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Y Tu Mama Tambien
Lust For Life (English title)
E Sua Mãe Também (Portuguese title)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
México´/ USA: 2001:

With:Maribel Verdú, Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal

It´s a great hot Mexican road movie about two young male friends (one rich and the another poor)along with an unhappy married woman who borrow a car and start to search for a nonexistent beach.During the trip they start to talk about sex all the time, and...doing sex all the the time, the woman has sex with both of the men and to make it especially nice they are naked a LOT !

Claudio    


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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Director: Richard Jones
USA : 1919 : 60 Minute: Filmed in Black/White : Drag just for fun
With: Bothwell Browne, Ford Sterling and Mal St. Clair:

This is a very early drag film and unlike most other early films the drag is acted by a real life female impersonator from this period. Bothwell plays both the leading lady and the flyer. Of course, just for laughs. Phillip



 

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Year of Living Dangerously, The
Director: Jessica Braidwood
Australia: 1982: 117 Minute:
With: Noel Ferrier as Wally O'Sullivan 


This film is listed as there is a character of Wally O'Sullivan who is a Sydney Herald Correspondent and has a boyfriend who is Indonesian. Certainly worth a watch just for that fact!

Phillip


 

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Yentl
Director: Barbra Streisand
USA : 1983 : 134 Minute: Female to male drag
With: Barbra Streisand as Yentl/Anshel and her love interest is Avigdor played by Mandy Patinkin:

Yentl is a jewish woman in the turn of the century. She does not want to be a wife and mother but wants to get an education. Knowing that she can not do this as a woman she takes on the identity of her dead brother who is called Anshel. She then dresses up as a man and goes on to live her dream and all is going well till she meet Avigdor who is a male student. She/he slowly falls in love with him and he not knowing what is happening is falling in love with him/her. He thinks at first his is gay but when she tells him that she is a she he is relieved but will only accept her love if she gives up the schooling. Well if you know Barbra nothing will stop her from following her dreams so you can figure out the rest. Oh I almost forgot along the way he/she marries another woman to keep up the pretense.

Phillip



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You Are Not Alone
[Original title: Du Er Ikke Alene]
Directors: Nielson and Johnsons
Denmark: 1982: Denmark: 91 Minute:

Although Denmark is not known for it's gay films this is a good film about two young boys who are at an all boys school and their discovery of their love for each other.

Phillip

 

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You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men
1996

Contains at least one gay man. Phillip


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Young Don´t Cry. The
USA; 1957
Staring Sal Mineo:

This is only mentioned here as Sal was America boy who loved James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. In this film he plays an orphan. but in real life he was know to like men (but also said he liked women too).

Phillip

 

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Younger and Younger
Director: Percy Adlon
Germany / USA: 1993: 99 Minute:
 

In this story of a man who is rather different and lives in his own world there is room for two gay characters in this film: Barry Grayson as the gay white man and Oscar Jordan as the gay black man.

Phillip

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Young Love
2001

A guy gets instructions in photography by a gay teacher. Phillip


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Young Soul Rebels
Director: Isaac Julien
UK: 1991: 105 Minute: Drama gay murder
With: Valentine Nonyela as Chris, Mo Sesay as Caz, and Shyro Chung:

The film takes place in the summer of 1977 when two black men want to bring soul music to the main stream public audience, which includes using a pirate radio station. There is both love and hate between the black and whites in this film and you think that what the film is all about but then there is a twist in the film as a gay friend of theirs gets killed in the park. The rest of the film becomes a sort of gay who done it - but I will not tell you as you should see this film.

Phillip

 

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Young Torless
Director/ Screen play: Volker Schlondorff
Germany (West): 1966: 87 Minute: B/W: Boys school drama
With: Matthieu Carriere as Torless and Marian Seidowsky:

This film takes place in a German boys school. This is not a story about love but about students who pick a victim and then use him in all sorts of nasty ways. Torless just sits back and watches as the boy is used.

Phillip

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Yours Emotionally!
Director: Sridhar Rangayan
India/UK : Language - English : 2006 : Genre - Drama : 86 mins:
With : Prateek Gandhi as Mani, Ikhlaq Khan as Murthy, Jack Lamport as Paul, Premjit as Ravi, Ajai Rohilla as Anna

Ravi, an Indian man living in England, comes to India along with his English friend Paul. On an invitation, they come to a small Indian town and attend a gay party. Both friends were quite surprised to see the openness of the gay community in party which is otherwise quite invisible in India. Paul feels excited to see that so many guys are after him. Even once Ravi comments that it seems that Paul is sleeping with the whole town.

There Ravi meets Mani, a local working man, and falls in love with him. To try his luck with Mani, he decides to stay back for few days with Murthy and Anna, an older gay couple that are in live-in-together relationship for over 20 years.

Ravi asks Mani to accompany him to UK but Mani is not that interested. Mani's family wants him to get married to a woman and he finally decides to do what his family wants. Then Murthy comes forward and helps Ravi to understand the cultural differences of the two and barriers of Indian gay society, where few fight against all odds and dare to love and be together.
Ravi decides to go back but before that he wants to do something for Murthy and Anna, which will give recognition and respect to their relationship…

This movie tries to capture many things in a single canvas - a same sex old couple daring to stay together, fighting with tradition and homophobia of Indian society, cross cultural differences and similarity of a UK based Indian and a guy staying in small Indian town, horny men constantly looking for sex and a guy's journey to lookout for love and companionship.

A good try

Manish

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You're Still Young
Director: Barbara Green:

USA: 2004: short: 11 Minute.:

This short is about a teen who is suicidal but is helped by an older woman in a diner.Phillip


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Lan Yu
Director: Stanley Kwan
China: 2001: 90 Minute
With: Hu Jun, Liu Ye, Su Jim, Li Huatong

Lan Yu is a country boy, newly arrived in Beijing to study architecture, he has no money so decide to be a prostitute.Chen Handong is a businessman who lives in Beijing and his employee, Liu Zheng, knows about his sexuality and introduces Handong to Lan You. 

Claudio   

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Yossi & Jagger
Israel: 2002: 67 Minute:
Director:Eytan Fox:
With: OHAD KNOLLER, YEHUDA LEVI, ASSI COHEN:

A great movie based on a true story, the film takes place at a military base on the Israeli-Lebanese border which houses young soldiers, both men and women. Yossi is the leader of the group – a severe man who maintains his rigid appearance and reputation as tough at all costs. Jagger, the second-in-command, is more sensitive, despite taking his job very seriously. Once together, the two get lost in a forbidden love they try to hide from the other members of the troop. However, their efforts are threatened when a female recruit named Yaeli declares her love for Jagger. The two lovers are then forced to make a decision.  

Info: Winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Turin Gay Film Festival in 2003.  

Claudio   

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You I Love  
(Original Title: JA LJUBLJU TEBJA )
(Brazilian Title: Você Que Eu Amo )
Russia, 2004, 83 Minute:
Directors: Dmitry Troitsky & Olga Stolpovskaya
With: DAMIR BADMAEV, LUBOV TOLKALINA, EVGENY KORYAKOVSKY

The first gay-positive movie to coming from Russia. Vera, a beautiful television reporter, meets and falls in love with Tim, an advertising creative. They have a lot in common: they are underpaid, overworked and extremely stressed. The relationship is going strong until everything changes when the mysterious and very cute Iloomyi, a young Mongolian guy falls on Tim's car and Vera finds Tim in bedroom with IIoomyi . Its a nice movie with a happy end. 

Note: Exhibited in the Panorama section of the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.

Claudio 



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