Subgenre Sampler
LGBT: 461 Films to Buy & Rent
Line of Beauty, The (2006)
- Dir. Saul Dibb
Feat. Tim McInnerny, Oliver Coleman, Dan Stevens
- BBC serial adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker award–winning novel about a young, gay man who gains entree to an upper class milieu during…
Poltergay (2006)
- Dir. Eric Lavaine
Feat. Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu
- Farcical French comedy sees a couple haunted by the ghosts of five gay guys, who died in their house when it used to be a gay disco.
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Queer Duck: The Movie (2006)
- Dir. Xeth Feinberg
Feat. Tim Curry, David Duchovny, Billy West
- Raucously wacky animation set around a flamingly queer duck flapping through a series of bizarre events and around oddball friends like 'Openly…
Quinceañera (2006)
- Dir. Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer
Feat. Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo Gonzalez
- Accessible indie about a Mexican–American teen approaching her Quinceañera ( "sweet 15"), who is forced to seek refuge with her great uncle…
Shock to the System (2006)
- Dir. Ron Oliver
Feat. Chad Allen, Morgan Fairchild
- Latest Donald Strachey outing (from Richard Stevenson's novels) has the queer detective investigating another fishy murder linked to the underworld…
Shortbus (Short bus) (2006)
- Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
Feat. Sook-Yin Lee, Lindsay Beamish, Paul Dawson…
- A raucous, freewheeling comedy of intercourse from gay auteur John Cameron Mitchell, audacious in its employment of explicit sex, unknown actors and…
Tan Lines (2006)
- Dir. Ed Aldridge
Feat. Jack Baxter, Lorena Arancibia, Jed Clarke…
- Sun–soaked coming of age drama with a hard partying surfer stuck in small town Australia falling under the spell of a worldly older surfer.…
Time to Leave (2006)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi…
- Dir. Ozon expands on the theme of death and mourning, first explored in UNDER THE SAND, with this carefully composed, if somewhat underdeveloped male…
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)
- Dir. Stewart Main
Feat. Rima Te Wiata
- Rural New Zealand forms a stylised background to this unusual rites–of–passage drama which combines whimsy, pathos and cruelty for a…
Adam and Steve (2005)
- Dir. Craig Chester
Feat. Parker Posey, Chris Kattan, Malcolm Gets…
- Romantic farce, with the odd song–and–dance number, follows the second–chance love between two men, and the ups and downs in the…