LGBT
see all genres ›Nonfiction and dramatic stories from lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender individuals the world over are collected under the LGBT umbrella. Some films document reality. Others follow a coming-of-age trajectory. Some are not LGBT in subject but in approach, offering a “queer” perspective or aesthetic to their visual and storytelling strategies.
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Genres / LGBT
SUB-GENRES · Documentary · Narrative
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Adrift
Soon after her wedding, newlywed Duyen's excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only sexually naïve but overly occupied by his job and doting mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, she reaches out to her closest girlfriend, Cam, who secretly desires her, but...Start your free trial to watch -
The Advocate for Fagdom
At turns a transgressive artist, the spiritual son of Kenneth Anger and John Waters or leader of the Queercore movement, one thing is certain: Bruce LaBruce makes small budget movies full of hardcore sex and political messages in which he happily crushes any gay attitude clichés, mocks dramatic set ups and...Start your free trial to watch -
Altitude Falling
In the year 2029, everyone has been injected with an identification chip originally for medical emergencies which the corporate run government uses to track travel patterns, purchases, political affiliations, relationships and diseases. Greg Forrester perfected this technology but fled to a remote mountain...Start your free trial to watch
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The Angelic Conversation
Derek Jarman's lyrical celebration of gay love set within the context of a series of William Shakespeare’s sonnets. Ethereal Super-8 images slowed to a magical, meditative pace follow the love affair between two men as Dame Judi Dench provides a soothing presence with her narration of the fourteen sonnets....Start your free trial to watch -
Angora Ranch
ANGORA RANCH is a sweet, heartfelt movie about love that transcends age, stereotypes and meddlesome families. While driving to a business meeting, young and handsome Justin runs off the road to avoid a rabbit. Lucky for him he has ditched at Angora Ranch, a farm owned by hunk Jack, a man almost twice Justin’s age. Justin and...Start your free trial to watch -
Aravani Girl
Sixteen-year-olds Palani and Karthik want to become "ladyboys." They’re bullied in school and beaten by their families. Their parents would like to see them grow up as normal boys but they’re falling deeper and deeper into the world of the "Aravanis." Loved as dance performers but hated as homosexuals, their stories emblazon...Start your free trial to watch
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Bandaged
Old-style horror blends with forbidden love in this period thriller. Lucille lives with her domineering father and great aunt in a creepy mansion out in the middle of nowhere. She's about to turn eighteen and longs to go to college to study poetry, but her surgeon father insists the sciences are the way to go. Feeling as...Start your free trial to watch -
Between Something and Nothing
With the impressive BETWEEN SOMETHING AND NOTHING, Todd Verow once again revisits his own past, recounting the life of a freshman art school student whose relationship with a mysterious hustler leads him to work the streets himself. Joe arrives at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design and...Start your free trial to watch -
Blue
In his final and most daring cinematic statement, Derek Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, BLUE is by turns poignant,...Start your free trial to watch
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Caravaggio
Jarman’s most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. CARAVAGGIO incorporates the painter’s precise aesthetic into the movie’s own visuals, while touching on all of...Start your free trial to watch -
Cerveza Bud
“This filmic slice of life coalesces into an ethnographic view of a possible future: the city as a constantly bubbling, delirious playground where yesterday’s monuments are symbols to be triumphed over, and tomorrow never arrives. Perhaps this is why the ultimate effect is one of wistfulness, due also to the unexpected...Start your free trial to watch -
Chain Letters
“Life is a river. A very dirty river,” one protagonist decrees in Mark Rappaport's last narrative feature before he embarked on a 1990s trilogy of quirky, highly personal documentaries about Hollywood (such as ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES). Made in Manhattan during the worst early depths of the AIDS epidemic, this LA RONDE-style...Start your free trial to watch
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Chris and Don: A Love Story
CHRIS AND DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose "Berlin Stories" was the basis for all incarnations of the much-beloved CABARET) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From...Start your free trial to watch -
College Boys Live
In a quiet Orlando, Florida suburb three young men struggle to escape the wreckage of their pasts and create new lives for themselves. Their new home is CollegeBoysLive.com, a voyeur webcam house rigged with 32 cameras, where their every move is watched by thousands of paying members. The site's creator...Start your free trial to watch -
Crush
Michael Saul’s first collection of shorts, TRUE LOVE, was a broad sampling of the many different aspects of gay love affairs. CRUSH is an anthology of four stories that examine the many feelings of longing and love in gay relationships. In DON'T ASK, a devoted couple is forced to confront their feelings regarding love and war...Start your free trial to watch
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Deleted Scenes
Edgy, fragmented and filled with hot men who are not afraid to show their skin, DELETED SCENES it is a tale of love, passion and dysfunction. When 30 something Sean meets Eastern European immigrant Wolf, sparks fly. They return to Sean’s apartment begin a high energy and hugely sexual affair. What starts as a mere chance...Start your free trial to watch -
Dinah East
In 1950s Hollywood, a transvestite fools the world into believing he is a glamorous movie diva. When he dies, the secret is out and the film proceeds to tell the story of his relationships with friends and intimates, including a lesbian wardrobe designer, a gay matinee idol (with whom he had an affair), a protective lawyer...Start your free trial to watch -
Dottie Gets Spanked
Another dazzling suburban phantasm from writer/director Todd Haynes, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED (made post-POISON and pre-SAFE) is a stylized, bittersweet nod to his childhood fascination with I LOVE LUCY. Deep in the heart of pre-hippie 1960s America, young artistically-inclined Steven Gale is obsessed with...Start your free trial to watch



