Subgenre Sampler
Drama > LGBT: 271 Films to Buy & Rent
Death in Venice (1971)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Dirk Bogarde plays a gay composer whose unspoken obssesion with a young boy detains him in Venice during a cholera epidemic. This soft–focus,…
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch
- Bizarre love triangle develops when a couple find themselves having an affair with the same man. A mature and provocative drama.
Boys in the Band (1970)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Leonard Frey…
- Set at a hilarious and fractious birthday party, this look at the life of a group of gay men in the 70s captures the bawdy tenor of the times, with…
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery
- Acclaimed version of British stage–farce delivers playright Joe Orton's bisexual innuendos with a rather heavy hand. Story concerns a fetching…
Fellini Satyricon (1970)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born…
- Freely adapted from the Roman author Petronious, this follows the adventures of two bisexual youths through the decadent, fragmented age of Rome's…
Staircase (1969)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt
- Sitting somewhere between farce and melancholy, a pair of aging barbers bicker over the possibility of ending their loving but often volatile…
Sergeant, The (1968)
- Dir. John Flynn
Feat. Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law
- Rod Steiger plays a decorated war veteran who turns to drinking after he experiences an attraction to one of the soldiers under his command.
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith…
- Adaptation of Carson McCuller's novel. Taking place on a peacetime army base, a career officer finds his personal and professional life compromised…
Taste of Honey, A (1961)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens…
- Powerful and starkly realistic 'kitchen sink' drama in which a mollycoddled lonely girl (Rita Tushingham) leaves her loveless home to befriend a…
Victim (1961)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms
- As an English barrister blackmailed over his homosexual past, Dirk Bogarde gives a keynote performance, the first in what was to become a long line…