Of course I have all the 7 movies I recommended on DVD, Herman. So when you come visit me here in gay Copenhagen, we can watch them together while drinking camomile tea and eating cake. Doesn't that just sound cozy and nice?

I have lots of reservations about gay movies, especially the ones that got made in the '90s. It sometimes seemed that in order for a movie to get made back then, they had to be about silly flamers whose only purpose was to entertain the straights (The Birdcage), ugly twinks coming out and falling in love (Trick), or we had to die horrible deaths (pretty much everything else). There ar some great exceptions, though, like the ones mentioned. Some of my favorites are Torch Song Trilogy, Beautiful Thing, Angels in America, My Beautiful Laundrette (very sexy), and Priest. Others that I really like that I don't think have been mentioned are Longtime Companion, Head On, and Parting Glances.

Boys Don't Cry

I can never remember the name of the movie, but there was a movie about a man living with AIDS who was throwing a "death" party. He'd essentially decided to commit suicide before the worst of the disease got to him. It was amazingly beautifully done. Anyone know the name of that one?

I remember loving the innocence of The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love but it's been years and years since I've seen it. Not sure if it would hold up over time.

CarrieMpls said:

It's My Party



I loved that one too. Also, that remminded me: Kissing Jessica Stein is another good one.

Efan said:

That's it!

I´ll add two Almodovar movies. Could be a few more from him, of course, but these are his gayest, I think and I like them both a lot

Law of Desire, with a super young and fresh Antonio Banderas



And Bad Education


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Rocky Horror Picture Show?

There's no rule that says great movies have to be high brow.

The new Star Wars Trilogy set gay movies back 10 years. Forcing Anakin into that wooden hetero relationship when he clearly wants to cross swords with Obi Wan. Repressing the gay nearly destroyed the galaxy until his twink son came along and set him straight (or is it gay?).

HamsterHuey said:

That movie was awesome!!!

I remember vividly how at the end, during the "reveal" I guffawed out loud in the theater...

man, folks were staring...

Mars23 said:

Well, CP30 was the campest robot in history so he reinforced gay robot stereotypes.

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i can't stand gay movies!

Parting Glances
Longtime Companion

How could I forget one of my all-time favorite movies?

Brokeback Mountain?

scififilmnerd said:

I just wanna see Priest, then head out to the centre for beers, deal?

Now I don't mind a good gay camp movie if its done right like this lil gem.

The Soundtrack kicks ass too.

CarrieMpls said:

Ooooh, before people realised Keanu can't act. I remember being puzzled about this movie.

noimageatall said:

I love this one, too but Party Monster rocked my world

HamsterHuey said:

It was the first "arthouse" movie I ever saw and it helped change my outlook on movies altogether.

That and I'm still in love with River Phoenix.

RIP

CarrieMpls said:

Oooh, I had that with Les Roseaux Sauvages, I fell in love (again, acting presence only) with Élodie Bouchez. She plays in a lot of movies I like.



Okay, lots of half-naked young men quite helped the case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...eds_(film)

Élodie Bouchez;



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noimageatall said:

I said it was offensive and its full of stereotypes (eg Lipses, namazika doing a jump shot, but it has its funny moments eg "Vita you speak honky, translate"


And the original Birdcage La Cage Aux Folles (France 1978) is much better too.

I did like my beautiful laundrette, but its too gritty and reminescent how bad 1980s Britain was to poor people

love, valour, compassion, angels in America, billy elliot, Priscella queen of the desert, the bird cage....love these movies....Philadelphia too
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Parting Glances - my all time favorite.
Beautiful Thing - oh that was so me as a kid.
Torchsong Trilogy
Billy Elliott
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss - With Jack from Will and Grace
The Crying Game
To Wong Foo - Just to see John Leguizamo
The Sum of Us - A gay Russell Crowe, yes!!!! It’s funny ‘cause this movie is kinda like the relationship between my dad and I.
Get Real - I also love the "fat" girl.
My Beautiful Launderette
All Pedro Almodovar and John Waters’ films, of course.
The Trip - was okay. I just loved one of the guys in it. I had a total crush on him.
Urbania - was really great.
Angels in America - amazing. Although I saw all 8 hours of the play and loved it.
It’s My Party - I cry like a little girl. Gregory Harrison, gorgeous.
Adventures of Two Girls in Love - very cute. One of the girls was on the L Word. She was sooo young there.
Bound - FUCK YES!!!!!
Plata Quemada - HOT. Gangsters in love
Broken Sky
I Think I Do - Silly but fun.
Hustler White - I loved it just because it was sooo out there.
Shiner - Crazy!!!


...and so many other foreign gay films that I can't even start to mention.

There are sooooo many. And yes I’ve seen them all. Some were AWFUL and some were very good. Just like straight movies.

I can't believe I found my favorite scene from my favorite gay movie PARTING GLANCES. This part makes me cry every damn time.
Yeah, that's Steve Buscemi. I followed his career ever since that movie.


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Better Than Chocolate
Broken Hearts Club
Another Gay Movie
Heavenly Creatures
The Color Purple
Loving Annabelle
Notes on a Scandal
Fire
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Urbania
Orlando (not so gay as inexplicably transsexual )
Torch Song Trilogy
Philadelphia
Paris is Burning (Actually, I love the ballroom aesthetic in this, but the alienation that underlies the culture is very disturbing)

I'm also counting the days 'til someone adapts James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room for the screen.

...And, yeah, it'd be nice to have some solid, non-campy stories where gay folk don't end up martyred.

Lammastide said:

Or stereo-typed. It's so easy to go for the screaming queens, but I love those stories where it is just a part of the entire story, not the actual theme, with just some young boys running around shirtless all of the time.

"Small Town Gay Bar" wasn't bad.