| Date Added/
Length |
Ratigs
IMDB/ MY |
Genre/
Tags |
Plot | Notes | |
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Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella Details |
01/31/2020 4:05:21 PM/
132 mins |
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Ballet; Music
ballet |
Set in London during the Second World War, the drama features Cinderella and a dashing young RAF pilot. Together just long enough to fall in love, they are parted by the horrors of the Blitz. Among the obstacles to their reunion is Cinderella’s sinister step-mother, while the Angel weaves his magic to protect our heroine. | |
The Red Shoes Details |
01/31/2020 3:10:00 PM/
135 mins |
8.2
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Ballet; Drama; Music; Romance
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In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences. | One of the first movies I ever watched, soon after it was released in 1948. |
Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! Details |
01/28/2020 10:30:21 PM/
88 mins |
7.1
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Ballet; Ballet/Dance; Comedy; Family; Fantasy; Music; Queer Themes/Interest; TV Movie
ballet; dance |
"Instead of a happy family Christmas party, Bourne’s Nutcracker! starts off in a bleak orphanage that seems more like a prison. Clara, an unhappy resident, is with the other children subjected to the taunting of Sugar and Fritz, the children of the owners, watching them open presents in front of the orphans but neglecting to share. Clara finds a nutcracker doll in the box of toys given as charity, though Sugar breaks it in a jealous fit. While the other orphans fix the doll, all the toys are taken away by the owners, causing Clara to steal the keys to get her Nutcracker back. Sugar catches on and tries to stop her, only to run when a life sized doll appears instead. The owners and the orphans get into a battle, after which the Nutcracker, now a handsome man, is stolen away by Sugar as they head into Sweetieland...." [RESPECT]. | |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Details |
01/28/2020 10:18:37 PM/
157 mins |
9.0
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Comedy; Fantasy; Music
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Blinded By The Light Details |
01/25/2020 11:04:31 PM/
118 mins |
6.9
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Comedy; Drama; Music; Queer Themes/Interest
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In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen. | |
Mucho Mucho Amor Details |
01/25/2020 10:40:47 PM/
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Documentary; Queer Themes/Interest
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Once the world's most famous astrologer, Walter Mercado seeks to resurrect a forgotten legacy. Raised in the sugar cane fields of Puerto Rico, Walter grew up to become a gender non-conforming, cape-wearing psychic whose televised horoscopes reached 120 million viewers a day for decades before he mysteriously disappeared. | |
Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty Details |
01/25/2020 7:30:31 PM/
105 mins |
6.1
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Ballet; Music; Queer Themes/Interest
ballet |
Matthew Bourne’s haunting scenario is a gothic tale for all ages; the traditional tale of good vs. evil and rebirth is turned upside-down, creating a supernatural love story that even the passage of time itself cannot hinder. Perrault’s timeless fairy tale, about a young girl cursed to sleep for one hundred years, was turned into a legendary ballet by Tchaikovsky and choreographer, Marius Petipa, in 1890. Bourne takes this date as his starting point, setting the Christening of Aurora, the story’s heroine, in the year of the ballet’s first performance; the height of the Fin-de-Siecle period when fairies, vampires and decadent opulence fed the gothic imagination. As Aurora grows into a young woman, we move forwards in time to the more rigid, uptight Edwardian era; a mythical golden age of long Summer afternoons, croquet on the lawn and new dance crazes. Years later, awakening from her century long slumber, Aurora finds herself in the modern day; a world more mysterious than any Fairy story! |
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Matthew Bourne's The Car Man Details |
01/25/2020 7:08:19 PM/
90 mins |
8.0
9 |
Ballet; Musical; Queer Themes/Interest
homoerotic; dance; ballet; music |
The Car Man is one of modern dance’s most thrilling and entertaining shows, and a signature production for Matthew Bourne’s company, New Adventures. First seen in 2000, when it won the Evening Standard's Award for “Musical Event of the Year”. This recording was made at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London during the production’s most recent revival. The music for The Car Man is based on Georges Bizet’s popular opera, Carman, and has one of the most instantly recognizable scores in New Adventures’ repertory, brilliantly arranged by Terry Davies. While the familiar 19th Century Spanish cigarette factory of the opera becomes a greasy garage-diner in the American mid-west of the 1960s, the plot itself is not based on Bizet. . The arrival of a handsome stranger disturbs the dreams and passions of those who live and work there. Fueled by heat and desire, the townsfolk are driven into an unstoppable spiral of greet, lust, betrayal and revenge. Lez Brotherston’s epic design and Chris Davey’s evocative lighting perfectly complement Matthew Bourne’s vivid choreographic storytelling, which draws on a wealth of cinematic references. Together with the glorious dancing of a wonderful cast, they create a delightful, dangerous and ultimately uncompromising vision of small-town America. |
Matthew Bourne is a genius! There are purest's who would say that ballet/dance is not well suited for film, and must be seen on stage to be fully appreciated. Nonsense. There are also advantages to film. Among them is the ability of close ups and facial expressions. And the ability to occasionally focus on "side" actions which are often missed when the full stage is the only view available. This is a ballet and many of the conventions of ballet are used. It is also a superb example of modern dance. My only complaint, and it is minor, is a wish that a wider aspect ratio were to have been used. The stage sometimes feels cropped. "Thrilling from the off, there’s blood, sweat, and sex aplenty as the languor of a long summer yields to lust: the cast of male mechanics are bold and brash and boorish, their brawling and bare-knuckle fighting visceral and brutal and believable and their sexuality crass and explicit." [CultureFly] As one would expect, homoerotism flows naturally from Bourne. See also |
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake Details |
01/25/2020 3:36:02 PM/
120 mins |
7.7
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Ballet; Drama; Music; Queer Themes/Interest
ballet |
the Ballet | |
Born To Raise Hell Details |
01/25/2020 12:20:37 PM/
81 mins |
7.5
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Adult; Erotica; Queer Themes/Interest
Erotica; gay heritage; porn |
S/M gets its first full definition in director Roger Earl's Born to Raise Hell. A leather-clad sadist picks up and tortures a random man at a bar. Born to Raise Hell from Roger Earl is the standard, the ultimate classic BDSM, gay leather movie that all gay BDSM films are judged by around the world. |
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The Idol Details |
01/25/2020 12:13:35 PM/
85 mins |
5.6
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Adult; Drama; Erotica; Queer Themes/Interest
Erotica; gay heritage; porn |
The death of Gary (Kevin Redding) brings back the memories of Terry Walker (Mark Bitler) who idolized him. | |
Erotikus Details |
01/25/2020 11:26:01 AM/
65 mins |
0
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Adult; Documentary; Erotica; Queer Themes/Interest
gay heritage; porn |
Fred Halsted, dick in hand, narrates this survey of gay pornography, starting with the Apollo "physique" magazines which eventually evolved into 8mm loop films. | |
Garden Of Stars Details |
01/21/2020 7:20:13 PM/
61 mins |
6.2
8 |
Documentary; Queer Themes/Interest
death; AIDS-HIV |
An enchanted cemetery in Berlin. Next to the Grimm Brothers' grave, stillborn babies and gay people rest in peace. This is the Garden of Stars. | By far, the best movie about a cemetary I've ever seen (with the possible exception of Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil. |
Sunset Details |
01/21/2020 7:08:33 PM/
16 mins |
6.8
8 |
Drama; History; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance; Short
war |
In spring 1942, a young duty-bound gay man must decide whether to serve overseas or stay in New York City with his streetwise lover. | A very fine litle short. One of the best. |
Men Of Hard Skin (Hombres de piel dura) Details |
01/19/2020 5:57:27 PM/
96 mins |
5.6
8 |
Drama; Queer Themes/Interest
coming of age; religion |
Teenager Ariel lives a seemingly quiet life with his father and sister on their picturesque farm in a rural part of Buenos Aires. However, unbeknownst to his family, Ariel has been abused for years by Omar, his neighbourhood priest. Having confused his mistreatment for romantic affection, Ariel takes it upon himself to free himself from their relationship and soon embarks on a secret affair with one of the male workers on his father's property. Meanwhile, as Omar continues to succumb to his urges, he forms a friendship with a much older priest who finds himself wrestling with similar desires. Defiantly unsentimental in its approach, José Celestino Campusano's richly textured exploration of sex, power and ecclesiastical abuse in Argentine society is a complex and often confrontational piece of work, posing many tough questions without resorting to easy answers. | While a coming of age film, it does not follow a stereotypical meme. I found the story enthralling, We arrive at an uncertain conclusion [[more]] |
I Am Yet To Make You A Love Song Details |
01/15/2020 9:07:24 PM/
16 mins |
0
5 |
Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Short
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Greg and Alesandro are in the bedroom, looking at one another. The feeling of guilt and nostalgia of that moment may even forever mark their lives, but it's only a gateway to allow love to walk freely amongst them. | This was the weakest of the shorts in this collection. It never gelled. I did no find the music particularly inspiring and on the whole rather pointless. |
Carlito Leaves Forever (Carlito se va para siempre) Details |
01/15/2020 8:58:51 PM/
8 mins |
5.9
7 |
Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance; Short
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In the heart of the Amazonian jungle, the village of Palma Real on the banks of the river "Mother of God" still resists the modern world. Nomads of origin and evangelized by force, their pagan customs persist despite everything and the inhabitants are marked with the physique of the native tribes. Carlito, a silent young man, decides to leave this place, his native village, in a strange, discreet and informal escape. Without saying goodbye to his family, if not his grandmother just as silent as him, he steels a canoe to escape on the river. A little further on, on the muddy bed of the immense river, an encounter reveals the secret that Carlito has hidden from his community. A film whose images are revealed as a poem, shot and interpreted in the native language of the village, by the inhabitants. Film directed under the supervision of Werner Herzog. | The shortest of the films in the Latin Boys collection, To my mind the best. While not a unique story (it has occurred millions of times in the histoy of the human race), it is a simple poetic story well told. Most of us have experience the event in our lives. Sometimes it is dramatic, but most of the time it is quite, as it is with Carlito. +5/5 Review: Gay Essential [Alexander Ryll] |
The Latin Boys: Volume 1 Details |
01/15/2020 3:55:01 PM/
105 mins |
0
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Anthology/Compilation
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From Mennonite musings on the Amazonian pampas to wild Havana nights and bittersweet Rio love songs, if a roller-coaster of same sex desire is what you seek, The Latin Boys will take you there. | |
Pray for Us Details |
01/15/2020 3:26:29 PM/
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0
6 |
Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Short
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In a desolate supermarket, a religious woman's peaceful evening is interrupted by the sudden arrival of three punks, who are running away from the police and hiding something much more valuable than money. | |
Mila Caos Details |
01/15/2020 2:44:08 PM/
18 mins |
6.9
7 |
Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Short
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Every weekend at an illegal drag show in a suburb of Havana, Sebastián, a 17 year old Cuban teenager, transforms into »Mila Caos«. He suffers from his mother's indifference and dreams that one day she will see him on stage. | "The yearning to be yourself and to be accepted oozes off the screen. " QueerGuru (Roger Walker Dack) |
The Good Friend (El Amigo) Details |
01/15/2020 1:19:00 PM/
19 mins |
7.1
7 |
Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance; Short
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Marcos confesses to Esteban that his relationship with his girlfriend doesn't excite him anymore. That night both will discover the limits of their friendship. | Homophobia is so engrained in the human psyche that even between best of friends a revelation of affection and love can lead to rejection. Often, over time, reconciliation can be achieved. Sometimes not. |
Unicorn (Unicornio) Details |
01/15/2020 12:24:40 PM/
31 mins |
6.5
6 |
Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Short
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A young German/Bolivian Mennonite (DOUG PORTER) relies on the help of others to escape his religious community. This hypnotic tale gives serves a lesson in how the sacrifices people make to shape the future of their children can either be a selfish or selfless act (QueerGuru Roger Walker-Dack) | I was disturbed by the depiction of the Mennonites as physically violent and cruel people. Mennonites have become known as one of the historic peace churches because of their commitment to pacifism. I seems to me that it would have been more likely that a Mennonite family would have used non-violent means toward an errant family member rather than physical abuse. I wonder if this is not an example of prejudice toward a group that is different (Mennophobia? e.g. homophobia). The plot description originally described the Mennonites as "fundamentalists." They are not fundamentalist as this label is used pejoratively in modern times. |
A Skin So Soft (Ta Peau Si Lisse) Details |
01/14/2020 2:56:32 PM/
94 mins |
6.1
5 |
Documentary; Queer Themes/Interest
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Jean-François, Ronald, Alexis, Cédric, Benoit and Maxim are gladiators of modern times. From the strongman to the top-class bodybuilder, to the veteran who has become a trainer, they all share the same definition and obsession with overcoming their limitations. They are waiting for the next competition, working hard in the gym and following extreme diets. | Beefy men with their shirts off and duck walks. But little insight into their passion. Boring. |
The Shiny Shrimps Details |
01/13/2020 2:06:09 PM/
100 mins |
6.5
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Comedy; Queer Themes/Interest
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Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion at the end of his career, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, a flamboyant and amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one thing in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games in Croatia where the hottest international LGBT athletes compete. It's the start of a bumpy and joyful ride - Faster, Higher, Stronger. | |
The Dl Chronicles: The Complete First Season Details |
01/12/2020 7:49:01 PM/
132 mins |
7.2
6 |
Adult; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance
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Stilted writing. Mediocre acting. But still fun. | |
Fixing Frank Details |
01/12/2020 7:38:56 PM/
103 mins |
5.7
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Drama; Queer Themes/Interest
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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. | |
Nine Lives Details |
01/07/2020 11:26:37 PM/
75 mins |
5.2
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Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance
AIDS; drugs; HIV |
Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a latino pool boy, a television writer, a meth dealer and others. As one affair leads into another, the connections betwen the characters reveal the secrets each one holds. | |
Just Can't Get Enough Details |
01/07/2020 11:09:35 PM/
95 mins |
5.1
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Action; Comedy; Documentary; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest
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Straight-to-video filmmaker David Payne writes and directs the docudrama Just Can't Get Enough: The True Story of the Chippendales' Murders. The movie opens with Nick DeNoia (Peter Nevargic) getting shot in his office. The bulk of the story takes place in the early '80s during the glory days of the Chippendales night club, owned by sleazy businessman Steve Banerjee (Shelley Malil). Innocent college graduate Chad Patterson (Johnathan Aube) gets a job at the club to make some extra money, but he manages to get corrupted by the money and lifestyle. Then choreographer DeNoia gets involved in a blackmail scandal and Steve gets illegal ideas of his own. | |
Relish Details |
01/07/2020 10:45:35 PM/
97 mins |
7.0
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Adventure; Comedy; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest
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Five outcasts, lead by a rebellious transgender male, escape a private treatment program, go on a life-changing road-trip, and discover they have a lot more in common than they ever imagined. | |
The Art Of Being Straight Details |
01/07/2020 10:41:52 PM/
70 mins |
4.9
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Comedy; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance
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Twenty-three-year-old John has just moved to L.A. from New York, ostensibly "taking a break" from his longtime girlfriend. He moves in with college bro Andy, whose pals incessantly do that kind of "That is so gay" banter that's essentially harmless - unless you're the only gay guy in the room. | |
Gay Meets Girl (Een Man Weet Niet Wat Hij Mist) Details |
01/06/2020 9:56:48 PM/
50 mins |
3.9
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Queer Themes/Interest
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Documentary makers and friends Tim den Besten (26) and Nicolaas Veul (29) exploring the boundaries of their sexuality. Both are gay, at least, they think they are. | |
Fleabag: Season 2 Details |
01/06/2020 2:41:17 PM/
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8.7
8 |
Comedy; Drama
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Meet Fleabag. She’s not talking to all of us; she’s talking to YOU. So why don’t you pop your top off and come right in? Fleabag is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman trying to make sense of the world. |
It builds perfectly . I hope they don't spoil it with a season 3. |
Fleabag: Season 1 Details |
01/06/2020 2:40:20 PM/
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8.7
7 |
Comedy; Drama
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Meet Fleabag. She’s not talking to all of us; she’s talking to YOU. So why don’t you pop your top off and come right in? Fleabag is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights and bright lights, in this very modern mix of fatalism and hedonism, sustaining a merry-go-round of broken dreamers. Unfettered and unfiltered, Fleabag tears through the series sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from any orifice, rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up the bravado all along. Because that’s just the kind of messed-up, normal person she is. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the thoroughly disarming confessional of a woman so totally detached she’s utterly lost, and ultimately wondering what the hell she ought to be doing in life. Much like the rest of us. |
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Qt8: The First Eight Details |
01/05/2020 10:34:15 PM/
103 mins |
7.2
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Documentary
cinematology; film making |
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture. | |
Cut Sleeve Boys Details |
01/03/2020 10:56:42 PM/
86 mins |
6.0
7 |
Comedy; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance
Cult |
Two British Chinese gay men decides to re-examine their lives following a death of their friend. Mel sleeps around whilst rejecting the love of Todd and Ash decides to cross dress to find his knight in shining armour. | Some say Cut Sleeve Boys is a cult film. I'm not sure what characteristic makes it so. But it was kind of fun, humorous, and entertaining. I enjoyed it. |
The One You Never Forget Details |
01/03/2020 3:17:35 PM/
9 mins |
8.6
7 |
Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Short
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A 14 year old boy excitedly prepares for his first dance, but when his date arrives he's faced with a split-second decision. | Cute. Touching. Not the way it was on My first date in the 50's. |
01/31/2020 6:57:16 PM