TotalFilm.com's 50 Best Gay Films

[PreTTy PeTe]

Annoying as it is to keep clicking through 50 films......

I agree with the first post what about "Torch Song Trilogy"

 

[freefall]

I didn't see some of my favourite: Torch Song Trilogy, Longtime Companion, An Early Frost, and Priest.
And I have a feeling many other influential GLBT movies didn't make the list either --'
Btw, can The Rocky Horror Picture Show be included in GLBT cinema?

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

I didn't see some of my favourite: Torch Song Trilogy, Longtime Companion, An Early Frost, and Priest.
And I have a feeling many other influential GLBT movies didn't make the list either --'
Btw, can The Rocky Horror Picture Show be included in GLBT cinema?

omg I forgot about Longtime Companion. Great movie.....so sad.

 

[statsguy]

Totalfilm's list

1. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
2. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
3. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
4. Weekend (2011)
5. A Single Man (2009)
6. Bound (1996)
7. Milk (2008)
8. Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
9. Monster (2003)
10. Philadelphia (1993)
11. The Kids Are All Right (2010)
12. Beautiful Thing (1996)
13. Water Lilies (2007)
14. Shortbus (2006)
15. My Own Private Idaho (1991)
16. The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (1994)
17. Mysterious Skin (2004)
18. The Boys In The Band (1970)
19. The Crying Game (1992)
20. Bent (1997)
21. Show Me Love (1998)
22. High Art (1998)
23. Transamerica (2005)
24. Maurice (1987)
25. The Colour Purple (1985)
26. Tomboy (2011)
27. Your Sister’s Sister (2012)
28. But I'm A Cheerleader (1999)
29. Patrik 1.5 (2008)
30. Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
31. My Summer Of Love (2004)
32. Gods And Monsters (1998)
33. The Wedding Banquet (1993)
34. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
35. The Celluloid Closet (1995)
36. Prayers For Bobby (2009)
37. All Over Me (1997)
38. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
39. Female Trouble (1974)
40. The Hours (2002)
41. D.E.B.S. (2004)
42. Latter Days (2003)
43. L.I.E. (2001)
44. Go Fish (1994)
45. The Birdcage (1996)
46. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
47. She-Monkeys (2011)
48. Loose Canons (2010)
49. When Night Is Falling (1995)
50. Shelter (2007)

I didn't see some of my favourite: Torch Song Trilogy, Longtime Companion, An Early Frost, and Priest.
And I have a feeling many other influential GLBT movies didn't make the list either --'
Btw, can The Rocky Horror Picture Show be included in GLBT cinema?

I have no complaints about what was included in the list, but the absence of the four that you list, especially Longtime companion and Torch Song, is disappointing.

 

[ChickenGuy]

I may have seen very few of these, but know enough that Brokeback Mountain is NOT the 'best' gay film by any stretch of the imagination. It's completely overrated and no amount of hyped-up hysteria is going to make it into this supposedly outstanding movie that people seem to want to desperately make it. It's average, and that's all it is.

Of the ones I've seen I think A Single Man was very good, but is as much about coping with grief as it is about homosexuality.

I really liked Mulholland Dr too, but that isn't really a gay film, more of a wonderfully crazy psychological mind-bender in true David Lynch style.

 

[freefall]

^IMO, watching Brokeback Mountain is akin to seeing a gay version of an over-dramatised soap opera. Hissing - not in a good way.

 

[Ellybelly909]

I love lists like this and although it's not perfect, it certainly can stir up a good debate, which might be the purpose of lists anyway. I totally agree that Torch Song Trilogy and Longtime Companion should be included, take out Mulholland Drive and She Monkeys. I'd like to see a list just of gay movies with men, as there were to many lesbian movies for my tastes...oh well.

 

[sixthson]

^IMO, watching Brokeback Mountain is akin to seeing a gay version of an over-dramatised soap opera. Hissing - not in a good way.

I think the movie is only popular because the actors. Without them, it is mediocre, at best.

 

[TheFireGod]

Ugh at the #1 ranked movie, at least my favorite is at #2.

 

[vacancy3]

no East Side Story or Green Plaid Shirt?......D.E.B.S......really?

 

[freefall]

I think the movie is only popular because the actors. Without them, it is mediocre, at best.

QTF. I tried reading the novel/short story (only about 50 pages thick). I wasted three minutes of my life.

 

[Scealle]

No Trick (1999)? I think latter days should rank a bit front though. I haven't watched some of the listed movies yet.

 

[vacancy3]

No Trick (1999)? I think latter days should rank a bit front though. I haven't watched some of the listed movies yet.

i almost forgot about that one....shame on me...pitoc and campbells chemistry is amazing....so is jps package while stripping

 

[quasar]

As many have mentioned, there are some notable omissions. I think that if you take into account that TotalFilms is a 'mainstream' organisation, and that the 'tagline' to the list is "The most glorious, groundbreaking gay and lesbian films", then the list makes a little more sense (from a Joe Average perspective).

 

[the8thdocter]

i think brokeback mountain is up there because of the amount of straight women who went to see it, i remember the hype about it, never seen it myself....

 

[austinschwarner]

ever seen Dream Boy?

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

How about "Outrageous" starring the late great Craig Russell

 

[Just_Believe18]

I think the list could have been more efficient if it focused on the Top 50 gay men films. A separate list for lesbian films would have best served both lists.

A lot of the films were confusingly out of place or omitted from most of the list, although I was generally pleased by most of the Top 10.