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The Best British LGBTQ Films to Stream Right Now
What is it about our corner of the world which evokes something so… specific and full of yearning in affectionate stories? Perhaps because we find it hard to recognize what to tell to one another at the finest of times: mumbling in country houses, longing stares in a grimy club, tense words in rainy fields. Combine an LGBTQ lens, and those feelings are exacerbated – shot through with shame, restriction, tenderness, and camp. These are our foremost picks for the best British LGBTQ films that you can stream right now.
Weekend
My favourite subcategory of film are those in which two people meet for a brief period of time and it derails the course of their love lives forever: In the Mood for Love, Before Sunrise, Roman Holiday. This lowkey motion picture, directed by Andrew Haigh, radiates that same sense of magic and difficulty. Russell (Tom Cullen) and Glen (Chris New) meet at a gay club in Nottingham on a Friday night: they hook up, then keep hanging out that weekend, developing a connection which is threatened by their differing attitudes, histories, and one of the couple’s pesky advance to the US. Weekend is talky (the conversations about sex ar
Spoilers!
Just to give this film its gay creds right off the bat, there's a scene in which Oliver Speedy (Barry Keoghan) espies Felix (Jacob Elordi), masturbating in the bath. When Felix leaves their joint bathroom, Oliver, watching the moisture (and other stuff) drain, bends down and drinks some of the spunk-enhanced bath water. It's a unique scene in a movie that could have been a contender -- but isn't quite.
Saltburnhas been called Brideshead Revisitedmeets The Talented Mr. Ripley, and that's accurate, up to a point. Working class scholarship scholar Oliver arrives at Oxford in 2006 and encounters aristocratic Felix. Very much the outsider, Oliver has no friends except for a quite mad maths genius, whose outburst in the dining hall at the start of the film lets us comprehend that madness lies this way. After a number of encounters with Felix Catton, Oliver is invited to Saltburn, the Catton estate. We meet the eccentric inhabitants of Saltburn, beginning with Paul Rhys as Duncan the butler. Rhys, one of the great British actors (I saw him play Uncle Vanya on stage), seems to be channelling Bela Lugosi in Night Mon
10 Best LGBTQ Movies Place In The UK
If you’re looking for a motion picture that highlights what it means to be both British and gay, watch no further than the list below.
This selection contains ten of the top LGBTQ films that hold been made in the UK.
Have we missed a movie that you believe deserves a place on this list? Let us know in the comments below.
Weekend (2011)
Director Andrew Haigh knows how to draw on our heartstrings. His most recent film, the devastating All of Us Strangers (see below) was a deeply emotional meditation on impairment and grief with its tale of a same-sex attracted man haunted by memories of a lost girlfriend. Weekend is just as moving, though this time around, the men at the centre of the tale haven’t yet parted.
Russell (Tom Cullen) and Glen (Chris New) meet at a gay nightclub in Nottingham. They hook up for what is ostensibly a one-night stand. However, their encounter turns out to be something far more than a night of meaningless sex. As the two get to understand one another, intimately and otherwise, they form an intense connection with one another over the course of one weekend.
In a rom-com, this would be the beginning of a happily-ever-after story. But th
10 great British homosexual films
Few countries can rival the UK when it comes to making superb and diverse same-sex attracted films. This may come as a surprise from a country where male homosexuality was illegal until as recently as 1967, and where gay marriage continues to ruffle right-wingers, swivel-eyed or otherwise. Yet despite their often taboo nature, films with gay characters hold been around since the silent era.
So what key British lgbtq+ films are out there? We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable state must go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969), a swinging slice of the 60s that hinted at interracial homosexuality. And if you like Vicious (millions seem to), you may get a perverse kick out of Staircase (1969), a dreadful vehicle for Richard Burton and Rex Harrison as two ageing queens in a perpetual state of mutual- and self-loathing.
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