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Mambo Italiano (2003): Dir. Emile Gaudreault
Feat. Luke Kirby, Ginette Reno, Paul Sorvino; Light–hearted story follows an Italian immigrant family in Canada who comically resist their son's efforts to announce he is gay. Set around…
Drole de Felix (The Adventures of Felix aka Funny Felix) (2001): Dir. Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
Feat. Sami Bouajila; Seeking to meet his father for the first time, HIV–positive Sami Bouajila journeys across France from Dieppe to Marseille in a tour of…
Beefcake (2000): Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Daniel MacIvor, Carroll Godsman, Jack Griffin Mazeika…; The director of THE HANGING GARDEN blends archival footage and dramatic action to reveal the secret world behind the well–oiled muscles and…
Broadway Damage (2000): Dir. Victor Mignatti
Feat. Mara Hobel, Michael Lucas, Hugh Panaro; Big gay hugs to the Big Apple and Broadway culture, centering around two friends with mismatched romantic lives, and their scene–stealing…
Broken Hearts Club, The (2000): Dir. Greg Berlanti
Feat. Timothy Olyphant; Ensemble romantic comedy set in and around a baseball team in the bustling gay mecca of West Hollywood. Centre plate is up–and–coming…
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…
Gendernauts (2000): Dir. Monika Treut; Prolific lesbian director Monika Treut takes a tour of San Francisco’s transgender community. Aided by the likes of queer luminaries Annie…
I Think I Do (1999): Dir. Brian Sloan
Feat. Alexis Arquette, Christian Maelen, Lauren Valez; Feelgood, gay–affirmative comedy revolves around six 20–somethings of various persuasions, who come together when two of their number…
If Only You Knew (1999): Dir. David Snedeker
Feat. Johnathon Schaech, Alison Eastwood, James LeGros…; Journalist Johnathon Schaech needs an NYC apartment urgently and ends up feigning 'gay–ness' so as to placate sexy Alison Eastwood, who has an…
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…
Trick (1999): Dir. Jim Fall
Feat. Tori Spelling; Downtown Manhattan is the setting of this easy–going, nightlife adventure for a group of gay friends and fag–hag Tori Spelling...
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998): Dir. Tommy O'Haver
Feat. Sean P. Hayes, Paul Bartel, Meredith Scott Lynn; A giddy tribute to the wayward impulses of the heart, the affable Sean P. Hayes plays Billy, a struggling gay photographer infatuated with a dreamy…
In and Out (1998): Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck…; Bow–tied teacher Kevin Kline is 'out'–ed by an ex–student during his Oscar acceptance speech, casting suspicion on his impending…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Kiss Me Guido (1997): Dir. Tony Vitale
Feat. Nick Scotti, Anthony De Sando, Anthony Barrile; Gay–straight comedy of mistaken identity (ala WEDDING BANQUET) set in New York's Little Italy has an authentic sub–cultural bent, but be…
Latin Boys Go to Hell (1997): Dir. Ela Troyano
Feat. Irwin Ossa, John Bryant Daula, Jenifer Lee Simard; Torrid sexual intrigue, dance–club shenanigans and breakneck plot twists power this low–budget story of the New York Hispanic gay…
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997): Dir. Joe Mantello
Feat. Jason Alexander, Stephen Spinella; The exclamations–marks certainly fly in this spirited comedy of summer–weekend craziness and bad manners. Based on Terrence McNally's…
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…
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…
Man of the Year (1996): Dir. Dirk Shafer
Feat. Vivian Paxton, Claudette Sutherland, Michael Marisi Ornstein; Dirk Shafer's crafty autobiographical 'mockumentary', reconstructs his bizarre experience as a gay model having to live the charade of being…
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…
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…
Pink Video, The (1995): Record of 1995's 'Out–rageously Pink' variety show at London's Playhouse Theatre. Includes such gay luminaries as Scott Capurro, Steve Best,…
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…
The Pink Show (1995): Feat. Scott Capurro, Steve Best, Maria Esposito; A 'gay–friendly' revue show hosted by Ian Keable at the Playhouse Theatre, London in 1995. Acts include Scott Capurro, Steve Best and Maria…
Thin Ice (1995): Dir. Fiona Cunningham Reid
Feat. Sabra Williams, Charlotte Avery; Lesbian ice–skating comedy, has Sabra Williams pairing–up with the straight Charlotte Avery for the Gay Games, and teetering into romance…
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…
Wigstock (1995): Dir. Barry Shils; Following PARIS IS BURNING and UNZIPPED, this is the third quintessential camp New York doco! Essentially an on–the–spot recording of an…
Glitterbug (1994): Dir. Derek Jarman; An unnarrated montage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage from 1970 to 1986, with a specially composed soundtrack by Brian Eno. It offers a personal…
Grief (1994): Dir. Richard Glatzer
Feat. Illeana Douglas, Alexis Arquette, Mary Woronov…; A quirky blend of 'situation–satire' and contemporary mores, centred round the production offices of Californian TV soap 'The Love Judge' (set…
To Die For (1994): Dir. Peter MacKenzie
Feat. Thomas Arklie, Ian Williams, Dilly Keane…; A bizarre, often amusing ‘gay’ version of BLITHE SPIRIT, in which Thomas Arklie is haunted by the camped–up spirit of recently…
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…
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…
Lip Gloss (1993): Dir. Lois Siegel; The lives of transvestites, drag queens and female impersonators are chronicled in this revealing portrait that takes you behind the scenes as they…
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…
Totally F***ed Up (1993): Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. James Duval, Roko Belic, Susan Behshid…; A corrosive portrait of a group of alienated gay comrades, and the first (and perhaps best) part of dir. Araki's 'teen apocalypse trilogy' (completed…
Zero Patience (1993): Dir. John Greyson
Feat. John Robinson, Normand Fauteur, Dianne Heatherington; Completely unusual AIDS musical is a chaotic pastiche of sketches and styles that collectively debunk the various myths about the origins of AIDS.…
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…
Living End, The (1992): Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel; Irreverent road movie posits a pair of HIV–positive young hunks on the fast–track to nowhere as they attempt to live the rest of their…
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…
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,…
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.
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…
Before Stonewall (1984): Dir. Greta Schiller; Anecdotes and archival footage reflect the difficulties and absurdities of gay life from the 1920s up until the landmark revolt in 1969 following a…
Divine: Live at the Hacienda (1983): Feat. Divine; The unique Divine, John Waters 'associate' (PINK FLAMINGOS) and committer of many an outrageous (and unhygenic) act, is caught live at the Hacienda…
Fourth Man, The (1983): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Jeroen Krabbe; Jeroen Krabbe is a gay alchoholic writer prone to hallucinations who suspects his hairdresser of triple murder. Weird and stylish…
La Cage Aux Folles 2 (1980): Dir. Edouard Molinaro
Feat. Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Galabru; Cast and crew reunite for this enjoyable sequel to one of the most successful French comedies of all time. This time our two heroes find themselves…
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.
Valentine's Day - Liberace (1979): The flamboyant ivory–tinkler shows us around his personal museum, hot air ballon, super–yacht and wardrobe, performing some piano ditties…
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…
Pink Narcissus (1971): Dir. Jim Bidgood
Feat. Bobby Kendall; Major gay cult film with a non–narrative structure and opulent ‘garage’ aesthetic comparable to Kenneth Anger, but with more explicit…
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…
Gay Deceivers, The (1969): Dir. Bruce Kessler
Feat. Kevin Coughlin, Lawrence P Casey; Two draft–ees hope to dodge the army by pretending to be gay.
Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 4 (1969-1980): Dir. Kenneth Anger; Underground film–maker Kenneth Anger manifests his dark artistic vision in two shorts that almost defy description. "Lucifer Rising"…
Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 2 (1954): Dir. Kenneth Anger; Features "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" (1954), a depiction of an imaginative world of gods invoked and controlled by the untamed desires of…
Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 3 (1949-1965): Dir. Kenneth Anger; Three more shorts from Mssr. Anger, including "Kustom Kar Kommando" (1965), "Puce Moments" (1949), and his most famous and controversial work,…
Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 1 (1947-1953): Dir. Kenneth Anger; The first of a four–part compendium of shorts from the American iconoclast: 'Fireworks' (1947), made at the tender age of 15, 'Rabbit's Moon'…
Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras: The official videos of both the 1994 and 1995 Sydney Mardi Gras Parade integrating insider and public interviews with the famously flamboyant street…
Julian Clary Live: Feat. Julian Clary; Everybody's favourite fruitcake is captured in all his sequined glory, accompanied by the lovely Russell and a swag of double entendres. Two shows:…

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