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Jane Birkin stars in the controversial film Je t’aime moi non plus (1976) as the skinny waitress Johnny, who lives and works in a truck-stop, but longs for love. She falls head over heels for […]
Director Stephen Frears’s provocative 1987 biopic is a cleverly written, powerfully acted biography of the brilliant Sixties gay playwright Joe Orton. It was advertised as ‘From the director of My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘They shared […]
With a screenplay based by John Herbert on his own hit Los Angeles, Broadway and London West End play, director Harvey Hart’s tough 1971 Canadian movie is a powerful, disturbing and mostly depressing experience. The […]
William Friedkin’s infamous 1980 thriller film Cruising stars Al Pacino as New York City police detective Steve Burns, who goes undercover among the gay leather set to catch an S&M serial killer preying on gay […]
Writer-director Todd Haynes’s 2002 masterwork drama profitably reunites him with the star of his 1995 movie Safe, Julianne Moore. She plays Cathy, a Fifties New England housewife who finds that her perfect husband Frank (Dennis […]
Director Norman René’s heart-rending 1990 drama is a trailblazer as the first mainstream feature to tell the story of how the AIDS epidemic affected America’s gay community in the 80s. It centres on a small circle […]
Director Stephen Frears’s 1985 heart-warmer raises the spirits. It stars future double-Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, who first captured the attention on screen here as Johnny, a gay, reformed racist punk. The Beautiful Laundrette of the title is […]