 | My Beautiful Laundrette
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.69 A story of interracial gay love, set in 1980's London. A young Indian man inherits his uncle's laundromat and falls for a tough street punk played brillantly by Daniel Day-Lewis.
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 | Before Night Falls
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.00 Watching this movie is like watching poetry visually unfold before you.
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 | Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.90 Duh. Everyone knows about the "gay cowboy" movie, but it's really more of a story about how loneliness can drive two people together.
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 | Maurice - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Buy new: $23.49 / Used from: $15.94 Maurice is the gay man's version of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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 | Angels in America
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.52 This 6-hour film based on Tony Kushner's play is much more than just a "gay movie". It is a commentary on AIDS, the conservative political climate in the 80's, Christianity and faith, and America--what does it mean to love this country? Exhilarating and heartbreaking.
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 | Bent
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $4.76 Probably one of the the few movies about gay love in a concetration camp. Two men meet after being rounded up by the Nazis in WWII and give each other the strength to face the horrors of the Holocaust.
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 | Lilies
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $6.95 A quirkly little film from Canada I came across a few years ago. The film is about a play performed in a prison that leads to a flashback...a little confusing until you see it. There are no actresses in the movie--men play all the female roles as well as male roles.
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 | Touch of Pink
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.11 A great example of the thriving "I don't understand my Indian child" genre (as a boyfriend of mine once called it). In Touch of Pink, a young Indian man lives with his boyfriend in London. His over-bearing, traditional mother lives in Canada and has no clue about his preference for men.
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 | Y Tu Mama Tambien
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.00 More of a "threesome" movie than a gay movie, but still a great tale about the ambiguities that often come with sexual awakening.
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 | Kinsey
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.41 Again, not a "gay" movie per se, but the film deals with the complexities of human sexuality and has a message of acceptance of diversity. A very life-affirming film.
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