Director: Susanne Bier
Year: 1995
Country: Sweden
Duration: 1 h 48 mins
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Keywords: Gays | Acceptance | Lesbian characters |
Known Actors: Loa Falkman | Peter Norrthon | Stina Ekblad |
Plot: A family father [Falkman] holidays with his family at a summer paradise, and meets a young man [Norrthon], which makes him forget everything about his family. Things will never be the same.
English Title: Like it never was before
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 1980
Country: Spain
Duration: 1 h 22 mins
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Keywords: Bisexuality | BDSM | Lesbian characters |
Actors: Carmen Maura | Olvido Gara | Eva Siva |
Plot: Pepi [Maura] is a bored virgin who wants to sell her virginity for a high price, but when raped by a policeman, her plans are crushed. She decides to take out a big revenge and get him bashed, but the policeman's identical nice twin brother get bashed in his place. When Pepi find this out she starts to take an interest in the raper's wife Luci. She introduce Luci to her sadistic dyke friend Bom.
English Title: Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap
Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Gays | AIDS | Law |
Actors: Tom Hanks | Denzel Washington | Antonio Banderas |
Plot: Andrew [Hanks] gets fired because he got AIDS. He decides to fight for his rights against his homophobic ex-employers, and seek legal help since he might be dead before the trial is over. He goes from lawyer to lawyer but everyone turn down the offer to represent him, until he finally finds the legation specialist Joe Miller [Washington]. X is first a bit hesitant but after a while he decides to help the other man. During the way he has to face his own homophobic views.
Swedish Title: Philadelphia
Year:
1971
Director: Anonymous
Country: USA
Genre: Art
Keywords: Gays | Narcissism |
Actor: Bobby Kendall
Plot: A young man sees his own reflection in the mirror and embarks on an erotic fantasy.
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 2001
Country: France
Duration: 1 h 24 mins
Genre: Comedy | Drama |
Keywords: Friendships | Gay characters | Pretend gay |
Actor: Gerard Depardieu | Daniel Auteuil | Thierry Lhermitte |
Plot: A straight man is almost loosing his job and to be able to stay on pretends to be gay.
English Title: The Closet
Director: Marcelo Pińeyro
Year: 2000
Country: Spain | France | Argentina | Uruguay |
Duration: 1 h 24 mins
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Crimes |
Actor: Eduardo Noriega | Leonardo Sbaraglia | Pablo Echarri |
Plot: Angel and Nene meets and becomes lovers. They are also bankrobbers and together with their accomplice they flee the police.
English Title: Burnt Money
Director: Stephen Frears
Year: 1987
Country: UK
Duration: 1 h 51 mins
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Gay | Historical persons |
Known Actors: Gary Oldman | Alfred Molina | Vanessa Redgrave |
Plot: Joe Orton [Oldman] is young when he meets Kenneth Halliwell [Molina] and they fall in love. They are both writers and dream together of a glorious future, however only Orton would become famous. The film follows the couple to the day when Halliwell stabs Orton to death and then commits suicide.
Director: Antonia Bird
Year: 1996
Country: UK
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Gay | Christianity |
Actors: Linus Rouche | Tom Wilkinson | Robert Carlyle |
Plot: Father Greg [Rouche], a Catholic priest, arrives to his new parish. He finds to his astonishment that the priest [Wilkinson] who is to be his boss has a girlfriend who lives with him. Soon bigger and darker problems come to the surface.
Swedish Title: Priest
Director: Mike Nichols
Year: 1998
Country: USA
Duration: 2 h and 23 mins
Genre: Comedy | Drama |
Keywords: Lesbian character | Politics |
Known Actors: Emma Thompson | John Travolta | Adrian Lester | Kathy Bates |
Plot: Henry [Lester] joins behind the election campaign of governor Jack Stanton [Travolta], who is running for president. At first he falls in love with the message, but soon he starts to see the faults of Stanton, mainly his love for different women.
Director: Robert Altman
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy | Drama |
Keywords: Gay | Fashion industry |
Actors: Julia Roberts | Sophia Lorens | Rupert Everett | Kim Basinger |
Plot: The Parisian fashion-week Pręt-ŕ-Porter is shaken by the death of a famous fashion-designer. Get all the juicy details!
Alternative English Title: Ready to Wear