Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > LGBT: 44 Films to Rent on VHS
- 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.
- Beyond Gravity (1989)
- Dir. Garth Maxwell
Feat. Iain Rea, Robert Pollock
- Gay romance blossoms for a astronomy–obsessed technician when he encounters a free–spirited Italian.
- Wonderland (the Fruit Machine) (1989)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Robbie Coltrane
- Two gay teenagers witness a murder and flee their Northern home for Brighton, where their problems seem to escalate. Robbie Coltrane cameos as a…
- Two of Us (1988)
- Dir. Roger Tonge
Feat. Jason Rush, Lee Whitlock, Kathy Burke
- This gay youth drama made for British television caused a political outcry upon release just as the sex education laws were being revised. This…
- We Think the World of You (1988)
- Dir. Collin Gregg
Feat. Gary Oldman, Alan Bates
- Quirky Brit comedy/drama about a love triangle between two men and an alsatian! Jealousy overcomes Gary Oldman when a prison sentence brings together…
- Month in the Country, A (1987)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson
- Colin Firth plays a shellshocked WW1 vet keen to recoup a medieval painting in a remote Yorkshire town. Kenneth Branagh and Natasha Richardson prove…