Brutally abused by his parents, teenage Thomas finds comfort in associating with a film director who is making a documentary about physical child abuse.

Subject of the film: see title. Just that the "acting" takes place beyond the screen. The camera concentrates solely on the face of a young man, who, supposedly, is enjoying himself. The screen becomes — as Jonas Mekas has put it once — the mirror for the viewer.

An unfashionably joyous celebration of safe sex (group masturbation parties) and affection (fondling in public places) among gay men.

School teacher Philipp finds himself distracted from his colorless romance with colleague Tanja by the attention of a teen he meets in a concert ticket line. An East German gay classic.

A tremendous, handmade monument to lives lost to AIDS, the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt demonstrated that grief and activism together could forge a powerful symbol of resilience.

The first lesbian lovemaking film made by a lesbian, Dyketactics reveals Hammer’s aesthetic connecting sight and touch. 110 images in 4 minutes make this sensate film a "lesbian commercial."

Earrings given as a gift end up in posession of the wrong person, which causes many misunderstandings.

An inquiry into what is pornographic. This film features images form Jean Genet's masterpiece, Un chant d'amour, along with images from gay male sex films in order to question what is "pornographic."

Set on a steam-shrouded railway station and shot in high-contrast black and white, Richard Kwietniowski's film lovingly twists David Lean's stiff-upper-lipped romance Brief Encounter into a rich and witty contemporary melodrama, with two devilishly handsome young men standing in for Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

National Gay Freedom Day marches in June 1977 are vibrantly captured across the country in this groundbreaking historical documentary.

A collaborative effort between some of queer cinema’s juggernauts — including future Oscar winner Rob Epstein, Frances Reid, Greta Schiller, Lucy Winer, Jan Oxenberg, and Barbara Hammer — captures the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979, largely unseen until its restoration last year.

This rapid-montage music video for John Sex’s song “Hustle with My Muscle” portrays the singer as a ladies’ man with ample endowment to share. “Can you handle all the man below my belt?” he provocatively asks.

A woman who is disillusioned with the world moves across town to move into shared accommodation with a house full of women. It is there that she meets Kate, someone who shares her despair, and on a night of torrential flooding they make some surprising discoveries about themselves.

Combining Rubnitz’s skillful manipulation of the familiar “look” of TV shows with an extraordinary range of characters, performer Ann Magnuson convincingly impersonates the array of female types seen on TV in a typical broadcast day.

Merida proscrita is a dramatic, sepia-toned love story set in Mexico, with a distinctive scratchy, operatic style. It is a moving account of two lovers and their relationship difficulties caused by machismo and fixed roles.

My Hustler consists of two extended conversations, first as a Fire Island host (the outrageously camp Ed Hood) contemplates the recumbent figure of the beach Adonis (Paul America) he has hired for the weekend, and then as the newcomer learns a few tricks of the trade from an older colleague (Joe Campbell).

A woman is home for her mother's funeral when the unexpected appearance of two runaways forces her to confront repressed desires.

Adapted from Jeanette Winterson's acclaimed novel, this BAFTA-winning drama is the story of a young girl discovering her sexuality against a backdrop of religious fervour and small-town prejudice.

Between 1987 and 1989, director Jennie Livingston documented the lives of gay and trans performers, mostly black or Latino, who compete in New York City’s balls and dream of achieving celebrity status...

If Pink Narcissus were remade for the nineties, here's what it would look like: sexier, more self-conscious, a riper kind of camp. Pink Ulysses is a patchwork of ideas and heavenly bodies, gingerly held together by the thread of Ulysses' 20-year-Iong return from Troy.

New German Cinema wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 swan-song, a fever-dream adaptation of Jean Genet’s classic 1947 novel of existential homoeroticism, stars hairy-chested Brad Davis as the titular sailor caught up in dangerous games of sadomasochistic seduction in a French port town teeming with lustful lads and phallic architecture.

The seminal documentary on Black gay life, Emmy Award-winning director Marlon T. Riggs’ Tongues Untied uses poetry, personal testimony, rap, and performance (featuring poet Essex Hemphill and others), to describe the homophobia and racism that confront Black gay men.

An interpretation of the life and work of Konstantin Kavafy, a poet who lived in Alexandria in the 19th century. His work imaginatively combines motifs from Greek history with eroticism.

Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.