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What are some movies that every gay man should watch at least once?
by Anonymous | reply 171 | August 20, 2018 11:18 PM |
Life With Mikey Frankie & Johnny The Birdcage Mouse Hunt
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 26, 2018 4:44 AM |
La Ley Del Deseo (Pedro Almodovar) It really is a must see, even if you aren't a fan of Almodovar. Lots of passionate homosex, plus we get to see young Antonio Banderas
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 26, 2018 4:46 AM |
Any Kristen Bjorn film
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 26, 2018 4:52 AM |
Eat love pray
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 26, 2018 4:56 AM |
Sex and the city 2
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 26, 2018 4:57 AM |
Bound, La Cage au faux, How to Survive a Plauge
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 26, 2018 4:58 AM |
Auntie Mame, Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 26, 2018 4:59 AM |
SEVEN EFFING REPLIES, AND NOT ONE MENTION OF TIMOTAY AND ARMIE?!?!?!?!?!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 26, 2018 5:08 AM |
Airport 75
Benji the Hunted
Scarface
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 26, 2018 5:10 AM |
Crash
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 26, 2018 5:12 AM |
Paris Is Burning, for fuck's sake.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 26, 2018 5:14 AM |
Maurice (1987) with Hugh Grant
La Cage aux Folles with Ugo Tognazzi
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 26, 2018 5:18 AM |
Philadelphia (although I personally didnt like it, too depressing)
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 26, 2018 5:22 AM |
"Beautiful Thing"
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 26, 2018 5:24 AM |
Call Me By Your Name, Brokeback Mountain, Beautiful Thing, Longtime Companion, Moonlight, BPM. there's real artistry in each of these films and genuine representation even if performed by some straight actors.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 26, 2018 5:29 AM |
La Mission by Peter Bratt
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 26, 2018 5:31 AM |
Female Trouble
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 26, 2018 5:33 AM |
50s: Auntie Mame 60s: Boys in the Band 70s: Sunday Bloody Sunday 80s: Parting Glances, Longtime Companion, Maurice 90s: The Living End, Hustler White, Philadelphia, The Birdcage, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, In & Out, Velvet Goldmine 00s: Brokeback Mountain
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 26, 2018 5:40 AM |
Whoa! "My Beautiful Laundrette," right?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 26, 2018 5:41 AM |
The bitchy classics:
All About Eve
The Women
Valley of the Dolls
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 26, 2018 6:13 AM |
Not all must-see movies for gay men have to be about gay men, as r20 wisely points out. I'll take All About Eve any day over, say, Boys in the Band.
But having said that, I would recommend Pride, a mostly excellent historical film about the Thatcher-era miners' strike and the gay activists who supported them. It's good to feel good about our proud selves.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 26, 2018 6:33 AM |
Hello Dolly!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 26, 2018 6:34 AM |
Grease
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 26, 2018 6:35 AM |
Blue Lagoon
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 26, 2018 6:37 AM |
R21, I’ve been wanting to watch Pride for years but can’t find it. Is it on Netflix?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 26, 2018 6:38 AM |
[quote]I'll take All About Eve any day over, say, Boys in the Band.
I slept through most of All About Eve last week (in a theatre, not on video).
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 26, 2018 6:39 AM |
How Green was My Valley, The Wizard of Oz, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen or Glenda, Myra Breckenridge, The Gay Deceivers
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 26, 2018 6:40 AM |
r25 I saw it in a theatre. I never tried looking for it on Netflix. (Imagine using their search function for that title.) It's available to rent on both iTunes and YouTube.
Dang, r26. I don't know what to say. Give it another chance?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 26, 2018 6:44 AM |
2001 A Space Odyssey
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 26, 2018 6:45 AM |
[quote]La Cage au faux
Is this the one where the gay couple's son is engaged to a man?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 26, 2018 6:47 AM |
Eat Drink Man Woman
Happy Together
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 26, 2018 6:49 AM |
R25, I can watch Pride for free as part of my Amazon Prime subscription.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 26, 2018 6:49 AM |
Showgirls, whore.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 26, 2018 6:49 AM |
No, to a woman r31.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 26, 2018 6:53 AM |
r32 Ang Lee's Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, and Eat Drink Man Woman form an informal trilogy on Chinese immigrant families and the tensions between traditional Eastern and modern Western life. Of these, only The Wedding Banquet has clear gay content, but they are all good films.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 26, 2018 6:58 AM |
Oh, r35, bless your heart
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 26, 2018 7:44 AM |
50 Shades of Grey
(just to make certain they ARE gay!)
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 26, 2018 7:49 AM |
Batman fuck Superman
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 26, 2018 8:35 AM |
Although not specifically "gay" really, I think I'd add The Joy Luck Club - just the way it handles relationships with our mothers and how people have had to struggle with adversity that shapes them and inadvertently may cause them to pass own the same patterns.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 11, 2018 1:05 PM |
pass *down
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 11, 2018 1:06 PM |
Romancing the Stone
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 11, 2018 1:09 PM |
SABRINA
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 11, 2018 1:22 PM |
every woman i know told me she watched Joy Luck Club and almost collapsed in tears by the end. I ve never seen it, is it all that?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 11, 2018 1:29 PM |
I think it's very good & it will probably make you cry at some point - if not multiple times.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 11, 2018 1:33 PM |
Female Trouble, Boom, The Damned, Si Versailles m'était conté, Johnny Guitar, Mildred Pierce, Les Dames du bois de Boulogne, Starship Troopers, King Kong, Dracula, Frankenstein (the originals), both Imitations of Life, A Summer Place, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Cabin in the Sky, Women in Revolt, Trash, Heat, Sunset Boulevard, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Some Like it Hot, Midnight, Madame Satan, Devil is a Woman, The Red Shoes, Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, Rope, Peeping Tom, Orlando, Kustom Kar Kommandos, in fact there is no list there are several hundred.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 11, 2018 1:35 PM |
Lion in Winter
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 11, 2018 1:56 PM |
Carrie (1976)
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 11, 2018 1:59 PM |
Mildred Pierce.
Ordinary People.
A Todd Haynes combo-- Poison, Safe, Far From Heaven, Carol.
Funny Girl.
Swoon.
Death in Venice, Senso, Ludwig.
Teorema.
The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Strangers on a Train.
Rope.
Polyester.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 11, 2018 2:02 PM |
R44 has “best quality” heart.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 11, 2018 2:04 PM |
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
The Bad Seed
Satan In High Heels
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 11, 2018 2:14 PM |
After recently reading about it in Vito Russo’s The Celluloid Closet, I watched 1974’s A Very Natural Thing for the first time. Was surprised and very moved by how ahead of its time it was. I felt like I was watching the story of a number of my relationships through the years. Unapologetic, candid, honest and not afraid of showing men being tender and intimate with each other. Plus a hopeful, kinda beautiful ending. Amazed that this film was made and released in 1974. Breaks my heart to read that the director and lead actor were lost to AIDS.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 11, 2018 2:19 PM |
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 11, 2018 2:21 PM |
Definitely all of Douglas Sirk's melodramas.
Everything by Almodóvar up to and including Volver.
Female Trouble and Pink Flamingos.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 11, 2018 2:58 PM |
My Little Pony: The Movie
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 11, 2018 3:05 PM |
I was sobbing the entire time. My Little Pony: The Movie was very emotional and hit way too close to home. Such powerful film
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 11, 2018 3:07 PM |
All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard really tap into the aging gay male psyche.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 11, 2018 3:10 PM |
"These Bases Are Loaded"
"Powertool"
"Dawson's 50-Load Weekend"
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 11, 2018 3:15 PM |
The Children's Hour (1961)
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 11, 2018 3:18 PM |
"These Old Broads" as in O M G. just caught it on streaming. La Elizabeth channeling Sue Mengers --- OY. !!
must see......
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 11, 2018 3:22 PM |
Pedro Almodovar's Women On The Verge of Nervous Breakdown. I've Heard The Mermaids Singing by the Canadian director was also very interesting and spoke to the gay experience.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 11, 2018 3:56 PM |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Imitation of Life
by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 11, 2018 4:31 PM |
"Torch Song Trilogy" " The Mayor Castro Street" "Common Thread tales from the Quilt"
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 11, 2018 4:48 PM |
Mean Girls! Not that you bitches need any coaching.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 11, 2018 4:49 PM |
Heathers > Mean Girls
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 11, 2018 4:54 PM |
My Eldergay Children don't forget my contribution !!! Much love !!! When you are looking at me I am looking at you, I really am !!
by Anonymous | reply 75 | August 11, 2018 4:57 PM |
Muriel's Wedding
by Anonymous | reply 76 | August 11, 2018 5:27 PM |
Kids In The Hall : Brain Candy
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 11, 2018 5:34 PM |
anything from Fassbinder Pasolini Visconti
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 11, 2018 5:37 PM |
and every derek Jarman movie
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 11, 2018 5:40 PM |
All the Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross ones.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 11, 2018 6:10 PM |
Shortbus
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 11, 2018 6:14 PM |
Keep The Lights On was actually pretty good if you've ever dealt with the drug addicted.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 11, 2018 6:21 PM |
Jeepers Creepers 1 & 2
by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 11, 2018 6:22 PM |
Those movies are /not/ for straight guys.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | August 11, 2018 6:23 PM |
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
THE INCREDIBLES
REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NYC: Scary Island episodes, Mexico episodes, and Colombia episodes
by Anonymous | reply 90 | August 11, 2018 6:26 PM |
We were there and Longtime Companion and Philadelphia
Critical education on gay history
by Anonymous | reply 91 | August 11, 2018 6:35 PM |
MYSTERIOUS SKIN is a must. Difficult, devastating and beautiful oddly all at once. Brady Corbet and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are both heartbreaking and brilliant. A major piece.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 11, 2018 7:22 PM |
Pollyanna.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 11, 2018 7:26 PM |
Eat drink man woman funny girl Nancy boy sleepless Seattle Forrest Gump
by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 11, 2018 7:30 PM |
Helen Lawson in, “NOT MY SON, YOU SOB!”. The madam of a brothel discovers that her only son is queer. So bad it went directly to video, before video was even invented.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 11, 2018 7:35 PM |
Classics:
Auntie Mame
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
Johnny Guitar
Mildred Pierce
All About Eve
Sunset Boulevard
Rope
The Wizard of Oz
A Star Is Born (1954)
Mommie Dearest
Valley of the Dolls
The Boys in the Band
Parting Glances
Longtime Companion
Another Country
Documentaries:
Before Stonewall
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
Gay Sex in the ‘70s
Paris Is Burning
The Celluloid Closet
How to Survive a Plague
The Times of Harvey Milk
We Were Here
Stonewall Uprising
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
Vito
Larry Kramer: In Love & Anger
The Life & Death of Marsha P. Johnson
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 11, 2018 7:37 PM |
eat drink man woman is a very nice movie but why you think it's a must see for gays? it's about a straight man and his 3 straight daughters, they fight about values but it's not a gay movie.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 11, 2018 7:39 PM |
Moonlight
by Anonymous | reply 99 | August 11, 2018 7:45 PM |
taxi zum klo apartment zero a married man christopher and his kind
by Anonymous | reply 101 | August 11, 2018 7:54 PM |
that certain summer
women in love
in the gloaming
the bostonians
last summer
another country
the lost language of cranes
dog day afternoon
brideshead revisited (tv series)
the line of beauty (tv drama)
a separate peace
the history boys
cabaret
the damned
conversation piece
by Anonymous | reply 103 | August 11, 2018 8:02 PM |
Wow r100, never heard of this film...is it similar to BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN?
by Anonymous | reply 104 | August 11, 2018 8:05 PM |
Mouse Hunt, r1?
by Anonymous | reply 105 | August 11, 2018 8:20 PM |
Moon Pilot
Swiss Family Robinson
Mary Poppins
Pollyanna
Follow Me Boys!
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 11, 2018 8:56 PM |
the lion in winter
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 11, 2018 9:08 PM |
Soap
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 11, 2018 9:21 PM |
All the Mission Impossibles so they can learn how to be manly like Tammy.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | August 11, 2018 9:25 PM |
Maid in Manhattan
by Anonymous | reply 114 | August 11, 2018 9:30 PM |
I wentout on a date with R53 and it took him three hours to decide on an order.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | August 11, 2018 9:51 PM |
Oh my that looks vaguely like the underside of a cock / urethra... or maybe not. I haven't gotten laid in a while. It's a swan feather (has to do with the movie)
by Anonymous | reply 117 | August 11, 2018 11:32 PM |
Victim and Death in Venice, both starring Dirk Bogart
by Anonymous | reply 118 | August 12, 2018 12:07 AM |
*Bogarde* dammit!
by Anonymous | reply 119 | August 12, 2018 12:09 AM |
Fellini's Satyricon is a super gay trip!
by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 12, 2018 12:10 AM |
R3 Kristen Bjorn kept me safe though the aids crises. (early 80s) Joined the website YEARS later, and was hooked up with so much free swag, Magazines, calendars, free DVDs. He's a class act.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | August 12, 2018 12:33 AM |
No on 9
by Anonymous | reply 123 | August 12, 2018 1:05 AM |
It's called "Ballot Measure 9" but it really drives home what living in America was like for the eldergays.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | August 12, 2018 1:40 AM |
The valley of the dolls my little pony the children’s hour ballot measure 9
by Anonymous | reply 125 | August 12, 2018 1:45 AM |
The Children's Hour (1961)???
That's a lesbo movie, not popular here. How about another, Personal Best (1982)???
by Anonymous | reply 126 | August 12, 2018 1:47 AM |
Why so many films about women? I'm a gay men. Stop equating being gay with fashion and divas it's annoying.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | August 12, 2018 7:02 AM |
[quote]eat drink man woman is a very nice movie but why you think it's a must see for gays? it's about a straight man and his 3 straight daughters, they fight about values but it's not a gay movie.
It's for the food.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | August 12, 2018 6:42 PM |
Are you just going to say the directors? For those who made US films: von Sternberg, Mitchell Leisen, Sirk, Cukor, Lang, Minnelli, Wilder, John Waters. But I've seen them all and for decades, and lately I'm moving on to directors such as John Ford.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | August 12, 2018 6:47 PM |
Half R128's posting position and you arrive at his IQ for art.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | August 12, 2018 6:49 PM |
The Facts of Life Down Under
by Anonymous | reply 134 | August 12, 2018 7:18 PM |
According to Maureen O'Hara Ford was gay. But I guess that's what you meant. Though Wilder wasn't gay. What about Donen and Kelly? But I don't think we'll ever know about them. And then there's Edmund Goulding, James Whale and Charles Laughton.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | August 12, 2018 8:05 PM |
"gods and monsters"
by Anonymous | reply 136 | August 12, 2018 8:10 PM |
Yeah I assume Ford was gay. But my list above isn't necessarily directors who are gay so much as directors who made art in which that gays can find a lot to look at, think about, and appreciate. Laughton directed 2 movies so not on a list of Directors for whom gays should know most of their pictures.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | August 12, 2018 8:10 PM |
R128 why don't you stick to war movies and westerns? No overt themes but plenty of homoeroticism.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | August 12, 2018 8:16 PM |
Got it, R31 !
LOL
by Anonymous | reply 139 | August 12, 2018 8:23 PM |
r139, meet r35. r35, meet r139.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | August 12, 2018 8:49 PM |
the birdcage........somebody, laugh....
by Anonymous | reply 142 | August 19, 2018 6:30 AM |
Longtime Companion...... :(
by Anonymous | reply 143 | August 19, 2018 6:44 AM |
Mildred Pierce
Now Voyager
All About Eve
Meet Me in St. Louis
Leave Her to Heave
The Women
Female Trouble
Serial Mom
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Cobra Woman
Stella Dallas
Show Boat (1936)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Saturday Night Fever
by Anonymous | reply 144 | August 19, 2018 6:49 AM |
* Leave Her to Heaven, lol.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | August 19, 2018 6:50 AM |
TRUE STORY-----I once went to a POZ SUPPORT GROUP Meeting (in Columbus Ohio) and most of the participants were over 40---the movie Longtime Companion came up----and the TWENTYsomething "moderator" had never heard of the movie----But SHOCKINGLY did not understand that GAYS in the early 1980s didn't know WHAT caused AIDS---(remember when people thought it might be caused by poppers)....And the meeting was at a clinic!!!..I never went back......
by Anonymous | reply 146 | August 19, 2018 6:54 AM |
Why, as a gay man, should I watch Mulholland Drive? I've seen it, but I don't remember anything but someone parking a car in front of a house I didn't think of as being particularly Mulholland Drive-y.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | August 19, 2018 10:37 AM |
Mulholland Dr. is a lesbian love story, but you have to watch it also because it's a fucking masterpiece.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | August 19, 2018 11:28 AM |
r144 ALL versions of Show Boat are gay gay gay!
by Anonymous | reply 149 | August 19, 2018 12:55 PM |
I can't believe I forgot to mention Serial Mom.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | August 19, 2018 12:59 PM |
If it's a "fucking masterpiece," why don't I remember it better?
by Anonymous | reply 151 | August 19, 2018 1:02 PM |
R144, you have a very nice list.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | August 19, 2018 1:31 PM |
r144 Stella Dallas is great, but Bette Midler's Stella is gay high camp.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | August 19, 2018 1:46 PM |
God's Own Country. It's better than Call Me by Your Name.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | August 19, 2018 2:18 PM |
maybe you have dementia, r151
by Anonymous | reply 156 | August 19, 2018 2:22 PM |
[quote]God's Own Country
Make sure your copy has CC.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | August 19, 2018 2:22 PM |
Thanks, r156. I was thinking about watching it again. Now I realize it was probably as shitty a movie as you are a person.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | August 19, 2018 2:24 PM |
r157 Yes. Absolutely yes. I can't imagine seeing this in a theatre. I would need subtitles.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | August 19, 2018 6:36 PM |
Witness for the Prosecution
Cruising
Chuck and Buck
by Anonymous | reply 160 | August 19, 2018 9:38 PM |
your loss, r158
by Anonymous | reply 161 | August 19, 2018 11:38 PM |
Not really, r161. I've already seen it once and forgotten it.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | August 20, 2018 12:06 PM |
Dinner at Eight, just for its gay-relatable pretentiousness and hilarious drama.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | August 20, 2018 12:21 PM |
Longtime Companion
by Anonymous | reply 165 | August 20, 2018 12:22 PM |
My Own Private Idaho.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | August 20, 2018 12:27 PM |
Luster
by Anonymous | reply 167 | August 20, 2018 12:29 PM |
I doubt that there are few people, and probably none on DL who are as shitty humans as Mullholland Drive is as a movie
by Anonymous | reply 168 | August 20, 2018 10:01 PM |
Learn to write a proper sentence, R168.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | August 20, 2018 10:13 PM |
Meet Me In St Louis
by Anonymous | reply 170 | August 20, 2018 10:19 PM |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
by Anonymous | reply 171 | August 20, 2018 11:18 PM |