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Genre: Comedy,Drama
Year: 2016
Runtime: 82 min
Language:English
Country:UK
Director: Henry Coombes
Cast: Henry Coombes , Ross Hunter , Jonathan Leslie , Marcella Mclntosh , Jo McQuaid , Lee Partridge , Gordon Robertson , Mathew Scott ,
Plot: Out of the imagination of acclaimed artist-filmmaker Henry Coombes comes Albert, an eccentric, aging painter doubling as an unconventional, Jung-inspired psychotherapist. When Albert's friend asks him to counsel her lethargic grandson Ben, whose ongoing boyfriend problems are rapidly fueling an already deep depression, their subsequent therapy sessions reveal as much about Albert as they do about the troubled young man. Coombes' debut feature is a witty, perceptive study of social mores, sexual excess and the bizarre, symbiotic relationship between doctor and patient; teacher and pupil; artist and muse. _
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Release Date: June 2016 (UK) (default release date)





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Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Director: Robert I. Douglas
Year: Y2005
Country: Finland, Iceland, UK
Language: Icelandic
Cast: Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson,Helgi Bjornsson,Arnmundur Ernst Bjornsson,Lilja Nótt ?órarinsdóttir,Sigur?ur Skúlason



"Eleven Men Out" centers on Ottar Thor, the star of KR, the Icelandic soccer team. After he surprisingly comes out of the closet to a reporter in front of his teammates, the controversy surrounding his coming out leads him on a journey to discovery himself, and a journey off the KR team. He soon joins an amateur team made up of other gay men trying to play in a straight world. In the ultimate culmination of hard work and heartache, the KR team and the amateur squad wind up battling it out on the field during Gay Pride Day.



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Genre: Thriller
Year: 2017
Runtime: 87 min
Language:English
Country:UK
Director: Joe Ahearne
Cast: Tom Bateman , Sean Teale , Paul McGann , Callum Woodhouse , James Tratas ,
Plot: Marc and Fred went to war when they were refused a double bed at a remote Christian guest house. They won in court and now they're back to claim their conjugal rights. Triumph turns to terror when another guest arrives, who they think might have something sinister in mind. Their weekend of fun turns into a bloody battle for survival in this smart, brutally funny and dark thriller.
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Release Date: 13 April 2017 (UK) (default release date)
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Oliver Parker
Year: Y2009
Country: UK
Language: English
Cast: Ben Barnes,John Hollingworth,Cato Sandford,Pip Torrens,Fiona Shaw



After the death of his grandson, the naive and pure Dorian Gray returns to Victorian London, where he befriends the talented painter Basil Hallward and the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton. Basil paints Dorian's portrait and gives the beautiful painting to him while Henry corrupts his mind and soul by telling him that Dorian should seek pleasure in life. Dorian makes a deal with the devil, trading his soul to keep his beauty and youth, while his picture ages and displays the effects of his corrupt life. Dorian Gray travels abroad for many years and when he returns to London, his friends are aged while he is still the same. When Dorian meets Henry's daughter Emily Wotton, they fall in love and Dorian wants his life back.


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Aka:My Life in Pink
Genre: Drama
Director: Alain Berliner
Year: Y1997
Country: Belgium, France, UK
Language: French
Cast: Michele Laroque,Jean-Philippe ecoffey,Helene Vincent,Georges Du Fresne,Daniel Hanssens


Ludovic is a young boy who can't wait to grow up to be a woman. When his family discovers the little girl blossoming in him they are forced to contend with their own discomfort and the lack of understanding from their new neighbors. Their anger and impatience cave and Ludovic is sent to see a psychiatrist in the hopes of fixing whatever is wrong with him. A movie that addresses trans-gender and gender issues in general through the eyes of a child.





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Genre: Drama
Director: Steve McLean
Year: Y1994
Country: UK, USA
Language: English
Cast: James Lyons,Michael Tighe,Olmo Tighe,Michael Imperioli,Michael Ringer



This film dramatizes three periods in his life: abused childhood, New York street hustler, and adult artist on the road, creating a powerful look at growing up gay in America. Keywords:Rape,Violence,Street Hustler,Hustler



Genre: Comedy, Horror, Fantasy
Director: Will Gould
Year: Y1998
Country: UK
Language: English
Cast: Boy George,James Layton,Lee Williams,Margaret Towner,Rita Davies



In the cozy English village of Kromer, where few things are as feared as the werewolves who wander the surrounding forests and fields, two young and handsome wolves, Seth and Gabriel, meet and fall in love. Although their habits and appearance are essentially human - except for the pointed ears, coats of fur and bushy tails - the wolves are considered outcasts and a dangerous menace to the village folk. Seth and Gabs roam the fringes of Kromer, keeping their fur and friendship out of sight. But certain townspeople, afraid of those different from themselves, devise a fiendish plot to pin a murder on the hated and feared wolves. The local priest - himself a bit lycanthropic - stirs up and angry mob that pursues the young prey to the end. This tale of young love fighting the hypocrisy of an older generation, combined with elements of the classic British murder mystery, gives the film a rich and lively texture, and allows the character's diversity to show interesting contrasts. Our young wolves and their pack are urbane, glamorous and clubby but live in a world that is far from a metropolis. Their world is in fact a timeless world of waterfalls, lakes and valleys. In contrast, the village folk live an outward life of church going and piousness yet have evil on their minds. Keywords:Boy George



Genre: Drama
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Year: Y1998
Country: Canada, France, UK
Language: English
Cast: Daniel MacIvor,Joshua Peace,Jack Griffin Mazeika,Carroll Godsman,Jonathan Torrens



A fascinating look back in time at the beefcake and muscle magazines of the 1950s and '60s, highlighting the life of Bob Mizer, a photographer and magazine publisher in the days when gay erotica had to be disguised as fitness material. Includes dramatizations of Mizer's life and the stories of some of the young men he photographed, plus interviews with such figures as fitness legend Jack LaLanne and actor/model Joe Dallesandro. Keywords:Documentary,Model,Photographer,Beefcake



Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: John Maybury
Year: Y1998
Country: France, Japan, UK
Language: English
Cast: Derek Jacobi,Daniel Craig,Tilda Swinton,Anne Lambton,Adrian Scarborough


John Maybury's searing portrait of the English painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) at the height of his fame in the 1960s is one of the nastiest and most truthful portraits of the artist-as-monster ever filmed. It tells the story of the colossally self-absorbed painter and his self-destructive younger lover, George Dyer (Daniel Craig), and begins when Bacon awakens in his studio one night to discover a burglar on the premises. Sizing up the thief as an appetizing piece of rough trade, Bacon makes a proposition. If the robber sheds his clothes and comes to bed with him, he promises he can have anything he wants. Keywords:Painter,Francis Bacon



Genre: Romance, Comedy
Director: Rose Troche
Year: Y1998
Country: UK
Language: English
Cast: Kevin McKidd,Julie Graham,Simon Callow,Con ONeill,Harriet Walter



Troche’s follow-up to Go Fish is an often hilarious comedy set in London about the tangled love affairs of a group of gay men. Failed romantic Leo (McKidd) is just hitting thirty. His kitschy roommate Darren (Hollander) only reminds him of what he’s missing, merrily touting Darren... Keywords:Friendship



Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Oremland
Year: Y1998
Country: UK
Language: English
Cast: Steve Bell,Ian Rose,Roger Daltrey,Dani Behr,Jude Alderson





'Like It Is' follows closeted bare-knuckle fighter Craig (Steve Bell Coronation Street) who falls in love with record executive Matt and follows him to London, despite not being able to handle intimacy and the fact that Matt's friends want Craig gone.

In 'Surveillance', Adam (Tom Harper) hooks up with a handsome guy (Sean Brosnan) only to discover that he is then murdered by the secret police for having information on a supposedly gay member of the Royal Family. Before long, Adam is being followed by special agent spies who want him dead!



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Keywords:Boxer,Gym



Genre: Drama
Director: James Bolton
Year: Y2000
Country: UK, USA
Language: English
Cast: Brent Fellows,Gio Black Peter,Ellie Nicholson,Drew Zeller,Pam Munter



Sent to live with his stern, domineering father (Nolan Chard) after the shocking death of his mother, 15-year-old Charley (Giovanni Andrade) enters into a forbidden romance with a 29-year-old teacher named Eban (Brent Fellows). When their relationship is discovered by their families, Eban and Charley are forced to make a high-stakes decision that could affect the rest of their lives Keywords:Family Relationships,Guitarist



Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Director: Aisling Walsh
Year: Y2000
Country: UK
Language: English
Cast: Steve John Shepherd,John Simm,Laura Fraser,Maurice Roëves,Ger Ryan



A riveting character study of one man's conflict between his repressed sexuality and a passionate love for another man, this uncompromising look at sexual identity and the bonds of friendship powerfully traces the tumultuous journey towards self-acceptance. The handsome, macho David (Steve John Shephard) is a construction worker in South London. Visiting Soho for casual sexual encounters, David is unable to admit to himself or anyone else that he is gay. That includes Theo (John Simm), his straight best mate whom David secretly loves. It takes an appearance on the TV show Forgive and Forget to set David on the road to accepting himself - but at what price? In this insightful, hard-hitting drama, sexual tensions build and secrets are bared to lay the path to redemption, understanding and liberation. Keywords:Friendship,Photographer,Jealousy,Plasterer

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Genre: Comedy
Director: Gary Sinyor
Year: Y1998
Country: India, UK
Language: English
Cast: Peter Ustinov,Prunella Scales,Georgina Cates,Samuel West,Robert Portal



Set in 1908, Stiff Upper Lips chronicles the adventures of Agnes Ivory (Prunella Scales), a dotty spinster living with her niece Emily (Georgina Cates) in a Victorian gothic monstrosity near a railway stop called Ivory's End. Already 22, Emily is still unmarried, thanks to her impossibly high standards. Unluckily for Emily, her idiot brother Edward (Samuel West) has a Cambridge chum, Cedric (Robert Portal), whom Aunt Emily judges a perfect match. Emily finds Cedric's endless references to Homer, stiff mannerisms and preposterous mustache repulsive and rejects her aunt's designs on him. Her romantic interest lies instead with George (Sean Pertwee), a local socialist rabbit catcher who rescues her from drowning, alerted to her plight by Cedric's calls for help in Latin. Both fascinated and repelled by his lower class ways, Emily gets to know George better when her aunt hires him to accompany the family to Italy, where his main duty is to carry a crate of English turf and spread it wherever the family stops to have tea. After seeing Italy, the travelers are off to India for a stay with Cedric's great-uncle Horace, a dissolute tea plantation owner in India. Peter Ustinov, an Oscar-winner for Topkapi and Spartacus, plays Horace, a romantic reprobate and colonial magistrate who takes kangaroo courts to new heights. The charm of the mysterious East works its wonders on the six protagonists, who find true love in their own eccentric, very British way-Uncle Horace falling for Aunt Agnes; Cedric and Edward professing their love for each other; and Emily and George finally tying the knot. Prunella Scales and her son, Samuel West, can claim firsthand knowledge of this spoof's accuracy as both acted in Howards End -- as the patrician Aunt Juley and the proletarian Leonard Bast, respectively. In fact, West sees no need to play the upper class for laughs. "The wonderful thing about the British aristocracy in 1910," he told the London Independent, "is that so many of the things they do are ridiculous anyway. Their rules about etiquette and behavior are so extreme as to be self-parodying, so the straighter you play them, the funnier they are." Keywords:Sexual Awakening,Class Conflict



Genre: Romance, Drama
Director: Peter Sheridan
Year: Y2000
Country: Ireland, UK
Language: English , Irish Gaelic
Cast: Shawn Hatosy,Eamon Glancy,Ian McElhinney,Petricia Leventon,Danny Dyer



Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as "the enemy," a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth. Keywords:Camp,Irish,Ireland,British,Suitcase,Sodomy,Prize


Genre: Romance, Drama, History
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Year: Y2003
Country: France, Italy, UK
Language: English , French
Cast: Michael Pitt,Eva Green,Louis Garrel,Anna Chancellor,Robin Renucci



The sensual tale of three film lovers whose casual friendship evolves when their passion for movies becomes a passion for each other. A scintillating tale directed by Academy Award winner Bernardo Bertolucci.






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Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Horror
Director: Douglas Hickox
Year: Y1970
Country: UK
Language: English
Cast: Beryl Reid,Harry Andrews,Peter McEnery,Alan Web



An aging nymphomaniac (Beryl Reid) and her closeted gay brother (Harry Andrews) both become enamored with Sloane (Peter McEnery), a handsome young man with a shady past. When Sloane kills their father (Alan Webb), the siblings overlook his offense and blackmail him into satisfying their outlandish desires. Keywords:Lodger,Psychopath,Descent Into Madness,Older Man Younger Man Relationship,See Through Dress,Boy Toy,Nymphomaniac,Elderly Man



Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Eyre
Year: Y2004
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Language: English
Cast: Derek Hutchinson,Mark Letheren,Claire Danes,Billy Crudup,Tom Wilkinson



The true story of two performers whose careers were changed forever by a shift in gender roles on the British stage comes to the screen in this adaptation of the play Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher. In London, in the latter half of the 17th century, Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) is a noted star of the legitimate theater with an unusual specialty -- at a time when it was considered unseemly for women to work as thespians, Kynaston specialized in female roles, and was described by one writer as the most beautiful woman on the London stage. With the help of his faithful dresser, Maria Hughes (Claire Danes), Kynaston can turn himself into a striking actress in front of the footlights, and is starring opposite Thomas Betterton (Tom Wilkinson) in a production of Shakespeare's Othello when, while still in costume after a performance, he is propositioned by theatrical impresario Sir Charles Sedley (Richard Griffiths). The sexually open-minded Sedley isn't discouraged to learn Kynaston is a man, but he is bitterly angered by the actor's flip rejection of his advances. Sedley takes revenge against Kynaston by hiring a gang of criminals to beat him up. With Betterton's production of Othello closed while the leading "lady" recuperates, Hughes sees an opportunity and stages an underground version of the play, casting herself as Desdemona. While she lacks Kynaston's dramatic skills, the daring of her appearance on-stage creates a sensation, and King Charles II (Rupert Everett), a noted theater buff, is so taken with Hughes that he declares women should play women from now on. But as Hughes' star rises, Kynaston's quickly falls, and he becomes a bitter, forgotten man. When the novelty of Hughes' gender wears off and her failings as an thespian become obvious, she turns to her former friend Kynaston, hoping he can teach her to be as good an actress as he was. Stage Beauty's supporting cast includes Ben Chaplin, Edward Fox, and Hugh Bonneville. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Keywords:Theatre,Dresser,Law



Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Director: Irwin Winkler
Year: Y2004
Country: UK, USA
Language: English , French , Italian
Cast: Kevin Kline,Ashley Judd,Jonathan Pryce,Kevin McNally,Sandra Nelson



"The most unusual and enchanting musical in years", this cinematic ode to legendary composer Cole Porter is at once buoyantly fun and "heartbreakingly beautiful". Oscar winner Kevin Kline is "perfection" as the elegant and deeply complex porter in a film that offers "knockout performances" from Natalie Cole, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Diana Krall, Alanis Morissette and Robbie Williams, and "melancholy, wit and styl to burn"! From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole and Linda Porter were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, inspiring some of the greatest songs of the twentieth century. Keywords:Cole Porter,Bisexual