Flicking through the movies on Netflix searching for something Gay to watch? Here is our run down of the LGBT choice on the streaming service.
by Newsdesk | 20th May 2013
** denotes TheGayUK top rated movies.
50 Ways Of Saying Fabulous
Starring: Andrew Patterson Harriet Beattie Jay Collins Georgia McNeil
Director: Stewart Main
Date: 2005
Confined by his surroundings in rural New Zealand, 12-year-old outcast Billy creates a wild imaginary life as blonde TV star Lana. But everything changes when two new outsiders arrive in town.
Beyond Therapy
Starring: Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Christopher Guest
Director: Robert Altman
Date: 1987
Director Robert Altman offers the tale of bisexual Bruce who, tired of his lover, Bob, places a personal ad and meets Prudence at a French restaurant, resulting in a terrible date with unintended consequences.
**The Birdcage
Starring: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart
Director: Mike Nichols
Date: 1996
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
Starring: Sam Wagstaff Patti Smith Robert Mapplethorpe
Director: James Crump
Date: 2007
Punk poetess Patti Smith reflects on the relationship she shared with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and curator-collector Sam Wagstaff in the heady years of the 1970s and '80s New York art scene
Boy Culture
Starring: Derek Magyar, George Jonson, Patrick Bauchau, Darryl Stephens, Peyton Hinson, Jonathon Trent
Director: Q. Allan Brocka
Date: 2006
Rating: 15
A male prostitute with the enigmatic name of X carefully avoids personal intimacy and affection, maintaining his stoic approach until one of his regular customers tempts him to reconsider his position by sharing a meaningful story.
Chasing Amy
Starring: Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Ethan Suplee, Scott Mosier, Jason Lee, Casey Affleck, Dwight Ewell
Director: Kevin Smith
Date: 1997
After comic book artist Holden (Ben Affleck) falls in love with the perfect woman, Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), he discovers she is a lesbian in this comedy from writer-director Kevin Smith. With no help from his friend, Banky (Jason Lee), Holden tries to make a relationship with Alyssa work. Although Holden knows Alyssa cares deeply about him, her homosexual past may conspire to come between them and ruin everything.
Fingersmith
Starring: Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins, Imelda Staunton, Rupert Evans
Director: Aisling Walsh
Date: 2005
TV Series
Dark deeds and intrigue abound when petty thief Sue Trinder helps con man Richard Rivers defraud a wealthy heiress, Maud Lilly, of her inheritance. But Sue's plans are thwarted when she falls in love with Maud.
Flirting With Disaster
Starring: Ben Stiller Patricia Arquette Téa Leoni Mary Tyler Moore George Segal
Director: David O. Russel
Date: 1996
In this comedy of errors, soon-to-be father Mel Coplin sets out to find his birth parents, accompanied by his wife and sexy female adoption agent. Their quest becomes even more anarchic once drug dealers and a pair of gay FBI agents get involved.
For The Bible Tells Me So
Starring: Imogene Robinson, Victor Robinson, Gene Robinson, Isabella ‘Boo’ McDaniel, Brenda Poteat, David Poteat, Tonia Poteat
Director: Daniel G. Karslake
Date: 2007
Director Daniel G. Karslake goes to the Bible to examine the ways in which conservative Christian groups have used -- and sometimes exploited -- scripture to deny human rights to gays and lesbians around the world.
Fried Green Tomatoes
Starring: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary Louise Parker
Director: Jon Avnet
Date: 1991
In this adaptation of Fanny Flagg's novel, flashbacks reveal the remarkable and mysterious story of soul mates Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker), whose antics cause an uproar in their rural Southern town during the 1920s
The Hours
Starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Claire Danes
Director: Stephen Daldry
Date: 2002
This gripping drama follows the parallel lives of three 20th-century women: incomparable writer Virginia Woolf, an unsatisfied 1950s housewife and a modern-day book editor who's losing her former lover to AIDS.
The Incredibly True Adventure Of 2 Girls in Love
Starring: Laurel Holloman, Nicole Ari Parker, Maggie Moore, Kate Stafford, Sabrina Artel, Toby Poser
Director: Maria Maggenti
Date: 1995
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
Lianna
Starring: Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries, Jo Henderson, Jessica Macdonald, Jesse Soloman
Director: John Sayles
Date: 1983
Sayles drama follows the title character's changing world when she becomes fed up with her marriage to her oppressive, cheating husband and begins a homosexual affair with Ruth, her night school professor. But Lianna's joy at finding a new life and love soon disintegrates as the people around her start to treat her differently. Forced to find a new apartment, job and friends, Lianna finds that with freedom also comes loneliness.
Little Ashes
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltran, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell, Bruno Oro
Director: Paul Morrison
Date: 2008
This evocative film explores the relationship between two of the 20th century's most notable Spanish artists: poet Federico García Lorca and surrealist Salvador Dalí. Along with filmmaker Luis Buñuel, they take the country by storm.
Little White Lies
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoit Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Jean Dujardin, Laurent Lafitte, Valerie Bonneton, Pascale Arbillot
Director: Guillaume Canet
Date: 2010
When Max and Vero's friend is seriously injured in an accident, they choose to go ahead with a planned birthday celebration at their beach house -- an event that usually draws a convivial and happy crowd of friends
Longhorns
Starring: Jacob Newton, Derek Efrain Villanueva. Dylan Vox, Kevin Held, Stephen Matzke, Bonnie Marion
Director: David Lewis
Date: 2011
Rated: 18
In this homage to '80s-style raunchy teen sex comedies, a straight Texas frat boy decides to do something about the erotic gay fantasies he's been indulging and sets his sights on hooking up with an openly gay man on campus.
This Is What Love in Action Looks Like
Starring: Zach Stark
Director: Morgan Jon Fox
Date: 2011
This emotional documentary follows the experience of a gay youth who is sent by his parents to a Christian-backed camp in order to be turned straight.
**Milk
Starring: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco
Director: Gus Van Sant
Date: 2008
Rating: 15
Sean Penn stars in this biopic about Harvey Milk, the openly gay activist and San Francisco politician who was murdered along with Mayor George Moscone by disgruntled city supervisor Dan White in 1978.
The Mudge Boy
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Richard Jenkins, Tom Guiry, Pablo Schreiber, Zachary Knighton, Ryan Donowho
Director: Michael Burke
Date: 2003
When 14-year-old Duncan Mudge's mother dies unexpectedly, he takes a bizarre interest in her clothing and starts to speak in her voice. Alienated from his impassive father, Duncan develops an unlikely bond with a volatile bully that leads to trouble.
**Mysterious Skin
Starring: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Chase Ellison, George Webster, Rachel Nastassja Kraft
Director: Greg Araki
Date: 2004
Gregg Araki's riveting drama, based on a novel by Scott Heim, brings together two unlikely heroes: a young man who works as a prostitute and another who's convinced he was once abducted by aliens. But it seems they have unspeakable tragedy in common.
The Naked Civil Servant
Starring: John Hurt John Rhys-Davies Roger Lloyd-Pack Stephen Johnstone
Director: Jack Gold
Date: 1975
John Hurt collected a Best Actor BAFTA for his flawless portrayal of gay icon Quentin Crisp, a flamboyant performer and pop-culture personality who railed against the rigid social mores of pre-World War II Britain, where homosexuality was illegal.
The Opposite Of Sex
Starring: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, William Lee Scott, Ivan Sergei
Director: Don Ross
Date: 1998
A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
**Party Monster
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Wilson Cruz, Seth Green, Diana Scarwid, Chloe Sevigny, Marilyn Manson
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Date: 2003
This is the true story of Michael Alig, a Club Kid party organizer whose life was sent spiraling down when he bragged on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate.
** Philadelphia
Starring: Tom Hanks Denzel Washington Jason Robards Mary Steenburgen Antonio Banderas
Director: Jonathan Demme
Date: 1993
In this heartfelt drama, Philadelphia attorney Andrew Beckett launches a wrongful termination suit against the hand that feeds him when his law firm finds out about his HIV-positive status -- and his homosexuality -- and fires him.
Trash
Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Geri Miller, Michael Sklar, Andrea Feldman
Director: Paul Morrissey
Date: 1970
The movie follows Joe (Dallesandro), a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend (Woodlawn).
During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
The Truth About Jane
Starring: Stockard Channing, Ellen Muth, Kelly Rowan, Jenny O’Hara, James Naughton, Alicia Lagano
Director: Lee Rose
Date: 2000
Janice and her 15-year-old daughter Jane have a typical mother-child relationship and get along well, until Jane falls in love with the new girl at school. Janice has trouble accepting that Jane's gay, and their relationship could be broken forever.
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