Top 100 Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Film Recommendations (百大同志、變性題材的電影榜單)
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1.
A Single Man (2009)
A story that centers on an English professor who, one year after the sudden death of his partner, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960's Los Angeles. (99 mins.)
Director: Tom Ford
2.
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth. (114 mins.)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
3.
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years. (134 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
4.
Transamerica (2005)
A pre-operative male-to-female transsexual takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York. (103 mins.)
Director: Duncan Tucker
5.
Soldier's Girl (2003 TV Movie)
The true story of a young soldier beaten to death for falling in love with a transgendered nightclub performer. (112 mins.)
Director: Frank Pierson
6.
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
The story of the life of Brandon Teena, a transgendered teen who preferred life in a male identity until it was discovered he was born biologically female. (118 mins.)
Director: Kimberly Peirce
7.
The Color Purple (1985)
The life and trials of a young African American woman. (154 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
8.
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship. (92 mins.)
Director: Richard Eyre
9.
Far from Heaven (2002)
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world. (107 mins.)
Director: Todd Haynes
10.
The Hours (2002)
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. (114 mins.)
Director: Stephen Daldry
11.
Female Perversions (1996)
An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister. (119 mins.)
Director: Susan Streitfeld
12.
Milk (2008)
The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. (128 mins.)
Director: Gus Van Sant
13.
Kinsey (2004)
A look at the life of Alfred Kinsey (Neeson), a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior. (118 mins.)
Director: Bill Condon
14.
De-Lovely (2004)
Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical, composer Cole Porter reviews his life and career with his wife, Linda. (125 mins.)
Director: Irwin Winkler
15.
Gods and Monsters (1998)
The last days of Frankenstein director James Whale are explored. (105 mins.)
Director: Bill Condon
16.
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook. (90 mins.)
Director: John Maybury
17.
Little Ashes (2008)
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca. (112 mins.)
Director: Paul Morrison
18.
Total Eclipse (1995)
The self-destructive relationship between 19th-century teenage French poet Arthur Rimbaud and his older mentor Paul Verlaine. (111 mins.)
Director: Agnieszka Holland
19.
An Englishman in New York (2009)
The later years of Quentin Crisp's life in New York. (75 mins.)
Director: Richard Laxton
20.
Infamous (2006)
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. (110 mins.)
Director: Douglas McGrath
21.
Capote (2005)
Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers. (114 mins.)
Director: Bennett Miller
22.
In Cold Blood (1967)
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity. (134 mins.)
Director: Richard Brooks
23.
Rope (1948)
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime. (80 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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25.
Plata quemada (2000)
Nene & Angel and their accomplice Cuervo participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down. (125 mins.)
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro
26.
Monster (2003)
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer. (109 mins.)
Director: Patty Jenkins
27.
Poison (1991)
Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In "Hero," Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away... (85 mins.)
Director: Todd Haynes
28.
The Living End (1992)
Luke is a gay hustler. Jon is a movie critic. Both are HIV positive. They go on a hedonistic, dangerous journey, their motto "Fuck the world". (92 mins.)
Director: Gregg Araki
29.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus. (125 mins.)
Director: Sidney Lumet
30.
The Deep End (2001)
A woman spirals out of control while trying to keep her son from being found culpable in a murder investigation. (101 mins.)
Director: Scott Mcgehee, David Siegel
31.
Deathtrap (1982)
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script. (116 mins.)
Director: Sidney Lumet
32.
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City. (113 mins.)
Director: John Schlesinger
33.
The History Boys (2006)
An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge. (109 mins.)
Director: Nicholas Hytner
34.
Were the World Mine (2008)
If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping... (95 mins.)
Director: Tom Gustafson
35.
Latter Days (2003)
A promiscuous gay party animal falls for a young Mormon missionary, leading to crisis, cliché, and catastrophe. (107 mins.)
Director: C. Jay Cox
36.
Psycho Beach Party (2000)
Spoof of 1960's Beach Party/Gidget surfing movies mixed with slasher horror films stars Lauren Ambrose as Florence Forrest... (95 mins.)
Director: Robert Lee King
37.
Touch of Pink (2004)
A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit. (91 mins.)
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
38.
Ba wang bie ji (1993)
The story of two men, who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera, and stayed friends for over 50 years. (171 mins.)
Director: Kaige Chen
39.
The Crying Game (1992)
A British soldier is kidnaped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world. (112 mins.)
Director: Neil Jordan
40.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends. (155 mins.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
41.
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found... (120 mins.)
Director: Hector Babenco
42.
The Pillow Book (1996)
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book"... (126 mins.)
Director: Peter Greenaway
43.
Naked Lunch (1991)
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa. (115 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
44.
The Hunger (1983)
The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don't age... (97 mins.)
Director: Tony Scott
45.
Liquid Sky (1982)
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New... (112 mins.)
Director: Slava Tsukerman
46.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. (100 mins.)
Director: Jim Sharman
47.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
A transexual punk rock girl from East Berlin tours the US with her rock band as she tells her life story and follows the ex-boyfriend/bandmate who stole her songs. (95 mins.)
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
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Bent (1997)
Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny... (105 mins.)
Director: Sean Mathias
50.
Fellini - Satyricon (1969)
In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone... (128 mins.)
Director: Federico Fellini
51.
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)
Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture. (116 mins.)
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
52.
Sebastiane (1976)
300 A.D. : the Roman Sebastianus is exiled to a remote outpost populated exclusively by men. Weakened by their desires... (90 mins.)
Director: Paul Humfress, Derek Jarman
53.
Orlando (1992)
Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that... (94 mins.)
Director: Sally Potter
54.
Edward II (1991)
In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elisabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings... (90 mins.)
Director: Derek Jarman
55.
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
In 1984, British newspaper reporter Arthur Stuart is investigating the career of 1970s glam rock star Brian Slade... (124 mins.)
Director: Todd Haynes
56.
Some Like It Hot (1959)
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. (120 mins.)
Director: Billy Wilder
57.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Two drag queens and a transsexual get a cabaret gig in the middle of the desert. (104 mins.)
Director: Stephan Elliott
58.
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town. (109 mins.)
Director: Beeban Kidron
59.
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive". (93 mins.)
Director: John Waters
60.
Desperate Living (1977)
A rich housewife enlists her maid's help to murder her husband; they go on the lam and end up in Mortville, a homeless community built into a garbage dump. (90 mins.)
Director: John Waters
61.
Female Trouble (1974)
A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitchhiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes. (89 mins.)
Director: John Waters
62.
Mysterious Skin (2004)
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth. (105 mins.)
Director: Gregg Araki
63.
L.I.E. (2001)
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man. (97 mins.)
Director: Michael Cuesta
64.
Voor een verloren soldaat (1992)
The story of a romantic relationship between a grown-up and a child. Set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII... (92 mins.)
Director: Roeland Kerbosch
65.
Running with Scissors (2006)
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family. (116 mins.)
Director: Ryan Murphy
66.
Wonder Boys (2000)
An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in. (107 mins.)
Director: Curtis Hanson
67.
Party Monster (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. (98 mins.)
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
68.
The Rules of Attraction (2002)
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate. (110 mins.)
Director: Roger Avary
69.
Threesome (1994)
Eddy and Stuart share two-thirds of a dormitory suite. Due to bureaucratic error, a woman named Alex is added to their room... (93 mins.)
Director: Andrew Fleming
70.
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian. (85 mins.)
Director: Jamie Babbit
71.
Kaboom (2010)
A sci-fi story centered on the sexual awakening of a group of college students. (86 mins.)
Director: Gregg Araki
72.
The Doom Generation (1995)
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together,... (83 mins.)
Director: Gregg Araki
73.
Nowhere (1997)
The third film in a trilogy by writer-director Gregg Araki. Described as "90210 on acid", the film tells the story of a day in the lives of a group of high school kids Los Angeles and the strange lives they lead. (82 mins.)
Director: Gregg Araki
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75.
The Celluloid Closet (1995 Documentary)
A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film. (102 mins.)
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
76.
Paris Is Burning (1990 Documentary)
This is a documentary of 'drag nights' among New York's underclass. Queens are interviewed and observed preparing for and competing in many 'balls'... (71 mins.)
Director: Jennie Livingston
77.
Puccini for Beginners (2006)
A recently-singled New York writer finds herself in two surprising and complicated relationships.
Director: Maria Maggenti
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79.
Hamam (1997)
Francesco and Marta are husband and wife running a small design company in Rome. When Francesco's long forgotten Aunt Anita dies in Istanbul... (94 mins.)
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
80.
Querelle (1982)
French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that... (108 mins.)
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
81.
Lilies - Les feluettes (1996)
1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a québécois prison to hear the confession of a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago... (95 mins.)
Director: John Greyson
82.
A Home at the End of the World (2004)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" comes a story that chronicles a dozen years in... (97 mins.)
Director: Michael Mayer
83.
Another Country (1984)
Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies. (90 mins.)
Director: Marek Kanievska
84.
Gia (1998 TV Movie)
Movie based on the life of Gia Carangi, a top fashion model from the late 1970s. (120 mins.)
Director: Michael Cristofer
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86.
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
C.R.A.Z.Y. Extraordinary lives of ordinary people in search of love and happiness - that's the premise of "C.R.A.Z.Y", a family drama unlike any other.
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
87.
Parting Glances (1986)
As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa... (90 mins.)
Director: Bill Sherwood
88.
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
An ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat. (97 mins.)
Director: Stephen Frears
89.
The Birdcage (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 fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents. (117 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
90.
Beautiful Thing (1996)
In a suburb of London, young Jamie is escaping sport hours, to avoid being the victim of his comrades. Young Ste, his neighbor, is beaten by his father, and comes to sleep overnight. They discover new feelings, sleeping in the same bed. (90 mins.)
Director: Hettie Macdonald
91.
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold... (120 mins.)
Director: Paul Bogart
92.
Longtime Companion (1989)
The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.
Director: Norman René
93.
Angels in America (2003 Mini-Series)
Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.
94.
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way. (104 mins.)
Director: Gus Van Sant
95.
Ang pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (2005)
A 12-year-old gay who comes from a criminal family falls in love with a handsome policeman. (100 mins.)
Director: Auraeus Solito
96.
Ma vie en rose (1997)
Ludovic is a small boy who cross-dresses and generally acts like a girl, talks of marrying his neighbor's... (88 mins.)
Director: Alain Berliner
97.
Jeffrey (1995)
Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He... (92 mins.)
Director: Christopher Ashley
98.
Girls Will Be Girls (2003)
Three actresses at various places on the Hollywood food chain navigate the minefield of love, aging, and ambition. Oh, and they're all played by men! (79 mins.)
Director: Richard Day
99.
Les roseaux sauvages (1994)
In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962. Maite and Francois are 18 years old. They are friends... (110 mins.)
Director: André Téchiné
100.
Maurice (1987)
Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society... (140 mins.)
Director: James Ivory
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