Subgenre Sampler
LGBT: 458 Films to Buy & Rent
Strange Bedfellows (2004)
- Dir. Dean Murphy
Feat. Paul Hogan, Michael Caton, Roy Billing…
- In this nicely–judged farce, red–blooded Aussie mates Hogan and Caton masqerade as a same–sex couple to exploit various tax…
Summer Storm (Sommersturm) (2004)
- Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner
Feat. Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann
- Two best friends – the pride of the local rowing club – find their loyalties and chances of winning threatened, as one gets serious about…
Three Dancing Slaves (2004)
- Dir. Gaël Morel
Feat. Nicolas Cazalé, Stephane Rideau, Thomas Dumerchez…
- French romantic drama set in a working class Annecy neighbourhood where three brothers are in and out of the criminal world after their mother dies,…
Touch of Pink (2004)
- Dir. Ian Iqbal Rashid
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Jimi Mistry
- A gay Indo–Canadian man (Mistry) living happily in London with his boyfriend faces a crisis when his straight–laced Muslim mother flies…
Tropical Malady (2004)
- Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Feat. Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee
- A gorgeous two–hander from the dir. of BLISSFULLY YOURS begins as a tender romance between a farmer and a solider, before transforming into a…
Tying the Knot (2004)
- Dir. Jim de Seve
- An acclaimed look at the 'same–sex marriage' debate in the United States, beginning with footage of 1970s protests and current political…
Walk on Water (2004)
- Dir. Eytan Fox
- An arresting drama based on the obsessive efforts of an Israeli Mossad hitman –in grieving over his wife's suicide – to search for and…
15 (2003)
- Dir. Royston Tan
Feat. Melvin Chen, Erick Chun
- Doing for the tiny island nation of Singapore what LA HAINE did for France, this box–office hit follows the misfiring antics of three teenagers…
Event, The (2003)
- Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley…
- The taboo of assisted suicide is broached in this measured Canadian ensemble drama about an AIDS–afflicted musician (McKellar) who takes his…
Goldfish Memory (2003)
- Dir. Elizabeth Gill
Feat. Fiona Montgomery
- Free–spirited take on the modern conundrums of romance, dating and lust set in a contemporary Dublin of gay, straight and bisexual cycle…