"Get Real," which I actually preferred to "Beautiful Thing."

A couple others I enjoyed were "Bedrooms and Hallways" and "Cowboys and Angels."

 

I actually liked Get Real quite a bit too. Thanks for thinking of that. It was driving me crazy.

Brian, you encapsulated the movie brilliantly in your article. It really wanted me to see this sweet film again.

 

A film I could recommend is “Apartment Zero” starring brit actor Colin Firth and … ahh – so dreamy – drool - pant – pant  - Hart Bochner. 

I remember seeing this film in a theatre and the audience reaction was palpable when Hart Bochner struts around in a towel after the shower scene.

QTC

I actually reviewed Apartment Zero last month -- it just got a loving DVD release of the full uncut film (with all the homoerotic stuff!) for the first time ever. Be sure to check it out!

Thanks Brian for letting me know about your article on the DVD re-issue of Apartment Zero. 

I just read it - excellently written - as always.  

I can’t believe I missed your review!!!!!!!!!

And I call myself an avid, devoted AfterElton reader…tsk…tsk…on me. My Catholic upbringing compels me to feel shame and repent.   

I will say three “Crocodile Rocks” and nine at full throttle (in my best Kiki Dee voice)  “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart” before I go to sleep tonight.

 J QTC

If I liked Beautiful Thing am I likely to enjoy Get Real?

Beautiful Thing, Get Real, Bent, Maurice, Velvet Goldmine, My Beautiful Laundrette, Borstal Boy (Although it's really about bisexuality and it's Irish, not English). Those are all good.

bsulgrjd

lol.. I have been searching for the title of this movie for hours! I just could'nt remember the title or anything that would relate to the movie. I tried every movie serach engine i could find, however the information they wanted on the movie to do the search, i didn't have. I finally found this page and there it was Get Real!! Thanx yall. I loved this movie!!

BLECH!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Don't trouble yourself Doctor -- I'm a celebrity, I'll write my own prescription.

I first saw this movie when it was released, and thought it was a very sweet, touching movie dealing with the coming out story of these two young British men.  It was both poignant and amusing, and the actors that played the rolls of Jamie and Steve were very unaffected and believeable.

I just watched the movie again on Logo, and I am happy to say it has withstood the test of time.  Perhaps because the story is ageless, the acting was realistic, and the plot remains believable and honest. 

All in all, I think that it remains one of the all time best in portraying a young mans sexual awakening, and the bittersweet time that we all remember when to come out was difficult, but to no come out was more so.

SkipnTX

I first saw this movie when it was released, and thought it was a very sweet, touching movie dealing with the coming out story of these two young British men.  It was both poignant and amusing, and the actors that played the rolls of Jamie and Steve were very unaffected and believeable.

I just watched the movie again on Logo, and I am happy to say it has withstood the test of time.  Perhaps because the story is ageless, the acting was realistic, and the plot remains believable and honest. 

All in all, I think that it remains one of the all time best in portraying a young mans sexual awakening, and the bittersweet time that we all remember when to come out was difficult, but to no come out was more so.

SkipnTX

afhickman

"It takes a village (to make Village People)"

Ditto all these great films, but everybody needs to go back and see "The Leather Boys," a marvelous film of the Kitchen Sink school about sexual ambivalence and the lack of options available to gays in 1960s England.  It was directed by Sidney J. Furie (yes, he of "Iron Eagle" fame) and stars the beautfiul Colin Campbell (who then practically disappeared from film), Rita Tushingham (she of "A Taste of Honey" and "The Knack") and the great Dudley Sutton, who played Tinker on "Lovejoy."  It's in noirish black and white and the title refers to boys on motorcycles, so don't get the wrong idea! 

Another list of Brit movies with gay content:

Another Country

Boyfriends

Caravaggio

Like It Is

Love and Other Disasters (With Mathew Rhys playing gay)

The Fruit Machine

The Lost Language of Cranes

The Wolves of Kromer

Too Die For

The Two of Us

Young Soul Rebels

 

And if you are into crossdressing:

The Crying Game

Breakfast in Pluto

There's a beautiful gay love story inside this classic of 60's rebellion. I've always loved it (and I wrote the liner notes for the Criterion Collection DVD.) Lindsay Anderson was gay as was Richard Warwick -- the older of the film's schoolboy couple. He went on to work with Derek Jarman. And like Derek he died of AIDS.