Director:
Anthony Minghella
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Duration: 2 h 19 min
Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Bisexuality | Gay twist | Infatuation |
Known Actors: Matt Damon | Jude Law | Gwyneth Paltrow |
Plot: Tom Ripley [Damon] is sent to Italy to bring back the millionaire son Dickie Greenleaf [Law]. When he gets there he meets the very charismatic youth and falls in love with him and his lifestyle. However Dickie has a girlfriend [Paltrow] and shows little interest in the other man. Ripley soon has to defend his place next to Greenleaf.
Director: Alastair Read
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Duration: 6 h
Genre: Comedy | Drama |
Keywords: Gay
Known Actors: Olympia Dukakis | Donald Moffat | Chloe Webb |
Plot: Mary Ann decides to stay in San Fransisco, and moves into 28 Barbary Lane, with its set of friendly tenants and a very supportive landlord. Her neighbour Michael has love issues, while Brian who lives close to her have too much loving. Her landlord Mrs Madrigal is all too willing to help her tenants out with problems and with a free suppliance of pott.
Director: Andrew Fleming
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Friendship |
Actors: Lara Flynn Boyle | Stephen Baldwin |
Plot: Alex (Flynn Boyle) is mistaken for being a guy when she checks in, and find herself sharing her dormroom with two guys. Soon they get close. And of course, and like everyone knows people THAT close will have sex. (?!?) But how are they gonna have sex? Especially when the girl wants the gay guy, the gay guy wants the the straight guy and the straight guy wants the girl.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 1999
Country: Spain
Duration: 1 h 41 mins
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Trans | Acceptance | AIDS | Nuns |
Actors: Penelope Cruz | Cecilia Roth | Marisa Paredes |
Plot: Manuela's son dies in a car accident while trying to hunt down his favorite actor. Manuela decides to go to Barcelona to find his drag-queen father to tell him that he had a son and that he is dead. There she meets a pregnant AIDS sick nun who is somehow connected to her.
Original Title: All About My Mother
Director: PJ Castellaneta
Year: 1991
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 27 mins
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Gay
Actors: Terry Curry | Todd Stites |
Plot: Two men meets up for sex.
Director: Stefan Sundahl
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy | Drama |
Keywords: Gay twist
Actors: Peter Haber | Sussane Reuter | Dan Ekborg |
Plot: A mother invites her extended family´to celebrate Christmas with her. The problem is that the men all one way or another have had sex with her, and the new husband feels little insecure.
Director: Beeban Kidron
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy
Keywords: Gay | Drag | Rural setting |
Actors: Patrick Swayze | Wesley Snipes | John Leguizamo |
Plot: Noxeema Jackson [Swayze] and Vida Boheme [Snipes] win a trip to Los Angeles to contest in Miss Drag America, in a drag-queen bash in New York. When they walk of the stage they find their fellow drag-queen Chi Chi Rodriguez [Leguizamo] in tears.
Quote from the Film: Well pumpkins, it comes down to that age-old decision: style... or... substance? [Patrick Swayze as Vida Boheme]
Swedish Title: High Heels
Director: Paul
Bogart
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Duration: 2 h
Genre: Drama | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Activism | Drag | Judaism | Parenting |
Actors: Harvey Fierstein | Anne Bancroft | Matthew Broderick |
Plot: Arnold Beckoff is a young Jewish newyorker who tries to find love while battling with life. He meets the model Alan and they start to date. But who says happiness is forever?
Comments: A powerful film and also an important statement.
Director: Greg Araki
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h and 17 mins
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Bisexuality | Gay | Lesbian | Friendship |
Actors: James Duval | Roko Belic | Susan Behshid |
Plot: An American queer youth gang with their problems and love connections.
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Year: 2004
Country: Canada | UK |
Duration: 1 h 31 mins
Genre: Comedy | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Acceptance | Gay twist | Wedding |
Actors: Jimi Mistry | Kyle MacLachlan | Kristen Holden-Reid |
Plot: After visiting the engagement party of her niece, an Indian mother decides to go to London to beg her son to get married. The problem is only that the son [Mistry] is living with his male lover. When he finds out about his mother's plan to visit him he makes his boyfriend to pretend to be his roommate. But will the mother see through this subterfudge? And will the boyfriend accept to play along in the charade when the mother arrives?
Director: Jim Fall
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 29 mins
Genre: Comedy | Romance |
Keywords: Gay | Musical | One-nighter |
Actors: Tori Spelling | Christian Campbell | John Paul Pitoc |
Plot: Gabriel [Campbell] is doing a musical writing class but does not really find the insperation he needs. To get little experience he goes out in the New York night. He meets Mark [Pitoc] who he wants to have an one-night-stand with. But where can they be?
Comments: Tori Spelling is glowing as Gabriel's faithful but somewhat over-bearing friend.
Director: Ross Kagan Marks
Year: 1997
Country: USA
Duration: 1 h 32 mins
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Gay | Musical | One-nighter |
Actors: Faye Dunaway | Garry Marshall | Brendan Fraser | Rosie O'Donnell |
Plot: Phyllis is pregnant and decides to make a genetic analysis on her unborn child. The screening shows that the child is healthy, but that he will become gay. Now the family has to decide what to do.