Director: Kaige Chen
Year: 1993
Country: China | Hong Kong |
Duration: 2h 51 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Opera |
Leading Actors: Leslie Cheung | Fengyi Zhang | Li Gong |
Plot: Two friends and the woman who came between them.
English Title: Farwell My Concubine
Director: F. Gary Gray
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Duration: 1h 58 mins
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Romance |
Keywords: Gay character | Music business |
Leading Actors: John Travolta | Uma Thurman | The Rock |
Plot: A seasoned maffia boss turned movie director gets tired of the business and tries the the music business instead. But to gain success he has to battle Russian mobsters, black gangsta's and white afro-american managers.
Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham
Year: 2003
Country: Thailand
Duration: 1h 58 mins
Genre: Action | Drama |
Keywords: Trans | Boxers |
Leading Actors: Asanee Suwan | Sorapong Chatree | Orn-Anong Panyawong |
Plot: A girl trapped in a male body supports her family and also saves money for a sex-change by boxing.
Comments: Based on a true story.
Director: Hettie MacDonald
Year: 1996
Country: UK
Duration: 1h 30 mins
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Coming out | Teens | Mama Cass |
Leading Actors: Scott Neal | Glen Berry | Linda Henry |
Plot: Growing up is never easy. Especially if you are being harassed by your schoolmates, and in love with the boy next door. However everything can change if the boy next door starts to fall in love with you too.
Comments: Lovely film about growing up and to accept one's sexuality. Lots of poignant moments filled with joy and shere happiness but also modaine reality.
Director: Julian Schnabel
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Duration: 2 h 13 mins
Genre: Drama |
Keywords: Gay | Activism | Gay writer | Homophobia | Historical person |
Leading Actors: Javier Bardem | Olivier Martinez | Giovanni Florido |
Plot: A film about the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, and his struggle to be able to express himself and his sexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Director: Anne Wheeler
Year: 1999
Country: Canada
Duration: 1h 41 mins
Genre: Comedy | Romance |
Keywords: Lesbian | Trans | Acceptance | Activism | Friendship |
Leading Actors: Christina Cox | Karyn Dwyer | Peter Outerbridge |
Plot: Two lesbians Maggie [Dwyer] and Kim [Cox] meet and start a relationship. Problems occur when Maggie's mother decides to come to visit. The mother knows nothing about her daughters sexuality and do not care to know anything either. But is it possible to hide it from her?
Comments: There is also a touching subplot with a MTF transgender lesbian [Outerbridge] who is in love with the chic lesbian owner of the bookshop where Maggie works.
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 58 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Acceptance | Rural
setting |
Actors: Arye Gross | Eric Schweig | Tim DeKay |
Plot: A man lives a pretty hectic life in a big city when he gets the news
that his father is sick. He returns to the little town where he was
brought up, and meets his first love who is
now divorced. The
feelings starts to bloom again, but is his love really
gay? And soon he meets Pike.
Director:
Tommy O'Haver
Year: 1998
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 32 mins
Genre: Comedy | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Photography |
Actors: Sean Hayes
| Brad Rowe
| Richard Ganoung
|
Plot: Billy [Hayes] tries to find a model for a project where he wants
to make a gay twist to classical Hollywood movie scenes. He does find a cute
waiter that is willing to do it. But what is his
sexuality?
Director: Mike Nichols
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 57 mins
Genre: Comedy
Keywords: Gay | Drag | Parenting |
Politics |
Actors: Robin Williams | Nathan
Lane | Gene Hackman | Calista Flockhart | Dianne Wiest |
Plot: Armand and Albert's son comes
home with big news, he wants to get married. But isn't he little too young?
And how are they going to disguise the fact that his
parents are both men to the girl's conservative politician father.
Director: Derek Jarman
Year: 1993
Country: UK
Duration: 1 h 19 mins
Genre: Art | Documentry | Drama |
Keywords: Gay | Activism | AIDS |
Actors: Tilda Swinton | Derek Jarman | Nigel Terry |
Plot: A never changing blue screen. A story is told. The story about being
sick of/off/in AIDS.
Comments: A very powerful last statement from a superb director who soon after the completion of the film would die from the illness.
Director:
Mort
Nathan
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 34 mins
Genre: Comedy
Keywords: Gay | Drag |
Pretend gay |
Actors: Cuba
Gooding Jr. |
Horatio
Sanz |
Roger
Moore |
Plot: How will two straight guys whom by the
scheming of an angry gay travel agent go on a gay cruise survive?
Comments: Even if the film is full of stereotypes the scenes with Roger Moore makes the film watchable.
Director: Paul Thomas
Andersson
Year: 1997
Country: USA
Duration: 2 h 35 min
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Gay | Pornindustry |
Leading Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Julianne Moore | Burt Reynolds |
Plot: Eddie Adams might not be smartest kid on the block, but he sure is the biggest. He has a fascination for the porn industry and goes for an audition. Soon he is transformed to Dirk Diggler.
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 58 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Trans | Crime |
Actors: Hilary Swank | Chloe Sevigny | Peter Sarsgaard |
Plot: Brandon Teena [Swank] comes to a new small town and meets Lana [Sevigny]. They start a relationship which is not liked, but in the beginning accepted, by Lana's old boyfriend [Sarsgaard]. However Brandon bears a secret that threatens to ruin everything.
Comments: A very strong and haunting film based on a true story. Hillary Swank was awarded an Oscar for her performance.
Director: Alan Daniels
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 22 mins
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Satire |
Keywords: Gay | Friendship | Prison |
Actors: Andrew Addams | Lewis Alante | Slade Burrus |
Plot: Prison life for some really extra-ordinary prisoners. Life is oh-so-difficult. How to react when the not-so-closeted prison priest makes advances on you?
Director: Peyton Reed
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 38 mins
Genre: Comedy
Keywords: Friendship | Gay character | Teen |
Actors: Kirsten Dunst | Eliza Dushku | Jesse Bradford | Huntler Ritter |
Plot: Torrance [Dunst] gets elected to lead the cheerleader squad, but soon realises that the routines they have are all stolen. She has to do something before it is too late.
Comments: There are very few scenes with the gay guy; in the extra material included with the DVD there are more scenes with him.
Director: Greg Berlanti
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 34 mins
Genre: Drama | Comedy |
Keywords: Gay | Friendship |
Actors: Dean Caine | John Mahoney | Timothy Olyphant |
Plot: A diverse group of gay friends meet now and then to play baseball.
Director: Jamie Babbit
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 25 mins
Genre: Comedy | Romance | Satire |
Keywords: Gay | Lesbian | Ex-Gay | Friendship | Resistance |
Actors: Natasha Lyonne | Clea DuVall | Cathy Moriarty | RuPaul | Eddie Cibrian |
Plot: The cheerleader Megan [Lyonne] gets ambushed and turned over to a blissful ex-gay camp where they will straighten out her weired manners. But is she really a lesbian? And are all the girls and boys in the camp of deviant sexualities? And how straight are the people running the camp? And soon the gay resistance start to make themselves heard!