A young Israeli man visits a drag bar in search of sexual expression in Amos Guttman's short film.

Young Jonathan moves to the city, but can’t find happiness. He meets the older Thomas, who recently returned from years abroad and is hiding the fact he’s been diagnosed with AIDS. The two develop a tender relationship, yet only one of them knows that their time together is about to run out.

A middle-aged museum guard locks eyes with a sexy young visitor, igniting a series of fantastical tableaux that wittily riff on race, sexual power dynamics, art history, gold lamé briefs, and Tom of Finland.

Feature-film debut by Irma Achten about a woman who tries to escape the social straitjacket of her time. The rebellious Belle van Levert, daughter of a textile magnate, hates everything involved with money and power. Her greatest desire is to be a poet. When she breaks with her parents, she is forced to take a job leaving her little time for poetry.

A cat's inquisitive look interferes with the pleasurable sensations of a boy while masturbating.

AIDS, angels, faith, and the Holocaust come together as a man cares for his lover.

Mixing lively testimonials from unforgettable women at the forefront of mid-century lesbian bar culture with scripted segments that take the Hollywood melodrama in provocative (and sexually explicit) new directions, Forbidden Love is an eye-opening cultural history.

We spend a week in the L.A. offices where the daytime TV show The Love Judge is written and produced. Jo, the show's large and loud producer, announces she is leaving the show in two weeks.

A slow motion sky is blotted out by a deep black helicopter that chases a woman off the screen. A coin spins in deep space. A hand grabs. It's hard to breathe. Peace is exploded. One struggle disintegrates into another as a relationship shatters and blows the home to bits.

Ifé follows a day in the life of a black French lesbian in San Francisco. Ifé loves women but vows never to fall in love. As she extols the beauty of women in San Francisco, she slowly cruises the city's streets in her classic car.

With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant's debut feature Mala Noche heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime...

Can homosexuality be cured? From exorcisms to shock therapy, from Homosexuals Anonymous to beauty make-overs for lesbians, many have tried. Filmmakers Teodoro Maniaci and Francine Rzeznik pose serious questions about who's asking gay men and lesbians to change and why. 

This collage of found film footage, assembles porn movie, children's instructional film, sports coverage and '50s Hollywood musicals to construct an investigation of gay men's differing attitudes towards the female body.

The fall of the Wall wakes West Berlin up from a deep post-punk slumber, in which at least part of the alternative scene had submerged itself like in a vulture’s nest, right next to the Wall. Deprived of this “protection,” the subculture has to reorient itself: a haunting snapshot of an anarchist-gay reality...

Highlighting safe sex and kink in dyke pornography, Safe Is Desire follows couple Allie and Dion’s lusty trip to an all-lesbian San Francisco sex club.

Acclaimed Israeli director Amos Guttman's first short film explores a high school boy’s struggle with his emerging gay identity.

A look at the attitudes toward gays and lesbians in Brazil as seen in interviews with the director's family.

In the 1993 feature-length documentary To My Women Friends, revealing interviews with six Russian lesbians convey the joys and hardships of having been a lesbian in the former Soviet Union.

Based on the tragically short life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer, a trans man who navigates a difficult upbringing in an orphanage before finding love with a young librarian.