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🌈 Gay/Queer Cinema – This is queer cinema off the radar — rare, uncut, and HD restored films that mainstream history ignored, erased, or never dared to screen. From underground erotica to raw explorations of identity, desire, and rebellion, these long-lost reels reclaim space and visibility in all their sleazy glory. Unapologetically bold. Historically vital. Only on Grindhouse Cinema.
Directed by: Lasse Nielsen, Ernst Johansen
Stars: Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg, Ove Sprogøe, Elin Reimer
A student strike at a Danish boys school is the backdrop of YOU ARE NOT ALONE. The leisurely paced tale explores the relationship between 14 year-old Bo and Kim,11, the younger son of the stern boarding school headmaster. Mounting school tensions over the expulsion of a troubled student…
Directed by: Arnaldo Jabor
Stars: Paulo Porto, Darlene Glória, Elza Gomes, Paulo César Peréio, Isabel Ribeiro, Henriqueta Brieba
Herculan is a Puritan man and has a traditional family. He had only had one woman in his life and promised his son Serginho, while his wife was in agony, that he would never have another woman. His brother, Patrício, on the other hand, lives at the expense…
Directed by: Eloy de la Iglesia
Stars: José Luis Manzano, Isela Vega, Verónica Castro
A gang of juvenile delinquents lead by a fifteen-year-old boy named ‘Jaro’ wrecks havoc in Madrid, Spain. A middle-aged woman takes a liking to Jaro and tries to care for him, but Jaro is on a path of self-destruction.
Directed by: Richard Stockton
The sordid life of a young bisexual man “forced” into male prostitution. Surly sadsack J.C. (dolefully portrayed by mopey, muscular slab of beefcake David Calder), a lonely, laconic, emotionally void bisexual drifter with a deep-seated dread of commitment, ekes out a meager existence sexually servicing both men and…
Directed by: Catherine Breillat
Stars: Dominique Laffin, Bertrand Bonvoisin, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Joe Dallesandro
Solange is a filmmaker. She is married and a mother. She enjoys occasional sex with her husband but also feels drawn towards a bisexual actor named Jim. This doesn't prevent her from taking other lovers - sometimes as many as two or three in one night. Solange is…
Directed by: Nicholas Barker
Stars: Aimee Copp, Michael De Stefano, Brenda Monte, Mikey Russo, Heather Feeney, Susan G. Keller, Ronnie Marmo
The private hell of four single New Yorkers made public for your viewing pleasure. A black comedy about vanity and lust in contemporary America. In the middle of the sexual jungle of New York’s singles’ world, two men and two women try to achieve their dreams. Nicholas Barker…
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot, Verónica Forqué, Kiti Mánver, Cecilia Roth
In Madrid, the housewife Gloria lives in a tiny apartment with her husband, the taxi driver and forger Antonio; her lunatic mother-in-law, who is addicted in bottled water and cupcakes; and two teenage sons, one of them a drug dealer and the other gay. Gloria works as cleaning…
Directed by: John Amero, Lem Amero
Stars: Uta Erickson, Darcy Brown, Chuck Federico, Lydia Burns, Patricia Kleb, Roberta Scardera, Pat Agers, Larue Watts, Roberta Findlay
Follows a young woman as she travels through the strange, surreal passages reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno. What a delightfully odd and surprising entry in sexploitation features of the era. It's more than a little interested in surreal fantasy imagery, homoeroticism (not a big surprise perhaps given that the…
Directed by: François Ozon
Stars: Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier, Predrag Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche
After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost - much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, they chance upon a dilapidated…
Directed by: Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple
Stars: John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Stephanie Lane, Sevilla Delofski, Ruth Halliday, Nicola Swain, Marianne McLoughlin, Valérie Allain
10 short pieces directed by 10 different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
Directed by: Larry Clark
Stars: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, Sarah Henderson
Summer, New York City, 1995. With his entire existence pivoting around drugs, skateboarding, and his repugnant theory about sex, swaggering 17-year-old layabout Telly lives like there's no tomorrow. Now, a wide-eyed 12-year-old virgin has agreed to have sex with him. But the smooth-talking Casanova is unaware that, in…
Directed by: Michael Kalmen
Stars: Kreemah Ritz, Michael Bendle, Bobby Cameron, The Cockettes, Pristine Condition, Miss Harlow
Inspired by the writings of Karl Marx, the female staff of a seedy San Francisco hotel revolt against the management to protest low wages and squalid working conditions.
Directed by: David Buckley
Stars: Robert Aberdeen, Ellen Sheppard, Don Scotti, Steve Ostrow, Jane Olivor
A musician from Montana finds work and other things at The Continental Baths in New York City, 1974. This film is of historic importance in gay culture. First, it was filmed at the Continental Baths. Second, it was one of the first films exploring this aspect of gay…
Directed by: Robert Thom
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Jordan Christopher, Holly Near, Lou Rawls, Charles Aidman, Davey Davison
The overweight debutante daughter of the world's wealthiest couple falls in with a gang of tripped out, skydiving pseudo-reactionary pop stars, who take their beliefs of the American ideal to profoundly impossible heights.
Directed by: Paul Morrissey
Stars: Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn
This film is a satire of the women's liberation movement, staring a trio of female impersonators. Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society. And Holly is a nymphomaniac…
Directed by: Gerard Damiano
Stars: Tallie Cochrane, Mona Liza, Miky DeMaris, Carol Barr, Mary Philips, Marty Adler, Rita Vance, Al Goldstein, Kim Pope, Suzzan Landau
While sex is the raison d'etre for this film, there are extremely valuable segments featuring Mary Philips of N.O.W and gay activist/magazine publisher Arthur Irving. Mary's comments especially are perceptive and indisputable, still relevant 40 years later. But it is pornography and obscenity that dominate Gerard Damiano's consciousness,…
Directed by: Martin Walz
Stars: Udo Samel, Peter Lohmeyer, Iris Berben, Leonard Lansink, Evelyn Künneke, Hella von Sinnen, Meret Becker
The plot takes place in New York, and in the present. In a Hotel called "Quicky" a professor blackmails a student of his into having sex with him. But when the professor puts on a condom, the carnivorous condom bites off his penis and disappears. Detective Mackaroni who…
Directed by: Alain Payet
Stars: Corinne Lemoine, Marie-Christine Guennec, Richard Bigotini, Stéphane Saratoga, Pamela Stanford
A young woman loses her job and finds money on the nightstand after a one nighter which is her introduction into prostitution. This hardcore effort from France is a real head turner. This one could best be boiled down as a roughie, but it's far more complicated than…
Directed by: Dino Risi
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Sylva Koscina, Véronique Vendell, Umberto D'Orsi, Daniela Giordano
The film consists of seven episodes. The first: actress Sylva Koscina helps an injured man. In the hospital, doctors and nurses get distracted by the diva and forget about the poor man. The second: a madman, tried for violence against a hen, gets away with the attenuation of…
Directed by: Bruce Kessler
Stars: Kevin Coughlin, Brooke Bundy, Lawrence P. Casey, Jo Ann Harris, Michael Greer
"The Gay Deceivers" is definitely an odd movie for its time, as in 1969, gay-themed films were certainly NOT mainstream. Now by today's standards the film is ridiculously campy and stereotypical, but it was still a very bold departure for its time. The film begins with two friends…
