The 2006 Hungarian romantic drama film Men in the Nude [Férfiakt] follows a troublesome gay affair between a married middle-aged writer and a streetwise teenage hustler. They are chalk and cheese. It isn’t going to […]
The 2000 French TV drama film Juste une question d’amour [Just a Question of Love] follows the romance of two young gay men, who are having a conflict over whether Laurent should come out to […]
The 1974 British film Swallows and Amazons stars Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser and Brenda Bruce. EMI’s pleasantly old-fashioned film, based on Arthur Ransome’s 1930 children’s classic novel, should appeal to grown-ups as well as its […]
The 2008 Italian drama film The First Day of Winter stars Mattia De Gasperis as Valerio, a lonely, introverted boy who can’t get on with others. He observes other boys sneakily and spies on a […]
Director Dennis Gansel’s quietly devastating, authentic feeling 2004 German drama film Before the Fall stars Max Riemelt and Tom Schilling. It is an urgently expressed eye-opener to a forgotten horror in history. Writer/ director Dennis […]
Ferzan Özpetek’s 1997 Italian debut film Hamam takes a mesmerising look at how special places and people can transform other people. The romantic drama film is a haunting joy. It is sweet and sexy, delicately […]
In late 1970s Rome, two 25-year-old men meet by chance in the street and then in the Nuovo Olimpo cinema, and fall instantly in love. Aspiring film director Enea (Damiano Gavino) and medical student Pietro […]