Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Year: 1997
Country: Italy
Duration: 1 h 34 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Bisexuality | Gay |
Acceptance |
Actors: Alessandro Gassman | Francesca d'Aloja | Halil Egun |
Plot: Francesco's auntie dies and leaves him a turkish bath. He decides to go to Turkey to sell it himself. When he gets there he discovers the beauty of Istanbul, and also meets a man who changes everything.
Swedish Title: Det turkiska badet
Year: 1998
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Country: Canada
Duration: 1 h 31 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance
Keywords: Gay | Acceptance | Rural setting |
Actors: Chris Leavins | Sara Polley | Troy Veinotte |
Plot: Sweet William returns to home after ten years for the wedding of his sister and his childhood love. He left the family as a fat young boy and has now transformed himself into a young sexy man. Now he has to face his biggest fear - his past.
Swedish Title: Den hängande trädgården
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Year: 1998
Country: Australia
Duration: 1 h 44 mins
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Bisexuality | Gay | Trans |
Actors: Alex Dimitriades | Paul Capsis | Julian Garner |
Plot: Greek youth in Melbourne eplores his sexuality, drugs and is busy fighting off his parents, who wants him to get a job and a girlfriend. One night he is out and get picked up by the police.
Director: John
Cameron Mitchell
Year: 2001
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 35 mins
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Musical |
Keywords: Bisexuality | Gay | Trans |
Actors: John Cameron Mitchell | Michael Pitt | Miriam Shor |
Plot: The transsexual Hedwig tells the story about the boyfriend who stole her life.
Director: Michael Mayer
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 37 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Acceptance | Family |
Actors: Colin Farrell | Dallas Roberts | Robin Wright Penn | Sissy Spacek |
Plot: A story about two friends who have know each other all their lives. And how the meeting of an older woman changes everything.
Webpage: http://wip.warnerbros.com/ahome/
Director: Judy Foster
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 43 mins
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Keywords: Gay | Acceptance | Family |
Actors: Robert Downey Jr | Ann Bancraft | Holly Hunter | Geraldine Chaplin |
Plot: An ordinary American family get together to celebrate Thanksgiving. The members all have their own private dramas, everything from the grown up gay son (Downey Jr) with a life-changing secret which he has to reveal, to the under-aged daughter telling her mother she is going to have sex.
Swedish Title: Hemma är bäst
Director: Stephen Daldry
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 54 mins
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Gay | Lesbian | AIDS | Virginia Woolf |
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Meryl Streep | Julianne Moore | Ed Harris |
Plot: Three women: The first is the writer Virginia Woolf, while writing Mrs Dalloway. Then there is a mother in the 50's who prepares for her husband's birthday surprise. The last woman is a publisher who plans a party for her AIDS sick friend who just won a prize. They all have life changing choices to make.
Swedish Title: Timmarna
Hsi yen
Director: Ang Lee
Year: 1993
Country: Taiwan | USA |
Duration: 1 h 46 mins
Genre: Comedy | Romance |
Actors: Dion Birney | Jeanne Kuo Chang | Winston Chang |
Plot: A happy couple is getting married. Wei-Wei needs a green card and Wei-Tung needs to cover up his sexuality. Everything goes well until relatives arrives from China to witness the happy occation.
English Title: The Wedding Banquet
Hustler White
Director:
Bruce LaBruce, Rick Castro
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 19 mins
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Sex workers | Writer |
Actors: Tony Ward | Bruce LaBruce | Alex Austin |
Plot: A German gay writer comes to Hollywood to find scopes to his new books, and meet a hustler (played by Tony Ward) and falls in love with him. But love is never simple.
Comments: A story full of nudity and sex. With a bit of a plot.