Subgenre Sampler
LGBT: 458 Films to Buy & Rent
3 (Three) (2010)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow
- Dir. Tom Tykwer energises this simple love story of a forty–something couple who fall for the same man with the frenetic visual and narrative…
Bloomington (2010)
- Dir. Fernanda Cardoso
Feat. Allison McAtee, Sarah Stouffer
- Coming–of–age drama following a former child actress who decides to enroll in college to gain more independence, but is drawn away from…
Dirty Girl (2010)
- Dir. Abe Sylvia
Feat. Juno Temple, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam…
- A high school hussy and an overweight closet homosexual become fast friends in this sassy teen comedy. Though overly weighted in cliche and narrow…
Elena Undone (2010)
- Dir. Nicole Conn
Feat. Necar Zadegan, Traci Dinwiddie, Gary Weeks
- Lesbian drama about a pastor's wife who falls in love with a well–known writer. The ensuing secret relationship upends her marriage just as she…
Heartbeats (2010)
- Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Xavier Dolan, Niels Schneider, Monia Chokri
- A quick turnaround for precocious French Canadian dir. Xavier Dolan; his sophomore feature an equally painful and amusing bifurcated romance, in…
Howl (2010)
- Dir. Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Feat. James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm…
- A fitting celebration and account of the making and hostile reception of Allen Ginsberg's famously controversial poem, with James Franco superb as…
Loose Cannons (2010)
- Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek
Feat. Riccardo Scamarcio
- An cheerfully overstuffed family comedy of a gay young man who attempts to come out to his ultra traditionalist parents in the south of Italy.
Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Kawa) (2010)
- Dir. Katie Wolfe
Feat. Calvin Tuteao, George Henare, Dean O'Gorman…
- Psychological drama of a family man coming to terms with his homosexuality and whose decision to come out plunges his family into crisis. Based on…
Sasha (2010)
- Dir. Dennis Todorovic
Feat. Sasa Kekez, Predrag Bjelac, Ljubisa Gruicic
- Compassionate gay drama about a Yugoslav–German piano prodigy who is trying to gain admittance to a prestigious music school but who becomes…
Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, The (2010)
- Dir. James Kent
Feat. Maxine Peake, Anna Madeley, Susan Lynch…
- Quality BBC biopic from director James Kent (TESTAMENT OF YOUTH) about the life of Anne Lister, a 19th–century Yorkshire landowner who defied…