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Rope may be known to most as Hchck's experimental attempt to shoot an entire film what appears to be a sgle shot, but 's also the filmmaker’s gayt. The classic psychologil thriller is about a gay uple who murrs a man, then throws a dner party g the ad body's tnk as the buffet — que lerally "be gay, do crime, " Hchck-style. Of urse, this was 1948, and that queerns is all subtext, but roars to the surface thanks to gay screenwrer Arthur Lrents's script and performanc by s notably gay leads, Farley Granger who plays Phillip Man wh an anx flamboyance, and John Dall, whose Brandon Shaw embodi a more rerved, posh queerns.
Often dubbed the gay Thelma & Louise, Gregg Araki's The Livg End follows the reckls road trip of two HIV-posive, anti-tablishment gay men who go on the n after killg a homophobic p. It's love at first sight, as they say, and th begs a sweet love story between Rachel, who's only ever dated men, and Luce, an openly gay florist the most '00s lbian wardrobe you've ever seen.
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This 1969 Japane New Wave film f avant-gar edg wh meta-documentary style filmmakg and non-lear storytellg to follow Eddie (played by androgyno cis actor Peter), a trans woman who works as a hosts as a gay bar — the l between trans and gay inty are msy at bt, given when this was ma. God's Own Country (2017)Sometim gay romance dramas are tenr, and sometim they're jt super hot. Set on a farm the Yorkshire untrysi, Francis Lee's film trac the lonely and paed day-to-day life of Johnny (Josh O'Connor), a young gay man who buri his anger at his father wh bge drkg and anonymo hookups.
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In this 1935 film that marks the first llaboratn between Hollywood gay ins Hepburn, Grant, and director Gee Cor, Hepburn plays Sylvia, the meek dghter of a bookkeeper who disguis herself as a boy to help her father flee gamblg bts. For Octavia, they're jt a person who drs like a du wh du ways, while to Tiffany, means rryg a femme-aggrsive attu and actg more like a gay guy.