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Laawaris 
(English Meaning - The Orphan)
Director : Prakash Mehra
India : Language - Hindi : 1981 :  Genre - Drama / Action
With : Amitabh Bachchan as Heera; Zeenat Aman as Mohini; Rakhee Gulzar as Vidya; Amjad Khan as Ranvir Singh

Viday (Rakhee) and Ranvir (Amjad) are lovers. When Vidya becomes pregnant then Ranvir advises her to abort and leaves her, but Vidya gives birth to a boy and dies. This boy, Heera (Amitabh) grows up as a kind young man, who has a girlfriend Mohini (Zeenat). Heera has only one goal in life to discover his true father. Situations bring Ranvir and Heera together,  and the father has to face society and the son has to accept his father's abandonment.

Gay Interest : In a comedy song, Amitabh in drag with five costume changes. Song is good for a laugh.

Manish


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Labyrinth of Passion
[Original title: Laberinto de pasiones]
Director / Producer: Pedro Almodovar
Spain: 1982: 97 - 100 Minutes. : Camp comedy/drama
With: Antonio Banderas as Sadec, Cecilia Roth :Sexi, Imanol Arias as Riza, Fernandez-Muro as Queti, Fernando Vivanco as the Doctor, Agustin Almodovar as Hassan, and a cameo by Pedro Almodovar:

This film is both camp and a drama and made by Almodovar so it is a little tricky to explain but I will try. Riza is the son of a Middle East tyrant who is no longer in power. He falls for the first time in love with a girl and not with a man, her name is Sexi and she is a member of a rock band. There is also Sadec (played by Antonio Banderas) who falls for Riza and wants the man as his lover. Meanwhile there are terrorists who want to kidnap both Riza and the gay guy. You see I told you it is hard to explain this film so just see it and you will (maybe) understand the film. Phillip  
Note: look out for the cameo of Almodovar dressed in drag as a member of the rock band.

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L.A. Confidential
USA: 1997:132 Minutes:

This is a good thriller and besides the main story is a story about the setting up of a district attorney (who is on the take) and a actor who is gay and used for bait to get the district attorney. Phillip  

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Lacenaire
[AKA title: Elegant Criminal, The]
Director: Francis Girod
France: 1990: 125 Minutes. : Drama: true story: Gay murder ´s
With: Daniel Auteuil as Pierre-Francois Lacenaire, Jean Poiret as Allard and Patrick Pineau as Avril:

This is a true story - believe it or not - set in the 1830´s. Lacenaire is a very intelligent person but put it to use in all the wrong ways. He commits minor crimes and finally ends up in jail. There he meets Avril who is also a homosexual and they become partners. Lacenaire is the stronger of the two and gets Avril to follow him in whatever he want to do, so when they get out of prison they set out on a wave of crimes including murder. The police arrest Avril who was turned in by his last partner and he in turn tells everything that Lacenaire has been up to - including murder. Lacenaire is then arrested and before he goes to trail he writes his life story (which become a bestseller in its time) an then to top it off he pleads his own case asking that he is given the death penalty. Phillip  

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Ladybugs
Director: Sidney J. Furie
USA: 1992: Comedy / transvestite
With: Jonathan Brandis as Matthew/Martha, Rodney Dangerfield as Chester and Lee Jackee as Julie Benson:

Chester Lee works as a salesman who wants a raise. In order to get it he must coach an all girls soccer team and get them to win and when he see there isn't a chance in hell for these girls to win, he decides to cheat. His fiance's son is called Matthew and just what the team needs except for one little/big thing ! He is a boy but Chester is not about to let this stop his raise and the team winning so the only solution is the old drag routine for Matthew. Sounds like a lot of other pictures except this is a young transvestite. Phillip  

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Lady in Question is Charles Busch, The 
USA: 2005: 90 mins:
Directors: John Catania & Charles D. Ignacio

Charles Busch is among many things, a drag performer, leading Lady in Die Mommie, Die and is repoonsible for the Psyco Beach Party and he has been on both off – Broadway and Broadway in various plays (some of which he wrote), This film follows his life so far and is a great insight into the person he was aned has become. Have a peak. Phillip

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Lady in Waiting, The
Director: Christian Taylor
UK / USA: 1992: 30 Minutes. : short film: Gay Transvestite: Drama
With: Virginia McKenna as Miss Scarlet and Rodney Hudson as Miss Peaches:

What happens when you put a prim and proper English spinster called Miss Scarlet and a wildly outrageous Black drag queen called Miss Peaches, in an elevator during a 1977 black-out - well the feathers fly in this 30 minute short film. Phillip  
Note this film was nominated for Best Short Live Action Film in 1993 Academy Awards.

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Laguna Beach: A Love Affair 
1995

Gay men around the world have the same problems in find the right relationships. This comedy shows 
the problems gay men face in the changing lives of gay men. Phillip

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Lalaki sa buhay ni Selya, Ang  

1997

tells the story of what happens when a woman is determined to marry a gay man called Ramon. Phillip



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La Maison des rêves

Director:Marik Boudreau
Canada: 2004: short: 7 Minutes:

A short road moving which takes place between Montreal and smaller towns. Contains modern media images. Phillip  

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La Mala educación 

(Brazilian Title: Má Educação)

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Spain: 2004: 110 Minutes

With: Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez & Javier Camera

In the mid-1960s, Ignacio and Enrique, two students at a religious school, discover love, cinema and fear together. They fear, above all, father Manolo, a teacher at the school who sexually abuses the boys. Years later Enrique becomes an established filmmaker. He receives a visit from Ignacio, who is trying to embark on an acting career. Ignacio proposes that they make a film about their past, and the idea tempts Enrique. That is until father Manolo reappears in their lives. Curtain raiser for the Cannes Film Festival in 2004. The story is the same of those Almodóvars movies - lots of drugged gays, drag queens with emotional problems. Claudio 

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Lantana
Director: Ray Lawrence
With: Anthony LaPaglia, Barbara Hershey, Geoffrey Rush, Kerry Armstrong:

A woman disappears and Police detective Leon Zat (a guy with his own personal problems) gets into an investigation when a woman is reported missing. The investigation leads him to four couples and all have things to hide. A good who done it ! Phillip  


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Lan Yu
Director: Stanley Kwan
With: Hun Jun, Liu Ye, Su Jin, and Li Huatong
2002: 86 Minutes: In Mandarian with English subtitles:

First it was an anonymous Internet novel in 1996 and got a lot of people talking in China  - then it got filmed. This is the story of a good-looking middle aged in the closet Business man Handong (played by Hu Jun from East Palace, West Palace) and the young gay architecture student Lan Yu (played by Liu Ye) who he meets, has sexual encounters with and then falls in love with.The choice of love and being out or staying in his closet alone is what Handong has to decide on.Phillip  

Note: a very nice story and filming: It also won the 2003 Glitter Award for Best International Gay Film, plus is the winner of  four other awards, including Best Director and Best Actor which took place at the 2001 Taiwans Golden Horse Film Festival.

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Laramie Project, The
Directed By: Moises Kaufman:

USA: 201:
With: Peter Fonda, Christina Ricci, Janeane Garofalo, Amy Madigan, Laura Linney, Steve Buscemi:

In this HBO film a New York City troupe goes to Laramie, Wyoming to meet and interview the residents of the town to try and find out how such a horrible crime such as happened to a gay college student named Matthew Shepard, who was beaten to death there just for being gay.Will they dig deep enough to get answers – see this ground breaking film to find out. Phillip  

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Larry's Visit
USA: 23:20
Director: Carlo Gabriel Nero
With: Keith Pruitt,  Jennifer Wiltsie, Nick Rodgers

Frank Valentine is a high up advertising executive manager. A bit of his past comes to live when his childhood friend from a private school come to visit him. Soon Franks wife gets the picture of what their relationship was really about. A must see short film which makes you want to see 
more ! Phillip  

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Last of the Blond Bombshells , The
With: Judi Dench

Another film about an all girls band reuniting and includes Ian Holm as the one in drag ! Phillip

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Last Blow Job, The
Germany: Short:2000: 14 Minutes:
Director: Lutz Lemke.
With: Ulrich Bähnk as Tim, Markus Knüfken as Paul:

Tim and Paul are lovers and co-workers. The gay pair are called upon to defuse bombs when they are found by the police. This time they are called upon at a time when the two gays are experiencing problems in their love affair and this while trying to defuse a bomb. See this short to see if their problem explodes. What a title... Phillip  

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Last Call at Maud's
Director: Paris Poirier
1993: 77 Minutes

This is the story of the closing of the oldest lesbian bar in San Francisco. Phillip  

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Last Day, The: Jim Morrison
France 1992: 14 Minutes:

Jim Morrison is put to rest at the Père La-Chaise grave yard. He died on 3. Juli 1971 and made his fame as the lead singer of the Doors. He was only 27 years old and the mystery of his life and death is explored in the Documentary short film. He was sure a good looking guy and could really sing. Phillip  

Note: There are men who say he was bisexual and slept with them

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Last Day, The: Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau
Director: Arnaud Hamelin.
France 1992: 13 Minutes:

On 11.Oct.1963 Edith Piaf died and France lost one of their greatest singers. A journalist phoned to Jean Cocteau in the night to tell him about the death and two hours later France lost one of their most famous gays. Phillip  

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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Director: Uli Edel.
Germany: 1989: 99 Minutes:
With: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach, Stephen Baldwin:

This film is based on the famous book. It takes place in NYC and is about a prostitute who gets soldiers to follow her and then her brother robs them. Also it is about a married man called Harry (played by Jerry Orbach) who during a strike discovers his homosexuality. Phillip  

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Last Island, The  
Director: Marleen Gorris
The Netherlands: 1990: 101 Minutes. : Gay Characters:

There is a plane crash on a deserted island where 5 men, 7 women and a dog get stranded. They must struggle for survival and much like life in a min society they must also deal with tons of problems both moral, physical and the question of homosexuality as two of the men are gay and one of the women seems to be a lesbian - sorry I am not sure about the dog :-) Phillip  

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Last of England, The  
Director : Derek Jarman
UK: 1987: Gay : Drama:

This is a film for Derek Jarman fans and is about "post nuclear England" shown in Jarman fantasies including very handsome sexy rough type of men and boys.Worth a see !.  Phillip  

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LAST SECOND
(Original title: DETIK TERAKHIR )
Director: Nanang Istiabudi
Indonesia, 2005 : 90 mins: : Language: Indonesian
With: Cornelia Agatha, Sausan, Ari Sudarsono, Mike Muliadro, Dewi Irawan.

This film is set in Jakarta Indonesia and is basically about a girl who is brought up in a house full of hate and abuse. She is seeking the love she does not get at home and finds it in a lesbian drug  user. They fall in love and she becomes a drug user too. I have read that this film was a shocker to the population of Indonesia as it showed not only a strong lesbian relationship but the open use of drugs in that society. The lesbian relationship is well acted and even thought they are doomed you still want to know about them. Would be nice to see a gay relationship film from Indonesia with such a strong relationship story line !
Phillip  

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Last Seduction, The
Director: John Dahl
USA: 1994: 110 mins:
With: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg and Bill Pullman.

The film is listed here, as there is a transgender story line to it. Phillip  
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Last Supper, The   
Director: Cynthia Roberts
Canada: 1994 96 Minutes. : Gay Drama / Aids
With: Ken McDougall as Chris, Val, Jack Nicholsen as Val and Daniel MacIvor as Doctor Parthens:

This film has a lot in common with the USA film "It's My Party". It is about Chris who a dancer and in the last stages of AIDS. He to has decided to take his death into his own hands and has chosen euthanasia. The film deals with his last hours alive and with the assistance of both his lover and his Doctor he is able to do what he considers his last piece of art - the planning and "choreography" of his death which includes everything that made his life special. Get out the tissues and enjoy this film and then see It's My Party to see how Hollywood deals with the same subject (tip: don't watch them both on the same evening as it is toooo depressing). Phillip  

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Last Year, The 
USA: 2002
With: Ron Petronicolos, Mike Dolan, Patrick Orion Hoesterey, Merrick McMahon, Rand Smith,Seth Adams 

In this story of gay students at Bible college there is Paul (played by Ron Petronicolos) who has long hair and is thinking about a seminary but knows that he desires men and has had sexual contact during the summer. He returns to school and hopes to further his relationship with Hector (played by Merrick McMahon) but gets distracted with the new hunk at school called Alex (played by Mike Dolan). He discusses homosexuality in Bible Study and this seems to bring Paul even closer to him and it becomes sexual with them (there is also abuse by a group of guys). As the affair becomes the talk of school Paul is threatened with expulsion (and this from a closet case Dean Saunders (played by Rand Smith).What will happen to Paul will he go on to the seminary or will he bring his relationship with Alex out into the open ? see the movie to find out !! Phillip

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Late Bloomers
Director: Julia Dyer
1997: 86 Minutes: Lesbian main character
With: Connie Nelson, Dee Hennigan and others:

This film is made on a small budget but it gets to tell the big story of a married woman with a child who meets and has an affair with a Lesbian. Phillip  

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Latin Boys Go To Hell
Director: Ela Troyano
1997: 86 Minutes: gay Latino main characters:
With: Rebecca Sumner Burgos, Alexis Artiles and others:

This comedy is about young Latino gay men who live in Brooklyn and seem to always lust for sex or so we are led to believe ! Phillip  





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Latter days 
USA 2003: Gay drama
Directed by C. Jay Cox
With: Wes Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss, Jaqueline Bisset:

A very watchable love story between Christian, a gay L.A. playboy and Aaron, a Mormon Elder out to preach Gospel to the heathens. The playboy takes a bet that he can get the Mormon boy into bed with him. But things don't turn out as Christian expected..

I won't give you more of the plot but I was pleasantly surprised at the good acting and several story-twists. The boys are seriously hot and there are evil, bitchy one-liners a-plenty. There is a great love scene in it, too. The Mormons /Latter day saints did not appreciate the way they were portrayed, (read the message-boards at IMDB.com) Yngvar   

Note: has won the following Awards:

AUDIENCE AWARD: Outstanding First Narrative Feature, Los Angeles Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

AUDIENCE AWARD: Best Feature, Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

Alternative review:

Latter days

Christian, a young waiter of the West Hollywood who lives an easy life, bet with his colleagues that he will be able to seduce one of their new neighbors. What Christian does not know is that soon he will fall in love with one of them, Aaron, and what he does not know either is that Aaron is a Mormon, and that would be the main subject for a very difficult relation between them.Dario 

Note.
received: Better Feature Film in Barcelona Gay&Lesbian Film Festival 2004

“just for fun” the tag line of the film is : Aaron prays. Christian plays... Opposites attract.
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L'auberge Espagnole 

Director / Writer: Cédric Klapisch

France: 2002

With: Romain Duris, Cécile De France, Judith Godrèche, Audrey Tautou, Kelly Reilly, Xavier De Guillebon, Kevin Bishop, Federico D'Anna, Christian Pagh, Cristina Brondo, Barnaby Metschurat, Olivier Raynal, Iddo Goldberg


Is the story of a 25 year old economics student called Xavier (played by Romain Duris). He comes to Spain in an exchange student program and discovers the world of women. He ends up in a student apartment which has many people living there and the apartment becomes known as l'auberge Espagnole meaning the Spanish Inn.There also lives his best friend in the apartment the Belgian Isabelle (played by Cécile De France), who wishes Xavier was a girl ! Phillip  


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Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film
Director: Marc Maurceri
1997: 69 Minutes: lesbian film history
With Monika Treut, Rose Troche, Jennie Livingston, Cheryl Dunye and others:

This documentary is lesbian films and is a must for Lesbian film loves ! Phillip  

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Law of Desire
[Original title: Ley del Deseo, La]
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Spain: 1987: 100 Minutes. : Gay Drama / Comedy
With: Antonio Banderas as Antonio Benitez, Eusebio Poncela as Pablo Quintero, Carmen Maura as Tina Quintero, Miguel Molina as Juan Bermudez, Fernando Guillen as Inspector and a cameo by Pedro Almodovar as Pepe Patatia: 

This is a film about Pablo who lives and is works as a filmmaker in Madrid. He is in love with Juan but Juan is not sure that he feels the same way so he leave Madrid and tell Pablo that he can continue their relationship through letter writing. Pablo becomes lonely and one night picks up Antonio (played by future star Antonio Banderas) who in turn falls head over heels in love with Pablo and will do anything to keep him as a lover. Pablo does not love him and so now the comedy changes to a drama for Antonio finds out about Juan and in a fit a jealousy goes to his town and kills him (talk about doing anything for love ! ) Pablo´s sister Tina arrives in the film and it turns out she was his brother before the sex change (just to keep the film moving). When Antonio sees that he is not going to get Pablo and that Pablo is now against him, he decides to frame Pablo for the murder. There is one last scene with Pablo held hostage and is FORCED to go to bed with Antonio before the police get him. Hum I know a lot of people who would do this without the force ! Anyway this is a good film and very open about being gay, plus it is interesting to see Spanish gay life through the eyes of this film. Phillip  

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Lay of the Land 
2002
What happens when a straight man in Scottland goes to a gay bar. Phillip

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League of Gentlemen, The 
Director: Basil Dearden
UK: 1960:114 - 116 Minutes : B/W: Gay characters:

This is the story of a group of ex-service men who get together for a bank robbery. It is listed here as one of the ex-service men is gay. Frans Stevens is that man who was thrown out of the military for being gay and is now a trainer in a gym who loves giving massages to men and also get blackmailed. There is a cameo by Oliver Reed as a student who is very swishy and makes most of the others queens you have met look masculine. There are also many references to gays in this film. Phillip  
Note: The films made in England at this time were certainly must more advance than coming from the USA !

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Leather Boys, The 
Director: Sidney J. Furie
UK: 1963: 108 Minutes. : B/W: Drama gay love motorcycle
With : Colin Campbell as Reggie, Dudley Sutton as Pete Rita Tushingham as Dot and Johnny Briggs as the Boy Friend:

I really like this film from the 60´s which hold up even when looking at it today. I know it was about rebel teenagers but that is not the way I view this film. For me it is the story of a Reggie who is young man who basically wants to spend his time with male friends but gets caught by Dot who manages to get this handsome youth to marry her. They are married at too young an age and playing married only lasts for so long and they start to separate and spend more time away from each other. Low and behold comes a young man called Peter who wants Reggie all to himself. They ride motorcycles together, get drunk together eventually share both an apartment and bed together, which is what Pete wants. Pete is nasty to Dot when she tried to get Reggie back and she says they look like a couple of queers (she hit the nail half way on the head). Reggie does not realize that Pete is gay until the last scene when they have decided to go to America together on a ship. Pete sends Reggie into a gay bar to wait for him and at that point the light comes on in Reggies head that Pete is a regular in this bar so he must be gay. Reggie is shocked and leaves the bar and Pete (in a fantastic last scene of the movie). Pete tried getting Reggie for a lover without telling him what he wanted so it could only end in a shock for Reggie. This film is a very good one so see it when you get the chance. Phillip  


Note: I tried to get this film for years but couldn't find it - then one evening on a trip to Kansas City, I saw it in the window but the shop was closed and the next morning I had to fly out early for my next USA city stop but do you think I let that stop me? No I took a taxi to the shop, had the driver wait till the shop opened ran in and bought it, ran back to the taxi and then to the airport only to discover that I had just missed my flight so I booked on the next flight but it was worth it as I finally had my copy of this film! As you can figure I am a dedicated collector and will go to all lengths to get something for my collection, especially a good film like this from the 60s !

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Leather Jacket Love Story
Director: David Decoteau
USA: 1997: 85 Minutes: Lay Main Characters / Drag Queens
Starring: Christopher Bradley, Sean Tataryn and others:

This is a b/w film and I thought that it would be a low budget film but what I saw was a wonderful about a young boy who comes to Silverlake to find his way in live. He there meets some drag queens who take him to their bar and where they perform. He meets and becomes sex partners with an S/M guy (who already has a lover) and starts to like leather coats. He blooms and gets on with his life and if it is with the S/M guy you will just have to watch this really good film ! Phillip  

Note: has some good sex scenes too!


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Leeches!

Director: David DeCoteau
USA: 2003: 85 Minutes:
With: Matthew Twining as Stevo, Josh Henderson as Jason, Stacey Nelson as Casey, Michael Lutz as Spencer, Tony Carroccio as Coach Foster, Stephen Swan as Tony, Greg Lyczkowski as Fish and others:

This film is not listed because it has gay characters but is listing as it has a feeling that this horror film was was made for a gay audience. It is a laughable science fiction film with slimy leeches. They get bigger and nastier when they start eating the blood of handsome swimming guys who walking around the whole picture in tight little bathing suits (just how many of them do you need in one picture ?). These guys are slim swimming hunks and not very smart but who cares since they are great tooooo look at !!!!! There is even a scene with a leech climbing up the body of one of the hunks and it stops to look at his pretty ass as if it were going to enter. Have a peek and a laugh and see which handsome guy they will eat next! Oh don´t expect great acting in this film.
Phillip



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L' ESCORTE  
Director: Denis LANGLOIS

Producers: Bertrand LACHANCE and Denis LANGLOIS

Canada: 1996: 92 Minutes:

With:
Paul-Antoine TAILLEFER , Éric CABANA , Robin AUBERT , Marie-Claude LEFEBVRE , Patrice COQUEREAU , Jasmin ROY , Louise LAPRADE and Bernadette LI

This story takes place in the time of Aids and is about two lovers called Philippe and Jean-Marc. They have lived together for 8 years, when suddenly another guy enters into their lives – how they deal with this new aspect of life and what happens can only be found out when you see the film ! Phillip

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Legally Blond   
USA: 2001:
Director: Robert Luketic:
With: Reese Witherspoon (Elle Woods), Luke Wilson (Emmett Richmond), Selma Blair (Vivian Kensington), Victor Garber (Professor Callahan), Matthew Davis (Warner), Chaney Kley (Brandon), and Jennifer Coolidge (Paulette):

Elle (played wonderfully by Reese Witherspoon) is taken to be a dumb blond from California. The problem is she is blond and loves being that and she is certainly different. She set outs to prove everyone wrong and studies law (she turns out to be blond and smart) and in the end she proves in court that a witness is lying (and gay too) a fun film...Phillip  

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Legal Memory
Canada: 1993 Genres: Crime/Drama gay murder
Directors & Writers: Lisa Steele Kim Tomczak:

This is a slow paced documentary and is about the last man hanged in British Columbia. The crime he was hanged for was the 1958 killing of his boyfriend who was a sailor. Phillip  

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Légitime violence   
Director: Serge Leroy
France: 1982

In this French film (which I have not see yet) there is a gay character listed: François Clavier as Le Gay.Phillip  

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Les Nuits Fauves
France: 1992: 122 Minutes
Director: Cyril Collard.
With: Cyril Collard, Romane Bohringer, Carlos López, Corinne Blue, Claude Winter, René-Marc Bini, Maria Schneider:

This is the story of a bisexual man called Jean (played Cyril Collard) who makes film and is also HIV infected. He is aware that he is infected but still goes after sexual adventures which include boys and girls. Interesting French film which explore both aids and bisexuality. Phillip  

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Les Patterson saves the world 

Barry Humphries produces and stars in this wacky film where he gets to play both Dame Edna and a male role. Phillip  

Note: only worth a watch if you like Dame Edna !

 

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Let's Get Real
2004

Film goes under the belief that a young gay kid hears per day 26 insults about gays. That seem like a lot but see the film to find out if their calculation is correct. Phillip  

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Let's Talk About Love: Plan B
Director:Gary Leva
USA 1996:
With: Jon Cryer (Stuart Winer):Lisa Darr (Clare Sadler):Lance Guest (Jack Sadler):Mark Matheisen (Ricky Stone):Sara Mornell (Gina Ferris):Stacey Katzin (Emily Fishbach):Ilia Volokh (Flash):John Kozeluh (Randy Elliott):Claudia Carey (Marie):Annie Grindley (Candace):

Jack and Clare Sadle are around 30 and married. They are having a midlife crisis and are trying to find a solution to their crisis. They even try taking a guy to a Halloween party to share but this goes wrong as they find out the guy is 100 % (guess what). So they have to go to Plan B ! Phillip  

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Let´s Make Love
With: Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand.

George Cuckor directed this scandal ridden musical in which stars Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand. Phillip  

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Liberace
Director: William Hale
USA: 1988: Made for TV: aids biographical gay music
Director: William Hale:
With: Andy Robinson as Liberace, John Rubinstein as Jamie, Maris Valainis as Scott, Rue McClanahan as Frances Liberace, Robert Petkoff as the young Liberace, Debi A. Monahan as Bea Haven, Leslie Bevis as Maxine Lewis, Romy Windsor as Jane, Gerald Hiken as John Benjamin Cleveland as Young George, Alba Francesca as Courtney, Thom Adcox as Darin and Tracy K. Shaffer as Lydia:

There were two TV films rushed out to tell the story of Liberace and I personally think both of them are OK. They tell the story of Liberace who was a great entertainer and lived his life quite gay without ever saying he was gay. He has his own TV show and was the first real gay person people was on TV. They all knew it but it was never really spoken about. Liberace always said about the nasty stories that "He laughed all the way to the bank" and he did. One of the big loves of his life was Scott who was a very young boy who lived and toured with him. His last laugh was that he said he was sick and losing weight due to a "watermelon diet". He died without out ever saying he was gay and in the end a lawsuit exhumed his body and it was found out that he died of AIDS ! So not only was he a closet gay, he was also a closet aids person. In the end it came out and I still wonder if he could have helped the cause if he had come out and said he has Aids before he died as Rock Hudson finally did. Oh well each person has to make his own decisions right ! Phillip  
Note: see also Liberace: Behind the Music which is the second TV film made in 1988.

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Liberace: Behind the Music
USA: (1988) made for TV: aids, biographical, gay & music
Director: David Greene
With: Victor Garber as Liberace, Saul Rubinek as Seymour Heller, Michael Dolan as Scott Thorsen, Maureen Stapleton as Frances Liberace, Shawn Levy as Glenn, Michael Wikes as George Liberace, Macha Grenon as Joanne and Andrew Nichols as Teenager:

This is filming of his life deals more with Aids and being Gay than the other TV film. Phillip  

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Liberace - Mr. Showmanship
USA: 1991, 44 Minutes:

Another filming about the life of Liberace and his death in 1987. Phillip  

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LIBERTIN, LE   
Director:Gabriel AGHION

Producer: Patrick LANCELOT

France: 1999: 100 Minutes:
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With: Vincent PEREZ , Fanny ARDANT , Josiane BALASKO , Michel SERRAULT , Arielle DOMBASLE , Christian CHARMETANT , Françoise LEPINE , François LALANDE , Audrey TAUTOU , Bruno TODESCHINI , Arnaud LEMAIRE

The story line takes place in the 18th century and is about Diderot who is creating an Encyclopedia while living in refuge. Has gay content. Phillip

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Licensed to Kill 

Director: Arthur Dong

1997

This is a film to see. It goes direct to the men who have murdered gay people to find out why they did it. The various answers will shock you but none the less it is worth seeing.  Phillip

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Lie Down With Dogs
Director / Co-writer: Wally White
USA: 1995: 84 Minutes : Gay film / Gay Comedy
With: Wally White as Tommie, Bash Halow as Guy , James Sexton as Eddie, Darren Dryden as Ben, Randy Becker as Tom, Wendy Adams as Sally and Michel Richoz as Michi:

It is the story of a New York gay guy who is not about to spend the hot summer in New York so he decides to take off to Providence Town (a gay resort - which I can tell you is a wonderful place to be in summer) to work and play. He has to find work as he doesn't have enough money to stay without work so he starts looking for work as a house boy but has arrives after all the good jobs have been taken and so his adventures start as he looks for a job, a sleeping place and a lover! He finds one hot Latin lover who uses him for foodPhillip  
Note : This is the new type of gay film which are fun to watch and has a positive message for gays, to just be happy with themselves. No one is murdered or attacked because their gay in these newer films. This shows that the films from the 50´s, 60´s, 70´s and 80´s are finally over.

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Life and death
(original title: Liv & død)
Directors: Svend Wam & Petter Vennerød
Norway: 1980: Gay and bisexual characters
With: Bjørn Skagestad, Kjersti Døvigen and Sossen Krogh:

A bisexual doctor enters into a threesome with his wife and one of his male nurses. In the beginning, all goes well but there are clouds on the horizon...This is another of those anarchistic movies made by the infamous Wam & Vennerød, where everything is questioned, like moral values, sexual sterotypes and human freedom. There is a nice scene from a disco, packed with transvestites (music by Abba). The doctor also meets up with a gay biker wearing a really cool leather outfit. Oh..and the leading actors are quite handsome. A very gay film. Yngvar 

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Life and Times of MC Beer Bong, The   
Director: Richard Cranor
USA: 2004: 85 Minutes:

Yes there is a gay character in this film, listed as Big Gay Dude played by the director of the film.
Phillip

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Life aquatic with Steve Zissou, The
Dirctor: Wes Anderson
USA 2005
With: Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson, Kate Blanchett

Weirdly plotted comedy about Steve Zissou, a deep-sea explorer (modelled after Jacques Cousteau) hunting the giant, mythical shark that killed his partner. He is also trying to finance and shoot a movie about his work. Lots of other things happen. Shades of Moby Dick..
The reason I included this on MTG is the character Alistair Hennessey (played by Jeff Goldblum), a queer arch-rival of Zissou, who once was married to Zissou’s wife....
Hennessey “The marriage had its problems..As you know, I happen to be bisexual...
Zissou “Aren’t we all?”
Or something like that. It’s nice dialogue, and it’s a nice movie.Yngvar

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Life Story of a Star
USA: 1999: 13 Minutes.:
Short film is made by: Jennifer M. Gentile

In this 13 minute short we meet a couple who are on the way to Hollywood and a strange mysterious woman who enters their lives. Claudio 

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Likely Stories, Vol. 3    
1983 (made for TV)
Contains gay character: Richard Goldstone as the Gay Waiter. Phillip  

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Lilies     
(AKA : Lilies - Les feluettes)
Director: John Greyson
Canada : 1996 : 95 mins :

A very artistic filmed story about a guy who is in jail for a murder and what happens when he want to confess to his boyhood friend who is now a Bishop about killing 40 years before. What hidden story that will come out in the open – See the film to find out! Phillip

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Lip Gloss
1993

An actor is appearing in a film with a gay bashing scene. Phillip

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Lipstick 

Director:Michael Apted:
USA: 2003 short: 10 Minutes.:

In this coming out story of a young girl and how easy it all seems to come out to the people near her. Phillip  

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Lisa Picard is Famous 
Director: Griffin Dunne
USA: 2000: 93 Minutes:
With: Laura Kirk, Nat DeWolf, Griffin Dunne, Sandra Bullock, Spike Lee, Charlie Sheen, Buck Henry, Carrie Fisher:

This film is abut Lisa Picard (Kirk) who want to be famous and her gay friend Tate Kelly (quite a cutie) who also wants fame. Lisa will do almost anything to get famous and the film follows her try for success. The good thing about the film is the gay roll as Tate who is doing his own off-off-off Broadway play which is about homophobia and is played by the actor in all the time his his underwear. The play seems doomed and has very few viewers until the New York Times critic write it is a fantastic play and with that review the play is a success and Tate becomes famous before his friend Lisa does -who knows if she will get fame so you will have to watch this movies to find out. I liked it. Phillip  

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L-Shaped Room, The
Director: Bryan Frobes
UK: 1962: 125 Minutes.: Gay Character
With Brock Peters as Johnny and Tom Bell:

Johnny is a gay man who is in love with the character that Tom Bell plays but this character is a heterosexual so no way is this once sided love affair going to work ! Phillip  

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Little Black Boot
Dirctor: Colette Burson:

USA: 2003: short: 16 Minutes

A new twist of the Cinderella story. Cindy has a thing for the most popular girl at school and is finally able to do something about it with the help of her fairy god-brother who transforms her - see the short to find out just what she is transformed into... Phillip  

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Little Britian

With: Matt Lucas and David Williams
UK:  2003 to 2006: TV show:

TV Show whiczh is vulgar and fun ! it contains gay and transvestite characters and watch out for the "only gay in town" ... just for fun...Phillip  

P.S. even has a guest appearance by Robbie Williams dressed in drag.

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Little miss Sunshine
Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
USA 2006
With: Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette

The Hoover family has very little to recommend it. Father is a struggling salesman into “self-improvement”-programs, the son doesn’t speak to anyone, grandfather is a lecherous old drug addict, and the gay uncle has just tried to commit suicide. Then - the little daughter, Olive (charming Abigail Breslin) wins a place in the “Little miss Sunshine” finals in California. (a horrible, horribly American beauty pageant for little girls..)
Father decides they should ALL go to California in their beat-up VW bus and cheer Olive on to victory.
A very good road-movie/ comedy with heartwarming people in it; Steve Carell an absolute wonder in his part as the gay Proust-expert, who sees his life slipping into mud before him. A lot of strange things happen, but the movie never strays into parody or slapstick. In the end, we find that the Hoovers have lots of love for eachother. That means my first sentence is untrue. They can be strongly recommended!  Yngvar

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Little Nicky

USA: 2000: 90 mins:
Director: Steven Brill
With: Adam Sandler, Harvey Keitel, Reese Witherspoon:
 
Comedy alternating between hell, earth and heaven. Sandler plays Nicky, a good, little devil who loves Satan (well, you see - it’s his father!) When Satan’s other sons go to earth for some serious kick-ass demonizing, Satan starts to disintegrate and Little Nicky has to follow his brothers to persuade them to return to hell. When Nicky stays in New York, he shares a flat with a gay would-be actor. The actor is proto gay, yet doesn’t want to come out of the closet. Everyone keeps telling him: “Aw come on , you’re gay and you know it!

A CLOSETED GAY STAGE ACTOR IN NEW YORK!! That’s the best joke in the whole movie.. The rest is just OK, and sometimes veeeerrrry dirty. Some famous people play cameos (Ozzy Osbourne, Quentin Tarantino, Henry Winkler etc.) Yngvar    
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Lianna
Director: John Sayles
1983: 110 Minutes: Lesbian Main characters
With: Jane Hallaren, Linda Griffiths and others:

This film is done on a small budget and is about a woman who enters into a lesbian affair with her professor. Hum I wonder if that was a good idea.. Phillip  

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L.I.E.  
(Aka Titles: Long Island Expressway)
USA: 2001: 97 Minutes:

This is the story of a teenage boy with big problems as his life goes into a bad spin (played by Paul Franklin Dano) so he turns to crime and comes in contact with Big John (no I didn´t make-up the name) who is a paternal pedophile that he ends up hanging around with (played by Brian Cox) – see the film to see what happens. Phillip  

 

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Life with Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
USA 2001: 180 Minutes:
With: Judy Davis, Victor Garber, Hugh Laurie, Tammy Blanchard, Marsha Mason, John Benjamin Hickey, Al Waxman, Sonja Smits, Jayne Eastwood:

This is a Made for TV mini series about the life of gay icon Judy Garland. It is based on daughter Lorna Luft's memoirs of her life and her mothers. The songs are well lip-synched and you almost believe it is Judy singing. It includes her marriage to the closet director Vincent Minnelli plus there is another gay man in her life – so watch this mini-series to see who he is and just to enjoy Judys life. Phillip  

Note: Watch the scenes at Carnegie Hall and you will see hat the audience has a lot of gay men including the one who screams "we love you Judy".

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Like It Is 
Director: Paul Oremland
UK: 1998: 90 Minutes: Gay Main Characters:
With: Steve Bell, Ian Rose, Steve Bell and others:

A young boxer from meet a club promoter and falls head over heels for him. He decides to go to London to join the guy who is surrounded by other people and makes his life hell. A very good film - very good plot and very handsome good actors made this 90 minutes of good film seeing. Phillip  

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Like It Never Was Before
(Original title: Pensionat Oskar)
Sweden/ Denmark: 1995: 108 Minutes:
Director: Susanne Bier:
With: Loa Falkman as Rune Runeberg, Stina Ekblad as Gunnel Runeberg and Simon Norrthon as Petrus:

A great film by the leading Swedish female director, this is the story about Rune Runeberg, an accountant and father of 3 entering into menopause. He is stuck in a loveless marriage, but tries to keep a brave face about it.On a holiday-trip to the sea he befriends Petrus, a young guy into magic and sorcery. Petrus casts a spell on Rune, which threatens not only to break up his marriage, but also to liberate his lost soul. A true gem of a movie, with excellent actors, first-rate camera-work and a warm, tender script by the famous gay Swedish writer and stand- up comedian Jonas Gardell. Yngvar

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Lion In Winter, The
Director: Anthony Harvey
UK: 1968: 135 Minutes. : Gay characters
With Peter O´Toole as King Henry II and Katharine Hepburn as his wife Eleanor of Aquitane, Anthony Hopkins in his screen debut as the Kings gay son : Richard The Lionhearted and Timoth Dalton as King Philip of France:

This is look at one of England's famed families and is interesting for "US" as Richard The Lionhearted is hot for King Philip of France - what you don't believe me !- well if you want to check this story line out or if you like historic movies or if you just love Katharine Hepburn see this 
film ! Phillip  

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Liquid Sky
Director: Slava Tsukerman
1983: 112 Minutes:
With: : Anne Carlisle, Paula Sheppard and others

Strange film about strange aliens who land in NYC and want to eat strange things. If they get to eat the stars of this film well you will have to see it to find out... Phillip  

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Listen
Director: Susan Justin:

Canada: 2004: short: 3 Minutes.:

Using black and white line drawing this film show the reaching out of a butch lesbian to her homophobic mother. Phillip  

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Little Big Man
Director: Arthur Penn
USA: 1970: 150 Minutes. : Gay Character
With: Robert Littlestar as Littlehorse, Dustin Hoffman and Fay Dunaway: