Naked Civil Servant; The
(The Autobiography of Quentin Crisp)
Director : Jack Gold
UK: 1975: 80 minutes.: Gay Biography
With: John Hurt as Quentin Crisp, Shane Briant as Noirma, Liz Geghardt as Art student, Colin Higgins, Patricia Hodge as Ballet teacher, Lloyd Lamble as Mr Crisp, Tanley Lebor as Mr. Pole, John Rhys-Davies, Joan Ryan as Mrs. Crisp,Katherine Schofield as Mrs. Pole:

Not very often is a gay biography filmed but the life of Quentin Crisp was. He was ahead of his time and dressed and acted the way he wanted to be - very swishy and almost as a women. He had the courage to go out into the normal life this way and thus was a crusader before the gay movement. This is well filmed and there are great scenes - especially the one where he is dressed up as a women and all the sailors are flirting with him. The film traces his life from a very early age to old age. He is still alive and now living in New York City. Phillip

Naked in New York  

 Director: Daniel Algrant

Jake Briggs is a young man who luck has past by but one day all his dreams come true and his has success but this success takes him on a road that has dark sides to it. He is propositioned by a man also along the way but isn't smart enough to take the chance ;-)  Phillip

Naked Lunch, The 
Director: David Cronenberg
Canada/UK: 1992: 115 minutes.: Bisexual / transvestites / Drugs
With: Peter Weller as Bill Lee, Ian Holm as Tom Frost, Julian Sands as Yves Cloquet, Roy Scheider as Doctor Benway, Monique Mercure as Fadela , Nicholas Campbell as Hank, Michael Zelniker as Martin, Robert A. Silverman as Hans, Joseph Scorsiani as Kiki, Peter Boretski as Creature Voices / Exterminator #2, Yuval Daniel as Hafid, John Friesen as Hauser, Sean McCann as O'Brien. Howard Jerome as A.J. Cohen, Michael Caruana as Pawnbroker, Kurt Reis as Exterminator #1, Justin Louis as Exterminator #3 , Julian Richings as Exterminator #4, Jim Yip as The Chink, Claude Aflalo as Forgeman, Laurent Hazout as Interzone Boy, Joe Dimambro as Interzone Boy and Ornette Coleman, Denardo Coleman and Barre Phillips as The Ornette Coleman Trio:

This film title is taken from the novel NAKED LUNCH: which was written by William Burroughs- although the story is nothing like the book. It is about Bill Lee (Peter Weller) who was an exterminator and became addicted to the pesticides used in his work to kill bugs. He hallucinatiates throughout the film. He accidentally kills his wife and must go underground to avoid the police. Not really a true adaptation of writer William S. Burrough's life story and drug addiction novel but a very strange story and hard to explain due to all the hallucinations mixed into the story including lots of oversize bugs. This film is not my cup of tea - oh well if you like horror films you might like this one I did not ! I rather watch a heterosexual Si-Fi film !  Phillip

Name of the Rose  
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
France: 1986: 128 minutes.: Murder of a Gay monk
With: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, William Hickey and Ron Pearlman:
This film is set in the 13^th century and has a very handsome monk being murdered after having sex with another monk. Sean Connery plays a monk brings along an novice monk played by Christian Slater to help him investigate the murder. This film is very well filmed and holds your attention throughout the movie. Phillip
Note : if you like Christian Slater - there is a sex scene where he shows his pretty ass.

Nervous Energy
Director: Jean Stewart Writer
UK: 1995: 104 - 108 minutes.: Gay Drama / Aids
With: John McGlynn as Ian Kelso, Alfred Molina as Ira Moss, Joseph Brady as Tom's father, Annette Crosbie as Meg Kelso, Robert Donovan, Caroline Guthrie as Elaine, Cal Macaninch as Tom Kelso, Frances Morgan as Liz Dwyer, Siobhan Redmond as Joyce and William Scott-Masson:

I was very surprised at how good this film is ! It is from the BBC in Scotland and is one of the newer gay films which are really good. This is the story of Tom who is a younger man with Aids. He lives in London with his older lover Ira who is an American. The two share an interest in music as one loves music and the other works at a Radio Station. The illness is getting to him and his memory so he decides to go to Glasgow and visit his family (he has not been to see them for the past 10 years). His family does not like his lifestyle and only his mom is nice to him. The visit goes bad from the beginning and shows the stupidity of a smaller city and their hatred of anything different then them. His brother Ian and his family are terrible to him and so his lover Ira comes to get him and take him back to his real family - his friends in London. Tom takes a turn for the worse due to this visit and like magic he gets better and has a reprieve. The relationships in this movie after really well defined and the love relationship is a stable good one. This film is a must on your lists to see !  Phillip

Neurosia: Who Shot Rosa von Praunheim
Director :Rosa von Praunheim
Germany: 1995: 93 minutes. Gay mystery
With : Rosa von Praunheim, Desiree Nick:

In this film Rosa von Praunheim is shot and killed (no comment - I know of a few outed people who would really like to do just that). There is a homophobic reporter who wants to track down the "killer." And in doing so looks at Rosa´s life and all the films he has made. Sort of an Autobiography, in a who done it form !  Phillip

Next Best Thing, The  
(Working title was: Red Curtain, The)
Director: John Schlesinger
USA: 2000: 108 minutes: Gay main characters: 
With: Madonna as Abbie and Rupert Everett as Robert
I went to see this film with a friend and we were quite excited to see the film. The the lights went out and the film started and I discovered that I was in a GAY Kramer vs Kramer... I liked the start of the film but then it turned not to be my style film although I like Madonna and Ruppie. A  film about a gay man having a baby with a straight girl seems to have been made many times and even once in 1999.... Anyway  you might just like it so go see it for yourself and see if you agree or disagree..  Phillip

Next Stop Greenwich Village  
Director: Paul Mazursky
USA: 1976: 109 minutes.: Gay character
With: Antonio Fargas as Berstein, Shelly Winter as his mom and Lenny Baker:

This film is set in New York City in the 1950´s. There is a group of Greenwich village eccentrics and one of them is Berstein. He is a gay and has a liking for sailors. The film is very good and the portrayal of Berstein is also excellent.  Phillip

Night Flower
(original title Drama da Noite)
Brasil: 15 minutes.: 1999: 
Short film is made by: Mario Diamante 
This short is about a guy who is deep in thought about sex, and being alone and the stigma of having AIDS !
Claudio 

Nighthawks  
Director: Ron Peck
UK: 1979: 113 minutes.: Gay film / Closet School Teacher
With: John Angel, Norman Bateson, Philip Beckett, Frank Dilbert as American, Maureen Dolan as Pat Rachel, Nicholas James, Robert Merrick as John, Clive Peters as Peter, Peter Radmall as Artist, Ken Robertson as Jim Stuart, Craig Turton as Neal and Tony Westrope as Mike:

I really enjoyed this film as it is about a gay school teacher who is in the closet and looks in all the wrong places for love. His day to day struggle with gay life and being a teacher is very realistic. There is a wonderful scene when he comes out to his School class. Rather outdated music and disco's but gay life is shown through his eyes and finally he discovers that a person close to him is not all the bad !!
Note: There is a follow-up film to this one and it is called "Strip Jack Naked" from 1991.  Phillip

Nijinsky  
Director: Herbert Ross
UK: 1980: 129 minutes.: Gay :Biographical Drama
With: George De La Pena as Vaslav Nijinsky, Alan Bates as Sergei Diaghilev, Colin Blakely as Vassili, Leslie Browne as Romola de Pulsky, Jeremy Irons as Mikhail Fokhine Ronald Pickup as Igor Stravinsky, Valerie Aitken as Lydia Nelidova, Alan Badel as Baron de Gunzburg, Henrietta Baynes as Magda, June Brown as Maria Stepanova, Leslie Browne as Romola de Pulsky, Stephen Chase as Adolph Bolm, Vernon Dobtcheff as Sergei Grigoriev, Anton Dolin as Maestro Cecchetti, Carla Fracci as Tamara Karsavina, Geoffrey Hughes as Gavrilov, Frederick Jaeger as Gabriel Astruc, Charles Kay as Argentine Ambassador, Ronald Lacey as Leon Bakst, Olga Lowe as Signora Cecchett, Monica Mason as Maria Piltz, Dean McMillan as Page Tomas, Milian Kim Miller as Marie Rambert, Sian Phillips as Lady Ripon, Patricia Ruanne as Doil, Janet Suzman as Emilia Marcus, Ben Van Cauwenbergh as Max Froman and Mart Crowley (who wrote The Boys in the Band)
Sorry the cast is larger than my film review ! :

This is the story of a young ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky who had a mentor / impresario called Sergei Diaghilev (Russian Ballet). It traces their relationship from very early on then through their ballet successes and then up to their breakup due to a young ballerina Romola de Pulsky who set her sights on getting Nijinsky. She gets him to marry her and thus makes Serge Diaghilev mad enough to break off the relationship with Vaslav Nijinsky. Both Sergei Diaghilev and Romola de Pulsky use and dominate the life of Vaslav Nijinsky and this conflict starts the down fall of Nijinsky into madness.
Note: this film is very well filmed including beautiful recreations of the Russian ballets. Phillip

Nitrate Kisses
Director: Barbara Hammer
1993: 83 minutes:

This is the type of documentary I like. It traces the removal of being homosexual from history. Phillip

Note: it is billed as not being finished but i tend to think that it was made in this style.

No One Sleeps  
Directer: Jochen Hick
Germany: 2000: 108 minutes: filmed in English with German subtitles: Gay Aids Thriller:
With: Tom Wlaschiha, Irit Levi, Jim Thalman, Richard Conti:

I am a bit bias about this film as I feel in "lust" with Tom Wlaschiha who plays Dr. Stefan Hein. He has everything a "Euroboy" should have and more :-). and that accent in English melted me - wow !!!

But now back to this film, It is a well made thriller about a Dr. Stefan Hein who is a quite young research Doctor and had come to S.F. to prove his late fathers theory about Aids having been made in the lab as a Bio-weapon by the Americans in the 70´s - ok ok - we have heard this all before but that doesn't stop this film from using the theory in an interesting way.

When Dr. Hein (or Stefan as I will call him from now on) arrives in S.F. and presents this theory and then proceeds to try and prove it -  there starts a chain of murders happening to men with long time aids. 

Your are not able to guess who did the crimes as the plot goes in many directions - from government agencies, to an opera lover killer of the opera Turandot and then to the gay sex clubs. Stefan dominates the film and (lucky for me) is in most scenes of the film. I will not spoil the end for you but right up till almost the end I did NOT know who was doing the killing !

The sex scenes are handled hotly between Stefan and the nasty guy who does not want to be his lover. The S.F. photography is very good and the look at the California sex club scenes are hot and interesting. Then last but not least the very good performance of the Inspector Louise Tolliver (played by Irit Levi and who has a voice which will cut at your ears) helps makes this movie a MUST see new film. 

This film is very definitely worth going to .... So take your friend, your lover or sex partner and enjoy the 108 minutes of this film... I loved every minute of it....  Phillip

Alternative review: 

NO ONE SLEEPS
Director: Jochen Hick:

Germany: 2000: 108 minutes

Stefan, a young gay medical student from Berlin, arrives in San Francisco for a medical congress and is following the trail of his dead father, a once high ranking AIDS researcher. Stefan is investigating whether the HIV virus was an incidental result of secret human experiments that were conducted in US prisons in the seventies. Secret lists involving these biological experiments have apparently surfaced in San Francisco. Claudio

Norman Is That You ?
Director / Producer: George Schlatter
USA: 1976: 92 minutes: Gay Comedy
With: Dennis Dugan as Garson Hobart, Michael Warren as Norman Chambers, Pearl Bailey as Beatrice Chambers Tamara Dobson as Audrey, Redd Foxx as Ben Chambers George Furth, Jayne Meadows as Adele, Barbara Sharma, Vernee Watson-Johnson as Melody and a guest appearance of Wayland Flowers and Madame:

It is the story of Norman a black guy who is 23 and his lover Garson who is a very cute swishy queen live together but the parents of Normal (played by black stars Pearl Bailey and Redd Foxx) do not know that their hunky son is gay. The father comes for a visit and then the mother also causing lots of trouble for Norman and Garson but also lots of laughs for the audience. I really liked the film and in the end (in spite of all the laughs at the gay lifestyle) the gay couple wins in the end. So just see the film - remember it is 1976 and have a good laugh.
Note: this film is from 1976 and tries to do a balance act between laughing at gays but at the same time offering looks into a gay stable relationship (as this was made in 1976 don't expect any kissing or affection) although there is a very funny scene in bed. It was also one of the first gay films to show an relationship between a black gay and a white gay, which was very progressive at the time. Don't be too critical and just have a watch.
It took films like this to break the ice for the modern 1990´s gay films. Phillip

North of Vortex
Director: Constantine Giannaris
UK: 1991: 55 minutes.: B/W: Bisexual Drama
With: Stavros Zalmas as The Poet, Valda Z. Drabla as Jackie, Howard Napper as The Sailor and Kevin Graal as Narrat:

This film is a road movie and is about the adventures of a gay poet and two hitchhikers. One is a bisexual sailor and the other is a waitress. The film then explores their building relationships and besides that you get to see the USA landscape but only in Black/White. Phillip

No Skin Off My Ass
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Canada: 1991: 73 minutes.:B/W: gay /gay punk / gay skinhead
With : Bruce La Bruce, G.B. Jones, Caroline Azar. Laurel Purvis, Kate Ashley, Klaus Von Brucker, Gloria B. Jones and Klaus Von Buecker:

This film was a big surprise for me. It is a very low budget film but with a very interesting story line. It is the story of a gay punk hairdresser who picks up a gay skinhead (yes you read that right !) and they explore their sexual preferences with each other. The hairdresser really likes the skinhead but the skinhead is afraid of the relationship and goes to his lesbian sister to talk it over. The sister says this is the best thing that can happen to him and he should go back to the hairdresser - if he talks her advice - you will just have to see the movie ! Phillip

No way out  
USA: 1987
Director: Roger Donaldson
With: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton

Tight, well-made thriller in the Hitchcock mode where Costner plays a navy officer working for the American Ministry of Defense. He is wrongly accused of murdering his mistress, and has to prove his innocence before the law closes in. It's difficult to reveal the gay content without spoiling the suspense; let's just say this film shows that gays have infiltrated even the high offices of the Pentagon! A must see for the sexy performance of Costner alone. This is a underrated movie.
Yngvar 

Not Angels But Angels
Director: Wiktor Grodecki
Czech Republic / France : 1994: 80 minutes.: Documentary about a gay teenager:

This is a good hard hitting documentary. It ´s director interviews 10 boys who work as hustlers The boys rang from 14 to 19 years old and they are asked questions about their lives and their views of this type of job, Aids, and the men they sleep with etc. This is an interesting film and shows a seldom look into the hustlers of the Czech Republic. Phillip

No Way To Treat A Lady
Director : George Schlatter
USA: 1968: 108 minutes.: Black comedy with a closet homosexual
With: Rod Steiger, George Segal and Lee Remick:

This is the story of a closet homosexual (he has also a mother complex) who is a serial killer and for each murder he gets to play and dress up as another person. On of them is a female and the other is as a gay hairdresser. Phillip

Nowhere
Director: Gregg Arak
USA: 1997: 85 minutes: gay sex / bisexual / all sex
With: Rachel True, James Duval and others:

If you know the other films by Gregg Arak you will know what you are in for watching this film - if not then expect a comedy about teenagers who live in L.A. and have no taboos about sex.Phillip