MassageDrew Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I really like the movie Borstal Boys. It's older and really non-sexual but I liked it. It's the first time I really liked Shawn Hatosy. OCClient, + newguy and JohnGerman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beancounter Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Maurice based on the novel by E.M. Forster. Great movie. Strafe13, OCClient, Danny-Darko and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ purplekow Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 (edited) I am a fan of Broke Back Mountain. It may be overexposed, but it struck a chord. Longtime Companion and Angels in America both evoke a time and place and circumstance that rings true for me. The Broken Heart's Club is a gay rom com which is a guilty pleasure. Edited March 30, 2017 by purplekow + g56whiz, MGTOW_Tx, + Axiom2001 and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strafe13 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Maurice based on the novel by E.M. Forster. Great movie. I loved this movie! I saw it on cable when I was a teen, and immediately fell in love with British actor Rupert Graves. He was also the straight, cis male love interest in the British queer movie "Different for Girls," about a formerly "gay"guy who, as an adult, transitioned to "straight" female and then reconnects with, and falls for, his former grade school friend. He's still a decent looking guy now, in his 50s, but the young Mr. Graves was quite the crushworthy foreign actor for this then-closeted queen. liubit, AndreFuture and Beancounter 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayCeeKy Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 A Single Man (2010). With terrific acting from Colin Firth - and beautiful Nicholas Hoult as every gay man's dream college groupie. Based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood it portrays one day (November 30, 1962) in the life of a college professor (George) who has recently lost his longtime partner and is contemplating suicide. And whenever I'm having one of those crappy days I remind myself of what George tells himself on November 30, 1962: "Just get through the goddamn day." LoveNDino, + Lucky, JBrian72 and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanwyck Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Trick (1999) Mydavid, Marlfox, samhexum and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Cash4Trash Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Undertow https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/undertow_2009 + sam.fitzpatrick, Mydavid, CheckCar and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LADoug1 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 The Boys In The Band. Timeless. JourneysEnd, + JEC, + Axiom2001 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gvtire Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Big Eden La Cage Aux Folles If These Walls Could Talk 2 And The Band Played On Long Time Companion + Axiom2001 and Johnrom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courage Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 300 :-P EastbayMike, + purplekow, Mhs and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtime lurker Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Anchors Aweigh (1945) may not be an official "gay" movie but the way Frank Sinatra can't take his eyes off of his bro-buddy Gene Kelly (even watching him as he sleeps in one scene and breathing down his neck every time he talks to a woman on the phone) and pint-sized Dean Stockwell oggles them both leaves much to question. Also we have a cartoon Jerry the Mouse chirping "I'm dancing!!!" Wings (1927) and Midnight Cowboy (1969) were the first "gay" Best Pictures, predating Moonlight. Well... to be specific... the former had Clara Bow as the female "love interest" but she fails to compete with the soldier boys' focus on each other right up to the "dying" kiss scene. Even when caught in her undies, "Buddy" Charles Rogers is too drunk and passed out to get a rise from HER. In the latter, Joe and Rico "Ratzo" toss around the derogatory F-word because they think they aren't gay... and Brenda Vacarro gets Joe to succeed sexually with her by questioning if he is. Yet Joe doesn't turn down teenagers in Time Square or traveling businessmen. Of course, Midnight Cowboy tested the waters for the same director (John Schlesinger) to tackle Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), perhaps the most modern "sexually fluid" drama of its era. Sadly Murray Head can't make up his mind between Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson, so he leaves Merry Ol' England. Victim (1961) shows its age but was still a ground breaking social conscious film out to prove to mass audiences that being discriminated or blackmailed for a gay affair was no different than being attacked for being black or Jewish. Fassbinder's Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit) (1975) was criticized at the time for presenting the "gay world" of West Germany as shallow, but I don't find anything wrong with it. It is just the story of a simple guy who wins the lottery and thinks he finds love and happily-ever-after with a young "semi-otter", only to later realize he is being used for his money. The story isn't really about "being gay" so much as struggling to fit in. Also plenty of groovy '74 fashions here. Even in Morocco, El Hedi ben Salem sports the bright orange and white as he gives the two leads a wink. (Check out the heterosexual Ali: Fear Eats the Soul to see him buck naked. One of these days a thread should be started for him in "gallery".) Weekend (2011) may have a little too much talk and the steamy sex scene is too short, but it is a good "test" film to show your strictly heterosexual friends. It is no more hotsy totsy than all of their "heteronormal" chick-flix, so they have no excuse to start squirming. Le Monde du silence (The Silent World) (1956) features Jacques-Yves Cousteau leading a sizeable crew of shirtless (i.e. almost-but-not-quite naked) dudes on his Calypso and no woman in sight. Even the Dachshund on board is male. The shots of them together in clusters enjoying peaceful slumber sums it up. The two Kon Tiki movies (both the non fiction film with its peekaboo nudity, 1950, and, the dramatization, 2011) are equally good. The Wizard of Oz (1939)... C'mon. I don't need to explain. Marc in Calif, Mydavid, + WilliamM and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ sync Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 The Gay Deceivers, two straight guys feign a gay relationship to avoid the Vietnam war draft (1969). It was funny and sad. The two leads were not so hard on the eyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigvalboy Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 (edited) http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/8400000/The-Birdcage-the-birdcage-8443179-537-382.jpg The Birdcage Latter Day Making Love (No emails or PM's please) Edited March 30, 2017 by bigvalboy samhexum, JayCeeKy, + JEC and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtime lurker Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/8400000/The-Birdcage-the-birdcage-8443179-537-382.jpg The Birdcage This shot reminds me of Death in Venice... just the beach setting and clothes. Lol! Now THAT movie is so abstract in its gay attractions that I much favor director Luchino Visconti's much earlier heterosexual black & white Ossessione over it, since at least you see Massimo Girotti shirtless a lot. (Rumor has it the director had his way with the mostly straight star and it is easy to see why.) bigvalboy and Marc in Calif 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N13 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Latter Day JourneysEnd, AndreFuture, bigvalboy and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beancounter Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 The movie Jeffrey. I cracked up with the Mother Theresa appearances. samhexum, + honcho, + sam.fitzpatrick and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtime lurker Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Making Love (No emails or PM's please) That and Harry Hamlin's earlier Clash of the Titans make for a fun double bill. bigvalboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beancounter Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Does "Sordid Lives" by Del Shores count as a gay movie? + ButchAtl and Leyte2019 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigvalboy Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 The Talented Mr. Ripley AndreFuture, + WilliamM, + ButchAtl and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I really like the movie Borstal Boys. It's older and really non-sexual but I liked it. It's the first time I really liked Shawn Hatosy. Maybe 5 years after Borstal released I bumped into Shawn Hatosy getting take out in WeHo and told him what a great job he did in that movie and talked, briefly, about how fun for him to be so young and fly all the way out there to play the lead in that film. I have SO many good gay movies I recommend. I can't go through them all again. If you click on my name and go through my posts and find those about movies, you'll see I've posted Youtube clips to all of them. (is it "to all of them" or "them all"?) OCClient, + BigRic and Mydavid 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 This shot reminds me of Death in Venice... just the beach setting and clothes. Lol! Now THAT movie is so abstract in its gay attractions that I much favor director Luchino Visconti's much earlier heterosexual black & white Ossessione over it, since at least you see Massimo Girotti shirtless a lot. (Rumor has it the director had his way with the mostly straight star and it is easy to see why.) ANYTHING by visconti. Good Lord, did you ever see Conversation Piece? So crazy and good. Of course Rocco and His Brothers drips with homoerotica: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054248/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_12 Danny-Darko, + pitman and longtime lurker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beancounter Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Fellini's Satyricon. JourneysEnd and Rod Hagen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mydavid Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Ciao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcN8sGHyWuw Samfoslom, bigvalboy, longtime lurker and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mydavid Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Free Fall bigvalboy, JayCeeKy and marylander1940 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wklucas Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 #1 - Priscilla Queen of the Desert / #2 - It's My Party / (maybe) #3 - Philadelphia + sam.fitzpatrick, Beancounter, ericwinters and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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