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Bright Young Things (2003)

Summary: An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies", is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.

Release Date: October 03, 2003

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director: Stephen Fry

Writers: Stephen Fry

, Evelyn Waugh

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Film Consortium, UK Film Council, Visionview Production, Doubting Hall Limited

Distributor: New Line Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 933,637

International: $ 1,971,862

Howl (2010)

Summary: As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.

Release Date: August 27, 2010

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Directors: Rob Epstein

Writers: Rob Epstein

, Allen Ginsberg

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Werc Werk Works, Telling Pictures, RabbitBandini Productions, Radiant Cool

Distributor: Oscilloscope, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 617,334

International: $ 997,476

Swearnet (2014)

Summary: Fed up with being censored in their post-Trailer Park Boys lives, the out of work stars/world-renowned 'swearists', Mike Smith, Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay decide to start their own uncensored network on the internet.

Release Date: September 12, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Director: Warren P. Sonoda

Writers: Mike Smith

, John Paul Tremblay

, Robb Wells

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Swearnet

Country: Canada

Language: English

Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversion (1995)

Summary: Neurosia is the autobiography of the director Rosa von Praunheim. The movie begins with Rosa presenting his autobiography in a movie theater. Before the film begins, he is shot. But - his body gets lost. A female journalist from a...

Release Date: November 02, 1995

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Rosa von Praunheim

Writers: Valentin Passoni

, Rosa von Praunheim

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion

Country: Germany

Language: German

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

Summary: Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.

Release Date: February 26, 2021

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Lee Daniels

Writers: Suzan-Lori Parks

, Johann Hari

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lee Daniels Entertainment, New Slate Ventures, Roth/Kirschenbaum Films, Sierra / Affinity

Distributor: Hulu

Country: United States

Language: English

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The Celluloid Closet (1995)

Summary: A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.

Release Date: March 15, 1996

Genres: Documentary, History

Directors: Rob Epstein

Writers: Vito Russo

, Rob Epstein

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Home Box Office (HBO), Channel 4, ZDF/Arte

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,400,591

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Sing Your Song (2011)

Summary: Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.

Release Date: April 14, 2012

Genres: Music, Documentary, Biography

Director: Susanne Rostock

Writer: Susanne Rostock

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Thought Engine Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 47,718

International: $ 17,592

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Onward (2020)

Summary: Teenage elf brothers Ian and Barley embark on a magical quest to spend one more day with their late father. Like any good adventure, their journey is filled with cryptic maps, impossible obstacles and unimaginable discoveries.

Release Date: January 07, 2020

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Director: Dan Scanlon

Writers: Dan Scanlon

, Keith Bunin

, Jason Headley

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios

Distributor: Disney+

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 175,000,000

Domestic: $ 61,555,145

International: $ 80,384,897

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Beefcake (1998)

Summary: This film looks at the 1950's muscle men's magazines and the representative industry that were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still underground homosexual c...

Release Date: June 30, 2000

Genre: Drama

Director: Thom Fitzgerald

Writers: Thom Fitzgerald

, Valentine Hooven

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

Production: Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution, Emotion Pictures, Channel Four Films, Odeon Films, Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, Téléfilm Canada

Countries: Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy

Language: English

Domestic: $ 276,259

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Outrage (2009)

Summary: An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the U.S.

Release Date: April 24, 2009

Genre: Documentary

Director: Kirby Dick

Writers: Kirby Dick

, Amy Ziering

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Chain Camera Pictures, Red Envelope Entertainment, Sundance Institute, Tectonic Theater Project, Tic Tonic

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 287,198

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Kids in America (2005)

Summary: A diverse group of high school students band together to peacefully stick it to their overbearing principal.

Release Date: October 21, 2005

Genre: Comedy

Director: Josh Stolberg

Writers: Andrew Shaifer

, Josh Stolberg

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Kids in America LLC, RH Factor

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Domestic: $ 537,667

Divine Trash (1998)

Summary: The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his parents, his brother, Divine's mom, actors ...

Release Date: January 18, 1998

Genre: Documentary

Director: Steve Yeager

Writers: Kevin Heffernan

, Steve Yeager

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Divine Trash, Stratosphere, Stratosphere

Distributor: Fox Lorber, WinStar Cinema

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 39,842

V for Vendetta (2005)

Summary: In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.

Release Date: March 17, 2006

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: James McTeigue

Writers: Lilly Wachowski

, Lana Wachowski

, David Lloyd

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Virtual Studios, Silver Pictures, Anarchos Productions, Studio Babelsberg, DC Comics

Distributor: Warner Bros., FX Network, HBO Max, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 54,000,000

Domestic: $ 70,511,035

International: $ 64,175,422

Lonesome Cowboys (1968)

Summary: Five lonesome cowboys get all hot & bothered at home en the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

Release Date: May 12, 1971

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Directors: Andy Warhol

, Paul Morrissey

Writer: Paul Morrissey

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: X

Production: Andy Warhol Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 91,299

I, the Worst of All (1990)

Summary: This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself as an important New World philosopher, p...

Release Date: November 24, 1995

Genre: Drama

Director: María Luisa Bemberg

Writers: María Luisa Bemberg

, Antonio Larreta

, Octavio Paz

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: GEA Cinematográfica, Gea Cinematografica

Distributor: First Run Features

Country: Argentina

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 52,148

Better Than Chocolate (1999)

Summary: Maggie, 19, works at a lesbian/LGBT bookstore. Her mom's getting divorced and has invited herself to stay with Maggie. Maggie hasn't told her, she's lesbian. Her new girlfriend moves in as well.

Release Date: August 13, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Anne Wheeler

Writers: Peggy Thompson

, Walter Donohue

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: British Columbia Film, CITY-TV, Government of British Columbia Film Incentive BC Program, Rave Film, Rogers Telefund, The Harold Greenberg Fund, The Movie Network (TMN), Téléfilm Canada, WIC Entertainment

Distributor: Trimark Home Video, Trimark Pictures

Country: Canada

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,015,406

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

Summary: When Stan Marsh and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame.

Release Date: June 30, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Animation

Director: Trey Parker

Writers: Trey Parker

, Matt Stone

, Pam Brady

Runtime: 1 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Production: Scott Rudin Productions, South Park Studios, Comedy Central, Canal+ España, MFP Munich Film Partners GmbH & Company I. Produktions KG, Televisión Española (TVE), Will Vinton Studios

Distributor: CBS, Comedy Central, Paramount Home Entertainment, Pluto TV, Tubi TV, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 21,000,000

Domestic: $ 52,037,603

International: $ 31,100,261

Bamboozled (2000)

Summary: A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.

Release Date: October 20, 2000

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Spike Lee

Writer: Spike Lee

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Line Cinema, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

Distributor: New Line Cinema, New Line Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,274,979

International: $ 188,671