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Saving Private Tootsie


Director: Kittikorn Liasirikun

Country: Thailand

Year: 2002

Duration: 1 h 31 mins

Genre: Comedy | Drama |

Keywords: Gay | Trans | Drag | Homophobia | Military |

Actors: Sorapong Chatree | Puthichai Amatayakul | Seri Wongmontha |

Plot: A plane crashes with a bunch of transvestites, transsexuals and gays as passengers. A rescue mission is send out, but first the soldiers have to come to term with their own fears against deviant sexualities and genders. 

 

Sebastiane


Director: Derek Jarman

Country: UK

Year: 1976

Duration: 1 h 30 mins

Genre: Art | Drama |

Keywords: Gay | Historical setting |

Actors: Barney James | Neal Kennedy | Leonardo Treviglio |

Plot: Sebastiane gets exiled to a remote Roman all male outpost. One of centarions tries to get with him, but he rejects the offer.

 

Setree lek


Director Youngyooth Thongkonthun

Year: 2000

Country: Thailand

Duration: 1 h 44 mins

Genre: Comedy

Keywords: Gay | Trans | Friendship | Sports |

Actors: Jesdaporn Pholdee | Sahaphap Tor | Ekachai Buranapanit |

Plot: Two friends love playing volleyball, but unfortunelly they are gay and not welcome in the teams. However one coach decides to start a dream team and this new thinking gets one of the gay guys into the team. However when their straight co-players hears about this they quit.

English Title: The Iron Ladies

 

Setree lek 2


Director Youngyooth Thongkonthun

Year: 2003

Country: Thailand

Duration: 1 h 44 mins

Genre: Comedy

Keywords: Gay | Trans | Friendship | Sports |

ActorsSujira Arunpipat. | Kokkorn Benjathikoon | Anucha Chatkaew

Plot: After the success of the volleyballteam they split up. But then the old coach wants to reunite the team.

English Title: The Iron Ladies 2

 

Sex, Politics, Cocktails


DirectorJulien Hernandez

Year: 2002

Country: USA

Duration: 1 h 28 mins

Genre: Comedy

Keywords: Gay

Actors: Julien Hernandez | Maria Petroro | Set Macari |

Plot: Sebastian is being hired to film three gay documentaries. But he is not gay! Or wait. He has never been love. Never been able to commit to a woman? Maybe he has not just found the right gay guy.

Official Site: http://www.sexpoliticsandcocktails-themovie.com/

 

She Hate Me


DirectorSpike Lee

Year: 2004

Country: USA

Duration: 2 h 18 mins

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Satire |

Keywords: Bisexual | Lesbian | Poly | Law | Parenting | Triumph |

Actors: Anthony Mackie | Kerry Washington | Ellen Barkin |

Plot: Jack gets fired when he blows the whistle on his employers. He gets into deep trouble when the owners put all the blame on him. Then his ex-girlfriend Fatima come back in his life with a proposition.

 

Sitcom


Director: François Ozon

Year: 1998

Country: France

Duration: 1 h 25 mins

Genre: Comedy | Satire |

Keywords: Gay | BDSM |

Actors: Évelyne Dandry | François Marthouret | Marina de Van |

Plot: A normal French family is faced with a threat that will tear the family apart; this in form a white rat. Soon the perfect son comes out as gay and as a leather gang-banging scene queen, and this is just the beginning. Soon the mother also lets go off her surpressed self and lets it all hang out.

 

Soapdish


DirectorMichael Hoffman

Year: 1991

Country: USA

Duration: 1 h 37 mins

Genre: Comedy | Satire |

Keywords: Trans twist | Transphobia |

Actors: Elisabeth Shue | Sally Fields | Cathy Moriarty | Robert Downey Jr | Kevin Kline | Whoopi Goldberg |

Plot: Montana Moorehead [Moriarty] wants to be the star of the daysoap she is acting in. The woman who stands in her way is the lovely Celest Talbert [Fields], a seasoned star who is still adored by her fans. To heaten things up the producer [Downey Jr], who is trying to bed Moorehead, enlists the ex-boyfriend of Talbert, who she got fired quite some years ago. Things heatens up even more when Lori Craven [Shue] is hired to the show. What is her secret and what is her connection to Celest?

 

Some Like It Hot


Director: Billy Wilder

Year: 1959

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy

Keywords: Drag | Gay character | Gay twist | Maffia |

Known Actors: Marilyn Monroe | Tony Curtis | Jack Lemon | Joe E. Brown |

Plot: Two musicians [Curtis and Lemon] have to flee the 1930's Chicago after seeing a mafia murder. They take on skirts and seek employment in a female band that is leaving for Florida. In the band they meet a very sensual woman [Monroe], and one of the musicians starts to court her pretending to be a millionaire, but that makes everything little less easy. The other musician also gets an admirer in the wealthy millionaire Osgood Fielding III.

 

Sordid Lives


Director: Del Shores

Year: 2000

Country: USA

Duration: 1 h 51 mins

Genre: Comedy | Drama |

Keywords: Gay | Lesbian | Trans | Acceptance | Tammy Wynnette |

Known Actors: Olivia Newton-John | Beau Bridges | Leslie Jordan |

Plot: The matriarch has died and her off-springs gather for her funeral. Amongst them are the son who has taken the appearance of Tammy Wynnette at his lunatic hospital. Also a mysterious woman in leather and armed with a guitar is on her way, but who is she?

 

Stonewall


DirectorNigel Finch

Year: 1995

Country: USA

Duration: 1 h 39 mins

Genre: Drama |

Keywords: Gay | Lesbian | Trans | Activism | Drag |

Known Actors: Guillermo Díaz | Fred Weller | Brendan Corbalis |

Plot: A film about the men and women who started the homosexual revolution in New York in 1969. Without these people we would not be where we are today! And it all started with the death of the screen legend Judy Garland.

 

Swoon


Director: Tom Kalin

Year: 1992

Country: USA

Duration: 1 h 22 mins

Genre: Drama

Keywords: Gay | Crime |

Known Actors: Daniel Schlachet | Craig Chester | Michael Kirby |

Plot: Two gay lovers kidnap and kill a baby for the thrill of it.