gay-interest movies

Nighthawks (1978)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Robertson, Ken | Westrope, Tony | James, Rachel Nicholas | Dolan, Maureen | Turton, Stuart Craig | Peters, Clive | Merrick, Robert | Dilbert, Frank | Radmall, Peter | Angel, John | Bateson, Norman | Beckett, Philip | Brightmore, Ernest | Jarman, Derek
Directors: Peck, Ron
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Swirling in controversy after its 1978 release and notable as Britain’s first commercial gay film, director Ron Peck’s intimate drama follows the struggles of a homosexual London schoolteacher forced to keep his personal life in the closet. Living as a model educator by day, Jim (Ken Robertson) cruises the club scene by night hoping to find someone to fill the emptiness. The supporting cast includes Tony Westrope and Maureen Dolan.

Save Me (2007)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Allen, Chad | Gant, Robert | Light, Judith | Lang, Stephen | Baker, Robert | Forrest, Tone | Glazer, Jeremy | Hurley, William Dennis | Jones, Colin | Kelly, Ross | Krestan, Hunter | Lambert, Brent | McGowen, Paul | Petruzzi, David | Rains, Luce
Directors: Cary, Robert
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A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his “gay affliction”, where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.

Deliverance (1972)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Voight, Jon | Reynolds, Burt | Beatty, Ned | Cox, Ronny | Ramey, Ed | Redden, Billy | Glass, Seamon | Deal, Randall | McKinney, Bill | Coward, Herbert 'Cowboy' | Crone, Lewis | Keener, Ken | Popwell, Johnny | Fowler, John | Rickman, Kathy
Directors: Boorman, John
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Based on James Dickey’s novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful.

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Dench, Judi | Blanchett, Cate | Georgeson, Tom | Maloney, Michael | Scanlan, Joanna | Parkes, Shaun | Kennedy, Emma | Kumar, Syreeta | Simpson, Andrew | Davis, Philip | Nottingham, Wendy | Empson, Tameka | Skinner, Leon | Nighy, Bill | Temple, Juno
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Callas Forever (2002)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Italy | Romania | Spain | UK
Actors: Ardant, Fanny | Irons, Jeremy | Plowright, Joan | Rodan, Jay | Garko, Gabriel | de Blas, Manuel | Díaz, Justino | Dalric, Jean | Billington, Stephen | Lelio, Anna | Bertolucci, Alessandro | Galfione, Olivier | Sanchez, Roberto | Brugnini, Achille | Kohn, Eugene
Directors: Zeffirelli, Franco
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A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas (Ardant).

Next Best Thing, The (2000)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Everett, Rupert | Bratt, Benjamin | Douglas, Illeana | Vartan, Michael | Sommer, Josef | Stumpf, Malcolm | Redgrave, Lynn | Harris, Neil Patrick | Valley, Mark | Krull, Suzanne | Edwards, Stacy | Lynch, John Carroll | Bennett, Fran | Lopez, Ricki
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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A comedy-drama about best friends – one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) – who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

Dawson’s Creek (1998)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Available seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Set in a small coastal, Massachusetts town named Capeside, Dawson’s Creek tells the story of four teenagers as they struggle through adolescence. This is particularly true for 15-year-olds Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek), an introspective dreamer and Joey Potter (Katie Holmes), a precocious tomboy unaware of her beauty. Best friends since childhood, they are about to enter that confusing time in life where nothing is the way it was and nothing is as it seems.

Brothers & Sisters (2006)

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Available seasons: 1, 2, 3

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Monday, July 27th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Breslin, Abigail | Kinnear, Greg | Dano, Paul | Arkin, Alan | Collette, Toni | Carell, Steve | Turtletaub, Marc | Talley, Jill | Canela, Brenda | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Loring, Chuck | Shilton, Justin | Thomson, Gordon | Parker, Steven Christopher | Cranston, Bryan
Directors: Dayton, Jonathan
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word “dysfunctional”. The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?

Lion in Winter, The (1968)

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Hepburn, Katharine | Hopkins, Anthony | Castle, John | Terry, Nigel | Dalton, Timothy | Merrow, Jane | Stock, Nigel | Ives, Kenneth | Whitehead, O.Z. | Stafford, Fran | More, Ella | Griffith, Kenneth | Woolf, Henry | Hagar, Karol
Directors: Harvey, Anthony
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In 1183 Henry II summonses his sons Richard, John, and Geoffrey to join him and his prison-bound wife Eleanor at Chinon for a family Christmas, along with King Philip II of France and his sister Alais, Henry’s mistress. Philip is insisting Alais now marries John as agreed years before else he wants her dowry, the lands of the Vexen, back. As Eleanor has already given the province of Aquitaine to Richard, the outcome of this may decide the very future of England. Everyone present except perhaps Alais are masters of double-dealing and deceipt, so it could be a lively Yuletide.