dir. Isaac Julian
Feat. Frances Barber, Shyro Chung; A melange of black, white, gay, straight, soul and punk cultures as it might have been in London in the late 1970s. Popularly dubbed as the black MY…
Garden, The (1990): Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills; Derek Jarman's sincere personal affront with AIDS and the Christian church is represented through a non–narrative dreamscape with himself as…
Longtime Companion (1990): Dir. Norman Rene
Feat. Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, John Dossett; Spirit–lifting work chronicles a decade in the lives of a group of gay men and their freinds who become personally affected by AIDS.
Beyond Gravity (1989): Dir. Garth Maxwell
Feat. Iain Rea, Robert Pollock; Gay romance blossoms for a astronomy–obsessed technician when he encounters a free–spirited Italian.
Wonderland (the Fruit Machine) (1989): Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Robbie Coltrane; Two gay teenagers witness a murder and flee their Northern home for Brighton, where their problems seem to escalate. Robbie Coltrane cameos as a…
Torch Song Trilogy (1988): Dir. Paul Bogart
Feat. Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Broderick; From his Broadway play, Harvey Fierstein stars in this whimsical yet moving story of a flamboyant gay New Yorker's search for love and respect in the…
Two of Us (1988): Dir. Roger Tonge
Feat. Jason Rush, Lee Whitlock, Kathy Burke; This gay youth drama made for British television caused a political outcry upon release just as the sex education laws were being revised. This…
We Think the World of You (1988): Dir. Collin Gregg
Feat. Gary Oldman, Alan Bates; Quirky Brit comedy/drama about a love triangle between two men and an alsatian! Jealousy overcomes Gary Oldman when a prison sentence brings together…
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987): Dir. Patricia Rozema
Feat. Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon; A naive and self–conscious woman lands a job in an art gallery and grows to idolise the chic and sophisticated female curator. Quirky parable…
Maurice (1987): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Hugh Grant, James Wilby, Rupert Graves…; In the face of Edwardian attitudes and noble breeding, two young Englishmen comes to terms with their homosexuality. From E.M. Forster's novel.
Month in the Country, A (1987): Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson; Colin Firth plays a shellshocked WW1 vet keen to recoup a medieval painting in a remote Yorkshire town. Kenneth Branagh and Natasha Richardson prove…
Prick Up Your Ears (1987): Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Gary Oldman; Gary Oldman portrays Joe Orton, the infamous gay playwright whose scandalous personal life ended at the bloodied hand of his jealous lover. The title…
Caravaggio (1986): Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Noam Almaz, Dawn Archibald, Sean Bean; A stylised, impressionistic biopic of the controversial bisexual artist from the Italian renaissance. The film is similarly cryptic, bold and…
Parting Glances (1986): Dir. Bill Sherwood
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Richard Ganoung; A gay classic and pioneering film of the independent movement, this is widely enjoyed as a truthful picture of gay life and relationships and also as…
Second Serve (1986): Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Louise Fletcher, Martin Balsam; Vanessa Redgrave gives a remarkable performance in this TV–movie true–story as a transexual…
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985): Dir. Hector Babenco
Feat. Raul Julia, William Hurt; Evocative drama posits a political activist and a gay window dresser in a South American prison cell, where fantasy becomes their only tool for…
Mala Noche (1985): Dir. Gus Van Sant; Low–budget granular drama and the first film made by the eclectic Mr Van Sant near the start of his influential career.It tells the tale of a…
Me and the Girls / Bon Voyage / Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 6) (1985): Dir. Jack Gold, Gavin Millar
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Robert Glenister, Nigel Havers…; – Me and the Girls (85') Touching drama centred on a terminally ill gay man reminiscing on his past life performing and managing a dance…
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985): Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis; First and best Hanif Kureishi comedy (so far), explores race and sex prejudices in the London EastEnd.
Another Country (1984): Dir. Marek Kanievska
Feat. Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes; An oppressive private schooling has an adverse affect on a couple of young, gay Englishmen in the 1930s, who eventually become spies for the…
Dresser, The (1983): Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay; Classic backstage tale of the theatre, with an imperious actor–manager (Finney) being pampered and supported by his loyal dresser (Courtenay).…
Making Love (1982): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Michael Ontkean; A glossy but under–rated love triangle drama starring former "Charlie's Angel" Kate Jackson that was the first mainstream Hollywood film to…
Querelle (1982): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau; Fassbinder's parting shot is a fittingly bleak, ultra–stylised adaptation of Jean Genet's writings about the (bi)sexual escapades of a…
Naked Civil Servant, The (1981): Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. John Hurt, Patricia Hodge, Colin Higgins; The life and times of homosexual Quentin Crisp, as drawn from his autobiography. John Hurt is a revelation as this courageous man who endured major…
To Forget Venice (1979): Dir. Franco Brusati
Feat. Mariangela Melato, Eleonora Giorgi, Erland Josephson; Brooding melodrama about an extended family reunion in the house of an Operatic matriach.
In a Year of 13 Moons (1978): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John…; Volker Spengler plays a hopelessly insecure trans–sexual cast adrift amid imposing cityscapes of modern Berlin. Fassbinder trawls out the…
Nighthawks (1978): Dir. Ron Peck; Hailed on release as the first British gay feature , this groundbreaking drama focuses on the double life of a school–teacher who remains in…
American Film Theatre - Butley (1976): Dir. Harold Pinter
Feat. Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan…; Another in the excellent American Film Theatre series, playwright Harold Pinter directs his first film, based on the Simon Gray play. An…
Sebastiane (1976): Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Leonardo Treviglio; A Roman soldier is banished to an outpost because of his Christian sympathies where he is eventually immortalised as a martyred saint. Jarman doesn't…
Terence Davies Trilogy, The (Children, Madonna and the Child, Death and Transfiguration) (1976-1983): Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Wilfred Brambell; A striking – if not, overtly autobiographical – early trilogy of shorts from dir. Terence Davies, spanning the life of one man’s struggle with…
Fox and His Friends (1975): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Adrian Hoven; Fassbinder himself stars in one of his best melodramas as a working class lottery–winner who is exploited by his middle–class lover. A…
Death in Venice (1971): Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde; Dirk Bogarde plays a gay composer whose unspoken obssesion with a young boy detains him in Venice during a cholera epidemic. This soft–focus,…
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch; Bizarre love triangle develops when a couple find themselves having an affair with the same man. A mature and provocative drama.
Boys in the Band (1970): Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Leonard Frey…; Set at a hilarious and fractious birthday party, this look at the life of a group of gay men in the 70s captures the bawdy tenor of the times, with…
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970): Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery; Acclaimed version of British stage–farce delivers playright Joe Orton's bisexual innuendos with a rather heavy hand. Story concerns a fetching…
Fellini Satyricon (1970): Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born…; Freely adapted from the Roman author Petronious, this follows the adventures of two bisexual youths through the decadent, fragmented age of Rome's…
Staircase (1969): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt; Sitting somewhere between farce and melancholy, a pair of aging barbers bicker over the possibility of ending their loving but often volatile…
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith…; Adaptation of Carson McCuller's novel. Taking place on a peacetime army base, a career officer finds his personal and professional life compromised…
Taste of Honey, A (1961): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens…; Powerful and starkly realistic 'kitchen sink' drama in which a mollycoddled lonely girl (Rita Tushingham) leaves her loveless home to befriend a…
Victim (1961): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms; As an English barrister blackmailed over his homosexual past, Dirk Bogarde gives a keynote performance, the first in what was to become a long line…

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