Subgenre Sampler
LGBT: 458 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
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,…
Pink Narcissus (1971)
- Dir. Jim Bidgood
Feat. Bobby Kendall
- Major gay cult film with a non–narrative structure and opulent ‘garage’ aesthetic comparable to Kenneth Anger, but with more explicit…
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…
Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Soretsu) (1969)
- Dir. Toshio Matsumoto
Feat. Shinnosuke Ikehata (aka Peter), Yoshio Tsuchiya
- A bold and significant product of the Japanese New Wave that loosely transposes Oedipus Rex to the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo with a…