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Sadak 

(English meaning Road)
Director: Mahesh Bhatt
India
: 1991 :

With: Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Maharani; Sanjay Dutt as Ravi; Pooja Bhatt as Pooja; Deepak Tijori as Gotya; Chanda as Neelima Azim; Avtar Gill as Salim Bhai; Pankaj Dheer as Inspector Irani

This movie is about a young man's fight against society to get his girlfriend out of a brothel and spend his life with her.

Ravi (Sanjay Dutt) is a taxi driver.  One day he goes to a brothel with his best friend Gotya (Deepak Tijori) to meet his fiancée Chanda (Neelima) and there Ravi sees a young prostitute Pooja (Pooja Bhatt) who was sold to the brothel's owner by her uncle - the brothel's owner is a transvestite/Hijra/eunuch named Maharani (Sadashiv Amrapurkar).  He falls in love with her and offers money to Maharani to free her.  Maharani refuses.  Ravi and Goyta attack Maharani with a knife and run away with Pooja and Chanda. Soon after, Gotya and Chanda are killed by Maharani's men, but Ravi and Pooja escape although Pooja is captured again later.  Eventually Ravi takes revenge from Maharani and frees Pooja from the brothel.

The main point of this movie is to portray the brothel owner as a cruel, abnormal and insensitive person, which they normally are.  The fact that he is an eunuch is incidental.

Watch this movie for typical Bollywood kind of drama and melodious songs. Manish  

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Safe Place, A   
Director: Amos Guttman
Israel: 1983 : 29 Minutes: Drama / Gay:

This short film is about a high school boy's struggle with his sexuality and his sexual identity -  this comes about as he finds out about sex in a cinema.  Phillip

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Safe Sex   
2001

About the changes to New York City and the gay scene which is now at a quieter level than the years before Aids. Phillip

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Saint Henry

Director: Abigail Severance
USA: 2004: Short: 20 Minutes

Henry and the best friend Twiggy set out to find to find her father. Phillip

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Saints and Sinners   
2004

They want to get married but unlike many other gay couples who formalize their relationship in a domestic union, Vincent and Edward, are both gay and good Catholics. They want to be married but will not settle for any less than that. They try to get an ad in the The New York Time. How the newspaper will handle this and the many question the marriage will bring can only be answered when you ee the film. Phillip

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Salome's Last Dance   
Director: Ken Russell
UK: 1988: Drama / Gay
With: Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nicolas Grace and Imogen Millais-Scott:

This film is a typical Ken Russell's extravaganza and revolves around Oscar Wilde being invited to a whorehouse to see a bordello decadent version of his banned play "Salome". If you like Ken Russell's films you will enjoy this one !  Phillip

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Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom   
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy: 1975: 117 Minutes: Drama / Gay / S&M
With: Paolo Bonacelli, Umberto Paolo, Giorgio Cataldi Quintavalle, and Cateerina Boratto:

This is Pasolini's last film (too bad it got made !) and is about a group of Fascists in World War II who were so powerful that they were able to use young people for horrible S/M sex games which sometime ended in murder. A horrible film to watch ! but a friend of mine told me that I must tell you this is a very important picture none-the-less ! so see it and decide for yourselves.... Phillip

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Salty Wet  
2003
Asian Gay and Lesbians are talk about their lives.  Phillip

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Salut Victor   
Director: Anne Claire Poirier
Canada: 1989 : Canada : 83 minutes : Drama / Gay:

This film is about a subject we all try not to think about being old and going to an old age home (if I end up in one I want 24 hours a day gay films shown and at least one radio station with Disco Hits !) OH sorry ! back to the film, it is about two older gay men who end up in an old age home: They become friends even though they really have nothing in common. Phillip

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Salvage  
Ireland: 1999: 7 Minutes:
Short film is made by: Maeve Murphy:

Happiness is a small home by the sea in a remote area of North Ireland and Joan and JD have found their happiness or have they ? Claudio 

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Same Guys, New Dresses: The Kids in the Hall Tour 2000  

Director: Dave Foley

USA: 2002, 105 min)

With: Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, and Bruce McCulloch

Do you know the "The Kids in the Hall" or Scott Thompson. (Who is a gay comedian)?

Well they had their TV show and then a movie (Brain Candy) and some live performances and now they are back with "Same Guys, New Dresses: The Kids in the Hall Tour 2000"

It shows them back stage and on stage and even has new material of Scott Thompson playing Buddy Cole who is a very sissy gay! There are drag scenes and we see Scott Thompson back stage and being a bit of a bitch. For all of you who know this group and like them this is a film for you and all of you who have never heard of them - this is a chance to get to know them... Phillip

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San Francisco   

LONELY PLANET

USA: 1999: 49 Minutes

In this Docu about San Francisco´, Justine Shapiro tells all about the city from Chinatown to the Hippie Height Ashbury but the reason it is listed here is that it also tells about the Gay center : Castro Street. Phillip

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San ge xiang ai de shao nian   
1994
Fa, and Kau have been friends forever and now share an apartment in Hong Kong. Kau is very effeminate but in the closet at work and so a woman trys to win his heart with no luck, Phillip

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San tiao ren   
1999

The color of the gay club is blue – how does that effect the clients. Phillip

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Sarang Song  
Director: Tamika Miller
USA: 2006:23 mins: Made for TV:

This film is listed since the main character is a lesbian who has to choose between her girlfriend or being in a political movement – oh almost forgot it is set in the 1970´s. You will have to see the film to see which choice is chosen.  Phillip

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Satan's Brew   
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Germany, 1976: 112 Minutes
With: Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen

Reel Snapshot: This is a cult classic and is about an evil poet who assumes the  identity of a homosexual in the 19th century. Sounds strange but most of the Fassbinders movies sound strange but are really very good !  Phillip

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Saturday Night at the Baths  
Director: José Rubéry
USA: 1975: 86
With: Allie Delfau as Tracy, Don Scotti as Himself, Robert Aberdeen as Michael, Steve Ostrow as Steve, Caleb Stone as a Judy Garland Impersonator, J.C. Gaynor as a Shirley Bassey Impersonator, Michele Amas as a Diana Ross Impersonator and others:

In this film a young man explores the world of bisexuality and drag acts…
Includes a “Queen for a day” contest…. 

 Note: please remember this is filmed in 1975 and not 2001 so don´t expect the gay pride angle in
this film - just watch it as a trip down memory lane!  Phillip

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Saudades   

Director: Jürgen Brüning,

Germany/Brasil: 2002: 90 Minutes

Three German friends reunite in Brazil to vacation, to make money by fooling around on a webcam. Cyrus, son of a rich German father, seeks his long-lost Brazilian mother; Tim only cares about exploring the local music scene; and Erik, suffering financial troubles, withdraws from reality through telenovelas and seeking anonymous sex on the beach. But when one such encounter turns dangerous, Erik is plagued by guilt, and meets the handsome telenovela actor Miguel. They start a hot romance but when Erik learns of a link between his terrible secret and Miguel, it seems that there's no hope for them. Claudio  

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Saved!   
Director: Brian Dannelly:

USA, 2004 Director:
With: MacCaulay Culkin, Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Patrick Fugit and Martin Donovan: Another teenage film where a boy and girl are together but then all hell breaks lose as the girl is forced to see the fact that her boyfriend is gay. She tries to do everything trick in the book to keep him with her but as we all know once a homosexual always a homosexual ! Anyway the film is well acted and worth seeing ! Phillip

 

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