Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > LGBT: 44 Films to Rent on VHS
- Red Ribbon Blues (1995)
- Dir. Charles Winkler
Feat. Paul Mercurio, RuPaul , Debi Mazar
- Seeking to liberate an AIDS wonder–drug from commercial interests, Paul Mercurio, RuPaul and Debi Mazar, embark on a Robin Hood–style…
- Total Eclipse (1995)
- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis
- Voraciously dueling bohemians of late 19th century Paris, Leonardo Di Caprio and David Thewlis impersonate Rimbaud and Verlaine – French poet…
- Blue (1993)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Derek Jarman, John Quentin, Nigel Terry…
- Against a simple, unchanging blue screen, Derek Jarman weaves intricate collages of sound, music and poetry. A moving self–portrait, as the…
- Boy's Life, A (1993)
- Dir. Todd Haynes, Raoul O'Connell, Peggy Rajski
- Three short – and very different – short films about growing up gay, from the little boy who likes a soap star in Todd Haynes' remarkable…
- For a Lost Soldier (1993)
- Dir. Roeland Kerbosch
Feat. Maarten Smit, Jeroen Krabbe, Andrew Kelley
- A dance teacher recalls his childhood love affair with a Canadian soldier at the end of WW2. Taboo subject is subtly drawn and fulfils the director's…
- M Butterfly (1993)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jeremy Irons, John Lone
- Bizarre true–story of a French diplomat's long–term sexual relationship with a Chinese opera singer who managed to conceal the fact that…
- Doing Time On Maple Drive (1992)
- Dir. Ken Olin
Feat. James Sikking, Bibi Besch, Jim Carrey…
- Effective tragic farce about an 'ordinary' family in crisis over several coinciding issues, including alcoholism, closet homosexuality, abortion and…
- Edward II (1991)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry
- Self–conscious updating of the Elizabethan play by Phillip Marlowe, imbued with a stagey panache by dir. Jarmen (a la WITTGENSTEIN),…
- Hours and Times, The (1991)
- Dir. Chris Munch
Feat. David Angus, Ian Hart
- Intriguing gem posits what might have gone on between John Lennon and his gay manager, Brian Epstein, a weekend in Barcelona, just before The Beatles…
- 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,…