Subgenre Sampler
Making Love (1982)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Michael Ontkean - A glossy but under–rated love triangle drama starring former "Charlie's Angel" Kate Jackson that was the first mainstream Hollywood film to…
Querelle (1982)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau - Fassbinder's parting shot is a fittingly bleak, ultra–stylised adaptation of Jean Genet's writings about the (bi)sexual escapades of a…
Naked Civil Servant, The (1981)- Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. John Hurt, Patricia Hodge, Colin Higgins - The life and times of homosexual Quentin Crisp, as drawn from his autobiography. John Hurt is a revelation as this courageous man who endured major…
To Forget Venice (1979)- Dir. Franco Brusati
Feat. Mariangela Melato, Eleonora Giorgi, Erland Josephson - Brooding melodrama about an extended family reunion in the house of an Operatic matriach.
In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John… - Volker Spengler plays a hopelessly insecure trans–sexual cast adrift amid imposing cityscapes of modern Berlin. Fassbinder trawls out the…
Nighthawks (1978)- Dir. Ron Peck
- Hailed on release as the first British gay feature , this groundbreaking drama focuses on the double life of a school–teacher who remains in…
American Film Theatre - Butley (1976)- Dir. Harold Pinter
Feat. Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan… - Another in the excellent American Film Theatre series, playwright Harold Pinter directs his first film, based on the Simon Gray play. An…
Sebastiane (1976)- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Leonardo Treviglio - A Roman soldier is banished to an outpost because of his Christian sympathies where he is eventually immortalised as a martyred saint. Jarman doesn't…
Terence Davies Trilogy, The (Children, Madonna and the Child, Death and Transfiguration) (1976-1983)- Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Wilfred Brambell - A striking – if not, overtly autobiographical – early trilogy of shorts from dir. Terence Davies, spanning the life of one man’s struggle with…
Fox and His Friends (1975)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Adrian Hoven - Fassbinder himself stars in one of his best melodramas as a working class lottery–winner who is exploited by his middle–class lover. A…
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