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Pa'amaim Buskila   
1998

Film has a gay character called Papi whio is a gay fashion designer.Phillip   

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Pablo y Carolina
Director: Mauricio De la Serna
1957 Mexico :96 Minutes: Genres: Comedy / Romance cross dresser - female to male
With: Irasema Dilian as Carolina Cirol, Pedro Infante as Pablo Garza:

This time it is a girl who is dressed up as a man ! There is a comedy of errors and a letter written just to test the girls typing skilled gets into the wrong hands and starts a mix-up. The letter is written by Carolina and ends up with the girl-friend of Pablo who gets upset. So Pablo sets off to Mexico City to find the person who wrote this letter and get things straightened out, but just the opposite happens since Carolina is dressed up as a man for a school show and pretends that she is her brother Anibal. In Pablo eyes the sailor is a little feminine but excepts his invitation to go to a cabaret show. What happen is typical comedy, . Pablo starts to fall for Carolina thinking she is Anibal but none the less he is falling for the guys blue eyes and angel looks and in return Carolina is also falling in love but is afraid to tell him that she is a girl. Sounds very complicated right ? well see the film and maybe it will make it easier to understand ! Phillip   

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Page 3  
Director:  Madhur Bhandarkar
India : Language - Hindi/English : 2005 :  139 min: Genre – Drama
With : Konkona Sen Sharma as Madhvi, Boman Irani as Deepak Suri; Sandhya Mridul as Pearl, Tara Sharma as Gayatri, Rehaan Engineer as , Jai Kalra as , Atul Kulkarni as Vinayak

The page 3 movie tells the true story behind those smiling faces/pictures of highly-glamorized Page 3 parties.
Madhav lives in Mumbai with Gayatri (Tara Sharma), a struggling Bollywood actress and Pearl (Sandhya Mridul), a bold air hostess who wants to marry a rich man. Madhavi has one friend, Abhijeet, who is a gay make-up man.

Madhvi works as a Page-3 Journalist and writes stories of high-profile parties and celebrities.
In one party she meets Tarun , an aspiring male-model. They fall in love with each-other. Pearl meets her millionaire, a much older man, marries him and re-locates to New York. Gayatri starts dating a famous Bollywood actor, Rohit Kumar.
Things change fast, Madhavi catches Tarun  having sex with Abhijeet.
So they break-up.
Gayetri gets pregnant by Rohit and he refuses to help her in her situation. This comes as a shock to Gayatri and she tries to kill herself and loses the baby. Madhavi tries to help Gayatri by exposing Rohit, but she was asked to apologise to Rohit and gets transferred to work with  Vinayak Mane, who is a crime reporter.
There she tries to expose well-connected businessman for exploitation of young children and in turn she loses her job.
Is it end of her carries or is there still any hope for her????

Gay Interest: The movie shows some of the reality of  Bollywood where an aspiring male-model is ready to have sex with a gay make-up man to get some work, how straight people badly abuse gay people in India, and most shockingly, how respectable men of society exploit small children.

Manish    

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Paixao Nacional  
1996

Has a gay character and looks at his life.  Phillip   

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Palmer's Pick Up  
1999

Gay characters are Patrick Kilpatrick as the gay ex-con and Talia Shire in drag. Phillip  

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Papillon  
USA: 1973 : 150 Minutes: Gay Character
With: Robert Deman plays Maturette, Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman:

Two inmates are in jail at a French penal colony and they decide to escape. In order to do that they need the help of a gay prisoner called Maturette (who is in prison for murder). They get him to side track a guard by having sex with him. To see if this helps them get out of prison see the film ! Phillip   

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Paragraph 175
USA: 1999
Directors: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman 

Homosexuals suffered the same fate as the Jews in Nazi Germany. They were sent off to concentration camps where almost all of them died. This unique and very moving documentary is based on the testimony of  8 gay Holocaust survivors. Most viewers will struggle to hold back the tears as these (sometimes unwilling) subjects talk about abuse, cruelty and fear, but also about faith, pride and the fond memories of friends and lovers who died during the Nazi years. That these people survived at all is quite incredible when you listen to their life-stories. And they still aren't recognized by the German government as victims of Nazi oppression!

Paragraph 175 should be force-fed to people who believe that their lives are worth more than others, that they have a God-given right to abuse anyone.  This film will make you think about how gays have suffered, and continue to suffer, the oppression of hateful political regimes all over the world. A great film. Yngvar   

 
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Parallel Sons
Director: John G. Young
USA: 1995: 93 Minutes: Language: Gay Drama with romance
With: Heather Gottlieb as Kristen Mott, Murphy Guyer as the Sheriff Mott, Josh Hopkins as Marty Graham, Alex Johnson as Peter Carlson, Laurence Mason, Knowledge Johnson, Gabriel Mick as Seth Carlson, Maureen Shannon as Francine and Julia Weldon as Sally Carlson:

 
Seth is a young white guy who is fascinated by black music and culture, the only trouble is he lives in a small town where there are no black. Then one day a minor miracle occurs a black man comes in to rob at gun point. The man is hurt and faints. Seth takes the guy to his parents cabin and nurses him back to health. The two guys get to know each other slowly and at first the black guy called Knowledge is nasty and wants none of Seths attention (he is an Escapee from a prison and wanted)  as the story goes on they find they are attracted to each other. To find out how this relationship turns out go see the movie. I really was taken into this original story and enjoyed the film. Phillip

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Partners  
Director: James Burrows
USA: 1982: 93 Minutes : Comedy
With: Ryan O'Neal as Benson, John Hurt as Kerwin, Robyn Douglass as Jill, Bridget Fonda, Denise Galik as Clara, Wendy Hughes, Rick Jason Douglas, Michael McGuire as Monroe, Kenneth McMillan as Wilkins, K. Petersen, Jay Robinson. Joseph A. Sicari as Walter:

In this film two cops go undercover and pretend to be a Gay couple in West Hollywood - one of them: Kerwin doesn't have to really pretend as his IS GAY! The two officers move into an apartment together and set- up house keeping to try and solve a series of gay murders. Benson has to wear hot gay outfits and even has to pose nude for a gay magazine in order to draw attention to themselves. Along the way Benson starts to like being taken care of by Kerwin (although he pretends not to). The film is just made for comedy but there is an undertone that gays and straight men can really get along better than they think ! Oh John Hurt is super as the gay cop who wants nothing other than to take care of Benson (well - maybe he does want one other thing ;-) Phillip 

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Party Crashers, The  
1998

Phil Leirness plays a gay screenwriter who is not very successful. Phillip 

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Party Monster 

Director:Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato:

USA: 2002: 97 Minutes :

 

Based on real events, the film focuses on the relationship between Michael Alig (Macaulay Culkin) and James St. James, two kids from the Midwest who found their way to New York and reinvented themselves as "fabulous" people. James initiated Michael into the New York club scene, but it was Michael who made it into the limelight. Nothing with Michael was ever done in moderation, including his initiation into the world of drugs. But his invented perfect life came spiraling down and was finally halted with a terrible act of murder. Claudio 

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Papas  
(Rough translations: Fathers)
Director: Martin Gypkens
Germany: 2000: 35 Minutes :
With: Martin Kluge (as Matthias), Christian Ebert (as Christian), Annyka Feyerabend, Paul Denfeld, Anselm Denfeld.
 
Matthias and Christian are gay and have two adopted sons. This is the the story of their daily lives and how the family functions. A quite interesting short film.Phillip 

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Party Girl  
(German title: Crazy Party Girl)
Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
USA: 1995: 95 Minutes :
With: Anthony DeSando as Derrick and Parker Posey as Mary:

This became both a film and a TV series. It is about a girl who is trying to find herself all the wrong places and her constant companion is Derrick (Anthony DeSando). Unfortunately the part is a very type cast part with it being played as a gay clichés. The movie is a little better than the TV series since you know the time when the film gets out but with the TV series you don't know how long it will go on. If you like swishy gay men by all mean see the film and series.. but in the 1990's I would except a more rounded gay character. Oh did I say that they are both addicted to the party scene. Phillip 

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Parting Glances  
Director: Bill Sherwood
USA: 1986: 90 mins.: Gay Drama:
With : Richard Ganoung as Michael, John Bolger as Robert, Steve Buscemi as Nick, Jordan McLean as the Boy in record store:

Robert is a handsome gay man who has a lover called Michael. He is about to leave Michael for a job in Kenya. This films traces their last day together. It also shows the relationship between Michael Nick who is an ex-lover of Michael who he cares of since the friend has AIDS. Plus along the way there is time to go cruising in a record store and go to a party. These guys put a lot into one day. This is a totally gay film with real like gay characters. A must see! Phillip 


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Paris Is Burning  
Director: Jennie Livingston
USA:1990: 71 Minutes :Documentary about drag with gays
With: Andre Christian and Dorian Corey:

This is a documentary about the young men who live in New York City's lower class. In order to escape from their hard lives they group together with other drag queen and form families. They take care of each other and help each other become the perfect drag queens. They then show themselves off and compete in Drag balls (some have to even steal their gowns to make it to the drag night). These nights are fun and camp. A lot of the "boys" are interviewed in this well make documentary ! See it ! Phillip 

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Past Imperfect, Future Tense
TRT: 95Minutes

Love changes everything and as we fall in love all of the notions we have about it change as love hits us. In these shorts about love,fantasy and family you will be taken on a journey both to now and the past. See the films and enjoy them.Phillip 

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Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
Director: Monte Bramer
1997: 90 Minutes : Real life Gay Character
With: Paul Monette, Linda Hunt and others:

This is a portrait of  the writer Paul Monette. If you know his work you will be interested in this film and if you do not then it will also be interesting as you will learn about him.Phillip 

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PAUVRE FRANCE
Director: Michel AYATS

France: 110 Minutes :

With: Jean LEFÈBVRE , Georges BELLER , Annick ALANE , François DUVAL and Nadine CAPRI

What a family, Victor is the father of Michael and has to tell everyone that his wife has left him for his brother but Michael too has a secret –he lives with another man !  Phillip 

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Pawnbroker, The
Director: Sydney Lumet
USA: 1965: 116 Minutes : homosexual male
With Brock Peters as Rodriquez:

This film is listed as one of the main characters is  Rodriquez is a homosexual businessman who has his hands in various business. Phillip 

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PCU  
Director: Hart Bochner
USA: 1994: 79 Minutes :

Oh my! Even in this rather loud college comedy there is a gay: listed as
Jonathan Wilson as the Gay Activist and just for fun there is thrown in Joel S. Keller as the Pretty Boy Dancer.Phillip 

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Peach
Director:Christine Parker
USA: 1995: 16 Minutes- short:
With: Tania Simon as Sal, Joel Tobeck as Mog, Don Selwyn as Grocer and Lucy Lawless as Peach

This is the film that they say started Lucy Lawless career. She plays as a sexy tow truck driver and is attracted to a young Maori woman.Phillip 



Note: On the DVD version are also two other lesbian films:
1. A Bitter Song
2. Lavender Limelight - Lesbian in Film

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Pedale Douce 

Director: Gabriel Aghion.

France: 1995, 98 Minutes :

With: Patrick Timsit, Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry, Michèle Laroque, Jacques Gamblin, Axelle Abbadie, Boris Terral:

 

This is a French comedy and is the story about a banker and a business man who are about to do a very large deal. That one one them is gay could cause problems and is where the straight woman who owns a gay club comes into the picture. You have to see it to figure out the whole story but there are a lot of gay club scenes with lots of music which gay French men love. Phillip 

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Pedhia tou dhiavolou, Ta   
1975

Thisfilm has a break in to a gay shop owner and the killing of a middle-aged lesbian.Phillip 

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Pelican Brief, The  
USA: 1993: 141 Minutes :
With: Julia Roberts as Darby Shaw, Denzel Washington as Gray Grantham, Sam Shepard as Thomas Callahan, Ralph Cosham as Justice Jensen and Hume Cronyn as Justice Rosenberg:

Is based on the thriller by John Grisham and is mentioned here as one the people murdered is a Supreme Court Justice who is a closet gay who gets his thrills at Porno Movies. Phillip  Theater.

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Peony Pavilion

Hong Kong: 120 Minutes :
Director: Yon Fan,
With: Joey Wong, Rie Miyazawa,


 This is China of the 30´s and we find Jade getting married to a rich upper class man. She then start to get close to â female cousin who has also a relationship with a well to do man. The woman soon discover that their men and their relationships are not what they thought they were and they start to get REALLY close... to see how it turns out see this well filmed Hong Kong film. Phillip

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Peoria Babylon
Director: Steven Diller
USA: 1994: 85 mins:

With: David Drake, Ann Cusack, Matthew Pestorius, Lady Bunny
 
This film is a comedy about gallery owners who use a forger to fake paintings and then to blow up the fake painting and is listed here as one of the gallery owner is gay, his name is Drake and during the film he falls head over heels in love with Pestorius (the forget) who is nice to look at but all and all a rotten person. Can this work – see the film!
P.S. There is also a lesbian main character called "Lady" Bunny (sounds like a James Bond film character) she is both a lesbian and a porno star. Phillip 

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People Vs. Larry Flynt, The
Director: Milos Forman
USA: 1996: 130 Minutes:
With Courtney Love and Woody Harrelson:

This film is listed here because Larry Flynt´s wife is a bisexual (played by Courtney Love). Phillip 

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Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap

(original title: PEPI, LUCI, BOM Y OTRAS CHICAS DEL MONTON)

Spain: 1980: 78 Minutes :
Director: Pedro Almodovar

Producer: Pepon COROMINA, Paco POCH, Esther RAMBAL, Pastora DELGADO:
With: Carmen MAURA , Pedro ALMODOVAR , Eva SIVA , ALASKA , Felix ROTAETA , Concha GREGORI , Kitti MAMBER , Cecilia ROTH and Julietta SERRANO

This is another Spanish film by Almodovar and is just filled with comedy fun and of course sex and talk and is the first full length film of Pedro Almodovar. It contains a lesbian character called Bom who is 16 years old and sings in a punk gay group Phillip 
Note: For Almodovar fans !

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Perfect Couple, A    
Director: Robert Altman
USA: 1979: 110 Minutes : lesbian characters
With: Tommi-Lee Bradley and Heather McCrea

Among the many characters in this film is a lesbian couple,
Mary and Sydney-Ray and much to my surprise they are a very happy couple in this 1979 film. Phillip 

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Perfect Son, The  

Director: Leonard Farlinger

93 Minutes :
With: Chandra West, Colm Feore and David Cubitt:


This is the story of two brother who are very different from each other and do not like each other. One of the brothers (Theo) is taking drugs and trying to beat the habit  the other (Ryan) is a lawyer.

Their lives come together again at their father funeral when Ryan tells Theo that he is homosexual. The two get closer than they have ever been due to this this secret is revealed. Phillip 

Note: See the film - it is a must.

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Perfume  
USA - 2000
Director: Michael Rymer
With: Peter Gallagher, Jeff Goldblum, Mariel Hemingway, Rita Wilson, Sonia Braga, Camen Electra and Paul Sorvino
 

 The story is about the New York´s fashion world.  There a lot of little connected stories . It´s not a gay film but, there is a nice gay couple (Paul Sorvino and Peter Gallagher). The funniest thing is that Paul has a son and a daughter and a lovely ex wife (Sonia Braga) and all of them know about his relationship with Peter Gallagher and that is cool for them.

Claudio 

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Perrak  
[Aka Titles : Inspektor Perrak greift ein]
Director: Alfred Vohrer
West Germany : 1970 Thriller drag gay murder police
With: Arthur Brauss, Benno Cramm, Carl Lange, Werner Peters, Erika Pluhar Walter Richter, Wolf Roth, Hubert Suschka, Horst Tappert and Judy Winter:

This is a German film and is listed as it is a Police - thriller with Drag and a gay murder. Phillip 

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Personal Best
Director: Robert Towne
USA: 1982: 124 Minutes:
With: Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly:

This is the story of two girls who discover that they are attracted to each other and have the guts to have a short affair while they are training for the Olympics. Phillip 

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Peters Friends  
Director / Co-producer): Kenneth Branagh
UK: 1992: 101 Minutes: Comedy /Drama gay character
With: Hugh Laurie as Roger, Imelda Staunton as Mary, Stephen Fry as Peter, Emma Thompson as Maggie, Kenneth Branagh as Andrew, Alphonsia Emmanuel as Sarah, Rita Rudner as Carol, Phyllida Law as Vera, Alex Lowe as Paul, Tony Slattery as Brian, Richard Briers as Peter's Father, Alex Scott as Paul, Edward Jewesbury as Solicitor . Hetta Charnley as Woman at the Airport, Ann Davies as Brenda , Magdalena Buznea as Old Lady, Chris Pickles as Chauffeur, Nicola Wright as Brian's Wife, Bill Parfitt as Ben Ruby and May Musto as Ben

This is a comedy about Peter who inherits a country estate from his father and to celebrate he invites the all the members of an old acting troupe which he was in at Cambridge University. This is now 1992 which is 10 years later and they think they are all invited to celebrate New Years but in reality he is about t tell them something that will give them all a SHOCK ! see it to see watch the film ! Phillip 
Note:It didn't shock me at all ;-)

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Pete ´n Tillie  
Director: Martin Ritt
USA: 1972: 100 Minutes : gay main character
With: René Auberjonois as Jimmy Twichel:

This comedy is about a couple who are breaking up and the wife's best friend is Jimmy Twichel who is a fun bitchy / swishy feminine gay man who tries to help her during the marital breakup and nervous breakdown. He is evening willing to marry her / help her do her hair and choose her clothes to help her out of her depression but are I watched the film I knew that there would never never be sex so why get married :-) Phillip 

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Pfui Rosa
Director: Rosa Von Praunheim,

Germany: 2002:  68 Minutes :

A very entertaining self-portrait of director Rosa Von Praunheim with many film fragments and interviews with friends and lovers, on his 60th birthday.

Claudio 

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Phanton
(Original title: FANTASMA)
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues
PORTUGAL: 2000: 90 Minutes
With: Ricardo Meneses, Beatriz Torcato:

Consumed by an insatiable desire, Sérgio built the world to his own scale. He spends his days between a rented room in a cheap bed-and-breakfast, anonymous sex with men and his job as a rubbish collector in the north of Lisbon. He has long been asleep in a childhood shared only with Lord, the rubbish depot guard dog, and he is unaware of the shadows that try to encircle him; the love of Fátima, a workmate; the strange vigilance of a policeman; the foreman’s ambiguous desire. But one night he sees the phantom of his dreams, and he awakens in the obsession of love. Entranced, he spies the man, goes through his rubbish, breaks into his house. Rejected, he seeks refuge in chaos, in the world’s unwanted leftovers. He is alone. He is no longer of this world.
Claudio   

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Phase 5

Director: Solomon Burbridge:
USA: 2003: Short 8 Minutes : 

A short with Mink Stole about an infomercial and the consequences which are started due to it..Phillip 

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Philadelphia
Director: Jonathan Demme
USA: 1993: 119 Minutes : Gay Main Characters / Main Character with Aids
With: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and others:

This is the sad story of a young lawyer who is discriminated by a large company (who thought it was all right to discriminate against people with Aids). The relationship between the lawyer and his lover is a good one and the relationship between the lawyer and his lawyer shows that no matter what the other person think of you - it can be changed over time. Phillip 


Note: bring you hankies as the story will effect you. Having Aids and being discriminated against is a lot like being gay and discriminated so this film will touch a lot of people.

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Philadelphia Experiment, The 

USA: 1984: 94 Minutes :
I was surprised that while watching this sci-fi film that I discovered a Drag Queen in a  very quick sequence which occurs at a gas station. The film is good enough to watch without a Drag Queen but more fun when there is one to spot. The main actor is nice to look at also..Phillip 

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Phineas Slipped 

Director: Oakie Treadwell:
USA: 2002: short: 16 Minutes:

Short about lust & school boys.Phillip 

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Pickle (Tales of Mere Existence)
From: Lev
USA: 0:30 Minutes
This is an animation film which left me laughing for the full half a minute.
It is the story of a little boy who is called gay by his friends. So he buys a pickle to suck on to see if he is really gay. He is not ! Phillip 

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Picture of Dorian Gray, The  
Director: Albert Lewin
(German title: Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Das)
USA: 1945: 110 Minutes : in Black and White and contains Color sequences.
With: George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton, Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray, Donna Reed as Gladys Hallward, Angela Lansbury as Sibyl Vane and Peter Lawford as David Stone.

This is the story by Oscar Wilde about a good-looking young man who wants to retain his youthful beauty ( and who doesn't ?). His wish comes true as an admirer of the youth paints his picture so well that the portrait takes over the aging process.
The portrait is hidden away and it becomes older and uglier with each sin and nasty act by Dorian but Dorian stays young and handsome and nasty !!! There are a lot of homosexual undertones in this film so watch and listen carefully! The sequences where Dorian looks at the portrait are unique as they are in color within this black 6 white film. Phillip 
Note: one line is said by Lord Henry Wotton which was very wise for 1945 :-) :
It's an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

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Pillow Book, The
(German title: Bettlektüre, Die)
Director: Peter Greenaway
France / UK / Netherlands: 120 Minutes : filmed in Black / White and Color
With: Vivian Wu as Nagiko, Ewan McGregor as Jerome, Yoshi Oida as The Publisher, Ken Ogata as The Father, Ewan McGregor as Jerome and Judy Ongg as The Mother:

As a child Nagiko was read to by her mother the story of a 10th while her father wrote things on her body with paint. As a woman she grows up expecting this from her lovers. makes body paint seem like. Her present lover is a bisexual and is willing to her her launch her career by sleeping with a publisher who once slept with the father of Nagiko (small world isn't it ? ). She stops her boyfriends affair with the publisher as he is enjoying it a lot and she does not like this. Phillip 
Note: this is a rather long film and a rather small story... but worth a look when you have two hours to kill!

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Pillow Talk  
(German title: Bettgeflüster)
Director: Michael Gordon 
USA: 1959: 105 Minutes :
With: Rock Hudson as Rex and Brad and Doris Day as Jan and Tony Randall as Jonathan Forbes: 

This is a Hollywood story that finally let Rock Hudson play a part that was close to his heart : a gay man ! He gets to play both Brad who is straight and then Rex who Brad says is a gay man. To see who Doris Day´s Jan picks see the movie. Rock must have had a good laugh playing this dual part as the Americans thought him to be heterosexual almost up to his death - when he finally came out and said he was gay and had aids.Phillip 

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Pink Flamingos
Director: John Waters
With: Divine and Edith Massey:

The is one of John Waters and Divines most famous films. It is a perfect example of bad / good taste and stars Divine as the "Filthiest Person Alive!" A 1970´s trash film and most of the time a big laugh if you like Divine (which I do). Edith Massey plays Divine's rotten Mom. Phillip 

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Pink Narcissus
Director: James Bidgood
1971: 71 Minutes : Main gay characters
With: Bobby Kendall and others:

This is a major film that lies between a fantasy film and a soft porno. It has beautiful set designs - beautiful boy, beautiful costumes and is a please to watch! So if you et the chance see it !!! Phillip 
Note: This beautiful fantasy film is only recently credited to James Bidgood - when i first saw it at a film museum in Brussels it had no info except that Bobby Kendall was in it.

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Pink Ulysses
Director : Eric de Kuyper
The Netherlands: 1989: 98 minutes : Gay : Comedy:

This film coming out of the Netherlands is supposed to be the Odyssey! It uses various other sources for the material such as a 1950s Body Building show and a TV version of "Sleeping Beauty" which was performed by the Dutch National Ballet. A quite sensual film ! Phillip 

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PIRATE, LA
Director: Jacques DOILLON

Producer: Olivier LORSAC

France: 1984: 87 Minutes :

With: Jane BIRKIN , Philippe LÉOTARD , Laure MARSAC , Maruschka DETMERS , Andrew BIRKIN , Didier CHAMBRAGNE , Arsène ALTMEYER , Michael STEVENS


Story of a young woman who loves her husband but still needs love with another girl. Phillip 

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Pissoir
 
1988

This film includes a group of dead gay artists.Phillip 

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P.J.
Director: John Guillermin  
USA: 1968: 109 Minutes :

In this private detective film P.J. gets to protect a rich people and in turn there is room for a gay character and that is: Anthony James as the assailant in gay bar. Phillip 

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Place In The Sun, A
Director : Constantine Giannaris
UK/ Greece : 1994 : 45 Minutes filed in B/W and Color:

This film is about two men who are together but alone. One is a guy called Ilias and is from Greece and the other is a young Albian called Panagiotis who has left his country for good and wants to make his new home in the USA. Panagiotis is 18 and Ilias is 35. On the outside they seem to have nothing in common but somehow they are attracted to each other and that is shown as they stroll the streets of Athens. Panagiotis want money and needs it to get to the USA will Ilias give it to him ??? you will have to see this beautifully filmed film which traces this relationship through good and bad times! A must see !! Phillip 
Note: Constantine Giannaris has made another film called LA with Trojans
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Play Dead

Director: Jeff Jenkins

EUA: 2000: 35mm:  79 mins

 

Dale has the chance to fulfill every gay man’s fantasy – a “close encounter” with his high school’s hottie, wrestling team captain Raymond. There’s only one problem – Raymond’s dead. But don’t expect that minor setback to stop Dale, whose obsession with the late Raymond is the focus of this original and hilarious dark comedy.

Claudio 

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Playing the Part
Director: Mitch McCabe
USA: 1994: 38 Minutes : short film : Lesbian:

Is a short film (38 Minutes) and is the story of a student at Harvard. She wants to coming - out as a lesbian to her parents but is having trouble with it. Phillip
Note: watch the film to see how it turns out.

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Playing with Fire 2
(German title: Boys on Fire)
Director: Thor Stephans:
USA 2000, 66 Minutes : Gay Erotic
With: Steve Cassidy, Billy Herrington, Gregg Rockwell, Cameron Sage, Steve Shannon:

In this gay erotic we get to know firemen who are picked for their muscles. Each one is tested for their strength. See the film and see the test and the bonding among the men. Phillip 

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PLUS DE PAUL
Director: Alessandro AVELLIS

Producer: Danilo TAMBÉ

France: 2002: Sort film; 8 Minutes :

With: Benjamin GAUTHIER , Cécile BRAMS , Cyril PASSADORI :

Marc finally meets the guy of his dreams but then he suddenly disappears so Marc asks his friend Céleste to help him find this special guy. Does he find his man -see the film. Phillip 
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Plutôt d'accord
Directors: Les frères Botti
France: 2004: Short: 11 Minutes :

Jérémie is a shy person who wants a man in his life but how to find one ? Then his friend co-worker Céline pushes him to meet a man through his work and suddenly comes Rodrigue into his life. He is hot and makes Jérémie life very complicated. See the film to see what happens.Phillip 

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Prom Queen :The Marc Hall Story
Director: John L'Ecuyer
Canada. 2004: 92 mins: Made for TV:
With: Aaron Ashmore plays Marc Hall:

This Canadian kid has balls. He not only decided to take his lover to his Prom but when he was refused He did not stand by and take it, he went to court. He fought all odds to be able to go to the Catholic High School dance. My hat goes out to him. And for all the guys who wanted to do the same. A must see film! Phillip
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Passionless Moments  
1983
Contains a gay character who is listed as an unfaithful gay man. Phillip

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P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
2002

What happens when you are having a terrible time in your life and then a gay guy tried to rob you. See the film to find out.  Phillip

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Poles Apart 

Director: Richard Wellings-Thomas:
UK: 2003 : short: 12 Minutes : Director: Ed Harris
USA: 2001, 122 Minutes :
With: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, John Heard, Bud Cort and Jeffrey Tambor:

A short about being afraid and murder. Phillip

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Police Academy  
USA: 1984
Director: Hugh Wilson
With: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba White

Among the hundreds of toilet and sex gags on display here, there is a very funny gay scene. 

2 homophobic cops stumble, by mistake, into a gay leather dungeon and are given a warm and friendly welcome! This episode makes fun of the stupid cops, not the leather-men, and is worth a look. The rest of the Police academy films, though, are pretty standard stuff. Yngvar


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Police Academy: Mission to Moscow  
(Aka Titles:  Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow)
Director: Alan Metter
USA: 1994: 83 Minutes :

In this crazy picture about the Russians and the police academy there is room for a Gay Moscovite played by Lonnie Burr (but no credited in the titles). Phillip 

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Pollock  
Director: Ed Harris
USA: 2001, 122 Minutes :
With: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, John Heard, Bud Cort and Jeffrey Tambor:
 
This is the story of  Jackson Pollock who is at the start of his art career. He meets Lee Krasner and she immediately wants to help him in life and bed – which is a surprise since he is an alcoholic. She brings around a real queen: Howard Putzel (played by Bud Cort) who brings along with him his two sissy dogs. When he discovers how talented Jackson is he decides to help him get started.Howard Putzel is not the only gay in this film as it is and art film and what is art without gays ! Phillip 

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Poolside Dreams 

Czech Republic : 1998: 60 Minutes : Gay Erotic

The lifeguard is having a slow day. His imagination takes hold and he has a lot of hot dreams and you can watch them. The guys are Czech and very nice. If you like Erotic films have a look.Phillip 


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Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story  

With: Farrah Fawcett

This is listed as Barbara Hutton is married to a gay tennis Von Cramm played by Sasha Hehn.  Phillip

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Polyester 

Director: John Waters
USA: 1981:
With Divine as Francine Fishpaw, Tab Hunter as Todd Tomorrow, Edith Massey as Cuddles Kovinsky, David Samson as Elmer Fishpaw, Mary Garlington as Lu-Lu Fishpaw, Ken King as Dexter Fishpaw, Mink Stole as Sandra Sullivan: 

John Waters is at it again with this film staring Divine. To see the film you need an Odorized card which takes you through the smells of the film- and I can assure a few of them you do not want to smell. When the number appears on the you have to scratch the number on the card. I won't tell you which smell are the bad ones you will have to try it for yourself (if you can find the cards). Oh,  Divine plays Francine Fishpaw, a weary housewife who is looking for love ! and even try Tab Hunter out ! you won't believe Divine´s movie family. A must for Divine fans ! Phillip 

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Pora na czarownice
1993

Story of two gay guys meet and try to substain a relationship.  Phillip

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Portland Street Blues   
Director: Raymond Yip Wai Man
With: Sandra Ng Kwan Yue, Qi Shu, Alex Fong, Vincent Wang and Kristy Yang:

This film is set in Hong Kong and is about gangs and gang members. There is violence in this film but there is also moving feelings as a woman who is in one of the gangs and a top member of the gang remembers Yun a
girls she shared love with. I am not a fan of Asian violent films but still the romantic story line makes its worth sitting through the other stuff....
Phillip

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Porno Theater Original title: LA CHATTE À DEUX TÊTES
Director: Jacques Nolot
France: 2002: 87 mins


In a Parisian porn theater, a cashier, a 50-year-old man and a young projectionist are drawn into a complex love affair. The cashier has left home at the age of sixteen and has worked as a prostitute. Her life was very much the same than the fifty-year-old man, who is a writer and former gigolo. Among this affair, the audience - composed by soldiers, transvestites and married men - engage in explicit, anonymous sex acts.

Claudio 

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Portrait of Jason
1967

Gay and Black in the USA and in the 1960´s this is the story of Jason. Boy this seems like a long film and Jason loves to talk !!! Phillip 

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Posidon  
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
USA, 2006: 98 mins:
With: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Kevin Dillon, Jacinda Barrett, Mia Maestro, Mike Vogel, Freddy Rodriguez :

This is a remake of the 1972 film which most of us have seen by now. I guess it had to be remade as the special effects have changed so much since the original.  The one really new item is that there is a gay in the film (played by
Richard Dreyfuss). He has just experienced an end to his gay relationship and has decided to kill himself by jumping ship but as luck will have it other things happen to stop that plan. Anyway this 98 minute film is worth a see if only to see the gay or to compare it to the original. Phillip

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Positive
Director: Rosa Von Praunheim
Germany: 1990: 90 Minutes : Aids documentary
With: Phil Zwickler, Michael Callen and others:

This is a Rosa Von Praunheim Aids documentary and is all about NYC and aids. Phillip 

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Possible Loves
(Original title : AMORES POSSÍVEIS )
Director & Producer by Sandra Werneck 
Brasil: 2001: 100 Minutes : 
With: Murilo Benício (Carlos), Carolina Ferraz (Julia), Emílio de Melo (Pedro), Beth Goulart, Irene Ravache and Drica Moraes: 

15 years ago,  Carlos waits for his first date with Julia in a cinema lobby in Rio de Janeiro but she never shows up. This is a rather small event and a tiny disturbance in the fabric of fate and a common place event, barely noticed—but one from which alternate realities can spring. 
Fifteen years later we find Carlos living three lives. In the first, he is a wealthy lawyer with a comfortable but passionless marriage, childless. 
In the second, he is divorced from Julia, coming out the closet and starting  to live with Pedro.
In the third it is a man who still did not discover the love and that he searchs, in successive and disastrous loving experiences, the ideal woman. But one of these lives is real, being that another one is fictitious and third it is the one that it would really like to live. But to discover which of these three possibilities is the real life of Carlos, is necessary to come back in the time and to know what the wait for Julia in the cinema hall really happened with it after. It´s a funny and sexy film with a philosophical exploration of love
This film won the Latin Prize in the "SUNDANCE FESTIVAL" in the USA.

Claudio 

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Post Cards From The Edge
(German title: Grüsse aus Hollywood)
Director: Mike Nichols
USA: 1990: 101 Minutes : 
With: Shirley MacLaine, Meryl Streep and a cameo by Simon Callow:

This is the story of a star who is no longer at the top - played by Shirley MacLaine. She is also a mother and with a daughter played by Meryl Streep
There are three reasons to see this film The first is that you will hear Shirley say to Meryl  "You know how much the queens love me." The second is there is a cameo appearance by a gay actor Simon Callow (he was in "Four Weddings and a Funeral) and the third is that this film is a good one ! I really enjoyed it. Phillip 
Note: Carrie Fisher wrote both the book and the screenplay.

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Poster Boy 
USA: 2004: 98 mins
Director: Zak Tucker
Screeplay:Ryan Shiraki, Lecia Rosenthal
With: Karen Allen, Michael Lerner, Matt Newton, Jack Noseworthy, Valerie Geffner, Ian Reed Kesler

The Republican Senator Jack Kray, a reactionary nicknamed “The North Carolina Nazi”, is up for reelection and intends on using his son, Henry, to win the votes of the young population. Despite all his wife’s pleads, Jack insists on his son’s participation. However, Henry ends up falling in love with political activist Anthony who is a Krays´ enemy. His father, the “family values” candidate known for his stance against homosexuality, is perplexed when Henry announces his homosexuality in the middle of a rally kissing his lover in front of the cameras. Participated in the official competition of the 2004 Locarno Film Festival.

Claudio 

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POURQUOI PAS MOI?
Director: Stéphane GIUSTI

Producer: Elizabeth GIUSTI, Victoria BORRAS, Maria MASMONTEIL, Caroline ADRIAN:

France: 1998: 95 Minutes :

With: Amira CASAR , Julie GAYET , Bruno PUTZULU , Alexandra LONDON , Carmen CHAPLIN , Johnny HALLYDAY , Marie-France PISIER , Brigitte ROÜAN , Elli MEDEIROS , Vittoria SCOGNAMIGLIO , Jean-Claude DAUPHIN , Joan CROSAS and Montse MOSTAZA

Camille, Eva, ARIANE and Nicolas, Camille, Eva and Ariane are all gay and friends. They work at a publisher together but have one problem they are not out to their parents. One comes up with the idea to have a weekend with all the parents at a castle to tell them all. Do things go as well as they hoped 
– see the film !!!!
Phillip

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Powerplay 
Canada/ Netherlands 1999: Short 3 Minutes
Directed by Greg Lawson

This very funny short about practicing safe sex has all the power of a Larson cartoon, with its
far-out depiction of an S&M session between two businessmen. A real crowd-pleaser and the third of
a series Lawson has made with the same basic theme. There should be more shorts like this released on DVD!

Yngvar

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Practice, The (TV)
USA: 1997:
With: John Laroquette as John Heric:

Is the made for TV movie about John Heric who decides to defend himself at the trial for murdering his gay lover. Phillip 

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Preaching to the Perverted
Director: Stuart Urban
UK: 1997: 100 Minutes:
In this comedy / drama movie about London´s S&M scene and people who want to stop it there are the following gay / transvestite characters:

Wayne Aveline as a Transvestite, Peter Pleased as Transvestite, Patrick Lilley as a Gay Browser, and Stuart Who Cumski as also a gay browser. 

Phillip 

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Precious moments

(orig. title Fremragende timer)

Director: Lars Krutzkoff Jacobsen

Norway: 2002: 16 Minutes :

In Norway, the age of consent is 16. If you have sex with an under-age boy or girl, you have to pay a fine and usually get a suspended jail-sentence. This shortie is based on a true case where a 40 year old man had sex with a 15 year old boy in a hotel room, thus breaking Norwegian law. I'm not sure what point is being made here. The film is very matter-of-fact, with a voice-over explaining what happened to the two guys afterwards.

Director Jacobsen is notorious for making two very trashy gay features:

"Pudding" and "P.L.A.N.E.T G.A.Y", but I've had no luck trying to find them on VHS.

Yngvar

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Predestined Things
(original title Orde Der Dingen, De)
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Netherlands 1996 :22 Minutes :

In this short film about two 16 year old boys who are sick and tired of their lives decide to leave home there is one gay role: Hugo Koolschijn as the gay man. Phillip 

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PREMIÈRES NEIGES
Director: Gaël MOREL

Producer: Miguel COURTOIS

France: 1999: 63 Minutes :
With: Élodie BOUCHEZ , Stéphane RIDEAU , Aure ATIKA , Salim KECHIOUCHE , Tony BAILLARGEAT , Jean-Pascal HATTU , Véra BRIOLE and Jean-François GALLOTTE

Lea gets locked up in a supermarket on Christmas eve, she is supposed to be picked up by Juliette but she has a car accident. Lea thinks she is alone in the supermarket but there is some one else there but who ???  Phillip


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Presents
(Original title: Cadeaux)
France: 1999: 20 Minutes: Gay Main Characte 

In this short film we meet Antoine who is a very young country boy who has to go to a Christmas dinner rather than being with the young guy that he loves !
Claudio

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Pretend I´m Not Here 
(original title: FAITES COMME SI JE N'ETAIS PAS LA)
Director: Olivier Jahan
France: 2000: 
With: Jeremie Renier, Johan Leysen, Natalie Richard
Eric, is a teenager and lonely so he spends most of his free time watching others from his window then one day a couple called Fabienne and Tom move into the building acrossed from him and it looks like he might take part in life rather ten watching it from the window. Phillip
Note: won the following Award: Prix SACD at Avignon Film Festival 200

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PRISONNIÈRES 

Director: Charlotte SILVERA
Producer: Roger ANDRIEUX Producteur.

France: 1988: 100 Minutes :

With Fanny BASTIEN , Annie GIRARDOT , Marie-Christine BARRAULT , Bernadette LAFONT , Agnès SORAL , MILVA , Corinne TOUZET , Manuela GOURARY , Véronique ALAIN , Franci CAMUS , Amélie BERG , François DRAGON , Michèle GODDET , Elizabeth LAFONT , Sophie MINET , Sophie WINKLER , Patricia SILVERA , Maïté VAUCLIN , Catherine HUBEAU

Story about life in a female prison with all it ins and outs and of course Lesbianism. Phillip

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