Gay film
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Gay films or gay cinema are theatrical films that deal with or feature important gay, lesbian or bisexual characters or issues and may have same sex romance or relationships as an important plot device.
It is a problematic category: "Have you ever thought about what constitutes a gay film as opposed to a straight one? Is it gay thematic content, characters, gay filmmakers, or the amount and explicitness of gay sex? Assuming that you have a favorite gay film -- by whatever definition -- was it chosen for its artistic merits or some other reason, such as, that it advanced the 'gay cause'?" (Gary Crowdus, 1994).
Gay directors such as Fassbinder, Almodovar, Ozon have typically had a less sentimental view of life and love than their heterosexual counterparts.
The Celluloid Closet researched the history of how motion pictures, especially Hollywood films, had portrayed gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters.
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List of films featuring gay male relationships
- Bad Education, Spain (2004)
- Beautiful Thing, UK (1993)
- Edge of Seventeen, US (1998)
- Gohatto (Taboo), Japan (1999)
- Gone But Not Forgotten, US (2003)
- Happy Together, China (1997)
- Latter Days, US (2003)
- Law of Desire, Spain (1986)
- Maurice, UK (1987)
- Presque Rien, France (2000)
- Running with Scissors, US (2006)
- Shelter, US (2007)
- Shèng Xià Guāng Nián (Eternal Summer), Taiwan (2006)
- Total Eclipse, UK / France / Belgium / Italy (1995)
- Love Songs (Les Chansons d'amour), France (2007)
Parenting
- The Birdcage, US (1996)
- The Next Best Thing, US (2000)
- Patrik 1,5, Sweden (2008)
With tragedy
- Another Country, UK (1984)
- Brokeback Mountain, US (2005)
- De-Lovely, US (2004) see also Biographical
- Der Einstein des Sex, German (2000) released subtitled as the Einstein of Sex in the US
- It's My Party, US (1996)
- A Home at the End of the World, US (2004)
- The King and the Clown, South Korea (2005)
- Philadelphia, US (1993)
- The Trip, US (2002)
- Captive, Russia (2008)
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