Rainbow Cinema

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The Object Of My Affection


Director
: Nicholas Hytner

Year:1997

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy | Drama |

Keywords: Gay | Gay man - straight woman | Parenting |

Actors: Jennifer Aniston | Paul Raud |

Plot: Nina (Aniston) gets pregnant and wants her gay friend to raise the baby with her. But it is fair for her to expect him to not have sex with men? And what role will the child's biological father have?

 

The Opposite of Sex


Director
: Don Roos

Year:1998

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy

Keywords: Gay | Betrayal | Sibling rivalry |

Actors: Christina Ricci | Martin Donovan | Lisa Kudrow |

Plot: DeeDee Truitt (Ricci) seduces her half-brother's lover and becomes pregnant. They dissappear together, while the half-brother goes through a scandal of sexual misconduct at his high-school. The only one who believes and supports him is his sister-in-law Lucia (Kudrow).

 

Orlando


Director: Sally Potter

Year: 1992

Country: UK

Duration: 1h 33 mins

Genre: Art | Drama |

Keywords: Trans | Historical setting |

Actors: Tilda Swinton | Quentin Crisp | Billy Zane | Jimmy Somerville |

Plot: Orlando (Swinton) is given a castle by Queen Elizabeth I on the promise that he will never grow old. So there he stays young forever, having his heart crushed by a cruel Russian noble lady and marries a young aristocratic lady, until the day he goes East to colonize. All of a sudden he turns into a woman, and looses her castle because she now is a woman. Will this change Orlando success in love?

Comments: Based on a novel by Virginia Woolf.