Love does not recognize any boundaries - it does not matter age, social status and even the gender of the object of adoration. Films about same-sex love will clearly show how a real strong feeling can overcome all obstacles. These pictures are dramatic and acute, because the society surrounding the heroes is usually intolerant of representatives of sexual minorities.
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Brokeback Mountain
" Brokeback Mountain " is a drama about same-sex love undeservedly underestimated by Hollywood film academics. The picture played a huge role in recognizing the bright actor talent Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, who played in her cowboy-lovers. After participating in the film, the actors became close friends, which gave rise to a lot of rumors about their sexual orientation.
Ennis and Jack are hired by shepherds and sent to the sheep pasture for the summer to the Broken Mountain area. One night, under the influence of alcohol, their friendship grows into something more. In autumn they part. Despite the fact that Ennis and Jack have families, they constantly recall the summer spent together in the mountains.
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You will not be caught up with
" You will not be caught up with " - a dramatic picture of the same-sex love of two high school students.
In a private college, located in a magnificent forest, girls from wealthy families are trained. Modest Mary, sent to an expensive institution on the advice of her stepmother, takes care of her roommates - Paulyn and Victoria. She notes that there is a closer connection between the girls than just friendship. When their relationship gets publicized, Victoria, afraid of disappointing strict parents, turns away from Paulyn. The only girlfriend of the latter is Mary, not afraid of the contemptuous views of others.
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Behind chandeliers
The list of pictures about same-sex love continues biographical melodrama " Behind the chandeliers ".In the 1950s and 1970s, the showman Liberace was very popular in the US, which amazes spectators with fanciful outfits. He meets seventeen-year-old animal trainer Scott Thorson and makes him his assistant. Between them a romantic relationship is established, but after a few years, Liberace cools to his lover and breaks off relations with him. Then the rejected Thorson turns to lawyers to sue some of the showman's state.
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Monster
" Monster " is a dramatic film about same-sex love, telling the true story of Eileen Warnos, a street prostitute who killed seven men. Since childhood, did not know the caress( mother left the four-year-old Eileen and her older brother in the care of their parents), she once meets lesbian Selby Wall and falls in love with her. Eileen wants to start a new life and tries to get a job, but gets a refusal everywhere - no one needs a middle-aged former prostitute. She has to return to the old occupation, so as not to lose Selby, which requires attention and money. When one of the customers beats Eileen, she kills the rapist and takes his car. From this moment, the fury of Warnos and her hatred of her clients finds a way out - she starts killing all whom she considers a scum. For the brutal murders, she received the nickname "Monster".
It's interesting: the criminal Eileen Warnos brilliantly played Charlize Theron, who received for her role her first "Oscar".Thanks to the make-up and 13 kilograms of excess weight, the actress changed beyond recognition, but these metamorphoses were adequately rewarded.
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Total eclipse
" Total eclipse " - an extraordinary picture about same-sex love, telling about the full dramatic relationship between the two great French poets XIX century. Arthur Rambo - one of the most mysterious poets, suddenly stopped writing after he turned 20, was an opening for Paul Verlaine. The 26-year-old poet, who has already become famous, is getting to know young Rimbaud, who came from the provinces to Paris. This is how their complex relationships begin, full of ambiguity, sexuality and drunkenness.
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Lonely man
A film about same-sex love « Lonely man » - one of the best works of British actor Colin Firth. Professor of English literature George Carlisle Falconer is hard to survive the death of his partner Jim, with whom he lived for 16 years. The bitterness of the loss is overshadowed by the fact that the protagonist, because of the homophobia of close ones, Jim was unable to attend his funeral. George is ready at any moment to die. He gives himself one day to answer the question: will he be able to live after Jim's departure.
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Prayer for Bobby
A dramatic picture of same-sex love " Prayer for Bobby " is a clear example of how intolerance and misunderstanding on the part of the closest people can lead to the irreparable. Mary Griffith is a deeply Christian believer whose life completely changes after the news that her son Bobby is homosexual. All the rest of the family are gradually accepting this fact, but Mary firmly believes that God can "heal" the stray Bobby. Acutely in need of understanding on the part of the mother and feeling unworthy of it, the young man rushes from the bridge under the wheels of the truck. Only the tragic death of her son makes Mary reconsider her views and behavior. She becomes an advocate for LGBT rights and actively helps homosexual parents.
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Life of Adele
The film about same-sex love « Life of Adele » tells about a 15-year-old French high school student living in a suburb of Lille. Toma, a guy from her school, draws attention to her, and they agree on a date. On the same day, Adele sees a girl with blue-colored hair, and feels how she is drawn to a stranger. After the first meeting with Tom, she realizes that they are infinitely far from each other. Throwing a young man, Adele goes to have fun in a nightclub and again meets a stranger with blue hair. Emma is a student of the Faculty of Arts. Girls are drawn to each other, although by nature and values of life they are completely different. The friendship between Adele and Emma grows into a passionate romance, but the difference between them gradually leads the girls to insurmountable difficulties in the relationship.
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I love you, Phillip Morris
" I Love You, Phillip Morris " is a tragicomedy about same-sex love about the life of the famous gay rogue Stephen Russell. An exemplary family man and a hidden homosexual after an automobile accident decides to live the rest of his life, not hiding his orientation and not limiting himself to morality. After a daring scam, he ends up in prison, where he finds true love in the person of the same prisoner.
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Wilde
" Wilde " - a biographical picture of the great English writer of the Victorian era, Oscar Wilde, who lost family and respect in society because of his numerous novels with young people.
