Gay Movies Must-See: 1990s
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- DirectorBen TaylorStarsDane RitterEd CorbinShimley ReynoldsA mature but uneasy cop takes in a young gay hustler following a knifing death in the area. A personal relationship wants to form but both are leery of it.
- DirectorBrian SloanStarsAlexis ArquetteChristian MaelenLuna Lauren VelezA screwball comedy about a gay couple at a straight couple's wedding.
- DirectorGaël MorelStarsÉlodie BouchezStéphane RideauPascal CervoA brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it...
- DirectorRick CastroBruce La BruceStarsTony WardBruce La BruceKevin P. ScottReminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, Hustler White transposes the action from the silver screen's old movie backlots to contemporary male prostitution and the porn industry. Said to be an homage to classic Hollywood cinema.
- DirectorStephan ElliottStarsJohnathon SchaechRod TaylorSusie PorterA con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.
- DirectorAng LeeStarsWinston ChaoMay ChinAh-Lei GuaTo satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
- DirectorWaris HusseinStarsFirdaus KangaSouad FaressKhodus WadiaThe unusual story of a boy who will never grow. Born with a disease that makes his bones brittle, Brit, as he is appropriately named by his mom, will be four feet tall for life. But he doesn't think small. He has his own spirited way of dealing with the world, and the cast of characters that surrounds him helps ensure that life is never dull: an eccentric mom, a dad with movie star looks, a doting sister, and numerous other mentors, lovers (both male and female), and charlatans who come in and out of the picture.
- DirectorBoris FruminStarsVeronica AlicinoStephen C. BattsHayward BolingBlack and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan. Filled with an assortment of fringe artists, disenfranchised immigrants, diamond dealers and sexual surrogates, the film is ultimately about breaking down barriers between people.
- DirectorJoshua John MillerStarsVeronica AlicinoKirstie AlleyShan ApplegateGrowing up neurotic in a Hollywood family.
- DirectorDavid MoretonStarsChris StaffordTina HolmesAndersen GabrychA teenager copes with his sexuality on the last day of school in 1984. It shows him coping with being gay and being with friends.
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsMario LopezMichael MurphyJeffrey MeekBreaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers. Some topics discussed were Greg's childhood problems, his homosexuality, and him contracting the HIV virus.
- DirectorChristopher LivingstonStarsMichael ParducciPeter JacobsonJudy PrescottAlex and Elliot an unlikely pair connect to write a film about a New York cop working undercover as a fashion model.
- DirectorRick OnoratoStarsDominique DebrouxChris GunnJeb EastmanOne erratic gunshot into the bleak New England woods pushes Brian toward an unexpected confrontation with Melanie, the woman next door.
- DirectorRichard TurnerStarsRebecca SmartGraham HarveyDavid FranklinViolet, a fiesty 15 year-old who prefers the nickname "Scooter" , decides to run away from her boring life in a small town and goes to visit with the father she has never seen. She believes he lives in the city with his new wife, but in fact he is in a gay relationship with his long-time lover. This inevitably leads to changes and readjustments all round as dad gets to know, reluctantly, the daughter he never wanted.
- DirectorAlisa ChristensenStarsAllan Wayne AndersonBobbiCrystall CarmenWelcome to WeHo Manor and its residents: Handsome hunks, good doctors, evil twins, nude maids, cross dressing nuns engaging in life's simple pleasures like love triangles, kidnapping, blackmail and a whole lot more!! They are fabulously sick, twisted and bitchy, bitchy, bitchy. Doug Stevenson the "selfless clinic volunteer"/quasi professional gossip columnist is actually a brown nosing, ladder climbing egomaniac. Tony Rios the popular soap actor with a porno past. The eccentric apartment manager who likes his maids hunky, Latin and nude. Juan, the nude maid is anticipating a bitter catfight with his soon to be ex lover, Vic, the lazy handyman at the complex. Young and out Chance Carnagie has just been tossed out by his ultra right wing father and is befriended by a pair of homeless teens, Liza and Elvis. Semi closeted conservative and unethical lawyer Trevor Turner learns that the only people getting promoted at his firm are married with children. Dr. Jerry, the rock of the neighborhood doesn't know that his lover Ernie is a recovering drug addict.
- DirectorFrank OzStarsKevin KlineJoan CusackTom SelleckA midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
- DirectorStéphane GiustiStarsJean-Michel PortalMarcial Di Fonzo BoMathilde SeignerThis is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto "Live each day of your life as if it were your last."
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsÉvelyne DandryFrançois MarthouretMarina de VanThe adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and how much do you want-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband it all starts with the arrival of an innocent-looking rat.
- DirectorSteven DillerStarsDavid DrakeAnn CusackMatthew PestoriusArt gallery operators hit upon a stunt to boost their business, but other hands get involved.
- DirectorWaris HusseinStarsFirdaus KangaSouad FaressKhodus WadiaThe unusual story of a boy who will never grow. Born with a disease that makes his bones brittle, Brit, as he is appropriately named by his mom, will be four feet tall for life. But he doesn't think small. He has his own spirited way of dealing with the world, and the cast of characters that surrounds him helps ensure that life is never dull: an eccentric mom, a dad with movie star looks, a doting sister, and numerous other mentors, lovers (both male and female), and charlatans who come in and out of the picture.
- DirectorFloyd MutruxStarsDermot MulroneyRicky SchroderKelli WilliamsGraduates of a Los Angeles high school in 1965 see America's culture and politics gradually change.
- DirectorOleg KavunStarsDanya TolkachevYuriy NazarovYuriy MazhugaA young boy's loss of innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison is the harrowing, Kafkaesque premise of LESSONS AT THE END OF SPRING. During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime, a teenager's errand to the village market for bread ends in a nightmarish confrontation with local police. Sadistic shower room confrontation, unsanitary detention facilities and a tomblike prison cell become classrooms on the horrors of the human soul. As his fellow captives are tortured, die or quietly lose their minds, the naive 13-year-old becomes an unwilling witness to startling lessons in honor, hatred, conscience and survival. Contains nudity and mature themes.
- DirectorAntonio TibaldiStarsRyan PhillippeNastassja KinskiJohn Savage19 y.o. Jimmy' s dad is a vicious, impotent Vietnam vet, who forces his wife and son to have incest. He has a secret he'll kill to keep. Jimmy won't abandon his two kid brothers by leaving.
- DirectorRandolph KretStarsDamon JonesDave Oren WardDavidlee WillsonAn interracial couple is attacked and the woman is gang-raped in a random attack. This prompts the woman to commit suicide and the man decides to seek revenge from the inside by joining the gang. However, once inside he learns of the reasons (poverty, social rejection) for their existence and starts developing a kinship until he is asked to kill someone to prove his loyalty.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsTom CruiseJason RobardsJulianne MooreAn epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
- DirectorWally WhiteStarsWally WhiteBash HalowJames SextonTommie is a young guy in Manhattan with a dead-end job handing out fliers in Times Square. At the beginning of a fateful summer, he has a chance encounter with a friend who tells Tommie that he's headed to Provincetown, on the Cape, for a long weekend. Tommie is inspired to make his own trek to P-town, where he goes on a summer long, balls-out quest for Mr. Right, even though he has no money and holds his breath each time he uses his American Express card. In the course of the summer, Tommie looks for a work as a house boy at various inns, works several jobs, benefits from the kindness of a stranger, and gets involved with a series of men. Is it all worth it?
- DirectorJohn G. YoungStarsGabriel MannLaurence MasonMurphy GuyerSeth is a youth with artistic leanings, a fascination with Black pop culture, and a dead-end life in an Adirondack village. He's alternatively sensitive and brutal with Kristen, who wants a sexual relationship that he explosively rejects. Late one night, as he's closing the cafe where he works, a young Black man attempts to rob him at gun point but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, Knowledge, an escapee from a nearby prison, to a family cabin where he nurses him and they begin a tentative friendship. When the sheriff learns of Seth's harboring a fugitive, a confrontation looms. Relationships between fathers and their children dominate the subplots.
- DirectorYonfanStarsStephen FungDaniel WuShu QiThe emotional travails of a handsome gigolo and a hunky cop, who are trying to come to terms with their sexuality.
- DirectorMira NairStarsNaveen AndrewsGlenne HeadlyHal Holbrook"My Own Country" tells the story of an East Indian doctor who settles in Johnson City, Tennessee. The doctor's name is Abraham Verghese, and he specializes in infectious diseases. It's 1985, and AIDS is spreading from the big cities to the rural areas. Abraham takes AIDS as his personal crusade and is soon well-known for his compassion and non-judgmental treatment. He soon becomes overwhelmed with patients from the surrounding states, which strains his marriage.
- DirectorMel ChiongloStarsAlex Del RosarioGandong CervantesLawrence DavidThree young and good-looking brothers live with and support their parents in Manila; they dance at the male Club Exotica and work as "call boys." Joel has a wife and child; he and Dennis are saving money to buy back lost family land. Sonny has dropped out of university and sees dancing as a way to make money for now. Joel has a regular boyfriend as well; Sonny spends time with Michelle, a transvestite; Dennis and his pals steal car radios. When their nanay takes in a homeless youth who is not what he appears to be, a chain of events is set in motion that brings tragedy. Is there any salvation in this late-night world of "macho dancing" and prostitution?
- DirectorGaël MorelStarsÉlodie BouchezStéphane RideauAure Atika
- DirectorGreg PritikinGary RosenStarsGreg PritikinGary RosenJackie KatzmanWiley is a gay virgin who spends his nights with a large collection of porno. Johnny's his best friend but he's straight, though does admit to a little experimenting. What to do? what to do?
- DirectorSusan WinterStarsAnthony HamiltonDominic Hamilton-LittleSteven J. LevyA retired game show baron and his estranged gay son spar over old family bitterness and popular culture while testing recipes for a book on the history of cocktails.
- DirectorCalogero SalvoMama, I have something to tell you, is an intimate dialogue between a mother and her gay son as they confront each others feelings about homosexuality. Interwoven from poetic textures and interviews, this video essay explores issues of coming out, love, and death within the Latino family.
- DirectorWilliam RothStarsNorman ReedusChad LoweWill LymanA young man struggle to come of age during a violent period of emotional and financial instability.
- DirectorEla TroyanoStarsIrwin OssaJohn BryantJenifer Lee SimardA cute, openly gay latin boy's hormones go into overdrive when his hunky cousin (Angel) arrives for an extended stay. The two explore the young and sometimes dangerous gay scene in the city's Latin neighborhood, with surprising outcomes.
- DirectorRene BroussardAutobiographical film of the directors masturbatory fantasy world. Images of Mame and fat boys reign.
- DirectorTom DeCerchioStarsVincent D'OnofrioMiles PerlichEileen BrennanA masculine gay cop teaches a lesson to a group of young homophobes.
- DirectorJohn MayburyStarsDerek JacobiDaniel CraigTilda SwintonBiography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.
- DirectorMark ChristopherStarsNat DeWolfErik Van Der WildenMatt DeckerIt's the 1990s. Toby, just out of college in Wisconsin, comes to Manhattan to spend the summer with his older cousin, Packard, a gay man whose lover John R. has just died of AIDS. Toby is shy, the openly-gay society around him makes him nervous. Packard gives Toby a pair of John R.'s shoes; when Toby puts them on, he has powerful visions of the pre-AIDS scene in the 1970s, as if he's there. He also takes on a different personality when he wears the shoes, more sure of himself, able to express his interest in men. Wearing the shoes, Toby goes to a bar, hooks up with Dick, and wakes up in Dick's bed. How will he handle it? And what will happen to the shoes?
- DirectorP. David EbersoleStarsNick RafterRobert Glen KeithShirley KnightA stressed out writer's getaway is complicated by advances from a lascivious 17-year-old male relative.
- DirectorJohn GreysonStarsIan D. ClarkMarcel SabourinAubert PallascioWhen a bishop comes to a prison to hear the confession of an old friend he is forced to watch a play, performed by the inmates, about their youth together, love and betrayal.
- DirectorTodd DowningPatrick McGuinnStarsJohn CantwellA collection of 6 gay-oriented short-films. Two main themes are explored here: The homo-eroticism of "Twilight of the Gods", "SPF 2000" & "Dirty Baby Does Fire Island" (the latter follows a plastic-doll as she explores sex & drugs on the beach) --to the campy and outrageous humour of "My Body", "Boot Camp", and "Karen Black Like Me" (the latter follows the plight of a gay-man and his possessed sex-toy).
- DirectorJack WalshStarsAl GiordanoDesi del ValleJeff ConstanFuturistic story of Carlos and Ben who fall in love in high school despite the racism and and homophobia. When Fundamentalist forces threaten to take over the U. S. the pair join forces with an underground resistance movement.
- DirectorTerracinoStarsRic CucharelliTimothy P. CusickTohmas ElmlundTimith, a chatty and needy young man, pushes himself upon Belky, a nearly-wordless immigrant waiter who works at a cafe Timith frequents. Timith projects all kinds of attributes onto Belky, gets the waiter to visit his apartment, and invites him to stay. They become lovers. Can Timith see past his own projections to something real in Belky? In a dream, Timith finds an answer.
- DirectorHermine HuntgeburthStarsGötz GeorgeChristian RedlJeanette HainZobel and Karl are a long time gay couple who live together in a trailer home with Lizzie, Zobel's spunky daughter from a heterosexual misadventure. Together these three form a team of thieves who eke out an existence as pickpockets. After a botched job, Karl becomes unable to work, forcing Zobel and Lizzie to seek out a new partner. Lizzie recruits Rudolf, the boyishly charming town misfit. Reluctantly, Zobel allows Rudolf to join them but warns him to never break the golden rule: "No exchanging of bodily fluids within the team." This dictum becomes increasingly difficult to live by as Lizzie's cravings and Zobel's own passions toward Rudolf intensify. Eventually, the golden rule is broken by Lizzie...and then again by Zobel (unbeknownst to Lizzie, of course). An intricate love triangle soon develops amongst the three that is shaped by deception, desire, and betrayal.