Subgenre Sampler
LGBT: 458 Films to Buy & Rent
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, James Russo…
- Melancholic tale imbued with the director's stylistic flair stars Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix as a pair of young hustlers with opposing personal…
Our Sons (1991)
- Dir. John Erman
Feat. Julie Andrews, Ann-Margret
- Middle–aged Julie Andrews and Ann–Margret discover their estranged gay sons have only weeks to live. In other words they have AIDS,…
Poison (1991)
- Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith…
- Personal, arty dissertation about AIDS, alienation and childhood rebellion cross–cutting three disparate stories – a mock–tabloid…
Swoon (1991)
- Dir. Tom Kalin
Feat. Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester
- A stylised interpretation of the famous Loeb–Leopold murder case of 1924. The fateful gay lovers entwined their clandestine sex life with that…
Together Alone (1991)
- Dir. P.J. Castellaneta
Feat. Terry Curry, Todd Stites
- Two disparate gay men share their thoughts 'the morning after' on everything from gay issues and abortion to poetry, dreams and betrayals. This…
Young Soul Rebels (1991)
- Dir. Isaac Julian
Feat. Frances Barber, Shyro Chung
- A melange of black, white, gay, straight, soul and punk cultures as it might have been in London in the late 1970s. Popularly dubbed as the black MY…
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.
No Skin Off My Ass (1990)
- Dir. Bruce LaBruce
Feat. Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Caroline Azar
- Canadian queer provocateur LaBruce takes his cue from New York underground artists' Warhol and Richard Kern. Starring as a punk hairdresser with a…
Paris Is Burning (1990)
- Dir. Jennie Livingston
- Revealing and rare insight into the colourful but often tragic lives of Harlem's gay and trans–sexual community, whose calendar highlights are…