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1) Victim
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A highly respected, but closeted barrister, Melville Farr, risks his marriage and reputation to take on an elusive blackmail ring terrorizing gay men with the threat of public exposure and police action.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Happy Prince tells the untold story of the last days of Oscar Wilde. Though his last days were tragic, Wilde reflects on his life with humor at a distance. As he lies on his deathbed in Paris, memories of his life come to him in flashes. He recounts his fame in London and how he fell from grace in the same city. He looks back at his past lovers including his wife, his affair with a lord, and the love of someone who tried saving him in the end....
4) Supernova
Language
English
Formats
Description
Devoted partners Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci) are traveling across England, visiting people and places from their past. Following a life-changing diagnosis, secret plans thoroughly test their love like never before.
5) Maurice
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
E.M. Forster's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge students that fall in love, but must make difficult choices between abiding by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality and following through on their feelings.
6) Wilde
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of unrealized homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
8) Moffie
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Afrikaans
Description
Set in the early 1980s, follows the story of a South African teenager who must complete two years of compulsory military service in the South African Defence Force to defend the apartheid regime while trying to hide his homosexuality.
Series
Criterion collection volume 767
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England....
10) Moffie
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1981 and South Africa's white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of sixteen, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and 'die swart gevaar' (the black danger) is at an all-time high. But that's not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army,...
11) Trainspotting
Series
Criterion collection volume 1204
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A jolt of adrenaline shot straight to the heart of 1990s British cinema, this darkly funny adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel was a breakthrough for director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge. With live-wire energy and stylistic verve, Trainspotting bounces across the life and times of Mark Renton, a Scottish heroin addict who, along with his misfit mates, gets high, gets in trouble, gets clean, and gets high again,...
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