Baby

 

Director: Uwe Frießner

Germany : 1983 : 110 min.: Gay : Drama :

With: Udo Seidler, Reinhard Seeger, Volkmar Richter, Andreas Adam, Markus Dreier:

 

Baby falls in love with Rene but he is a criminal and married. A friend of theirs is planning a robbery. Baby is in with them because he wants his dream of his owning a Bodybuilding studio comes true.

 

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Backyard Boyz

 

60 mins:

 

In this homo erotic film there are 6 parts with 11 great looking guys and it is happening in the back yard behind a large fence.  

 

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Bad Boys II

 

Director: Michael Bay

USA: 2003: 147 mins:

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: Yes even Bad Boy films has a gay character and this time it is the token Gay Hairdresser played by Anthony Giaimo.

 

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Bad News Bachelors

 

Australia : 1990 : 26 min.: Gay : Comedy/Drama :

 

A gay man and his straight female friend trade stories (in flashbacks) of their romantic misadventures. A happy comedy.

 

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Badge, The

 

Director: Regie: Robby Henson

USA: 2002:

With: Billy Bob Thornton (Darl), Patricia Arquette (Scarlett), Sela Ward (Carla), William Devane (Judge), Jena Malone (Ashley), Tom Bower (Bull), Ray McKinnon (C.B.)

 

Story of the investigation into the case where a trucker kills his lover and causes a lot of people confusion and to look into their homophobia – has a surprising number of gay characters in this film - watch the end please ...

 

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Balls in Play

 

1993

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: Blue Blake as Gay Football Player.

 

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Bambola

 

Director: Jose Juan Bigas Luna

Italy/UK/France: 1996: 92 mins: gay main character

With: Valeria Marini, Stefano Dionisi, Jorge Perugorría, Manuel Bandera, Antonio Iuorio, Anita Ekberg:

 

Bambola is a very pretty girl who had a gay brother called Flavio. Their mother (Anita Ekberg) dies and they open a Pizzeria with money lent by a banker friend Ugo. One day they decide to have a little fun and go to a swimming pool and nothing will be the same after that day trip. Bambola and Flavio see Settimo who is a super well built and handsome guy and both want him but he has eyes only for Bambola. There is a fight, a person is killed and Settimo ends up in jail where he is raped over and over by men and when he gets out he is offered a life with Flavio (rather stupid to think a straight can become gay while prison). Bambola life is taken by a rough man who hates everyone and comes to her when he is out of the prison. This all can only spell disaster waiting to happen.

 

Note: I was a little taken back that a new film could suggest that you can make a homosexual out of a heterosexual by raping him over and over but if one ignores that fact the rest of the film is very interesting !

 

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Banana Is My Business

 

Director: Helena Solberg

Brazil: Musical documentary / Musical about a Latin gay icon - Carmem Miranda:

With: Leticia Monte (young Carmem ), Erick Barreto (hollywood Carmem ), Cynthia Adler, Aloisio Oliveira, Stela Romero, Casio Barsante, Jorginho Guinle, Jeanne and Ted Allan:

 

Erick Barreto is a famous Brazilian Drag Queen who plays the little Portuguese girl who was raised in Brazil, the singer Carmen Miranda, makes a career of success in United States, and becomes a big star in Hollywood and a Latin gay icon.

 

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Banana Queers

 

113 mins: in English (with Chinese subtitles)

 

This is a collection of short films and the shorts are about gay boys who have experienced discrimination about being gay and about the color of their skin. An eye opening experience...:

Short 1: China Dolls (30 mins), won Best Documentary Film, Washington Queer Film Festival

Short 2: Yellow Fever (26 min), won Audience Award, Verzaubert International Film Festival, Germany

Short 3: Stanley Beloved (20 min), won Gold Award, Cinema Jove International Film Festival, Spain

Short 4: Fall 1990 (37 min).

 

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Bar Girls

 

Director: Marita Giovanni

USA: 1994: 95 mins: Lesbian main characters

With: Nancy Allison Wolfe, Liza D'Agostino and Camilla Riggs:

 

This is a look at Lesbian dating and was filmed at a Lesbian bar in West Hollywood. Loretta (played by Nancy Allison Wolfe) is a writer who goes often to the Bar to meet woman and  we are shown how she meets Rachel (played by Liza D'Agnostino) who is an wanna-be actress. They quickly enter into a love affair which also quickly enters into problems when J.R. (played by Camilla Riggs )who is a cop and quite butch comes into the picture.

 

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Bare

 

Director: Deborah Strutt

Australia: 2000: short film: 9 mins.:

With: Madeleine Swain, Maria Theodorakis, Luke Elliot, David Tredinnick and Esme Melville:

 

In the city lives two boy and two girls and what happens when you get to know your neighbors and the person you brought home last night plus all this plus voyeurism all in a 9 minute film !

 

Info: I have had contact with the production company and director of this film and have received their e-mail address so if you want to get in contact /or get info about showing this short film then write Deborah Strutt or the Wild Iris Productions at the following address: wildiris@netspace.net.au

 

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Barely Legal

 

Soft Erotic: 55 Mins:

 

This is the story of what eight hot European boys get up to when they watch a house for a friend. This soft erotic has good-looking boys and even a little romance!

 

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Basic 

 

Director: John McTiernan

USA: 2003

With: John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, Connie Nielsen, Giovanni Ribisi

 

Giovanni Ribisi plays a gay Army-soldier in this action-mystery-thriller. He survives a secret mission gone horribly wrong in the Panama jungle. Several soldiers are dead or missing, and DEA agent John Travolta has to unravel what has happened to Giovanni and the other soldiers on the mission. This should have been great, Mc Tiernan is an ace action-director and Travolta has charisma to spare.But no, this movie sucks. The ending has to be seen to be believed, it completely contradicts the rest of the plot!

 

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Basketball Diaries, The 

 

With: Leonardo DiCaprio:

 

This film has Leonardo DiCaprio playing a the young main character who falls into drug use. The basketball coach wants him for sex and what does Leonardo want - blackmail money for drugs!

 

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Basis des Make-Up, Die

 

Director: Heinz Emigholz

Germany : 1979 - 1984 : 84 min.: Gay : Drama/Comedy :

With: John Erdmann, Eckhard Rhode, Bernd Broaderup, Willi Klinker:

 

A cook makes a hole in the door to the room of his boss (a carpet dealer) who is living in a kind of dark carpeted cave together with his lover (who is a young alcoholic) and two women.

 

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Bay Boy, The

 

Director: Daniel Petrie

Canada/France: 1984: 97 Mins:

With: Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Alan Scarfe, Mathieu Carrière, Peter Donat and Isabelle Mejias:

 

Everyone wants Donald to become a Priest but he does not like this idea. He is a sensitive 16 year old and this film is listed as a Priest tries to seduce him. Oh then the film moves on to a double murder.

 

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Beautiful Daughters

 

Director: Josh Aronson

USA: 2006: Made for TV:

 

Do you remember Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues well this is a new twist as it is doku about four transgender women and the rewriting of the Vagina Monologues for transgender women and the issues they face as women.

 

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Beautiful Women

(Original title: Schöne Frauen)

 

Director: Sathyan Ramesh

Germany: 2003: 86 mins.

 

5 actresses meet at an audition only to realize this film is not for them. What occurs is a 1 day story of them spending the day together getting to know each others secrets and there is a lesbian story line too.

 

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Be Cool

 

Director: F. Gary Gray

2005:

With: Vince Vaughn and the Rock:

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: A low life music manager and his gay bodyguard (played by The Rock).

 

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Bear Cub

(Original title: cachorro )

 

Director: Luis Miguel Albaladejo

Spain - 2004 - 99 min

With: Jose Luis Garcia-Perez, David Castillo, Diana Cerez, Mario Arias

 

Pedro is a hedonistic, homosexual dentist who spends his life in search of pleasure. One day his sister, Violeta, a survivor of the hippy age, leaves for India with her boyfriend and Pedro offers to look after her 11 year-old son, Bernardo. In the beginning Pedro alters his own behavior for his nephew’s sake and Bernardo gives him no trouble at all. But the tranquility comes to an end when Violeta and her companion are arrested and imprisoned for years in India. Pedro is then forced to face Bernardo’s paternal grandmother who does not accept her grandson being raised by a homosexual. Its a very big drama with some funny scenes and with a very explicit scene of sex in the firsts minutes with a very nice happy end.Screened in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival in 2004.

 

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Bear's Story, A

 

2003

With: Kevin Bowe as Robert, Kleev Guessford as Rick, Dean Ricca as John and Kurt Andrew Hansen as Andy:

 

Robert is a gay man who is heavy set and is quite happy with his single life until a friend of his called Rick takes him out to a West Hollywood gay bar. There he meets John was also heavy set. John is attracted to Robert and tells him so and in turn invites him to a pool party where Robert soon discovers that there are many other Bear type men out there. Will he find the right one for him or is John that person - see the film to find out !

 

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Beautiful boxer

 

Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham

Thailand - 2003 - 118 mains:

With: Asanee Suwan, Sorapong Chatree, Orn-Anong Panyawong, Kyoko Inoue, Sitiporn Niyom, Yuka Hyodo, Keagan Kang, Nukkid Boonthong

 

Based on the true story of the transsexual Parinya Charoenphol, affectionately known as Nong Toom in Thailand. Since childhood Nong Tong believed he was a woman imprisoned in a man’s body. He decides to learn and dominate the most virile of Thai sports, the martial art muay thai, also known as Thai boxing. His objective is to dispute the national tournament, become champion and then use the money to fulfill his dream: to have a sex change operation. Winner of the Supannahongsa (considered the Thai Oscar) for best actor.: Ekachai Uekrongtham was born in Thailand in 1962, he is an award-winning theater director and founder of Action Theater, a professional production company based in Singapore. He specialized in idealizing, producing and directing musicals for theater, such as the acclaimed Chang & Eng, based on the true story of the famous Siamese twins. This is his first feature length film.

 

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Beautiful Dreamers

 

Director/ Screenwriter : John Kent Harrison

Canada : 1991 : 108 min.: Drama gay BIOS.

With : Rip Torn as Walt Witman and the Doctor played by Colm Feore:

 

This is the filming of Walt Witman´s life: He lived and wrote poetry in the Victorian times and it is surprising that he was as sexual liberated and open in those times. The film shows his relationship with a younger Doctor played by Colm Feore which causes a scandal. Very good film and a really good drama. Oh just in case you ever see it - there is a wonderful recording of Walt Witman poems which are very erotic and often tell of the pleasures of loving both men and women. Hard to believe he wrote these poems in the Victorian times.

 

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Beautiful Mind, A

 

Director: Ron Howard:

Drama: USA 2001:

With: Russell Crowe (John Nash), Ed Harris (William Parcher), Jennifer Connelly (Alicia Larde Nash), Paul Bettany (Charles Herman), Adam Goldberg (Sol), Judd Hirsch (Helinger), Joshua Lucas (Hansen):

 

John Nash was a gay mathematical super mind. He got a job working for the government secret service and is asked to crack the German codes used in communications in the war. He succeeds but at what costs. He is declared to be "crazy" and somehow ends up in the background (due to his gayness?) until years later when he is finally recognized as a gay genius.

Note: there are two films based on his life and this one has him marry a woman who he spend the later part of his life married to with a child.

 

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Beautiful Mystery

 

Director: Nakamura Genji,

Japan:

 

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder who joins a para-military sect in Japan. There he has an instructor called Takizawa. During the training it is clear that Takizawa has a special place for the new recruit in his heart. Do they fall in love and live happier after – see the film !

 

 

 

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Beautiful Thing

 

Director: Hettie MacDonald

UK : 1996 : 90 min..: Romance gay teens

With: Glen Berry as Jamie Gangel, Scott Neal as Ste Pearce, and Linda Henry as Sandra Gangel:

 

This is a very tender and loving story which takes place in a London housing estate during a very hot summer. It is about Jamie, who is very unpopular boy and Ste who is popular athletic boy. Ste is often beaten up by his father and his older brother. Due to just such a beating Sandra (Jamie's mother) offers that Ste, move in with Jamie. As they get to know one another there is a growing attraction to each other. It is a slow building attraction which finally hits the screen in fullness at the end of the film in a wonderfully filmed scene. The mother is a very strong character throughout the film. The music is classic Mama Cass songs. This film is a "must" see one.

 

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Beauty

(Original title: Bishonen )

 

Director: Yon Fan

Hong Kong: 1998: 101 mins: call boy main characters

With:  Stephen Fung, Qi Shu, Jason Tsang, Daniel Yu and Terence Yin:

 

This film takes place in Hong Kong and takes place in the world of Call – Boys and policemen.

Jet is the most famous call – boy of Hong Kong and he develops a crush on Sam who is a mysterious policeman. Jet set outs to seduce him and this is the story of what happens to both of them A beautifully filmed film and worth see as soon as possible!

 

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Beauty Parlor, The 

[AKA : Istana Kecantikan]

 

Director : Wahyu Sihombing

Indonesia : 1989 : 90 min.: Drama gay marriage

With : Nurul Arifin and Mathias Muchus:

 

Niko, who is a gay man, in order to overcome rumors about his sexuality is forced into a marriage with the pregnant Lita. She was abandoned by a mutual friend of theirs. This marriage is doomed as their sex life is bad and the relationship becomes worse as the year go by.

 

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Becoming Men

 

Soft erotic: 55 Mins

 

This film has interviews with young guys who are just about to become men. There are great looking guys who are interviewed and tell "all" about their sexuality and the experiences which they have had.

 

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Bedrooms & Hallways

 

Director: Rose Troche

UK: 1998: 96 mins; Gay main character

With: Starring: Kevin McKidd as Leo, Jennifer Ehle, Simon Callow (as the head of the men´s group), Tom Hollander as Darren, James Purefoy and Harriet Walter:

 

This is a funny comedy about two gays men who share an apartment in London. Leo is 30 years old and looking for a lifetime relationship so he joins a men's support group and finally finds love !

Darren on the other hand just wants sex and more sex and he certainly gets it from a wild real estate agent(played wonderfully by Hugo Weaving).This is a fun film so just go see it and enjoy !

 

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Beefcake

 

Director: Thom Fitzgerald

Canada: 1999: 90 mins: gay history

 

This film is a biography of Bob Mizer who photographed the male models from the 1950´s muscle magazines. It also takes you back to the times when there were only muscle magazines like Physique where all the men had posing straps on, so you had to use your imagination a lot. The film has a lot of interviews with the people who were behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So return to the time of non-nudes and see this film.

 

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Before Night Falls

 

Director: Julian Schnabel

USA: 2000: 125 mins: With:Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Cunningham O'Keefe, Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez:

 

This is the story of a gay man who was born in Cuba in 1943  and died in New York City in 1980.It traces his life from being gay in Cuba and having all sorts of problems as a writer and homosexual censored and persecuted in Castro's Cuba and then his leaving Cuba and becoming an exile in New York. This film is a must for gay people to see!

 

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Behind Bedroom Doors

 

Director: Lawrence Stern

USA: 2003: Made for TV: 88 mins:

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: This is listed as it is a softporn which includes a lesbian scene.

 

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Behind Glass

[AKA: Achter glas]

 

Director : Ab van Ieperen

1981 : The Netherlands : 70 min.: Gay : Drama :

With : Rudolf Lucieer and Elias Van Zanden:

 

A window cleaner comes to do the windows at a radio station where he is observed by a radio reporter. They meet and start a relationship not knowing that the relationship would be difficult to keep going due to the differences in their upbringing and social status. A power struggle occurs due to this. Two lovers from different backgrounds fight about class, money, education, and sex.

 

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Behind the Red Door

 

Director: Matia Karrell

USA: 2001

With: Jason Carter (Sonny), Kiefer Sutherland (Roy), Kyra Sedgwick (Natalie), Hannah Lochner (Young Natalie), Stockard Channing (Julia);

 

Is the story of the HIV infected Roy played by Kiefer Sutherland. His sister is a photographer called Natalie. Her job sends her to Boston where her brother lives. Roy has become a very difficult person but even though they decided that she should be with him till his death. Worth a see to know what a difficult relationship is like.

 

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Being at Home with Claude

 

Director: Jean Beaudin

Canada : 1991- 92 : 85 mins:

With Roy Dupuis, Jean-Francois Pichette, and Jacques Godin:

 

I have just finished watching this film in French with English subtitles. At first i thought it was going to be a long boring film about a hustler and the crime he committed but it turns out to be a very interesting film about a handsome street hustler and a student who fall in love. One of them is murdered by the other and the rest of the film involved long discussions between the police officer in charge and the hustler. Then in many Black and White flashbacks the story of their meeting and love affair falls into place with touching dialog then a confession is reached. Contains hot erotic sex scenes for its time and the the hustler is absolutely beautiful although not beautiful enough to want to be murdered by him *smile*.

 

Note: Based on play by Rene-Daniel Dubois and filmed in French with English subtitles (although the subtitles are not as good as they should be and should be redone !)

 

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Being John Malkovich 

 

Director: Spike Jonze:

Usa: 1999: 112 Mins:

With: John Cusack , Cameron Diaz , Catherine Keener , Orson Bean , Mary Kay Place , John Malkovich , Ned Bellamy , Eric Weinstein , Madison Lanc , K.K. Dodds , Byrne Piven And Judith Wetzell:

 

Strange film about Craig who must accept a job as an archivist to make money. He discovers the when he goes through a closet, he is in the body of John Malkovich (what?) anyway has gay content.

 

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Beloved Friend

(Original title: Amic/Amat)

 

Director: Ventura Pons

Spain: 90 mins: gay & call boy main characters

With: José María Pou, Rosa María Sardá, Mario Gas and David Selvas:

 

Wow another good film out of Spain ! This is the story of Jaume Clara who is a professor of Medieval literature.

He is at the height of his success and should be able to settle down to enjoy this success but instead his health is bad but he is still able to fall in love with one of his students called David. David is a quiet but intelligent student and all seems as if Jaume will have to just think of being in love with David, until he answers a personal add for a call - boy and low and behold David come to the door. Jaume knows that if he has sex with him at this point nothing will come of his love for David so instead he he plots to get David for his own. How David will react - well see this really excellent film !

 

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Ben & Arthur

 

Director: Sam Mraovich

2002: 85 mins:

With: Sam Mraovich As Arthur, Jamie Brett Gabel As Ben, Michael Hasboush, Bill Hindley And Julie Belknap.

 

This is the story of two lovers Arthur and Ben. They are at a point in their lives where Arthur was to marry his lover legally but Ben does not see the need for it as he is happy with the relationship as it is. Throw in Arthurs brother who is a religious fanatic and against the relationship as it is or would be and you have a very interesting story so go see the film and see if they marry or are spit up by the brother!

 

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Bend it like Beckham 

 

Director / Writer: Gurinder Chadha

2002

With: Parminder K. Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, David Beckham

 

This film about a Indian family in London who´s daughter Jess want to become a soccer player is listed as there is a gay character in it: He is the best friend of Jess and is called Tony (played by Ameet Chana).

Also contains a remark from a character in the film: "being lesbian isn't that big of a deal".

 

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Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens 

 

1979

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: Listed due to the fact that there is a gay marriage counsellor in the film.

 

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Ben-Hur

 

Director: Fred Niblo

USA : 1926 : 141 min.: filmed in B/W : Drama

With : Ramon Novarro and Francis X Bushman:

 

This is the early filming of Ben Hur - which is the story of Ben-Hur and Messala who have a special friendship together. This filming should be noted and seen as Ramon Novarro was a gay actor and if you watch carefully there is a naked slave chained to a wall in one of the scenes.

 

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Ben-Hur

 

Director: William Wyler

USA: 1959: 212 mins: Drama: Special Male friendship

With: Charlton Heston as Ben-Hur and Stephan Boyd as Messala:

 

This is the later filming of the relationship between Ben-Hur and Messala who have loved each other since childhood. It is said that Stephan Boyd was told the two had been lovers but were separated and now that he was back in Rome he wants to renew the love affair but Ben-Hur does not. If you watch that scene is it played as two lovers seeing each other again after a long separation. Also the makers of the film have said if they had left out the girl the picture would have been a better picture - and I think they are right! It is fun to watch this film knowing the secret as it does have the feel of gay lovers - even with the dialog and scene cutting that is said to have gone on during the filming.

Note : Gore Vidal helped write the script but was not credited.

 

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Bent

 

Director: Sean Mathias

UK: 1997: 104 mins:

With: Clive Owen Lothaire Bluteau and Mick Jager

 

I had read the Bent in book form but I kept putting off seeing the film as I knew it would be a hard experience for me but I finally took a friends advice and that evening I went alone to the cinema and watched the film. It starts out light and eerie with Mick Jager doing a song in drag. Then comes the repression from the Nazi´s against the gays and the gays had to take care of themselves i whichever way they could to try and keep alive. My heart pounded at the thought that someone like the Nazi´s could take my life away from me at their own will. The two lovers of the film are put through hell and torture (too graphic to go into here). They are forced to separate and pretend that they are not gay. Then the story switches from the long train ride (with torture) to the Nazi concentration where gays were treated as the lowest people there. Although the main character finds ways of surviving and even having sexual activities in his mind. This is only the story of a few but there were many gays treated like and it can never never happen again !

 

Note: This film is a MUST see for all gay and lesbian people ! We have it good in this day and age but when radical groups come into power they could take that all away again and WE MUST never let that happen again NEVER ! A good way is to be informed and this film helps. I sat glued to the seat and i felt all the good things and bad things happening on the screen and I must admit it scared the hell out of me... So if you have one film to see which will change your way of looking at life - SEE THIS FILM !!!

 

It seems incredible that they are NOW talking in Germany of reversing all the convictions against gays and lesbians from the Nazi time. This should have been done many years ago... ! These poor people have lived their lives with a conviction against them on their records and it should be changed NOW !!! I can not  imagine what things these poor men and women have gone through with first the Nazis and then the discrimination against them during the years that followed !

 

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Berlin Affair

 

Director: Liliana Cavani

Italy: 1985: 118 mins:

With: Gudrun Landgrebe an Mio Takaki:

 

I have not seen this film yet but have read that the story line is in the 1930´s Berlin and is about high society. It´s plot is about lesbian affairs during that time including blackmail!

 

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Best Boy

 

Soft erotic:

 

What you like men in numbers - well here are seventeen of them ! What you like cute hot boys! - well here are seventeen of them. What you like big productions - well here are 15 hot sequences... you will see it all on the released DVD !

 

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Best day of my life, The 

(Original title: Il Più bel giorno della mia vita)

 

Director Cristina Comencini

Italy: 2002

With: Virna Lisi, Margherita Buy, Sandra Ceccarelli, Luigi Lo Cascio, Marco Baliani, Marco Quaglia, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Ricky Tognazzi, Gaia Conforzi, Frances Scianna, Francesca Perini, Maria Luisa De Crescenzo, Andrea Sama, Giulio Squillacciotti

 

Story about the Grandmother and widow Irene (Virna Lisi)

This film is listed as there is a gay character called  (played by Luigi Lo Cascio) who is afraid to come out and is able to have sex with his boyfriend (played by Marco Quaglia) but no emotions involved.

 

Plus Sara (played by Margherita Buy) who is living in loneliness and without contact with her spends her life in loneliness and has lost contact with her son Marco (played Francesco Scianna) as she is afraid that he is homosexual and that she could not deal with it if if is true. Does  come out ? Is Marco really homosexual - see the film !!!

 

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Best Man, The 

 

Director: Franklin Schaffner

USA : 1964 : 103 mins: Drama with Gay rumors

With : Henry Fonda as William Russel (the first Candidate) and Cliff Robertson as Joe Cantwell (the second Candidate):

 

Gore Vidal wrote the play for this (was a big success in 1960) and then the screen play. It is the story of American politics and the race to become President. The race becomes ugly when one candidate decides to play dirty and expose the others psychological problems from the past. Well one nasty deed deserves another so they dig into the past of the other candidate and find a "secret". That secret turns out to be that the other candidate is supposed to be gay. This turns out to be untrue and it also turns out that this candidate helped turn in the two men (officers) who were gay (hum - and he seemed proud of it too !). Anyway movies like this paved the way for the newer really gay movies! You have to start somewhere right?

 

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Best Men 

 

Director: Tamra Davis

USA: 1997: 90 mins:

With: Dean Cain, Sean Patrick Flanery, Mitchell Whitfield, Luke Wilson, Fred Ward and Drew Barrymore:

 

Yes there is a gay character in this action comedy and it is Dean Cain (from Superman fame & quite a hunk) plays an ex-military gay man.

 

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Best in Show 

 

Direction: Christopher Guest

USA: 2000:

With: Bob Balaban (Dr. Theodore W. Millbank), Jennifer Coolidge (Sherri Ann Cabot), Christopher Guest (Harlan Pepper), John Michael Higgins (Scott Donlan), Eugene Levy (Gerry Fleck), Michael Hitchcock (Hamilton Swan) and Jane Lynch (Christy Cummings):

 

Another one of Guest’s unprepossessing comedies, with his steady band of actors doing their best to make you laugh. It revolves around a dog show in Philadelphia, with the finest dog breeders in USA competing for the Grand Prize. A documentary team follows some of the contesting couples, among them two very effeminate, but lovable gay men from Tribeca, New York. Played by John Michael Higgins and Michael McKean in a pair of brilliant impersonations. Hey, I know these people!! The scene where they call home to make sure their other dogs don’t watch too much TV while they’re away is a solid scream!

 

Some people don’t like Christopher’s Guest comedies because they’re not flashy enough. I personally love them.

 

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Best Of Out & Out On Tuesday, The

 

Directors: various:

UK: 1989: Short films from TV show which was on channel Four in the UK: 82 mins:

 

The following short films come from the TV Series Out on Tuesday:

1.- TALKING HAIRS: between boys and girls:

2.- COMIC CUTS: comics with gays and lesbians:

3.- PRIDE 91 features the London Lesbian & Gay Pride March with the music from Ravel´s Bolero:

4.- FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS: Hollywood always had secret gays in their productions:

5.- POSTCARD FROM NEW ZEALAND, Peter Wells postal video:

6.- KHUSH: gay Asians;

7.- GIRLS IN BOY BARS: what are girls doing in a gay bar in New Castle

 

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Best Way, The

(Original title: Meilleure Facon de Marcher, La)

(AKA: Best Way to Walk, The)

 

Director: Claude Miller

France : 1976 : 85 mins.:

 

A very masculine athletic coach scorns the advances of the drama teacher, whom he catches experimenting with transvestitism, but an eventual confrontation causes the jock to look at his own notions of sexuality. Very interesting film.

 

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Betsy, The 

 

Director: Daniel Petrie

USA : 1978 127 min.: Drama with gay

With : Laurence Oliver as Loren or Number One and Paul Rudd as Loren Jr.:

 

This is the story of a wealthy automobile manufacturing family. Number One thinks that his son (who is a closet gay and is having a relationship with one of his male employees) is not fit to run the company relieves him from being the President and at the same time fires his sons male lover. Then to make matters worse the father starts having a sexual relationship with the sons wife. This is the main cause that the son decides to commit suicide (which is shown in a flash back style). The company is then run by the grandson - Loren III who in turn hates his grandfather for causing his fathers death. When you see this film you will discover where a lot of the soap opera got there ideas from.

 

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Better Than Chocolate

[ Working title was: Maggie & Lila]

 

Director: Anne Wheeler

Canada: 1999: 101 mins:

With: Wendy Crewson as Lila, Karyn Dwyer as Maggie, Christina Cox as Kim and Peter Outerbridge as Judy:

 

Maggie and Kim are young and pretty lesbians. They meet, fall in love and move into Maggies´s apartment. So far all is well until Maggie´s mother, Lila divorces her husband and moves in with the two girls not knowing that they are in a lesbian relationship. Lila surprisingly meets Judy and becomes friends with the transvestite who is about to become a woman. When happens when Mama discovers that the two girls are lesbians - you´ll just have to see the movie to find out.

 

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Better Dead Than Gay

 

1996

 

Simon Harvey was a gay man and a Christian, he was unable to fit these two things together in his life and thus kills himself when he is 26 – this is a very sad story.

 

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Between Two Worlds

 

Director: Mark Nash

UK : 1993 27 min.: Gay : Drama

 

A youth working part-time at a flower shop develops an intense relationship with his analyst, to whom he reveals that he thinks he might be gay. The boy's boss at the flower shop is definitely gay.

 

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Beverly Kills

 

Director: Damion Dietz

USA: 2006

With: Gary Kelley and Rick Sparks:

 

This is the latest film from Damion Dietz who brought us Fag Hag and Neverland. It is a slightly crazy comedy about an Beverly Jackson who is a cross dressing actor. He wants a role in the Nude production of Balls Out but does not get the role.

So he set out to get his revenge on the people & theatre who have rejected him. There are also cutie Shane who falls for Ray and get not only love but to be a part of the revenge scheme. A very funny film - Have a peak....

 

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Bewegte Mann, Der

[AKA: Maybe, Maybe Not]

[AKA: Most Desired Man]

[AKA: Turbulent Man, The]

 

Director: Soenke Wortmann

Germany: 1994: 93 min.: Comedy

With: Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Krol, Rufus Beck, Armin Rohde:

 

Axel, is very handsome young guy who is always after new women and sex, even though he has a girlfriend called Doro. One day she finds him having sex in a toilette with another woman and she throws him out of the apartment plus ends the relationship. Axel is then homeless and needs a place to stay, he meets. Walter, who is gay and in turn finds Axel to be very good looking and hot Walter takes Axel to a gay party where they meet Norbert. Axel gets drunk and really doesn't want to go with Walter home so he chooses to go with Norbert as he thinks Norbert is the safer of the two. Norbert has a large apartment and invites Axel to stay with him. He has a crush on Axel and thinks that if he lets him stay he can seduce him. It then turns out that Doro pregnant (from Axel) and wants him back. She does not know that he is now living with a gay man and when she finally finds him he was in bed with Walter and the rest is pure comedy with the gay and heater world meeting. You have to see the movie to find out if Axel goes back to Doro or stays with Walter. Til Schweiger is great to look at and lust after. The film is based on the famous books "Der Bewegte Mann'' and "Pretty Baby'', written by cartoonist Ralf Koenig, who makes a guest appearance in the film as a drag queen. This is a must see film and it brought back International interest in German films.

 

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Beyond Gravity

 

Director: Garth Maxwell

New Zealand : 1988 : 48 min.: Comedy / Drama gay love short film

With: Robert Pollock, Iain Rea and Lucy Sheehan:

 

This is a very offbeat story of a flamboyant rebel called Johnny and a very shy glass technician Richard who come together in this strange and offbeat love story.

 

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Beyond Therapy

 

Director: Robert Altman

USA : 1986 : 93 min.: Comedy - Drama with a bisexual and a gay

With: Jeff Goldblum as Bruce, Christopher Guest as Bob, Chrisopher Guest as Andre and Julie Hagerty as Prudence:

 

This film is about relationships and therapists. Bruce is a bisexual living with a high strung and sissy gay guy called Bob. The relationship has become boring to Bruce and he then falls in love with Prudence, where as she learns about his relationship with Bob and says to Bruce that she hates gays! Where as he tell her "Oh I'm not gay I'm bisexual - there is a difference" (oh yea and what is that I would like to know !!!) anyway back to the story poor Bob is upset that his lover is leaving him for a girl but gets over it VERY QUICKLY and finds a new lover called Andrew who is his therapists son. Talk about one stop shopping. Anyway this film is not that good but it does have a gay / bisexual story line so it should be included in your viewing / collecting.

 

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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 

 

1970

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: Tim Laurie as the Gay man #2 and Robin Bach as the Gay boy.

 

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B.F.D. 

 

Director / Producer: J. Christian Ingvordsen

USA: 1990

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: Bob Gosse as the gay director.

 

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B-Girlz Present: Toronto! Toronto!!, The

 

Director: Nico Stagias:

Canada: 2004: 5 mins:

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: 5 minutes of Toronto Drag ladies.

 

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Bienvenue au Canada

 

Director: Stéphan Deraucroix:

Canada: 2003: 10 mins:

 

Story about a young French filmmaker living in Quebec. He is trying to get his career on the move but it is a hard task so he is forced to do a porno filming in order to make money to survive.

 

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Bridget Jones's Diary 

 

Director: Sharon Maguire

UK / France: 2001: 91 mins:

With: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: Bridget´s best friend Tom is gay (played by Jame Callis).

 

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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason   

UK/ USA/ France 2004: 108 mins.

 

Directed by Beeban Kidron

With: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant

 

If you manage to drag yourself through 90 minutes of "funny" heterosexual angst, obnoxious Hugh Grant, pouting Renee Zellweger and upper class twit Colin Firth, there is a nice gay twist at the end of it all. In fact, it's crucial to the story line.

The story itself happens in a never-never land populated with cartoon characters of no special human interest. Everything is so unbelievably corny you really shouldn't be bothered to watch. Bridget also has a gay friend who fits all the bad stereotypes like a glove.

Still, the ending is sort of worth the pain...

 

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Birdy

 

USA: 1984: 115 Mins:

 

Al was in the Vietnam war and was injured. He ends up in a Military hospital where he is asked to try and help a friend from school called Birdy. Birdy things he can fly like a bird. Can Al help solve Birdys problem – see the film to find out.

 

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Biches, Les 

(a.k.a. THE DOES/BAD GIRLS/Girlfriends)

 

Director: Claude Chabrol

France: 1968: 95 mins: Lesbian/Bisexual Interest

With Stephane Audran, Jacqueline Sassard, Jean-Louis Trintignant:

 

Claude Chabrol was arguably at his directorial peak when he made “Les Biches” in 1968. Chabrol’s then-wife Stephane Audran delivers a stylish performance as Frederique, a beautifully cool seductress who picks up a young street artist enigmatically named ‘Why’ and takes her back to St Tropez to keep her warm for the winter. Acte 1 concludes with what must be one of the most subtly erotic seduction scenes in cinema, played by two actresses who knew what they were doing.

The two women’s relationship progresses to a point of almost domesticity until handsome Paul, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, appears on the scene. Paul quickly seduces ‘Why’, who seems to sleep with him out of mere curiosity, much to the chagrin of Frederique. Unwilling to be defeated, Frederique visits Paul and makes him her own.

The film shifts into what could have been an inferior mÈnage-a-trois storyline in the hands of any other director. Yet Chabrol manages to create an increasingly suffocating atmosphere, permeated with sexual egotism and emotional game playing. “Les Biches” is a film that demands repeated viewing.

On an interesting note: the film includes a male homosexual couple who are depicted as eccentric hanger-ons/court jesters, but not in the usual effeminate way as would be seen a decade later in the famous French film “La Cage Aux Folles”.

 

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Big daddy 

 

Director: Dennis Dugan

USA: 1999: Gay minor characters

With Adam Sandler and Joey Lauren Adams

 

A dirty, but sometimes very funny comedy about a single guy, Sonny, who ends up taking care of a small kid. Sonny has two gay friends, Phil and Tommy. They are a grown-up and responsible couple, everything Sonny is not. His idea of a good laugh is abusing the elderly and rattling off fart jokes to small children. You know..a real pain. So, Sonny has to learn to grow up and be a responsible father.

This is probably the commercially most successful picture ever to feature a gay kiss, even beating In & out at the box-office. Plus, it's shot in the gay capital of the east, New York City!

 

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Big Brass Ring, The 

 

Director: George Hickenlooper

USA: 1999: 100 Mins:

With: William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Nigel Hawthorne, Miranda Richardson, Irene Jacob, Ewan Stewart, Gregg Henry, Ron Livingston, Jefferson Mays, Jim Metzler, Carmine Giovinazzo, Thomas Patrick Kelly:

 

Blake Pellarin (played by William Hurt) is in the run to become Governor of Missouri. The race is almost over when Kimball Mennaker (played by Nigel Hawthorne) shows up again in Blakes life. He then processed to try and blackmail him with Homo Erotic Photos but it turns out that the photos are not of Blake but of his brother. To see what happens see the film !

Note: The story was written by Orson Welles.

 

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Big City Blues

 

Director: Clive Fleury

USA: 1999: 90 Mins:

With: Burt Reynolds, Balthazar Getty, William Forsythe, Giancarlo Esposito, Arye Gross and Georgina Cates:

 

In this thriller Burt Reynolds plays a sort of crazy killer there is also a transvestite pair called Conners and Hudson. Watch the film to see if they survive their meeting with killer.

 

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Big Lift, The

 

1992

 

This gay guy is very unlucky. He has no job so performs sex to get a warehouse job Unemployed gay man performs sex to get warehouse job then loses the money. See the film to see if his luck changes !

 

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Big Eden

 

Director: Thomas Bezucha

USA: 2000: 117mins:

With: Arye Gross as Henry, Eric Schweig as Pike, George Coe, Louise Fletcher, Tim Dekay and Nan Martin:

 

This is a good film about what happens when you return home and resuming old flames and a possible new one. It is set in Montana (hum a gay story line in Montana wow things are progressing *smile* and is the story of Henry Hart who is a gay artist. He returns to Big Eden (nice name for a town) Montana, as his grandfather is ill. He had a romance 20 years ago with Dean (his high school prince) but left the town due to the fact that Dean was basically a Heterosexual. It took Henry years to get over Dean and now he was back and faced with coming face to face with his high school prince again and all the feelings he had / has for him. In the background is a possible suitor and he is Pike Dexter who is a Native American, shy and owns the local general store. The minute he see Henry he knows he has feelings for him and sets about to work his way into Henry s life. He starts learning to cook so he can feed Henry s grandfather and get close to Henry. To find out who gets Henry see this film, which has a very good story line and really good performances in this "can you go back" story! The film also makes you think of what would happen if you returned to your home town / city and met up again with your High School Prince - mine is probably married with 2 or 3 kids and not at all what I imagine him to be -what do they say "you can never go back" but would n’t it be fun to do it just as it happens in this film?

 

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Bigger Splash, A

 

Director: Mike Nichols

GB : 1974 : 90 min.: A gay fantasy and bio of David Hockney

With : David Hockney as himself and all his friends and lovers also play themselves:

 

This was a thrilling film - here is a gay artist who was willing to be out, play himself and tell his true story of himself and his lover on film. WOW that took guts to do ! It traces the life of painter David Hockney who is going through a love affair with Peter Schlessinger (who is both young and hunk) for a 3 year period. We are able to trace the relationship through the photos and paintings of their time together. There are also a lot of Hockney dreams where he see his lover in bed with other men. This film is a must to see and even though it is over 24 years old it still holds up.

 

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Big Fat Greek Fag

 

Director: A.J. Tsiakas

Australia: 2005 10 mins:

 

A guy who is gay and in the closet has to try and find a way to tell his parents and family that he is gay.

 

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Big tease, The

 

Director: Kevin Allen:

USA 1999:

With: Craig Ferguson and Frances Fisher:

 

Gay Scottish hair-stylist Crawford McKenzie wants to enter the famous Platinum Scissors competition in LA, but it's not easy. First, Crawford has to prove his skill, and grease up the right people!

This funny little satire is played like a pseudo-documentary. There's a camera guy and a reporter following Crawford around, a bit like "This is Spinal Tap". The competition itself features some wild hairdos. Funny what you can do with hair! In between are some celebrity cameos (e.g. Drew Carey), but sadly - no Sean Connery (though his name is thrown about a lot). We also visit a gay disco and meet a couple of very bitchy stylists. There are some good laughs to be had, so by all means, rent this one.

 

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Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Das 

(English title: Picture of Dorian Gray)

 

Director: Massimo Dallamano:

Germany / Italy: 1969: 91 Mins:

With: Helmut Berger:

 

The story of Dorian Gray told once again but this time with the very handsome Helmut Berger.The painting gets old while Dorian stays young.

 

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Billy Budd 

 

Director: Peter Ustinov

UK: 1961: 112 mins:

With: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Terence Stamp, Paul Rogers, Ronald Lewis and others:

 

This is the story of the young handsome Billy Budd (played by Terence Stamp) who decides to join a English war ship in the year 1791. He is an overly friendly handsome guy and makes a lot of friends, but not with First Mate Claggard (played by Robert Ryan) who is attracted to the young boy but treats him very badly due to his feelings. Will he end up in love with Billy or hate him ? - see the film ! 

 

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Billy Elliot 

 

Director: Stephen Daldry

UK: 2000, 111 mins

With: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Draven, Jean Heywood, Stuart Wells:

 

This film tells about an eleven year old boy called Billy (Jamie Bell) whose mother is dead and because of that he needs to take care of his old and sick grandmother, and do the house work like cleaning and cooking. The best male friend´s is in love with him, and Billy is wok with that, although Billy keeps saying that he isn´t gay. His father and old brother work at a coal mine and they are on a violent strike His dad wants his little boy do boxing, but Billy falls in love with the Ballet and spends his money doing ballet classes. He is pre- ordained to work in the mines like his parents and his dream of being a big dancer is far from his reality it´s a lovely story with a great acting of Jamie Bell. One of the best movies that i´ve been watched lately.

Buy a cleanex box before watch it...as there will be a.lot´s of tears cried !.

Note: at the Golden Globe Awards –this film won Best Picture plus Best Supporting Actress - Julie Walters

 

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Billy's Holiday

 

With: Max Cullen

 

The story of a straight middle aged man who runs a shop and discovers that he can sing but not just any songs Billy Holidays and he sounds just like her. Not gay but fun.

 

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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

 

Director: Tommy O'Haver

USA: 1998: 89 mins

With: Sean P. Hayes as Billy and Brad Rowe as Gabriel:

 

This is the story of a Billy, who is a young gay guy trying to make it as photographer: Besides the fact that his career is going nowhere, his sex life is also at a bad point . He seems to always get me who are taken but want to have sex with him. Then one day Gabriel (who is quite hunky) enters into his life and he falls in love head over heels. Gabriel works as a waiter but want to be a musician. The hard part of the story is that Gabriel does not show if he is straight or gay so Billy is again in what will probably turn out to be a bad relationship and to make matters worse the jet set discover Gabriel and offer to make him a top model. You should see this film to find out if Billy gets his man !

Note: stars Sean P. Hayes was in the hit tv show "Will & Grace" (in the USA) where he play a sissy gay.

 

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Billy Madison 

 

1995

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: Max Anderson who is the gay school principal.

 

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Billy Turner's Secret

 

1994

 

Billy's gay and has a lover called Gregory. What the secret is you will have to watch the film.

 

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Biloxi Blues 

[Aka : Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues]

 

Director: Mike Nichols

USA : 1988 : 106 min. : Comedy Drama anti-Semitism army life gay love prostitution

With: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken:

 

The story of a group of young recruits who go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi Mississippi.

Contains lines like:

Estonia : Why do you think I'm a homosexual?

Eugene: I guess it's because you never talk about girls.

Epstein : I never talk about dogs either. Does that make me a cocker spaniel?

Note: from the play by Neil Simon.

 

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Birdcage, The 

 

Director: Mike Nichols

USA : 1996 : 118 min.: Comedy drag farce gay political transvestitism

With: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman and Dan Futterman:

 

What to say about this film? It is the American remake of La Cage aux Folles (which was Originally play). Did the French film do it better or is the USA version better - watch it and decide for yourself. So here is the story: Armand and Albert are in this film and in this version owns a well known drag nightclub in South Miami Beach called the Birdcage. Albert is the transvestite star who is getting on in years and is getting more and more difficult to handle by Armand. Armand  handles the business side of the club. They have been together for over 20 years and are very out to all who know them. Then comes the son Val, who they raised together (the son came from a one time straight 0ne time  fling Armand had with a woman) and tells his father he is getting married to Barbara who is the daughter of A US-Senator and the Vice President of the Committee for Moral Order. He wants his father to pretend to be straight and get his real mom to come for a dinner. Albert is hurt by all this since he raised Val and feels left out of Vals life plus after being "out" for so many years it is almost impossible for them to go back in the closet even for one night. The "real " mother is delayed and Albert takes over as the Mother. What follows is chaos! Of course there is more to the story with "big" production drag numbers.

 

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Bird on a Wire 

 

Director: John Badham

USA : 1990 : 110 min.. : Gay scene

With: Mel Gibson:

 

This film is mentioned only because Mel Gibson (who got the gay community upset for his anti gay scene in Brave heart) has a scene in this film where he is on the run and in order to get away he takes on the disguise of a swish gay hairdresser. The only other reason to watch this film is you get a good scene with Mel´s naked ass.

 

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Birthday Time

 

Director: Lawrence Ferber

USA: 1999: 19 mins.:Gay main characters:

 

This film takes us back to a time when Christopher is just about to turn 18 years old, he has had a few pay around with boys his age but never kissing or real sex. He decides to take matters into his own hands and goes to a gay bar in Brooklyn (yes Brooklyn ;-) there he meet a man who is much older than him. Will he get kissed or spanked – watch the film to find out....

 

 

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Bitter Memoirs of Obsession

 

Directors: Javier Gallego& Ben Ledden

UK: 2004: 28 mins:

 

Dominique, Catrine and Georgina are the Obsession Sisters and are a group about to go on a world tour where their fans are awaiting them but also an enemy is out there waiting to get revenge. Features a German version of Heart of Glass. Much fun!

 

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Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The

[Original title : Bitteren Traenen der Petra von Kant, Die]

 

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Germany (West): 1972: 124 mins: Lesbian Main Characters

With: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann and Katrin Schaake:

 

Petra von Kant is very successful as a fashion designer who is both arrogant and self centered. She has a secretary who is also the maid and co-designer and who in general makes life miserable for. The Karin enters into her life. Karin is 23 very pretty and wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and ask her to move in with her. The film then deals with the emotions of this affair while it is happening and when it ends.

Note: Fassbinder uses very long scenes which are shot in one take causing the film to have a very special look to it. He also uses music from the Platters and Giuseppe Verdi which also lends to the mood of the film.

 

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Bizcocho del Panadero, El

 

1991 : Gay Comedy

With : Manuel Ibanez and Raul Padilla:

 

This is a gay comedy.

 

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Black and White

(Original title: Noir et Banc)

 

Director / Writer: Claire Devers

France: 1986: B/W: 80 mins.: Gay S/M drama

With: Marc Berman, Francis Frappat as Antoine, Josephine Fresson as Edith, Jacques Martial as Dominique and Benoit Regent:

 

This is a very strange but good B/W French film. It deals with a very inexperienced young man who is an accountant at a sport club. He gets involved with a man who works there as a masseur and they enter into a very strange S/M relationship which can only end in a disaster!. The build up of their relationship into full blown S/M is very interesting to watch. Even if you are not into S/M this film is still interesting to see. By the way it is not a porno film ! and the title refers to the two men -one is black and the other one is white.

 

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Black Emmanuelle in Afrika

 

This erotic straight film is listed here as it features a Transvestite who trys to help Emmanuelle get out of the mental hospital.

 

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Black Sheep Boy 

 

Director: Michale Wallin

USA : 1995 37 Mins.: Gay experimental film:

 

An experimental film which looks at young men in Jeans and underwear filmed as if for an advertising ad plus in between these There are dance performances from the High Risk Group from San Francisco. The camera work is also quite interesting.

 

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Black Lizard

[AKA Kurotokage]

 

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Japan : 1968 : 86 mins ( or 112 mins) : Gay Drag Comedy

With : Isao Kimura as Detective Akechi, Akihiro Maruyama as Black Lizard, Kikko Matsuoka as Sanaye, Yukio Mishima as Human statue:

 

This story involves a gay beautiful drag jewel thief played by the famous female impersonator. The detective Akechi is Japan´s number one detective and is out to find the jewel thief has Black Lizard met her match ?

 

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Blackmail Boy

(Original title: Oxygono)

 

Directors: Thanasis Papathansaiou Michalis Reppas

Greece: 2003: 100 mins:

 

Very complicated story of a Greek family with tons of characters and tons of dialog. What will interest the “Movies Too Gay” watcher is that it was a very hunky young Greek boy is sleeping with an older married man. There are a few quiet hot scenes with two of them but only the older man is shown nude and the younger hunk is shown only in his rather boring underpants (although he still looks good).  Try to see the film with sub titles in your own language and prepare to read a lot due to the long chatty dialog.

 

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Blackwater Lightship, The

 

Director: John Erman

USA: 2004 : Made for cable TV drama : 120 mins with commercials:

With: Angela Lansbury, Dianne Wiest, Brian O Murphy, Gina McKee

 

This is a beautifully shot film about three generations of strong Irish women meeting to care for and ultimately part with the gay son of the family, dying of AIDS. The actors are superb, and the Irish actors more than hold their own. The magical Irish coastline is captured in luminous photography. I just love Ireland. You should, too!

 

I guess it’s a great TV family drama. Produced by Hallmark Hall of Fame, no less!

 

Still, I must admit I’m getting a bit tired of this storyline. There have been dozens of dramas with dying gay sons and the family coming together to reconcile and heal old wounds etc. etc. etc. It’s just so....predictable..

Thing is, these films are not about being gay at all. You don’t get to see gay love or gay sex in them, AIDS just happen to be the disease du jour, someone has to die to bring the family together again, see? And you know -  dying gay guys = AIDS.

It could be cancer, it used to be tuberculosis. Anything, really, as long as they die, and the other family members cry and make up. So, really this film is not for gay audiences. They are made for people who like to feel sorry for themselves and others.

 

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Blacula 

 

Director: William Crain

USA : 1972 : 90 min.: Dracula film with a queen in it

With: William Marshall as the black Dracula:

 

OK! OK! - you are wondering why I am including this horrible film right ? well I have listed it because the Black Dracula who cruises in modern LA gets hot for a white queen in this story with a twist to it.

 

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Blades Of Glory

 

Directors: Josh Gordon and Will Speck

USA: 2007

With: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder

 

Funny, but uneven comedy about two male figure-skaters competing for the World Championships. They share the gold, but deeply hate each other and start fighting on the podium during the National anthem ceremony. Disqualified for life from ice-skating, they find a loop-hole in the rules, and start competing as a Pair!

 

This situation would make for some great queer jokes, but really, the gay angle is almost completely absent from the script. (I think the word "gay" is mentioned once) Jon Heder plays a very queeny ice-skater, who falls in love with a girl at the end....That's the biggest joke of the entire movie.

 

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Blankman 

 

Director: Mike Binder

USA: 1994: 92 mins:

 

Yes - even in this super hero comedy film there is a gay : Kevin West as the Gay Man.

 

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Blast from the Past 

 

Director: Hugh Wilson

USA: 1999: 106 mins:

With: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek, Christopher Walken, Dave Foley, Joey Slotnik:

 

This is a very simple story of a boy call Adam (played wonderfully by Brendan Fraser) who is brought up in a bomb shelter and has never seen anyone but his parents during his youth.One day he gets to go up out of the shelter and go into the real world as the parents are low on supplies. He is very shy but somehow gets to meet girl of his dreams Eve (played by Alicia Silverstone) and the guy she lives with who is gay (played by Kid in the Hall Dave Foley). Find out if Adam ends up with Eva or her gay friend (I know which one I would like to see him end up with). The gay character is well done and is a stand out part in this slightly innocent but good film.

 

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Blessed are those who thirst

(Original title: Salige er de som tørster)

 

Director: Carl Christian Kønig

Norway: 1997: 112 mins.: Gay central character

With Kjersti Elvik, Nils Ole Oftebro, Andrine Sæther:

 

Semi-closeted lesbian cop Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates several cases of rape and murder in and around Oslo. All but one of the victims are immigrant girls; the only survivor is found strapped to her bed in a sorry state. The killer seems to have racist motives, and leaves strange numbers written in blood on the crime scene.

 

This is a police mystery that gradually turns into a violent revenge thriller. It looks like an extended commercial, shot in a flashy, rapid style. A bit hard to follow, but the ending is very exciting!  Hanne, the heroine, is a tough, no-nonsense cop who just happens to be lesbian. Her girlfriend, Cecilie, actually complains that Hanne is a workaholic with no time for bed sheet action. So, there is precious little sex in this movie, I'm afraid!

 

But it's simply great watching a thriller where the main character's sexual preference isn't billboarded, but simply taken for granted. They should make more movies like this one.

 

Oh, and it's based on a best-seller novel by celebrity writer Anne Holt.

 

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Blind Faith

 

Director: Ernest Dickerson

USA, 1998: 117 min: Gay main character:

With: Courtney B. Vance& Charles Dutton and a great cast ! :

 

Oh my god – this film take you back to a period you would rather forget, it is 1957 and the Bronx. Racism is a part of America ( I still personally can not see how people were such racists – for me a person is good or bad but it is not depending on the skin color !) So now back to the review a white (sorry I have to use color to explain this film but it is necessary) man is murdered one night in the park. A young black man called Charlie get arrested for the crime and he signs a confession but all the facts do not point to his doing the crime ! His uncle does not believe that he killed the guy and since he is a lawyer he decides to take the case and find out the truth. Noe of the family knows that Charlie is a homosexual, especially his father with is a policeman and a racist himself as he hate homosexuals.Is this why he signed the confession ? Go back in time and see this moving film. You will be better educated for it and the next time you dislike someone for color or race or whatever remember this film and stop it !

 

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Blind Trust 

[Original title : Pouvoir Intime]

 

Director: Yves Simoneau

Canada : 1987 : 86 min.: Gay Hero:

 

This is a thriller from Canada and the hero who tries to prevent a robbery is a gay guard - yippee a good gay for once!

 

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Bloodbrothers 

 

USA : 1978 117 min.: Drama with gay character

With : Bruce French as Paulie, J.P. Finnegan as the Bartender and Richard Gere as Stoney:

 

This is a sort of outdated film but contains a gay character who is a part of the plot. It is about a group of macho friends who all have problems finding out who they are and what they want with Stoney as the one trying hardest to find his true identity. Along with all this macho stuff there is the bartender who has a gay son called Paulie, who he threw out of the house 3 years ago when he found out his son was a fag (opts he said FAG - a nasty word). Paulie has found a life without his fathers hate. Stoney´s uncle Chubby believes that the Bartender is sorry for having thrown Paulie out of the house and that Paulie and he should patch things up again, so he goes to Paulie to try and get the gay son to return home for a surprise party but will he succeed - see the film !

 

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Blood Spattered Bride, The

 

Director: Vicente Aranda

Spain: 1972: 94 mins: Lesbian main character

With: Ben Levme and William Marquez

 

This is a low-budget (wanna be cult film) horror film which contains a sexy lesbian vampire living in Spain, she goes about seducing a couple who are there on vacation and you can be sure it is not just sex she wants !

 

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Blood, Sweat, And Glitter

 

What do you get when a bunch of Drag Queens enter the Miss Trannyshack contest in S.F., the answer is this Documentation. Watch out as they will stop at nothing to win the contest and I mean nothing!

 

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Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, The

(Original title: Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros, Ang)

 

Director: Auraeus Solito

Philippines: 2005: 100 mins:

With: Nathan Lopez as Maximo, Soliman Cruz as Paca, Ping Medina as Kuya Bogs (Maxi's brother), Bodjie Pascua , Neil Ryan Sese as Boy, Pepe Smith , Peter Anthony Tombasa as Peter, J.R. Valentin as Victor:

 

WOW this is a really good movie ! It is the story of a very fem boy who is 12 years old and already knows what he is and what he wants. He dares to be a fem in a land of machos and he keeps his head up high and accepts that this is the way he is and what he will always be throughout his life. Amazing !

Besides dressing as a fem boy he takes part in drag shows and takes care of his family. His mother has died and his father and brothers need a lot of care.

Then one day a good looking sexy policeman enters into his life and he goes after this man in every way to get him.

At first glance the policeman seems straight but little by little you are not sure as his is definitely attracted to this boy.

To see if Maximo gets his man see the film !

Note: A film such as this deserves many many awards for having the guts to film such a good story.

 

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Blow 

 

Director: Ted Demme

USA: 2001: 120 mins:

With: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Franka Potente, Ray Liotta, Rachel Griffiths:

 

Story about a guy who deals in drugs but is listed here as it is the return Pee-Wee Herman as the really gay Paul Ruebens. Ruebens part is really the only reason to see this film, except if you like looking at Johnny Depp as I do.

 

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Blow Dry

 

Director: Paddy Breathnach

USA / Germany / UK/ 2001: 91 mins:

With: Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Rachel Griffiths, Rachael Leigh Cook, Josh Hartnett:

 

Ha bet you thought this was going to be another gay hairdresser film – well you wrong – this one is about Lesbian Hairdressers who are at a small UK town for a hairdressing contest. The main characters and lovers are : Shelly (played by Natasha Richardson) and Sandra (played by Rachel Griffith s) The romance is much to do about nothing but at least they are Lesbian character.

 

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Blue

 

Director : Derek Jarman

UK : 1993 : 76 - 79 min.: Gay : Experimental Drama aids biographical with terminal illness

With : John Quentin (voice), Nigel Terry (voice), Derek Jarman, and Tilda Swinton (voice)

 

This is one of Derek Jarman's last films. He died February 19, 1993. The only visual element to the film is an unchanging blue screen, which you can look at or not while a collage of voices, sounds, and music are played against the reading of parts of the diaries Jarman kept while he was in the hospital.

 

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Blue Gate Crossing

 

Director: Chin-yen Yee

2002: 85 mins:

With: Bo-lin Chen & Shu-hui Liang

 

A threesome film from Taiwan - Boy helps girl get local high school hunk but in reality he wants him allhimself. See the film to find out who ends up with the hunk.

 

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Blue Hour, The 

[AKA: Die Blaue Stunde]

 

Director: Marcel Gisler

Germany/Switzerland : 1992 : 88 min.: Drama gay male prostitution

With: Andreas Herder as Theo, Christoph Krix, Dina Leipzig as Marie, Anton Rattinger and Cyrille Rey- Coquis:

 

A male hustler and the girl next door fall in love. Theo, is a very handsome German call boy, who puts his ads in the Berlin newspapers to sells his body by the hour to other men. In his spare time he lives a very normal life and lives in an apartment across from Marie and Paul who share an apartment. Marie makes her living by selling records at a record store. Paul is a want to be writer who sleeps most of the time and the other part of the time he stares at blank sheets of paper for he seems to have writers block. Paul seems to blame Marie for this and leaves her. She has a breakdown due to his departure. Theo comes home one day and see her door open and goes in to see what's wrong. He sees that she is having a breakdown and he decides to help her. In helping her he discovers that likes the intimate feeling they are both feeling and it is a definite break from the men he sleeps with for money but this strange relationship ends when Paul comes back to Marie. Theo then goes back to his previous life.

 

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Blue Jeans

 

Director: Hughes Burin des Roziers

France: 1982 : 101 min.: Gay : Drama:

 

A young boy suffers from an unrequited love for an older teen.

 

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Blue Train, The (rough translation)

(Original title: Le train bleu)

 

France: Ballet: 1994: 26 Mins:

 

This is ballet created by Jean Cocteau (story), Bronislava Nijinska(Choreographer) and Darius Milhaud (Music) and was written for 1924 “Sergej Diaghilew´s Ballets Russian Baller)". I guess the above is reason enough to watch it but that this time the ballet is danced by the ballet company “Opéra National de Paris” is another reason to see it.

 

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Blue Velvet 

 

Director/ Screenwriter : David Lynch

USA : 1986 : 120 min.: Thriller : closet gays

With: Dean Stockewell as Ben, Dennis Hooper as Frank and Kyle MacLachlan as Jerrery:

 

There is a young man called Jeffery who is investigating some crimes but in doing so he meet up with two sadists - one is played by Frank (played by Dennis Hooper) and in one scene he puts on lipstick and kisses Jeffery straight on the lips then afterwards he nearly beats him to death. The other guy is Ben (played by Dean Stockewell) who wears make-up and an earring throughout the film. It seems as the two are closet gay sadist but you will have to see this thriller to decide for yourself.

 

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B. Monkey

 

Director: Michael Radford

Italy / UK / USA: 1998: 94 mins:

With: Asia Argento as Beatrice (B. Monkey) , Jared Harris as Alan, Rupert Everett as Paul and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Bruno:

 

Basically this is the story of a bad girl called B. Monkey who robs banks amongst other things. She meets a young teacher called Alan and is drawn to him. She wants to change her life. Her best friend in the world is Paul who is a gay man (played by Rupert Everett). The only scenes I really liked were with Paul and he lover but if you like gangster films you should see this or you should see it just because you like Rupert  (The reason I watched it till the end ;-))

 

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Boat Trip 

 

Director: Mort Nathan

USA, 2001:

With: Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry), Horatio Sanz (Nick), Roger Moore (Lloyd), Roselyn Sanchez (Gabriella), Victoria Silvstedt (Inga), Vivica A. Fox (Felicia), Maurice Godin (Hector)

 

Yea yea – funny ? This film is about about two straight guy who are hot for women but end up on a gay cruise for gay men only. The usual gay jokes but not a bad comedy.

 

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Bobbie's Girl

 

This is the story of a lesbian couple Bobbie (played by Bernadette Peters) and Bailey (played by Rachel Ward) who own together a pub in Ireland and live a rather quiet life until Bobbie´s nephew comes to stay. There is also the chance that the brother could be gay (played by. Johnathan Silverman) and a death threating sickness – oh well see to the film to find out the rest by yourselves.

 

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Body Without Soul

 

1996

 

Story of Hans Miller who makes gay porno films for the German market.

 

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Boiler Room 

 

Director: Ben Younger

USA: 2000: 125 mins:

 

This film is about a young man who drops out of college and looks for a quick road to success and yes there is a gay in it ! - Neal Lerner plays the gay man.

 

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Boku wa koi ni muchu

 

1999

 

This comedy has 4 gay characters who are living in Tokyo. Tadashi is a young gay teenager who goes to an all boys school and has a big crush on his best friend Kota. Hiroki and Shijiare a young gay couple who are living together also in Tokyo.Will Tadashi finally get his Kota and will Hiroki and Shijiare stay together - see the film !

 

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Bolero 

 

Director : Claude Lelouche

France : 1981 : 173 min.: suicidal gay son

With : James Caan as the father and gay son Jason:

 

What you do not believe it well it is true - this film has James Caan playing the father and the gay son Jason who wants to kill himself. - Oh well watch it and see what you think!

 

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Bollywood and Vine

 

Directors; Edward Jordon & Donald Farmer

USA: 2004

With: Skye Aubrey as Delilah Leigh, Jamey Schrick as Bhuvan Bannerji and J.R. Jones as Devin Leigh

 

An Indian tour bus driver in Hollywood (his name is Bhuvan Bannerji) gets more than he bargained for when he writes a comeback vehicle for his idol, reclusive actress Delilah Leigh

This film is about an Indian guy who works as Hollywood tour guide but in fact has written a screen play which he wants to use to bring back an actress who has not been seen or heard from in 20 years (her name is Delilah Leigh) . He used the tour to stop by her house and try to see her. The actress is 20 years older and seems to want to be remembered the way she was ! She has a very young gay son (Devin) who decides to dress as her so that when the tourist come by they think that the actress has remained beautiful all these years. Anyway Bhuvan get the courage to approach the house and give the script to the son who he thinks is Delilah. They read the script and ask him to move in with them. To make a confusing story short Bhuvanis supposed to be straight but discovers he has feeling for the son although he fights them. Does he get his actress (ops i mean man) see this film ! Which turns out to be a really positive film for gays although i was not sure at the start of the film so stick with it and watch it till then end.

 

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Bon plan 

 

2000

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: a gay character who is an older teacher.

 

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Boom 

 

Director : Joseph Losey

UK : 1968 : 113 min.: with a screaming queen

With : Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Noel Coward as the Witch of Capri:

 

This is based on a book by Tennessee Williams called "The Milk Train doesn't stop here anymore" which has Noel Coward as The Witch of Capri who is billed as "the screaming queen to beat all others". In the film STAR the best friend of the character played by Julie Andrews is Noel Coward but this time played by an actor - in this film he is live and screaming gaily. His all time best song is "Mad About the Boy"!

 

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Boondock Saints 

 

Director: Troy Duffy

USA: 2000: 110 mins:

With: Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Billy Connolly

 

This is a film about two twin brothers Flanery and Reedus who are very Catholic and decided to get rid of every criminal in the city of Boston. What sounds like a lot of other films ? well in the one there is a gay and it is played by Willem Dafoe. He is a very flamboyant gay FBI agent (hum where have we heard that before ?) who is hot after the twins but can not decide if he want to arrest them or going off in the sunset with them.

 

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Boomerang

 

With : Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt:

 

This film has a performance by Grace Jones. Jones playing a Superstar who wants to create own perfume - she is very erotic in this film and just in case she is not enough to get you to see this film then the cameo by sexy Eartha Kitt should do the trick.! This film is not gay but listed just for fun and because of the cast.

 

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Bootmen

 

Director: Dein Perry:

Australia & USA: 1999:

With: Adam Garcia (Sean Okden), Sophie Lee (Linda), Sam Worthington (Mitch Okden), William Zappa (Walter), Richard Carter (Gary Okden), Susie Porter (Sara), Anthony Hayes (Huey):

 

Enjoyable film about how the Tap Dogs got started. One of the Original founders is gay and happy about it in the film.

 

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Boogie Nights 

 

USA: 1997: 149 Mins:

With: Mark Wahlberg (former Underwear star model):

 

Dirk Digger (Mark Wahlberg) is a straight porno star who is attached by Gay bashes in this film and he also has a gay character which is the sound man on the set who has the hots for him (me too).

 

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Borat 

 

Directed: Sacha Baron Cohen

USA: 2006: Spoof documentary

 

Borat! on Movies too gay?? Oh, yes - there is so much gay stuff here you won't believe. The title character, a Kasakhstani news reporter goes to the USA to make a movie about the country and makes a total mess of it all! On one occasion he watches the Gay Pride parade in New York and makes out with 3 of the participants.  Of course, afterwards Borat is quite shocked, he didn't know the men were gay. Apparently, having sex with men is just a way of celebrating in Kasakhstan. In fact, Borat is very homophobic, but you wouldn't know!

But Sacha Baron Cohen himself is obviously gay friendly. Watch "Talladega nights" for proof.

 

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Borstal Boy

 

Director: Peter Sheridan

With: Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Lee Ingleby, Robin Laing, Eva Birthistle, and Michael York

 

In 1942, a sixteen Irish boy called Brendan Behan, who years later would be an a acclaimed poet, goes to Borstal, an reform institution for young criminals. There he is forced to live face to face with another guy who falls in love with him.

 

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Both

 

Director: Lisset Barcellos

USA: 2005: 86 mins.:

 

Rebeca is a beautiful woman who seems to have it all – she has both female and male lovers, a great job as a stuntwoman but somehow she knows that something is no right in her life. When a family photo album arrives from her family in Peru a mystery starts to unfold. I will not spoil the film and tell you what it is – so go see for yourself.

 

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Bounce 

 

Director & Writer: Don Roos

With: Ben Affleck and playing his gay best friend is Johnny Galecki:

 

Ben Affleck has a gay best friend who is always helping him. In this film he takes his advice and starts dating a widow. The only problem is that he feel responsible for her husbands death.

Note: Film is from the gay director Don Roos so he knows how to write the gay best friends character to be an important part of this film.

 

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Bound

 

Directors : Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski.

USA: 1996: 108 mins.:

With: Gina Gershon and Meg Tilly:

 

This film is about two women, , Corky and Violet, who find each other and also find out that they are attracted to each other even though one has a lover who is in the Cosa Nostra. They set out to steel $2 million dollars belonging to the Costra Nostra and also decide to put the blame on the male lover.

 

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Bourne Identity Crisis, The 

 

2003

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: Cradeaux Alexander, R.A. Buck, Jerry Katell and Douglas May as Gay Mobsters.

 

 

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Boxer Shorts

 

2002

 

This is a compilation of 6 short gay films which have been shown at gay Film Festivals:

1. Tom Clay Jesus : this is the story of a one night stand between Tom and Clay, this is a no win one until Jesus enters the picture.

2. Boychick :this is the story of a high school jewish boy who tries to attract the cute debate club boy.

3. Audit: this is the story of an Hollywood actor/actress couple who get audited by in IRS audit who turns out to be the ex-lover of the actor.shows.

4. The Prom Queen: this is the story of a high school drag queen who goes to his local prom with an man.

5. Caught : this is the story of a photographer who has a lover but falls for a pre-med student.

6.Rainbow Avenge : this is the story of a gay man who is overweight but none the less becomes a super hero.

 

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Boys Briefs

 

Director: Dean Slotar & Sam Zalutsky

1999: 90 mins: Gay Short Films

 

This is a compilation of gay short films and have the following titles:

1. The Absolution of Anthony

2. Smear

3. Front Room

4. Fairy Tale

5. Piglets, and

6. Stanley Beloved.

 

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Boys briefs 2

 

Second offering in a DVD-series dealing with young men’s sexual awakening.

There are 6 short films here.

1...Backroom (Spain) We meet some guys in a darkroom, trying to get a quickie while their inner thoughts are played out on the soundtrack. The moral: Our bodies do one thing, our minds another. 13 minutes is a bit long for this kind of film. None of the guys appealed to me.

2...Chicken (Ireland) 2 guys playing chicken on a railroad track. You’ll want to see this film more than once, because you probably won’t get it all at one viewing. Fine little film, and as I love Ireland I really enjoyed the sight of Wicklow mountains in the background!

3...Frühstück (Germany) I did n’t really get the point of this film, which is concerned with two gay guys and

their female friend. One of the guys has a roving eye, while the other just want to wake up with the guy he loves and make breakfast. The men aren’t very attractive, and the film isn’t very well made.

4...Doors cut down (Spain) Now this is something else. One of my favorite shorts (see the letter D for

an individual review). Absolute class and dead sexy!

5...Touch (Canada) Director Jeremy Podeswa is quite well-known in Canada, and this film has

received good reviews all over. It’s a glum and joyless affair, as it concerns a boy who has been

abused in childhood and grown to like it. He has become a masochist, longing for punishment. After receiving hospital treatment, he runs away from his parents to seek his tormentor once again. If you like the psychological stuff with a lot of inner monologue, this is for you.

6...Take out (Canada) A bit of uplift at the end of this DVD, this short is a fine piece of storytelling

with good performances. Actor/ playwright Daniel McIvor plays the older man in this hero-worship love tale about a pizza delivery boy (no..it’s not a porn movie!) falling for one of his customers, a depressed man on the rebound after a failed marriage.

The films are hosted by Danny Roberts, a cute guy with frat boy looks. Apparently he starred in an MTV-

series called Real World-New Orleans. Never saw that one.

This DVD is worth a look, at least half of the shorts are winners!

 

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Boys Briefs 3

 

In this short collection of film the themes are shorts collections are cantered around “young men and their dramas”.

1. Shakespeare's Sonnets

2. Cabalerno

3. Latch Key

4. Postmortem

5. David

6. Little Boy Blues

7. Between the Boys

 

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Boy’s Choir

 

Japan:130 Mins: in Japanese with English subtitles.

 

Machio is a shy and lonely boy who´s father dies and he is send to a small is sent to a small Catholic orphanage (with boys only). He finds the school difficult to accept and be accepted until he finds a friend in Yasuo who is the star soprano in the school choir. Their relationship is based on friendship until Yasuo realizes that Machio is getting interested in girls. He becomes very jealous of “his” Machio. To see how the friendship goes on – see the film.

 

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Boyfriends

 

Directors: Neil Hunter & Tom Hunsinger

UK: 1997: 82 mins: Man Gay Characters

With:  Mark Sanders and James Dreyfus:

 

This is a comedy of what happens when three British couples go on a getaway weekend a British comedy about three gay couples on weekend getaway. A quite interesting film. dealing with issues of love and sexuality. No new ground is broken, but gay film fans.

 

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Boy Next Door

 

USA: 13:07 mins:

Director: Carl Pfirman

With: Piper Harrell, Tom Lenck, Danny Slavin

 

This is a fun bitching film.. About the teenage Charlotte and her gay brother.. Into their lives comes a young man who moves in next store.. Then the bitching starts on who is going to get him. I can´t wait to see the first long film to be made by this director. Watch out John Waters !

 

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Boy 4, Boy Oh Boy

 

Czech Republic: 1997: 50 mins: Gay Erotic

With: Johan Paulik

 

Your young and handsome out in the countryside and there are 5 other guys around you - what to do ? well you all know what they get up to - see the film to see if you are right !

 

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Boys In Love

 

Director: P. David Ebersole & Barry Purves

1996: 83 mins: Gay Short Films:

 

This is a complication of four short films which are called: Four gay-themed shorts, including

1. Death in Venice,

2. CA

3. Achilles

4. My Polish Waiter

5. Miguel, Ma Belle

 

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Boys in Love 2

 

1998

 

6 gay short-films:

1. Twilight of the Gods", "

2. SPF 2000" & "

3. Dirty Baby Does Fire Island

4. My Body

5. Boot Camp

6. Karen Black Like Me

 

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Boys Life

 

Director: Brian Sloan &Raoul O'Connell

USA: 1994: 90 mins: gay short films

With: Anne Zupa, Dennis Christopher:

 

Contains 3 short stories:

The Disco years :

Pool Days

Friend of Dorothy

These great short stories contain stories of 3 gay men, their coming out and of course their relationships.

 

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Boys Life 2

 

Director: Peggy Rajski,& Nickolas Perry

USA: 1997: 74 mins: Gay Short films

With: Eileen Brennan and Vincent D'Onofrio

 

Contains four short films: Involving, well-paced quartet of short films

1. Must Be the Music,

2. Nunzio's Second Cousin,

3. The Dad shuttle, and

4. Alkali, Iowa

Of the four films (which I enjoyed all) I liked especially Alkali, Iowa about a boy who by meeting his fathers lover finds out his father was gay !

 

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Boys Life 3

 

Short gay films:

1.Jason Gould (the son of Barbara Streisand) has made a short film (which I have been waiting for ages to see) which is about coming out in Hollywood and even has his father Elliot Gould in it plus Alexis Arquette.

2. Lane Janger’s Just One Time is a fantasy film about a soon to be groom

3. Bradley Rust Gray’s Hitch is about a road trip with two young guys who discover sex during it.

4. David Fournier’s Majorettes In Space is a French film about baton-twirling majorettes.

5.Gregory Cooke’s $30 is a story about a young closet gay who is given a prostitute on his 16th birthday – ha just what he did not want. Note the young prostitute is played by Sara Gilbert from ROSEANNE).

 

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Boys Life 4: Four Play

 

2003

 

Gay short films by:

Brian Sloan

Eric Mueller

Alan Brown

 Bartel

These are gay short films at their best-

 

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Boys of Summer

 

Director: Mike Esser

Soft erotic: 55 Mins:

With: Jason Sheperd, Jason Gibbs, James Jarvis,  Jason Spray,and Paul Bell:

 

What happens when you take seven good looking English guys to Portugal for a full week with hot weather and the smell of sex in the air ? What happens is this film Boys Of Summer.The guys talk to the watcher of the film and tell the secrets of what makes them happy -sexually. Hum so many secrets revealed !!

 

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Boys in the Band, The

 

Director: William Friedkin

USA : 1970 : 117 min.: Drama gay homosexuality

With : Frederick Combs, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Reuben Greene, Robert La Tourneaux, Laurence Luckinbill, Murray Melvin, Kenneth Nelson, Keith Prentice and Peter White;

 

This is the film (and was the play) which broke the images that the heterosexuals had of gays and many gays had of themselves. For the first time on screen and in the theater they were confronted with the fact that gays are many different types of people and not all feminine as was thought. There are the whole rainbow of gay types in this film and they all come together for a birthday party. There are eight open gay men at this part and one who seems to refuse to come out of the closet. Great lines such as Emery (the queen in the film) saying "Who do you have to fuck to get a drink around here ? Maybe the film is a little dated in that most people know now that gays come from all walks of life but this was the film that started this way of thinking. It was a shocking eye opener in its day. A most to see. Mart Crowley wrote it and never really has another big success as this was. After Boys in the Band he wrote the beginning years of the series "Hart to Hart".

 

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Boys on Film Vol. 5

 

The newest one is now Vol. 5 and it is 103 minutes long with 4 short films which are:

1. Poetry for an Englishman,

2. Night Out,

3. Elevation,

4. Let me die again.

 

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Boys of St. Vincent, The

 

Director : John N. Smith

Canada :1992 : 186 mins. in 2 parts : Drama:

 

Behind the walls of St. Vincent, young orphan boys are sexually and psychologically abused. In part 1 of this tale, loosely based on real events which happened in 1970's Canada, 10-year-old Kevin is the sexual plaything of the deeply disturbed Brother Lavin, while other boys "belong" to other brothers. When young Kevin tries to run away from his abusers, the police bring him right back, where he is beaten so badly by Brother Lavin that he requires hospital care. Brother Lavin, of course, refuses to take the boy to the hospital, and it is only the intervention of a kindly janitor that gets the boy the help he needs, and eventually, gets a police investigation started. In part 2, set 15 years later, the boys have grown to be psychologically scarred young men, Brother Lavin has left the orphanage and the priesthood and has a family and boys of his own. When charges are finally brought against the brothers, the young men have to relive the horrors of St. Vincent, and the price of justice proves to be very high for some of them.

 

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Boys on the Side

 

Director: Herbert Ross

USA : 1995 : 117 min.: Comedy Drama aids friendship lesbian

With: Whoopi Goldberg , Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore:

 

This is sort of a girls road movie starting with Jane who is an out of work night club singer who decides to go to LA She is looking for a ride there and places an advertisement in the newspapers. Robin who is shy answers the ad and they take off together for LA They make a stop in Pittsburgh to visit Holly who is married to a drug deal. When they arrive he is beating her and the girls stop it but in turn he is badly hurt and in panic the three girls leave him there only to find out later that he is dead. As they get to know each other we are let into the fact that Jane is a lesbian, Robin has Aids and is trying to escape the sickness and of course Holly who is running away from the murder. The rest of the store is about the closeness of the girls despite their differences. Whoppi Goldberg plays Jane the one who is Lesbian and does a fantastic job of playing a Lesbian without the old cliché‚s. A wonderful film to see and sniffle. As strange as it seems Hollywood can also make good Homosexual movies if they want to.

 

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Boys Shorts: The New Queer Cinema

 

Directors: Chris Newby, Michael Mayson and Jeremy Rogers, Mark Christopher, Stephen Cummin.s and Simon Hunt, Laurie Lind, and Marlon Riggs

Australia/Canada/UK/USA : 1990 - 93 : 119 min.: Gay Shorts:

 

A feature length program combining six award winning short films: The Dead Boys' Club, Relax, Resonance, RSVP, Billy Turner's Secret, and Anthem.

 

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Boys to men

 

USA - 2001

 

It´s a compilation of four gay shorts films:

1."Crush"

Director:  Bartel

Tina is a little girl who is crushed on Robbie, a teenager who has a crush on another gay.Note:in my opinion is the best of the four films.

 

2."Mountain King"

Director: Duncan Tucker

On a remote beach a hustler meets a guy - It´s seems like one those gays erotic stories.

 

3."...lost"

 

4."The Confession"

Director: Carl Pfirman

The drama of an old gay couple and what happens when one of them is face to face with the death.

 

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Brady Bunch Movie, The

 

With two Gay neighbors and RuPaul: Based on the TV Series this film now includes Marcia having a lesbian after her - the guidance counselor being played by Transvestite RuPaul and even a friendly next store gay couple. Wow things have changed since the TV show was on !

 

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Brain Drain 

(Original title: Fuga de cerebros )

 

Director: Fernando Musa

Argentina: 1998: 95 mins:

 

Nicolás Cabré as Fideo, Luis Quiroz as Panta, Jimena Anganuzzi as Diana, Brian Forcinitti as Rengo, Erasmo Olivera asTimy, Roberto Carnaghi as Police chief, Enrique Liporace as Sosa and more:

 

This is a film that goes almost nowhere. The only saving item in this youth gang film is that one of the boys seems to be in love with the main boy who says he is American. Anyone who comes in between himself and the boy is almost attached and is handled with in his art of doing things. (the strange item is that tis boy keep dreaming of getting a girl which is opposite with what you feel about him).

 

There are no love scenes between them and it is just a feeling you get when watching the film. The main boy is a big talker – quite handsome, just coming of age and is trying to get a girl to notice him. Anyway if you do not have any real gay films to watch then this is worth a peek !

 

It has the feeling of a Passolini film where all the boys are trying to survive in life but it does not have but the real gay touch which his films had.

 

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Breaking the Code

 

Director: Herbert Wise

1996: 100 mins: Gay Main Character

With: Derek Jacobi and Alun Armstrong

 

This film is based on the real life character Alan Turing who was the man who broke the Enigma Code (yea - I too, did not know what it was till I saw the film :-)) which was used in WWII. He was put in the background and not given his due rewards for this achievement because he was homosexual. With this film he finally gets his due rewards - see it !

 

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Breaks, The 

 

1999:

 

A guy gets locked into a store basement by gay “sadists” - what will happen to him ? 

 

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Brave, The 

 

Director: Johnny Depp

USA: 1997: 119 mins:

With: Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Marshall Bell, Elpidia Carrillo, Frederic Forrest, Clarence Williams III, Max Perlich, Luis Guzman, Cody Lightning, Nicole Mancera, Floyd Westerman:

 

Raphael is an Indian with a family. He was in prison so he has no chance to get his family out of the slums in which they live. He tries everything to get a job but the one job offered to him is to be tortured to death in a snuff film. Finding no other way out he accepts this offer and get $25,000 up from and $ 25,000 when he show up to be tortured. With this money he proceeds to make the little time he has lift the best time of the family.

 

Note: This is Johnny Depp´s directing debut and the film is a very interesting one as it makes you think about life and death..

 

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Breakfast On Pluto

 

Director: Neil Jordan

Ireland / United Kingdom: 2005: 129 mins:

With: Brendan Gleeson, Cillian Murphy, Gavin Friday, Laurence Kinlan, Liam Neeson, Ruth Negga, Stephen Rea:

 

Most of the people i know who saw The Crying Game were shcoked at the full frontal nude scene (at almost the end of the film) that the she was a he ! Now for this new Neil Jorden film in 10 years and again a transsexual and Ireland and the IRA. This time we are not shocked as we know the main character from the beginning as a young man who wants to be a young girl so the shock effect is not there..None the less we are fascinated at the character. He somehow goes through life picking himself up when people hurt him both physically and mentally. Thus he is a very strong film character and one that you can look up to not matter if you like transexuals or not.

 

The story takes him from Ireland to London England as he finds his way in life and there are 36 chapters to follow his life by but I will not go into detail as it will spoil the effect of the film but I will tell you that the acting is great and the story line held me to my seat even without the shocking end which was the sucess of The Crying Game. So sit down and watch the film and enjoy your trip through the life of this young man / woman I did !

 

I hope we will not have to wait so long for the next Neil Jordan film !!!!

 

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Breathing Show, The 

 

2001

 

Gay Interest:  Chuck O'Grady as the the Gay Porn Actor.

 

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Breaveheart 

 

Director: Mel Gibson

1995

 

The son of England´s King Edward I (Edward II) is gay and has a lover to show his authority over his son the King throws out his sons lover out the window. Was this scene really necessary in this film ? OH well what can you expect from someone who starred in the Mad Max films ? to make matters worse this film got Oscars !

 

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Bride, The

 

Director:Franc Roddam.

UK: 1984: 114 Mins

With: Sting, Jennifer Beals, Anthony Higgins, David Rappaport, Geraldine Page, Clancy Brown, Quentin Crisp, Alexei Sayle, Phil Daniels, Veruschka, Cary Elwes, Timothy Spall:

 

In this remake Baron Frankenstein wants to make a mate for his Viktor. He succeeds and creates Eva but does not want to give her to Viktor since she is a beauty. He decides to keep her for himself and thus causing his other monster Viktor to go crazy.

Note: film is listed as it has a guest performance by Quentin Crisp.

 

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Bride of Frankenstein, The

 

Director: James Whale

USA: 1935: 70 Mins:

With: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton:

 

James Whales was the director of this horror film. He was a gay who was out long before it was accepted and because of this he was given this film to direct. Hollywood was just not ready for a gay director in this time period and I think the jobs he was offered suffered for this, but any how he somehow got through this film and gave his stamp on it and it does have a gay flare to it.

 

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Britney, Baby, One More Time 

 

2002

 

Gay Interest:  Story of Robert Stephens who is gay and a Britney impersonator.                                                           

 

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Broadway Damage

 

1997

 

How to find a true love in the gay community.

 

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Brokeback Mountain

 

Director: Ann Lee

USA: 2004: 134 mins:

With: Heath Ledger is Ennis Del Mar, Jake Gyllenhall is Jack Twist, Anne Hathaway is Alma, Michelle Williams is Lureen:

 

"Love is a force of nature"

Brokeback Mountain is definitely the best love story I've ever seen! All the scenes magnificently prepared in this moving and majestic film, the photography is superb as well as the performance of Heath Ledger who should be lock for an Oscar.

Many could easily describe it as typical clichá of gay cowboys but Brokeback Mountain is neither a gay movie nor a reinvented Western. During the film one practically forgets that it´s a love story between two men and just thinks about it as the love history. Is a movie that spare in language and theatrics, a movie that says more in its silences.

 

Start in Wyoming high country, in the summer of 1963; Jack and Ennis first come across each other. Jack is an aspiring rodeo rider, sensitive and talkative and Ennis is a ranch hand who swallows his syllables when he talks and the words are pulled out from his mouth in grunts. They have both been hired to cowboy sheep in the Brokeback Mountain for the season. It´s not the easiest job as they have to deal with the elements of nature, coyotes, bears and herds of sheep and the harsh life of the shepherd live.

 

Soon they develop more than just a friendship between them when in a cold, lonely, drunken night as their campfire dies, and the biting cold drives them to huddle together a spark between Ennis and Jack raise their friendship to a new level of intimacy and they fall in love almost by accident. This spark will become a true love for the next 20 years.

 

Brokeback Mountain is not quite the period piece that some would like to imagine. America's squeaky closet doors may have swung open far enough for a gay rodeo circuit to flourish. Yet Brokeback Mountain is ultimately not about sex (there is very little of it in the film) but about love.

 

This isn´t  the typical romance. One side is that there are two men serving in both of the romantic leads, but it is also because there is a lot of depth to the feelings that are being portrayed. We aren´t  just supposed to figure out if the two really love each other, but rather you can see it in their actions, and what they do when they are around each other.

 

What else can I say? This movie will pull out of you your deepest feelings, mostly unknown. Just see it and enjoy it.

 

Tips:

* The movie was filmed in Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies.

* The screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana is extremely faithful to Annie Proulx's excellent short story from 1997.

 

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Broken

 

Director: Patrick Downs

USA: 2003: 17 mins:

 

A family has to deal with the fact that they have a middle age gay son.

 

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Broken Hearts Club, The

 

Director: Greg Berlanti

USA: 1999: 91 Mins:

With: Dennis (Timothy Olyphant), Benji (Zach Braff), Howie (Matt McGrath), Cole (Dean Cain), Patrick (Ben Weber), Taylor (Billy Porter) and Jack (John Mahoney):

 

This film is about a group of West Hollywood gays and follows them through the good times and bad times. Dennis, Cole, Benji, Howie, Patrick, Taylor and Kevin lives are linked together by friendship, love, hate and being on a gay softball team where they have a “sometimes” drag coach called Jack.

They get together a lot at a restaurant to discuss their lives and love and each one has a different out look on life. So if you really want to be entertained by handsome interesting men see the film and follow their lives!

I really enjoyed this film so have a look..

 

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Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan

 

Director: Tina Mabry

USA: 2005: 20 mins:

 

Not only does a lesbian character lose her lover to death but then has to fight to keep their shared teenager son.

 

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Brother to Brother

 

Director: Rodney Evans

USA - 2003 - 90 mins:

With: Anthony Mackie, Roger Robinson, Larry Gilliard, Jr., Aunjanue Ellis, Duane Boutte, Daniel Sunjata, Alex Burns, Ray Ford

 

Perry Williams is a black, homosexual artist working and studying in New York who faces the problems of his fetishistic relationship with his white lover. At the same time he suffers homophobic taunts from his black classmates and rejection by his father. Then Perry meets Bruce Nugent, a poet and protagonist of the Harlem Renaissance, the very first black cultural movement in US history. His life is turned upside down and Perry finds himself going to scandalous parties and dinners in 1930s Harlem.

Winner of the jury’s special prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and the audience’s prize at the San Francisco Festival.

 

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Bubbles Galore

 

Director: Cynthia Roberts

USA: 1997: 88 mins:

With: Nina Hartley, Tracy Wright, and Daniel MacIvor among others:

 

A bisexual female pornographer tries to find sexual and economic independence in a male dominated industry. In general she also want to have fun in her life.. Has gay content.

 

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Buddha of Suburbia, The 

 

Director: Roger Michell

UK: 1993: 200 mins: Gay Main Character

With: Roshan Seth and Naveen Andrews

 

This is a look at an Pakistani youth living in London in the 1970´s who comes to realize he is love with another guy but don´t think the main story is this as it is an very interesting look at immigrants lives in their chosen countries. A little long but well worth watch the gay story line.I enjoyed it a lot but then again I like the Warhol films long dialogs sequences also ;-))

 

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Buddies

 

Director: Arthur J. Bressan Jr.

USA : 1985 : 81 min.: Gay : Aids : Aids activists

With: Geoff Edhold as Robert and David Schacter as David:

 

This is the story of two friends David and Robert. Robert is the friend with aids and David is helped with his coming out by him. When Robert dies of Aids, David takes up where Robert left off in the fight against aids. It is said that this was the first Independent gay Aids love story filmed.

 

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Bugis Street

[Aka Titles: Bugis Street the Movie]

 

Director: Fan Yon

Singapore: 1994 : 101 min..: filmed in Chinese : Drama sexual transvestitism

With: Michael Lam, Hiep Thi Le:

 

The naive and 17-year-old Lian is 17 years old and very naive she works as a maid to a rich family in Malaysia. Her quiet sheltered life comes to an end when she is sent to work at a small hotel near Bugis Street in Singapore. She then lives with transvestites and transsexuals who earn their living by working the streets. She soon learns about life from another angle.

 

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Bullet Down Under 

 

Director: Rob Stewart

Australia: 1993: 91 Mins:

 

Gay Interest:  Contains gay character: Gay Man - Shane Flint.

 

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Bullets over Broadway 

 

This is a Woody Allen film and is listed here as Harvey Fierstein plays the gay agent.

 

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Bully

 

Director: Larry Clark

USA: 2001: 115 mins:

With: Brad Renfro, Bijou s, Rachel Miner, Michael Pitt, Kelli Garner, Nick Stahl, Leo Fitzpatrick, Daniel Franzese

 

This film is by Larry Clark who brought us “Kids” which became know among gays as it has basically one gay scene in the whole film. Now the next from him is here and it is a good one but dealing with hard true story subject matter:

It is the story of Bobby Kent (played by Nick Stahl) a teenager who lusts after his best friend Marty Puccio (played by Brad Renfro) but since he is a closet case he can only arrange things like seeing gay porno during having sex with women and making  Marty to have gay phone sex with him and he even goes so far as to give his love interest money to dance at a homosexual strip club as he looks on and lusts after him. Finally after he uses his fists to often on Marty to always get his way a group of friends get together and decide to take justice into their own hands and they get him and take him to a swamp and they keep stabbed him and bashed his head with a bat until he finally dies.The friends end up in court to pay for their crime. A must see film!

Note: there is much nudity and a lot of sex and drugs too….

 

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Butteryfly 

(Original Title: Hudie)

 

Director: Yan Yan Mak

Hong Kong: 2004: 124mins:

 

This film from Hong Kong is about a woman who is both a wife and mother in a middle class family but discovers that she is falling in love with a woman and is set in the 1980´s amongst the democracy student movement. See the film to find out if she leaves her straight live and goes with the other woman.

 

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Burlesk King

 

Director: Mel Chionglo

Philippines: 1999: 109 mins:

 

Guy works as a Macho dancer in gay clubs.

 

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Burning Boy, The 

 

Director: Kieran Galvin

Australia: 2001: 11 mins: short film:

 

Story of a not yet “out” teenage boy.

 

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Burnt Money

(Original title: Plata Quemada)

 

Director: Marcelo Piñeyro

Uruguai/France/Spain/Argentina: 2000 : 120 mins.

Wth: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eduardo Noriega

 

Marginals are hired to rob a truck. Something goes wrong and they need to escape to Uruguay. Over there, the relationship they used to have will go into a crisis, while they need to stay hidden from the police. A love poem, in which homosexuality is treated kindly and honestly. The director Piñeyro, transcends Ricardo Piglia’s novel with a careful esthetical work, whose subject cruelty is not limited to a literary illustration.

 

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Business of Fancydancing, The 

 

Director / Writer; Sherman Alexie

USA: 2002: 103 mins;:

 

Gay Interest:  Gay in this film is Seymour Polatkin who is a Indian poet.

 

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Bubble, The

(Original title: Buah, Ha-)

 

Director: Eytan Fox / Writers: Eytan Fox and Gal Uchovsky

Israel: 2006:: time runs from 90 mins to 117 mins depending on the country where you are seeing it: the languages in which ist is filmed is Hebrew / Arabic / English::

With: Ohad Knoller as Noam, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid as Ashraf, Daniela Virtzer as Lulu (as Daniella Wircer), Alon Friedman as Yelli (listed as Alon Freidmann), Zohar Liba as Golan, Tzion Baruch as Shaul (as Zion Baruch), Oded Leopold as Sharon, Roba Blal as Rana, Ashraf's Sister (as Ruba Blal), Shredi Jabarin as Jihad (as Shredy Jabarin), Yael Zafrir as Orna, Noa Barkai as Ella, Yotam Ishay as Chiki, Eliana Bakier as Dalfi (as Eliana Bekiyer), Avital Barak as Dana and Lior Ashkenazi as Himself - Actor in "Bent":

 

I have read some reviews which say this is a version of Romeo and Juliet. I personally think it is a unique love story which has some things in common with Romeo and Juliet but it is definitely its own film.

It is the story of two guys who are from different worlds. One is Jewish from Tel Aviv and the other is from Palestinian.

They meet at the border of Israel where one is a guard and the other is trying to get over the border. The guard loses his ID and the Palestinian brings it back to him at home.

What occurs is a love story between the two of them. You know it is going to be difficult but they try to pull it off. The Palestinian guy takes a job in Tel Aviv and tries to stay with his new Jewish lover .

The film is well acted and I became totally lost in this love story. I laughed and cried and hoped. I can not tell you how it ends as it would spoil it for you but this film is definitely one of the best i have seen this year. So see it and enjoy.

I watched it in the Original language and with English sub-titles as i wanted to hear the Original language.

The director is Eytan Fox and has made many other films over the years which i really enjoyed and this time he exceeded all my experations.The actors (all of them) were very very good and I forgot entirely that they were acting – which is a great thing ! and the filming it really top quality !

Note: the two lovers eventually live in Israel and the story includes their friends and their lives there. So with watching this film it was a way for me to understand how people live that country and their relationship with Palestinian which open my eyes to a lot of things I have never thought about.

 

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Business Of Strangers, The

 

Director: Patrick Stettner

USA: 2001: 84 mins:

With: Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Weller:

 

In this thriller a business woman and her female assistant get into a love you / hate you relationship. We are smart enough to know that they have lesbian feelings for each other much as the story lines in the 50´s and 60´s. There was never any real discussion about being a lesbian back then but it was still acted out by the actors (much like this film). So if you want to enjoy a thriller which has the lesbian story line to it but does not discuss it you might want to see this film.

 

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Butch Camp 

 

Director: Alessandro de Gaetano

1997: 101 mins: Gay Main Characters

With: Judy Tenuta and Paul Denniston

 

About a lonely gay guy who lacks agression and decided to solve this problem by going to a

 training camp where he actually finds love hum ! I guess love will alway find you no matter where you hide :-) - funny at times !

 

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But I'm A Cheerleader

 

Director: Andrea Sperling

USA: 2000: 81 mins: With: Natasha Lyonne asMegan Bloomfield, Clea DuVall as Graham Eaton, Dante Basco as Dolph, RuPaul as Mike Eddie Cibrian as Rock, Bud Cort as Peter Bloomfield, Melanie Lynskey as Hilary and Wesley Mann as Lloyd:

 

Megen is a 17 year old high school student who is pretty, popular and a great student. She has it all and dates the captain of the football team but doesn´t seem to really fancy him very much thus leading her parents (played by Mink Stole and Bud Cort) to think she is a lesbian so they decide to send her to a rehabilitation camp run by Mary Brown who is a homophobic counselor. Will they succeed or will Medgan have her coming out ? - see the movie.

Oh almost forgot there is an non-drag performance by RuPaul as Mike.

 

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Butley

 

Director: Harold Pinter

UK: 1974 : 94 min.: Drama.

With : Alan Bates as Ben Butley, Michael Byrne as Reg Nuttall, Susan Engel as Anne Butley, Colin Haigh as the Male Student, Georgina Hale as Miss Heasman:

 

This is the story of a bitch called Ben Butley - he hates everyone and everything.

You will hear Butley say lines like:

I'm a one-woman man, and I've had mine, thank God !

 

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Bye-Bye Souirty

(Original title: Adieu Forain)

 

Director Daoud Aoulad-Syad

France / Morocco: 1998: in Arabic

With: Hassan Essakali, Mohamed Bastaoui, Abdellah Didane, Mohammed Miftah, Nezha Rahile, Abdellatif Khamouli, Zohra Sadok, Zineb Smaiki:

 

A touring group consisting of an old man, his son and a transvestite tour through out Morocco bringing to different towns the wheel of fortune. This was at one time a very thriving form of entertainment but now is on it´s way out and they are not very welcomed in the towns. Transvestites are a sort of tradition.

 

This is a road movie with three people held together not by friendship but work. The transvestite called Rabbi does not become close to theson called Larby and the father who is sick and  was once a famous boxer.. To see their story watch this gloomy film. .

 

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By hook or by crook

 

Director / Writer: Harriet Dodge

2001

With: Silas Howard, Harry Dodge, Stanya Kahn, Carina Gia, Cash Askew, Misha Klein, Miracle Malone, Joan Jett, Tina Marie, Kris Kovick, Machiko Saito, James Cotner, Nancy Stone, Jimmy Broustis, Carmen White, Sunny Haire, Samuel Sheng, Josh Zinn:

 

"By hook or by crook" is said to be a female Midnight Cowboy and is the story of 3 weeks in the life of a small town butch woman called Shy (played by Silas Howard) who goes to the big city and meets Valentine (played by Harry Dodge). This starts the story of these butches and opens up to the public the often hidden world of these women. The film is hard to explain but a must see on your list as it is a ground breaking film about people who are not fully female and not fully male but refer to themselves as HE.

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