Subgenre Sampler
Rental > LGBT: 86 Films to Rent on VHS
- 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.
- No Skin Off My Ass (1990)
- Dir. Bruce LaBruce
Feat. Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Caroline Azar
- Canadian queer provocateur LaBruce takes his cue from New York underground artists' Warhol and Richard Kern. Starring as a punk hairdresser with a…
- 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…
- Muscle (Kitami) (1988)
- Dir. Hisayasu Sato
Feat. Kiyomi Ito, Takeshi Ito, Simon Kamai
- Interesting, expressively stylised item from cult Japanese dir. Hisayasu set in the muscle clubs, bars and bedrooms of Tokyo.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Law of Desire (1986)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Carmen Maura
- Sexual acrobatics and absurd humour abound as it explores the increasingly complex sex–life of a gay film director. Fun screwball romp.
- 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…