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Plot Summary:
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home en the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: avant garde, independent film, spoof, parody, queer cinema, gay cinema, weird
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Flaming Creatures (1963)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, erotic, psychedelic, dark, absurd, art film, black and white, cult classic, independent film
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Discreet (2017)
Plot Summary:
After years in hiding and struggling to control his demons, an eccentric drifter returns home and discovers that his childhood abuser, the center of his pain, is still alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, queer cinema
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Uncut (1997)
Plot Summary:
Freely drawing from a variety of film genres, including musicals, the sudsy melodramas and documentaries and combing them with a free-flowing narrative and bright pop-art sensibilities, this hard-hitting experimental romp from Canadian filmmaker John Greyson packs a political wallop while satirically comparing and contrasting the issues of censorship and circumcision. The tale centers on the exploits of three homosexuals named Peter. Peter Koosens is obsessed with the semi-scandalous behavior of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau while college student Peter Cort, ponders the significance and necessity of male circumcision. Peter Denham is an artist who seduces the other two and freely borrows from their work to make something of his own. Their exploits land the trio in prison after an operatic number (the police sing songs adapted from Bizet's Carmen).
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Chelsea Girls (1966)
Plot Summary:
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: underground film, experimental, avant garde, psychedelic, art house, art film, cult classic, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Fun Down There (1989)
Plot Summary:
Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Ma saison super 8 (2005)
Plot Summary:
A cinematic homage to the Front Homosexual d'Action Révolutionnaire, the first gay rights movement in France, AllesandroAvellis' compassionate drama tells the tale of a young activist living in Paris when homosexuals had no place in society. The year is 1968; Marc is adrift in the city after failing in his efforts to gain national acceptance for gay rights. One day, during a park pick-up, he meets Andre, a small town factory worker still exploring his sexuality but convinced that he will one day marry and start a family. Over the course of the next three years, Marc and Andre continue their heated affair as Marc continues to advocate fiercely for gay rights while butting heads with his close-minded father, a Paris police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: period piece, queer cinema
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You Can't Escape Lithuania (2016)
Plot Summary:
After his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Lieve Jongens (1980)
Plot Summary:
Lieve Jongens (“Sweet Boys”) explores the sexual fantasies of a middle-aged writer and the handsome young men who dominate his life. Wolf, a successful writer of romantic novels, is plagued by self doubt and writer's block. Though pleasant looking and well-preserved, he fears age will rob him of the youthful companionship he so desperately craves. With the help of his equally randy and manipulative young sex partner, Wolf plots to seduce the gentle Muskrat from the arms of a much older lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Women in Revolt (1971)
Plot Summary:
Three women join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn't make them any happier.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, independent film, political, disturbing, controversial, offbeat
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Praxis (2008)
Plot Summary:
Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to discover his true core. Fighting against fear and the indifference of society - aptly symbolized by the medical establishment - his quest reflects the classical mythos of Proteus and the human search for meaning in the universe.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, heterosexual piano player who gets a job at the notorious nightclub and must therefore reconsider his attitudes. His girl friend helps him too. In the end, he winds up becoming sure of his sexuality when he tries to sleep with a gay man.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Trash (1970)
Plot Summary:
The movie follows Joe (Dallesandro), a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend (Woodlawn). During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, social, surreal, disturbing, controversial, avant garde, cult classic, mind blowing, humorous
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Body Electric (2017)
Plot Summary:
Elias is a handsome young deputy manager in a garment factory in São Paulo. When he’s not working, he enjoys casual encounters in the big city. The arrival of a young African, Fernando, on the production line piques his interest and Elias finds himself increasingly drawn into socialising with his work colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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B-Boy Blues (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follows the relationship of 27-year-old journalist Mitchell Crawford and 21-year-old bicycle messenger Raheim Rivers, who meet at a gay bar in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1993.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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At the End of the Day (2018)
Plot Summary:
A conservative professor at a Christian college finds himself in a gay support group to stop their launch of an LGBT homeless youth shelter in their small town.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: social, independent film, queer cinema
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How to Be a Slut in America (2017)
Plot Summary:
A three-part feature by Brian Jordan Alvarez An honest portrayal of a young man figuring out how he wants to live out his romantic and sexual life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, touching, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, gay cinema
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Sublet (2020)
Plot Summary:
A gay New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, sentimental, sexy, humorous, captivating, contemplative, social, cute, crying
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Fixing Frank (2002)
Plot Summary:
Frank (Miller) is a gay journalist who goes undercover at the urging of his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza) to write an exposé of Dr. Apsey (Butler). Apsey performs conversion therapy on gay male clients, a practice which Jonathan finds reprehensible. Frank quickly comes clean with Apsey but continues to meet with him under the pretense of interviewing him, but finds himself questioning himself, Jonathan and their six-year relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: queer cinema, cult film
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Breaking Fast (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, contemplative, cute, queer cinema
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The Gays (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wouldn't it be great if your parents taught you how to hold your own in a fag-eat-fag world? Rod Gay and Bob Gay-Paris are the streetwise gay mentors you never had. Come revel in the raunchy wisdom they pass along to their two gay sons - Alex and Tommy - advice that will empower the boys to bend the world over, lube it up, and snap one off!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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The Living End (1992)
Plot Summary:
Luke is a gay hustler. Jon is a movie critic. Both are HIV positive. They go on a hedonistic, dangerous journey. Their motto: "Fuck the world".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, erotic, neo noir, surreal, disturbing, controversial, aesthetic, humorous, realistic
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New Dubai (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a middle class neighborhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about love? Is love just a construction?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: explicit, experimental, avant garde, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Seat in Shadow (2016)
Plot Summary:
An ageing Glaswegian psychoanalyst finds his lust for life renewed following an encounter with the charismatic partner of a young patient.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, erotic, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Leather (2013)
Plot Summary:
Birch, a young man living in the Catskill Mountains, reunites with his childhood friend from the city, Andrew.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, humorous, captivating, melancholic, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Lazy Eye (2016)
Plot Summary:
Passions re-ignite and secrets revealed when a graphic designer reconnects with the great, lost love of his life for a weekend tryst at a house in the desert near Joshua Tree.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, humorous, psychological, light, sincere, unusual plot structure, contemplative, cute, erotic, gay cinema
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Boys Life 4: Four Play (2003)
Plot Summary:
The latest installment in this series of gay short films.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, anthology, independent film, mockumentary, gay cinema, queer cinema
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That's Not Us (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three twenty-something couples, one gay, one lesbian, and one straight, travel to a beach house to enjoy the last days of summer, but what should be a fun and carefree weekend becomes an exploration of what it takes to sustain a healthy relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, romantic, lgbt cinema, romantic comedy, independent film
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People You May Know (2016)
Plot Summary:
'People You May Know' tells the story of four friends in their 40s in Los Angeles. All them will have to confront a new reality when Delia gets pregnant from Joe, her best friend who happens to be gay.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, humorous, melancholic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Cal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting and looting almost a nightly occurrence. It is not a warm homecoming as his sick mother remains stubbornly homophobic and wants nothing to do with the now openingly gay Cal while his battered Auntie Jane, now living in a run down council house, dulls her stagnation with welfare funded booze and disturbing attempts to sexually seduce her nephew. Navigating his way across this new landscape he meets a young student who needs his help. However his act of kindness brings him into contact with a lawless drug dealing pimp and a race against time to make peace with his mother and get out of town as quickly as possible. An intense tale of a family mired in poverty, angry and lost but still searching for love, respect and acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense, gloomy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Alex Strangelove (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: teen, psychological, humorous, lgbt cinema, crying, teen comedy, gay cinema, queer cinema