Well, I've been watching a lot of gaytastic movies lately, but my favorite is Summer Storm, a foreign film from... Bavaria? It;'s the only movie with subtitles I've ever liked... It has some very tasteful sex scenes (even if one of them is hetero). It's your basic closeted gay boy in love with his straight best friend movie. As an added bonus, they're rowers.
Is a great French gay themed movie. It is subtitled but is worth taking a look at and a great love story. Who doesn't love a good love story? Also I believe the main actor Cyrille Thouvenin is openly gay.: )
I second both Summer Storm and Just a Question of Love. Very well done and very romantic!
Also suggest a Canadian/South African film called Proteus, which is by the same director as Lilies. Set in the 1600's, it involves a black South African and white Dutchman who fall in love while imprisoned on Robin Island, the place where Nelson Mandela spent his incarceration. Apparently, the prison guards kept very meticulous notes of these two guys.
Some parts of the film are purposely ahistorical, and have the effect of connecting the past to the present. Sort of off-beat, but worth a look.
French Canadian Film called Crazy, a wonderful picture about discovering your sexuality and family's acceptance. Brilliant soundtrack featuring Bowie, Patsy Cline and PinkFloyd. Well worth a watch.
I don't know if I've mentioned "The Leather Boys" on this site or not. It's a 1960s pre-Beatles era film by Sidney J. Furie that stars Colin Campbell, Rita Tushingham, and the incredible Dudley Sutton. It's also a classic study in ambivalence. Here's another example of an actor (Campbell) who showed great promise but who all but disappeared from the screen after playing a young man who is tempted by the "dark" side. Catch this one on TV, if you can, or watch it on tape; the DVD transfers don't do it justice.
I was very fond of the French film "You'll Get Over It"---'course, it has subtitles, so hope that isn't a problem! I thought it was first-rate. I also liked "Latter Days" quite a bit, but I guess that's too well-known to fit into the "most people have never heard of it" category...
Summer Storm
Just a Question of Love
Proteus
I second both Summer Storm and Just a Question of Love. Very well done and very romantic!
Also suggest a Canadian/South African film called Proteus, which is by the same director as Lilies. Set in the 1600's, it involves a black South African and white Dutchman who fall in love while imprisoned on Robin Island, the place where Nelson Mandela spent his incarceration. Apparently, the prison guards kept very meticulous notes of these two guys.
Some parts of the film are purposely ahistorical, and have the effect of connecting the past to the present. Sort of off-beat, but worth a look.
Crazy
The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name
afhickman
"It takes a village (to make Village People)"
I don't know if I've mentioned "The Leather Boys" on this site or not. It's a 1960s pre-Beatles era film by Sidney J. Furie that stars Colin Campbell, Rita Tushingham, and the incredible Dudley Sutton. It's also a classic study in ambivalence. Here's another example of an actor (Campbell) who showed great promise but who all but disappeared from the screen after playing a young man who is tempted by the "dark" side. Catch this one on TV, if you can, or watch it on tape; the DVD transfers don't do it justice.
You'll get over it