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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young woman falls in love with her new roommate even though he is gay and loves her purely as a friend. When she becomes pregnant, she realizes she would rather raise her child with him than with her boyfriend, a decision that forces the threesome to explore the fine line between love, sex, and friendship
2) Conversion
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A psychologist practicing conversion therapy has a chance encounter with a young gay activist, resulting in a change of heart
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For as long as they can recall, Grace and Frankie have been rivals. Their one-upmanship comes crashing to a halt, however, when they learn that their husbands have fallen in love with each other and want to get married. As everything around the ladies is coming apart, the only thing they can really rely on is each other
4) The whale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption
5) Supernova
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them
6) Straight up
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that's all talk and no sex
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio, a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver, a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives...
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Franky Winter and Ballas Kohl have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life, until the night of Franky's epic seventeenth birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. It is a heartfelt and intimate coming -of -age story about friendship, self-discovery and the power of...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells the story of his life to renowned journalist Daniel Molloy. Beginning in 1910 New Orleans, Louis forms a vampire family with the vampire Lestat, complete with teen fledgling, Claudia
12) Love is strange
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
After nearly four decades together, Ben and George finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job, the couple must sell their apartment and temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. George moves in with two cops who live down stairs while Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew, his wife, and their teenage son. While struggling with the pain of separation, they are challenged...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Based on true love, this decades spanning romance begins in Mexico between an aspiring chef and a teacher. Their lives restart in incredible ways as societal pressure propels them to embark on a treacherous journey to NYC with dreams, hopes, and memories in tow
14) Boy erased
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader and begins his journey to finding...
15) The birdcage
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013], c1996
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down
16) The normal heart
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This drama tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
18) Moonlight
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami
19) The miniaturist
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A woman moves to live with her new husband and his sister in seventeenth century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Based on a true story, this decades-spanning romance begins in Mexico between an aspiring chef and a teacher. Their lives restart in incredible ways as societal pressure propels them to embark on a treacherous journey to NYC with dreams, hopes, and memories in tow
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