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ABBA - The Winner takes it all
Director: Chris Hunt:
UK :1999: 88 mins:
With: ABBA

Most of us know and love the Abba hits and even today there is a musical and the songs are still as popular as they were when they were new. In this Doku film the director explores what made ABBA the great group it is ! Note: Just for fun - not gay. Phillip


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About Adam
Director: Gerard Stembridge
UK/ Ireland 2000
With: Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Charlotte Bradley

Adam is a charming, young man who seduces an entire family, 3 sisters and one brother. The brother is heterosexual, but fancies Adam anyway. They end up in bed, and it gets very funny after a while! This is a morality play about people wishing to break free and do whatever they please. Adam is the key to the story, trying to fulfill the dreams of everyone he meets. I kinda wish Robbie Williams had played Adam. He would have been just right for this part. Still, this movie will entertain you. Yngvar

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Absolute Beginners    


With: Eddie O'Connell, Patsy Kensit and David Bowie:

This film is about music in the London in the late 1950s and is listed here as there are gay and lesbian characters in the film. So have a peek ! Phillip


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Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout  
With: Jennifer Saunders as Edina  and Joanna Lumley as Patsy:

If you loved the series as much as I did you will be happy that this film brings back all the wonderful characters from the series with the gay Father and his lover and the new character God played by Marianne Faithful. Phillip

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According to Spencer  

2001

Contains gay character: Terence Michael as the Gay Landlord. Phillip





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Achilles
Director: Barry Purves.
GB : 1982 : 11 mins : Gay Animated Short:

This is a short animated film with puppets and good animation/ special effects. It is the sad story of the nine year Trojan war. It is also the story and Achilles and his friend Patroklos. Too bad this film was not longer as it was really a well filmed story. Maybe they will produce more of them! Phillip

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Acla's Decent Into Floristella
(Aka Titles: Discesa di Aclà a Floristella, La)
Italy: 1992: 86 mins:
Director: Aurelio Grimaldi
With: Luigi Maria Burruano, Francesco Cusimano, Lucia Sardo and Tony Sperandeo:

This is a sad story of a young Italian boy who is sold to the people who run a sulfur mine. He is worked to the bone but worst of all he is brutally beaten and sexual abused. Phillip

 

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Act Up - Silence = death!  
France: 1996: 82 Min

In this doku about the group which started in San Francisco but which has spread around the world - you get an incite into how the Act Up group work and thinks. Phillip

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Adam's Rib   
Director: George Cukor
USA : 1949 : 101 mins: Gay closeted man
With: Katharine Hepburn as Amanda, Spenser Tracy as Adam and David Wayne as Kip Lurie:

This film is listed as it contains a gay man who is shown to be gay but they never use the word. It is a classic Hepburn / Tracy film so it is often shown but it did little to help the homosexual. Kip is the closeted gay man living next store to the straight couple. It contains were cut down and that is why there are two versions.


OH you will hear:
Kip to Amanda: You have got me so convinced, I may even go out and become a woman.
Where as Adam replies : And you would not have far to go either. Phillip


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Adam and Steve
USA 2005
Direcetd by Craig Chester
With: Craig Chester, Malcom Gets, Parker Posey

 I got to see this comedy twice in a week at the Castro Theatre in SF, (which is the best way to see gay films, believe me) Maybe thats why I love it. Or maybe it?s because it?s really funny?

Anyway ? Adam is a gay man who hooks up with a cutie named Steve. They have met once before, (which ended in disaster, but none of them remember it!) Adam and Steve decides to play house for a while. They are both kinda prissy and insecure, have dysfunctional friends and families, so it could turn bad any minute...

Any film that makes me laugh as hard as I did at this have merit. Some of the situations are sitcom-ish, though Parker Posey as a comedian who tells fat-jokes about herself even though she?s no longer overweight is pure class..The visit to Adam?s parents is a scream, could easily have fit into one of the better Zucker/Abraham-comedies..

Time flies by, there is a western-dancing finale and suddenly it?s over. And you want to see it again. Then, tell your friends about it!  Yngvar

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Adao e Eva
Director: Joaquim Leitao
Portugal : 1995 : 104 min. (TV version is 25 min. longer) filmed in Portuguese : bisexual
With: Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, and Elejalde as Rafael:

This film is about a bisexual TV reporter (Catarina Menezes) who decides to have a baby with out the interference of a father. She make plans to seduce a Spanish humanitarian Doctor Rafael in order to have the child. It all works out until to her current live-in girlfriend finds out she is pregnant and gets very upset. She tells her that she is about to make her life a living hell. Then things get worse as the father finds out the true identity of Catarina and he decides to go to Lisbon to find her. With all this going on in her life she take comfort in the arms of a fellow journalist, Francisco and her office relationship soon turns into a after work romantic one. Note: This was originally shown on Portuguese TV as a three part mini-series. There were other characters in it but to make it commercial for the movie version it was cut down that is why there are two versions. Phillip

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Adiós, Roberto Argentina:1985  
When a straight guy needs a place to stay he ends up moving in with Marcelo but he is very shocked to find out that Marcelo is gay. Phillip

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Adjuster, The  
Director: Atom Egoyan
Canada : 1991 97 - 102 mins: Drama adultery bisexual tragedy
With: Elias Koteas, Arsinee Khanjian and Maury Chaykin:

This films has three interactive stories in it. There is Noah who is an insurance adjuster who uses clients for sex and domination. There is his wife who watches porno movies for the Board of Censors and there is an ex-football player called Bubba and his wife who like to play sexual games with people. Bubba wants to make a movie in Noah's home. Phillip




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Adored Diary of a porn star 

(Original title: Poco più di un anno fa )
Director Marco Filiberti
Italy: 2004

With: Marco Filiberti, Urbano Barberini, Alessandra Acciai, Rosalinda Celentano, Francesca d’Aloja, Edoardo Minciotti, Erica Blanc, Claudio Vanni, Luigi Diberti, Caterina Guzzanti, Cosimo Cinieri, Giuliana Calandra, Franco Oppini, Luigi Diberti, Alberto Alemanno

Basically this is the story of two brothers. One is called Federico who discovers that his brother Riki is in Porno. After a car accident a young women dies and her young son becomes friends with Riki, he decides that he wants to adopt the boy but has a lot of trouble when his true profession is discovered. Doe he get to adopt the boy - see the film to find out. Phillip

This film was schown and picked as:
Official Selection Berlin Film Festival
Official Selection Palm Springs International Film Festival
Official Selection Outfest Los Angelos Filmfestival

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Advanced Guide To Oral Sex
Director: Nina Hartley:
USA: 1998: 48 Mins:
With: Nina Hartley, Malitia, Mandi Frost, Tony Tedeschi, Steve Hatcher:

In this Erotic film from Nina Hartley one is given instructions in oral sex. Besides telling her audience how it is done she tell her secrets to this type of sex (of course from a womans prospective). Phillip

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Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The 
Director: Stephan Elliott
1994 : Australia : 102 mins: Gay Transvestite/Transsexual : Comedy
With: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp:

This is the story of two drag queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transsexual (Bernadette) who have a contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, which is a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They buy a bus to travel which they name Priscilla and paint it lavender during the trip from Sydney to Alice Springs. During the trip they argue, get drunk, get chased by mobs, wear lots of wild outfits. Their bus breaks down and they meet Bob who has wife problems. He decides to travel with them and his feelings become deep for Bernadette. They all convince a small town that drag queens can be fun, real friends and make things exciting. They leave the small town in much better shape than when they came. When they finally arrive in Alice Springs they are surprised to learn that Anthony/Mitzi has a son, and that the person who gave them the contract is his wife. The son find his father lifestyle "not at all shocking" and in the end he leave with his father for the return trip and Bernadette remains in Alice Springs with Bob. Phillip

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Adventures of Sebastian Cole The 
Director: Tod Williams
USA: 1999: 100 mins:
With: Adrian Grenier and Clark Gregg:

This is the story of a teenage who must come to the terms of his stepfather's sex change. It is almost too bubbly to be real but it is worth a see ! Phillip

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Advise and Consent  
Director: Otto Preminger
USA : 1962 : 139 - 142 mins -depending on the version: Filmed in Black/White : Drama : blackmail gay political
With: Don Murray as Brig Anderson, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Peter Lawford, and Burgess Meredith:

This is about Americas politics in the 1950's ( based on the McCarthy times) . A president appoints a very unpopular Secretary of State. There is an accusation of homosexuality which in turn triggers blackmail, scandal and a suicide (watch the character Brig Anderson).
Note: This film is one of Hollywood's first showing of an all male gay bar in a film. Phillip

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A Ferret Called Mickey

Director: Barry Dignam
Ireland:2003: short: 10 mins.:

Hum a ferret and how he effects mens lives.Phillip

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Affairs of Love, The
(Original title: Cosas del Querer, Las)
Director: Jaime Chavarri
Spain : 1990 : 100 mins: Gay : Drama:

This film is set in the 1940s and is about the life of a gay man who lives for music. His life is intertwined with two other vaudeville performers, one is a straight man and the other is a straight woman. Phillip

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Afflicted 

(original title : Nagu'a)
Director: Amos Guttman
1983 : Israel : 25 mins: Gay : Drama:

The film revolves around a young, closeted gay man, who in order to express his sexuality visits a drag bar one evening. Phillip

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African-American Idol: The Search for the Next Black Leader 
2003
Contains gay character:Tommy Morgan as the Gay Attorney.Phillip

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After  
(AKA title: Time Off)
Israel : 1990 : 45 mins: Short film : Gay Military Drama:

A Lieutenant gives one young soldier a very hard time (no - it is not a porno! ) The soldiers are about to be sent to Lebanon but are giving a day of which they use to go and relax in Jerusalem. The young solider has a big surprise when he discovers that the lieutenant has sex in a park. To find out the rest watch the film ! Phillip

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After Dark, My Sweet
Director: James Foley
USA : 1990 : 114 mins: Drama with Gay Murder
With: Jason Patric as Kevin Collins and George Dickerson as Doc Goldman:

This is based on the novel by Jim Thompson. It is a slow paced film about an ex-boxer Kevin who has his better days behind him and is now a drifter. Doc is the gay man who tries to seduce the still good-looking Kevin but it goes wrong and the gay man is killed. Phillip

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Afterglow

Director: Alan Rudolph:

This is a film which is basically about two straight couples but there is a really fun coming out scene in it - no I won't tell you what happens – see the film and enjoy the scene !! Phillip 




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After Hours  
Director: Martin Scorsese
USA : 1985 : 94 minutes: Black Comedy with gay characters
With: Griffin Dunne as Paul, and Robert Plunkett as the street pickup:

This is a really strange film but does have gay characters in the film so here goes. Paul is a word processor and all he want to do is get home but a series of strange meeting with strange people delay this. One of these strange meetings is with a man on the street who Paul asks to take him home so he can use the guys phone. The guy played by Robert Plunkett is a lonely guy and believes that Paul is picking him up but when the guy says to Paul that he has never done this before with a man (ha ha - good line!) Paul is not sure /doesn't want to know - what this is all about. There are other gay characters as the night goes on including a scene in a bar where there are two leather guy kissing and making out  There is an obsession with the Wizard of Oz in this film (you will here this when he meets Marcy) and much like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, all Paul wants to do is click his feet and end up home ! Phillip

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After School Special, The   
2000

Contains gay character:Jim bob as the Gay Guy 2. Phillip

 



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After Stonewall
Director: John Scagliotti
USA: 1999: 88 minutes
With: Michael Bronski and Dorothy Allison, Narration by  Melissa Etheridge;

This is a great Documentary and takes us from the Stonewall riots right up to the Aids.
It also takes a look at the people who were behind the movement and got us to where we are not. Not to be missed ! Phillip

Note this is the sequel film to the award wining film called Before Stonewall !

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Aggelos Year 

Director /Writer: Yorgos Katakouzinos

1982

With: Michalis Maniatis, Dionysis Xanthos, Maria Alkeou, Eleni Kourkoula, Vasilis Tsaglos

Phew this is quite a story. Angelo is a young gay in Athens who falls for a sailor Mikhalis and they start to live together. In order to support them Angelo gets in drag and work the streets at night (in the day he is in the military). To discover his world see the film ! Phillip

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Aggressives, The
Director: Daniel Peddle
USA: 2005: 73 mins: Lesbian, Documentary
With: Kisha Batista, Marquise Balenciaga:

The Agressives is an entertaining documentary that chronicles five years in the lives of six New York lesbians. These women identify as “aggressives”, which generally means that their appearance and demeanour is butch or masculine.

The viewers are lead through the Aggressives personal and working lives – including footage of one Aggressive who landed herself in prison. We also meet model Kisha Batista, who manages to change her look from boyish to more traditionally feminine and back again as part of her fashion career.

The Aggressives will prove to be an eye-opener into this subculture of women who risk alienation from their families and wider communities because their “look” is oft times deemed as too far removed from what society is prepared to accept from its womenKimmy

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Agnes And His Brothers      
(Original title: Agnes und seine Brüder )
Director/ Writer: Oskar Roehler
Germany: 2004: 115 mins:


This is the story of three brothers who have problems in their lives and a strange relationship with their father. The film is listed here as the third brother is now a sex changed woman. To see which problems they all have see the filmPhillip

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Agony    
1979 (TV Series)
Gay characters: a very friendly nice gay couple lives upstairs.Phillip

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Agony and the Ecstasy    
Director : Carol Reedr
USA : 1965 : 140 minutes
With: Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II:

It took Michelangelo to make David but it took Hollywood to change him to a straight !

Note: watch the later film versions of Michelangelo´s life as they come closer to his real 
identity ! Phillip



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Agoria stin porneia 
(AKA: Αγορια Στην Πορνεια (Greece) )
(AKA: Gerakia, Ta (Greece) (TV title))
Greece: 1985: 86 mins:
Gay bikers beat up people.Phillip

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Ah ma yau nan    
(AKA: Leave Me Alone -International: English title)
Director: Danny Pang
Hong Kong / Thailand: 2004:

Contains a gay character called Yiu Chun-Man who is a typical fashion designer in Hong Kong.(oh almost forgot he has a twin brother:) 
Phillip

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Aimee & Jaguar  
Director: Max Färberböck.
Germany: 1998: 122 minutes:
With: Maria Schrader as Felice and Juliane Köhler as Lilly:

This is Berlin in the year 1943, and is the love story of Lilly and Felice. Lilly is a mother of four and a loyal German where as Felice is living a lie. She works for a Nazi newspaper but she is really a Jewish person with fake papers. They meet fall in love and this is their story.Phillip

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Aiqing Wansui    
(Aka Titles: Vive l'amour)
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
China / Taiwan : 1994 : 118 minutes: Chinese Gay Drama
With: Chao-jung Chen as Ah-jung, Kang-sheng Lee as Hsiao-kang and Kuei-Mei Yang as May Lin:

This film offers a rare looks at Chinese modern life and at the same time focus on three attractive young people who share an apartment without knowing it. The main characters are Mei who is a female real estate agent. She uses this apartment for having sex. Ah-jung who is her current boy friends and Hsiao-ang who steals the key to the apartment and lives there secretly as he has no other place to go. He meets and falls in love with Ah-jung - who likes and uses him. See the film it is really interesting and although rather hard to explain it is a good film.Phillip

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Airplane !    
Director: Jaime Chavarri
USA : 1980 : 86 minutes : Comedy with gay characters
With Peter Graves as the pilot and Stephen Stucker as the gay air traffic controller:

This is a comedy film and a lot of these types of funny films include a gay character thrown in just for laughs, This one is no exception except that it has two ! There is a gay air traffic controller played by Stephan Stucker. The second is a scene in which a young boy visits the cockpit where Peter Graves is the pilot and suddenly he asks the boy if he likes gladiator films as much as he does !. Phillip

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AKA   
2002: 123 minutes:
From: Duncan Roy
With: Matthew Leitch & Diana Quick

This film is set in England in the late 1970´s and is about a young good looking guy who takes on a new identity in order to move up in High Society? Can he pull it off - see the film. Claudio



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Aku Perempuan dan Lelaki Itu
Director Aria Kusumadewa
Indonesia: 45 minutes:
With: Nurul Arifin, Unique Priscilla

This film is about a woman who is torn between a man and a woman who is her boss. Who she finally ends up with can only be found out if you see the film ! Phillip 

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Alfie    
Director: Lewis Gilbert
UK: 1966: 115 minutes:

With: Sally Faulkner and Barry Strokes:

In this 60´s problem film there is also a gay character: Cardew Robinson (not credited in the titles) as the gay man in the pub. Phillip







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Alexander      
Director: Oliver Stone
2004
With: Collin Farrel, Angelina Jolie :

Collin Farrel plays Alexander The Great, a well-know king in the history. He is a bisexual and has a male lover.

Yes he is gay and yes he takes a wife - the story is not exact shown but it is there.so Hollywood has shown him as a Bi-sexual and that is better than making him a straight right?  Alexander loves his friend (Hephaistion (played by Jared Leto) .. I liked the film even if there is no real gay dialog between the two men.... Phillip



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Alien Prey  
USA: 1984: 85 minutes
Director: Norman J. Warren
With: Barry Stokes, Sally Faulkner

Hum - this is a Sci-Fi lesbian film so I guess that about sums it up. Jessica and Josephine are in a relationship but when they pick up an injured Alien the relationship starts to be questioned by Jessica and then the plot thickens and it turns out that the alien is flesh eater and who eats two lesbians for his meal. Don't blame me I did not make this film ! Oh well ! Phillip


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Alley Cats, The
Director: Rradley Metzger
USA: 1968: 83 minutes: Black and White: Bisexual / Lesbian Main Characters:
With: Anne Arthur as Leslie, Harald Baerow as Christian, Karin Field as Agnes, Charlie Hickman as Logan, Sabrina Koch as Irena and Uta Levka as Sheila:

This is an early film by director Radley Metzgern and is about a bored German housewife in the 60´s. It tells the story of her lesbian adventures. The story takes place in various European cities and is about a couple who will be marrying soon but before that happens they are both having affairs with various women. Hum.... I think I would skip the marriage ! Fun and kitschy... Phillip

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All Is Love    

(original title: ALLES IS LIEFDE)

Director: Joram Lürsen  / Writer: Kim van Kooten (screenplay)

Netherlands: 2007: 110 mins:

With:Carice Van Houten, Daan Schuurman, Paul de Leeuw, Wendy Van Dijk, etc.

I watch this film the other day and was pleasnantly surprised at the gay story line. Amongst the heterosexual story lines about love and christmas there is a love story about a young florist who is in love with a funeral director. They are planning their marriage when the funeral director starts to get cold feet about his relationship with the florist. All seems lost but will it really end there or will there be a happy ending at Christmas time. See this Dutch film to find out.  

Note: the previous love film by this director had no gay content and is called Love Actually so don´t mix up the films and see the right one called All Is Love ! Phillip


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Alone at Last
Softerotic: 50 min:
With: Ryan Block, Randy White and Danny Bliss:

This video contains a "story-line" about seven guys who seem to need only themselves. Great looking guys (as usual) in these productions ... Phillip





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Alexander : The Other Side of Dawn
Director: John Erman Jr.
USA ; 1977 94 minutes: made for TV : Gay Drama
With: Leigh McCloskey as Alexander and Alan Feinstein as the gay football player:

In this made for TV film from 1997, one is totally surprised at the gay story line. It is the story of Alexander who moves to the city and can not find a job. So he takes up prostitution for both men and women and works on the streets of Hollywood. He falls in love with a gay football player but don't expect a gay happy end for this was another time in our history and so the story ends with Alexander changing his ways. He takes a female prostitute and goes off into the sunset to live happier after ?? - I doubt it !  Phillip

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Alexandria... Why?    
(Original title: Iskanderija... lih?)
Director: Youssef Chahine
Egypt:1978: 133 minutes
With: Ezzat El Alaili, Naglaa Fathi, Mohsen Mohiedine as Yehia, Farid Shawqi, Gerry Sundquist and Mohsena Tawfik:

This film is about two separate love affairs which occurs in the city of Alexandria.The first is between a Jewish woman and a man who is Muslim. The second and more interesting for us is the affair between a well to do Arabic man and a English soldier.
It is interesting to see how the two cultures merge during a love affair. Phillip

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Alegre Ma Non Tropo
Director/Producer: Fernando Colomo
Spain : 1994 97 minutes: Gay comedy romance
With: Penelope Cruz as Salome, Andoni Gracia, Oscar Ladoire as Pablo Sr., Pere Ponce as Pablo, Rosa Maria as Sarda as Asun and Nathalie Sesena:

This is a film about Pablo who is in his twenties and has his life in the order he wants it. This life includes having a wonderful lover and becoming a musician but as we all know our lives do not always go the way we plan them and Pablo is no different from us so when his lover leaves him so he has a very difficult time as part of his dreams have come apart. In order to pick up the pieces of his life he decides to work on the musical part of it. He decides to take a musical exam to be in the Spanish Youth National Orchestra. He is confronted by father who he has not seen in year and has all but forgotten him. His father is the decision maker for the Orchestra and with the loss of his lover and again meeting his father he does very badly in the exam. The only nice thing of the day is that Pablo meets Valencia who has also taken the exam. Valencia has no place to go to so Pablo Takes him home to spend the night. Ha - if you thought I would tell you what happens next - no way ! see the film and see if Pablo has a happy ending. Phillip

List among the cast: 105.Cardew Robinson (Gay man in pub)

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Aliens Cut My Hair
Director: Jaime Chavarri
USA : 1992: Gay space Sci-Fi comedy
With: Gentry Johnson as Capt. Priapus, Cherrod Cooke as Love Zombie Q69, Michael McIntosh as Lt. Biff Lucille Carmichael as Nurse Lucille and last but not least : Elvis Herselvis (as Herselvis):

This is crazy film about Alien drag queens in outer space who are enemies with young handsome hunk space cadets (I would have thought just the opposite) There is also the handsome Captain Priapus who is involved in a love triangle which is causing him problems with his lover and at the same time he is having big problems with his mortal enemy (who else) his Hairdresser... if this sounds all quite strange it is but it is just for fun!. Phillip

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Alive & Kicking
Director: Nancy Meckler
UK: 1996: 98 minutes: Gay Main characters / Aids
With: Jason Flemyng as Tonio and Antony Sher as Jack.

I liked this film a lot ! It is the story of a gay dancer who has Aids. He seems to have lost the will to love and be loved. Then one day a older man comes into his life. He is not as good looking as the dancer and a little heavier and not the dancers usual hunk type. Well what occurs is a warming of the two to each other and try as the dancer may he know that this man is what he needs in his life... A good filming and a good story line makes this film a must ! Phillip
Note: written by Martin Sherman who is the author of Bent.

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Alkali, Iowa
Director: Mark Christopher
USA : 1995 : 17 minutes: short : Gay Drama:

This is a short film which I liked very much! It is the story of a young boys meeting with a strange who turns out to have been the late fathers lover. The meeting changes the boys life as he discovers that he is not the only gay in the family! Phillip

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All About Eve    
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
USA 1950, 132 minutes:
With: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates:

Eve Harrington is a scheming ankle biter who wants Margo Channing's (Bette Davis) fame at any price. The script called for Eve to be a Lesbian, but the film offers only slight hints.
Note: This is listed since in the original script Eve was a lesbian (or so I have read) but when it came to being filmed The lesbian part was left out but there are still some scenes with the “gay feeling”. Phillip

Note: won 6 Oscars.

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Allan Quatermain And The Lost City of Gold    
With: Richard Chamberlain:

In this 1987 film Richard Chamberlain "tackles" the role as "action hero". Phillip

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All about my father 

(original title: Alt om min far )

Directed by Even Benestad
Norway: 2002: Documentary about transvestism:

If you're looking for a novelty, this is it! The director brought his camera home with him, filming his own father, the well-known transvestite Esben "Esther Pirelli" Benestad. We get to meet Esben's wife and dive deep into their personal lives.

The result is a very good account of one single-minded man living out his sexual identity to the max, and how his family has to deal with this. Nothing is censured, no one is spared. A hard-hitting documentary that has won several awards, and much praise from the critics.Yngvar

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All About My Mother  
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Spain: 105 minutes:
With: Cecilia Roth as Manuela, Antonia San Juan, Penelope Cruz Marisa Paredes and Candela Pena:

Another picture by the great write/director Pedro Almodovar so be prepared for lots of twists and fun situations in this movie.

This one is about a mother who has a perfect teenage son but her happiness is over when her son gets killed in a car accident on the evening when he is pushing her to tell him who his father is. So sad, lost and alone she goes to Barcelona in search of the boys father. She meets a pregnant nun with Aids (played Penelope Cruz), a transvestite prostitute (played by Antonia San Juan), and two actresses with major problems (played Marisa Paredes and Candela Pena). She starts to establish a new life but will she find the boys father – well you will just have to see this film ! Phillip

Note: Winner 1999 Academy® Award! Best Foreign Language Film

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All By Myself  
A soft erotic movie about 7 beautiful men and their exploring their own beauty.

Sorry the photo is bigger than my review but what more is there to say about this movie *smile*Phillip






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All Over Me
Director: Alex Sichel
USA: 1997: 90 minutes: lesbian main character
With: Alison Folland as Claude, Tara Subkoff as Ellen, Cole Hauser as  Mark Wilson Cruz as Jesse, Leisha Hailey as Lucy , Pat Briggs as Luke and others:

Two girls live in a bad section of New York. One lesbian and one straight and have a really good friendship until one night one of their gay neighbors is killed and then the relationship starts to come apart. Phillip

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All over the Guy    
Director: Julie Davis:
USA: 1997: 90 minutes: lesbian main character
With:Dan Bucatinsky, Richard Ruccolo, Adam Goldberg, Sasha Alexander, Christina Ricci, Lisa Kudrow and Andrea Martin:

It´s a very funny film. Two twenty somethings couples, a straight and a gay and their relationships. Eli (Bucatinsky) and Tom are best friends. Jackie (Alexander, from TV's “Dawson's Creek) and Tom (Ruccolo, of TV's “Two Guys and a Girl”) are best friend. Eli meets Jackie and falls in love with her. Then the straight couple decides to join their gay best friends, so lots of confusion, sex, tears and happiness happen. Claudio


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All That Jazz
USA: 1979: 123min:
Director: Bob Fosse
With: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer with Alan Helm:
 
Bob Fosse's musical about a Broadway choreographer.  It is listed here as there is a gay producer in it played by Alan Helm. Phillip

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All the queen’s men
Director : Stefan Ruzowitzky
USA: 200 99 mins:
With: Matt Le Blanc, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo:

In World War II, the Nazis used to communicate in a secret code, using a machine called Enigma. Such an apparatus enabled them to perform surprising attacks, without the allies being aware. Steven O’Rourke is an American special agent, assigned to lead an offensive attack against the H20, the factory that makes the Enigma. The only problem is that there are only women working at the H20. O’Rourke is thus forced to think of a different tactic to infiltrate into the enemy’s field. Tony Parker and Archie are two flustered men from England with the mission to train and transform the ally soldiers into convincing employees of the Third Reich. To wrap up this action comedy, O’Rourke falls in love with Romy, an ally agent infiltrated into the factory. Claudio

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All the rage 

Director / Writer: Roland Tec

1998

With: John-Michael Lander, David Vincent, Jay Corcoran, Paul Outlaw, Merle Perkins, Peter Bubriski, Alan Natale:



Christopher Bedford is 31 and the perfect gay man who is young, rich, smart and very sexual active.Everything is going fine until he meet Stewart who is a normal gay man and not on anyones must have list.Christopher is drawn to him but does not understand it all. Will they become a pair ? see the film ! Phillip

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Alles wegen Benjamin
(e
nglish title : Youll Get Over It )
(original title: À cause d'un garçon)
France: 2002: 86 mins :
 
Vincent has it all, he is 16 and a swim star with a girlfriend who loves him and so his life seems to be perfect but he has a secret he is attracted to men. Then one day at school his secret life is suddenly coming to an open point as Benjamin arrives at the school and Vincent´s life will never be the same.  Phillip

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Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story    
USA, Made for TV

A made for TV film about the life of the TV news anchor Jessica Savitch with all it's up and downs but leaving out the fact that  she is bisexual – oh well Hollywood has been doing that for years ! Phillip

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Almost Normal
USA: 2005:90 minutes:
With: J. Andrew Keitch as Brad:


Wow this one is really different.
A college professor Brad Jenkins is about to have his 40th birthday and he is still single so life is not happy for him. His parents always argue about his being gay and after another fight with his mother he drive while drunk. There is a car crash and suddenly he is back to his high school but this time things are not quite what they were as all the students are gay. See the film to see how it turns out. As one would hope it does. Phillip

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Always Leave Them Laughing
Director: Roy Del Ruth
USA ; 1949 116 minutes: transvestite musical number
With: Milton Berle:

This film contains a very funny drag number with Milton Berle dressed as Carmen Miranda. Milton Berle was a very early pioneer of television and the first US TV star to have a weekly TV program where he was often dressed in drag. Phillip

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Amazing Grace
Director: Amos Guttman
Israel: 1992: 95 minutes: Hebrew with English subtitles : Gay Main Characters / Aids
With: Rivkah Michaely and Sharon Alexander;

This film is set in the gay milieu of Tel Aviv where an Israeli teenager falls in love with a 30ish musician (who is HIV+). It is also about his family and the way they function with moments of love and hope in their daily lives. Phillip
Note : This film won the "Best Feature of 1992" at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

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Amazing Race 4, The   
USA: 2003: 60 minutes: TV Show

Lists among the characters duos such as two circus clowns, a father and son and last but not least a gay married couple. Phillip

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Amazons are coming , The  
Director: Florence Fradelizi:
France: 2000, 53 minutes:

World pride 2000 is happening in Rom, will the pope allow it to happen? Pressure is put on the mayor of Rome to stop it. will the parade go on - see the film. Phillip

Note: mostly told through the eyes of Lesbians.

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American
(Original title: Amerikanos)
Greece: 1999: 23 minutes.:
Short film is made by: Christos Dimas:

This is the story of a Greek man who is in S.F. and looking for the American dream – does he find HIM – see this short ! Claudio

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American Beauty    
Director: Sam Mendes
USA: 1999: 117 minutes.:
With: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards, Chris Cooper:

Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is frustrated with his life and goes about to change it. In doing so his family has to adjust to many new things in their lives. It is a very good story and there is also a gay sub story line. It won 5 Oscars. Phillip



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American Cowboy    
1998
Lists a gay in the cast. Phillip

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American Fabulous
Director: Reno Dakota
USA: 1992: 105 minutes: Gay Main Character
With: Jeffrey Strouth

OH my my - this film has a campy queen doing a long monologue about the way he lives and his experiences and this all from a chauffeured car. You will either like this a lot or really hate it ! Phillip

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American Family, An    
USA: TV: 1973
The story of a typical American family who is followed through their daily life only to find out that their son comes out of the closet on air ! Phillip

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American Gigolo    
Director/ Screenplay : Paul Schrader
USA: 1980 117 minutes: drama gay male hustlers
With: Richard Gere as Julian Kay, Lauren Hutton as Michelle:

This is the story of Julian a good looking high priced gigolo. He prefers to sleep with rich older women but if he is FORCED to he will sleep with gays. Leon is a nasty bitchy black gay man who has a stable of male hustlers and wants Julian to come to work for him. When Julian and his manager say no, Leon frames him for a murder. He goes to prison for the murder but Michelle gets him out in time to TAKE CARE of Leon ! All the gay men are nasty pieces of work in this film and really no one you would want in your life, but the film is worth a look if only to see Richard Gere looking 
his B E S T ! Phillip

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American Justice: The San Francisco Dog Mauling    
2003 (made for TV)
Gay character is :Whipple who is young and prosperous.Phillip

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American Psycho    
Director: Mary Harron
USA: 2000: 103 minutes
Director: Mary Harron
With: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Chloe Sevigny, Justin Theroux :

Patrick Bateman is an investment banker and a nasty piece of work. He spends his time doing lunch dates and fantasizing about mutilation of women.He is a vain, beautiful guy who has an empty soul. He is also obsessed with banal '80's music. Patrick's dark side emerges rather quickly when he brutally murders a homeless man and his dog and goes on bloody spree. He picks up a prostitute and a call girl and does unspeakable things to them with sadistic tools from a secret drawer. This film is listed as there are two gay references in the film; the first is a gay character who comes on to Patrick and is almost strangled and the second is that a longtime friend of Patrick is asked by him to have lesbian sex. Claudio

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American Wedding    
2003

Contains gay character: Brad Hammer as the Gay Male.Phillip



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Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma
(Canada French title: Amnésie: L'énigme James Brighton (Canada: French title)
Director: Denis Langlois
Canada 2005: 90 mins:

An American is found naked and amnesiac in a vacant parking lot in Montreal in 1998. He says his name is James Brighton, but the only thing he's sure of is that he's gay. What happened to this young American in search of freedom ? That's what Sylvie, a criminology student, tries to find out.
With the aid of the community gay, tries to discover who is, of where it came and what really it happened meanwhile the media start to explore his history, questioning until if it is saying the truth or if he invented the amnesia for some obscure reason. Slowly, the past comes and James has certain things must remain forgotten. Of intelligent form, the film traces a parallel between identity and sexuality, in making to think about our proper histories.
A very sexy, strong and interesting movie. Claudio

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Amor Bandido     
Director : Bruno Barreto
Brazil : 1979 95 minutes: male and female prostitutes with serial killer
With: Paulo Guarnierei playing the serial killer:

This is the story of a crazy serial killer who preys on male and female prostitutes as victims. Phillip


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Amor de hombre 
Spain: 1997:

The story of a strong relationship between a gay man and his best friend (who is a girl). When he gets a lover she feels left out and jealous. Phillip







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Amores    
Director : Domingos de Oliveira
Brazil: 1998: 95 minutes: bisexual / HIV +
With:  Clarice Niskier, Domingos de Oliveira, Maria Mariana, Pricila Rozenbaum, Ricardo Kosovski and Vicente Barcelos. 

This is a comedy about human relationships and love. It includes a single father, his daughter, a straight couple (who are trying to save their relationship) and a girl who discovers that her boyfriend is bisexual and has aids. Claudio

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Andras tis diplanis portas, O    
2004
Gay character is Alkis who is a young gay man.Phillip

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Andrew and Jeremy Get Married 

2004

Jeremy had his upbringing in Pakistan in the 30´s where he was in a private boarding school and then finished his education at Cambridge University. He married very young even though he suspected that he was homosexual (this ended up in divorce after a year). Then came the gay life in London with the high and lows. Finally came the man for a lifetime and since they were 5 year together they decided to have a 'commitment ceremony' as marriage was not an option to gay. This Jeremy´s story - certainly worth a 
see !!! Phillip

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Angora Ranch 
Director / Writer: Paul Bright
USA: 2006, 96 mins:
With: Kyle Evans, Paul Bright, Peggy Mae Binn, and Tim Jones:
 
A car accident will change Justin’s sad life. He crashes in front of Jacks ranch and spends the night. After that night nothing will be the same for the two.
Oh by the way Justin is in his early 20´s and Jack is at the end of his 40´s. Will their relationship go forward and will they be happy? See this very good film! Phillip

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Animus    
Director: Wash West
Gay Movie: USA: 1998:
With: David Bradley, Brad Davis, Dave Nelson, Thomas Lloyd, Blake Harper, Tommy Cruise and Peter Logan:

This is the story of a thief (called Animus) who after he breaks in, plays sex games with his victims.Phillip

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And God Created Man
(AKA: Visions of Gay Sex 1)

Erotic Film: UK: 1998, 51 minutes::
With: David Bradley, Brad Davis, Dave Nelson, Thomas Lloyd, Blake Harper, Tommy Cruise and Peter Logan:

This is the story of love between men who go back in time through Visions Of Sex including  Babylon, Greece and the Middle ages. Phillip

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And God Created Man 2
Erotic Film: UK: 2000 52 minutes::
With: David Bradley, Brad Davis, Dave Nelson, Thomas Lloyd, Blake Harper, Tommy Cruise and Peter Logan:

This is the second part and is about two men who go back to old Babylon and also to the USA in the 1940´s for hot times. Phillip

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Anderson Tapes, The    
Director : Sydney Lumet
USA : 1971 100 minutes: drama with a gay character
With: Martin Balsam, Sean Coney and Dyan Cannon:

This is the story of thieves and one of them is an aging gay antique dealer queen and the role is played just for laughs, as was the case in a lot of the earlier films containing a gay character. Phillip

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And The Band Played On
Director : Roger Spottiswoode
USA : 1993 141 minutes: drama about aids:
With: Richard Gere, Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Don Francis, Robert Gallo, B.D. Wong, Lily Tomlin, and Sir Ian McKellen:

This is film adaptation by HBO of the Randy Shilts' book with the same name. It traces the history of Aids from the start when San Francisco homosexuals began dying from unknown causes, to the identification of the HIV virus. It also tries to trace Patient Zero and gives a lot of the blame to the USA government for not doing more in the start of this disease. A really big and good cast - see it ! Phillip

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And Then Came Summer
Soft erotic: 115 minutes

This is about two teenage boys who start having feelings for each other only to be discovered by their parents. It turns out one of the boys had been already institutionalized for his being gay (oh boy this film is entering into a very touchy area).Phillip




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Andy Warhol´s Frankenstein
(Aka Titles:Flesh for Frankenstein)
Director : Roger Spottiswoode
Germany / France: 1974 95 minutes: horror film with gay monster
With: Udo Kier as the mad Doctor, Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren and Della di Lazzaro:

This film is pure kitsch and fun. When the Doctor wants to create the perfect man there is a mistake and the straight man is not chosen but the gay man is and he certainly is not interested in woman as the Doctor hoped want to know more see the film ! Phillip


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Angel    
 Director : Robert Vincent O´Neil
USA : 1984 : 93 minutes: Prostitute with gay transvestite friend
With: Dick Shawn as the transvestite Mae and Donna Wilkes as Angel:

This is the story of Angel who is a high school student by day and a prostitute by night. A friend of hers is a Transvestite called Mae who takes her by the hand and shows her the tricks of life. Phillip

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ANGELS IN AMERICA  

USA: 2004

With: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary Louis Parker:

This is a rather complicated story line and it has won awards.  There are multiple gay / aids  story lines I was fasinated by the film and it is such a good film that i can honestly say "see the film" to see what it is all about and you will be very satisified that you did ! Great preformances, a great story line so what more could you ask 
for !
Phillip

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Angelic Conversation, The    
Director : Derek Jarman
GB : 1985 : 78 minutes: homoerotic images
With: Dame Judi Dench reading the sonnets:

Derek Jarman has made a 78 minute film with only Shakespeare sonnets being read while photographic homo erotic (mostly) images are flashed on the screen. If you like Derek Jaman films this is for you. Phillip

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Angelos
Director: George Katakouzinos
Greece : 1982 : 126 minutes: Gay : Biographical Drama:

This true story is a moving account of a handsome young gay man accused of a violent murder and contains explicit love scenes.Phillip

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Anita, Dances of Vice    
Director: Rosa Von Praunheim
Germany: 1987: 89 minutes:
With: Mikael Honesseau and Ina Blum:

This Rosa Von Praunheim film is about Anita Berber who was stripper and drug addict after WWI and lived in Berlin at that time. It deals with her actual life and then into the life of a woman who thinks she is the reincarnated Anita Berber. Phillip

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Anniversary, The
Director: Roy Ward Baker
UK : 1968 : 95 minutes: Black comedy with a transvestite son
With Bette Davis, Jack Hedley, James Cossins:

This is a black comedy about a mother who wants to control her entire family. One of her sons is a secret transvestite and she torments him along with the other members of the family. The film centers around her wedding anniversary. Phillip

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Anniversary Party; The    
Directors: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh
USA: 2001: 115 minutes:
With: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates, Jane Adams, John C. Reilly, John Benjamin Hickey, Parker Posey, Jennifer Beals, Matt McGrath:
This is not a gay film but it is worth a see as it is about a very L.A. party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Joe and Sally (Alan Cumming and  Jennifer Jason Leigh).
The Joe character is a bisexual and is shown to be since Joe's ex-lover Jeffrey's (McGrath) is at the party too.
Note: watch for stars at the party ! Phillip

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Another Country
Director: Marek Kanievska
UK:1984: 90 minutes :Drama : gay: political
With Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Adie, Rupert Wainright:

This is a romantic film version of the Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean story, which starts off with homosexual love among upper crust English schoolboys and ends up with them growing up to be notorious traitors to their country. Phillip


Note : it is based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell

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Another gay movie
USA: 2006
Director: Todd Stephens
With: Michael Carbonaro, Jonathan Chase, Graham Norton, Lypsynka, Scott Thompson

You can’t possibly ask for anything gayer than this teen-comedy spoof! 4 gay high-school friends promise each other to lose their virginity before summer is over. Popping the “cherry” isn’t as easy as it sounds, though. They have catastrophic sex with S&M teachers, Survivor-winner Richard Hatch, gorgeous “studs” and a quiche pie..(don’t ask, see for yourself!) And the cherry stays intact..
Even describing the plot of this movie is difficult without using four-letter words, since this is
the dirtiest gay comedy that has come around for....well ever! The plot is more or less the same as in “American Pie”, including the food. There is a LOT of male nudity, and although it’s meant to be funny, it sometimes distracts us from the plot. Too many cute guys strutting their stuff tend to distract me, you know!!
Some nice scenes feature gay icon Lypsynka as a Joan Crawford-ish mother figure, a totally nude Richard Hatch signing books, and Graham Norton as exchange-teacher mr Puckov sporting the largest...eh....how do I say this...
OK, I won’t...
Worth a look for those who can stomach lots of talk about sex and tons of nudity. Anyone??
Yngvar 

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Antonia´s Line
Director: Marleen Gorris
The Netherlands: 1995: 100 minutes: Lesbian main character:
With: Willeke van Ammelrooy as Antonia, Els Dottermans as Danielle, Veerle van Overloop as Therese, Thyrza Ravesteijn as Sarah, Jan Decleir as Bauer Bas:

This Dutch film won an Oscar ! and is about a mother who returns to a small town at the end of WW II. The town is a shocking place with lots of scandals happening and certainly some strange people living there. The  daughter is a lesbian and wants a baby so she fits right in. I enjoyed the people in this picture a lot and best of all the lesbian is a very well written one.
Note: A must see film ! Phillip

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Another Way  
Director: Karoly Makk
Hungary: 1982: 100 minutes: Lesbian main characters
With: Jadwiga Jankowska Cleslak and Grazyna Szapolowska

This is Hungary before the fall of Communism. It is the story of two women who fall in love and the drama they face because of it.  Films like this should be seen so that we Gays / Lesbians know what a wonderful life we have as compared to these women and that we should never never let a government control our lives again ! Phillip
 

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Anthem
Director: Marlon Riggs
USA: 1994: 9 min s: Short film :
 
A film containing Black men who sing and dance.  Phillip

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Antique  

Director: Kyu-Dong MinHi

South Korea: 2008: 109mins: 

Note: To Be Reviewed

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Any mother's son    
Director: David Burton Morris
USA: 1997: made for TV: Real-life gay-murder
With Bonnie Bedelia, Scott Gibson, Paul Popovich:

A young marine is beaten and murdered by fellow soldiers while on shore-leave in Japan and his mother discovers he was gay-bashed. It was a hate-crime. She takes on the Navy and the media to nail the guys who were responsible for her son's death.

This is based on a true story and it's certainly a shocking one. It turned out the Navy was out to hush-hush the true motive of the crime to save their own reputation and didn't want the case to even reach court! Fortunately, this kind of hideous justice looks to be a thing of the past in the U.S.A. And good riddance, too! Gays should and must get the same protection as everyone else!! Watch for a classic performance by Bonnie Bedelia as the mother, she is a big favorite of mine. A sombre, serious, but important TV-movie. Yngvar 

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Along Came Polly    
Director: John Hamburg
USA: 2004: 90 mins:
With. Ben Stiller as Reuben and Jennifer Aniston as Polly:
 
Reuben has a new girlfriend Polly and her best friend is gay (he is also her Salsa partner). Phillip

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Apariencias    
2000
Contains gay characters which are listed as :José Luis Arias as Gay #4, Gabriel De Coster as Gay # 3 :Mimo and Osvaldo Guidi as Gay # 1 (who´s the 2nd gay ???) Phillip

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Aparadektoi, Oi    

1991

Casts lists Yannis as the gay friend.Phillip

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Apart From Hugh
Director: Jon Fitzgerald
USA: 1994: 87 minutes: Gay Main Characters
With: Steve Arnold and David Merwin:

This is an 87 minute film about a male couple who are trying to save their relationship through thick and thin.
Note: the last time I heard so much taking about a relationship was with "Who Afraid Of Virgina Woolf with Lizza and Richard ! Maybe if they talked less and had more "action" the relationship would´t need so much talking... :-) Phillip

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Apartment Zero
Directors: Martin Donovan and David Koepp
UK/Argentina : 1989 122 minutes (film), 114 minutes (video) : Gay/Bisexual : Drama:

Politics, murder, and sexual repression ignite the screen when a gay cinema owner picks a mysterious stranger to be his roommate in Buenos Aires. Lots of sexual tensions develop between the two, but the plot centers around the mystery of recent news headlines and the new tenant's relationship to them. Phillip

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A Partilha    
BRASIL: 2001
Director: Daniel Filho
With: Glória Pires, Lilia Cabral, Andréa Beltrão, Paloma Duarte, Marcelo Anthony, Fernanda Rodrigues and Herson Capri

After of the death of their mother, four sisters have an appointment to discuss the share of an apartment in Copacabana. Although being sisters, they haven´t seen each other for ages.. :The older one, Lúcia (Lilia Cabral) moved to Paris leaving her husband and son in Rio; coming back to Rio because of the mother´s death she needs to face her abandoned son.

Selma (Glória Pires) is a housewife who is interested in another man.Regina (Andréa Beltrão) is a divorced mother who thinks that the life is beautiful and does´t worry about anything. The younger is Laura (Paloma Duarte) she ´s a workaholic journalist who decides to tell to her sisters that she is lesbian.

This comedy is based on the Miguel Falabella´s theater play which was a big hit on the stages of Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Spain. Claudio

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April's Shower
Director: Trish Doolan
USA: 2003: 98 mins:

With: Maria Cina as April and Trish Doolan as: Alex

April and Alex were at one time in a closeted lesbian relationship but it broke up. 5 years later April asks Alex to be her “maid-of-honor”. She still is in love with April so how this marriage and party will turn out, only you will know when you have see the film. 

Oh you will hear dialog like this in the film:

Alex: Why are you attracted to women?
Fergus: Because they're beautiful creatures!
Alex: Why do you think I am attracted to them?
Fergus: Because you're a lesbian!

Phillip

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Arabian Nights
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy: 1974: 130 minutes:
With: Ines Pellegrini and Ninetto Davoli

This is the Pasolini filming of the 1001 Nights and the erotic feel of the film is a must 
see ! Phillip


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Are You Being Served ?    
UK: TV Series:

This is the English series which has the character Mr. Humphries played by John Inman. He lives with his mother and works for a large English store as a “men's wear clerk). He is swishy and campy and although they joke about him being gay it was never officially brought up but if you watch the series you will also think he is gay.  Phillip

P.S. Their back and this time in a full length movie - have fun watching and enjoy the play on words. 

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Arisan    
Indonesia: 2003 (Language: Indonesian)
Director: Nia Dinata
Studio: Kalyana Shira Film
With: Cut Mini, Tora Sudiro, Aida Nurmala, Rachel Maryam, Surya Saputra :

ARISAN is an Indonesian film about groups of friends who get together and socialize. Each one tries to out do the other for preparing their get togethers. The firends go through many relationships and each one has their story to tell. There is a closeted gay guy who will not say he is gay and wants to stay in the closet for many reasons such as protecting his family. In reality Sakti (the closeted gay man) and Nino (who is his lover) are the only sane ones in the film but are none the less the ones who have to hide their relationship. This film is a must see as homosexuality is repressed in this land but of course life for gays goes on. I enjoyed the film and learned a lot..Phillip

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Armed and Dangerous    
Director: Mark L. Lester
USA: 1986: 88 minutes:

This film is about two cops who become security guards and they get accused wrongly of a robbery and there is one transvestite and one gay character as follows: Nicholas Worth as the transvestite and Seth Kaufman the gay biker.Phillip




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Army of Lovers or Revolution of the Perverts
(original title: Armee der Liebenden oder Revolte der Perversen
Director / Writer: Rosa Von Prauheim
Germany: 1979:: 107 mins:

Rosa Von Praunheim's documentary about Gay rights in Germany. Phillip

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Areola, The    
2001 (made for TV)
Contains gay character: Andy Hirsch as the the gay nurse. Phillip

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Argentino en New York, Un    
1998
Contains gay character: Mario Mendoza as Latin Gay. Phillip

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Arrapaho    
1984
List a gay character in the cast.Phillip

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Arthur    
Director:Steve Gordon.
USA: 1981: 93 minutes:
With Liza Minnelli; Dudley Moore and Sir John Gielgud:

The real reason to see this film is Sir John Gielgud who plays the bitchy / witty butler to Arthur (the Alcoholic billionaire). Phillip

Note: he won the Oscar for best supporting actor in this one !Oscar for his portrayal of a lofty butler in this 1981 comedy. Liza Minnelli also stars.

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Arthur 2: On The Rocks    
Director: Bud Yorkin
USA:1988 109 minutes.:
With Liza Minnelli; Dudley Moore and Sir John Gielgud:

He is back again and even though sequels are not often very good this one is still worth a peek to see Sir John Gielgud reprises his Oscar winning role as the sharp tongued butler of an alcoholic billionaire. Phillip

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As Good As It Gets
Director: James L. Brooks.
USA: 1997:
With: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt and Greg Kinnear as Melvin:

I was a little shocked at the anti gay language in this film but I soon got over it as Greg Kinnear in he role as Melvin was sooooooo good. It contained a lot of the use of the anti gay word but with Jack Nicholson as the neighbor who starts out with hate for his gay neighbor soon meets a waitress who he falls for (in his special way) and he soon learns to live and let live with his neighbor and in fact after all Melvin friends and family desert him he is there for him when he need him the most. So at least on bigot is changed in the world ! Phillip

Note: This is a good film and you will either love it or hate it – I loved it…

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As Is
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
USA : 1986 85 minutes: Gay : Gay main characters /Aids
With: Robert Carradine, Jonathan Hadary, Colleen Dewhurst and Joanna Miles:

This film is adapted of the play by William Hoffman. Two former lovers have a reunion when one of the ex-lovers who is a writer discovers he has AIDS. He turns his anger into looking for love and happiness with his former lover. There is a really good performance by Colleen Dewhurst who plays a nurse and cares for dying patients.
A very dramatic and worth seeing film ! Phillip


Note: this film is credited with being one of the first  films to deal with the  AIDS epidemic.

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Associate, The    
Director: Donald Petrie
USA: 1996: 114 minutes:
With: Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Daly, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Bebe Neuwirth, Austin Pendleton, Lainie Kazan, Kenny Kerr:

This film is listed at it has Whoopi Goldberg inventing a non-existing male person as her partner. Yes there is female to male drag. Phillip



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Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre    
Germany & France: 2001:
Director: Alain Chabat:
With: Monica Bellucci, Christian Clavier and Gérard Depardieu:

This comedy is listed as there are queenie characters in the background roles. Phillip




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Athracite    
(AKA: Anthrazit)
Director: Eouard Niermans
France : 1979 : 87 minutes: Gay : Drama
With Bruno Cremer, Jean Boise, Jean-Pol Bubois, Jerome Zucca

In the beginning of the 50s there is a school ran by priests: The chief is a rough and brutal guy. He always beats the pupils where as Father Godard tries to love his pupils... especially Pierre, a stranger among these pupils. Their love stays platonic In the end the young guy is terrorizing his loved father as the others do. Phillip

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At Home
(Original title: Baba-It)
Director: Jonathan Segel
Israel: 1987: 29 minutes: Gay : Drama
With: Amikam Levi, Shmuel Vilozni, Ruth Sagalle:

Alex and his older lover, Gershon, are both playwrights, but are not both equally successful. Still, they manage to maintain a longtime companionship, negotiating sex and love in ways which are all too familiar. Phillip

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Attack of the Giant Mousaka   

Director: Panos Koutras

Greece: 2000: 90 minutes:

With: Yannis Aggelakas, Myriam Vourou, Christos Mantakas, Gregory Patrikareas, Eugene Dimitriou, Themis Bazaka, Roubini Vassilakopoulou, Jenny Balatsinou, Roubini Hatjistephanou, Dorothea Mercouri, Hilda Iliopoulou, Nikos Saropoulos, Michalis Pantos, Maria Kavadia:

OH my I can not wait to see this film..wait till you read this story line !!!! A mousaka (Greek food) transforms itself into a very large monster with the help of bisexual aliens. It then goes on the rampage in Athenes. It also has a group of homosexual scientists - led by a transvestite - trying to fight the evil. HUM if this is not one to see I do not know what is *smile*. Phillip


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Audrey Hepburn Story, The
USA: 2000: ABC TV Movie (first showing: 27.March.2000): Gay Character
With: Michael Burg as Truman Capote and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Audrey Hepburn:

Michael Burg as Truman Capote is a small role but a very important on to this TV Film. Breakfast at Tiffany's played a key role in Audrey´s life and was written by Truman. Audrey was taken with the author and his works. This ABC film tells her life story in flashbacks and after each of these it returns to her filming of Breakfast at Tiffany. Truman is played as a nasty queen who's work on the film involves bitching everyone out. In one scene Audrey must eat a pastry and when she keeps missing her lines Truman says:

"This is why I didn't want Hepburn -- she can't eat,"

and moans to the director

"Marilyn Monroe is who I wanted; Marilyn Monroe knows how to eat."

Note: Michael Burg is really good as Truman Capote (one can hope that he will get to play Truman in a longer role than just a few minutes) and Jennifer Love Hewitt is certainly a double for Audrey Hepburn I do not know when this will air in Europe but keep your eyes open and enjoy the TV film when you see it. Phillip


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Aunty No 1
Director: Kirti Kumar
India : 1998 :

With: Govinda as Gopi/Aunty; Raveena Tandon as Sandhya; Kader Khan as Rai Bahadur Behl; Mohnish Behl as Gaurav; Anupam Kher as Jyotish; Saeed Jaffrey as Colonel; Reema Lagoo as Vijayalaxmi; Johny Lever

Govinda is the Jim Carey of India with his own slapstick style of humour.

This is another Bollywood film inspired by Mrs Doubtfire, but very much in Govinda style with lots of time pass jokes and foolish scenes.
Our hero Gopi (Govinda) meets Sandhya (Raveena Tandon) and after some time they both fall in love with each-other.  At the same time Gopi's two friends are in love with Rai Bahadur Behl's (Kader Khan) two daughters and want to marry them - but Rai is against it.  So Gopi's friends ask him to help them by becoming their Aunty so that she can meet Rai with a proposal of marriage.  Very soon there is more confusion as Colonel Sadanand Dhongre (Saeed Jaffrey) and Rai both fall in love with Aunty and want to marry her.  In between all this confusion the real aunty of his friends, Vijayalaxmi (Reema Lagoo) also shows up.  The biggest question is how Gopi is going to handle all this confusion.

Want to watch this movie?  Don't think too much, leave your intelligence at home and have a good laugh. Manish   

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Auslandstournee  
2000
He is gay – he is Turkish and is a cabaret singer plus he has a daughter.Phillip

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Aussie Dreams
Director: Greenwood Cooper
Soft erotic: 55 minutes:

This film takes place in Australia and is about men who let loose their sexuality.The story line take you to beaches, tropical forests and Mardi Gras  Phew! what men- I almost decided to fly to Australia to see if these hunks really exist (no - in the end I just watch the film again !!) anyway I have now discovered why they call Australia - Down Under *smile* Phillip

Note: if you like this film the director has two other films which he made: Trance and Sirocco

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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me    
USA: 1997:

Is listed here not because it is a good comedy but because it has two Lesbian characters. The villain Frau Farbissina (played by Mindy Sterling) who is proud of her Lesbian lover -a professional golfer. Phillip






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Autobiographical Mysteries : The Films of James Broughton, Vol. 4
Director: James Broughton
USA: 1983: 57 minutes: Gay Main Characters:

This films has two films within it
1.Testament (1974) which is a charming look at the director and is a self - portrait.

2. Devotions (1983) is about 45 male couples and their sexuality features 45 male couples .
Phillip

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Avant, j'étais triste    

Jean-Gabriel Périot
France 2002: short: 2 minutes.:

A short comedy about who should be your partner in marriage (both male and female).Phillip



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