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Bangkok Love Story

Actors: Chatcha Rujinanon, Waradip Srimalai, Chaiwat Tongsang, Rattaballung Toesawat
ASIN : B001A94CSQ
Sales Rank : 9559
Director : Poj Arnon
Studio : TLA
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0807839003536
UPC : 807839003536
Release Date : December 26, 2008
Publisher : TLA
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Running Time : 90

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Steamy Thai nights provide the backdrop for unbridled romance, crime and action as two men unexpectedly brave forbidden love. Maek, a cold assassin-for-hire, is sent to knock off Iht, a police informant, when in a twist of fate the killer is shot for refusing to pull the trigger. After making their escape, an indelible bond is forged when the vulnerable assassin is nursed back to health by handsome, married Iht. But as taboo feelings of desire swell between the swarthy new lovers, their relationship is discovered. Now there s no turning back as enemies, friends and lovers are pitted against each other.

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Deathtrap

Actors: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones
ASIN : B00000JGHT
Sales Rank : 20510
Director : Sidney Lumet
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0085391125624
UPC : 085391125624
Release Date : December 27, 1999
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
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Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 116

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Ira Levin's cat-and-mouse Broadway suspense smash about a playwright's deadly game of murder gets diabolically comic screen treatment.

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Man (Christopher Reeve) writes play. Older washed-up hack (the blissfully hammy Michael Caine) covets play. A meeting is arranged in a remote cabin festooned with various sharp objects. To reveal anything more would serve to ruin one of the most wondrously convoluted plots of the '80s and '90s. It's a cerebrum-bending romp from start to finish, with marvelously airtight plotting that simultaneously parodies and honors its genre, and two vibrant, continuously morphing lead performances (pity poor Dyan Cannon's weak-link wife, though, who gets stuck with the shrillest character and worst dialogue of the lot). Based on Ira Levin's long-running play, this adaptation's rhythm is thrown off a bit by director Sidney Lumet's somewhat misguided attempts to open it up for the screen, but the script and performers are so playfully adept that, as one of the characters says, "even a gifted director (which Lumet most certainly is, based on evidence such as Dog Day Afternoon and Network) couldn't hurt it." Delirious, nasty fun that's twistier than a corkscrew and loaded with enough red herrings to keep Flipper fed for a year. --Andrew Wright

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Desert Hearts (Two-Disc Vintage Collection)

Actors: Andra Akers, Dean Butler, Patricia Charbonneau, Denise Crosby, Katie La Bourdette
ASIN : B000OVLC0W
Sales Rank : 4574
Director : Donna Deitch
Brand : DESERT HEARTS - 2-DISC COLLECTOR'S EDITI (DVD
Studio : Wolfe Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0754703762832
UPC : 754703762832
Release Date : December 05, 2007
Publisher : Wolfe Video
Manufacturer : Wolfe Video
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Running Time : 94

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At 35 years of age literature professor Vivian Bell heads out to Reno for a quickie divorce. But when she gets to Nevada where she has to wait until her papers come through a whole new world opens up to Vivian when avowed lesbian Cay Rivers openly begins to seduce her. Vivian at first resists Cay's overtures but as time goes on she is forced to admit her attraction.But as Vivian's days in Nevada come to a close she faces a quandary: can she actually bring this randy cowgirl into her stodgy intellectually elite New York life? Or will she have to give up the best love she's ever experienced?Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 754703762832 Manufacturer No: WOL4436D

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When college professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno in 1959 to get a quickie divorce, the last thing on her mind is romance. A prim intellectual, crippled by a sterile marriage ("We're a professional couple") and hiding behind her education, she moves into a ranch belonging to Frances Parker (Audra Lindley) and tries to keep to herself. But Parker's beautiful, sassy tomboy of a stepdaughter proves to be quite a distraction, and a love affair slowly blossoms. Cay (Patricia Charbonneau) refuses to be bound by convention or by expectations of how a nice girl should behave, and her devil-may-care attitude both attracts and terrifies the nervous professor.

Shaver is terrific as Vivian, and the slow thawing of her character is beautifully paced--you can feel the tension break when she finally lets down her guard. Another strong performance comes from Audra Lindley as Frances. She's a tough old bird with a drinking problem, but Lindley keeps the character from descending into stereotype, and she gives full rein to the tragic side of this lonely woman, especially as she struggles with her reaction to the developing relationship between Cay and Vivian.

There are scenes in Desert Hearts that would be painfully clichéd if they appeared in a heterosexual romance, and even here they only just escape that fate--relying a little too much on significant glances and lines that just don't sound like real conversation. Nevertheless, first-time director Deitch breathes new life into a standard straight-arrow-meets-free-spirit plot, and steadfastly refuses to turn this love story into an "issues movie." Add to that a strong feel for the period and a soundtrack filled with the likes of Patsy Cline and Gene Vincent, and the result is a warm, well-acted film that packs a real emotional punch. --Simon Leake

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Bent

Actors: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Mick Jagger
ASIN : B00008R9KB
Sales Rank : 22123
Director : Sean Mathias
Brand : TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792855750
ISBN : 0792855752
UPC : 027616884725
Release Date : December 03, 2003
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
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Running Time : 104

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Renowned British stage director Sean Mathias directs Martin Sherman's "powerful and provocative" (The New York Times) screenplay about one man's struggle to maintain his dignity while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Featuring exceptional performances by Lothaire Bluteau (Black Robe), Clive Owen (Gosford Park), Brian Webber, Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings: TheFellowship of the Ring) and Mick Jagger, Bent will "grab filmgoers by the heart" (Rex Reed)! Max (Owen) is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Pursued and captured, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewishbecause in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a forbidden relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.

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Bent debuted onstage in 1979 with Ian McKellen starring in the London production and Richard Gere in its later Broadway version. The film version is adapted by the playwright, Martin Sherman, and closely follows his play's story of two gay concentration camp victims who are sent to Dachau and who fall in love, using their relationship as an emotional crutch in their efforts to rebuff the horror of the Holocaust. Max (Clive Owen), would rather wear a yellow star and proclaim himself a Jew than be lanced with the pink triangle that designates homosexuality. Horst, (Lothaire Bluteau) chastises him for his homophobia. Later the tables turn on Max, who finds--through Horst--the strength both to keep alive indefinitely and to ultimately embrace his sexual identity.

Initially set in a war-ravaged Berlin, Bent is directed by Sean Mathias, who first directed Jude Law in Indiscretions, and he has crafted a film that reminds one of Ian McKellen's Richard III with its spare, stylized, and stark world bombed into rubble and chic theatrical disarray. There are many poignant as well as harrowing scenes, and the result is a somber work that stands as a reminder that intolerance cannot overtake individualism and love. While Bent received an NC-17 rating for depicting Berlin's decadent, anything-goes-for-a-price nightlife, MGM opted not to edit out the tone-setting prelude and pushed to preserve the film's integrity despite a rating that is itself a kind of death for any film that bears it. --Paula Nechak

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Further Tales of the City.

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Paul Hopkins, Laura Linney, Barbara Garrick, Jackie Burroughs
ASIN : B00006FDBN
Sales Rank : 17176
Director : Pierre Gang
Brand : DUKAKIS,OLYMPIA
Studio : Showtime Ent.
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781931669641
ISBN : 1931669643
UPC : 758445201727
Release Date : December 17, 2002
Publisher : Showtime Ent.
Manufacturer : Showtime Ent.
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Running Time : 323

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ARMISTEAD MAUPIN’S FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY is the third installment of Maupin’s classic saga of San Francisco life. Set in 1981, the four-hour miniseries involves the residents of 28 Barbary Lane in a racy and rollicking adventure/mystery that leaps from Golden Gate Park to the home of a Hollywood icon to a remote island in the Alaskan wilderness. As usual in Maupin’s world, romantic entanglements abound. Landlady Anna Madrigal (OLYMPIA DUKAKIS) is stunned by her mother’s sudden arrival. Mother Mucca (JACKIE BURROUGHS) who runs a bordello in Nevada is in town to take care of personal business and meets a man from her past, Royal Reichenbach (JOHN MCMARTIN). When Mother Mucca introduces Anna to Royal, they find themselves in a rivalry over him. Madrigal’s tenants have their own stories from the past to unravel. Michael Tolliver (PAUL HOPKINS) is working at a nursery called "Best Laid Plants." He tries to get over being dumped by his former lover Dr. Jon Fielding (BILLY CAMPBELL) who went off to work on a cruise ship.

Exploring his sexuality full tilt, Michael embarks on a series of sexual escapades involving cowboys, cops and Cage Tyler (JOHN ROBINSON) a closeted movie star. Michael's friend and neighbor Mary Ann Singleton (LAURA LINNEY) is challenged with a relationship problem of a different kind. Her boyfriend and upstairs neighbor, Brian Hawkins (WHIP HUBLEY) who has spent most of his adult life as a womanizer, comes to the realization that he wants to marry her. She, however, is hesitant to take the next step as she is focused on her career. Longing to become a serious reporter, but not given a chance by her station manager, she is forced to work as a daytime host of the "Bargain Matinee" show. Mary Ann’s late boss’ widow, socialite Frannie Halcyon (DIANA LEBLANC) is tormented by her daughter DeDe’s (BARBARA GARRICK) apparent demise in the Jonestown Massacre. Living on Mai Tais and sleeping pills, she refuses to accept that DeDe and her children, Little Anna and Edgar were killed. She seeks advice from psychics to help her find her missing daughter. When a fortune-teller convinces her that DeDe is indeed alive, she asks for the support of society columnist Prue Giroux (MARY KAY PLACE) to make her story public. When Prue refuses to get involved, Frannie calls Mary Ann to share her secret. Since Mary Ann is always searching for a good story, she is eager to meet in hopes of finally getting a break on the evening news.

Meanwhile, Prue meets a mysterious homeless man, Luke (HENRY CZERNY) in Golden Gate Park. Immediately drawn to his intense charm, she falls madly in love with him. Little does she know that she’s opening Pandora’s Box when she attempts to bring him back to society with the help of flamboyant celebrity priest Father Paddy Star (BRUCE MCCULLOCH). Luke’s past is far more sinister than Prue could ever imagine. Then it’s revealed that DeDe Halcyon Day has spent three years in Cuba with her lover Dorothea (FRANÇOISE ROBERTSON) after escaping the massacre in Guyana. She ends up in a camp for gay Cuban refugees in Fort Chafee, Arkansas and finally calls her mother Frannie in San Francisco to tell her that she wants to come home. Through DeDe’s unexpected reappearance and a twist of fate, the storylines begin to intertwine and all of the characters in Maupin’s tales find themselves in the midst of an unpredictable adventure.

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Fellini - Satyricon

Actors: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone, Mario Romagnoli
ASIN : B000059H9C
Sales Rank : 9942
Director : Federico Fellini
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792849384
ISBN : 0792849388
UPC : 027616860408
Release Date : December 10, 2001
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
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Running Time : 128

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Encolpius is a Roman student who begins by arguing with his friend Ascyltus over the affections of androgynous youth Giton. Ascyltus wins, whereupon Encolpius embarks upon an odyssey, partaking in a drunken orgy and being kidnapped by a bisexual sea captain and his concubine. Encolpius eventually rejoins Ascyltus to visit a suicidal Roman couple, join in a plot to kidnap a "sacred" hermaphrodite, and much more. Loosely based on the book "Satyricon" by Gaius Petronius, the "Arbiter of Elegance" in the court of Nero, Federico Fellini wrote and directed this tongue-in-cheek hymn to the "glories" of pagan times via a bizarre journey through the decadence and debauchery of Nero's Rome.

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Trippy is as trippy does, even when you're talking about a movie set in ancient Rome. This 1969 Fellini opus was among the most visually arresting entries in a year when the psychedelic experience was trying to claw its way into every movie coming down the pike. But Fellini, in telling a negligible story about two young men tasting the various pleasures of Nero's hedonistic and priapic reign, aimed for images that jarred as well as seduced. He found humor in freakishness, contrasting beauty and ugliness while effortlessly passing judgment on the emptiness of a life devoted to sensation and personal freedom. More of a fever dream than a linear story, Fellini Satyricon crystallized the director's reputation as a visionary--but may have trapped him into spending the rest of his career (with the exception of Amarcord) trying to top himself in reaching new levels of outrageousness. --Marshall Fine

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XXy

Actors: Ricardo DarÃƒÂn, German Palacios, Jean Pierre Reguerraz, Ines Efron, Martin Piroyanski
ASIN : B001BMN35K
Sales Rank : 11136
Director : Lucia Puenzo
Studio : Film Movement
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0616892965022
UPC : 616892965022
Release Date : December 14, 2008
Publisher : Film Movement
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Label : Film Movement
Running Time : 91

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For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15 year-old Alex (Ines Efron,) who was born an intersex child (with both male and female genitalia). As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit at their house on the gorgeous Uruguayan shore, along with their 16-year-old son Álvaro (Martin Piroyanski.) Alex is immediately attracted to the young man, which adds yet another level of complexity to her personal search for identity, and forces both families to face their worst fears. WINNER Critics Week Grand Prize & Golden Rail Award, Cannes Film Festival WINNER Golden Athena Award for Best Fillm, Athens Int l Film Festival WINNER New Director s Award, Edinburgh Int l Film Festival WINNER Association of Quebec s Cinema Critics Prizem, Festival Nouveau Cinema Montreal WINNER Three Castle Awards, Castellinaria Int l Youth Film Festival WINNER Youth Council Award, Valladolid Int l Film Festival WINNER Best Feature Film, Festival de Cinéma des 3 Amériques WINNER Quebec Film Critics Award, Montreal Festival of New Cinema WINNER Pink Peach LGBT Award, Atlanta Film Festival WINNER Audience Award for Best Feature Film, Frameline Film Festival WINNER Audience Award for Best Feature Film, Out Film Connecticut WINNER Best Feature, Reel Pride Film Festival WINNER Grand Jury Award for Outstanding International Dramatic Feature, Outfest Film Festival WINNER Best Screenplay, Providence Latino Film Festival WINNER Audience Award for Best Feature Film, Inside Out, Ottawa LGBT Film Festival WINNER Audience Award for Best Foreign Film, Pittsburgh Int l Lesbian and Gay Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION Argentina s entry for Best Foreign Film at the 2008 Academy Awards OFFICIAL SELECTION Best Film in Spanish at the Spanish Goya Awards (Spanish Oscars) OFFICIAL SELECTION Toronto Int l Film Festival, Munich Int l Film Festival, Reykjavik Int l Film Festival, Jerusalem Int l Film Festival, Cairo Int l Film Festival, Bangkok Int l Film Festival, Hong Kong Gay & Lesbian Int l Film Festival, Auteur Int l Film Festival (Belgrade), Bratislava Int l Film Festival, Black Nights Int l Film Festival (Tallinn), Tokyo Latin Film Festival, Ljubljana Int l Film Festival, Tapei Golden Horse Int l Film Festival, Cairo Int l Film Festival; Kerala Int l Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival,Santa Barbara Int l Film Festival, Portland Int l Film Festival, Miami Int l Film Festival, New Directors/New Films Festival

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Were the World Mine

Actors: Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, Judy McLane, Nathaniel David Becker, Zelda Willaims
ASIN : B001O0Z82U
Sales Rank : 10378
Director : Tom Gustafson
Studio : WOLFE VIDEO
Region Code : 1
Format : NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0754703763235
UPC : 754703763235
Release Date : December 26, 2009
Publisher : WOLFE VIDEO
Manufacturer : WOLFE VIDEO
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Label : WOLFE VIDEO
Running Time : 95

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Armed with a magical love potion and empowered by dazzling musical fantasies, struggling teen Timothy (dreamy Tanner Cohen, As the World Turns) turns his narrow-minded town gay and captures Jonathon (buff Nathaniel David Becker), the rugby jock of his dreams.

Also starring Wendy Robie (Twin Peaks), Broadway star Judy McLane (Mamma Mia), Zelda Willaims (House of D and daughter of Robin Williams), and Jill Larson (Opal on All My Children), Were the World Mine uses vibrant imagery, a first-rate cast, and innovative music to push modern gay cinema and musical film beyond expectation.

Director/writer/producer Tom Gustafson brings us his feature directorial debut in Were The World Mine. This critically acclaimed, multi-award winning film about the truth of love was inspired by his award-winning musical short Fairies, which has screened in over 75 International film festivals.

" It made my heart soar." - indieWIRE

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Longtime Companion

Actors: Stephen Caffrey, Patrick Cassidy, Brian Cousins, Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott
ASIN : B000053VAW
Sales Rank : 8380
Director : Norman René
Brand : TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792848141
ISBN : 0792848144
UPC : 027616857705
Release Date : December 23, 2001
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
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Running Time : 100

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Hailed as the first mainstream film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic, Longtime Companion is a "remarkable" (Newsweek) drama that takes an honest, unflinching look at how this devastating disease changes everyone it touches. "Intelligent, unflinching and unpatronizing" (Boxoffice), and starring a "terrific ensemble cast" (Time), including OscarÂ(r) nominee* and Golden Globe winner** Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Dermot Mulroney and Mary-Louise Parker,this heartrending yet triumphant film "is an illuminating, deeply moving experience" (Los Angeles Times). During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterious "gay cancer" soon turns into a major crisis as, one by one, some of the friends begin to fall ill, leaving the others to panic about who will be next. As death takes its toll, the lives of these friends are forever redefinedby an unconditional display, of love, hope and courage. *1990: Supporting Actor, Longtime Companion **1990: Supporting Actor, Longtime Companion

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The late director Norman Rene and writer Craig Lucas made a pretty fine creative team on the stage and in the movies, and this 1990 drama about the evolving impact of AIDS on gay New Yorkers is their best cinematic achievement. The ensemble story follows the lives of nine or so characters as word of the so-called "gay cancer" eventually becomes a real force, killing several of them as the years go by. The film works well on a number of levels, not least of which is the enviable closeness of the characters, the script's wit, the bittersweet experience of loss, and a celebratory attitude at the end mixing wisdom with defiance. --Tom Keogh

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Bangkok Love Story

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Deathtrap

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Desert Hearts (Two-Disc Vintage Collection)

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Bent

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Further Tales of the City.

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XXy

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Longtime Companion

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