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Midnight Cowboy

May 1969 •English

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Blackbird

February 2014 •English

Seventeen-year-old Randy tries very hard to be a good person. Since his father left, Randy takes care of his emotionally disturbed mother, and he's the kind of friend all of his classmates can depend on. As strong as he seems on the outside, Randy is hiding a secret inner struggle and denial of his true self. It's not until he opens himself up to love that he discovers that becoming a man means accepting who you really are.

Newcomers

November 2019 •French

Gone, But Not Forgotten

October 2003 •English

Questions about the identity of an amnesiac threaten his romance with the park ranger who rescued him.

Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom

October 2008 •English

As Noah and Wade prepare to marry in Martha's Vineyard, the personal problems of their friends - and the unexpected arrival of rapper Baby Gat - threatens to permanently end their relationship.

Monsieur Max

January 2007 •French

Portrait of a homosexual bohemian who converted from Judaism to Catholicism and was captured by the Gestapo in the 1940s.

What a Drag

March 1996 •French

A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.

Les belles-sœurs

April 2011 •French

Nicole invites her husband's two brothers and their wives for their housewarming party. Except that she also asked the assistant of one of them, the mysterious Talia, to come. This does not seem to please the other guests.

Howl

August 2010 •English

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

Pédale dure

October 2004 •French

Loic and Seb are a couple living in Paris's gay district, the Marais. Seb is the owner of the district's most trendy, chic and camp nightclub. It's a world devoid of judging eyes where the clientele can be themselves. Things are just terrific. What's more, Loic's dream of transmitting his heart and soul to another human being is about to come true: he's going to be a father. He gave his sperm. Things are just terrific. Marie Haguette, their accomplice, is offering them this gift, the most beautiful gift that two gay guys could receive: a baby! She's three-months pregnant, that dicey moment when things could go wrong... Maybe this is why Loic has morning sickness, contractions and cravings. Things are just terrific. Except for love, Love with a capital L of course, upsets the pie-cart. Marie falls madly in love with Charles, a wonderful stranger, but at least he's straight. What's more, he's coming to dinner tomorrow night. What should Loic and Seb do?

Black and White

March 1931 •French

A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.

Zouzou

December 1934 •French

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

Matrimonium

January 2005 •English

In order to win the million dollar payoff from a reality show, straight Malcolm Caulfield must convince his friends and family that he will marry a man. Hilarity ensues.

Belle Maman

March 1999 •French

At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.

Lovelace

August 2013 •English

Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.

Wicked Game

April 2016 •French

1997 - An old notable French provincial family falls under the spell of a manipulator with no scruples able to make a whole family become paranoid.

Scarlet Fever

August 1983 •French

In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by women - his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his mother Nicole. Living in an exclusively feminine environment, the boy wishes more than anything else to have a masculine presence around. His dream comes true when he meets Jacques, who's madly in love with Nicole and who is about to completely turn the boy's life upside down.

The Skinny

February 2012 •English

Five black Brown University classmates, four gay men and a lesbian, reunite in New York City for a weekend of fun, sins, secrets, lies and drama.

Spa Night

August 2016 •English

A young Korean-American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.

The Libertine

March 2000 •French

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.