L.
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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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 |
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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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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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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 _________________________________________________________________________________________
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 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Lady in Waiting, The
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
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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 _________________________________________________________________________________________ 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 _________________________________________________________________________________________
La Maison des rêves Director:Marik BoudreauCanada: 2004: short: 7 Minutes: A short road moving which takes place between Montreal and smaller towns. Contains modern media images. Phillip _________________________________________________________________________________________
(Brazilian Title: Má Educação) Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain: 2004: 110 Minutes With: Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez & Javier Camera
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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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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
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Last
of the Blond Bombshells , The

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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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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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

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Last Seduction, The

The
film is listed here, as there is a transgender story line to it. Phillip
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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 
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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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 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 
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
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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This documentary is lesbian films and is a must for Lesbian film loves ! Phillip |
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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
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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 |
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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
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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! |
Leeches!
L'
ESCORTE 
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

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

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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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
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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

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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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Lilies 
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Lip Gloss
An actor is appearing in a film with a gay bashing scene. Phillip
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Lipstick
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

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 BootA 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:
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Little
miss Sunshine

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Little Nicky
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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