B/P Movies List

Handsome young soldier Fernando (Jorge Sanz) deserts from the army during the Spanish Civil War and befriends a free-thinking artist. But when he meets his new friend’s four daughters, he finds himself in a romantic dilemma — which woman should he romance? In a neat twist, the women do the deciding, as each in her turn tries to seduce him. Penelope Cruz co-stars in this passionately comic romp.

Paul Mazursky’s 1969 classic puts two couples and their relationships under the unforgiving lens of society’s microscope in this unflinching examination of marriage. After one liberal group therapy session, Bob (Robert Culp) and his wife, Carol (Natalie Wood), are convinced they’re open-minded enough to embrace a no-guilt approach to fidelity. But can they convince their best friends, Ted (Elliott Gould) and Alice (Dyan Cannon), to do the same?

The revolutionary Dogma 95 school of filmmaking washed up on American shores with this intense European drama starring Emily Watson as Bess, a naïve Scotswoman who’s convinced that God will heal her paralyzed husband (Stellan Skarsgård) if she has sex with other men. Director Lars von Trier shot the film using only available light, handheld cameras and no musical score; the result is a stunning, nakedly emotional film.

Three’s a crowd, especially when it comes to love. Actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz’s bold film epitomizes this mystery as it tells the story of Lola (Julie Mauduech), a West Indian woman who’s torn between two very different lovers: witty Jewish messenger Felix (Kassovitz) and the rich and reserved Jamal (Hubert Kounde). But there’s an additional wrinkle: Lola’s pregnant, and she has no idea which of the men is the father.

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) has things well organized for himself. He’s got a loving, “veddy” English wife, Maud (Celia Johnson), in Gibraltar and a possessive, hot-blooded mistress, Nita (Yvonne De Carlo), stowed away in Tangiers. It’s a perfect arrangement, as long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port. And what’s the chance of that happening?

Anthony Hopkins plays a college professor in the midst of a midlife crisis who takes out his frustrations by sleeping with a coed half his age (Bo Derek). After his angry wife (Shirley MacLaine) retaliates by bedding a handsome young carpenter (Michael Brandon), the unconventional foursome takes a comically awkward vacation together in the country.

When she learns that her affair with the Echlin brothers has resulted in a pregnancy, Sarah Gilmartin (Saskia Reeves) rebels against conformity and refuses to reveal who the father is, opting to raise the child on her own terms. Based on Sam Hanna Bell’s acclaimed novel, director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s period drama also stars Ciarán Hinds as Frank Echlin and Donal McCann as his brother and rival, Hamilton.

Packing double entendres and boudoir innuendos galore, director Ernst Lubitsch’s racy comedy Design for Living stars Gary Cooper, Frederic March and Miriam Hopkins as an inseparable threesome living in a Parisian garret and immersed in a ménage à trois. In Henry Hathaway’s ethereal film Peter Ibbetson, Gary Cooper and Ann Harding portray paramours who refuse to let prison walls divide them, continuing their illicit romance in their dreams.

Herman (Ron Silver) is a Jewish ghostwriter whose life is turned upside down by the reappearance of his wife, Tamara (Anjelica Huston), long believed to have died during World War II. Now, Herman must juggle Tamara, his current gentile wife (Margaret Sophie Stein) and his Holocaust-damaged mistress (Lena Olin) — all of whom he loves. Paul Mazursky directs this poignant drama based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel.

Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi, was the greatest castrato singer of the 18th century. Farinelli’s father insisted that he only sing the songs of his brother Riccardo, and while his fame boosted Riccardo’s career, the mediocrity of Riccardo’s music held him back. When the singer was given a chance to work with the great composer Handel, his brother’s jealousy and Farinelli’s own poorly chosen career alliances stood in his way. The two share everything, but when Farinelli sets his sites on new artistic terrain, Riccardo is left behind.

Laurent (Alain Chabat) thought he knew his wife, Loli (Victoria Abril), quite well. Chronically unfaithful, Laurent believes Loli is happy and will be hurt by news of his infidelities. But when a truck breaks down in front of their home and its owner, a female plumber (Josiane Balasko, who also directed this French film), asks to use the phone, Laurent discovers he and his wife have something in common: a sexual attraction to women.

Several of the steamiest scenes — most notably a full-frontal view of a young Don Johnson — have been edited out of this cleaned-up version of the 1973 film about an experimental college that encourages its students to cram when it comes to sex. James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren co-star as the married couple who run the school, with Hedren’s daughter, Melanie Griffith, making one of her first film appearances as an extra.

Stanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth have just finished their first year at Harrad College and have a special bond together. Harrad College isn’t an ordinary school. The school conducts an experiment where students from different sex are put together in one room. Sexual freedom is encouraged. Now the summer break has arrived, the four have decided to spend the holidays together. They will visit an old friend of Beth and after that spend two weeks at the families of Stanley, Harry and Sheila. They have to fight against bias however. Not everyone is fond of Harrad College and some see it as only an easy way for the students to fulfill their feelings of lust. Will the relationships and beliefs of the four students hold up under the constant pressure?

This charming comedy directed by Sam Wood features graceful Ginger Rogers in the role of street-smart delinquent Arlette Lafron, who masters the art of picking pockets at an unusual school for criminals run by enterprising Prof. Aristide (Basil Rathbone). Assigned to pinch a valuable watch from moneyed diplomat Pierre de Roche (Jean Pierre Aumont), Arlette botches the job — and ends up falling for her prospective mark in the bargain.

This is the story of “beat” reporter Jack Kerouac’s affair with a married couple, Neal & Carolyn Cassady.

A sensual masterwork based on real events, this rich evocation of wild expatriate nights in 1930s Paris begins when writer Anaïs Nin embarks on a professional relationship with famed American author Henry Miller (Fred Ward). But their studious union deepens into something else. And when Nin falls under the spell of the alluring Mrs. Miller (Uma Thurman), fiction, fact and fantasy blur.

Fetching Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) — a 2,000-year-old vampire — gave John (David Bowie) the gift of eternal life hundreds of years ago, choosing him as her lover and companion. Now, just as John begins to age rapidly, Miriam wants to put the bite on Dr. Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon), a specialist in premature aging. Sarah soon becomes Miriam’s new lover and finds herself having to make the choice of a lifetime in this erotic cult classic.

A male hustler and the girl next door fall in love. Theo, is a very handsome German call boy, who puts his ads in the Berlin newspapers to sells his body by the hour to other men. In his spare time he lives a very normal life and lives in an apartment across from Marie and Paul who share an apartment. Marie makes her living by selling records at a record store. Paul is a want to be writer who sleeps most of the time and the other part of the time he stares at blank sheets of paper for he seems to have writers block. Paul seems to blame Marie for this and leaves her. She has a breakdown due to his departure. Theo comes home one day and see her door open and goes in to see what’s wrong. He sees that she is having a breakdown and he decides to help her. In helping her he discovers that likes the intimate feeling they are both feeling and it is a definite break from the men he sleeps with for money but this strange relationship ends when Paul comes back to Marie. Theo then goes back to his previous life.

Writers Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) are close friends who fall in love with the same woman, the unpredictable Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), amid the turbulence of World War I Paris. What results is a decades-long love triangle that both tests and strengthens the bond between the two men. One of director François Truffaut’s best-loved films, Jules and Jim is adapted from the French novel by Henri-Pierre Roché.

A rather surprisingly racy and liberal movie about marital infidelity and its consequences. Once again (as in Ingmar Bergman’s comedy-drama SECRETS OF WOMEN), Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Björnstrand play a married couple experiencing a difficult phase in their relationship. Björnstrand is Dr. David Erneman, a gynecologist who begins an affair with a young patient to escape the doldrums of his everyday life. His wife, Marianne, learns of his transgression and subsequently embarks on an affair of her own, with her former lover Carl-Adam (Åke Grönberg), who also happens to be David’s best friend. An unexpected encounter on a train gives the couple a chance to reconsider their actions, sort out their emotions, and possibly make amends. This comedy has been much praised for its warmth and upbeat character–in stark contrast to the way Bergman’s work is usually perceived–and has even been compared to Hollywood’s great star-driven romantic comedies of the era.

This John Sayles drama follows the title character’s changing world when she becomes fed up with her marriage to her oppressive, cheating husband and begins a homosexual affair with Ruth, her night school professor. But Lianna’s joy at finding a new life and love soon disintegrates as the people around her start to treat her differently. Forced to find a new apartment, job and friends, Lianna finds that with freedom also comes loneliness.

This witty sex comedy stars Shirley MacLaine and James Coburn as a pair of married doctors who get caught up in tag-team mate swapping. After middle-aged Evelyn (MacLaine) begins a tryst with handsome younger man Greg (Stephen Collins), her workaholic hubby (Coburn) takes up with Greg’s live-in lover, Stephanie (Susan Sarandon). But everything hits the proverbial fan when the two-timing couples end up vacationing at the same Acapulco resort.

This Sidney Lumet-directed film focuses on two brothers in a small town in Texas who have both had relationships with a woman named Molly. LOVIN’ MOLLY is based on a novel by Larry McMurtry.

Generous servings of liquor and love are doled out in this Prohibition-era slapstick caper starring Gene Hackman and Burt Reynolds as a couple of bootleggers who hook up with a vampy cabaret singer (Liza Minnelli) for a rum-running operation. Minnelli earned a Golden Globe nod for her performance as the nightclub entertainer who can’t decide between her two booze-smuggling beaus.

TV reporter Rob Salinger (Dudley Moore) is so lucky he’s about to become a father … to babies born to two different women. With his marriage to lawyer Micki (Ann Reinking) unraveling due to their hectic careers, Rob starts up a dalliance with Maude (Amy Irving), a cellist. When Maude announces she’s pregnant, Rob decides to divorce Micki; but when she returns from a trip and says she, too, is expecting, he tries to juggle both relationships.

At a Washington, D.C., bash, Navy officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) meets and begins a steamy liaison with Susan Atwell (Sean Young), later learning she’s the mistress of Secretary of Defense David Brice (Gene Hackman). When Susan ends up dead, Farrell gets caught in a conspiratorial web that endangers national security and uncovers high-level personal secrets. Brice and his minions attempt to conceal the tryst while flushing out a Soviet mole.

In this adaptation of the 1951 musical by the same name, California prospectors Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) and Sylvester “Pardner” Newell (Clint Eastwood) try to tame their gold fever by sharing Ben’s wife (Jean Seberg). To help the rest of the male-dominated town keep their hands off his property, Ben kidnaps a stagecoach full of working girls on their way to a nearby town and sets up a brothel. As business booms, so does the competition for gold.

Anna and Keith have been happily married for several years. But things turn sour as Anna, investigating her suspicions that Keith has been having an affair, learns that he is bisexual. Anna is reluctantly forced into a world of homosexuality and AIDS as she is forced by circumstances to befriend her husband’s lover and his dying friend Jim.

A bickering couple (Alan Rickman and Polly Walker) drive fast through a downpour to catch the last ferry to their island retreat. In a flash, they recognize a crumpled body laying at the side of the road after much argument they stop, only to find a young boy (Norman Reedus) battered and bruised. An offer of summoning the police firmly rejected, the two help the boy as best they can although it certainly means missing the ferry…and so starts this thriller: a tale of twisted sexual attraction and ulterior motives.

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain’s empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?

Karl Foyle (Steven Mackintosh) and Paul Prentice (Ropert Graves) were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl is now Kim, a transsexual, and she has no desire to stir up the past while she’s busy forging a neat and orderly new life. Prentice, on the other hand, has charm but is a social disaster stuck in a dead-end job. His main talent is for getting them both into trouble. Amid the squabbles, they start to fall in love. One night, Kim invites Prentice to a romantic dinner at her flat. Prentice, finding the seduction unexpectedly effective, freaks out. He proceeds to make a public display of both of them and winds up in court. Humiliated and angry, Kim runs away. Only she can save Prentice now, but will true love triumph for a new made woman and an aging punk?

Orient is engaged to be married and all is going well until his male ex-lover helps him buy an African statuette as wedding gift. Can the statuette be trying to bring the boys back together?

Tale of a traveling salesman with two complete families, one in Pittsburgh and the other in Philadelphia.

A married man’s affair with two younger women causes his wife to leave him. Can the three lovers transmute their sexual interest into something more lasting?

Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ambassador to Germany. Louise’s husband Heinz soon finds out and tries to break up the union between his wife and Mitsuko only to eventually fall in love with Mitsuko also, while outside parties who include art professor Joseph Benno, Mitsuko’s lover, and Heinz’s cousin Wolf, a Gestapo officer, figure in which threatens to destroy the love triangle for good.

Pierre (Mattias Habich) is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Sarah (Johanne-Marie Tremblay) and David (Michel Voita) have moved out, leaving the bisexual Pierre wondering why. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed with trying to find why his two lovers have left him. After an awkward meeting with Sarah and David, Pierre begins a new relationship with the young deaf-mute Quentin (Jean-Francois Pichette).

Although they’re married to other people, New Jersey accountant George (Alan Alda) and housewife Doris (Ellen Burstyn) engage in a 25-year affair after a chance encounter at a California inn. Meeting only once a year for a romantic weekend together, the otherwise mismatched couple’s forbidden relationship evolves with the turbulent and ever-changing times, but never loses momentum. Based on Bernard Slade’s play of the same name.

Alan Alda’s first effort as a screenwriter is a poignant commentary on the shady world of politics and its negative effects on those caught in its seductive spell, as seen through the eyes of a young liberal senator. Rising politician Joe Tynan (Alda) is having serious difficulty juggling his career and his family. In particular, he is experiencing a growing number of problems with his loving, neglected wife. An affair with beautiful lobbyist Karen Traynor (Meryl Streep) further complicates his life. Things begin to spiral even further out of control for the panicked senator, threatening his political career in the process. It’s up to Tynan to rescue himself, taking stock of his actions and hopefully figuring out what is most important to him before it’s too late.

Theo is a young callboy who lives alone in Berlin. Business has been so good lately, that Theo can pick and choose his clients. But Theo’s lonely and without many friends. Marie, his next door neighbor, lives with her boyfriend, Paul. One day, when Marie and Paul have an argument, Paul walks out and Marie retreats into her empty apartment. Attempting to console her, Theo visits Marie. Slowly but surely, they become friends who learn that love can bloom in the most unlikely places.

David is a womanizing glutton and Jack is a blue-collar guy struggling with his sexual identity. What follows is a hard look at friendship and the elusiveness of romance in these young men’s life. The setting is contemporary Chicago. David Leibowitz is a wanna-be comedian, who manages a small comedy club. David eats too much, drinks too much and constantly cheats on his girlfriend, Rebecca. His only redeeming quality is being a good friend to his neighbors, Jack and Max. Jack is self-educated, blue-collar guy who prefers reading to working. He contrasts David’s crudeness with a shy wit and a complete devotion to his girlfriend, Max. When she suddenly decides to leave him, Jack’s world is shattered. However, David is there for him and the two move in together. Unfortunately, David’s dream of an orgiastic bachelor pad is ruined when Jack tells David that he is gay. David thinks he can handle it as long as he can make fag jokes and belittle Jack’s friends. Jack doesn’t put up with David’s needling for long and learns the only way for him to be out and get the respect he deserves is to be strong enough to stand up for himself.

Newly graduated psychiatrist Sam and his fiancee Alex move to Los Angeles for Sam’s residency, into Sam’s mother’s house in upscale Laurel Canyon. Only problem is, Sam’s mother is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she’s producing for the band of her new boy toy, Ian. She seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn’t mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused on her work (finishing a dissertation on genomics), but is soon distracted by the rock-’n-roll lifestyle going on around her. Meanwhile, Sam is equally distracted by beautiful Israeli intern Sara.

Hedwig, born a boy named Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a sex-change operation in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to – years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S., telling her life story through a series of concerts at Bilgewater Inn seafood restaurants. Her tour dates coincide with those of arena-rock star Tommy Gnosis, a wide-eyed boy who once loved Hedwig… but then left with all her songs.

J.C., Bonnie, and Roz are good friends. They have been lamenting on how difficult it is to find a good man or that there isn’t a good one out there. And before you know they each meet the perfect man; too bad it’s the same one, Richard Burknowski, a doctor, who met each of them separately, J.C. who’s lawyer, to handle his divorce, Bonnie, a realtor, to find him a new place to live, and Roz, who’s a little vain, for a nose job. While he is unaware of their relationship, they aware of him, decide to date him at the same time, each taking turns. But what happens when one of them wants a commitment, will the other two ste aside?

A window into the life and loves of a young black woman in Brooklyn. Nola Darling is dating three very different men simultaneously: Jamie Overstreet — a controlling, protective, patriarchal type; Greer Childs — a wealthy, vain, arrogant male model; and Mars Blackmon — a comical, juvenile, immature jokester. Nola has gone beyond even a love “triangle” and the stability of this love “square” is threatened by the increasing jealousy among her three suitors. Finally, under pressure, Nola makes her “choice,” but in the end, is this what she really wants?

Three friends develop a tight bond during the turbulent 1960s in this drama. Harvard students Jessica (Karen Allen), Leo (Brad Davis) and Nick (Jameson Parker) grow close as they undergo personal metamorphoses, but the friendship is jeopardized when both men fall in love with Jessica. After Leo is drafted, Jessica makes the surprising decision that the threesome should move in together. The film also features Shelley Long.

Judith Light stars in this sexy made-for-TV drama about a married woman who discovers that her husband of 23 years has been unfaithful. Just as she finds passionate love in another man’s arms and prepares to divorce her husband, he suddenly has a stroke and becomes physically incapacitated. Will she move back in with her husband and take care of him… even though she may risk losing her new lover?

In this drama, a frontier wife, Amy (Lea Thompson), is sick and knows she’s dying. Concerned about the fate of her husband and four children once she’s gone, she takes the unusual step of searching for a surrogate to take her place — and finds one in the form of Pearl, a prostitute (Farrah Fawcett). But it takes a while for Pearl to learn how to be a wife and mother … and for Amy’s husband (Peter Weller) to come to grips with goodbye.

Michael and Cathy (Peter Gallagher and Daryl Hannah), a young American couple, travel to the Greek Isles for what they hope will be a quiet and isolated summer vacation. But when they meet a lovely French archaeologist named Lina (Valerie Quennessen), their plans are pleasantly altered. Lina arouses Michael’s interest immediately, and before they know it, both Michael and Cathy find themselves seduced by Lina’s sensuous charms. …

One girl. Two guys. Three possibilities. When a computer error lands Stuart (Stephen Baldwin), Eddy (Josh Charles) and a lovely young woman named Alex (Lara Flynn Boyle) in the same dorm room for the semester, things heat up in a hurry. Soon, Alex wants the shy, sensitive Eddy, who thinks he’s gay and has, in turn, feelings for Stuart, who just might have feelings for Alex. …

Milan Kundera’s acclaimed novel about a womanizing Czech doctor in the 1960s gets fine treatment from director Philip Kaufman. Although Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) is adept at juggling girlfriends Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin, he has a tougher time following the dictates (or lack thereof) of his political conscience. But when Soviet tanks rumble through Prague in 1968, all their lives are changed forever.

Remake of Jules et Jim following the experiences over a decade of two friends who fall in love with the same woman, enjoyably satirising the 70’s through the search by the three protagonists for their identities and making sharp attacks on cultural signposts of the decade along the way. The film also studies relationships, what its director calls “wanting something permanent yet wanting to be free”.

This lyrical film by Ang Lee dares to expand the definition of love. Wei Tong (Winston Chao) is a successful Manhattan businessman enjoying a thriving relationship with his live-in lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). Life is perfect, except his parents don’t know he’s gay. So, when they decide to visit from Taiwan, he asks his tenant, Wei Wei (May Chin), for help. She agrees to pose as his fiancée — a plan that goes a little too far.

Divorced working woman Alexandra Greville (Glenda Jackson) has occasional sexual encounters with a younger man, sculptor Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Elkin is completely open about the fact that he’s also the lover of Alex’s acquaintance, Dr. Daniel Hirsch (Peter Finch). Both Alex and Dr. Hirsch resign themselves to living with the situation rather than risk losing Elkin completely … but can all three relationships continue in equilibrium?

Prewar Berlin’s debauchery and turbulence is chronicled through the perspective of a British scribe (Michael York) and his comrades, among them flamboyant American nightclub entertainer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli). Existing in a morally ambiguous void, they doggedly maintain their façades as the world outside the cabaret gears for war. Director Bob Fosse uses the kitsch cabaret to reflect German society as it shifts from hedonism to Hitlerism.

Brash lesbian Camille “Max” West (Guinevere Turner) is looking for romance in this hip, film festival favorite. Sick of hearing Max whine about her love life, her roommate sets Max up with the bashful, older — and frumpy — Ely (V.S. Brodie). Not surprisingly, their meeting doesn’t exactly set off fireworks. But just as Max begins to believe she’s destined to be alone, she discovers that life’s best surprises sometimes come in ordinary packages.

An incredible true story about small-time punk Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), who holds up a bank to raise money for his male lover’s (Chris Sarandon) sex-change operation. But the heist goes awry and turns into a tawdry exposé when, during a two-day standoff with police, the media get wind of the story. Sidney Lumet directed, and Frank Pierson won an Oscar for Best Screenplay.

Come to the lab, and see what’s on the slab! This notorious horror parody — a fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock ‘n’ roll, among other things — tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) after they stumble across the lair of transvestite vampire Dr. Frank-N-Furter (a brilliant Tim Curry). The film bombed in its initial release but later gained a cult following at midnight showings.

Andy and Larry Wachowski made their directorial debut with this crime-thriller. Gina Gershon stars as a handywoman who crosses paths with a gangster’s moll (Jennifer Tilly) and likes what she sees. Before you can say, “Unhook my brassiere,” they decide to filch $2 million and hit the road together. But Tilly’s beau (Joe Pantoliano) isn’t keen on giving up his money or his girl.

Successful TV executive Claire (Kate Jackson) is half right when she suspects that her husband is having an affair with a woman. Claire’s husband, Zack (Michael Ontkean), is interested in someone else — new friend and novelist Bart McGuire (Harry Hamlin). As Zack’s obsession with the elusive writer begins to consume him, his marriage to Claire slowly disintegrates in this bittersweet drama directed by Arthur Hiller.

Follows the lonely lives of two female lovers who have sequestered themselves away in an isolated farmhouse in Canada. Trouble begins when one of them begins secretly yearning for a man.

Chinatown screenwriter Robert Towne makes his directorial debut with this beautifully shot and edited film that chronicles the relationship of two female world-class athletes. Mariel Hemingway and real-life Olympian pentathlete Patrice Donnelly play runners who train together, compete against each other and eventually become lovers. Scott Glenn plays their coach in this film that culminates with the trials for the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Soon after comic book artist Holden (Ben Affleck) falls in love with Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), he realizes things aren’t as perfect as he once thought: Alyssa’s gay. With no help from his best friend, Banky (Jason Lee), Holden attempts to make the relationship with Alyssa work. Although he knows Alyssa cares deeply about him, her past may conspire to come between them and ruin everything.

Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone star in this Oscar-nominated erotic thriller about a troubled cop and a seductive novelist entwined in an alluring game of whodunit. Facing internal inquiry, Detective Tom Curran (Douglas) doggedly pursues a case involving Catherine Tramell (Stone), a writer and temptress who’s suspected in a murder reminiscent of a crime detailed in her book. But as the body count rises, so does Curran’s obsession with Tramell.

When teenager Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) rises from beach-dwelling obscurity to Hollywood celebrity overnight, she quickly discovers that the glitter of 1930s-era Tinseltown hides a dark side of exploitation and fear. Now she must learn to smile for the cameras as she navigates the twisted world of manipulative studio executives, empty relationships and disintegrating mental health. Robert Redford, Christopher Plummer and Ruth Gordon co-star.

Landing the lead role in a local play should satisfy Jules (Jenna Mattison), but her high spirits are quickly deflated when she realizes she’s fallen for the overbearing director (Bryan Callen). She thought she was in love with her fiancé and roommate, Danny (Brad Rowe), but now isn’t sure, so she moves in with Vicki (Jennifer Blanc) to sort things out. To complicate matters, Jules’s co-star, Ben (Brian Austin Green), won’t leave her alone.

Shunned by his family, friends and fiancée when he falls in love with a man, the once-straight Elliot (Jerod Howard) finds his life increasingly miserable when the new object of his affection, Corin (Sean Michael Lambrecht), rejects his advances. Desperate, Elliot’s passion turns to rage, and he vows to get what he wants … no matter what. Writer-producer Jason Paul Collum also directs this bloody, twisted tale of obsession and unrequited love.

Set in Germany in the 1970s. Leopold, a smug, still-hunky 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces fresh-faced, carrot-topped 19-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his bachelor pad. Their cozy relationship soon sours as Leopold turns cranky and argumentative. When Franz’s buxom blond girlfriend surfaces, and then Leopold’s elegant and enigmatic ex, things get funnier, steamier and a lot more complicated.

Brendan Behan (Shawn Hatosy) is an idealistic Irish freedom fighter who’s charged with a mission to bomb a building in Liverpool during World War II. But he gets caught and winds up imprisoned in Borstal, a reform school in East Anglia, England. While he’s incarcerated, Behan begins to closely examine “the cause” and his sworn enemies — who are now his cellmates.

Hayseed hustler Jon Voight comes to Manhattan to earn cash as a freelance sex stud. There, he meets seedy gimp Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), and an improbable friendship blossoms. Rated X in 1969, the movie won Oscars for Best Picture, Director (John Schlesinger) and Screenplay. Although Hoffman didn’t win a Best Actor Oscar, his Ratso characterization – the vilified butt of everyone’s jokes – is absolutely heartbreaking.

Director Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar-nominated film was one of the most talked-about films of 2002. Rich teenagers Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael Garcia Bernal) meet the alluring, older Luisa (Maribel Verdu) at a wedding and try to impress her with stories of a road trip to a beautiful, secret beach. Intrigued and desperate to escape, Luisa joins them, beginning an escapade that involves seduction, conflict and the harsh realities of poverty.

The true story of Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is brought to life by Oliver Stone’s Academy Award-winning screenplay recounting the young American’s experience in a Turkish prison. When Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey, the courts decide to make an example out of him and sentence him to 20 years in prison. With little hope of ever getting out, Hayes decides to attempt a daring escape. Co-stars Randy Quaid and John Hurt.

An all-girl rock quartet named Clamdandy (Gina Gershon, Lori Petty, Shelly Cole and Drea DeMatteo) tries to break out of obscurity on the Los Angeles scene, even as the realities of the music business (and the ages of the two older members) bear down on them. The chance to open for a legendary punk group suddenly presents itself, but will the girls’ incessant bickering be their downfall?

Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve reunite on-screen for Andre Techine’s hopeful drama about lasting love despite the changing times. Antoine (Depardieu) has longed for his first love, Cecile (Deneuve), for 30 years. He leaves France to take on work in Morocco, the real motive being to chase her trail. When he finally finds his beloved, the fact that she has a family will not stop his resolute pursuit to win her back.

Ten years out of Cambridge, Peter Morton (Stephen Fry) invites his old college pals to a weekend reunion on his massive public estate. Old rivalries and dormant infatuations resurface among the guests, including sitcom writer Andrew (Kenneth Branagh); his actress wife, Carol (Rita Rudner); and his ex-lover, Maggie (Emma Thompson). American comic Rudner penned the funny, touching script with her husband, Martin Bergmann, who co-produced the film.

Filmmaker Claude Chabrol stirs a boiling pot of lust and violence in this tense portrait of class struggle. Wealthy Frederique (Stephane Audran) meets Why, who’s meandering around Paris, and takes her to glamorous St. Tropez. Frederique becomes her mentor, teaching Why how to maneuver in high society. But when Paul (Jean-Louis Trintignant) arrives, both of them fall for his charms, leaving one in love and the other rejected.

In this love-crazed comedy, commitment phobic Allegra (Elizabeth Reaser) is recovering from a breakup with her girlfriend but begins questioning her sexuality and sanity when she falls for a member of the opposite sex. Philip (Justin Kirk) is the tidy professor who romances the ambivalent Allegra while she also pursues Grace (Gretchen Mol), a straight, recently single woman. Director Maria Maggenti is the force behind this snappy screwball romp.

Benjamin Bratt stars in the true story of the late Latino poet-playwright-actor Miguel Pinero, whose creative and turbulent life was cut short at the age of 40. His life was a study in contrasts: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.

After a serial killer brutally murders several gay men in New York’s S&M and leather districts, cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) goes undercover on the streets, where he must learn the complex rules of the underground gay subculture if he’s to catch the psycho. Karen Allen co-stars as Burns’s girlfriend in this gritty 1980 thriller, which sparked protests from gay rights groups at the time of its release but has since developed a minor cult status.

At the suggestion of a friend, gay Leo (Kevin McKidd) enters therapy after many failed relationships make him fear for his social life. In a group session (led by Simon Callow), Leo comes clean about his feelings for a straight member of the group (James Purefoy), which leads to an affair between the two. The situation becomes further complicated by the appearance of Leo’s high school sweetheart (Jennifer Ehle), who still has feelings for him.

Laurent (Alain Chabat) thought he knew his wife, Loli (Victoria Abril), quite well. Chronically unfaithful, Laurent believes Loli is happy and will be hurt by news of his infidelities. But when a truck breaks down in front of their home and its owner, a female plumber (Josiane Balasko, who also directed this French film), asks to use the phone, Laurent discovers he and his wife have something in common: a sexual attraction to women.

Julie Taymor directs this Oscar-winning biopic of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek), focusing on her often rocky relationship with husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). Also known for her controversial political and sexual reputation (she was a communist and a bisexual), Frida struggled with a life of wracking pain following an accident, the amputation of a leg, and finally, drug and alcohol abuse that killed her at age 47.

This drama directed by Robert Salis and inspired by playwright Jean-Marie Besset examines how class, race and social standing still wield a mighty influence in modern-day France, most notably in the shark-infested waters of private school. The affluent Paul (Gregori Baquet) becomes the center of controversy when he acknowledges an attraction to a poor Arab man (Salim Kechiouche). The ramifications are shocking and, ultimately, life-changing.

Magazine editor Syd (Radha Mitchell) is stuck in a dreary relationship with her current boyfriend, James (Gabriel Mann). One day, while looking into a ceiling leak at her apartment building, Syd enters the apartment of her neighbor Lucy (Ally Sheedy), whose live-in actress girlfriend, Greta (Patricia Clarkson), is struggling with a drug addiction. Syd and Lucy hit it off, and their friendship soon grows into something much more involved.

Jessica (Jennifer Westfeldt) is a single, straight, successful New York journalist who, like most of her female friends, has had a history of dating (male) creeps. But when she answers an intriguing personal ad from Helen (Heather Juergensen), Jessica finds herself intensely drawn to her. As Jessica explores this new side of her sexuality, the two begin a friendship that ultimately leads to romance.

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when none of the family members is sure whether the handsome stranger (Terrence Stamp) in their midst is a god or the devil himself — but finding out sure is fun. Making his way from bedroom to bedroom, he seduces their bodies and wipes their minds of morality, all before the sun comes up. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, this controversial film was banned by the Vatican for its shocking content.

When Connie’s lesbian lover, Ellen, leaves her, Connie hires a gigolo named Joe to seduce her ex, rough her up a bit and then send her back home. Seems simple enough … except the stud ends up falling for his bisexual quarry and doesn’t want her to leave. Sherilyn Fenn, Kelly Lynch and William Baldwin make up this star-crossed triangle turned on its ear.

Filmmaker Susan Kaplan captures the story of a nontraditional family consisting of three consenting adults, two of whom are bisexual. Shot over an eight-year span, the film follows the domestic struggles between bisexuals Sam and Steven and their live-in straight partner, Samantha, whom they found through a creaky “audition” process. Everything’s fine until the threesome decides to conceive a child; and then things really get complicated.

Anne Heche (TV’s “Men in Trees”) stars in this stylized thriller as Alex Lee, an upscale call girl who finds herself in a perilously compromised position when she’s forced to help the police bring down a powerful crime boss named Bruno Buckingham (Christopher Walken). Directed by Donald Cammell, this provocative tale also stars Steven Bauer and Joan Chen (Lust, Caution) as Buckingham’s seductive wife.

Jennie Linden and Oscar winner Glenda Jackson star as Ursula and Gudrun, two sisters wooed by best friends Rupert (Alan Bates) and Gerald (Oliver Reed) in this critically acclaimed adaptation of the novel by D.H. Lawrence, set in 1920s England. While Ursula and Rupert develop a deep bond, Gudrun and Gerald’s relationship is marked by violence, infidelity and tragedy. Ken Russell directs this sensual, intriguing drama.

Award-winning documentarian Karen Everett turns the camera on herself in this highly intimate portrait of her own love life. Drawing from her circle of lesbian, bisexual and polyamorous friends and lovers, Everett fashions a collective biography set in the vivid San Francisco lesbian scene. Subjects include erotica video makers Jackie Strano and Shar Rednour, as well as photographer Phyllis Christopher, who specializes in lesbian erotica.

For Timofei, a successful advertising executive living in Moscow, life has gotten pretty ho-hum. That’s why he’s pleasantly surprised to find chemistry with Vera, a television news anchorwoman who works in his building. But just as their relationship begins moving to the next level, Timofei’s collision with Uloomji, a young day worker at the local zoo, sets his love life spinning in a whole new direction. How will Vera deal with the competition?

Kevin Kline plays talented and celebrated composer Cole Porter, who penned many hits, including “Anything Goes,” “Night and Day” and the delightful “It’s De-Lovely,” which inspired the movie’s title. As seen through the eyes of Porter himself, his life is told like one of his musicals, replete with drama, suspense and joy, at the center of which is his mercurial relationship with his wife, Linda (Ashley Judd).

Veronica (Kathleen Robertson), an average 20-something eager to get her stalled social life back on track, begins dating two very different men: failed rock critic Abel (Johnathon Schaech) and punk rock drummer Zed (Matt Keeslar). At first, she dates them both without the other finding out, but once the men meet, the three decide to move in together. Soon, the boys become great friends — and Veronica finds herself growing disinterested in both.

Set at an affluent New England liberal arts college, this romantic drama takes a satiric look at an emerging sexual triangle between co-eds Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), a part-time drug dealer, Paul Owen (Ian Somerhalder), who’s bisexual and has a crush on Sean, and Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon), Paul’s ex-girlfriend. Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis (who also wrote American Psycho and Less Than Zero).

“The true story of a bunch of writers and artists in England in the 20’s, ‘The Bloomsbury group’, of which perhaps Virginia Woolf is the most well-known outside literary circles but she does not appear in the film. The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey’s homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and complicated one. When Carrington did develop a more physical relationship with soldier Ralph Partridge, Strachey was able to welcome him as a friend, although Partridge remained somewhat uneasy, not so much with Strachey’s lifestyle and sexual orientation as with the fact that he was a conscientious objector.

Director Robert Altman ventures into Woody Allen territory with this comic romp about a group of neurotic adults living, dating, and undergoing therapy in New York City.

For 15 years, Nicole (Miou Miou) and Jean-Marie (Charles Berling) have worked side by side at their dry cleaning establishment, building a business and maintaining a seemingly peaceful marriage. But a chance encounter with Loic (Stanislas Merhar), the male half of a brother-sister nightclub act they catch one night, forces the two to reevaluate their relationship, leading them to wonder whether they ought to be together at all.

Cheyenne( Mila Dekker), a young unemployed journalist whose welfare payments have been cut off, decides to leave Paris to live a marginal life in the country “off the grid.” Sonia, the woman she loves, and a physics and chemistry teacher at a Parisian high school, tells Cheyenne she cannot give up her connection to modern Society. She tries her best to forget Cheyenne, but it’s not easy. How do we reconcile what we want with what we’re actually able to do, what we think and how we act? How do we cope with a person we love and yet have to refuse? Looking for Cheyenne is a contemporary fable about the precarious states created by modern society, the need for change and the power of love.

No desire is forbidden in this twisted suspense-comedy about a group of sexually ambivalent 20-somethings living in the Hollywood Hills. Kevin (Smith Forté) shares space with a male stripper, a girl who dreams of becoming a rock star and an orphaned teenager — and none of them pay any rent. But after another renter falls to his death in a drunken stupor, Kevin’s landlady — who also happens to be his mother — threatens to evict him.

After being fired for her caring approach with clients, disenchanted social worker Robin (Khahtee V. Turner) is at a loss as to how to help her impoverished neighborhood, but everything changes when she meets butch lesbian Brooklyn (Clody Cates), a mechanic who moonlights as a thief. In this hip-hop update on the classic Robin Hood fable, sparks fly between the two women, and soon, they hatch a plan to bring relief to their inner-city community.

This compelling drama from André Téchiné looks back at a time when the AIDS epidemic was just becoming a reality. It’s 1984, and the people of Paris have no idea how much their lives are about to change when an unnamed disease is discovered. Written by Téchiné, Laurent Guyot and Viviane Zingg, this gripping tale stars Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Johan Libéreau and Julie Depardieu.

Writers Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) are close friends who fall in love with the same woman, the unpredictable Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), amid the turbulence of World War I Paris. What results is a decades-long love triangle that both tests and strengthens the bond between the two men. One of director François Truffaut’s best-loved films, Jules and Jim is adapted from the French novel by Henri-Pierre Roché.

When college students Sam (Maya Stange) and Thea (Kathleen Robertson) meet artist Coles (Mark Ruffalo) at a party, they embark on a brief and somewhat awkward relationship that pushes the boundaries of sexual exploration. After meeting up again 10 years later, the three must now choose between the attraction that started things a decade earlier and the very different paths their lives have taken.

For summer vacation, Marc takes his wife Beatrix and their two children to the seaside house of his youth. The Mediterranean wind blows, the sea churns, and the heat of summer stokes their desires. Their daughter Laura, 19, has a rendezvous with her biker boyfriend, and their son Charly, 17, roams with his best friend Martin, who is in love with him. Beatrix is sensitive to the undisclosed, erotically charged atmosphere that exists between the boys and imagines that her son is gay. When Beatrix’s lover Mathieu shows up, and Marc’s old flame appears, complications escalate and the vacation collapses into hilarious chaos.

Tamil language romantic comedy set in Southj India. A young man, engaged to the village musician’s daughter, goes to Madras to work, to pay off debts. While there he hears that flash floods have overwhelmed his village, and his fiancee killed. Urged on by his mother, he proposes to the boss’s daughter. But then, the original fiancee–who is still alive–comes looking for him. Left with no alternative, he marries both.

Michael Lynch is Dublin’s most notorious criminal, his brazen robberies making him the bane of the Gardaí and a hero to his fellow working class city Northsiders. When not playing happy families with his two wives – sisters Christine and Lisa – and his children, Lynch is busy plotting elaborate heists, thinking as much about the showmanship of it all as he is the loot involved. On his case is Garda Noel Quigley, his determination to convict Lynch slowly turning into an obsession. Inevitably, a showdown looms.

When champion mountain-bike racer (Charlotte Laurier) hesitates at the starting gate, she loses an important race and her place on the team but opens a new chapter in her life. Forced into retirement, she takes a job as a bike courier and meets an irritable cycle-shop owner and ex-racer (Dino Tavarone). Their mutual passion for the sport — and each other — gives her the momentum she needs to get back on track.

Marriage-minded, working-class Annie is determined to snag Ron, a fellow employee, as her husband. One night, after a wild office party, Annie gets her chance and seduces a drunken Ron in his car. A month later, Annie is pregnant and ready to move in. There’s only one problem with Annie’s plan: Ron already has a mate … named Nick!

Hoping to gain fresh perspective, creatively blocked gay artist David (Troy Ruptash) takes a job as a waiter and ends up coming between the happily married couple who owns the restaurant. Trying to draw inspiration from workaday people, David soaks up all he can from his new surroundings. David and co-owner Matt bond via their mutual interest in art, but the relationship evolves into “dangerous” territory as Matt becomes attracted to David.

Sebastian and Paul are two teen-aged troublemakers who spend their time drinking, stealing and beating people up. It’s the thrill, the sense of testing their limits… and the wolf-like nature deep inside that attracts them to each other. From the outset, Sebastian emerges as the dominant figure in the pair, because he always wants to go one step further than Paul. One day they abduct 30-year-old convenience-store clerk Sonja and drag her back to their hangout in an abandoned factory. But now, what should they do with her? Paul becomes more distant with Sebastian as he starts to feel attracted to Sonja, trying to help her as much as possible. While Sebastian, not admitting even to himself that he has fallen in love with Paul, feels hurt and jealous… and becomes capable of anything.

The story of three teenagers: a beautiful girl, Vanessa, and two boys, Mickael and Clement, one rich, one poor. The story of Mickael – judo fanatic and doomed lover – and his parents, both convinced that the sky will one day come crashing down on their heads, and both more than able to cope when it does. Blackly comic, brutally funny, heartbreaking, truthful. A tragi-comedy. About happiness and hardship, sex, luck and catastrophe

Bruce (Rodolphe Marconi) is a young filmmaker living in Rome for a yearlong conference. His brother has just died, and his girlfriend recently left him. To add to his troubles, Matteo (Andrea Necci), an Italian tour guide who’s employed where Bruce is staying, becomes obsessed with him after the two spend the night together. As Matteo continues to stalk him, an American woman (Echo Danon) with a morbid fascination comes into the picture.

Three young people — Johann (Sebastian Blomberg), Max (Barnaby Metschurat) and Anna (Tatjana Blacher) — watch as their lives begin to intertwine in post-Cold War Berlin. Johann is a gay con artist who moves from town to town; lonesome Max is a security guard who’s taken a liking to Anna, who works at an insurance company. Together, they share a unique bond that will find them revealing more than they ever imagined.

In this offbeat Danish comedy, Jacob and Jorgen (Mads Mikkelsen and Troels Lyby) are a longstanding gay couple. After Jacob finally proposes to an overjoyed Jorgen, something entirely unexpected happens: At a party, Jorgen kisses a woman … passionately! What’s worse, that woman is Jacob’s sister-in-law. Forced to choose between Jacob or Jacob’s relative, the only conclusion Jorgen can reach is that he’s completely confused.

Rick and Samir had a friendship they were sure would endure for many years … but it didn’t. It lasted until one rowdy night when the invulnerability of their youth came up against implacable fate — and now, Samir must learn how to get past the burden and guilt of being the one who survived. Gael Morel’s directorial debut examines issues of race, politics, art and romance in modern France. Elodie Bouchez, Stephane Rideau and Pascal Cervo star.

With their wedding just around the corner, Beth and Ryan are so consumed with stress that every conversation seems to end in a fight. But when a particularly bad row sends Ryan roaming the streets of New York and into a popular gay bar, his evening of new experiences could change the course of his life forever. Was his romp in the city’s gay underworld just a crazy fling? Or is “being gay” who he really is?

Shortly before his wedding, Peter (Mårten Klingberg) meets the intriguing Nassim (Pjotr Gigo) and falls in love. Abandoning his safe, familiar life in a quest to express his sexuality, Peter finds his newfound freedom jeopardized when he becomes a prime suspect in Nassim’s murder. Inspired by real events, Swedish director Susanna Edwards’s bittersweet film co-stars Karin Bergquist and Roberto Jelinek.

In director Ming-liang Tsai’s reflection on life in modern Malaysia, homeless Chinese immigrant Hsiao-kang (Kang-sheng Lee) becomes the locus of a triangle in Kuala Lumpur after grifters brutally beat him and leave him for dead. Rescued and nursed back to health by Rawang (Norman Bin Atun), the recovering Hsiao meets a winsome Chinatown waitress (Shiang-chyi Chen) and is soon caught between them. Meanwhile, a noxious haze envelops the city.

Chinese filmmaker Cui Zi’en directs this gay-themed sci-fi drama about Xiao Bo, a bisexual man who discovers a stranger by the roadside, naked and claiming to be from Mars. Xiao Bo takes the Martian home to his live-in boyfriend and girlfriend, and together, they begin instructing him in the ways of earthlings. But when the mysterious stranger lapses into a coma, only the discovery of true love can bring him around.

Striking a healthy, loving balance in a relationship is no easy trick, no matter what your sexual orientation. For Eli (Dan Bucatinsky), it’s been a seesaw of emotions since he broke up with Tom (Richard Ruccolo). But with a little help from friends, including Lisa Kudrow and Christina Ricci, maybe things can get back on track. A warm and winning comedy directed by Julie Davis.

Rebeca is a beautiful woman who seems to have it all – she has both female and male lovers, a great job as a stuntwoman but somehow she knows that something is no right in her life. When a family photo album arrives from her family in Peru a mystery starts to unfold.

Good-hearted schoolteacher Alan Furnace (Jared Harris) desperately wants some excitement in his life — and he may just get some. One lonely night at a London bar, Alan spies the raven-haired beauty Beatrice (Asia Argento) arguing with two friends, Paul (Rupert Everett) and Bruno (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). Beatrice quickly befriends Alan and leads him through all kinds of new, interesting and dark situations.

Clara and Zo are excited to be off to summer camp for a week of adventure. Zo quickly hooks up with Sebastien and then is devastated to find he’s dating her just to impress his friends. Flighty Zo then turns to Clara, telling her she loves her, but Clara rejects her advances. However, when Sonia, a beautiful bisexual, befriends Clara, the angst-ridden teen falls hard in this sensuous tale of teenage self-discovery. Patrick Grandperret directs.

A gay man with a tall order for a lover searches for the perfect mate and winds up finding much more in this romantic comedy. Jaime (Brian Campbell) scours Chicago for a straight guy willing to turn gay just to be with him, a journey that leads to self-discovery. Along the way, Jaime encounters all kinds of colorful characters and gorgeous hunks and learns the surprising truth about love, acceptance and what it takes to be happy.

Angelina Jolie is mesmerizing in her breakout role as supermodel Gia Carangi, a cover girl who lived fast and died at age 26 from the ravages of AIDS. This fact-based Home Box Office film (which won an Emmy and two Golden Globes, among other awards) follows Gia from busing tables at her father’s diner to the glamorous world of high-fashion photography and finally to her downward spiral into drugs and toxic relationships. Faye Dunaway co-stars.

When the stunning but evil, Sumitra (Shirley Eaton) arrives in Rio de Janeiro, she has only one thing on her mind: enslaving all men to bend to the will of her force of bisexual, warrior women! She find success, until she captures an American playboy on the run. Her possession of him leads to a confrontation with crime lord Sir Masius (George Sanders).

Iris Murdoch was l’enfant terrible of the literary world in early 1950s Britain — a live wire who thumbed her nose at the conformity of the era via a voracious sex life that included male and female partners. In this snippet of her life, Murdoch (Judi Dench) faces the onset of Alzheimer’s disease alongside her adoring husband (Jim Broadbent). Kate Winslet portrays the young, free-spirited Iris in flashbacks.

This gripping drama follows the parallel lives of three 20th-century women. The incomparable Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman, in an Oscar-winning performance) is hard at work on the classic story of Mrs. Dalloway while battling depression in the 1920s; Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) is an unsatisfied 1950s housewife who finds solace in Woolf’s novel; and Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) is a modern-day book editor who’s losing her former lover to AIDS.
This gripping drama follows the parallel lives of three 20th-century women. The incomparable Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman, in an Oscar-winning performance) is hard at work on the classic story of Mrs. Dalloway while battling depression in the 1920s; Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) is an unsatisfied 1950s housewife who finds solace in Woolf’s novel; and Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) is a modern-day book editor who’s losing her former lover to AIDS.

A repressed housewife develops an erotic infatuation with a local landscaper in director Rafael Eisenman’s soft-core sensual drama that’ll get your blood pumping. After accidentally being whisked away with handsome laborer Billy (Billy Zane) and his girlfriend (Hollie L. Hummel) for the weekend, 30-something wife and mother Irene (Joan Severance) rediscovers her long-dormant sexual desires during the getaway tryst.

At 16, Dedee Truitt (Christina Ricci) is a full-blown force of nature. When she moves in with her brother and his lover, she quickly seduces her way into a gender-bending love triangle. Lisa Kudrow plays against type as the straight-laced single woman with designs on Dedee’s brother, but Ricci’s bodacious performance steals the show, and her spunky narration keeps the film fresh and unpredictable.

Director Sally Potter adapts Virginia Woolf’s 1928 allegorical novel about a woman who lives for 400 years — the first half as a man — in this surrealist study of sex and gender roles throughout the ages. The transition from man to woman and from the 16th to the 20th century is realized by Tilda Swinton’s breakthrough performance and the film’s Oscar-nominated costumes and art direction. Quentin Crisp plays Queen Elizabeth I.

Streetwalking and drug dealing lead to one man’s descent into hell in the City by the Bay. Bill Jensen (Giuseppe Andrews) leads a hazy life of speed-induced one-night stands but spurns real human connection. Things worsen when a tragic turn of events involving his only confidant, Jerm (Keith Brunsmann), sends Bill into a grim spiral downward. Eric G. Johnson’s disturbing odyssey is set in San Francisco’s gritty Mission District and Los Angeles.

A young woman (Joelle Carter) agrees to fulfill her fiancé’s (Lane Janger) fantasy of inviting another woman to their bedroom — that is, if he agrees to also bring home another man. When the fantasy becomes reality, the couple find themselves with new friends … and potential complications. This well-received indie drama features realistic characters and loads of humor.

Hollywood’s mean streets provide the backdrop for this direct-to-video drama about a young hustler named Switch (Thomas Jane). As their friend Jimmy (Channing Rowe) sits in stir charged with murder, Switch and his drug-addicted sister, Nikki (Jordan Ladd), try to gather enough cash to bail Jimmy out of jail. Determined to escape the streets’ ugliness, Switch struggles to change things for himself and Nikki … but can he shake off his sordid past?

Blessed with a great New York City loft, a thriving career and a no-strings relationship with a married man, Missy (Cynthia Nixon) has little interest in getting tied down romantically. That changes, however, when she meets Brat (Timothy Olyphant) — who’d be the perfect guy if he weren’t dating her gay best friend, Spaz (Andy Dick). But as Missy and Brat begin falling for each other, she fears their romance may destroy her friendship with Spaz.

Delilah Miller is an explosive 23 year old painter who struggles to reconcile her insatiable appetite for both men and women in her search for a real relationship. She starts a romance with rock musician Ryland Yale, a sexy, possessive and undependable heroin addict, and finds herself torn between her emotional needs and physical desire.

Wanna-be rocker Johnny (Greg Pritikin) may finally be headed somewhere when his manager tells him a deal is in the works with a recording company. Aiming to please his girlfriend (Jackie Katzman), Johnny invites her to move in with him and his porn-addicted roommate, Wiley (Gary Rosen), and hopes that good times are just around the bend. But when a contract fails to materialize and Wiley starts hitting on him, Johnny’s life becomes more complex.

Remastered for this edition, Neil Jordan’s acclaimed thriller centers on Fergus (Stephen Rae), who kidnaps British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) for the IRA, befriends his captive and promises to contact his girlfriend, Dil (Jaye Davidson), should Jody die. When tragedy occurs, Fergus finds Dil and they hit it off — but Fergus is in for a big surprise. Miranda Richardson also stars. Extras include director’s commentary and an alternate ending.

Geraldine Somerville stars in this BBC biopic as acclaimed novelist Daphne du Maurier, whose secret infatuations and affairs with the likes of heiress Ellen Doubleday (Elizabeth McGovern) and actress Gertrude Lawrence (Janet McTeer) are said to have informed much of her writing. Based largely on Margaret Forster’s biography, Clare Beavan’s film paints a stirring portrait of an artist’s struggle for self-acceptance.

In this drama based on the play by Martin Sherman (who also wrote the screenplay), a Berlin homosexual is caught up in the Nazi hysteria during World War II. After being forced to kill his lover, he’s placed in a concentration camp and lies to get himself classified as Jewish rather than gay. But several rule-breaking incidents and his love for a fellow male prisoner bring him to admit his true nature. Mick Jagger appears briefly as a drag queen.

Just when sculptor Armand (Jose Antonio Ceinos) thinks he’s never going to rediscover his muse, she returns in the form of the ebony-skinned Venus (former Miss Bahamas Josephine Jacqueline Jones). The two fall in love, but Armand is not the only one attracted to Venus. It seems no member of either sex can resist her charms, and soon, she’s doing more than modeling to pay the rent in this erotic melodrama from Claude Mulot.

Disenchanted and disconnected with his Jewish heritage — and everything else in his life — Daniel (Ash Newman) is prompted by his grandmother to embark on a journey across Europe to locate his grandfather’s final resting place. What begins as an indulgent trip abroad transforms into a quest of self-discovery. Jumping from city to city at a frenetic pace, Caroline Roboh’s film explores the foundation of family in personal identity.
Disenchanted and disconnected with his Jewish heritage — and everything else in his life — Daniel (Ash Newman) is prompted by his grandmother to embark on a journey across Europe to locate his grandfather’s final resting place. What begins as an indulgent trip abroad transforms into a quest of self-discovery. Jumping from city to city at a frenetic pace, Caroline Roboh’s film explores the foundation of family in personal identity.

Best friends Meng Ke-rou (Guey Lun-mei) and Lin Yueh-chen (Liang Shu-hui) are enjoying their high school days until Yueh-chen persuades her comrade to do her a favor by chatting up Yueh-chen’s new crush, Chang Shi-hao (Chen Bo-lin). All’s well until he falls for Ke-rou instead. Adding to her dilemma are her secret feelings for her best friend and, consequently, Ke-rou’s questions about her sexuality.

Film director Enrique (Fele Martinez) is visited by his childhood Catholic school friend and lover, Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal). Ignacio gives Enrique a short story he’s written that’s a factual account of the molestation he sustained at the hands of their teacher, Father Manolo (Daniel Gimenez Cacho). But as Enrique adapts the story, he uncovers a dangerous web of deceit and revenge in this stark film from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar.

When a handsome young man and his mysterious rich uncle purchase a famous amusement park, the dark secrets of the local community begin to bubble up to the surface. The two newcomers seem to know a lot about a murder that took place a few years earlier. As suspicions and mistrust mount among the locals, it becomes clear that a killer is still at large in their town.

Love and lust seem to find a way to bloom despite the circumstances. Imprisoned for credit-card fraud, Dennis (Marcel Schlutt) is ready to give his life over to misery until he meets Mike (Mike Sale), a fellow convict who catches Dennis’ eye. Before long, the two arrange a series of liaisons for sexual fulfillment, all under the voyeuristic gaze of prison guards and other inmates. But this erotic tale is no ordinary love story. …

A young women who lives in a poor part of London gets a job as a waitress in a Persian restaurant. She bbecomes the restaurateur’s third wife. The character drawing is noteworthy–the aristoccratic restaurateur comes across as a better man than those who opopose him.

Young job-seeker Michael lands a gig as the piano player at the Continental Baths in New York City. At first, he must fend off the advances of Scotti, the club manager, but gradually, Michael becomes drawn to Scotti as he explores a long-repressed side of his sexuality. Rarely seen since its release in the mid-1970s, this seminal film looks at life in the gay community during the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS era when everything seemed possible.

Adam is a charming, young man who seduces an entire family, 3 sisters and one brother. The brother is heterosexual, but fancies Adam anyway. They end up in bed, and it gets very funny after a while! This is a morality play about people wishing to break free and do whatever they please. Adam is the key to the story, trying to fulfill the dreams of everyone he meets. I kinda wish Robbie Williams had played Adam. He would have been just right for this part. Still, this movie will entertain you.

A threesome film from Taiwan – Boy helps girl get local high school hunk but in reality he wants him allhimself. See the film to find out who ends up with the hunk.

Politics, murder, and sexual repression ignite the screen when a gay cinema owner picks a mysterious stranger to be his roommate in Buenos Aires. Lots of sexual tensions develop between the two, but the plot centers around the mystery of recent news headlines and the new tenant’s relationship to them.

This is not a gay film but it is worth a see as it is about a very L.A. party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Joe and Sally (Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh).

This is a comedy about human relationships and love. It includes a single father, his daughter, a straight couple (who are trying to save their relationship) and a girl who discovers that her boyfriend is bisexual and has AIDS.

This film is about a bisexual TV reporter (Catarina Menezes) who decides to have a baby with out the interference of a father. She make plans to seduce a Spanish humanitarian Doctor Rafael in order to have the child. It all works out until to her current live-in girlfriend finds out she is pregnant and gets very upset. She tells her that she is about to make her life a living hell. Then things get worse as the father finds out the true identity of Catarina and he decides to go to Lisbon to find her. With all this going on in her life she take comfort in the arms of a fellow journalist, Francisco and her office relationship soon turns into a after work romantic one. Note: This was originally shown on Portuguese TV as a three part mini-series. There were other characters in it but to make it commercial for the movie version it was cut down that is why there are two versions.

Hlynur, an Icelandic slacker who would rather watch porn and get drunk than work, still lives at home with his sympathetic mother. He has a brief fling with the beautiful Hofy, but is too disinterested to actively pursue the relationship. The arrival of his mother’s flamenco-dancing friend Lola (Victoria Abril), however, changes all of that. Can you say tryst?

For those rebuffed at the door, this drama (which recaptures the glitzy élan of New York City’s most famous 1970s nightclub) will have to suffice. Lives intertwine as Gotham’s elite snort cocaine and disco the night away in owner Steve Rubell’s (Mike Myers) chic nightspot. Salma Hayek plays a disco diva, and Ryan Phillippe and Neve Campbell are starstruck youngsters who make the scene.

Duncan Roy wrote and directed this British horror-comedy about popular celeb TV cook Clancy (Mark Aiken), a bisexual caught between his girlfriend and his boyfriend. As his fame grows, so does his paranoia that leaks about his homosexual life could ruin his career, prompting a plan to ditch the boyfriend and marry the girlfriend. But everything goes askew after he accidentally kills a pet dog owned by a homophobic psycho. Shown at the 1998 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Film Festival.

The odd relationship between a man, his wife, and his male pay-for-play lover is examined in the Canadian gay comedy. When Mary, a housewife, suspects her husband Matt is being unfaithful she hires a private eye to film his activities. Sure enough, Matt is recorded fooling around with Dick, a young male prostitute. Matt is in love with Dick and tells him so. Dick tells him to get out or face the consequences. Matt does not listen and instead stays there conversing with Marvette, Dick’s bisexual junkie roommate. When Dick comes back he promptly beats Matt to a pulp. Matt returns to his wife.

A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her colleagues and considered the best PI at her agency by her boss. While Maxime has romantic dalliances with both men and women, she hasn’t been involved in a long-term relationship since she left her husband 15 years ago. However, Maxime is hired to look into a case that suggests that her former husband has become involved with insurance fraud, which brings her into contact with her 17-year-old son Baptiste (Gregoire Colin) for the first time since the divorce. Just as Maxime is trying to mend fences with her son and find out what her ex has gotten himself into, she finds herself falling in love with Jacques (Michel Didym), an economist. Pas Tres Catholique was nominated for the prestigious Golden Bear award at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival.

Two may be company, but three is more than anyone counted on in this outrageous comedy from Russia. Timofei (Evgeny Koryakovsky) is a successful advertising executive based in Moscow who is involved in a satisfying relationship with Vera (Lyubov Tolkalina), the host of a television news show; however, their relationship takes an unexpected turn when one night Timofei runs into Uloomji (Damir Badmaev), an attractive young man of Kalmyk descent, with his car. Timofei finds himself strongly attracted to Uloomji, and when Vera returns from a day at the television studio, she discovers the two men in bed together. While Vera is quite taken aback by this, her love for Timofei is strong enough that she’s willing to share him with Uloomji, which leads to an increasingly strange series of sexual misadventures for the threesome. Matters become all the more confused when Uloomji’s parents arrive in Moscow and are appalled by their son’s unconventional lifestyle.

An average, calm mid-20s girl named Veronica restarts her dead dating life all of the sudden, but with two guys: a sensitive failed writer named Abel and an airheaded drummer named Zed. At first she despairs. Then she finds a way to date both without their finding out. Then she tells both about it. Then Abel and Zed meet each other, and, after much initial conflict, they wind up living together and evolve into a very odd yet happy threesome. However, as time goes by Veronica starts growing apart from them, while Abel and Zed become brother-like (and kid-like). So when a director starts courting a pregnant Veronica, strains ensue. Will Abel and Zed be able to grow up and save the day?

Playwright Lanford Wilson’s much lauded Broadway play, Fifth of July, features an all-star cast which includes Richard Thomas, Jeff Daniels, and Swoosie Kurtz. Set after the Vietnam War in the American Deep South, the play follows a group of friends who spent their college years together as activists, joined in the idealistic fight for a more peaceful and better world. Now grown up, the friends must reconcile real life with their dreams.

Asanee Suwan portrays kickboxer Parinya Charoenphol, who’s harboring an unusual secret: He’s a transvestite. Inspired by a famous Thai pugilist who lived two drastically different lives, this moving film written and directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham recounts Parinya’s painful attempts to exist in paradoxical worlds. To fund the sex change he longs for, Parinya earns money in the ring, participating day after day in the ultimate male sport.

The lives of two lonely people intertwine in unexpected ways in this visually lush drama from Portugal. When his lover, Pedro (Joao Carreira), dies on their anniversary, Rui (Nuno Gil) is devastated. Meanwhile, unstable beauty Odete’s (Ana Cristina De Oliveira) boyfriend dumps her because she wants children. Though she never knew him, Odete becomes fascinated with Pedro, an obsession that leads her to insinuate herself into Rui’s life.

Javier Bardem stars in the latest effort from legendary filmmaker Woody Allen as a flamboyant painter who finds himself in the middle of a unique relationship with Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Christina (Scarlett Johansson), a pair of American tourists. Penélope Cruz also stars as Bardem’s insanely jealous ex-wife, Maria Elena, in this quirky romantic dramedy (winner of a Best Comedy Golden Globe) set in Barcelona.

Inés Efron plays Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, in this compelling tale. Though she’s living as a girl, Alex and her family begin to wonder whether she’s emotionally a boy when another teenager’s sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion. Director Lucía Puenzo’s sensitive drama co-stars Valeria Bertuccelli, Martín Piroyansky and Ricardo Darín.

After learning that his long-lost father is now a London realtor with a new family, young Spaniard Axl poses as an apartment-hunting student to learn more about him, but soon finds that the lie is becoming his life. Set amongst the hip East End club scene, Axl and his squatmates engage in tangled romances and a threeway — or two.