From: Minotaur@cup.portal.com (Frank - Swilling)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: The GLBO-Centered Film List
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:01:51 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

The soc.motss Gay-Centered Foreign Film List
4th of 7 Lists
compiled by Frank Swilling

Angel [Angelos] - 1982, Greece (Gay - Biographical Drama: This violent but
     moving account of a handsome young gay man accused of murder is based
     on a true story and contains explicit love scenes.)
Another Country - 1984, Great Britain (Gay - Biographical Drama:
     Romanticized version of the Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean story,
     in which homosexual love among upper-crust English schoolboys causes
     them to grow up to be notorious traitors to their country.)
Apartment Zero - 1989, Great Britain/Argentina (Gay/Bisexual - Drama:
     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 on the mystery of recent news headlines and
     the new tenant's relationship to them.)
Behind Glass - 1981, Netherlands (Gay - Drama:  Two lovers from different
     backgrounds fight about class, money, education, and sex.) 
The Best Way [La Meilleure Facon de Marcher, The Best Way to Walk] - 1982,
     France (Gay Transvestite - Drama: Butch athletic coach scorns the
     advances of the transvestite drama teacher, but an eventual con-
     frontation causes the jock to look at his own suppressed sexuality.)
Beyond Gravity - 1988, New Zealand (Gay - Drama: Flamboyant rebel Johnny
     meets shy glass technician Richard in this offbeat lovestory.)
Black and White [Noir et Blanc] - 1986, France (Gay - Drama: A shy
     accountant gradually enters into a bizarre sado-masochistic
     relationship with a black masseur.)
Blue Jeans - 1982, France (Gay - Drama: A young boy suffers from an
     unrequited love for an older teen.)
La Cage Aux Folles [Birds of a Feather] - 1981, France (Gay/Gay Trans-
     vestite - Comedy: Renato's son is bringing his fiance's conservative
     parents home to meet the family: Renato, his gay father, and Albin,
     Renato's lover, an aging female impersonator who raised the boy as
     "her" son.)
La Cage Aux Folles II - 1983, France (Gay/Gay Transvestite - Comedy:
     Renato sets out to prove to Albin that he still has sex appeal,
     and they accidentally get involved in espionage.)
La Cage Aux Folles III - 1985, France (Gay/Gay Transvestite - Comedy:
     Albin has to get married and father a son within 18 months if he
     is to inherit a family fortune and save his and Renato's nightclub.)
Caravaggio - 1986, Great Britain (Gay - Biographical Drama: Life and times
     of the famous Renaissance painter.)
Chinese Characters - 1986, Canada  (Gay - Documentary: A study of culture
     shock as Asian men relate their histories and their relationship to
     Anglo-biased erotica.)
The Clinic - 1985, Australia (Gay - Comedy: A gay doctor at an Australian
     VD clinic has to cope with a lot of wild goings on.)
Colonel Redl - 1985, Hungary (Gay - Drama: The head of the Austrian imperial
     secret service gets outed as a homosexual and a spy.)
Coming Out - 1989, East Germany  (Gay - Drama: The story of a young
     school teacher who is confronted with his sexuality after a chance
     encounter with an old friend.)
The Consequence - 1977, West Germany (Gay - Drama: The world is unkind to
     two gay lovers.)
Death in Venice [Morte a Venezia] - 1971, Italy (Gay - Drama: In turn-of-
     the-twentieth-century Venice, an aging artist falls obsessively in
     love with a beautiful young boy but never tells him, and ends up
     dead of cholera.) 
The Deputy [El Diputado, Confessions of a Congressman] - 1983, Spain
     (Gay - Drama: A rising young gay politician is the target of
     blackmail, and gets romantically involved with the hustler his
     enemies send to do the job.)
Different from the Others [Anders als die Anderen] - 1919, Germany (Gay -
     Drama: A silent film about a concert violinist being blackmailed
     because of his sexual orientation.)
Dona Herlinda and Her Son [Dona Herlinda y Su Hijo] - 1985, Mexico
     (Gay/Bisexual - Comedy: A doctor has a male lover, but to please his
     mother, he marries a woman, and everyone ends up living happily
     together under one roof.)
Drifting - 1982, Israel (Gay - Drama: An aspiring Israeli filmmaker works
     in his grandmother's store while dreaming of making gay films.)
Edward II - 1992, Great Britain (Gay - Historical Drama: Derek Jarman
     retells the story of Edward II and his despised low-born lover
     using Christopher Marlowe's language, sparse sets, and modern
     dress and imagery.)
Ernesto - 1983, Italy (Gay - Drama: A middle-class Italian Jewish teenager
     has an affair with a dock worker and then falls in love with a fellow
     violin student.)
Forbidden Passion: Oscar Wilde - 1976, Great Britain (Gay - Biography:
     The whole tragic story of the famous wit's life and ruinous love
     affair with Lord Alfred Douglas.)
Forever Mary - 1991, Italy (Gay Transvestite - Drama: A young gay reform
     school student teaches a straight teacher something about dignity.)
The Fourth Man [De Vierde Man] - 1983, Netherlands (Gay - Drama: A gay
     novelist find out that the thrice-widowed hairdresser who seduces
     him is engaged to a fourth man, and the two men together discover
     her deadly secret.)
Fox and His Friends - 1975, West Germany (Gay - Drama: A working class
     gay man is victimized for both his sexual and social status.)
Fun Down There - 1988 (Gay - Drama: The life and loves of a guy who
     leaves his home in upstate New York for Manhattan.)
The Heart Exposed - 1986, Canada (Gay - Drama: A middle-aged teacher
     starts a relationship with an actor fifteen years younger who
     also has a young son.)
The Last of England - 19??, Great Britain (Gay - Drama: A post-nuclear
     fantasy about England with many bootboys and other luscious types.)
Law of Desire - 1987, Spain (Gay/Transsexual - Comedy/Drama: Screwball
     tragicomedy centering on a gay film director, his transsexual brother
     [now a sister, who is played by a born-female actress], and two of
     his young lovers.)
The Leather Boys - 1964, Great Britain (Bisexual/Gay - Drama: Against his
     better judgment, a gay man marries a girl who is bored with her life.
     The marriage falls apart and the gay man goes to bed with a buddy
     whom he doesn't know is also gay.  Complications ensue.)
A Man Like Eva [Ein Mann wie Eva] - 1983, Germany (Gay Transvestite: During
     the shooting of a Fassbinder movie, gender-bending star Eva ditches
     an ex-lover, marries the leading lady, and seduces the leading man.)
Maurice - 1987, Great Britain (Gay - Drama: Two upper-crust English
     boys are drawn to one another, but one insists on keeping the
     relationship platonic, while the other one wants someone he can go
     to bed with.)
My Beautiful Launderette - 1985, Great Britain (Gay - Drama: Race, social
     class, and sex are some of the issues that need to be dealt with
     when a British street punk and a young Pakistani entrepreneur fall
     in love.)
The Naked Civil Servant: The Autobiography of Quentin Crisp - 1975,
     Great Britain (Gay - Biography: Quentin Crisp is *way* ahead of
     his time when he outs himself in a era where ostracism and
     intolerance were the order of the day.)
Night Out - 1989, Australia (Gay - Drama: When Steve leaves town for
     a few days, his lover Tony decides to cruise the beach one night,
     and is brutalized by a gang of thugs.  The event triggers an
     examination of the couple's supposedly wonderful relationship.)
The Outcasts - 1986, Taiwan (Gay - Drama: An older photographer tries to
     make a home for a group of gay teens who've been abandoned by their
     families because of their sexual orientation.)
Outrageous! - 1977, Canada (Transvestite Drag - Comedy/Drama: A gay hair-
     dresser has an interesting relationship with a schizophrenic girl on
     his way to stardom as a drag queen who does impressions of all the
     usual gay icons.)
Pink Ulysses - 1989, The Netherlands (Gay - Drama: The inner struggle of
     "pink Ulysses" is entwined with a loose adaption of The Odyssey in
     this sensual film featuring footage from a 1950's bodybuilding show,
     Eisenstein, and a TV version of "Sleeping Beauty" by the Dutch
     National Ballet.)
Prick Up Your Ears - 1987, Great Britain (Gay - Biographical Drama:
     The life and death of playwright Joe Orton, who was murdered
     by his lover at the height of his fame.)
Privates on Parade - 1982, Great Britain (Gay Transvestites - Comedy:
     The bitterly satirical adventures of a theatrical troop of drag
     queens during wartime.)
Querelle - 1982, West Germany, France (Gay - Querelle is a devastatingly
     handsome gay sailor who is also a cold-hearted killer.)
Salome's Last Dance - 1988, Great Britain (Gay - Drama: A Ken Russell
     extravaganza, wherein Oscar Wilde is invited to a bordello to
     view a wildly decadent version of his banned play "Salome".)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom - 1975, Italy (Gay S&M - Drama:
     Pasolini's last film before his murder is powerfully anti-Fascist.
     During WWII, a group of powerful Fascists play S&M games with
     a group of young people, culminating in murder.)
Salut Victor! - 1988, Canada (Gay - Drama:  Two elderly gay men who
     are complete opposites befriend one another in an old age home.)
Sebastian [Sebastiane] - 1977, Great Britain (Gay - Biographical Drama:
     The story of St. Sebastian, who was sent to be outreaches of the
     Roman Empire after objecting to the murder of a young Christian
     page.  There he carries on an affair with his commanding officer,
     whereupon he is brutally murdered by his fellow soldiers.)
Staircase - 1969, Great Britain (Gay - Drama: Rex Harrison and Richard
     Burton are a couple of gay barbers trying to adjust to the onset of
     old age, but they are both just walking stereotypes.)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - 1971, Great Britain (Bisexual/Gay - Drama: A
     bisexual man carries on an affair with a woman and man at the same
     time, and claims to love them both.)
Taxi zum Klo [Taxi to the Toilet] - 1981, West Germany (Gay - Dramatic
     Autobiography: Escapades of a gay man who wants as much sex as
     he can get, while his lover just wants them both to stay home.)
Taxi to Cairo - 1987, West Germany (Gay - Comedy: Our hero stages a
     marriage to a woman to remain in his mother's will, but he and
     his bride fall in love with the same man.)
This Special Friendship [Les Amities Particuliers] - 1964, France
     (Gay - Drama: A relationship between an older boy and a younger boy
     at a strict Catholic boy's school ends in disaster when the priests
     keep voicing their disapproval with heavy-handed tactics.)
Too Outrageous! - 198?, Canada (Gay Transvestite - Drama, sequel to
     "Outrageous!".)
Two of Us - 1986, Great Britain (Gay - Drama: Made-for-British-TV show
     about two working class teens who become lovers.)
Victim! - 1961, Great Britain (Gay - Drama: A respected barrister gets
     involved with a lonely young drifter and is forced to confront his
     own homosexuality.)
You Are Not Alone [Du Er Ikke Alene] - 1982, Denmark (Gay - Drama: Coming
     of age love story about two adolescent boys in a boys' school.)
Westler: East of the Wall - 1986, Germany (Gay - Drama: A West Berlin
     boy falls in love with an East Berlin boy on a day trip.  The border
     guards start getting suspicious when the West Berliner starts making
     frequent trips, and the boys plan an escape for the East Berliner.)
We Think The World of You - 1988, Great Britain (Gay/Bisexual - Drama:
     In the 1950's, an uptight Londoner is pushed around by his bisexual
     lover's family and wife.)
We Were One Man [Nous Etions un Seul Homme] - 1978, France (Gay - Drama:
     In occupied France during WWII, an escaped mental patient nurses
     a wounded German soldier back to health and they have a highly
     erotic love affair.)
Where the Sun Beats Down - 1989, Portugal (Gay - Drama: A haunting film
     of a young man determined to break the sexual and class taboos
     of his culture, modern day Portugal.  Nuno returns from the city to
     his sister's farm where a relationship develops between him and
     Alberto, a young farm worker, which threatens the stability of Nuno's
     snobbish family.)
Wonderland [The Fruit Machine] - 1988, Great Britain (Gay - Drama: The
     surrealistic adventures of two gay working class teens.)
The Wounded Man [L'Homme Blesse] - 1985, France (Gay - Drama: A teenaged
     boy stops an attack in a toilet, gets passionately kissed by the
     attacker, and discovers that he likes men.)