Subgenre Sampler
Drama > LGBT: 271 Films to Buy & Rent
Garden, The (1990)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills
- Derek Jarman's sincere personal affront with AIDS and the Christian church is represented through a non–narrative dreamscape with himself as…
Longtime Companion (1990)
- Dir. Norman Rene
Feat. Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, John Dossett
- Spirit–lifting work chronicles a decade in the lives of a group of gay men and their freinds who become personally affected by AIDS.
Beyond Gravity (1989)
- Dir. Garth Maxwell
Feat. Iain Rea, Robert Pollock
- Gay romance blossoms for a astronomy–obsessed technician when he encounters a free–spirited Italian.
Wonderland (the Fruit Machine) (1989)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Robbie Coltrane
- Two gay teenagers witness a murder and flee their Northern home for Brighton, where their problems seem to escalate. Robbie Coltrane cameos as a…
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
- Dir. Paul Bogart
Feat. Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Broderick
- From his Broadway play, Harvey Fierstein stars in this whimsical yet moving story of a flamboyant gay New Yorker's search for love and respect in the…
Two of Us (1988)
- Dir. Roger Tonge
Feat. Jason Rush, Lee Whitlock, Kathy Burke
- This gay youth drama made for British television caused a political outcry upon release just as the sex education laws were being revised. This…
We Think the World of You (1988)
- Dir. Collin Gregg
Feat. Gary Oldman, Alan Bates
- Quirky Brit comedy/drama about a love triangle between two men and an alsatian! Jealousy overcomes Gary Oldman when a prison sentence brings together…
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
- Dir. Patricia Rozema
Feat. Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon
- A naive and self–conscious woman lands a job in an art gallery and grows to idolise the chic and sophisticated female curator. Quirky parable…
Maurice (1987)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Hugh Grant, James Wilby, Rupert Graves…
- In the face of Edwardian attitudes and noble breeding, two young Englishmen comes to terms with their homosexuality. From E.M. Forster's novel.
Month in the Country, A (1987)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson
- Colin Firth plays a shellshocked WW1 vet keen to recoup a medieval painting in a remote Yorkshire town. Kenneth Branagh and Natasha Richardson prove…