LGBT Movies

Of these, I've only seen "Brokeback Mountain." I was expecting it to be great, but it was just good. I probably shouldn't complain.

"Strangers at the Lake?" I plugged it in to a search engine and got "Stranger by the Lake," which I have heard about. It's a French thriller, right? I watched the tense trailer, it gets good write-ups, and it's on my list.

I saw "Battle of the Sexes" while on vacation. The ad was on the side of a city bus so I went to a matinee. I liked it more than I thought I would. The casting really worked. I've watched it twice.

This is going further back. I saw "Far from Heaven" with a friend. It's that common situation where a clean cut married company man has to own up to his sexual desires for men. It has Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore. It's good. There isn't that much character development of it building up to this for Dennis Quaid. The weird part is that he meets a guy roughly his own age in a bar and takes him back to his office one evening. But at the end of the movie, he's shown phoning his ex (Julianne Moore) and he's got a fresh faced late teen in the hotel room with him on vacation. My friend leaned over and said, "I give it 6 months." I said, "Four." When we came across people in unlikely match-ups that didn't look like they would work at all, we'd say "FFH!"

 

There are lots of LGBT characters! It’s a brilliant show, I’ve loved it right from the beginning, and even though parts of it are quite grim, it’s very enjoyable.

 

Just wondering why this thread is not active anymore.
There are lots good LGBTQ movies - if you have Roku, look at the categories on the free Tubi channel. It inlcudes LGBTQ moives.
A few good ones I have seen:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Sublime
Salute!
Cicada
Summer of 85
Boy Meets Boy

One of my most favorite movies, though not gay themed - Stand By Me

 

who's here after watching heartstopper season 3?

 

Loved it, especially Nick and Charlie's story across episodes 1-4.

 

Stranger by the Lake is a superb film, a thriller that explores body image in gay culture, in this case, a cruising spot. Occasionally someone has clothes on but not often, and a lot is happening in the bushes, so advised for mature audiences.

 

This is a great list... nice to have a go to list. There are some very good ones out there.
One of my all time favorites is a 2004 Canadian film: "A Home at the End of the World." A more recent surprise was "The Whale." Both made me cry,

 

YESS!! I saw so much of myself through Charlie's storyline especially. While I've never gotten therapy, I have struggled a lot with body dysmorphia and anxiety. This season was done so well.

 

How do you mean about body image? The message I got from the short clip is that the troublemaker was considered so hot that a few people would put themselves at risk to be with him. I don't know if the film is retro but the hot guy character who only had a mustache for facial hair looked like a throwback to the stereotype of a '70s porn star! I still haven't watched it.

I have heard "The Whale" is very difficult to watch even though it's very good. A woman I know "accidentally" went to see it with her elderly religious mother who was made uncomfortable by the content.

 

i watched Stranger by the Lake last night. i like different movies that make me feel and am not put off by the tears or discomfort some may bring, i seek that kind of movie out. i'm bored by so much of the American stuff that relies on explosions and special effects and has the same old tired story plot.
lol, i had exactly the same response and thoughts about the character with the mustache... but then, the movie is French, and also goes against the grain in other ways. i liked it, definitely different. The ending leaves you hanging, a kind of fun emotional manipulation that i think fits with the film The movie is graphic and does an excellent job portraying a 'typical' cruising site (also maybe a throwback from the current online era?).

The Whale was a total surprise to me, i had no idea the protagonist was a gay person and his sexuality was central to the movie. i thought it was excellent, and it would definitely rattle some types of religious people, that is also a central theme. i will say my familiarity with that sort of religion endorses the great and accurate job the film does depicting that type of belief system. The ending was just as surprising to me as the whole film, sort of magical. i liked the movie a great deal.

 

For me, the full film comes across differently. I've always considered the stranger as being the older overweight guy who can't bring himself to join what would otherwise be his community, and the reticence of the other guys to hook up with the hot guy being more the 'out of my league' syndrome you can see at any cruising site. The danger is real though for the main character who knows about the murder, so there is a balancing act between the danger and the potential reward. I must go see it again and see how it comes across on second viewing!

 

"Stranger by the Lake" is said to have a Hitchcock style. That's what I read. I also wonder about how it ends.

As for finding people in apps, I shake my head. That seems more risky - going into a private abode with someone you don't know, but this seems to be standard today.

Oh, I knew about the gist of "The Whale" based on someone I know going to see it who just thought it was a drama about a troubled overweight person and then got to see the unexpected.

It's moving up on my to do list.

There are other movies out. I stumbled onto one preview for "The Summer with Carmen." Carmen is a small dog that the main character gets saddled with. It's Greek and it has subtitles.

There's the normal preview and then I saw one that was very revealing. It takes place at the nude beach near Athens, and it seems the main character is always on display. So it has a lot of nudity.

I thought the main character was at least 40. He's barely 34. I showed the preview to a friend who said that he's a "muscle bear." The LGBT community has labels for everyone!



His name is Yorgos Tsiantoulas. He could clean up that beard. He is on social media in full force.