1. Lance Loves Michael: The Lance Bass Wedding
On February 5, 2015, Lance Bass and Michael Turchin made television history when their wedding, which took place Dec. 20, 2014, premiered on E!. LANCE LOVES MICHAEL — a 90-minute special — follows the couple from the early stages of planning right up to their vows on the altar.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
2. Trap Diary (Diario di tonnara)
From the book by the same name by Ninni Ravazza, "Diario di Tonnara" tells the story of the towns, villages, communities and adventures that dictate the daily lives of the tuna fishermen in Italy.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
3. Strictly Confidential Confessions of Men (Strictly Confidential Confessions of Men)
Men having sex with men. MSM refers to any man who has sex with a man, whether he identifies as gay, bisexual or heterosexual MSM is a documentary that redefines social attitudes towards men having sex with men. Stigmatization, discrimination and rejection social activities are a few of the reasons, which may explain the vulnerability of the HIV/AIDS in the Philippines. This documentary focuses on behavioral attitudes of MSM and a documentary on how to fully enjoy the pleasure of men to men sex safely. The documentary is based on interviews and personal contacts done by MSM themselves. Strictly Confidential The phenonmenon of men having sex with men dissected and exposed!
4. The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron
“The first rockstar”, “Crazy, evil and dangerous”. This is how Rupert Everett introduces us to the British romantic poet Lord Byron. Between 1809 and 1810, his daring and eccentric personality led him on a journey from Portugal to Istanbul, through high society gatherings, Turkish baths and brothels. He leaps from one adventure to another, passing from one lover to another, causing scandal with his wild behavior. Ironic and entertaining narrator Rupert Everett accurately recounts Byron’s feats in this episodic, on-the-road period piece produced by Channel 4.
5. The Italian Character: The Story of a Great Italian Orchestra (Die italienische Art)
The Italian Character: a film within music and about music. The Italian character is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the world, enriched by archive material of the last thirty years about the great conductors who have been performing on the most famous rostrum in Rome.
6. Gemmel & Tim
In 2017 and 2019, Gemmel “Juelz” Moore and Timothy “Tim” Dean , two gay black men, died of a meth overdose at the West Hollywood apartment of white businessman, activist & political donor Ed Buck . The parallel stories of these two men, are intimately told by the friends who loved them, grieve their loss, and who hope to protect others from similarly tragic fates.
7. The Lost World Cup (Il mundial dimenticato)
The film reconstructs the mysterious story of the 1942 Patagonia World Soccer championship, never acknowledged by the official sports organizations, and which for decades have remained shrouded in legend without the winner ever being known.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
8. Performing the Goddess (Performing the Goddess)
"Chapal Bhaduri, a leading lady of Bengal’s traditional folk traveling theatre-in-the-round, the Jatra, spent his life playing women. This film is an intimate biography that brings you face to face with this unique individual, sharing what it means to him to become a woman night after night, talking of the woman inside his body, of troubled sexuality, of a long partnership with his older lover, of the loneliness of living on the edges of conventional society–and showing how he metamorphoses into the goddess to perform her story." - The Bangalore International Centre
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
9. Guilty of Loving: The Ordeal of Gays in Tunisia (Coupables d'aimer : le calvaire des gays en Tunisie)
The director meets Amir and Ramzi in a café in a small Tunisian town. They don't want to be seen there. They have to find a discreet place to talk. Like many other gay couples in Tunisia, Amir and Ramzi are living a nightmare since the Tunisian Revolution. With them, the director will discover the daily life of the Tunisian homosexual couples, even in the discrete parties organized in hotels of the country.
10. Parade
A short film on the first Gay Pride March in San Francisco in 1971 the year after the Stonewall Riots. This film was lost for 50 years before it was found and restored by SF Art & Film.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
11. Homosexuals (Homofile)
With a focus on the everyday life of a gay couple, and featuring interviews with a number of gay people, the film gives an account of the difficulties faced by this minority.
12. The Feelings Are the Same (Følelserne er de samme)
Interview-based documentary about the conditions for gays and lesbians in Danish society.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
13. Alfredo Doesn't Like Goodbyes (Alfredo Não Gosta de Despedidas)
Based on family interviews and records of his trajectory, the director André Medeiros Martins performs an analysis of his mother's life history while documenting his own journey through self-knowledge. André is an artist obsessed with sex and who tries to find the reasons for these obsessions in stories about his late mother. From the exhibition of his works and reports from family members, he creates this auto-fictional documentary.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
14. Let's Rise Up (Insorgiamo)
On 9 July 2021, the 422 workers at the GKN factory in Campi Bisenzio near Florence received their dismissal, by email. They immediately met in front of the factory, scared away the management's bodyguards and have been holding an open-ended meeting at the factory ever since. In June of 2022, they talk about how they are rooted in the territory, why 30,000 people demonstrated with them. They explain why they put their struggle under the slogan "Insorgiamo!" , the slogan of the italian partisans who liberated Florence in 1944. But they also talk about their collaboration with climate activists and what they would like to produce. But as things stand today, it is not the workers who are responsible for the ecological damage caused by production: "Nobody asked me what I would like to produce when they hired me. They hired me and that was it."
15. Fuori era primavera: Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown (Fuori era primavera: Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown)
(Fuori era primavera: Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown)
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
16. No Dress Code Required (Etiqueta no rigurosa)
Victor and Fernando are hairstylists in Mexicali. They are the go-to professionals for the city's socialites. To their customers, they were a lovely couple until they decided to legally marry. Losing the support of people and friends an confronting a blacklash of criticism, through their fight they woke up members of Mexiciali's society to fight homophobia and inequality.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
17. Man Woman Coffee (Mann Kvinne Kaffe)
Fellini and football. Gradisca and Volpina. Mommy's boys, loose dogs, macho men and strong women. Milan, Rome, Venice, Amarcord, mi recordo, - I remember. What makes you happy? What are you afraid of? How could life have been? Throughout his childhood, the director has longed for Italy, and now he is making a journey from north to south that we can join. Italy's living room is the coffee bar, so of course we meet our everyday heroes there, some are cut out of a Fellini movie. Here we listen to hopes of lottery winnings, talks about football, but also reflect on the great existential questions about what the future can bring.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
18. A Morte de Narciso (A Morte de Narciso)
Documentary about the work of photographer Alair Gomes, one of the first artists to introduce male nudity in Brazilian photography.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
19. Queen of New York
Welcome to a different kind of drag race! As NYC emerges from the chaos of 2020, Marti Cummings , an audacious and big-hearted drag queen, goes all out in a historic bid to become a City Councilperson. It’s one of the most hotly contested Council races in years, and Marti’s strongest competitor is Shaun Abreu, a tenants’ lawyer with deep roots in the district’s Latinx community. As these first-timers race to do the most good for their Upper Manhattan neighbors, they offer very different visions for Democratic politics – one in a suit and tie, the other in combat boots and floral print. As this immersive documentary reveals, Marti’s passion inspires queer activists and allies to change the political system. Their campaign becomes a community of its own, especially for Marti’s non-binary peers who have never before seen themselves represented.
20. Minerva (Minerva)
Severely battered from the Beirut Port Explosion on August 4th, Minerva passed away eight days later. Her son Joseph, while still grieving for his loss, sunk into a long and absurd bureaucratic path through the inept system that disowned his mother as a victim of the blast. Minerva is gone. The explosion has snatched her soul, and the city walls have not yet recognized her as a martyr. There is no poster of her smiling face among those of the victims. Their faces are memories that will haunt us for the rest of our lives. Perhaps her son, devastated by her passing, seeks to etch her image into the city's memory. Perhaps he is seeking some confession to the crime. This is a place that casts out its children, whether dead or alive.
