Seventy Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967)
From The Bride of Frankenstein to Reflections in a Golden Eye, here are 68 Queer Films made under the watchful gaze of the Hays Code.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 13, 2025 | Featured, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV
From The Bride of Frankenstein to Reflections in a Golden Eye, here are 68 Queer Films made under the watchful gaze of the Hays Code.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 22, 2024 | Featured, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV
The death of the Hays Code and the rise of the New Hollywood saw an explosion of Queer Cinema from Jason to Taxi zum klo.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Mar 22, 2024 | Queer Film, Queer Film/TV
Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Charles Laughton, and Laurence Harvey were all known to be gay. Their adoring public may have felt there was something!!
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Apr 3, 2024 | Queer Film, Queer Film/TV
The early seventies saw the blending of Queer Cinema and the New German Cinema thanks to the genius of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 12, 2025 | B-, Film Reviews, MUBI, New Releases - Film, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
After a while, though, you begin to feel beaten down by the sheer refinement of it all. The perfectly framed, perfectly edited tableaux. The exquisite, sparingly used music score. The subtle, to the point of being abstruse, performances of the stars
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 31, 2025 | B+, Film Reviews, New Releases - Film, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television
The story unfolds, in real time, almost entirely within the confines of Sardi’s bar in New York, where Hart spends the evening grappling with his fading relevance, alcoholism, homosexuality and mental health struggles.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 12, 2025 | A+, Film Reviews, New Releases - Film, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television
Our heroine suffers through the most hideous body sculpting indignities, heaped on her by the effete and sadistic proto-plastic surgeon, Dr. Esthetique.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 12, 2025 | Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, New Releases - Film, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television
Director Michael Pearce moves with visceral precision and Julianne Moore shows us, yet again, what a magnificent actress she can be.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 23, 2024 | A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Criterion Collection, Documentary, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Queer TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
After its release, the film’s high campness – a tragic story set in the faded milieu of New York high society – developed a significant gay following.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 8, 2023 | 2023, A, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Oldroyd pulls out all the stops and the three actresses complement one another so perfectly that we end up savoring 2023’s best scene.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 26, 2023 | 2023, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Criterion Collection, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television
Pálmason, his cinematographer (Maria von Hausswolff), and his composer (Alex Zhang Hungtai) evoke colonial memories reminiscent of films like “Black Robe”.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 6, 2023 | 2023, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, MUBI, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
“How to Have Sex” follows three teenage girls on vacation in Greece. Mia McKenna-Bruce delivers a heartbreaking performance as Tara. One of 2023’s best.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 21, 2023 | 2023, B+, Film Reviews, Netflix, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
Leaving out vast chunks of the great conductor’s life, Cooper gives a vain impersonation of a vain man while Carey Mulligan takes the acting honors.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Sep 28, 2022 | 2023, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Doug Stanhope is “The Road Dog” of the title in writer/director Greg Glienna’s inspired blend of the road movie and stand-up comedy.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 1, 2023 | 2023, A, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
Fennell’s writing and directing are brilliantly inventive, with humor, tragedy, and horror mixing perfectly. She gets immense support from her cinematographer, Linus Sandgren, whose work here is truly breathtaking.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Min, playing a dislikeable character, manages to make Ben, if not exactly likable, then certainly sympathetic. Both Sherry Cola and Debby Ryan are superb.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 16, 2023 | 2023, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Laporte is tremendous in portraying a complex character who appears to have an “escape” but really doesn’t. It’s a heartbreaking performance.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 21, 2022 | 2022, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Beautifully Queer friendly, the relationship between Bee (Maria Bakalova) and Sophiie (Amanda Stenberg) is the emotional center of the movie.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 6, 2022 | 2022, A, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
And Henry gives a tour de force performance that matches his spine-tingling monologue in “If Beale Street Could Talk”. Like Lawrence he is one of the all-time greats.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 23, 2022 | 2022, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Aamu Milonoff is exceptionally good, giving a beautifully grounded yet magical performance. The kind that makes you sit up and take notice.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 28, 2021 | 2021, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
I left “Flee” with that “floating-on-air feeling” that you get after seeing something special. After seeing a masterpiece.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 9, 2022 | 2021, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, MUBI, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Meise directs what must be some of the most beautiful and heartfelt scenes ever captured on film between two men in love.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Apr 9, 2022 | 2021, Amazon, Apple TV+, B, Film Reviews, HBOMAX, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
Finally, a toast, amid all this great food, to four extraordinarily talented actresses: Sennott, Draper, Gordon, and Argon.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | 2020, A-, Film Reviews, Netflix, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
Ignacio de la Torre was the son in law of Mexico’s president for life and dictator Porfirio Díaz’s. But he was leading a double life with his lover Evaristo.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Apr 14, 2023 | 2010s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Beanpole” conveys, beautifully, the ability of human beings to find moments of intimacy and even love under the most horrific of circumstances.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 11, 2022 | 90s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, YouTube
“Ripley”, Minghella’s masterpiece, boasts Matt Damon’s best performance plus stunning turns by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jude Law.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 28, 2025 | 90s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Bridget Fonda does a fabulous Lesley Gore (thinly disguised) in Alison Anders’ 1996 movie “Grace of My Heart”
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 25, 2025 | 80s, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Thanks to Ralph D. Bode’s cinematography and Pino Donaggio’s haunting score, it is both a visual and an aural feast.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 24, 2025 | 80s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B-, Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Streaming, YouTube
Actor Paul McCrane’s token gay character, Montgomery, stood out as an honest and moving portrayal of a shy, talented young man.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 26, 2025 | 80s, Amazon, Apple TV+, F, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, YouTube
Gay men in New York protested the making of this movie, and they were right. It boasts not a single redeeming feature. Exploitation, anyone?
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