Maurice
(1987) [M]

E.M. Forster's (A Room with a View, Howard's End) story, set in pre-World War I England, studies a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It is the coming of age for two young men who meet at Cambridge and fall in love. Maurice (James Wilby) and Clive...  More

Torch Song Trilogy
(1988) [M]

Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love,...  More

Trash
(1970) [R]

Joe (Dallesandro) is a long-haired stud who's so strung out on heroin that he can't get aroused. Of course, he's also so high that he doesn't really care, even when an amorous young woman (Geri Miller) strips and go-go dances for him. In the quest for gear, he visits every quarter of The Village...  More

Heat
(1972) [R]

Sylvia Miles is a star of yesteryear who puts in the odd stint on gameshows and TV movies. Joe Dallesandro is an unemployed one time child actor who moves into a shabby motel full of freaks and 279'ers where the landlady (Pat Ast) drops the rent on a quid pro quo basis. The star's wannabe lesbian...  More

Flesh
(1968) [R]

In a somewhat esoteric plot, Joe Dallesandro plays a heroin junkie who works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex,...  More

Entertaining Mr Sloane
(1969) [M]

Featuring two of Britain's best character actors, the late Beryl Reid and the late Harry Andrews, this scintillating black comedy is based on Joe Orton's wonderful play of the same name. Reid is marvellous as aging nymphomaniac Kath and Harry Andrews provides a superb foil as her rogue brother...  More

La Cage Aux Folles
(1979) [PG]

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

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Caravaggio
(1986) [M]

A powerful meditation on sexuality, criminality and art, 'Caravaggio' brings together Derek Jarman's twin worlds of film and painting.  More

Hairspray
(1988)

Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early '60s for his playful focus in Hairspray. Ricki Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, just one of several alliteratively named characters coming of age in 1962 Baltimore, where "The Corny...  More

Sebastiane
(1976) [R]

300 A.D. : the Roman Sebastianus is exiled to a remote outpost populated exclusively by men. Weakened by their desires, these men turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. However, Sebastianus becomes the target of lust for a homosexual centurion, but he rejects the man's advances.  More

Prick Up Your Ears
(1987) [M]

'Prick Up Your Ears' is a celebration of the outrageous playwright Joe Orton (Gary Olman), and his love affair with Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina), which concluded with their violent and premature deaths. Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) was one of the 1960s golden boys, from working class Leicester...  More

The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
(1994) [M]

On Monday, 13 September 1993 the cast of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert" faced the cameras for the very first time. Eight months later the completed movie was feted with the audience award as the Most Popular Film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and at the San Francisco and...  More

The Closet (Le Placard)
(2001) [M]

An inspiring, laugh-out-loud social comedy about an office assistant, Francois Pignon, who pretends that he is gay in order to save his job, The Closet looks at the hilarious attempts of Pignon's confused colleagues to come to terms with his hitherto secret sexuality. Written and directed by...  More

All About My Mother
(1999) [M]

A birthday treat turns into heart-rending tragedy for single-mother Manuela when her teenage son is killed in a car accident after a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire starring his favourite actress Huma Roja. Determined to exorcise her overwhelming guilt, Manuela goes to Barcelona to...  More

The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder on Sex)
(1972) [M]

Fassbinder on Sex combines three of Fassbinder's most risque and self-reflexive films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and his Friends and In a Year with 13 Moons, which offer the maverick filmmaker's unique views about sex and the nature of sexuality.

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Satyricon
(1969) [M]

"My ambition has always been to restore fantasy to the cinema," revealed renowned Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. And so he did in this feverishly brilliant succession of grotesque and macabre images which make the fantasies of his films 8? and Juliet of the Spirits seem as child's play....  More

Aimee and Jaguar
(1999) [M]

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. One of them, Lilly Wust (Juliane Köhler), married and the mother of four sons, enjoys the privileges of her stature as an exemplar of Nazi motherhood....  More

Connie and Carla
(2004) [PG]

Reminiscent of Some Like It Hot, Victor Victoria and Tootsie, Connie and Carla is a musical comedy in drag written by and co-starring Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Best friends since their school days, Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) are airport lounge singers with dreams...  More