Rainbow Cinema

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Walk On The Wild Side


DirectorEdward Dmytryk

Year: 1962

Country: USA

Duration: 1 h 54 mins

Genre: Drama

Keywords: Lesbian | Sex workers |

Actors: Jane Fonda | Barbara Stanwyck | Capucine | Laurence Harvey |

Plot: A great bordello madame has a thing for her new worker Hallie. But things change for the madame when a former lover comes to town.

 

Wilde


Director: Brian Gilbert

Year: 1997

Country: UK

Duration: 1 h 58 mins

Genre: Drama

Keywords: Bisexuality | Gay | Historical person | Law | Oscar Wilde |

Actors: Stephen Fry | Jude Law | Vanessa Redgrave | Tom Wilkinson |

Plot: Oscar Wilde [Fry] meets Alfred Douglas [Law] and falls in love. However this is not liked by the young man's father (Wilkinson), who calls him a fagget in public. Alfred Douglas urges him to take him to court for deformation.

 

Wittgenstein


Director: Derek Jarman

Year: 1993

Country: UK

Duration: 1 h 15 mins

Genre: Drama

Keywords: Gay | Trans | Historical person |

Actors: Clancy Chassay | Jill Balcon | Sally Dexter |

Plot: The life and love of Ludvig Wittgenstein.

 

Wonder Boys


Director: Curtis Hanson

Year: 2000

Country: USA

Duration: 1 h 47 mins

Genre: Comedy | Drama |

Keywords: Gay character | Gay twist | Trans character |

Actors: Michael Douglas | Tobey Maguire | Frances McDormand | Robert Downey Jr |

Plot: A successful writer [Douglas] with a writers-block struggles with a few very odd days of his life. His wife is leaving him, his editor [Downey Jr] is in town to see the not finished script and one of his students needs his help.