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  • Director:
    Michael Mayer

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" comes a story that chronicles a dozen years in the lives of two best friends who couldn't be more different. From suburban Cleveland in the 60s, to New York City in the 80s, where they meet an older woman, the film charts a journey of trials, triumphs, loves and losses. Now the ...

  • Director:
    Q. Allan Brocka

    Boy Culture is the candid confession of “X,” a wildly successful male escort. After ten years of sex-for-pay, “X” gets romantically entangled with his two hot roommates and a reclusive elderly client, Gregory. But before Gregory will agree to sex, he tells an unsetting love story spanning fifty years and dares “X” to try something he hasn’t felt in years: ...

  • Director:
    Kimberly Peirce

    Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys and dating hometown beauty Lana. ...

    Our Take: It is no wonder Hilary Swank won an Oscar for this extraordinary performance, not a film for the squeamish but an amazingly powerful story

  • Boys Life Cover Art 1997
    Directors:
    Brian Sloan
    ,
    Raoul O'Connell
    ,
    Robert Lee King

    A feature film package of 3 short films including Pool Days by Brian Sloan, A Friend of Dorothy by Raoul O`Connell and The Disco Years by Robert Lee King. Pool Days takes a ride down the path of coming to terms with sexuality while working as a lifeguard at an indoor pool. A Friend of Dorothy is an award-winning short which delves ...

  • Director:
    Matt Reeves

    Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

  • Director:
    Sébastien Lifshitz

    Eighteen-year-old Mathieu is vacationing at the beach with his family when he meets local teen Cédric. After an extremely erotic kiss, the boys begin a hot and heavy affair, complete with skinny-dipping at night, nude dancing on the beach and intense lovemaking in the dunes. Yet as Mathieu grapples with his sexuality and copes with his sick mother, absent father ...

  • Director:
    David Moreton

    Set in 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, this popular comedy follows the coming-out of a naive 17-year-old teenager at exactly the moment when gender-bending pop stars like Boy George of Culture Club and the Annie Lennox of Eurythmics were flaunting androgynous images. As the youth goes through his first rites of gay passage, after being callously used by the slightly older ...

  • Director:
    Robert Salis

    A group of young men and women are admitted to one of France's "grandes écoles" where the administrative and political leaders of tomorrow are trained. They are the country's best students and will be the nation's elite if all goes as planned. But life is always more imaginative than they are. Grandes Ecoles, yes, grand romance, too, sometimes difficult. The ...

  • Director:
    John Cameron Mitchell

    Hedwig, born a boy named Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a sex-change operation in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to - years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S., telling her life story ...

    Our Take: A hilarious, moving, visually and sonically stunning movie musical.

  • High Art Cover Art 1998
    Director:
    Lisa Cholodenko

    Syd, 24, has her whole life mapped out in front of her. Living with longtime boyfriend, James, and working her way up at the well respected high art photography magazine "Frame" Syd's desires and frustrations seem typical and manageable. But when a crack in her ceiling springs a leak and Syd finds herself knocking on the door of her upstairs ...

  • Director:
    Ol Parker

    Piper Perabo lights up the screen as Rachel, a blushing bride whose perfect nuptials take a surprising turn at the altar. An innocent glance between Rachel and an unexpected wedding guest is all it takes to spark a 'love at first sight' romance with a surprising twist -- the object of Rachel's affection is a smart and sensuous... woman! Their ...

  • Director:
    Gus Van Sant

    River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in Gus Van Sant's haunting tale of two young street hustlers: Mike Waters, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott Favor, the wayward son of the mayor of Portland and object of Mike's desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a ...

    Our Take: Ahead of its time, this subtle update of Shakespeare's Henry IV is very moving. You will feel River Phoenix's pain in a heartfelt performance.

  • Director:
    Pawel Pawlikowski

    A long, hot English summer creeps up on the emotions of two 16-year-old girls, who live in the same Yorkshire village but are really a world apart. Mona has had a tough time growing up, but has a wit and intelligence which combine to make her yearn for something beyond the daily grind. Tamsin is rich and spoilt and seems ...

  • Director:
    Gregg Araki

    At the age of eight, Kansas youngsters Neil and Brian played on the same little league baseball team. Now, ten years later, the two boys couldn’t be more different. Neil is a charismatic but emotionally aloof male hustler while Brian is a nervous introvert obsessed with the idea that he has been abducted by a UFO. When the boys’ parallel ...

  • Director:
    Cesc Gay

    In the tradition of BEAUTIFUL THING and WILD REEDS, NICO AND DANI explores the emotional confusion of two teenage boys whose longtime friendship is tested by their diverging sexual identities. Set against the blazing sun and azure sea of a small seaside town near Barcelona, Nico and Dani are left on their own at Dani's parent's beach house. Long days ...

  • Directors:
    Edward Parone
    ,
    Leo Penn
    ,
    Arthur Allan Seidelman
    ,
    Ralph Senensky
    ,
    Alan Smithee
    ,
    Harry Winer

    Paper Dolls was debuted on the 23rd of September 1984; it ended on the 25th of December 1984 having only one (1) season with fourteen (14) episodes. Set in Manhattan, this delightfully witty primetime serial focused on the cut-throat worlds of modeling and cosmetics. Storylines centered around acid-tongued modeling executive Racine, who held fief over the careers of young models ...

  • Director:
    Jennie Livingston

    Jennie Livingston's acclaimed documentary delves into the transvestite subculture of 1980s New York - the so-called "drag balls" - where colourful characters such as Dorian Corey, Anji Xtravaganza, Pepper LaBeija and Willi Ninja hold court. Capturing the vibrant energy and rituals of the underground community, Paris Is Burning pays tribute to a world of music and self-expression far removed from ...

  • Director:
    Maria Maggenti

    New York writer and opera addict Allegra (Elizabeth Reaser, The Family Stone) loves her girlfriend Samantha (Julianne Nicholson, Kinsey), but can’t commit. When Samantha leaves her, Allegra rebounds with handsome philosophy professor Phillip (Justin Kirk, Angels in America) as well as the irresistibly beautiful, recently single Grace (Gretchen Mol, The Notorious Bettie Page). Allegra juggles secret relationships with both of ...

  • Shortbus Cover Art 2006
    Director:
    John Cameron Mitchell

    Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive Club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob (Raphael Barker) and Sophia (Sook-Yin Lee) are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work, because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the ...

    Our Take: A daringly frank and achingly funny romantic comedy about love and sex in the greatest city in the world.

  • Tarnation Cover Art 2003
    Director:
    Jonathan Caouette

    In the making since the director was 11-years-old and completed on a reported budget of about 200 dollars, Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation is an experimental and self-reflective mix of documentary and fiction. Bringing together a collection of home movies, family photos, answering machine messages, reenactments and Caouette's video diary, the film attempts to delve into the filmmaker's experiences growing up queer ...

    Our Take: Not only is this a truly groundbreaking movie that will be discussed for years to come but it is also an incredibly moving and inpsiring story of a boy's love for his mother.

  • Directors:
    Olivier Ducastel
    ,
    Jacques Martineau

    A man considers the fine line between friendship and family as he crosses France by foot in this comedy. Felix (Sami Bouajila) is a cheerful thirty-something from Normandy who is part Arab by birth and 100 percent French by inclination; Felix is also gay and HIV-positive, though the ups and downs of the characters on his favorite soap opera trouble ...

  • Director:
    Sherman Alexie

    A poetic story of growth, death and the choices that define us, The Business of Fancydancing reunites Spokane Reservation best friends Aristotle Joseph (Gene Tagaban) and Seymour Polatkin (Evan Adams) sixteen years after their high school graduation. Beginning with a brief flashback to the young men's enthusiastic look to the unlimited future, the film mirrors both Aristotle and Seymour as ...

  • Director:
    Neil Jordan

    An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by Jude, another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus adopts the name "Jimmy" and gets ...

    Our Take: A surprisingly touching film about identity and love. Stephen Rea's performance is subtle and appealing.

  • Directors:
    Wash Westmoreland
    ,
    Richard Glatzer

    Johnny Rebel is the stuff dreams are made of: a chiseled Adonis and the biggest star in gay porn - even though he is straight. The fact the he's "gay-for-pay" matters little to Julie, his lap-dancer girlfriend who dreams of having his children. It matters even less to Johnny himself, who lives for the money, the drugs and the attention...from ...

  • Director:
    Duncan Tucker

    Bree, a pre-operative, male-to-female transsexual, holds down two jobs and saves every penny so that she can pay for one last operation that will make her a woman at last. One day, however, she receives a strange phone call. It appears that on the other side is Toby, apparently her son, who must be the product of a somewhat clumsy ...

    Our Take: The meeting of pre-op transvestite and his son is indeed an unusual premise for a roadtrip-buddy movie, but with these fantastic performances and very funny dialogue, this is a real cross over gem.