26 November 2011
All Time Top 50 Gay Films
50. Redwoods (2009) : An unfulfilled gay man in a stagnant relationship finds his life changed forever when he meets a struggling writer visiting the Redwoods Country. (82 mins.)
49. Eating Out (2004) : After getting dumped by his slutty girlfriend, Caleb falls in love with Gwen. However, thanks to Caleb's roommate, Gwen thinks he's gay and sets him up with her roommate, Marc. (90 mins.)
48. Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom (2008) : As Noah and Wade prepare to marry in Martha's Vineyard, the personal problems of their friends - and the unexpected arrival of rapper Baby Gat - threatens to permanently end their relationship. (101 mins.)
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47. All Over the Guy (2001) : "All Over The Guy" is a contemporary romantic comedy about the quest to find the "one" when "the one" doesn't know he's the "one." (95 mins.)
46. Jeffrey (1995) : Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying. (92 mins.)
45. Edge of Seventeen (1998) : A teenager copes with his sexuality on the last day of school in 1984. It shows him coping with being gay and being with friends. (99 mins.)
44. Trick (1999) : The misadventures of two young gay men, trying to find a place to be alone, one night in Manhattan. (89 mins.)
43. Making Love (1982) : A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. (113 mins.)
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42. Mambo italiano (2003) : The son of Italian immigrants to Canada struggles to find the best way to reveal to his parents that he's gay. (88 mins.)
41. Shortbus (2006) : A group of New Yorkers get caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality. (101 mins.)
YAHOO Movies Rating : N/A
40. The Birdcage (1996) : A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents. (117 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 6.6 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 6.6 /10
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39. The Broken Hearts Club : A Romantic Comedy (2000) : In the palm-shaded oasis of West Hollywood, we meet Dennis, a promising photographer. As he prepares to celebrate his twenty-eighth birthday, he laments, ' I can't decide if my friends are the best or worst thing that ever happened to me.' (94 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 6.7 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B+`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 6.0 /10
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38. I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) : Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. (98 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 6.7 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B-`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 3.3 /5
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37. Velvet Goldmine (1998) : In 1984, British newspaper reporter Arthur Stuart is investigating the career of 1970s glam rock star Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by American rock singer Curt Wild, whose show was quite crazy for his time. (124 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 6.7 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 3.7 /5
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36. Patrik, Age 1.5 (2008) : A Swedish gay couple adopt what they think is a 15-month-old orphan, only to meet their new son, a 15-year-old homophobic delinquent. (103 mins.)
35. The Trip (2002) : When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin. Despite their many differences, they form a loving long-term relationship. (95 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 6.8 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B+`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 4.8 /10
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34. Were the World Mine (2008) : If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. (95 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 6.9 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `A-`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 6.3 /10
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33. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) : An ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat. (97 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 6.9 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B+`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 3.7 /5
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32. Boy Culture (2006) : A successful male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships with his two roommates and an older, enigmatic male client. (88 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 6.9 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 6.2 /10
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31. My Own Private Idaho (1991) : Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way. (104 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 7.0 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 3.6 /5
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30. Love Songs (2007) : A musical interpretation of three lovers living in Paris. (100 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 7.1 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B-`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 4.0 /5
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29. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) : A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. (100 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 7.1 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 3.6 /5
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28. The Bubble (2006) : The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. (90 mins.)
27. Priest (1994) : Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache) is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. (105 mins.)
26. Latter Days (2003) : A promiscuous gay party animal falls for a young Mormon missionary, leading to crisis, cliché, and catastrophe. (107 mins.)
25. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) : Two drag queens and a transsexual get a cabaret gig in the middle of the desert. (104 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 7.3 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 7.1 /10
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24. Torch Song Trilogy (1988) : Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. (120 mins.)
23. Longtime Companion (1989) : Perhaps the first film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic, Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981.
22. Big Eden (2000) : Big Eden is a small, fictional northwestern Montana town. (118 mins.)
21. Yossi & Jagger (2002) : Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border. (65 mins.)
20. The Boys in the Band (1970) : Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party. (118 mins.)
19. Summer Storm (2004) : Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. (98 mins.)
18. The Wedding Banquet (1993) : To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand. (106 mins.)
17. Maurice (1987) : Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society... (140 mins.)
16. Beautiful Thing (1996) : In a suburb of London, young Jamie is escaping sport hours, to avoid being the victim of his comrades. Young Ste, his neighbor, is beaten by his father, and comes to sleep overnight. They discover new feelings, sleeping in the same bed. (90 mins.)
15. A Single Man (2009) : A story that centers on an English professor who, one year after the sudden death of his partner, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960's Los Angeles. (99 mins.)
14. Get Real (1998) : A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love. (108 mins.)
13. Philadelphia (1993) : When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit. (125 mins.)
12. The Celluloid Closet (1995 Documentary) : A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film. (102 mins.)
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11. Parting Glances (1986) : As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa... (90 mins.)
10. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) : A transexual punk rock girl from East Berlin tours the US with her rock band as she tells her life story and follows the ex-boyfriend/bandmate who stole her songs. (95 min.)
IMDB Rating : 7.6 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 4.1 /5
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9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) : Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart. (112 min.)
IMDB Rating : 7.6 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `A-`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 4.0 /5
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8. Shelter (2007) : When his college dreams are sidelined by family obligations, a young man finds comfort in surfing with his best friend's brother. (97 min.)
IMDB Rating : 7.7 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `A`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 4.1 /5
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7. Brokeback Mountain (2005) : The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years. (134 min.)
IMDB Rating : 7.7 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 3.4 /5
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6. Milk (2008) : The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. (128 min.)
IMDB Rating : 7.8 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `A-`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 3.9 /5
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5. Mysterious Skin (2004) : A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
IMDB Rating : 7.8 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : B
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 4.0 /5
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4. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) : C.R.A.Z.Y. Extraordinary lives of ordinary people in search of love and happiness - that's the premise of "C.R.A.Z.Y", a family drama unlike any other. (127 min.)
IMDB Rating : 8.0 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `A-`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 4.2 /5
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3. Prayers for Bobby (TV 2009) : True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.
IMDB Rating : 8.0 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : N/A
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 4.2 /5
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2. Just a Question of Love (2000 TV Movie) : After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay. (88 mins.)
IMDB Rating : 8.1 /10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `A-`
RottenTomatoes.com Rating : 3.9 /5
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1. Angels in America (2003 Mini-Series) : Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals. (352 min.)
IMDB Rating : 8.2/10
YAHOO Movies Rating : `B`
RottenTomatoes Rating : N/A
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