Movies (fiction) by Category

Before night falls  2001, 2000

Jon Kilik, Cunningham O'Keefe, Lázaro Gómez Carriles, Julian Schnabel, Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, and Michael Wincott

A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States. 1 videodisc (133 min.)

MEDIA 10-100

 

The birdcage c2005, 1996

Elaine May, Mike Nichols, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down. 1 videodisc (119 min.)

MEDIA 10-1353

 

Bound 2000

Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Andrew Lazar, and Stuart Boros

A gangster's mistress finds a new lesbian, ex-con lover in the apartment next door and together they plan to steal over 2 million dollars from the mob. 1 videocassette (ca. 108 min.)

MEDIA 10-3823      2-5993

 

Brokeback Mountain c2007

Ang Lee, Diana Ossana, James Schamus, Larry McMurtry, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid, Gustavo Santaolalla, Annie Proulx, Focus Features, River Road Entertainment (Firm), and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through their proximity, loneliness and through a shared lack of tenderness and emotion in their lives and are emotionally, physically and psychically bonded to each other almost from the start. 2 videodiscs (135 min.)

MEDIA 10-1521

 

The bubble 2007, 2006

Three young Israelis, two guys, Yali and Noam, and a girl, Lulu, share an apartment in Tel Aviv's hippest neighborhood. Noam meets and falls in love with a Palestinian man and he and his friends conspire to help Ashraf stay on in Tel Aviv illegally. 1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.)

MEDIA 10-4268

 

But I'm a cheerleader 2003, 1999

Megan's super normal suburban existence is filled with friends, pom-poms and rah-rah enthusiasm until her parents suspect that she may be showing deviant tendencies. 1 videodisc (85 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3824

 

Butley 2003, 1974

Ely Landau, Simon Gray, Harold Pinter, Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Michael Byrne, Georgina Hale, Susan Engel, Richard O'Callaghan, American Film Theatre, American Express Films, Ely Landau Organization, and Kino International Corporation

Butley, a professor at a London University, finds out that his wife wants a divorce, his boyfriend is leaving him and his untalented colleague is getting a book published all in one day. 1 videodisc (128 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3336

 

La cage aux folles c2001

aEdouard Molinaro, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Jean Poiret, Productions Artistes associaes, Da Ma Produzione, SPA, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

A gender-bending farce about the owner of a drag-revue nightclub, his high-strung transvestite "companion," and a wedding that defies all odds. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-1351

 

Coming out c2001

Heiner Carow, Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer, DEFA, Studio für Spielfilme, Icestorm Entertainment GmbH, First-Run Features (Firm), and Gruppe Babelsberg

Against the background of the East German society's prejudice against homosexual relationships, Philip, a high school teacher with a pregnant girlfriend, discovers he loves Matthias. 1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-958

 

Cruising 2007, 1980

Steve Burns is sent undercover to find a serial killer who brutally slays and dismembers gay men in New York's S & M subculture. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the rules of this little society. 1 videodisc (102 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3779

 

Dog day afternoon 2006, 1975

The story of a botched bank robbery that occurred August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day. The lead robber wishes to obtain funding for a sex-change operation for his gay lover. 2 videodiscs (124 min.)

MEDIA 10-3999

 

The fearless vampire killers 2004, 1967

A spoof of old vampire films finds a young maiden kidnapped by a Jewish vampire and his gay son. 1 videodisc (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-4413

 

Fresa y chocolate 2010, 1993

A naļve, cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man falls in love with a young heterosexual full of prejudices and communists ideals. The film is the story of a great friendship, which overcomes ignorance and intolerance to produce a fun-filled celebration of life. 1 videodisc (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-4304

 

Go fish 2002, 1994

Kia, a professor, speculates with her students about who might be a lesbian in American society. She is involved with Evy and they would like Kia's roommate, Max, to meet a woman. Kia sets her up with Ely, an ex-student of hers who is in the process of terminating a long-distance relationship. They finally go out on a date and everyone insists on getting all the details. 1 videodisc (83 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3783

 

Gods and monsters 2003

Bill Condon, Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lion's Gate Films, Lions Gate Home Entertainment, BBC Films, Showtime Entertainment, Flashpoint (Firm), and Regent Entertainment (Firm)

"It's 1957, and Hollywood horror director James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The invisible man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper Hannah hires handsome young gardener Clayton Boone, the flamboyant director and the simple yard man develop an unlikely friendship"--Container. 1 videodisc (105 min.)

MEDIA 10-736

 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2011, c2001

Adapted from the off-Broadway musical hit, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" presents a drama queen getting not only what she needs, but also what she wants: love, unfettered and unconditional. Hedwig, a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany, travels the States with his band, playing a string of Red Lobster-type restaurants to audiences rendered incredulous by his boyish brand of girl glam; he reveals his story in flashbacks between musical numbers. For Hedwig, who exists in an indeterminate but politically charged space between freedom and frustration, life is about looking for her personal dividing wall - to smash it into ruin. 1 videodisc (91 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3793

 

If these walls could talk: 2 c2000

Mary Kane, Vanessa Redgrave, Chloee Sevigny, Michelle Williams, Ellen DeGeneres, Sharon Stone, Elizabeth Perkins , Marian Seldes, Paul Giamatti, Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, Alex Sichel, Sylvia Sichel, Anne Heche, HBO Films, Team Todd (Firm), and HBO Video (Firm)

Dramatizes the experiences of lesbians in the United States in three different decades. 1961 tells the story of an older lesbian who is left out of the decision-making process in the wake of her partner's sudden death. 1972 looks at the role of lesbians in the feminist movement of the 1970's through the eyes of a college-age couple. 2000 features a lesbian couple trying to conceive a child. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-1434

 

J'ai pas sommeil/I can't Sleep 2004, 1994

Claire Denis, Bruno Pesery, Fabienne Vonier, Katerina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont, Laurent Grevill , Baeatrice Dalle,  Arena Films (Firm), and Wellspring Home Video (Firm)

Based on the true story of Thierry Paulin, who with his male lover murdered over 20 elderly women in Paris in the 1980s. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-1447

 

La ley del deseo c2007

Pedro Almodaovar, Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Deseo, S.A, Lauren Film (Firm), Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Cocaine-snorting homosexual hedonist writer-director Pablo Quintero is bereft--because his boyfriend Juan has just moved out.  Pablo meets Antonio at a party, and they share a few passionate nights, but Antonio soon proves far too clingy for Pablo's taste.  All hell breaks loose when Antonio comes across a sad, yearning love note from Juan, which ignites in Antonio a bonfire of jealous possessiveness.  Pablo's transsexual sister Tina and her daughter Ada get involved in the mess as well.  None of their lives will ever be the same because of this tragic unrequited love triangle. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-1481

 

Michael 2004

Carl Theodor Dreyer,  Thea von Harbou, Erich Pommer, Walter Slezak, Karl Freund, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Graegor, Rudolph Matae, David Shepard, Herman Bang, and Kino International Corporation

A great, aging artist succumbs to despair when the young model and pupil he adores leaves him for a woman. Although the story is discreetly played at a father/adopted son level on the surface, the homosexual subtext is quite clear in this early Dreyer film made in Germany. 1 videodisc (86 min.)

MEDIA 10-1998

 

Milk c2009

Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Dustin Lance Black , Gus Van Sant, Danny Elfman, Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Garber , Denis P O'Hare, Stephen Spinella, Focus Features, Axon Video (Firm), Groundswell Productions, Jinks/Cohen Company, and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, becomes a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he is elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, are shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blames his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board. Based on the true story of Harvey Milk. 1 videodisc (129 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3301

 

Pariah 2012, 2011

Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity--sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward. 1 videodisc (87 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3829

 

Plata quemada Burnt money c2002

Eduardo Noriega, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Leticia Brédice, Pablo Echarri, Marcelo Pińeyro, Oscar Kramer, Ricardo Piglia, Cuatro Cabezas Films S.A, Tornasol Films, Mandarin films S.A, Taxi Films (Firm), Vía Digital (Firm), and Strand Releasing Home Video (Firm)

When two gay thugs, Angel and El Nene, join a plan to hold up an armored truck with a group of seasoned gangsters, their love and loyalty to each other is tested. 1 videodisc (125 min.)

MEDIA 10-693

 

Poison 2011, 1991

Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Jean Genet, Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Gayle Norman, Scott Renderer, James Lyons, Arnold A Semler, Bronze Eye Productions (Firm), and Zeitgeist Films

This film interweaves three tales that build toward a devastating climax. The first tale, Hero, tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide. Horror, the second tale, deals with a mad sex experiment that unleashes a disfiguring plague. Lastly is the tale, Homo, which explores the obsessive sexual relationship between two inmates. 1 videodisc (85 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3061

 

Priest 1999

Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson, Antonia Bird, Jimmy McGovern, Josephine Ward, George Faber, BBC Films, Miramax Films, and Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)

A young Roman Catholic priest in a Liverpool parish must learn to deal with the issues of homosexuality and incest, as well as conflicts between his vows and his conscience. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-1352

 

Reflections in a golden eye 2006, 1967

Major Weldon Penderton, a repressed homosexual whose career is languishing in the monotony of postwar Georgia, becomes obsessed with a private who is, in turn, obsessed with Penderton's frustrated and sensual wife Leonora. 1 videodisc (109 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3791

 

Saving face c2005

James Lassiter, Will Smith, Teddy Zee, Alice Wu, Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Lynn Chen, Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), Destination Films, Overbrook Films, Forensic Films (Firm), GreeneStreet Films, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Wilhelmina is a Chinese-American lesbian and a young surgeon who has kept her sexual orientation secret from her conservative Chinese community in New York. But when her widowed mother becomes pregnant and is kicked out by her own parents, Wil suddenly has to juggle her mother's secrets with her own. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-1832

 

Scrubbers borstal for girls c2006, 1983

Don Boyd, Mia Zetterling, Amanda York, Kate Ingram, Elizabeth Edmunds, Chrissie Cotterill, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Handmade Films, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

On the run from an open borstal institution, Annetta and Carol are picked up and sent to a lockup borstal. There Annetta, fearing the loss of her child, seeks revenge on Carol, whom she blames for their arrest. Carol accepts protection from Eddie, a lesbian, but a complex revenge scenario ends brutally. Along with the other inmates, they both resist the institution and are unable to get beyond it. 1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.)

MEDIA 10-1662

 

A single man c2009

Christopher Isherwood, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Thomas I Ford, and David Scearce

After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.eventually bring fateful consequences. 1 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 96 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2484

 

A smell of honey, a swallow of brine c2004, 1966

A smell of honey, a swallow of brine: A seductive woman lures men and emotionally destroys them for her own amusement. A sweet sickness: A young woman with dreams of Hollywood is drugged and tricked into performing in a lesbian sex show. The brick dollhouse: The roommates of an exotic dancer are questioned in relation to her murder. 1 videodisc (191 min.)

MEDIA 10-4768

 

Soldier's girl c2003

Doro Bachrach, Linda Gottlieb, Ron Nyswaner, Frank R Pierson, Troy Garity, Lee Pace, Andre Braugher, Shawn Hatosy, Philip Eddolls, Dan Petronijevic, Mike Realba, Merwin Mondesir, Bachrach/Gottlieb Productions (Firm), and Showtime Entertainment

The true story of 21-year-old Army private Barry Winchell who falls in love with a trans-gendered night club singer. Barry ignites the jealous fury of his homophobic brothers-in-arms, particularly his roommate Justin, an anti-social misfit. 1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.)

MEDIA 10-398

 

Tenue de soirée 2009, 1986

Bob, a seductive, bisexual thief, entices Antoine and Monique, a bored and dissatisfied couple, into joining him as he robs wealthy homes. Turned on by the thrill of thievery, the couple soon abandons their world of middle-class predictability and a bizarre love triangle develops between the three in this darkly comedic sex caper. 1 videodisc (84 min.)

MEDIA 10-4206

 

Tropical malady c2005

Charles de Meaux, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Banlop Lomnoi, Sakd?a K??ob?uad?i, Anna Sanders Films (Firm), TIFA (Firm), Downtown Pictures, Thoke+Moebius Film (Firm), Strand Releasing Home Video (Firm), RAI Cinema (Firm), and Fabrica Cinema (Firm)

Tropical malady is comprised of two complementary and distinct halves.  The first half is a love story.  A young soldier, Keng (Banlop Lomnoi), is assigned to patrol the Thai forests, and he falls for a country boy, Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee), a worker in a rural Thai village's ice plant.  In the second half, that love story has been swallowed by a folk tale, in which the spirit of a man has found its way into the body of a tiger.  A soldier patrols the forest, looking for a villager who has disappeared while a voice-over relates the story of a shaman who has the power to turn himself into a tiger.  Is the soldier Keng?  Is the missing villager -- or, stranger yet, the tiger -- Tong? 1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-1732

 

Walk on water 2005, 2004

While on assignment in Berlin, a homophobic Israeli intelligence agent is ordered to assassinate a Nazi war criminal. However, he has a crisis of conscience after he befriends the target's gay grandson. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-4267

 

The wedding banquet Xi yan 2004

Ang Lee, Neil Peng, James Schamus, Ted Hope, Yalei Gui, Sihung Lung, May Chin, Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein, Zhong yang dian ying shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, Good Machine (Firm), and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

A Taiwanese gay man living in Manhattan agrees to a marriage of convenience with a mainland Chinese woman in need of a green card.  His parents are thrilled, and fly to the States to help him plan a lavish wedding banquet. 1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-1833

 

Yogo koedam tubontchae iyagi = Memento mori 2005, 1999

T ae-yong Kim, Kyu-dong Min, Min-sun Kim, Ye-jin Pak, Yong-jin Yi, Chong-hak Paek, Hyo-jin Kong, Ki-min O, Chun-yon Yi, Cine 2000 (Firm), and Tartan Video (Firm)

Min-ah discovers a shared diary and is soon fascinated to learn that two people she thought to be very close friends have in fact begun a forbidden romance at her school. She finds herself unable to tear her eyes away from the literally page-turning high drama of her classmates' lives, and the allure of the secret diary begins to take over. When the diary's writer is found dead from an apparent suicide, rumors spread and Min-ah begins to feel a strange presence. The once tranquil school is transformed into a place of morbid terror, as if the words written in the journal, "memento mori" (remember the dead), have come to life.--Container. 1 videodisc (98 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3151

 

Zanjeer 200?, 1973

Amitabh Bachchan, Prakash Mehra, Salim Khan, Javed Akhtar, Jaya Bhaduri, Pran, and Om Prakash

This adaptation of the Hollywood crime melodrama to the Hindi entertainment film was a major success for superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who plays a man consumed by the desire for revenge. As a child, Vijay saw his parents murdered by a gunman following his father's release from prison. In adulthood Vijay becomes a police officer who treats criminals as personal enemies: he breaks the law while ostensibly upholding it. He threatens the criminal activities of a highly respectable business who trades in illicit liquor. Vijay forms what amounts to a homoerotic relationship with an honest Pathan, Sher Khan, but according to codes of Indian destana (male friendship) the relationship cannot be acknowledged as homosexual. Vijay's masculinity is affirmed in action scenes and through his relationship with Mala, a knife grinder. 1 videodisc (140 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2628

 

Zero patience 2005

"John Greyson has woven a tall tale of love and loss, sex and science, history and hysteria in the age of AIDS. Greyson revives renowned Victorian Sir Richard Burton who constructs a sensationalist multimedia museum display focusing on Patient Zero, the gay French-Canadian flight attendant accused of bringing AIDS to North America"--Container. 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3809