A.
About Adam
Director:
Gerard Stembridge
UK/Ireland
: 2000 : 97 mins
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 fulfil 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.
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Absolute
Beginners
Director:
Julien Temple
UK : 1986 : 108
mins
With:
Eddie
O'Connell, Patsy Kensit, 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 !
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Absolutely
Fabulous: The Last
Shout
Director:
Bob Spiers
UK : 1996 :
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.
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According to
Spencer
Gay
Interest: Contains
gay character:
Terence Michael as the Gay Landlord.
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Acla's Decent
Into Floristella
(AKA
Titles: Discesa di Aclà a Floristella, La)
Director:
Aurelio Grimaldi
Italy: 1992: 86
mins:
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.
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Act Up - Silence = Death!
France: 1996: 82 Min
In this documentary 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.
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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.
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Adam and Steve
Directed
by
Craig Chester
USA: 2005
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 that’s 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
decide 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 has 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!
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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 makes 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.
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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.
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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
film
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.
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Adored Diary of
a porn starr
(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
gets to
adopt the boy - see the film to find out.
This
film
was shown and picked as:
Official
Selection Berlin Film Festival
Official
Selection Palm Springs International
Film Festival
Official
Selection Outfest Los Angelos Film festival
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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 has 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.
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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 !
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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 America’s
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.
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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 woman’s prospective).
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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.
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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.
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African-American
Idol: The Search
for the Next Black Leader
2003
Gay
Interest: Contains
gay character: Tommy
Morgan as the Gay Attorney.
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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.
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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 !!
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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 wants 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
guy’s 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 !
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After School
Special, The
2000
Gay
Interest: Contains
gay character: Jim Bob as the Gay Guy 2.
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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 !
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 !
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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 women.
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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
film.
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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 !
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Agoria stin
porneia
(AKA:
Αγορια
Στην
Πορνεια
(Greece)
(AKA:
Gerakia, Ta (Greece) (TV title)
Greece: 1985: 86 mins:
Gay
Interest: Gay
bikers beat up people. (ugh !)
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Ah ma yau nan
(AKA:
Leave
Me Alone -International: English title)
Director:
Danny Pang
Hong
Kong / Thailand: 2004:
Gay
Interest: Contains
gay character: Yiu
Chun-Man, who is a typical fashion designer in Hong Kong.(oh almost
forgot he
has a twin brother:)
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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.
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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.
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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 !.
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AKA
Director:
Duncan Roy
2002:
123
minutes:
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.
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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!
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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.
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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....(although the "Directors Cut" has more gay in it
!
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Alien Prey
Director:
Norman J. Warren
USA: 1984: 85
minutes
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 !
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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.
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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...
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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 pleasantly 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 !
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Alone
(original title: Sola)
Director: Adan Martin
Spain: 2005: 2 Mins
Will be reviews as soon as I get to
see it !
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Alone at Last
50 min:
Soft Erotic:
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...
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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!
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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 occur 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.
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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.
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!.
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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 make this film a must !
Note:
written
by Martin Sherman who is the author of Bent.
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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”.
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".
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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 !
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.
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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
neighbours is
killed and then the relationship starts to come apart.
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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 something
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.
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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.
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All the
queen’s men
Director
:
Stefan Ruzowitzky
USA : 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.
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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 anyone’s must have list. Christopher is drawn to
him but does not
understand it all. Will they become a pair ? see the film !
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Alles wegen
Benjamin
(english
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.
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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 !
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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 drives
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.
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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.
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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.
Note :
This
film won the "Best Feature of 1992" at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
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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.
Note: mostly told through the eyes
of Lesbians.
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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.
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American Cowboy
1998
Gay
Interest: Contains
gay character: Lists
a gay in the cast.
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American
Fabulous
Director:
Reno Dakota
USA: 1992: 105
minutes: Gay Main
Character
With:
Jeffrey Strouth
Gay
Interest: Contains
gay character: 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 !
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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 !
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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 !
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American
Justice: The San Francisco
Dog Mauling
2003
(made
for TV)
Gay
Interest: Contains
gay character:
Whipple who is young and prosperous.
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American Psycho
Director:
Mary Harron
USA: 2000: 103
minutes
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 long-time friend of Patrick is asked by him to
have
lesbian sex.
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American Wedding
2003
Gay
Interest: Contains
gay character: Brad
Hammer as the Gay Male.
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Amnesia: The
James Brighton Enigma
[AKA
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Amsterdam
2009: Netherlands
A Dutch film about criminals and is listed here as there is a
gayFrench couple in it.
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Andras tis
diplanis portas, O
2004
Gay
Interest: Contains
gay character: Alkis,
who is a young gay man.
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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 !!!
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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!
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Animus
Director:
Wash West
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.
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And God Created
Man
(AKA:
Visions of Gay Sex 1)
UK: 1998, 51
minutes: Erotic Film:
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.
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And God Created
Man 2
UK: 2000 52
minutes: Erotic Film:
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.
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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.
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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 !
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And Then Came
Summer
115
minutes
: Soft erotic
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).
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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 !
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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.
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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 fascinated 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 satisfied that you did !
Great performances,
a great story line so what more could you ask for!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 centres around her wedding anniversary.
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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 !
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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.
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??
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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 !
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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 let a government control our lives again
!
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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 favourite of
mine. A
sombre, serious, but important TV-movie.
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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).
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Apariencias
2000
Gay
Interest: Contains
gay character listed
as :José Luis Arias as Gay #4, Gabriel De Coster as Gay # 3
and Osvaldo Guidi
as Gay # 1 (who´s the 2nd gay ???)
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Aparadektoi, Oi
1991
Gay
Interest: Contains gay character: Yannis as the gay friend.
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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... :-)
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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 centres around the mystery of recent news
headlines and the new tenant's relationship to them.
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A Partilha
Director:
Daniel Filho
BRASIL:
2001
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 theatre play which was a
big hit on the
stages of Brazil, Mexico, Chile, ArgentinaSpain.
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Apples and Oranges
Director: Lynne Fernie
Canada: 2003: 17 Mins
Will be reviews as soon as I get to
see it.
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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!
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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 !
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Arisan
Director:
Nia Dinata
Indonesia: 2003
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 together. The
friends 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..
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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.
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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.
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Areola, The
2001
(made
for TV)
Gay
Interest: Contains gay character: Andy Hirsch as the gay nurse.
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Argentino en
New York, Un
1998
Gay
Interest: Contains gay character: Mario Mendoza as Latin Gay.
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Arrapaho
Director:
Ciro Ippolito
Italy : 1984 : 98
mins :
List a
gay
character in the cast.
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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).
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.
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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 neighbour who
starts
out with hate for his gay neighbour soon meets a waitress who he falls
for (in
his special way) and he soon learns to live and let live with his
neighbour 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 !
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 !
Note:
this
film is credited with being one of the first
films to deal with the
AIDS
epidemic
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Attack of the Bride Monster
Director: Vicky Boone
USA: 2005: 18 Mins
Will be reviews as soon as I get to
see it !
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.
Attack of the Bride Monster
Director: Vicky Boone
USA: 2005: 18 Mins
Will be reviews as soon as I get to
see it !
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Astérix
& Obélix: Mission
Cléopâtre
Director:
Alain Chabat
Germany & France: 2001
With:
Monica Bellucci, Christian Clavier and Gérard Depardieu:
This
comedy
is listed as there are queenie characters in the background roles.
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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.
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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 long-time companionship,
negotiating sex and love in ways which are all too familiar.
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Attack of the Bride Monster
Director: Vicky Boone
USA: 2005: 18 Mins
Will be reviews as soon as I get to
see it !
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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*.
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Audrey's Beard
Director: Alec Butler
Canada: 2002: 2 Mins
Will be reviews as soon as I get to
see it !
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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.
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Auslandstournee
He is
gay –
he is Turkish and is a cabaret singer plus he has a daughter.
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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 lines 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*
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.
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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 .
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