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Common Ground (2000): Dir. Donna Deitch
Feat. Edward Asner, Beau Bridges, Harvey Fierstein…; Compassionate, quality trilogy of short stories dealing with gay issues over three different eras. "A Friend of Dorothy" concerns a woman…
Edge of Seventeen (2000): Dir. David Morton
Feat. Thomas Arklie; With its drab mid–1980s Ohio setting, complete with pastel clothing, Boy George–inspired haircuts and Bronksi Beat music, this puts a…
Story of a Bad Boy, The (1999): Dir. Tom Donaghy
Feat. Jeremy Hollingworth, Christian Camargo; Taken from the dir.’s stageplay, this not–so–bad gay teen drama sets itelf in early 80s New Jersey with student Jeremy Hollingworth…
Like It Is (1998): Dir. Paul Oremland
Feat. Steve Bell, Roger Daltrey; Amateur boxing champ Steve Bell does well in his acting debut as a naïve prizefighter who abandons violent life in Blackpool's underworld to find…
Love is the Devil (1998): Dir. John Maybury
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton; Audacious biopic of great British painter Francis Bacon (he of the 'screaming pope' paintings), travels the raw–nerve edge of artistic…
Relax...It's Just Sex (1998): Dir. P.J. Castellaneta
Feat. Mitchell Anderson, T.C. Carson, Lori Petty…; Centring around an eclectic group of friends – gay, straight and lesbian – in LA, a struggling gay playwright is desperately looking for…
Velocity of Gary, The (1998): Dir. Dan Ireland
Feat. Vincent D'Onofrio, Salma Hayek, Thomas Jane; Urban soap–opera set in a Manhattan fringe world of hustlers, trannies and coke–heads, with Vincent D'Onofrio as a bisexual…
Alive and Kicking (Indian Summer) (1997): Dir. Nancy Meckler
Feat. Jason Flemyng; Solid British drama takes the post–AIDS–revelation scenario and couples it with an interesting setting – a crisis in a…
Grace of God, The (1997): Dir. Gerald L’Ecuyer; Biographical ‘essay’ that’s a genuinely moving patchwork of scenes from the director’s life, sharing stories of his loves, losses, emerging…
Star Maps (1997): Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Douglas Spain, Efrain Figueroa; With dreams of Hollywood stardom, a Mexican teen migrates to California, settles for work in his father's prostitution ring, and makes 'progress' as…
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. 'Pool Days' – For…
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…
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,…
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…
Second Serve (1986): Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Louise Fletcher, Martin Balsam; Vanessa Redgrave gives a remarkable performance in this TV–movie true–story as a transexual…
To Forget Venice (1979): Dir. Franco Brusati
Feat. Mariangela Melato, Eleonora Giorgi, Erland Josephson; Brooding melodrama about an extended family reunion in the house of an Operatic matriach.
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…
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…

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