The title character, a literature professor and longtime T. S. Eliot scholar with a recently developed interest in Beatrix Potter, is a suicidal alcoholic, who loses his wife and his male lover on the same day.
The film follows two best friends in their final year of college while they transition into adulthood. One embraces her sexuality and tries to catch up on everything she has missed during her teenage years, while the other ends a long-term…
The film, a mockumentary that viewers are meant to believe is real, features around real-life screenwriter Taylor. Taylor is solicited by director Heymann to be the subject in a British television documentary series about British writers w…
Biographical documentary, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
Chris & Don tells the story of a romance that began on the beaches of Santa Monica in the 1950s, when Christopher Isherwood at age 48 met Don Bachardy who then was eighteen years old. Isherwood, an established author with works such as The…
LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, drama film
On Myrtle Beach, Frankie works at her family's burger stand run by her older brother Neil. During her off hours, she hangs out with her best friend Nicola, who runs a nearby piercing stand. The dynamic between the girls shifts when her bro…
LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, coming-of-age film
Mangus Spedgewick is a typical high schooler living with his war veteran father, Mangus Sr., and neglectful stepmother, Raquel (Deborah Theaker), in a little town called River City, in Texas. It is a family tradition for the young male Spe…
The film opens with a quote from Virginia Woolf: "For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself". This introduces the viewer to charismatic filmmaker Anna, who is facing a midlife crisi…
Matthew is a young Canadian new to Berlin. He's come to make a fresh start, but feels the isolation of living in a strange new city. He is entranced when he meets Matthias.
Vivianna is making out with ranch hand, Gareth. She receives a call from a man she is having an affair with. The man informs her that he wants to break up with her and that he has informed his wife Alice of his infidelity.
John, an eccentric music teacher, takes in Sebastian, a younger writer—ostensibly to help him, but in truth because he’s attracted to him. When Sebastian begins a serious relationship with a woman, John becomes jealous and starts a fight t…
A young woman, Joey, is in search of direction in her small town. A visit to an Army recruiting office appears to provide a path, but when she meets and falls in love with Rayna, that path diverges in ways that neither woman anticipates.
The film opens in a puppet theater, where three audience members—a military officer, a taxi driver, and a woman on a shopping trip—discover they are being depicted as marionette caricatures against a backdrop of newsreel footage from the 1…
Desi (Desi del Valle) is a young Latina artist living in San Francisco, and is involved in the Latina lesbian scene there. She becomes depressed when her girlfriend leaves her. Efforts by her friends to set her up with various women fail, …
The film centres on the life of Phil, a fun loving student in his final year at British secondary school. He is currently going steady with girlfriend Sharon, whose best friend Vera (an early role for Kathy Burke) just happens to have the …
When Mark—a young gay man addicted to sex and drugs—hits bottom, his concerned brother checks him into a Christian retreat in the New Mexico desert. Run by a compassionate husband and wife team, Gayle and Ted have made it their life's miss…
In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after Jakob claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocence of children would be able to liberate Jerusalem. A monk, returning from Jerusalem, joins the crusade and hears the chi…
The film contains two stories that take place in Sedona, Arizona. One story involves a successful advertising executive named Tammy (Frances Fisher) who, on her birthday, is driving from Portland to Phoenix to land the biggest client of he…