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1) Songcatcher
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over, again, for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. While there, Lily, discovers a wellspring of emotional "love songs" (ballads) that have been passed down through generations from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who have settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, and the recording...
2) Michael
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A great, aging artist succumbs to despair when the young model and pupil he adores leaves him for a woman. Although the story is discreetly played at a father/adopted son level on the surface, the homosexual subtext is quite clear in this early Dreyer film made in Germany.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
When a vindictive little girl is disciplined in an exclusive girl's school, the child twists an overheard comment into slander. She accuses her teachers of lesbianism--and her gullible grandmother spreads the gossip. Outraged, Karen and Martha fight back in court, but a child's lie is hard to disprove.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Former Spokane Reservation best friends, Seymour and Aristotle have taken different paths when they are brought together for the funeral of an old friend. Both went off to college; one is now a successful poet, the other returned home embittered. Tensions and resentments flare as they meet again.
6) Any day now
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple take him in and become the loving family he's never had. But when their living arrangement is discovered, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.
8) A single man
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
9) Big Eden
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
From out gay writer-director Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone) comes this funny, heart-warming romantic tale of a thirty-something gay guy, Henry Hart (Arye Gross, Ellen, Six Feet Under) who returns to his childhood Montana home when his beloved Grandfather becomes ill. Once there, Henry confronts his unrequited passion for his high school best friend Dean (TimDeKay) and his feelings about being gay in a small town.. But Big Eden residents defy the...
10) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A gay cabaret owner and his transvestite companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiance's right-wing moralistic parents.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter , who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The provocative and darkly comic story of a young man's return, after a ten year absence, to his childhood home in rural Nova Scotia. Arriving on the day of his sister's wedding, he struggles to reclaim his place on the family tree and finally bury the ghosts of his past.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through...
15) Death in Venice
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In Venice on holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach encounters a young Polish boy and becomes obsessed with him, a secret passion that will lead to his doom.
16) Happy, Texas
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000].
Language
English
Description
Two escaped convicts arrive in the town of Happy, Texas where they are mistaken for a gay couple who is to host the town's Little Miss Fresh Squeezed beauty pageant.
17) Weekend
Series
Criterion collection volume 622
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A one night stand turns into a weekend-long affair for two very different young men.
18) The walker
Publisher
ThinkFilm
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Having spent many years accompanying society women to political events and learning their secrets, a gay male escort in Washington, D.C., finds himself in the spotlight of an investigation.
19) Fire
Series
[Elemental trilogy] volume 2
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Sita is newly married to Jatin and living with his family, but he shows little interest in her and continues to date his girlfriend--he married her only to put an end to his brother Ashok's nagging. Sita and Radha, Ashok's wife, must spend all their time carrying for their disabled mother-in-law. Then Sita discovers that Radha, more bound by tradition and subdued into silence, harbors secrets of her own.
20) Beginners
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
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