Queer As Folk � Now available in the US!
Stuart has got it all. Rich, drop-dead gorgeous and always the center of attention. Vince is funny, adorable and definitely a babe but, unlike Stuart, he has no confidence in himself. Since time began Vince has carried a torch for Stuart but his love remains firmly unrequited. Then along comes Nathan. Young, wild and coming out with a vengeance, and once he arrives, nothing is ever going to be the same again.

Strangers on a Train
The two-sided DVD edition of this enduring classic includes both the original version of the film and also the longer British print, which offers a more overt depiction of Bruno's homoerotic attraction to Guy by way of his deviously indecent proposal. Based on Patricia Highsmith's first novel, it remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill & delight.

The Talented Mr Ripley
Recalling the visual splendor and fervent characterizations of his award-winning The English Patient, director Minghella's succulent dramatic thriller is one of the best Alfred Hitchcock films not made by the Master of Suspense. Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, this devious exercise in deception is a twisted little tale much like its young hero � handsome trappings masking more sinister intent.

Edge of Seventeen
David Moreton's Edge of Seventeen is a real gem. Set in 1984 in Ohio it follows the coming-out of a naive 17-year-old teenager at exactly the moment when gender-bending pop stars like Boy George were flaunting androgynous images. As the youth goes through his first rites of gay passage (after being callously used by the slightly older boy who brings him out) he emerges as a poignant gay everyman.

Mandragora
Sixteen-year-old Marek leaves his dreary small-town life for the beautiful but treacherous streets of Prague. He quickly is lured by a greasy pimp into selling his body to the many tourists who flock to the city for its cathedrals, castles and tender male flesh. Emboldened by his early appeal, Marek and his handsome streetwise buddy David decide to go into the teen flesh trade themselves.

Rites of Passage
This taut, well-written and acted thriller couched as a family drama delves into one young man's misdirected search for a father figure. Del and his young lawyer son DJ travel to their lakeside cabin to fish and talk. But when they get there, Del's estranged gay son Campbell is unexpectedly there. Father and son have much to discuss but before and emotional scars are healed, two ominous strangers arrive.

Velvet Goldmine
Glam rock superstar Brian Slade marries an intense American but falls in love with fellow rocker Curt Wild. At the height of his fame, he fakes his death. Now ten years later, a former fan/now reporter sets out to uncover the truth and reasons for his self-destruction. What makes the film memorable are the loud fashions, some good acting, high-energy music and intensely druggy images.

Relax... It's Just Sex! is a surprisingly layered comedy that takes some serious and compelling emotional turns. It didn't get much of a release in theaters, perhaps because it's a sympathetic, realistic portrayal of gay men and lesbians, including some graphic sex.

Lilies
One of the most impressive and beautifully crafted gay films ever made. An elderly bishop arrives to hear a dying prisoner's confession; he soon finds himself captive, forced to confront his shameful past and the prisoner with whom he shares it. With him as their only audience, Simon, convicted of killing his lover as a youth, directs his fellow inmates in a play that reenacts the events of forty years past.

trick
Gabriel is talented, dedicated and ambitious, but he needs some excitement in his life, so he tries out a local cruise bar, where he briefly exchanges looks with go-go boy Mark, the male ideal in a red thong. Thus begins an all-night odyssey that finds Mark and Gabriel bouncing all over downtown Manhattan as fate, friends and misunderstandings conspire to keep them from consummating their passion.

Get Real
One of the breakaway gay movie hits of 1999, a sharply observed coming-of-age story infused with charm, humor, emotion and a knowing sense of the difficulties of being a gay teen. Steven is 16-years-old, living with his parents. Despite his youth, Steven knows that he is gay. Life changes for the soft-spoken teen when he locks eyes on his school's strappingly handsome super-jock John.

Body Without Soul
This controversial film provides a disturbing 'slap in the face' for all us happy homosexuals in the West. An unflinching portrait of life on the post-Soviet streets of Prague where young men find it all too easy to pick up extra money as porno models and hustlers. Director Wicktor Grodecki insinuates his camera into the hidden pain of a group of such young prostitutes and interviews one of the top Czech porn producers.

Total Eclipse
Really bad film about the gay love affair between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine. Well intentioned and based on fact, but just awful. The only reason to get this film is to watch Leo in the nude.