Gay and lesbian themed movies you like.

[terrya]

Ok. This is "gay day" here today. :-)

I was wondering if you saw a movie recently, that had gay characters or themes in the movie that you really liked.

If you haven't seen it, I urge you to see "Big Eden", a movie from a few years ago, that is being aired this month on the Sundance Channel. It's a wonderful, nice movie.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. French Twist

The French just do eroticism right

[arbusto_baboso]

2. Better than Chocolate

This is the one my wife and I watched just shortly before she came out as bi.

Very funny, and also very moving.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

54. I love that movie!

The "painting scene" is SO well done. Wow.

[Raster]

3. Trick and Maurice

[daligirrl]

57. Wow. . .

My two favorites, also. I also love "Aimee and Jaguar."

[Liberal Classic]

4. Maybe, Mabye Not

From Germany. Hilarious.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

27. Yes..that was an excellent movie...

I really enjoyed that one.

It was a big hit in Germany

[Kellanved]

88. it was - but I'm slightly surprised that it got translated

It had a very witty humor in the dialogs, that I thought impossible to translate - I don't know how to get it funny in English.

[daveskilt]

5. priscilla queen of the desert nt

[Teddy_Salad]

43. I second Priscilla

And it's not because I'm Australian it's because it's a great and wonderful film that has great and wonderful music in it (ABBA), so there! :P

[SarahB]

49. I third Priscilla.

Funny film. :D

[Malikshah]

61. Yes--F$^& Agent Smith

I'm so sick of the Matrix referrals to Hugo Weaving--

He'll always be Tic to me.

I've always wanted to get some teenage kids who are manic over the Matrix and X-men in a room and make them watch, in order

Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Oklahoma!

And then make them watch Boy from Oz on Broadway.

:)

[sniffa]

6. breakin 2: eLectric boogaLoo

[TlalocW]

7. Sorority Sex Kittens 4

But you really need to see 1 through 3 to understand the plot.

Just kidding.

TlalocW

[mr blur]

8. "Bound", "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "Desert Hearts"

[BlackVelvetElvis]

9. I Heard the Mermaids Singing. n/t

[jono]

10. The Wedding Banquet

Directed by Ang Lee. I love it every time I see it.

Also, I like Ma Vie En Rose - it's more to do with gender identity than gayness per se, but still a fun flick. (Although the weird Barbie character dream-sequences are a little strange.)

[ronnykmarshall]

11. Godvilla and Rodan Go to the Castro

[MnFats]

12. "Bound" Whew!

In addition to a great plot, and Joe Pantoliano as a creepy sadistic mafia guy, you have the torrid affair between Joey Pants' girlfriend, Meg (or is it Jennifer?>) Tilly and Gina Gershon.
there is one scene that left a nearly full theater in dead silence.
rent it if you haven't seen it.


SPOILER!!! The end is fabulous -- the women take off with the money and leave Joey Pants to face his mafia bosses....without the money!

[Misunderestimator]

13. Total Eclipse; Antonia's Line; Aimee and Jaguar...

and for my most hated lesbian film of all time: Claire of the Moon... what a piece of crap.

[Sabriel]

63. Amiee and Jaguar is a GREAT movie

I bought the Lecuoana Cuban Boys just to get that one song from the soundtrack.
Sabriel

[m-jean03]

14. A sad one : "My Own Private Idaho"

:cry:

And I really liked "Priest"!! Hi terry! :hi:

[terrya]

15. I agree with you about "My Own Private Idaho":, m-jean.

I ached for River Phoenix's character. It was a heartbreaking love story (made even more so by it being one of River Phoenix's last movies)

Hi!

Terry

[m-jean03]

48. You can call me Mara :-)

I too, ached for River Phoenix's character, especially that scene where he breaks down crying, saying "I love you, I love you" to Keanu Reeve's character, who is straight.

...I had a similar experience, once.

[Beware the Beast Man]

16. Does the "Birdcage" count?

I've heard some say it's insulting (and not as good as the original), but my wife & I think it's hysterical. I can see why it may be offensive to some folks, though. It's quite over the top.

[Kikosexy2]

18. Oooh goody!...

let's see: Porn Theatre (yes there's a movie by that title--it's French and quite amusing really), Adored: the Diary of a Porn Star (yes, another movie with "porn" in its title but actually not a bad movie to boot and it's not a porno movie--honest), Head On (the lead is such a hunk--I'm in love with Greeks!) and Hard (sounds pornographic I know but it's actually a gay thriller about a serial killer on the loose in the gay community of L.A.--really creepy and a lot better than Al Pacino's "Cruising". This is not in DVD or video (yet) and don't know if it will ever be).

[bigwillq]

17. Longtime Companion (nt)

[Kikosexy2]

19. my..

favorite also and "Jeffrey" too. And the cheesey "Latin Men Go to Hell"--what a scream that one is!

[bigwillq]

23. What's "Latin Men Go to Hell'?

I will have to check it out. Any hot Latinos up in that flick?

[Kikosexy2]

28. Yes there's..

one. He's on the cover of the DVD. It's an indie/artsy film about a rather depressed young Latino living in NYC who develops deep feelings for his straight cousin who stays to live with him only for tragedy to strike. Bad acting, cheesey dialogue but a hoot to boot! Rent it for laughs and just to look at Mark Ruiz (aaaahhhhh!).

[bigwillq]

29. I will try and rent it

I just love those Latinos!!!

[SnohoDem]

62. God what a sad movie.

Saw that at the movies with my wife and her brother not long after he told us he had AIDS. We lost him in '95.

[geniph]

20. Angels in America, of course

Bound, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Deathtrap (ooops, I think I just gave away the ending), But I'm a Cheerleader, The Opposite of Sex, Philadelphia, La Cage aux Folles, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Victor/Victoria, Happy Texas...lots more.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

21. The Sum of Us.

Austalian indy movie, starring Russell Crowe as a young gay man, and Jack Thompson as his widowed father (jack thompson played the lawyer in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil).......Dad was always trying to fix up Son. Really good warm-hearted movie.

on edit, heres the link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111309/

[IronLionZion]

22. Gay Republicans in Stepford Wives

"being gay and Republican is like being gay with a bad hair do!"

[IronLionZion]

25. and some other movie I can't remember

but this very conservative Republican has a lesbian daughter and a drug addict daughter and he says "at least they're not Democrats!"

[arwalden]

24. "Bent" ... "Beautiful Thing" ... "Maurice"

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

32. Maurice was pretty good, yes....also Torch Song Trilogy....

..I think this was the movie that introduced me to Harvey Firestein.

[arwalden]

36. I Own A Copy Of Long Time Companion...But I've Never Been Able To Watch It

ever since the first time I saw it on HBO. I love it, and I'd recommend it... but I just have no desire to ever watch it again.

Weird huh?

-- Allen

[Misunderestimator]

44. Not weird at all... it depressed the hell outta me.

But I would recommend seeing it.

[Duncan Grant]

46. Same for me, Allen.

My husband watched it recently on Showtime or HBO but I couldn't do it. It's the fire island beach scene at the end that really gets me...whew.

[arwalden]

47. Yep... That's The Scene...

If only.

-- Allen

[Malikshah]

60. Just know that at the end of the movie

The dream scene occurs-- I think I've said it on this board before--but for some reason -- although I know it's just a dream-- it helps me out. Course I'm a blubbering pile of tears by then, but it's still good.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

26. my ALL TIME FAVE....American Fabulous

This has to be, for me, the most "true" gay movie.

It is sort of a gay "My Dinner With Andre", where Ohio briar queerboy Jeffrey Strouth tells fabulous tales of his life and times while tooling around Columbus in the back of an old Caddy.

If you where a part of gay "bar culture" you knew folks like Jeffery, and his storys actually are believable, too.

Of the many gay movies Ive seen this rang the most true to my experience "in the life".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103669/

[arwalden]

30. Mith Earl... Whooo Mith Earl! --- I just adore Jeffrey Strouth!!

As I was watching it for the first time, I just "knew" he was no longer with us. But he would have been a HOOT to have had as a friend. (Although he seemed to be "ON" 24 hours a day... that might have gotten to be too much.)

Other than Mith-Earl, and his 400-lb drag queen friend (who wore polyester leisure suits)... I loved the story he told about his drunk daddy falling into the cistern and his little sister encouraging his mother to just "shut the god dammed lid".

-- Allen

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

31. Thank you...finally someone else whos seen this movie!

Me and my partner sometimes show it or lend it to straight freinds. We both really like it. What storys....in fact we use his term "big pussywagon" for big fat cars...

Oh yeah, Mith Earle....and we like the "dirty face" story about how he picked up that hobo....

And hitchhiking across country with Wolfgang and his parrot.

Damn that guy could tell a story.....

Around here there are lots of gay folks from the "hills", like Jeffrey, so I've run across folks like him. Same in Sacramento, where I came out..the "Okie gays".....

i

[arwalden]

33. Oh Yes... He Just Wouldn't SHUT UP!! Poor Wolfgang!

"You boys can't hitchhike here!"

The 'dirty face' story bordered on the unbelievable... but his telling of the tale (and based on everything that had gone before in his life) how could anyone deny that it was the truth?

My jaw dropped with the stories about how his mom wanted to grow a culture of botulism in canned corn... and how he mixed bleach and ammonia... both of them wanting to try an kill Dick Strouth.

I love the wording of the credits "spontaneously written and performed by Jeffrey Strouth". :-)

-- Allen

[Jade Fox]

34. Parting Glances

Staring Steve Buscemi as a gay punk rocker with AIDS.

[Duncan Grant]

45. Back in the day.

I haven't seen that film in years and years. Thanks for the reminder! :hi:

[NightTrain]

35. Claire of the Moon, Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Big Eden...

...Philadelphia, My Beautiful Laundrette, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Go Fish, Partners

[Misunderestimator]

37. Claire of the Moon?

I mean, no offense... but I've never seen such bad acting or direction in my LIFE! All the worst stereotypes and then they can't even pull it off. What did you like about it?

[NightTrain]

38. Well, it has been about 12 years since I saw it.

Perhaps my memory has failed me. :shrug:

[Misunderestimator]

40. Well, don't go see it again... you'd be disappointed.

:)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

41. Ewww.

My girlfriends and I gathered around once to watch it and make fun of it. It wasn't hard. I thought the woman in charge of the retreat looked like Victor Mature!

[Misunderestimator]

42. LOL ... Victor Mature... You're so right!

... though he's better looking. I also watched it with a group of friends and we laughed the entire time... it was worse than camp!

[Bertha Venation]

58. no offense to NightTrain but I'm w/ you -- that movie SUCKED

Some drunk stone butch winding up her very angry rant to a closeted 'phobe at a disintegrating party, "and if you eat pussy, you eat pussy." (It didn't make sense in context, either.) Then downing a shot for emphasis, then someone takes her arm to pull her away from further confrontation . . . .

Whatever mild good was in that film is just utterly wiped out by that horrible scene -- the most horrible scene I've ever seen in any film, bar none. Disgusting. Lousy acting, lousy directing, even worse writing, and incredibly insulting stereotypes.

[Misunderestimator]

67. You nailed it...

:headbang:

Now if you get a group of women together to watch it with the sole intent of making fun of it, then MAYBE it would be worth a couple of hours of your life to waste.... MAYBE. Still practically impossible to get past the insulting stereotypes though.

[Bertha Venation]

72. have I told you yet that your photo in the du gallery is

striking?
:wow:

[Misunderestimator]

73. Why, thank you very much!

That makes me :)
:pals:

[Bertha Venation]

74. those eyes

:)

[Misunderestimator]

79. oh no....

stop... you're making my head swell... :)

[Bertha Venation]

81. that's not all

I'll make swell . . .

:evilgrin:

I am an evil, evil flirt.

[Misunderestimator]

82. Oh.... MAN.... you ARE bad.

Wait till I tell Mrs. V. :evilgrin:

[Bertha Venation]

83. heh heh

Spice, baby. Spice. ;)

[NightTrain]

78. I'll take your word for it.

As I stated previously, it's been at least 12 years since I saw CLAIRE OF THE MOON. At this late date, I recall very little about it beyond the title and the fact that it was about lesbians.

[Magrittes Pipe]

39. "Spartacus."

Of course, "Hercules Unchained" is great for camp.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

50. What was the one where the college professor went to the Nevada ranch?

That one.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

51. Desert Hearts

I saw it in the theater when it with TONS of women around. They were a rowdy bunch and made the movie more fun.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

52. Yes!

Very hot scene at the end of the movie. And I'm hetero!!

[Misunderestimator]

70. Hated it.... pure camp.

Another example of bad direction, bad acting and idiotic stereotypes. :boring:

But hey, a few naked women would make it worth a really pared down version of the film... probably, uh, five minutes or so. :)

[Duncan Grant]

53. These two are "new-ish".

"Latter Days" is the story of a Mormon missionary who ultimately 'comes out', interesting and chock full of the obligatory eyecandy: http://www.latterdaysmovie.com/index.cfm

And from last summer, "Camp" - a too cute, too funny, gay/geek/where do I fit in kind of movie? Great soundtrack, too: http://www.ifcfilms.com/camp/test.html

:hi:

[Bertha Venation]

55. DESERT HEARTS

Based on a book called Desert of the Heart, which I haven't read, by an author whose name I can't remember (Jane Rule, maybe?) who's known for lesbian fiction.

This was a very good film. A quiet little film. Complex relationships - imagine a triangle (sexual only on two sides) of Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, and Audra Lindley. All excellent actresses.

Good film. I recommend it.

[Bertha Venation]

56. also, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"

GREAT cast. Incredible soundtrack. Excellent acting. LOVED it.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

59. Get Real, The Big Tease, In and Out

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162973/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156639/

[Insider]

64. personal best (for pioneering)

and torch song trilogy for darn good movie

[Kat45]

65. "Kiss Me Guido" ,"The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love"

The Wedding Banquet, The Boys in the Band, Bound

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

89. Oh yes,...Kiss Me Guido....that was indeed a hoot!

Sort of playing it funny.

I think the director had a cameo as one of the pizza parlor cooks...

[KittyWampus]

66. Entre Nous & Fried Green Tomatoes

:)

[Misunderestimator]

71. Good ones...

Entre Nous was depressing (as most lesbian films are... argh), but Fried Green Tomatoes should have followed the book more closely, where there REALLY was an actual lesbian relationship. It was only insinuated in the film... the book was not so platonic.

[SiouxJ]

91. Fried Green Tomatoes

is one of those flicks I end up watching every time I see it when I'm channel surfing. Good flick.

[LynneSin]

68. "All about the Guy"

It's on HBO all the time and I love that movie. So sue me, I have a limited taste in Gay & Lesbian films

:shrug:

[Lavender Brown]

69. Ma Vie en Rose

I started to watch "Big Eden" last time it was on and my damn cable went out 1/3 of the way in! x(

[m-jean03]

76. Ma Vie en Rose was excellent!!

That little boy who crossdresses!! Yes! I absolutely love it. Great score, too.

[Gildor Inglorion]

75. A rather strange entry, but...

I loved "Y tu mama tambien." Not totally gay-themed, but SO homoerotic!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

77. Much of Chuck Norris's sterling cinematic work.

[Misunderestimator]

80. LOL... You're right... that IS gay.

[Cheswick2.0]

84. Torch Song Trilogy

I can't believe no one loved that movie but me.

[Garage Queen]

85. "Bound"

Now, I'm a straight woman (not that there's anything wrong with that -heh) but Jennifer Tilly really turned my head, forevermore becoming my standard answer to all those "who could turn you gay?" polls.

"Philadelphia" (the 'aria' scene is awesome)

"Spartacus" (the morality of eating oysters - hee!)

"Ben Hur" - the director cooked up a "gay" backstory to Ben Hur and Marsallus' relationship. What if, the director told Marsallus, BH and M had been lovers when they were teenagers. For Ben it was just a bit of adolescent fooling around, but for Marsallus it was LUV. SO, when they're reunited all those years later, Ben has "outgrown" (so to speak) his Experimental Phase, but Marsallus has been dreaming of Hur ever since. But! they decided not to tell Chucky Heston, as they knew he would freak out. It puts a whole 'nother layer of meaning into their relationship.

And, last but not least:

"Lord of the Rings." - C'mon, you just KNOW that Merry and Pippen are setting up house together, right? :D

Ooops, EDITED TO ADD: "Pricilla Queen of the Desert" and "Torch Song Trilogy."

[Misunderestimator]

86. I'll go with you on the aria scene in Philadelphia...

It was incredibly moving... "La Momma Morta" from Andrea Chenier... with the goddess Maria Callas singing.

Damn, I think I have to go listen to that now.

[Anaxamander]

87. I liked The Doom Generation

Although I guess it's more of a bi-themed movie.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

90. Araki! Geez, that was good stuff....

thanks for the reminder!

[Squeegee]

92. Apartment Zero

[bbmykel]

95. OMG I love Apartment Zero!

I've never met anyone else who's ever seen it! :-)

[Paragon]

93. Can't believe no one's mentioned "And The Band Played On"

I wish a movie about the spread of AIDS wasn't "gay themed", but the performances by Ian McKellan and others are respectful and moving.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

94. one of my favorites.

and the first thing I watched during the long reagasm period.

the soundtrack is amazing too!