All descriptions written by Scott Cranin.
Absolutely
Fabulous
A pair of alcoholic drug addicted promiscuous
and addle brained prisoners of fashion do absolutely nothing fabulously.
If you haven't met Patsy Edina and Saffie you haven't lived! The
funniest British TV since Monty Python. (set of 7 videos; @ volume
counts as one rental)
Genre: Comedy
Abuse
Intense emotional film about a teenager
who is the victim of serious physical abuse at home and who finds
refuge with a gay man. A great film by a porno filmmaker whose life
was cut short by AIDS.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 93.0 Minutes
Acla
Set in 1920ís Italy this is the story
of miners who go underground for a week at a time and have sex with
each other during the week and their wives on the weekend. Although
there is lots of beautiful flesh donít expect any actual sex in
this film. (w/sub)
Genre: Italian
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 86.0 Minutes
Adventures of
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Instant gay classic of three professional
drag queens on the road in Australia. A truly wonderful film about
life, love, and family.
Genre: comedy
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 102.0 Minutes
After Stonewall
Crisp, informative documentary about
the gay civil rights movement, made for PBS.
Genre: Documentary
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 88.0 Minutes
Aileen Wuornos:The
Selling of a Serial Killer
Documentary about a lesbian who killed
seven men and was sentenced to die by government officials who had
sold her story to the press. Chilling film about a serious miscarriage
of justice.
Genre: documentary
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 87.0 Minutes
All Dressed Up
And No Place To Go...secret world of hetero cross-dressing
Story of 4 straight men who like to
dress up in women's clothes.
Genre: Documentary
Sexuality: T
Runtime: 70.0 Minutes
All of Me
A married transvestite performer and
his wife fall in love with the same man. (w/subt)
Genre: German
Sexuality: T/G/B
Runtime: 76.0 Minutes
All Over Me
Two fifteen year old girls on the streets
of NYC. Raw and realistic the girls fall in love.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 95.0 Minutes
Alley Cats
Check out lesbian chic in this hep
film. Leslie is bored with her fiance and turns to Irena a lesbian
socialite sparks fly in this jazzy retro excursion.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 83.0 Minutes
Amazing Grace
18 year old Jonathan who smokes too
much pot and lives at home with his old hippie mom. Jonathan tries
a relationship first with sexy but philandering Mickey but then
meets secretive Thomas who hides his fears of AIDS from him. Recommended!
Hebrew/titles.
Genre: Israeli
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 95.0 Minutes
Amazing World
Tabloid culture rock-n-roll and lesbians
abound in this wild movie. A non-traditional murder mystery featuring
worm-eaters and UFO abductees!
Genre: Thriller
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 91.0 Minutes
American Fabulous
The flamboyantly gay star sits in the
back of a 57 Cadillac telling tales of his white trash childhood.
A portrait of a tough Southern queen.
Genre: Comedy
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 105.0 Minutes
An Awfully Big
Adventure
English film about the theater with
Hugh Grant playing gay once again. Alan Rickman is as usual terrific
as the director.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 113.0 Minutes
And the Band Played
On
Made for HBO. Starring Matthew Modine
with lots of cameos. The story of one doctor's fight against the
government's wish to keep the AIDS a secret. Ground-breaking film
that leaves hope open in the end.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 140.0 Minutes
Another Country
British film based loosely on the spies
Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean. Beautiful boys at boarding school
turn Russian agents. Very sexy first role for openly gay Everett.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 90.0 Minutes
Antonia's Line
Academy Award winning Dutch film that
tells the story of 5 generations of strong-willed women who lived
for their pleasure. Passionate and beautiful film. Dutch w/subt.
Genre: Dutch
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 102.0 Minutes
Anything Boys
Can Do
Documentary about women's rock-n-roll
scene on Lower east Side of NYC.
Genre: Documentary
Sexuality: L/T
Runtime: 71.0 Minutes
Apart From Hugh
A great first feature film about two
men celebrating their first anniversary together one of whom is
questioning their relationship. Warm little movie made on a miniscule
budget.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 87.0 Minutes
Apartment Zero
Set in Buenos Aires this stylish thriller
puts a sexually repressed priss with a butch man with a questionable
past. Very unnerving film with homoerotic sexual tension throughout.
Genre: Thriller
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 114.0 Minutes
Around the World
the Lesbian Way
5 short films by various directors
from various countries. 1995. Nice short lesbian films from film
festivals.
Genre: Shorts
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 80.0 Minutes
Art of Cruising
Men, The
From the creator of Max Headroom comes
this satire on gay men's cruising rituals.
Genre: Midnight
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 70.0 Minutes
As Good as it
Gets
Riotous comedy about obsessive compulsive
man his favorite waitress and his gay neighbor. Everybody is equally
slurred in this fierce comedy.
Genre: Comedy
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 139.0 Minutes
Athena Award 1996
Three short films awarded by Northern
Arts/ Naiad Press to independent filmmakers working in lesbian film
and videos. This film includes: But would you take her back?, Uncommon
Ground, and The CowGirl Sweethearts:A Dyke-U-Mentary.
Genre: Shorts
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 53.0 Minutes
Aunt Fannie &
The Divine Mr. Crisp
The play Aunt Fannie is forgettable,
the 16 minute presentation Quentin gave at the Gay Community Center
is priceless. Watch this as a companion to The Naked Civil Servant.
Genre: Comedy
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 40.0 Minutes
Babette, Return
of the Secret Society
Raunchy trip through NYC's sexual underground
of the 60's. The film finishes with a gathering of the Daughters
of Lesbos. Fun sleazy movie.
Genre: Midnight
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 80.0 Minutes
Ballot Measure
9
Documentary about 1992 Oregon anti-gay
initiative. This is not only an historical document of societal
homophobia, but also a great film about political process.
Genre: Documentary
Sexuality: G/L
Runtime: 72.0 Minutes
Bar Girls
Directed by Marita Giovanni, written
by Lauren Hoffman, from her stage play. 1995. Lesbian romantic comedy
about a circle of Los Angeles women.
Genre: Comedy
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 95.0 Minutes
Beautiful Dreamers
Walt Whitman, a genuine homo hero,
brings radical thinking to the 19th century mental institution,
and its director. This film is based on actual historical events!
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 108.0 Minutes
Beautiful Mystery
Soft core erotica from Japan about
a young man who gets special training from his military trainer.
Genre: Japanese
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 60.0 Minutes
Beautiful Thing
Based on hit British play. Leave it
to the Brits to make the best fable about gay teens yet. I've seen
the movie three times and I still cry.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 90.0 Minutes
Becoming Colette
Lush period film, set at the turn of
century, about Colette, the famed writer of erotic bisexual fiction.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: L/B
Runtime: 97.0 Minutes
Beethoven's Nephew
Director of Warhol classics takes on
a tale of great composer and his obsessive love for his nephew.
Homoerotic tale of jealousy and possessiveness. (director denies
gay angle, you be the judge)
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 103.0 Minutes
Before Stonewall
Documentary featuring interviews, silent
films and newsreels about gay life before the Stonewall Riots in
1969. Gripping film by terrific lesbian filmmaker.
Genre: Documentary
Sexuality: L/G/T
Runtime: 87.0 Minutes
Being at Home
With Claude
Brilliant erotic, violent sequence
begins this intriguing film. From the scene of the crime we move
into an interrogation that is the body of this French Canadian film.
Genre: French
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 90.0 Minutes
Bent
Powerful adaptation of Martin Sherman's
stage play. The story begins in Wiemar Germany at a wild gay club
and traces the lives of two men from partying to arrest to Dachau.
Moving holocaust tale.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 104.0 Minutes
Bigger Splash,
A
Reconstruction of artist Hockney's
art and love life by famed photographer in the style of Hockney's
paintings. Offers a swirling view of the 70's London pop scene.
Genre: Documentary
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 105.0 Minutes
Billy's Hollywood
Screen Kiss
Witty, knowing film about photographer
who falls for pretty 'straight' man he meets. Funny, smart and sexy
what else could you ask for? 1998.
Genre: Comedy
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 92.0 Minutes used
Birdcage, The
Fun American remake of La Cage aux
Folles. The French version is more subtle, the American is more
accessible to the masses, make your choice, but watch it!
Genre: Comedy
Sexuality: G/T
Runtime: 119.0 Minutes
Bitter Tears of
Petra Von Kant
Written ' directed by Rainer Werner
Fassbinder. 1972. German gay director Fassbinder's only film with
lesbian characters. Very stylish film about a feminine menage-a-trois;
a designer, her assistant and a high fashion model.
Genre: German
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 124.0 Minutes
Black Sheep Boy/Decodings
Two experimental films that breaks
down barriers between poetry, history and film.
Genre: Experimental
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 53.0 Minutes
Blonde Death
A campy violent b-movie that features
a sex crazed girl, her boyfriend, his boyfriend and her girlfriend!
Did you get that all straight? (Not much straight in this movie)
Genre: Midnight
Sexuality: G/L/B
Runtime: 85.0 Minutes
BloodSisters
Sexy documentary about the San Francisco
lesbian S/M sub-culture. Not for the squeamish.
Genre: Documentary
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 75.0 Minutes
Bloodsucker leads
the Dance
Gothic lesbians prowl the halls of
an icky European castle. Italian gothic horror film. 1975
Genre: Horror
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 89.0 Minutes
Blue
Jarman's last film is a blue screen
and a beautiful score that lets you conjure your own images. The
late, great director tells us about his life, his struggle with
AIDS, & his blindness.
Genre: Experimental
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 76.0 Minutes
Blue Hour, The
Theo, a Berlin callboy forges a friendship
with his neighbor Marie, a straight woman, and both heal some deep
wounds in the process. Dark, but very moving film.
Genre: German
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 87.0 Minutes
Body Without Soul
Documentary that goes into the teenage
hustler world of Prague. We meet hustlers
and a porn producer. This is a sad movie that lets the boys tell
their own stories.
Genre: Czech
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 103.0 Minutes
Born in Flames
A feminist classic set in America ten
years after the second American Revolution.
Genre: Science
Fiction
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 90.0 Minutes
Bostonians, The
Wonderful 19th century costume drama,
based on a Henry James novel about a charismatic young feminist
who charms both Vanessa Redgrave & Christopher Reeve.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 120.0 Minutes
Bound
The big debate was: Is it exploitation
because straight men made the film? Watch the film and you'll see
a witty action movie. Who cares about the politics? Hot lesbian
sex with two babes, and great plot twists.
Genre: Thriller
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 108.0 Minutes
Boyfriends
British gay movie about 6 men who take
a weekend together at country cottage and figure all sorts of things
out. Witty, but very talky.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 82.0 Minutes
Boys Briefs
5 short films about gay first love.
Sounds like fun.
Genre: Shorts
Sexuality: G
Runtime: Minutes
Boys in Love
4 short gay films: The first, Death
In Venice, CA is terrific reworking of Mann's classic tale of unrequited
love. The second Achilles is brilliant claymation that you won't
soon forget.
Genre: Shorts
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 83.0 Minutes
Boys in Love 2
6 short films including Twilight of
the Gods by Stewart Main; SPF 2000 by Patrick McGuinn.
Genre: Shorts
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 86.0 Minutes
Boys in the Band
Classic, must-see film that was rejected
by the politically correct for many years. Sure it's filled with
self-loathing, but it's a critique on the problem. Witty and wise!
Great movie!
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 117.0 Minutes
Boys Life 2
4 Sexy & intelligent short films. Better
than the first! Vincent D'Onofrio plays a gay cop who brings a fag
basher home to meet his mom in the ultimate lesson on tolerance.
Genre: Shorts
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 74.0 Minutes
Boys Life... tales
of love, lust & liberation
Three terrific short films, all set
during adolescence about coming out. Brian Sloane's 'Pool Days'
has become famous, but the other two are just as great.
Genre: Shorts
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 90.0 Minutes
Boys of Cellblock
Q
Silly, campy play transformed into
a silly campy movie about prison life in an orgiastic gay prison!
Genre: Comedy
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 85.0 Minutes
Boys of St Vincent
Shocking film made for Canadian TV
about sexual and physical abuse inside an orphanage, covered up
by the Church. Part one documents the abuse, Part 2 the revelations
to the public 15 years later.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 186.0 Minutes
Boys on the Side
Whoopi plays dyke in this girls on
the road film. The movie is funny and sad in traditional Hollywood
fashion.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 117.0 Minutes
Boys Shorts...
six short films including Dead Boys Club
The New Queer Cinema including a short
by the great Marlon Riggs and Mark Christopher's "Dead Boy's Club",
a hot tribute to the '70's disco/sex scene.
Genre: Shorts
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 119.0 Minutes
Breaking the Code
Story of gay genius, Alan Turing, who
invented the computer that cracked the German code in WW II. Very
well done British movie about little known gay hero.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 90.0 Minutes
Breaking the Surface
the Greg Louganis Story
Television movie about Olympic athlete
who came out of the closet as gay and HIV positive.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 95.0 Minutes
Broadway Damage
Three friends take the New York stage
by storm. "One of the most American films of the year...an absolute
delight" Rex Reed
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G
Runtime: Minutes
Brother of Sleep
German film about two extraordinary
brothers in a very remote mountain village who leave for the big
city. One brother is a remarkable organist, and the other is in
love with him.
Genre: German
Sexuality: G
Runtime: 133.0 Minutes
Buddha of Suburbia
Made for BBC, the story of the bisexual
son of a suburban London Buddhist who falls for a decadent rock-n-roller.
Very well made TV film.
Genre: Drama
Sexuality: G/B
Runtime: 220.0 Minutes
Bugis Street
'60's Singapore was a wild place where
a young country girl got a job at a transvestite hotel. The girl
learns very quickly. Told in an international language, very erotic
film.
Genre: Tagalog
Sexuality: G/T
Runtime: 100.0 Minutes
Butterfly Kiss
Lesbian lovers go on the road and murder
horrible straight men. This British film is infused with very dark
humor.
Genre: Thriller
Sexuality: L
Runtime: 90.0 Minutes
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