Radio Days  

In this Woody Allen film about his youth there is a date between a woman and a man but the twist is that the man is trying to get over his breakup with another man. Phillip

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Rainbow Serpent, The   
Director: Philippe Vallois
France: 1983: 90 Minutes :Gay:

This is a very interesting film about a bodybuilder who is the suspect in a murder case. There is a rookie cop who must do the investigation which leads him into the world of gyms and body builders. During the investigation he enters into a strange relationship with his suspect but I wont tell what happens - see the film ! Phillip

Raising Heroes   
Director: Douglas Gangway
USA: 1996: 85 Minutes :
Director: Douglas Langway
With: Henry White, Troy Sistillo and Constantine Nikos:

This film is about a gay couple who are living in a very happy relationship until one day one of the lovers see a Mob related killing. They talk about the problem and decide they have to hide from the hit man. Running away and being on the look-out all the time does nothing for their relationship so they decide not to do it anymore and to face the problem head on. Phillip

Note: Interesting story line.

Ramon   
USA: 1998: 9 Minutes:: B/W: Gay coming out: 
Short film is made by: Pablo Tapay Bautista: 

This is an 9 minute short which tell the story of Ramon who is a young Filipino- American. He comes out to his homophobic co-worker and gets a new outlook on life afterwards. Claudio 

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Raspberry Reich, The   

Germany

Directed by Bruce La Bruce

Gay sex and politics!

A very strange movie about a Baader-Meinhof inspired guerilla-group led by a woman, Gudrun. She believes the world must be sexually liberated before the final revolution will be possible. Her 5 male helpers are commanded to have sex with each other. They are supposed to be straight, but they don't seem too worried about it. Then they kidnap the son of a rich financier. Gudrun and the boys read political pamphlets and shouts propaganda throughout every scene, while having sex or playing with guns. The actors don' really act, it's like watching the cast of PINK FLAMINGOS all over again!

If you don't want to offended by hard-core gay sex scenes, don't watch this. It's not a porno flick, but

la Bruce uses a lot of close ups of sex, which would qualify this film as porn. There is a funny scene in a parking lot at the end, and it all ends in a Hamburg night-club. Funny but very dirty!

Yngvar 

Alternative review:

Raspberry Reich

Patrick, son of one of the richest bankers in Germany, is kidnapped by a group that calls itself the Raspberry Reich. The group is led by Gudrun, a charismatic young leader who obliges Reich members to have homosexual relationships with each other. She does this as a way of reaching her revolutionary goals and destroying the bourgeois logic of monogamous, heterosexual marriages. Patrick falls in love with one of his kidnappers and starts robbing banks while the Raspberry Reich is falling apart. Selected for the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and exhibited in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival 2004.

A polemic movie from the polemic director The Raspberry Reich has some hetero and lots of homosexual sexual explicit scenes.

Claudio 

Ready To Wear  
(Aka: Prêt-à-Porter)
Director: Robert Altman
USA: 1994:  127 Minutes :gay main characters:
With: Kim Basinger, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Pierre Cassel and others:

This is a wonderful look into the behind scenes of the fashion industry!
I have listed it here as it has  three Gay / Lesbian characters in it. 
1 & 2 are gay male fashion designers Cort Romney (Richard Grant) and Cy Bianco (Forest Whitaker) 
3. Is the lesbian beat reporter Fiona Ulrich (Lili Taylor). Phillip
Note:tons of stars - good story lines and a great direction by Robert Altman.

Real Ellen Story, The  
Director: Fenton Bailey &  Randy Barbato
USA: 1998: 52 Minutes :true story with lesbian main characters:
With: : Ellen DeGeneres, Anne Heche and others

This is the behind the scenes story of Ellen and her coming out on her TV show (watched by millions). It is told through the eyes of all the people who lived this story. Well made ! Phillip

Rebel Without A Cause   
With: Sal Mineo as Plato, James Dean as Jim Stark and Natalie Wood as Jim´s girlfriend:

I love this movie as it was filmed at a time when gay love stories never made it to the screen and also because sexy hunk James Dean is in the film along with Sal Mineo (who claimed to love both men and women - but i suspect the men got the most out of him). It is a teenage film and revolves around the fact that Plato is lonely and in love with Jim and Jim is in love with his girlfriend a lot and possibly with Plato a little. The film is filmed so that you can write any story line you like in your mind! and then you are sure your version is the correct one ! For me Plato loved Jim and Jim loved him a little back.
Note: all three stars of this film died tragically.Phillip

Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker
(Original title: Pao Da Shuang Deng)
China: 1994: 111 Minutes :

I have not seen this film yet but it is listed as a drama and containing transvestitism. Phillip.

Red Ribbon Blues   
Director: Charles Winkler

USA 1995, 94 Minutes :
With:  RuPaul, Paul Mercurio, John Epperson and Darcy Debi Mazar:

OH my my,  this film is complicated but good ! It also has drag star RuPaul in it as a man (?) It is about a new Aids drug which extends the lives of people living with Aids, but the bad part is the Drug company has put the price so high that most people can not afford it. Then a group of friends come up with a plan. They will rob pharmacies to get the medication and distribute it to the people who can not afford it. The police are hot on their trail and things go bad. Phillip
Note: this is really a comedy about aids and contains a Gay Robin Hood story- line.

Reflections in a Golden Eye   
Director:  John Huston
USA: 1967: 108 Minutes :
With: Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Forster (as the male love interest)

Maj. Weldon Penderton ( Marlon Brando ) is married to Leonora Penderton (Elizabeth Taylor). Maj. Penderton suddenly becomes aware that he is having homosexual feelings for Private Williams (Robert Forster), where as Private Williams is stalking Leonora Penderton  (mostly when she sleeps) - Private William takes midnight nude horse rides (which Maj. Penderton  is very interested in seeing . Leonora Penderton is very nasty to her husband and  she seems to know that he is not the man she thought he was. What happens to them all you will have to find out and see the film. Phillip
Note: The part where Marlon Brando picks up Roberts gum wrapper and saves it - was a very good way to say he was gay... without getting the censors to change it...

Relax... It's Just Sex   
Director: P. J. Castellaneta
USA: 1998: 110 Minutes :Gay Content
With: Jennifer Tilly, Mitchell Anderson and others:

This comedy  is about a group of friends (in the 90s) who experience romance amongst themselves - see the film to find out who goes with who ! Phillip

Note: The casts includes Vincey (who was Anderson of "Party of Five") as gay playwright.

Resident Alien   
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
1991: 86 Minutes :Main Gay character
With: Quentin Crisp, John Hurt and others:

This documentary is about the life of Quentin Crisp including his move to the USA !
He seems to have an answer to everything and the one I liked the most is "Why dust as after a few weeks it does not get any worse".Phillip

Reunion, The   
Australia: 1998: 7 Minutes::
Short film is made by: Philippa Newling 
This is the short film adaptation of a short play by Australian playwright Alex Harding. It deals with death and the a relationship which stay strong even after the death.

Claudio

Rites of Passage   
Director: Victor Salva 
USA: 1999: 95 Minutes: 
With: Dean Stockwell, James Remar, Jason Behr, Robert Glenn Keith, Jaimz Woolvett, Joseph Kell, Thomas G. Waites: 

This thriller which is really a family drama looks into issues of parenthood, masculinity, homophobia, childhood hurts, and one young man's misdirected search for a father figure. Del and his young lawyer son DJ travel to their lakeside cabin to fish and talk. But when they get there, Del estranged gay son Campbell is unexpectedly there. Father and son have much to discuss but before and emotional scars are healed, two ominous strangers arrive. A riveting film with an original gay theme -- a young man's desperate search for paternal love, leads him into the arms of a sinister father figure
Claudio 

Ritz, The   
Director: Richard Lester
USA: 1976: 91 Minutes: Comedy / Gay /sauna:

This is a very funny film and is based on a Broadway play by Terrence McNally. The story is about a old heavy-set straight guy who is married to a mafia bosses daughter. On his dying bed the father wants the son in law to be killed - which the son in law over hears and runs for his life ! He gets a taxi and asks to be taken the place where the mafia will not find him and this turns out to be a gay bath house. What happens next is pure fun. With a chubby chaser tying to get him into bed. then Rita Moreno is about to give a kitchy show at the baths when she thinks the guy is a producer and wants him to produce her and meanwhile a detective (played by Treat Williams) is trying to find the son in law plus F. Murray Abraham's character is trying to help the straight man score a gay bed partner - yes i know it all sounds crazy and that is why you should see this great film.... no i won't tell you how it turns out - see it! Phillip

Rock, The   
USA: 1996: 135 Minutes :sissy character:

What can i say about this popular film except it contains again a gay sissy hairdresser who is soooooo limped wristed that he can not even speak his lines without screeching like a woman or lisping like a sissy. The character should be just left out as it has no value to the film or to "US" ! Phillip

Rock Hudson's Home Movies   
Director: Mark Rappaport
USA: 1992: 63 Minutes :Gay Main Character
With: Eric Farr and others:

This film is billed as a comedy and has an actor playing Rock and taking us though various stages of Rocks life and career - looking for the gay part of his life and using clips from the real Rock´s life. It was interesting enough for me to watch the whole
thing ;-) Phillip

Rocky Horror Picture Show, The   
Director: Jim Sharman
UK: 1975: 100 Minutes: Bisexual / transvestite - Horror / Comedy and a musical all at the same time
With: Tim Curry as Doctor Frank-N-Furter, Susan Sarandon as Janet Weiss, Barry Bostwick as Brad Majors, Richard O'Brien as Riff Raff , Patricia Quinn as Magenta, Nell Campbell as Little Nell , Jonathan Adams as Dr. Everett Scott Peter Hinwood as Rocky, Meat Loaf as Eddie, Charles D. Gray .as Criminologist (Narrator):

You already know the story about this young innocent couple who end up at Dr. Frank 'n' Furter castle and get to meet and both have sex with him. He is after all the sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania and can make you a man in just seven days - hum I didn't know anyone could knit that fast ;-) - all kidding aside this is a great fun film... If you are one of the two people in the world who has not seen it - rush out and do so !!!! Phillip

Roommates   
Director: Alan Metzger
USA: Made for TV: 1994: 100 Minutes :gay main character / aids
With:   Randy Quaid as Jim Flynn, Eric Stoltz as Bill Thomas, Charles Durning as Barney, Frank Buxton as Mr. Thomas,  Jill Teed as Barbara Thomas and others: 

This made for TV film has a unique situation: two men have aids and need a place to live their last days and both have aids. Jim is a heterosexual who is loud and hates gays and Bill  is a well educated gay man who wants to be alone to die but not at his parents. They are assigned a room together and all sparks fly, until they discover that despite their differences they are becoming friends and need each other. A very moving film. Watch it when you get the chance. Phillip

Room With A View, A
UK: 1996: 117 Minutes :
With: Helena Bonham Carter and Simon Callow:

This film is listed for two reasons:
1. It is based on the writing of E.M. Forster
2. It has a great performance by actor Simon Callow. Phillip

Rope   
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
USA: 1948: 81 Minutes :with hidden Gay Main Characters  ( a little hidden but there)
With: James Stewart, Farley Granger and others

This is based on a real life crime and is the Hitchcock filming about two friends (they are really gay but it is a little hard to be sure from this 1948 filming) who set out to do the perfect murder of a boy.  It is well filmed but if you want to see a more true to life version see "Swoon" made much later and able to tell it like it happened. Phillip

Rosalie Goes Shopping   
Director: Percy Adlon:

This is not a gay film but it has Brad Davis  in it (From Fassbinder´s Querelle) and the wonderfully funny Marianne Sägebrecht. Phillip

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With: Élodie BOUCHEZ , Gaël MOREL , Stéphane RIDEAU , Frédéric GORNY , Michèle MORETTI , Jacques NOLOT , Nathalie VIGNES and Michel RUHL:

 

Rugger Buggers 

Rules of Attraction, The   

Director: Roger Avary

USA: 2002: 110 Minutes :

With: James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Ian Somerhalder, Kip Pardue, Jessica Biel, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Swoosie Kurtz, Faye Dunaway, Eric Stoltz, Kate Bosworth :

This film is based on the best seller book of the same name. It is about the lives of very well to do students and their loves and conquests. The main reason it is listed here is that there is a gay story line. Paul is a bisexual who is very attracted to Sean (played by James Van der Beek from Dawson's Creek). Sean is a drug dealer who is a straight guy proud of his sexual conquests but none the less Paul sees Sean as his object of desire (maybe because he can not have him ?) There is a scene where the two guys  dance in their underwear to a George Michael song. OH well he can always hope to get his man but it is highly unlikely and the relationship will have to stay in his dreams. Phillip

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Runt   
Director: Michael Phillip Edwards :
USA / Jamaica : 2005  

Has a gay character listed as a Gay man in Paris. Phillip

Run Ronnie Run!   

2002

Lance Bangs as Gay Conspiracy Technician Phillip

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Ryan's Life   

Director: Nick Wauters
USA: 2004: 24 Minutes : 

Is there a test Ryan (who is a high school student) can take to find out if he is gay or straight ??Phillip