Subgenre Sampler
LGBT: 461 Films to Buy & Rent
Me and the Girls / Bon Voyage / Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 6) (1985)
- Dir. Jack Gold, Gavin Millar
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Robert Glenister, Nigel Havers…
- – Me and the Girls (85') Touching drama centred on a terminally ill gay man reminiscing on his past life performing and managing a dance…
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis
- First and best Hanif Kureishi comedy (so far), explores race and sex prejudices in the London EastEnd.
Another Country (1984)
- Dir. Marek Kanievska
Feat. Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes
- An oppressive private schooling has an adverse affect on a couple of young, gay Englishmen in the 1930s, who eventually become spies for the…
Before Stonewall (1984)
- Dir. Greta Schiller
- Anecdotes and archival footage reflect the difficulties and absurdities of gay life from the 1920s up until the landmark revolt in 1969 following a…
Robert Epstein Collection, The (The Times of Harvey Milk, Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt, The Celluloid Closet, Paragraph 175) (1984-2000)
- Dir. Robert Epstein
- Superb collection of four documentaries and special features from Academy–Award winning director Robert Epstein acclaimed for his confronting…
Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
- Dir. Robert Epstein
- A powerful and moving document of the life of the first openly homosexual political candidate who was tragically assasinated in San Fransisco after…
Divine: Live at the Hacienda (1983)
- Feat. Divine
- The unique Divine, John Waters 'associate' (PINK FLAMINGOS) and committer of many an outrageous (and unhygenic) act, is caught live at the Hacienda…
Dresser, The (1983)
- Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay
- Classic backstage tale of the theatre, with an imperious actor–manager (Finney) being pampered and supported by his loyal dresser (Courtenay).…
Fourth Man, The (1983)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Jeroen Krabbe
- Jeroen Krabbe is a gay alchoholic writer prone to hallucinations who suspects his hairdresser of triple murder. Weird and stylish…
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…