Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 1982
Country: Spain
Duration: 1 h 40 mins
Genre: Comedy
Keywords: Gay | Islamic terrorists |
Known Actors: Cecilia Roth | Imanol Arias | Helga Liné |
English Title: Labyrinth of Passion
Director: Aleksi Salmenperä
Year: 2004
Country: Finland
Duration: 1 h 36 mins
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Lesbian | Bisexuality | Pregnancy |
Known Actors: Minna Haapkylä | Karl-Pekka Toivonen | Minttu Mustakallio |
Swedish Title: Hela vägen
Plot: Venla wants a child but her fiancee gets cold feet. Venla enlist a friend to help her out. But soon she looks into her friend's eyes and is lost.
Director: Stanley Kwan
Year: 2001
Country: Hong Kong | China |
Duration: 1 h 26 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance
Keywords: Bisexuality | Gay | Age difference |
Known Actors: Ye Liu | Li Huatong | Jun Hu |
Plot: A young man comes to the city to make a life for himself. At a brothel bar he meets an older man. They go home together and have sex. They continue seeing each other but the older man decides for the both of them that they will not be more than just lovers. The older man even gets married and they part. However in their fate is another meeting.
Comments: A very touching love story with lots of turns and twists.
Director: C. Jay Cox
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 26 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance
Keywords: Gay | Mormon |
Known Actors: Steve Sandvoss | Wes Ramsey | Rebekah Jordan |
Plot: Christian persues a Mormon neighbour. This will change both of their lives.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 1987
Country: Spain
Duration: 1 h 37 mins
Genre: Drama | Comedy | Romance
Keywords: Gay | Trans | Crime | Revenge |
Known Actors: Antonio Banderas | Carmen Maura | Eusebio Poncela | Bibi Andersen |
Plot: Pablo is a famous porndirector whose boyfriend is leaving him for the summer. He starts an affair with one of his fans, and the fan falls in love with him. But Pablo is still in love with his boyfriend and decides to end the affair.
Comments: Interesting casting with Maura as a transgendered woman while Andersen plays the mother of her child.
English Title: Law of Desire
Swedish Title: Begärets lag
Director: Susanne Bier
Year: 2001
Country: Sweden
Duration: 1 h 48 mins
Genre: Comedy
Keywords: Trans | AIDS |
Actors: Helena Bergström | Björn Kjellman | Jonas Karlsson |
Plot: Mona lives a quite life together with her husband and four children. She also works as a personal assistant to David. One night David plays a song for her, and she understands that he is a music-genius. Soon everything is changing, and not everything is for the best.
Comment: Wonderful performance by Björn Kjellman as the wonderful brother/sister dying of AIDS.
English Title: Once in a Lifetime
Director: Gregg Araki
Year: 1992
Country: USA
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | One-night |
Known Actors: Craig Gilmore | Mike Dytri |
Plot: Two gays meet and start a fatal crusade.
Director: Norman René
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Gay | Activism | AIDS | Friendship |
Known Actors: Bruce Davison | Campbell Scott | Dermot Mulroney |
Plot: In a Longtime Companion we follow three gay couples and their friends in the outburst of AIDS. We follow them through the epidemy, all through the discovery and to the death.
Comments: A powerful film with great promising young actors. Many of these actors are still active today.
Director: Isaac Julien
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Duration: 45 mins
Genre: Art | Drama |
Keywords: Gay | Activism| Langston Hughes | Rejection|
Known Actors: Ben Ellison | Nelson Baidoo | Akim Mogaji |
Plot: An exploration of the Jazz age, the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes from a gay perspetive.
Director: Nigel Finch
Year: 1991
Country: UK | USA |
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Gay | Coming out | Father and son |
Known Actors: Brian Cox | Eileen Atkins | Angus Macfadyen |
Plot: Philip is tired of pretending to be straight infront of his parents. After a devastating break-up with the man he thought was the love of his life, he decides to tell his parents. However this will change the family life in more ways than what Philip can imagine.
Director: Joe Montello
Year: 1997
Country: USA
Duration: 1h 48 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | AIDS | Friendship | Swan Lake |
Known Actors: Jason Alexander | John Glover | Stephen Spinella |
Plot: A group of male friend's get together at the summer house. These males have been friends through lots of things, and the feelings amongst them are not only friendly, some of them are old lovers. The biggest news about the gathering is the illness of one of the friends. They decide to make a male cast version of the Swan Lake.