Director: Bob Fosse
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Duration: 2 h 4 mins
Genre: Musical | Drama |
Keywords: Bisexuality | Gay | Historical setting | Drag | Politics |
Leading Actors: Liza Minelli | Michael York | Helmut Griem |
Plot: The secretly homosexual Brian arrives to Pre-Nazi Germany and meets and befriends Sally Bowles a cabaret dancer. They both meet Maximilian and fall in love. But who will get him?
Comments: Builds on Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories. An interesting autobiographical look on the time before Hitler came to power in Germany.
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Year: 1978
Country: France
Genre: Comedy
Keywords: Gay | Drag | Parenting | Politics |
Leading Actors: Ugo Tognazzi | Michel Serrault | Claire Maurier |
Plot: A 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 President candidate father?
English Title: Birds of a Feather
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Year: 1980
Country: France
Genre: Comedy |
Keywords: Gay | Drag |
Leading Actors: Ugo Tognazzi | Michel Serrault | Marcel Bozzuffi |
Plot: Albin is unlucky enough to get the hand of a microfilm that some spies wants back, and pays the gayly couple a visit. Unknowing of this Renato and Albin runs to Italy for their lives afraid of being killed. There they take cover at Renato's family, and Albin has to go into drag to fool the family that they are married. However the spy network are soon on their tail!
Director: Derek Jarman
Year: 1986
Country: UK
Duration: 1 h 33 mins
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Bisexuality | Gay | Historical person |
Leading Actors: Tilda Swinton | Nigel Terry | Dexter Fletcher |
Plot: The life and love of Michelangelo Caravaggio.
Comments: An interesting exploration of a legend painter from a director who proved himself with every film.
Director: Christopher Hampton
Year: 1995
Country: UK | France |
Duration: 2 h 1 min
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Bisexuality | Gay | Historical person |
Leading Actors: Emma Thompson | Jonathan Pryce | Steven Waddington |
Plot: The painter Dora Carrington [Thompson] meets Lytton Strachey [Pryce] and they get involved. However Strachey's sexuality comes between them especially when Strachey commences a relationship with another much younger man [Waddington].
Director: Jean Genet
Year: 1950
Country: France
Duration: 26 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Homophobia | Prison |
Leading Actors: Java | André Reybaz |
Plot: A prison warden walks from door to door looking at his prisoners. Two of the prisoners start a dangerous flirt.
English Title: A Song of Love
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Year: 1997
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 1 h 36 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Breaking Up | Travel |
Leading Actors: Leslie Cheung | Tony Leung Chiui Wai | Chen Chang |
Plot: Two men meets in Argentina and starts a stormy relationship. Something happens and their relationship drifts away. Both stays on in Argentina however and they meet each other again. But is Yiu-Fai able forget and forgive his boyfriend?
International Title: Happy Together
Director: William Wyler
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 47 mins
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Lesbians | Homophobia | High-schools |
Leading Actors: Audrey Hepburn | Shirley MacLaine | James Garner |
Plot: A student accuses two of her teachers of being homosexuals.
Comments: A scene of this film is featured in If these walls could talk 2.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Year: 1985
Country: USA
Duration: 2 h 34 mins
Genre: Drama |
Keywords: Bisexual | Lesbian | Acceptance | Historical setting | Revenge | Triumph |
Actors: Danny Glover | Whoopi Goldberg | Margaret Avery | Oprah Winfrey |
Plot: Celie is molested by her father and at the age of 14 she is pregnant by him. Soon she is also married off to a man. Will she ever break free to become an independent woman? Is it possible to be a free Afro-American woman is the early 20th Century?
Comment: A powerful film with a wonderful Whoopi Goldberg.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 32 mins
Genre: Comedy | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Acceptance | Crime | Debbie Reynolds | Drag | Homophobia | Pretend gay |
Actors: Nia Vardalos | Toni Collette | David Duchovny | Debbie Reynolds |
Plot: Connie and Carla witness a murder and run from the bad guys. They go to Los Angeles and to get money to survive they go into the drag business, pretending to be dragqueens.
Director: Roger Kumble
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 37 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Bisexual twist | Gay twist | Revenge |
Actors: Sarah Michelle Geller | Ryan Phillipe | Reese Winterspoon | Selma Blair |
Plot: Sebastian [Phillipe] a teenage playboy makes a bet with his stepsister (Geller) of the seduction of Annette Hargrove (Winterspoon), a nice rich virginal girl, but he falls in love instead.
Director: William Friedkin
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 46 mins
Genre: Drama |
Keywords: Gay | Crime | Gay pretend |
Actors: Al Pacino | Paul Sorvino | Karen Allen |
Plot: Gays are being killed by a serial killer, and a cop is set out to stop the killer. He pretends to be gay to attract the murderer.
Comments: Highly criticized by activists for its stereotyping of gay men.
Director: Neil Jordan
Year: 1992
Country: UK
Duration: 1 h 52 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance | Thriller |
Keywords: Trans | Crime | IRA | Terrorism |
Leading Actors: Forester Whitaker | Miranda Richardson |
Stephen Rea |
Plot: Fergus flees from the police after the killing of a English soldier,
but also decides to say good-bye to IRA. He promised to tell the
soldier's girlfriend that his last thoughts was with her. When he
finally meets her he feels very attracted - but can he really get into a
relationship to the widow of the man he killed?