Movies TOO Gay Reviews [T]



Taboo

Director: Nagisa Oshima
Japan/ France: 2000: 100 Mins:

Sozaburo is 18 years old and is in the process of becoming a member of a troop of samurais especially selected by the Shogun, known as Shinsengumi. The warriors are extremely skillful in their use of swords and are trained to kill who if to oppose to the regimen of the Shogun. There are two homosexuals in the group and to find what happens to them when they are found out you have to see the film...

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Taboo

Director: Max Makowski
USA: 2002:
With: Nick Stahl, Eddie Kaye Thomas, January Jones, Lori Heuring, Derek Hamilton, Amber Benson

Hum this is a film about sexual taboos. There are six students who have just finished college and decided to take atime away from it all. They decide to play a game with the name Taboo and it triggers taboo subjects such as homosexuality and various other sexual desires. This game causes some of the students to go a bit mad and they start killing each other in strange ways. Quite interesting film and well worth a peek if only to discover which subjects are TABOO!

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Tacones Lejanos
(French Title: Talons Aiguilles)

Director: Pedro Almodovar
Producer: Esther Garcia
Spain: 1991: 113 Mins:
With: Victoria Abril , Marisa Paredes , Miguel Bosé , Pedro Diez Del Corral , Feodor Atkine , Ana Lizaran , Rocio Munoz , Mairata O'wisiedo

Crazy film from Almodovar and is about a woman who locates he daughter after many years of looking. He daughter works in TV and has a husband call Manuel but as it turns out he was the mothers lover a long time ago. He gets killed and this turns out to be a who did it!!! Has gay content as most of Almodovars films do.


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Tales of the City

Director: Alastair Reid
1994: 360 Mins: Main Gay Characters / Sex Change Main Character
With: Olympia Dukakis, Donald Moffat and others:

Try to remember a time in September goes a song - well this is try to remember a time in the 1970s when life was fun and free of Aids. Well this is the story of a S.F. apartment house and the people who live there including a great landlady and hot tenants. There is also More Tales Of The City.
Note: I especially like mouse and his adventures. This is a must see!!

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Talladega nights – the ballad of Ricky Bobby

Director: Adam McKay
USA: 2006
With: Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen

One of the funniest movies of the year, and a real kick in the butt to stupid red-necks everywhere. It could have been the cousin of "Dumb and dumber", but the script is too clever for that.

Ricky Bobby is a NASCAR-driver. (NASCARS are race-cars that only do left turns on a closed circuit), He has a simple mind, but a "take-no-prisoners" attitude on the track. His spectacular stunt driving makes him very popular with the crowds. One day Jean Girard, a European Formula 1 champion arrives in the USA ready to challenge Ricky Bobby for the title.

This doesn't sound very gay, but it sure is! From the moment Sacha Baron Cohen enters the picture we're treated to a truckload of gayness, silly jokes and a man to man kiss of epic proportions. The movie was also commercially successful, AND doesn't make fun of gays, a great thing coming from Hollywood.

Note: (The smooch between Cohen and Ferrell made headlines when it won the MTV-award "Best movie kiss of the year".)

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Tall Dark Stranger

UK: 1987: Drama / Gay:

Hum! This is the tale of "the new boy in London" and his gay adventures.

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Tale of Two Balls, A

Director: Justin James
USA: 2005: 5 Mins

Will be reviews as soon as I get to see it !
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Tamarind Seed, The

Director: Blake Edwards
UK/USA: 1974: 119 Mins:

This film is listed since it has it has Dan O'Herlihy as Fergus Stephenson who is a gay minister located in Paris. Please remember it is a 1974 film and so please do not expect the gay pride angle in this film! but certainly worth a see…

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Tango & Cash

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
USA: 1989 : 104 mins:
With: Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell

This is a cop story and is listed here as handsome Kurt Russell appears in drag!

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Tantrums & Tiaras

This documentary (made by Elton´s lover) takes you into the life of Elton John and after seeing how he lives and the nasty mood swings and temper tantrums I am not sure I ever want to be taken there again!
Tarik El Hob

2001

Besides starting his study of gay Islamic homosexualities he also soon discovers that there is a gay life and he falls for a French steward.

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Taste of Honey. A

Director: Tony Richardson
UK: 1961: 100 Mins: Gay Main Character
With: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan and others

This 60´s British is a very good movie and is about a young girl from the "working" class who gets pregnant and is helped out by a gay man. It is about their friendship. Then along come the mother who wants nothing to do with the gay. Very progressive for the time period and in general a good movie!
Note: Rita Tushingham is simple great in this film....

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Tasty Bust , The

Director: Stephen MacLean
Australia: 2004: 52 mins: Documentary

It is 1994 and in Australia there was a nightclub called Tasty. One night the police raided it and took all the people (gay or straight) to the police station and gave them a really bad time. A group of them joined together and went after the police winning a huge lawsuit. (Sort of an Austrilian Stonewall.. ). Have a peek to get some gay history information.

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Tatort: Mord in der Akademie

It is made for TV and is about a bisexual student who is a student at an art school. He is having an affair with his much older teach- cheating on him and after all that it turns out that his was HIV + also -so you can only guess as to why someone kills him!

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Taxiboy
(Original Title: Vagon Fumador)

Director: Veronica Chen
Producers: Donald Ranvaud And Martin De Arbelaiz
Argentina: 2001: 91 Mins:
With: Cecilia Bengolea , Leonardo Brezicki , Carlos Issa , Fernando Moumdjian , Juan Martin Gravina , Adrian Fondari , Pablo Razuk , Fabian Talin And Adrian Blanco:

Andres is 20 years old and lives as a male prostitute and sells himself to men and then Réni comes into his life.

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Taxi to Cairo
(Original title: Taxi nach Cairo)

Director: Frank Ripploh
Germany (West): 1987: 90 Mins: Comedy/ Gay
With: Frank Ripploh:

This is the second part of Taxi to the Toilet and it has the same teacher in it but this time he tries to get a woman to marry or he will be thrown out of his mothers will. He gets the girl - moves out of the city to a small town and want to get married and enjoy later his mothers money but as all good plan do- it goes wrong as they both fall in love with the guy next store. Who gets who? - see the film

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Taxi to the Toilet
(Original Title: Taxi zum Klo)

Director: Frank Ripploh
Germany (West) : 1981: 92 Mins: Drama Gay / Autobiographical
With: Frank Ripploh:

This was the first of two films - the other is Taxi to Cairo and this one is about a gay man who loves sex. He gets a lover along the way and the lover wants him to stay at home and be with him but this just doesn't work as he is such a sex fiend that he leaves his sick bed in the hospital to take a taxi to a cruising toilet for sex. Very interesting film and a good coming out scene as he is a teacher and comes to school in drag after an all night out on the town. The kids ask and he tells. If all this sex finally gets to him - see the film and find
out!

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Tea and Sympathy
(German title: Anders als die anderen)

Director: Vincente Minnelli
USA; 1956
With: Deborah Kerr as Laura Reynolds and John Kerr as Tom Robinson Lee:

This film is a film about stupid people who think that you can label a person gay and
then torment that person. It is the story of Tom Lee who is 17 years old, quite attractive, a little on the sensitive side and at college. He does not like sports or the things that normal 17 year old males like. There is only one person who believes in him and this is Laura Reynolds. She is married and her husband also makes life hell on earth for Tom. Anyway she tries to understand him and ends up taking the young boy to bed – proving that he is sensitive but heterosexual too. This encounter helps Tom out and he is able to go on with his life but Laura loses everything – her husband and her place in the college society. All in all this film is a must see at it is made in 1956 when the subject of being gay and tormented by others was very rare. This was also a play in the 50´s.

There is one line from the film that most people remember: It is said by Laura to Tom as they go to bed:

Quote: Years from now when you talk about this - and you will - be kind.
Note: It even has a scene where a friend try to show Tom how to act / walk like a man - this scene will remind you of the scene in La Cage ax Folles and Birdcage but it was here
first!

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Teach Me Tonight

Director: Rick Blaine
USA: 1997, 94 Mins:
With: Judy Thompson, Kim Yates, D.J. Johnson, Cece Tsou, John Logan, Chris McCatty, Billy Bacardi, Dave Marshall.

In this Erotic-thriller Janie thinks that her friend Michael is having an affair with someone. She leaves the apartment and spends the night with her lesbian friend. The next day she comes home to find that Michael is dead and the police immediately think that she did it.

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Teddy Bear

Director: Ray Musicbear
USA: 2005: 4 Mins

Will be reviews as soon as I get to see it !

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Tell Me No Lies

Director: Neil Hunter, Director
UK: 1993: 30 Mins: Gay /Lesbian/Bisexual:

This is a film about the coming out of Gay /Lesbian / Bisexuals university students and the way it effected their lives. Very Interesting to watch!

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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Director: Otto Preminger
USA: 1970: 120 Mins: Gay character
With: Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore:

Liza plays a woman who is disfigured by a hateful lover. She movies into a apartment with two other people, one is an epileptic and the other is a gay man who is in a wheel chair. They all come together, adjust to their problems and share each others lives.

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Tempest, The

Director: Derek Jarman
UK: 1979: 95 Mins
With: Heathcote Williams, Jack Birkett and others:

This film is made by the British director Jarman. To figure out the story line you must see the film. You either like his film or you do not but they are certainly worth a see to me...

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Terence Davies Trilogy, The

Director: Terence Davies
UK: 1976-1984: 101 Mins: Drama / Gay/Autobiographical:

Terence Davies tells the story of his life as a character named Robert Tucker in a 3 part film. Part One (Childhood) is during his childhood at school and his being the weak boy there plus his early sexual awakening. Part Two (Madonna and Child) takes us to his middle age where he is trapped in a boring life. Part Three (Death and Transfiguration), Tucker relives his life - looking at it from the wisdom that he has gained in his life and he finally comes to accept his sexuality. This is worth seeing!!

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Terminal Exposure
(Aka Titles: Double Exposure )

Director: Nico Mastorakis
USA: 1987: 103 Mins:

Gay Interest: Contains gay character: Thomas Lusht as the Gay Giant – hum ….

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Ternyata

Indonesia: 9 Mins

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Testosterone

Director: David Moreton
Argentine/U.S. 2003 101 Mins:
With: Todd Sutcliffe as Dean, Antonio Sabato, Jr. as Pablo and Sonia Braga as Pablo´s mother.

In this story about Dean who has a lover Pablo (a very hunky Latino), a good job and is writing a book which is not going along as planned.Then one day his lover leaves him so he decides to follow him to Buenos Aires and get him back. Once he is there Pablo´s mother trys to get rid of him as she wants Pablo to marry and live what she thinks is a normal life. Don´t think this is a sad story as it is a comedy and you will laugh at and with all the people Dean meets while in Buenos Aires. Anyway does he get Pablo back? See the movie!!!!

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That Girl from Boston

1975

Gay Interest: Contains gay character: A gay architect played by John F. Goff.

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That Man: Peter Berlin Director: Jim Tushinski USA: 2005, 80 mins.: With: Peter Berlin, Armistead Maupin, Wakefield Poole, Jack Wrangler, Rick Castro, John Waters: It´s been years since I have heard about Peter Berlin but every once in awhile i come across his two films (have never seen the short one) and when I remember hiom I remember he was so handsome, had a great body and spoke with an accent. All and all an untouchable but none the less one could wish..

Now he is back in this film about his life.I must admit before looking at the film i wondered how he had help up in looks after all we never really knew his personality and now it is 30 years later. I was excited at a new Peter Berlin film so i watched it and was very surprised at it.

I really enjoyed the look back in the 1970´s and being taken in to his world. He looks a little older and tease us with wondering about a face lift but he tells about his life back then and what happened over the years.

A great documentary to find out what has happened to Peter since we lost sight of his great looks and body. A must see !

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The Nomi Song

Director: Andrew Horn
Germany - 2004 - 96 Mins

Documentary about the performer Klaus Nomi, a prominent figure of the 1970s and 80s New York underground scene. Gifted with an exceptional voice, Nomi sang pop like it was opera, wore extravagent clothes and became an icon for alternative culture, gaining the admiration of various artists like David Bowie and Morrissey. He tragically died as one of the first celebrity victims of AIDS in the early 80s. The film participated in the 2004 Berlin Film Festival and was awarded with the Teddy Bear prize for best documentary.
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Therese and Isabelle

Director: Radley Metzger
France: 1968: 118 Mins: Teenage Lesbian Main Characters
Starring: Essy Persson, Anna Gael

This is a 60´s film about two young school girls who all in love.

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Thousand Beautiful Things, A

Director: Ryan Lonergan
USA: 2004: 16 Mins

Will be reviews as soon as I get to see it !

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Three Months with Pook

Director: Jack Feldstein
Australia: 2003: 39 Mins

This is a story about two men with downs-syndrome. To see how close they are watch the film.

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Times Of Harvey Milk, The

Director: Robert Epstein / Richard Schmiechen
USA: 1984: 90 Mins: Documentary

This is the Academy Award winning documentary which tells the story of Harvey Milk who was the first out gay man to be elected as mayor to a city. It shows his rise in politics and how much difference he made to peoples life. Then he was killed by a city worker who hated him and gay. His death resulted in a very large candle march. This is gay history at its best. See it and relive the life of Harvey Milk and his life. A must see!!
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Tingle

Director: Inka Stafrace
Australia: 2004: 7 Mins

Will be reviews as soon as I get to see it !
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Things Change - My First Time

Director: Paul Thomas
USA: 1993: 67 Mins:
With: Deidre Holland, Nikki Dial, Paula Harlow, Francesca Lé, Flame, Woody Long, Mickey Ray, Jon Dough, Paul Thomas, Kym Wilde, Steve Drake, Lili Xene:

This Erotic film is about Lisa who is a Lesbian. She has a lover Denise. She soon discovers that she wants to try sex with a man. See the film to see who she ends up with.

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Thin Ice

Director: Fiona Cunningham-Reid
USA: 1994: 78 Mins: Lesbian Main Characters
With: Sabra Williams, Charlotte Avery and others:

What Lesbian in the world of ice skating - yep and this is the story of a romance in just profession.

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Three by Three

1986

Gay Interest: Contains gay character: Ricardo who is a Cuban gay refugee.

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Three Long Years

Director: Peter Welch
USA: 2003: 76 Mins:

Jude is alone and hating it then along comes Stephen who seems exactly what he is looking for a lonely gay nurse.

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Three of Hearts

Director: Yurek Bogayevicz
USA: 1993: 101 Mins: Lesbian / Bisexual
With: Sherilyn Fenn as Ellen, Kelly Lynch as Connie and William Baldwin as Joe.

Ellen leaves her lover Connie so Connie hires Joe to make her unhappy so that she will come back to Connie. Confused? hum... well see the film....

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Three's Company

1977

Early television show where the lead straight character has to pretend to be gay in order to get the apartment and to live there with 3 straight girls but all is just for fun!

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Threesome

Director: Andrew Fleming
USA: 1994: 93 Mins: Gay central character
With: Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin and others:

So there is a shy gay film student who lusts after his hunk roommate, the roommate lusts after the girl next store and she lusts after a man who likes French films rather than sports. Well this certainly does not make for a lot of love affairs to happen :-)

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Three to Tango

Director: Damon Santostefano
Australia / USA: 1999: 98 Mins:
With: Matthew Perry as Oscar Novak, Neve Campbell as Amy Post, Dylan McDermott as Charles Newman, Oliver Platt as Peter Steinberg and Cylk Cozart as Kevin Cartwright:

Here goes the story line: Oscar Novak is a straight architect who has a firm that restores old buildings. He wants to get the job of restoring a project run by Charles Newman (who got tons of money). Charles is led to believe that Oscar is gay (when in reality it is his partner who is gay!). Charles has a problem which he wants Oscar to solve in order to get the project and that is watch over his mistress Amy Post for him and to make sure she stays true to him. The problems arrive as Oscar and Amy are falling for each other even though she thinks he is gay too…
Will Oscar get to keep both the girl and the restoration project – will his partner find a man to spend his life with – watch the film and find out ….

OH you will here lines like this:
When Oscar is told he's been selected as gay man of the year:
Oscar Novak: “I haven't done anything or anyone to deserve this.”

Oscar Novak: “I'm not gay, I didn't ...gay.”

Peter Steinberg: “You've made your big gay bed and now you must slumber gaily in it!”

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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Director: Rodrigo Garcia
USA: 2001: 109 Mins:
With: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Amy Brenneman, Holly Hunter, Kathy Baker, Valeria Golino, Matt Craven, Gregory Hines:

This is the story of 5 women and their lives. One of the women is Calista Flockart who is taking care of her dying lesbian lover played by Valeria Golino. They relive their past experiences during the remaining time. A moving film with excellent Lesbian content.

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Third Man Out

Director: Ron Oliver:
USA: 2005: 98 mins: (Made for TV):
With Chad Allen as Donald Strachey and Sebastian Spence as Timothy:

Wow a gay thriller about a private eye called Donald Strachey, (who is gay and lives with his long time lover called Timothy). Strachey gets hired to protect a member of the gay community who publishes an Albany newspaper- The mystery is who is out to get the publisher. Well written story based on the book by Richard Stevenson (the press said there were more to come – I can´t wait to see them), I recommend that you see this film and enjoy!

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Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train –
(Original title: Ceux qui m¹aiment prendront le train)

Director: Patrice Chéreau
France: 122 mins: Gay Main Characters:
With: Vincent Perez and Jean-Louis Trintignant

Story of the death of the painter Jean-Baptiste. He left instructions for his burial in a city called Limoges. He noted that those people who loved him should take the train ride with his body from Paris to that city for the burial.

His life was full of students which he loved and in return loved hi, Although he was mainly interested in the male ones he still charmed the female ones too.

This sad trip is a window into his life and we are treated to the stories behind these people who made up his life. VERY fascinating idea for a film.

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This Special Friendship
(Original title: Les Amities Particuliers)

Director: Jean Delannoy
France: 1964: 105 Mins : Gay youth drama
With: Francis Lacombrade, Didier Haudepin and others:

This is a film from the 60´s which broke ground and tells the story of two boys at a Catholic boys school. There is an older boy and a younger boy and they are entering into a relationship. This relationship is frowned upon by the Catholic priests and they take matters into their own hands but the outcome of this is a disaster for all!

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Ticks

Director: Tony Randel
USA 1993:

From the director who brought you Hellraiser 2 and almost as bloody. 5 teenage kids with personal problems are sent on a summer-camp deep in the California forests. A local marihuana farmer uses some chemicals to spray his crop, which in turn makes the wood-ticks (nasty blood sucking insects) grow to gigantic proportions. 5 Mins later the bodies are everywhere!
This B-movie features a very effeminate gay killer, who minces about something awful. In one scene the killer’s psycho sidekick fondles one of the teen-age boys and says: Hey, feel this! Smooth and soft. Just the way you like 'em, sir!
“Deliverance” anybody?
The special effects are almost as disgusting as that homophobic remark. Ticks will make your skin crawl.

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Tidy Endings

Director: Gavin Millar
USA: 1988: 54 Mins:
With: Stockard Channing, Harvey Fierstein and others:

This is the one Harvey Fierstein I have not seen. I have been trying to find a copy on DVD but have not yet found it. So i will review it later on but the story line is " that the former lover and ex-wife of a man who dies of Aids turn to each other to get over the grief of his death".

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Tightrope

Director: Richard Tuggle
USA: 1984: 115 Mins:

Gay Interest: Yep even in this serial killer drama there is a gay role: Jonathan Sachar as the Gay Boy.

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Tilsammans

Director: Lukas Moodyson
Sweden: 2000: Gay and bisexual characters
With: Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyquist:

The new movie from the man behind the smash hit "Fucking Åmål". This time he goes back to the 70' s, in a revealing look at people attracted by socialism and communal living. Essentially the story of a failed marriage and its reconciliation, this also presents us with a gay man, a lesbian and a bisexual living and loving in the commune. It's both humorous and witty, and the plot works itself out to everyone's satisfaction. No great shakes, this is a pleasing movie with attitude.

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Time Code

Director: Mike Figgis
USA: 2000: 97 Mins: Lesbian main characters

This is a film about a rich woman called Lauren and her lover Rose. Rose is takes a screen test for a new film and her lover Lauren does not approve. See the film to find out if Rose makes the picture or gives into to Lauren. It is also the story about the producer who want to make the picture with Rose and is going through problems with his wife.

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Thieves, The
(Original title: les Voleurs)

Director: Andre Téchiné
France: 1996: Lesbian relationship
With: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil:

Now....this is one heck of a complicated movie! Ostensibly a thriller about a gang of car-thieves, this really concerns sexual and emotional relationships between a large numbers of people. So many that I had a hard time following them all. My tip - watch it at least twice! Catherine Deneuve plays Marie, a lesbian lecturer, who falls in love with a bi-sexual thief, Juliette. Juliette has another affair going with macho police-officer Alex, who is the brother of Ivan, Juliettes employer, who gets shot early on. Juliettes brother, Jimmy, loves......oh I give up! Watch it for yourself! (Just one final thought: Do the French really sleep around like this?)

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Third man out

Director: Ron Oliver
USA: 2006
With: Chad Allen

Detective/ mystery-movie made for HERE! TV in the USA.
Gay Private eye Donald Strachey investigates an attempted murder on a gay activist who likes to "out" powerful people on the Internet. It looks like a case of revenge, but turns out to be something completely different.....
"Third man out" explores everything from blackmail, to outing, to spying, to HIV, to gays in the military, to sexual abuse of minors. It's a quite clever plot, but somewhat confusing..
There are lots of very handsome actors in it, though. That should get you through the rough parts! Trouble is, I should have liked this movie more than I do...hmm..

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Three Barbecues: A Blackened Comedy

Director: Rob Gray
USA: 2004: 95 Mins:

B.J. seems to be the only gay who is out of the closet in this town.

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Thousand clouds of peace fence the sky, A; Love; Your being love will never end
(Brazilian title: Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor )

Director: Julián Hernandez
Mexico: 2003: 83 Mins: Art movie
With: Mil Nuvens De Paz Cercam O Céu, Amor, Jamais Deixará De Ser Amor , Juan Carlos Ortuño, Juan Carlos Torres, Perla De La Rosa

After his relationship with Bruno ends, Gerardo, a young man of seventeen years, starts to roam aimlessly through the streets of the city. As he walks, he is tortured by certain images. Every male body that passes reminds him of his lover, who he can’t get out of his mind. Now that Bruno has left him, Gerardo seizes upon a letter, and even though it is not intended for him, he tries to decipher the last message from his love. The script was inspired by the poem "Persecución", by Pasolini. The film won the Teddy Bear, an award given for the best gay film, at the Berlin Film Festival in 2003.

Alternative review:
The longest title in movie-memory, (lifted from a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini.) The film is about a young hustler who searches for his lost love in the streets and alleys of Mexico City.
He does a lot of searching! Will he find his love or simply give up? Will the audience care?

The movie is about 80 Mins long but seems much longer. It's very low-budget. You will find it either incredibly boring or artfully inspired, depending on your mindset. Try to imagine a veeery slow black & white Italian neo-realist movie with a LOT of voice-over monologue and you're nearly there.
It won the Teddy award at the Berlin film-festival for best gay feature so a lot of people like it. Some of the images are very beautiful. See for yourself.


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Three Bewildered People In The Night

Director: Greg Araki.

This was one of the starters in the career of Greg Araki. It is a low budget film and was said to be made for $5,000 but don't expect a bad movie. It is the story of three people who are tying to find out how they really feel about each other. Most of the action takes place in a coffee shop. It held my attention from the beginning till the end! I knew when I saw this film that Greg Araki would go on to bigger better things and he did.

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Three Dancing Slaves
(Original Title: Le Clan)

Director: Gaël Morel
Producer: Bertrand Guerry
France: 2004: 90 Mins:
With: Nicolas Cazalé , Stéphane Rideau , Thomas Dumerchez , Salim Kechiouche , Bruno Lochet , Vincent Martinez , Jackie Berroyer And Aure Atika:

Movie is the story of 3 brothers and how they interact with each other. It has gay content.

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Time to Leave
(Original title.: Le Temps qui reste )

Director/ Writer: François Ozon
France: 2005, 85 min: In French with English subtitles:
With: Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Daniel Duval, and Marie Rivière

This is a very dramatic French film of very high class. I was glued to the screen as I watch this film. It is about an attractive fashion photographer at the top of his career until he finds out he has a brain tumor that is not curable. His world is thrown around into a mess. As he does not want to tell people about his sickness so he start being nasty to everyone in his life including his young lover. He is so nasty to him that the lover leaves him and then he attacks his family seeming to watch to go throw the sick process alone. Along the way he meets a waitress and her husband who make him a proposition he must consider. Very good but sad film - a MUST see! The Director François Ozon has outdone all his previous films.

If you like Jeanne Moreau she is in this film at the Grandmother.

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Tipping the velvet

Director: Geoffrey Sax
UK: 2002: Gay central characters
With: Keely Hawes, Rachael Stirling

Expensive-looking TV-drama-series produced by BBC. It's a raunchy, sexy lesbian tale about an oyster girl and a music hall singer finding love under very difficult circumstances

(London ca 1890, the age of Oscar Wilde).

There’s a lot happening. The oyster girl works the streets disguised as a boy prostitute and is even introduced into a butch dyke society where leather dildos is the order of the day (you had to wait until the 1920’s for the rubber kind). It’s all very “sophisticated”.
The actors look good. Keely Hawes is gorgeous. Hey, I almost want to go lesbian! What a Botticelli angel she is. Yummy. (Just joking, John!!!)
I sat up for three Fridays watching this series, and it was sooo worth it. A near masterpiece based on a popular novel by Sarah Waters.

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To Forget Venice

Director: Franco Brusati
Italy: 1979: 90 Mins: two gay male and two lesbian main characters:
With: Erland Josephson, Mariangela Melato and others:

Ugh this seems like a long film and I had to try and watch it two times before I finally came to the end. I normally like all Gay & Lesbian pictures but this is the story of two couples who come together at a country estate and from the moment they arrive they talk and talk and talk about getting older and dying. The title should be called "To Forget going to Venice we can kill you off here by talking you to death!"
Note: sorry i just do not like this film but of course you should judge for yourselves if you want to see it.

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Together Alone

Director: P. J. Castellaneta
Canada: 1991: 87 Mins: Gay main characters:
With: Terry Curry, Todd Stites

Basically this is the story of two gay guys called Brian and Bryan who have sex and afterwards talk about every subject in the book. What a long discussion!

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Tomer Ve-Hasrutim

2001

Gay story line is that Tomer tells the straight boys in his gang that he is gay.
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Tongue

1978

Gay story line is that a guy is sexually taken advantage of by his gay doctor.

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Tongues Untied

1990

Black men telling their story in many ways about loving other black men, including subjects such as Aids, civil rights, and gay pride.

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Touched

2003

Gay Interest: Contains gay character: Mike, who is a lonely middle aged man.

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Touki Bouki

1973

A wealthy gay man keeps a young man in clothing and money.
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Tokyo Cowboy

Director: Kathy Garneau
1994: 94 Mins: lesbian main character
With: Hiromoto Ida, Janne Mortil and others

Comedy about a Japanese guy who works at a burger restaurant. He is looking for a cowgirl and when he finds her it turns out she is a lesbian. Funny!

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Too Much Sun

Director: Robert Downey
1990: 97 Mins: sissy gay guy
With: : Robert Downey Jr., Ralph Macchio and others

I can not believe this film is made in 1990 - it contains the queeniest - swissy gay characters that i have seen in years. About making children to get inherit the families’ fortune. My my, this should be called Too Sissy!
Note: the gay characters are soooo extreme that I could not enjoy this comedy.

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Too Outrageous!

Director; Richard Benner
Canada: 1987: 100 Mins : Gay /Drag
With: Craig Russel:

Well, Outrageous! was simple a wonder film (see my review) and this is the sequel so all that they say about sequels is true. The whole story was told in the Outrageous! and there was not much left for Too Outrageous! except, of course, the good drag numbers. Robin´s relationship with Liza (who is schizophrenic) just goes on and on and on and is really nowhere!

Note: This is worth a see if you are a fan of Craig Russel. It is rarely seen on TV or in the Video rental story so if you do want to see it you will have to search for it.

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Tootsie

USA, 1982
With: Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey:

Hum I really wonder who has not seen this film! It is the story of Michael Dorsey who is an unemployed actor who takes on the role of his life as a woman called Dorothy.
The minute he is in drag he lands a part on TV soap. What takes place is sexual mixing up and problems but fun problems.

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To Play or To Die
(Original title: Spelen of Sterven)

Director: Steve McCoy
The Netherlands: 1990 : 50 Mins : Gay youth film
With: Emily Squires, Lynne Naylor and others:

A very shy schoolboy is being bullied by a group of students. He decides to take matters in his own hands and invites the ringleader of the group home for revenge. You will have to see the film to find out how his plan works out!

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Top Model
(Original Title: Top Model)

Director: Joe d'Amato
Italy: 1987: 82 Mins:
With: Jessica Moore, James Sutterfield, Ale Dugas, Laura Gemser, Jason Saucier, Lin Gathright, Richard Donvillier, Len Letterman, Mary Harris, Rex D. Jackson, Al Maklansky.

In this soft erotic film Sarah has written a book called "Sarah and her 100 men" and now plans to write the follow-up but before it is done she falls in love with Cliff who is bisexual.

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Torch Song Trilogy

USA, 1988: Gay film
With: Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft as his mother, Matthew Broderick and Brian Kerwin:

I laughed - I cried and to say the least I loved this film. Which is basically the search of a gay man (who works as in drag for a living) for true love and happiness. He certainly finds true love but happiness is a long way off. Then it all comes together with a son and a lover and life is beautiful except for the mother who is a BITCH and wonderfully played by Anne Bancroft. Harvey Fierstein is simply the BEST in this roll and this is a GREAT film!!! If you have been on the moon and missed it - rent it or see it TODAY!!! The musical drag numbers are great too!
Note: my good friend Tommy just reminded me that I forgot to gay anything about Matthew and Brian.
So I can say that Matthew Gave the performance of his career playing young, sexy, totally charming and made me believe he loved Harvey - which is very good acting!
- as for Brian he is my all time Blond hunk lover type but only after he came back for the second time! I must say each and every one gave the performance of their lives to make this one of the best all time gay films ever!

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Total Eclipse

Director: Agnieszka Holland
UK: 1995: 110 Mins: Gay / Bisexual: Biographical Drama :
With: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Blanc, Nita Klein, Christopher Chaplin and Christopher Hampton.

What Leonardo DiCaprio as a gay poet yep! - in this one he plays the famous Gay poet Arthur Rimbaud and to make matters more fun- it is about his relationship with the bisexual Paul Verlaine (played by David Thewlis): There is a scene where Leonardo as Arthus gets up on the roof in the Moon-light and is totally naked – in the copy I rented there was not Much to see – even though I put it on paused 150 times :-)

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Totally Confused

Directors / Writers: Greg Pritikin & Gary Rosen
USA: 1998: 88 mins
With: Greg Pritikin as Johnny and Gary Rosen as Wiley:

I would call this film a bisexual one as it is based on two friends – one straight and one not yet out gay. Wiley is a sort of gay nerd who has opinions on everything and his straight best friend is Johnny who is a guy who wants to be a rock star but has to finance his one record with his own money. Anyway Wiley decides to finally have gay sex and he is sure Johnny will be the one to do it with. Does Wiley get Johnny and would they be happy if he does – see this comedy and enjoy the story!

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Totally F***ed Up

Director: Gregg Araki:
USA 1994

This is the story of 6 gay teens from L.A. and their search for Fun and happiness.

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To The Extreme

With: Sébastian Roch as the prostitute, Jeremy Sanuinetti as the 13 year old boy and Julie Depardieu (who is the daughter of Gerard Depardieu).

This film is about a good looking male prostitute who is in private a party boy. Suddenly his life is about to take a change when his girlfriend dies and leave him the responsibility of taking care of her son who is just 13.
Is he willing to change his lifestyle to take care of the boy ? You will have to see the film to find out.
Oh almost forgot there are sex scenes in the film adding to the enjoyment!

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Toto Forever

Spain / USA : 14 mins: short film
Director / Writer: Roberto F. Canuto.
With Kylan James as Toto, Kjord Davis as Mark, Diana Grivas as the Nurse, Alex Aquila as the Gangster and Alexandra Smothers as the Mysterious Woman

This film will be reviewed by Movies TOO Gay as soon as I get to see it but the director has sent a short information to hold you over until the review is ready.

He writes:

"It is a short movie and Tells the impossible love story between a postman and a gangster, with a very poetic narrative."

Note: to watch the trailer on Youtube goes to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JupGLTB9m2s

If you want more info about the film send an E-mail to Roberto F. Canuto:
almostred.prod@gmail.com

and I am sure he will be happy to contact you back !
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Too Cool for Christmas
(AKA: A Very Cool Christmas)

Director: Sam Irvin
USA: 2004 made for TV: 90 mins:
With: George Hamilton, Brooke Nevin Brooke Nevin, Donna Mills, and Adrienne Carter

In this made for TV film a young girl who is a rich snob decides to do something for another person rather than always for herself. She take a mall Santa Claus and decided to remake him so that he loses his fat bearded self and becomes a handsome tanned slim George Hamilton and that is exactly why this film is listed here as his makeover takes them to a beauty salon which is run by a Latino queen and he serves up some of the better moments of this film so have a look and see who is the real star of this rather strange plotted movie!

Note: OK OK there are some bad scenes such as when Santa is getting his make over – his beard is being shaved and you see the false netting.

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Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

With: Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo

It is the USA remake and if you saw the original you will see that the Americans have a different way of looking at things. It does no mean the remake is bad, because it is NOT! and is a fun movie in its own league but it is not as good as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. I enjoyed the performances of the three drag queens which were very good. I laughed a lot and enjoyed the drags turning the little town into a straight drag version of them.
Note: one can like coffee and also tea so if you get the chance see this version and the Australian original version also.

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Touch Me

USA: 1997:
With: Greg Louganis has a small roll in it.

Is the story of an actress who finds out that she is HIV +.

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Touch of Fever. A
(aka The Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old)
(Original title: Hatachi no binetsu)

This is a Japanese teen movie and is about two young hustlers called Tatsuro and Shin. Tatsuro seems to be the better of the two at hustling. They also have two girls which they are best friends with. The movie takes a turn when Shin tells seems Tatsuro he loves him. How will Tatsuro take this news – see the film?

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Touch of Pink
(Brazilian title: Um toque de Rosa)

Canada/UK - 2004 - 92 Mins:
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
With: Jimi Mistry, Kyle MacLachlan, Kristen Holden-Reid, Suleka Mathew, Brian George

Alim (Jimi Mistry) is a Canadian of Indian descent who works as a film photographer in London. He leads a happy life with his boyfriend Giles (Kristen Holden-Reid) and his imaginary friend, Cary Grant (Kyle MacLachlan), but matters start getting complicated when his mother pressures him to find a Muslim wife. Alim accepts her proposal and pretends to be courting Giles’ sister, until Nuru finally discovers that her son is gay and returns to Canada enraged. Alim goes after his mother, but not even Cary Grant can prevent the family crisis. A very funny movie with a great soundtrack, it seems like an Indian Wedding Banquet version.

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Tough Enough

Director: Richard Fleischer
USA: 1983: 106 Mins:

Gay Interest: Contains gay character: Eli CumMins as gay Bob.

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Tough Guys

Director: Jeff Kanew
USA: 1986

In this comedy about two elderly gangsters there is room for a gay character: Matthew Faison who is the man in gay bar (no other people from the bar are listed in the cast).

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Tous Les Papas Ne Font Pas Pipi Debout

Director: Dominique Baron
France: Belgium: 1998: Made For Tv: 86 Mins:
With: Natacha Lindinger , Carole Richert , Marina Vlady , Corentin Mardaga , Fanny Valette , Alessandro Sigona , Pierre Laroche And Yvette Merlin

Two Lesbians living in Belgium are bringing up their son Simon. Their lives are good and people accept their relationship then moves in a neighbour who upsets their lives and their sons. See how they deal with this

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Trans

Director: Julian Goldberger
USA: 1998: 80 Mins:
With: Ryan Daugherty, Jon Daugherty and Edge

This "made on a shoe string” film is about a young fifteen-year old called Ryan Kazinski (played by Jon Daugherty)who is quite nice to look at - although a little young and there are enough moments where we see him with his shirt off and looking very good - the director seems to linger over him, which is quite erotic. So now to the story line Ryan is in a Florida jail at fifteen for a wrongdoing. One day while working on the chain gang - he and some other prisoners escape and he gets away.

He wants to find his mother, which he has not seen in years. He goes to a train station and has very little money. He goes to the sales guy and tries to hustle him into giving him a ticket by holding his hand. So there is a small gay angle to this small but good film.

Note: Trans was an official selection at both the Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals.

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Transamerica

Directror: Duncan Tucker
USA: 2005: 103 Mins:
With: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Elizabeth Peña, Graham Greene

Transamerica is a strong great movie with Felicity Huffman Lynette from Desperate Housewives, she is brilliant as a transsexual in that film.
Bree (Huffman) is a proud transsexual from Los Angeles. She saves as much money as she can in order to have the operation that will transform her definitively into a woman. One day, Bree receives a phone call from Toby, a young inmate in a New York jail looking for his father. Bree realises that Toby must be the result of one of her past relationships from when she was still a man. So she flies to New York and gets him out of jail. At first Toby thinks that Bree must be some kind of Christian missionary trying to convert him. Bree plays along but convinces him to accompany her to Los Angeles.
Shown at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section.

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Transfixed
(Original title: Mauvais genres / USA title: Gender Bias)

Director: Francis Girod
France / Belgium: 2001: 105 Mins
With: Richard Bohringer as Huysmans, Robinson Stévenin as Bo, Stéphane Metzger as Johnny, William Nadylam as Maeva, Frédéric Pellegeay as Alex, Ginette Garcin as Louisette Vincent, Stéphane De Groodt as Pryzuski (as Stéphane de Groot), Charlie Dupont as Courtois, Veronica. Novak as Elvire, Thibaut Corrion as Marlène, Marcel Dossogne as Professeur Ancelin, Micheline Presle as Violette Ancelin:

Girod's brought you "le trio infernal". And now in his new film Transfixed he films the story of BO who is a transsexual in Brussels and in order to earn money works as a prostitute. Bo looks and acts like a woman and “she falls” for a good looking guy who only uses her for sex and treats her badly. There are a string of Transsexual murders and BO is suspected and attempts to clear herself. Does “she” succeed – well you will have to see the film to find out in this who done it!
There great shots of life and city from Brussels.

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Transient

Director: Craig Boreham
Australia: 2004: 9 Mins

Will be reviews as soon as I get to see it !

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Trash

Director: Paul Morrissey
USA: 1970: 110 Mins: Drag main character
With: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn and others

This is the story (produced by Andy Warhol) of a low class couple, one is a druggie and the other is a draggie.. Fun to watch but hard to follow the rambling long dialog.
Joe Dallesandro looking his BEST!!!!

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Traumschiff Surprise - Periode 1

Germany, 2004
With : Christian Tramitz as Captain Kork, Rick Kavanian as Schrotty, Anja Kling as Königin Metapha, Til Schweiger as Rock, Michael Herbig as Mr. Spuck, Markus Maria Profitlich as Pulle, Anton Figl as Mr. Popowitsch, Stacia Widmer as Bora Bora and Maverick Queck as Mr. Nasi:

This film started out as more comedy storys on a German comedy TV show and with its success they decided to make a movie. It is a take off on the Star Teck story but this time the Captain, Dr Spook and his friends are gay and even get to do a gay song. All in the name of fun. With a few really fun scenes – have a peek...

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Travelling Companion

Director: Paula Goldberg
1998

Gay Interest: Evonne Kezios as the Girl with the gay Girlfriend. I haven’t seen this film so I do not know what this means.

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Treading Water

Director: Lauren Himmel:
With: Angela Redman, Annette Miller, Lysa Apostle and Nina Landey:

In this romantic story Casey lives on a boat and has a her pretty social worker girlfriend called Alex and they are really in love but holidays like Christmas bring out the problem - see the film to see which ones they have...

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Trembling Before G-d

2001

The stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian and the effects it has on their lives and families. I liked this hard to watch report as I discovered that there are gay Jews and lesbians who go on with their lives in spite of the fact that it is not accepted by their friends and family. A must see!

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Trials of Oscar Wilde, The

Director: Ken Hughes:
UK: 1960 : 123 Mins : Gay Drama based on a true story
With: Peter Finch, John Fraser, Lionel Jefferies and James Mason:

This is the re-telling of the court case against Oscar Wilde which sent him to prison and ruined his life and career.
Note: It is based on the real court transcripts and has a great cast.

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Triche, La

Director: Yannick Bellon
France: 1983: 100 Mins:
With: Victor Lanoux , Anny Duperey , Valérie Mairesse , Xavier Deluc , Michel Galabru, Blanche Roland , Patrick Raynal , Guy Tréjan , Yannick Bellon Scénario

A member of the police elite is Michael Verta and he has full support of the people he works with as he does his job well. During one investigation, his whole life changes as he meets Bernard who is a musician and falls in love with him. Can their two different lifestyles merge? Will they be happy – see the film!!

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Trick

Director: Jim Fall
USA: 1999: 89 Mins
With: Christian Campbell as Gabriel, John Paul Pitoc as Mark, Tori Spelling as Katherine, Steve Hayes as Perry and Clinton Leupp as Miss Coco Peru, Kevin Chamberlin as Perry's Ex, Brad Beyer, Lorri Bagley, Clinton Leupp, Joey Dedio:

I loved this film from beginning till the end. It is the story of a gay music writer called Gabriel and what happens in one day and one night in his life. He has a musical try-out, meets a dancing – stripper hunk called Mark, tries to find a place to have sex with this hunk without luck... but will he get Mark into bed..... see the film to find out....
Note: this is a great film and has also a great performance by Tori Spelling!

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Trip, The

Director: Miles Swain
USA, 2002: 95 Mins:
With: Steve Braun, Larry Sullivan, Jill St. John, Alexis Arquette, Julie Brown, David Mixner, Sirena Irwin, Ray Baker :

One guy is a conservative republican journalist and the other is a young liberal in the gay movement. They meet and a hot relationship starts. All is going well until a book by the journalist which is anti.gay is publiched and then comes a barrier which appears between them. The gay guy ends up with a rich older man but a Trip ends the seperation and the two guys meet again. Will the relationship once again happen - see the film to find out. I really liked this film and found it well written and well played so have a peek!

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Trio, The
(original title: Das Trio)

Director: Hermine Huntgeburth
Germany: 1998: 97 Mins: Gay / Bisexual Main Characters
With: Gotz George, Christian Redl and others

This film is about a gay couple (Zobel & Karl) – they have lived together as a couple for many years.. and are small time thief's and steal people wallets and purses together with Zobel´s daughter Lizzie (she was conceived in a one night (straight) stand. During one misadventure of the trio, Karl gets injured and can no longer work. So the two set out to find a new third partner. They find Rudolf who has charms which work both on the father and daughter. The make an agreement that nothing sexual should happen as it would interfere with their work, but this soon becomes impossible and sex occurs with Rudolf and Lizzie and soon with Rudolf and Zobel.
All hell breaks lose when the father and daughter find out they both have been having sex with Rudolf. See the film to find out who gets who..

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Tropfen auf heiße Steine

Director: François Ozon
France / Japan: 1999

This is based on the R.W. Fassbinder play and then filmed in 1999 by François Ozon.
I just finished watching this film and was surprised that François Ozon did the filming in the style of the time it was written.
It is a strange story and come to life in the cinema more as a play being filmed.
The business man Léopold mets and enters into a relationship with Frischling Franz. The young man is in a relationship with a girl for the past 3 years but one word from Léopold (ops I mean one touch) and they start a relationship which slowly but surely turns one string of bitching / sex sessions between business trips. If you like Fassbinder you will like this film all the others will find it a bit dated but certainly worth a look….

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Tropical Malady

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2004: 118 Mins
With: Banlop Lomnoi and Sakda Kaewbuadee

Keng, a young soldier and a country boy become friends and lovers. To find out what happens to them see the film!

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Trouble in Mind

USA : 1985 : 110 Min.: Drama
With: Divine , Keith Carradine & Kris Kristofferson:

This is a strange gangster film and the strangest part of it all is Divine playing a man. A must see for fans to see Divine as a he!

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True Hollywood Story - Rudy Galindo

USA: Made for TV: 60 Mins:

This time is about the openly Gay skater Rudy Galindo.

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True Hollywood Story - Village People

USA: Made for TV: 60 Mins:

This one is a profile of the disco group Village People from their rise to their fall.

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True Hollywood Story - Divine

USA: Made for TV: 60 Mins:

If you want to know the full Divine story watch this made for tv show which traces Divines rise from childhood to his/her death in 1988. This was one big and outrageous drag queen!

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True Hollywood Story - Siegfried and Roy

USA: Made for TV: 60 Mins:

This is a profile of Las Vegas tiger trainers Siegfried and Roy- watch it to see if they tell all!

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True Hollywood Story - Jim J. Bullock

USA: Made for TV: 60 Mins:

You know him from the 80s sitcom Too Close for Comfort and from The Eyes Of Tammy but this is the inside story of Jim J. Bullock from his coming out to his being testing positive for HIV.

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Truth About Alex, The

Director: Paul Shapiro
Canada: 1987: 48 Mins: Gay coming out:

This is the story of the friendship of two guys, one is hoping to go to West Point and the other is an up and coming pianist, The friendship is threatened when the pianist decides to come out!

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Truth About Jane, The

Director: Lee Rose
USA: 2000: 120: made for TV
With: Stockard Channing as Janice, Ellen Muth as Jane, Kelly Rowan as Ms. Lynn Walcott, Jenny O'Hara as Beth and Makyle Kaplan-Dailey as the gay boy:

This is the story of Jane who is in high school. She finds that she Is attracted to another girl and thus she has lesbian feeling. The film deals with her accepting her lesbianism and her mothers negative feeling on the subject.
Note: Oh almost forgot that there is a cameo appearance by RuPaul (Charles) as Jimmy.

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Truth or Consequences of Delmas Howe, The

2004

Gay Interest: This writer often writes about gay men.

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Treyf

Director: Alisa Lebow & Cynthia Madansky
USA: 54 mins: Lesbian main characters

Treyf adj. [Yiddish, fr. Hebrew taref]: is used as reference to lesbians) This film is about two lesbians who fall in love at a Passover seder (of all places) we get to look into the lives of Lesbians who are jewish. Where there is often Homophobia people. See the film to see if their love can survive all the trial and tribulations that are thrown into their love affair.
Note: won the : 1998 Jewish Video Competition Winner & 1998 Honorable Mention, Jerusalem Film Festival

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Tunten lügen nicht

Germany: 2002

Gay Interest: Another Rosa V. Prauheim film about Aids – Activists and violence against gays.

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Tuteur, Le

France: 1997: Made for TV: Gay Main characters
With: Dyna Gauzy as Nina, Eric Defosse as Thomas, Christine Citti as Agnès, Véronique Silver as Gabrielle, André Julien as Lou, Bernard Nissille as Laurent

Hélène and Jean have a car accident. They are killed and their daughter is left alone. They were smart enough to leave a will and name Thomas, her uncle to bring her up. There is a catch – Thomas is gay and lives with his long time lover Hervé (both men are 35 years old). The sister of Jean (who has 2 kids of her own) does not accept that Nina goes to live with the two homosexual men and decides to fight the decision in court. As Thomas realizes that he start liking having a child at home, his lover Hervé discovers that he does not like it. So poor Thomas who wants to do the right thing is getting legal trouble and lover trouble.
A very good film with good performances but that is not alone what makes it a really good film, what makes it a really
Note: Good about this film is that it shows who the legal system discriminates against homosexuals who want to be parents and in turn they must fight the courts to keep the child .... See the film you will be amazed at what obstacles are placed in Thomas way to be a gay parent... and also to see how it turns out....

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Twenty Gay Stereotypes Confirmed

Director: Jason Bolicki
USA: 2003: 10 Mins

Will be reviews as soon as I get to see it !
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Twinkle
(Original title: Kira Kira Hikaru)

Director: George Matusoka
Japan: 1992: 103 Mins: Gay;

This is one of those Asian films which is hard to understand as the social background is so different from mine but anyway it is the story of Mutsuki, who is a handsome gay doctor who is not out of the closet, so to please his parents he decides to marry Shoko who is a translator and has a drinking problem. The relationship starts to fall apart almost from the beginning as all relationships based on lies usually do. Worth seeing to see what happens to them!

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Two Brothers and Two Others

Director: Richard Bell

This collection of short movies contains 3 films:

1. Two Brothers

Director & Writer: Richard Bell
Canada: 2004: 60 mins:
With: Norbert Orlewicz, Cody Campbell, Kevin Maconald, and Karen Rae as Tobie

This is a film about two brothers. The older one is straight and the younger one is gay.They have not talked or seen each other for years (since the father died 6 years ago) and now they meet again for the mother´s funeral. They finally talk to each other and begin to fix their differences. The Canadian film is a low budget production but of high quality!

2. Cruise Control

Director: Lawrence Ferbe
6 Mins

3. Birthday Time

Director: Lawrence Ferbe
19 Mins

It´s his 18th birthday and a boy decides to lose his virginity – will he succeed?

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Two Drifters
(Original title: Odete)

Director: João Pedro Rodrigues ( who did the film O Fantasma)
Portugal : 2005: 101 mins: in Portuguese with English subtitles:
With: João Carreira as Pedro, Carloto Cotta as Alberto, Ana Cristina De Oliveira as Odete, Nuno Gil as Rui, Teresa Madruga as Teresa:

This film is about Rui. His lover Pedro was killed in a car accident and he goes into a depression. This depression leads to drinking and going to saunas / crusing for nameless sexual encounters.
All this is too much for him and he decides suicide is what will cure the pain he is feeling at his loss. But this is not the only story in the film Odete is a woman who works in a large store. She is determined to have a baby but her boyfriend does not want a baby with her. In her desperation she makes herself believe that she is pregnant and unbelievingly the father is supposed to be Pedro who was gay and is now dead. She starts dressing as Pedro as she starts to go crazy. How this effects Rui in his sad times and what happens to them you will have to see the film to find out. Definitely a different film if there ever was one.

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Two Girls and a Baby

1998

Another film checking out if it is OK for gays and lesbians to have children.

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Two Girls and a Guy

Director: James Toback
USA: 1997: 84 Mins: bisexual female main character:
With: Robert Downey Jr as Blake Allen, Heather Graham as Carla and Natasha Gregson Wagner as Lou:

This is the story of a guy who is dating two women at the same time and one of the women is a bisexual. Then the two women (Carla & Lou) meet and find out they are dating the same man. What follows is bad time for Blake.
Note: The USA version cuts out most of the oral sex.

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Two Mothers for Zachary

Director: Peter Werner:
USA 1996: 89 Mins
With: Vanessa Redgrave, Valerie Beertinelli, Colleen Flynn and James Gammon:

Zachary is born and his grandmother takes care of the child. When the mother meets another woman and falls in love - this causes trouble and the grandmother wants to keep the child as she does not believe it is good for the child to be with the Lesbians.... Ha ha - same old story... we eat children donut we??? It is a wonder that they donut still burn us at the stake!!! Oh well it is always good to know your enemies right???

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Two of Us

Director: Roger Tonge
UK: 1986: Made for TV: 60 Mins: teenage Gay Drama:

This is the story of two working class teenage boys who drift together and become lovers.

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Twilight of the Golds, The

Director: Ross Marks
USA: 1997: Made for TV
With: Jennifer Beals as Suzanne Stein, Brendan Fraser, Faye Dunaway and others:

This is the story of a well adjusted gay man called David. In this film there is a new genetic test for telling if a child is going to be gay or not. David´s sister becomes pregnant and must decide if they will do the test and if they would want the child if it is going to be gay. Having David as a brother only makes matters more complicated. See the film and see what the decision is! There are two stereotype gays in the film but there are two non stereotypes also so the audience can see that gays different - some queens - some not!

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Twist

2003

Gay Interest: Charles Dickens' classic done gay!

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Twisted

Director: Seth Michael Donsky
1994: 100 Mins: Male prostitutes
With: William Hickey, Anthony Crivello and others:

This is a low budget updating of Dickens' Oliver Twist. It takes place in NYC and has Fagin as the owner of a male transports story to New York City and re-imagines Fagin as proprietor of male whorehouse. Strange story but worth a peek...

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Two Brothers

Director Lawrence Ferber, Richard Bell
USA: Canada, 2000:
With: Kelvin Walker, Norbert Orlewicz, Cody Campbell, David Drake, Anthony Rapp, Karen Rae

This film is about Riley who lives at home and then his mother dies. So he is finally free and goes to the big city to see his brother who left home 6 years before. Will Riley find the life style that he is looking for in the city and will his brother be able to accept it - see the film!

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