Subgenre Sampler
LGBT: 458 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams…
- A 'cause celebre' of recent cinema, this epic romantic drama is set around the terse and smouldering long–term love affair between two cowboys…
DL Chronicles, The (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Damian T. Raven, Sheilynn Wactor, T. Ashanti Mozelle
- Pioneering TV series about a group of gay African–American males who choose to lead double lives and attempt to keep their homosexual…
Gay Sex in the 70's (2005)
- Dir. Joseph F. Lovett
- An honest look at gay sex in Manhatten during the 70s, this captures a moment in time between two historical benchmarks: when homosexuality was…