Subgenre Sampler
LGBT: 458 Films to Buy & Rent
Broken Hearts Club, The (2000)
- Dir. Greg Berlanti
Feat. Timothy Olyphant
- Ensemble romantic comedy set in and around a baseball team in the bustling gay mecca of West Hollywood. Centre plate is up–and–coming…
Chuck and Buck (2000)
- Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Chris Weitz, Mike White, Paul Weitz…
- Squirmingly funny independent film that makes exemplary use of its small budget with a sustained, original script and handsome digital videography.…
Common Ground (2000)
- Dir. Donna Deitch
Feat. Edward Asner, Beau Bridges, Harvey Fierstein…
- Compassionate, quality trilogy of short stories dealing with gay issues over three different eras.
"A Friend of Dorothy" concerns a woman…
Edge of Seventeen (2000)
- Dir. David Morton
Feat. Thomas Arklie
- With its drab mid–1980s Ohio setting, complete with pastel clothing, Boy George–inspired haircuts and Bronksi Beat music, this puts a…
Flawless (2000)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman
- After suffering a stroke that leaves him part–paralyzed, an arch–conservative, retired security guard (Robert De Niro) agrees to let a…
Gendernauts (2000)
- Dir. Monika Treut
- Prolific lesbian director Monika Treut takes a tour of San Francisco’s transgender community.
Aided by the likes of queer luminaries Annie…
Iron Ladies, The (2000)
- Dir. Yongyooth Thongkonthun
Feat. Jesdaporn Pholdee, Sahaphap Tor, Ekachai Buranapanit
- The true story of a volleyball team in the Thai national champs composed of gay men, transsexuals and transvestites, never really clears the net of…
Our Lady of the Assassins (la Virgen de los Sicarios) (2000)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo
- A middle aged author returns to his native Colombian village to find that it has been overrun by violence and corruption. After his young male lover…
Paragraph 175 (2000)
- Dir. Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- An uneasy delve into past atrocities, this bitter–tasting but necessary document of Nazi war crimes goes beyond the oft–told persecution…
Phantom (Fantasma, O) (2000)
- Dir. João Pedro Rodrigues
Feat. Ricardo Meneses
- This plunge into Portugal’s gay underground concerns an alienated garbage collector who seeks out anonymous sexual encounters in Lisbon’s…