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All Over the Guy, Julie Davis "4 Friends, 3 Guys, 2 Couples... You Do The Math." A romantic comedy about the quest to find the "one". It explores the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance. 
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Beautiful Thing, Hettie MacDonald "An urban fairy tale". A tender love story set during a hot summer on a South-East London housing estate. Jamie, a shy introvert, lives next to Ste, an athletic lad, and these two teenages gradually fall in love. One of the best gay-themed movies out there.
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Bedrooms and Hallways, Rose Troche "Re-model your love life." A man enters therapy and is disconsolate about having any social life. In the group session, he comes clean about his feelings for a fellow group member which leads to an affair. Then the situation is complicated by the re-union with his highschool sweetheart .
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Beefcake, Thom Fitzgerald This part-documentary-part-drama looks at the 1950's muscle men's magazines that were supposed to promote health and fitness, but in fact, it was an industry not so innocent. Based on the book by Valentine Hoover III.
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Big Eden, Thomas Bezucha "There is no place like home." The backdrop is a tiny fictional town in Montana. This is a story of Henry, who returns home to take care of his ailing grandfather. But now he must come to terms with his relationship to his best friend from highschool and discovers what cupid has in store for him.
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Broken Heart Club, Greg Berlanti "The shortest distance between friends isn't always a straight line." When tragedy strikes the group, friendship is put to the test . A feel-good bubble gum romantic comedy.
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Different for Girls, Richard Spence Karl and Prentice were best friends in highschool. Karl is now Kim. Will true love triumph for a new made woman and an aging punk?
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The Hanging Garden, Thom Fitzgerald "It's hard to go home... ten years after your death." William goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it haunted with his past. During his visit, he becomes unhinged as the newly remembered reasons for his miserable adolescence come to life in each of their presents.
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Happy Together, Wong Kar-Wai Two men arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something goes wrong and their relationship falls apart. This is a story about how their entanglements unfold and how they start anew.
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I Think I Do, Brian Sloan "3 Days. 2 Couples. 1 Wedding. No Furnerals." 2 college rommates meet up again five years after school at their housemate's wedding. With the introduction of a soap star, the sparks start to fly, as the ex-rommies try to navigate their new romance.
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Jeffrey, Christopher Ashley "Love is an adventure when one is sure, and the other is...positive." Jeffrey decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He at once meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
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Just One Time, Lane Janger "Three is not always a crowd." When the fiancée of a fireman reluctantly agrees to participate in a menage à trois with another woman, she does so on the condition that he reciprocates the favour with another man, which ultimately puts their imending marriage in jeopardy.
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Les roseaux sauvages, André Téchiné
In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962, four friends faced their uncertain future in the backdrop of the Independence of Nigeria. Beautifully filmed like a Renoit painting.
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Like It Is, Paul Oremland Craig is a rough kid in Blackpool, UK, picking up cash as a bare-knucle club fighter. Outside a club, he meets Matt, a Londoner whose dream is to run a rock club and has committment problems. They are two people living in separate worlds. Can love blossom like it is?
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Lilies, John Greyson In 1952, Bishop Bilodeau visits a Québécois prison to hear the confession of a childhood friend Simon jailed for murder 40 years ago. The Inmates force the prelate to watch a play depicting what really happened in 1912....
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Longtime Companion, Norman René
The very first film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic, it follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1980.
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Love! Valour! Compassion! Joe Mantello "Eight men, one summer. Figure it out." Gregory invites 7 friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. Their reunion also puts their friendship to test.
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Maurice, James Ivory Based on E.M. Forster's story of coming to terms with sexuality in the Edwardian age. Two male English school mates find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice and marries. Maurice finally finds romance in the arms of Alec, someone who belongs to another social class.
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My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant "Whatever it takes to have a nice day." An adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV, featuring the late River Phoenix and the young Keanu Reeves. Two hustlers in a cold and material world. One falls for the other. What does it take to find home?
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The Object of My Affection, Nicholas Hytner "Sometimes the most desirable relationship is the one you can't have." George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a Brooklyn apartment, a taste for tuna casserole dinners and a devotion to ballroom dancing. They love each other. There is only one hitch: George is gay.
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Opposite of the Sex, Don Roos "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be offended." Christina Ricci stars as a selfish teenager who manages to destroy the lives of everyone she meets - including her gay half-brother (Donovan), his lover (Sergei) and their friend (Kudro). Acidic and witty!
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The Adventures of Priscilla, The Queen of Desert,
Stephen Elliot "Finally, a comedy that will change the way you think, the way you feel, and most importantly...the way you dress." Two drag-queens and a transexual contract to perform a gig at a resort in Alice Springs. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. And the adventure begins.
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Trick, Jim Fall "A story about two guys trying to make it in the big city." Gabriel meets Mark, who picks him up on the subway. The misadventures of two young gay men, trying to find a place to be alone, one night in Manhattan. The sun rises on a promising new relationship.
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Queer as Folk (UK Mini-series), Russell
T. Davis "I'm doing it! I'm really doing it!" Stuart, Vince and Nathan, the dynamic trio from Canal Street, Manchester. The US series, losing all the subtlty and edginess, is far inferior to its original UK series.
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The Wedding Banquet, Ang Lee
'You are cordially invited to a wedding where everybody wants to kiss the bride.... except the groom." This is one of the best movies exploring same-sex relationship, intergenerational conflicts, cultural conflicts, intergender conflicts and internal conflicts. And yet this is a very enjoyable comedy!
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Wilde, Brian Gilbert
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the first modern man. This is about his self-realization of his sexuality, which caused him enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherfood and love for Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie).
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