Former fashion impresario Tom Ford directs this drama based on a short story by Christopher Isherwood. In a BAFTA-winning performance, Colin Firth stars as George Falconer, a middle-aged English professor in 1960s Los Angeles, who is grieving the recent death of his long-time partner Jim (Matthew Goode). The relationship between the two men is traced in a series of flashbacks. Meanwhile, over the course of a single day, George dwells on his past and his seemingly bleak future; seeks consolation from his closest friend, Charley (Julianne Moore); has an unexpected encounter with a Spanish prostitute (Jon Kortajarena); and is stalked by over-enthusiastic student Kenny (Nicholas Hoult).
Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult Director: Tom ford Language: English
Publisher: Icon Home Entertainment, Year: 2009
When singer, Rudy Donatello (Tony Award winner, Alan Cumming) meets ambitious lawyer, Paul Fliger (Garret Dillahunt), little do they know they are about to embark on the biggest and most important journey of their lives.
When Rudy's neighbour is arrested and sent to jail, the couple take in her teenage son, Marco (Isaac Leyva) and they quickly become the family that Marco has always wanted. But when their alternative living arrangements are exposed, the family become subject to prejudice from everyone around them. The pair then becomes embroiled in a fight against a biased legal system to keep the child they have come to love as their own.
Winner of numerous international audience awards and inspired by a touching true story, Any Day Now is an emotional drama, which resonates on a universal level and reminds us of the importance of never giving up.
Cast: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Frances Fisher Director: Travis Fine Language: English
Publisher: Peccadillo Pictures, Year: 2013
When Troy (Murray Bartlett, Farscape) moves back to LA after many years in Barcelona he finds that his ex-boyfriend Jonathan (Daniel Dugan) has begun dating Raul (Adrian Gonzales), a handsome South American immigrant. Jonathan has helped Raul stay in America, but when Raul senses the sexual tension between the exes, temperatures rise between the three men in LA s stultifying summerheat.
From Eldar Rapaport, director of award-winning short films Post Mortem and Steam , comes a languorous, lyrical exploration of love split three ways.
Cast: Murray Bartlett, Daniel Dugan, Adrian Gonzalez Director: Eldar Rapaport Language: English
Publisher: Peccadillo Pictures, Year: 2011
Before Elvis, before Elton John, Madonna and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace--infamous pianist, outrageous entertainer and flamboyant star of stage and television. A name synonymous with showmanship and extravagance, he lit up every stage he performed on, as bright as his candelabras and with a unique flair that gained him millions of devoted fans across the globe.
In the summer of 1977, handsome young stranger Scott Thorson walked into Liberace’s dressing room and, despite their age difference and seemingly different worlds, the two embarked on a secretive five-year love affair. To the outside world Scott was an employee, at most a friend, but behind closed doors his life with Liberace was an intense rollercoaster of hedonistic fun, flamboyance and excess.
Starring Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson, Behind The Candelabra tells the fascinating true story of their glamorous life together and their tempestuous relationship--from the glitz and glamour of the early days in Las Vegas to their very bitter and public break-up.
Cast: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd Director: Steven Soderbergh Language: English
Publisher: Entertainment One, Year: 2013
Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.
Cast: Kenneth Nelson, Peter White, Leonard Frey, Frederick Combs, Cliff Gorman Director: William Friedkin Language: english
Publisher: Paramount, Year: 1970
Drama from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger. Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys, and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Both young men seem certain of their set places in the heartland, obtaining steady work, marrying, and raising a family. Yet, they both hunger for something beyond what they can articulate. When Aguirre (Randy Quaid) dispatches them to work as sheepherders up on the majestic Brokeback Mountain, they gravitate towards camaraderie and then a deeper intimacy. Lee won a Best Director Academy Award.
'A bit overrated in my opinion and I struggled to hear what Heath Ledger was mumbling half the time.' At least it was good to see a 'gay storyline movie' being so high profile in cinemas and Hollywood that year.
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams Director: Ang Lee Language: english
Publisher: EIV, Year: 2005
Based on murders that took place between 1962 and 1979 in New York city, Cruising follows the story of police detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino)as he tries to solve a number of brutal murder cases in the gay community. Cruising received a multitude of publicity when it was released due to the censorship row that surrounded it.
Cast: Al Pacino Director: William Friedkin Language: english
Publisher: United Artists, Year: 1980
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease.
Available to pre-order. Released June 2014
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Language: English
Publisher: Entertainment One, Year: 2013
Gay coming-of-age romantic drama. In the summer of 1984, high school student Eric (Chris Stafford) and his best friend Maggie (Tina Holmes) take a summer job at a local Ohio amusement park, where Eric meets outspoken gay college student Rod (Andersen Gabrych). Eric is soon experiencing feelings that he has long tried to suppress, and over a long, hot summer, he finds himself coming out of the closet in a way he would never have imagined.
Cast: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych, Stephanie McVay, Lea DeLaria Director: David Moreton Language: english
Publisher: TLA Releasing, Year: 1998
John Waters expands the definition of female trouble in this mutant tribute to good-girl-gone-bad drive-in melodramas. The girl is, of course, cross-dressing cult icon Divine, Waters's plus-sized muse. Divine is at her most gleefully outrageous as teenage brat Dawn Davenport, who runs away from home and into a life of wanton hedonism all because she didn't get cha-cha heels for Christmas. Almost immediately she's molested by a sleazy motorcycle thug (also played by Divine--is this Waters's idea of "love thyself"?), but she doesn't let motherhood interfere with her plans of stardom and turns herself into an unlikely fashion statement in an apocalyptic fashion show. Waters's fourth feature, a follow-up to the midnight movie hit Pink Flamingos, is just as cinematically primitive and even more gleefully vulgar, right down to the electric climax of Dawn's road to everlasting fame.
Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey Director: John Waters Language: English
Publisher: Entertainment In Video, Year: 1974
