Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > LGBT: 44 Films to Rent on VHS
- 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…