Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > LGBT: 44 Films to Rent on VHS
- Boys Life (1996)
- Dir. Raoul O'Connell, Robert Lee King, Brian Sloan
Feat. Josh Phillip Weinstein, Raoul O'Connell, Russell Scott Lewis…
- Three half–hour short films that examine the gay perspective in America through three adolescent characters.
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- East Palace / West Palace (1996)
- Dir. Zhang Yuan
Feat. Vicki Zhao, Si Han, Jun Hu
- This rare independent mainland Chinese film is a difficult, often devastating two–hander between a gay man and the policeman sent to arrest him…
- Eclipse (1996)
- Dir. Jeremy Podeswa
Feat. Von Flores, John Gilbert, Pascale Montpetit
- Canadian festival fave is a fluent, quirky first feature that follows a chain of disparate sexual encounters that come full circle under the…
- Hollow Reed (1996)
- Dir. Angela Pope
Feat. Sam Bould, Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson…
- An exceptional and gripping British drama is made of delicate subjects –child abuse, custody rangling, homosexuality. The women…
- It's My Party (1996)
- Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. Eric Roberts
- Eric Roberts is bravely cast against as an LA professional dying of AIDS, who decides to host a farewell party before taking his own life. His…
- Lilies (1996)
- Dir. John Greyson
Feat. Marcel Sabourin, Aubert Pallascio, Matthew Fergusson
- Stylised, ripely sensual adaptation of Michel Marc's play 'Les Feluettes' set in a men's prison in 1950s Quebec, where the inmates kidnap a local…
- Stonewall (1996)
- Dir. Nigel Finch
Feat. Guillermo Diaz, Fred Weller, Brendan Corbalis…
- Mismarketed as a comedy to cash in on the post–Priscilla 'drag' craze, this has serious things to say about what it was like to be 'gay' well…
- Like Grains of Sand (1995)
- Dir. Hashiguchi Ryosuke
Feat. Yoshinori Okada, Kouta Kusano
- Remarkable, intense Japanese high school romance is centrally about a gay relationship, though it essentially captures the universal,…
- Madagascar Skin (1995)
- Dir. Chris Newby
Feat. Bernard Hill, John Hannah
- Intimate drama that portrays the unlikely relationship between two outsiders in a remote seaside cottage in South Wales.
Hannah plays a disfigured…
- My Brother's Keeper (1995)
- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. John Lithgow
- Courageous true story of twin–brother teachers, one of whom required a precarious bone marrow transplant from the other to keep his HIV from…