Narrative
see all genres ›While “out” gay filmmakers began making celluloid statements as early as the 1960 and '70s, it was with the "New Queer Cinema" movement of the early 1990s that the floodgates really opened for fiction features with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes.
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The Place Between Our Bodies
The hedonistic yet spiritually-questing spirit of San Francisco life at the height of the "Gay Liberation" movement is captured in Michael Wallin's poetical, highly personal film. As we watch city denizens cruise each other in the free-for-all atmosphere of a mid-1970s erotic...Watch Movie
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Poison
The second feature directed by Todd Haynes, POISON is a groundbreaking American independent film and was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s as well as a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. A work of immense visual invention, Haynes' spectacular follow-up to his legendary SUPERSTAR:...Watch Movie
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Dottie Gets Spanked
Another dazzling suburban phantasm from writer/director Todd Haynes, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED (made post-POISON and pre-SAFE) is a stylized, bittersweet nod to his childhood fascination with I LOVE LUCY. Deep in the heart of pre-hippie 1960s America, young artistically-inclined...Watch Movie
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I Killed My Mother
Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel (Xavier Dolan), a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), I KILLED MY MOTHER beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with...Watch Movie
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The Watermelon Woman
Cheryl Dunye's debut feature is as controversial as it is sexy and funny. Cheryl is a twenty-something black lesbian working as a clerk in a video store while struggling to make a documentary about Fae Richards, an obscure black actress from the 1930's. Cheryl is surprised to...Watch Movie
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Sebastian
Sebastian is a typical teenager. He hangs out with this friends, goes to the movies, buys hip clothes and attends school. Typical, that is, until a chance stolen kiss changes everything. Sebastian is just figuring out what almost everyone else around him already knows, he is gay. The kiss is...Watch Movie
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The Joy of Life
In THE JOY OF LIFE it becomes immediately clear that landscapes, like people, are vulnerable. As long, meditative shots of San Francisco fill the screen, a voice-over supplies the voluptuously remembered trysts and crushes and lusts of a butch seeking love (told in the sexily pebbled voice of...Watch Movie
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
In this second installment of Stieg Larsson's phenomenal "Dragon Tattoo Trilogy," Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered and Salander's prints are on the weapon....Watch Movie
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The Animal Project
Leo is a mid-30s widower, single parent and struggling theatre director. His relationship with his teenage son is rocky, and he's dissatisfied with his everyday life. So, after he has an unusual and inspiring dream, he decides to shake things up by having the group of actors...Watch Movie
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Friends Forever
Kristian is a shy 16-year-old starting at a new school. Like all boys his age he is uncertain of his new environment. He is drawn to Henrick an androgynous, charismatic and independent student, a warm friendship slowly develops. On the other side of the school's spectrum is Patrick, a bully and...Watch Movie
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Silent Youth
SILENT YOUTH is a poetic coming-out story that unfolds when two boys bump into each other on the streets of Berlin, unaware that a casual sequence of events will change their lives drastically. After a brief exchange, Marlo can't resist his immediate attraction to Kirill and starts following him...Watch Movie
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A Very Natural Thing
An important film in the history of American gay filmmaking, A VERY NATURAL THING is considered the first feature film on the gay experience made by an out-of-the-closet gay man to receive commercial distribution. The simple but insightful story involves a 26-year-old gay man,...Watch Movie
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Come Undone
This sensual gay classic COME UNDONE explores a young man's homosexual awakening and the turbulence of first love in a small French seaside town. Mathieu, a quiet 18-year-old spending the summer with his troubled family, meets the handsome and aggressive Cedric, who takes an interest in the...Watch Movie
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Caravaggio
Jarman’s most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. CARAVAGGIO incorporates the painter’s precise aesthetic into the movie’s own...Watch Movie
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An Englishman in New York
Giving possibly the best performance of his distinguished career, two-time Academy Award® nominee John Hurt gives a bravura portrayal of British gay icon Quentin Crisp in AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK, an exhilarating, funny and inspiring story focusing on Crisp's emigration to...Watch Movie
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Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore
Mary Jane is a sexually curious teenage girl who sees sex as a way to become cool. Written, directed and produced by Sarah Jacobson, MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE is lauded for depicting sex from the female perspective. The film premiered at Sundance in 1997 and features...Watch Movie
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Keep the Lights On
Andrew O'Hehir, author of Salon, writes "KEEP THE LIGHTS ON chronicles an emotionally and sexually charged journey of two men in New York City through love, friendship and addiction. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter but soon...Watch Movie
