A guide to films that express social realism or escapism; and a guide to culturally important films that may reveal a character's thoughts, dreams, or motivations.
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LGBTQIA+ Cinema
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertWith a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered, pink tour bus "Priscilla," this wickedly funny and high-drama trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
Call Number: BLU-RAY MOVIE ADVENTURES
ISBN: B000803PX6
Publication Date: 1994
Blue Is the Warmest ColorThe colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux. Directed by Adbellatif Kechiche, this finely detailed, intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth. It has captivated international audiences and been widely embraced as a defining love story for the new century.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE BLUE
ISBN: B00GPPXNIK
Publication Date: 2014
Call Me by your NameIt's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio, a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver, a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE CALL
ISBN: B0788XVFP1
Publication Date: 2018
Carmin TropicalMabel returns to her hometown to find the murderer of her friend Daniela and finds herself on a journey that takes her through nostalgia, love, and betrayal in a town where transvestism takes on an unusual dimension in its day.
Call Number: ESPANOL DVD PELICULA CARMIN
Publication Date: 2014
CarolTwo women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE CAROL
ISBN: B0189H44UM
Publication Date: 2016
Desert HeartIt is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranch owner's daughter.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE DESERT
ISBN: 9781681433752
Publication Date: 1985
A Fantastic WomanMarina, a waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.
Call Number: ESPANOL BLU-RAY PELICULA FANTASTIC
ISBN: B0798DS9BP
Publication Date: 2017
Hedwig and the Angry InchHedwig is an ambitious glam-rocker who comes to America determined to find fame, fortune, and his "other half."
Call Number: DVD MOVIE HEDWIG
ISBN: 0715515231312
Publication Date: 2001
Jack & DianeTwo teenage girls meet on a summer day in New York City and spend the night kissing. Bubbly and naïve, Diane is overwhelmed by her powerful new feelings for tomboy Jack, and they begin to manifest themselves in terrifying ways.
Publication Date: 2012
My Own Private IdahoMike is a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him. Scott is a wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mike's desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a quest from the grungy streets to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called "home". A stirring look at unrequited love and life at society's margins.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE MY
ISBN: 9781559409575
Publication Date: 1991
VictimMelville Farr, a closeted, married barrister who bravely takes on a blackmailer targeting a group of vulnerable gay London men from various walks of life.
Dramatization of the problems of the criminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults. Bogarde plays a successful barrister who places his career on the line by 'coming out' in order to expose a blackmail racket. It was the first British film to concentrate on male homosexuality and was made with the specific intention of supporting the new recommendations of the 1957 Wolfenden Committee for the partial decriminalization of male homosexual acts.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE VICTIM
ISBN: B00007ELDE
Publication Date: 1961
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LGBTQIA+ Cinema
La Cage aux FollesA gay couple must pose as husband and wife for son's soon-to-be in-laws.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE CAGE
ISBN: 9780792850366
Publication Date: 1978
Female Trouble"[M]ean teen Dawn Davenport [Divine] ... turns to a life of crime when her parents fail to give her the cha-cha heels she wants for Christmas. With her illegitimate daughter [Mink Stole] and delinquent girlfriends beside her, she becomes a bizarre canvas for the fascist Lipstick Beauty Salon owners [David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce]. A media star obsessed with the idea that 'crime is beauty, ' her story comes to a shocking conclusion!"--Container.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE FEMALE
ISBN: 9780780648975
Publication Date: 1974
I Killed My MotherFocusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel, a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale, the film beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweater and kitschy decor, the ingrained mechanisms (i.e. manipulation and guilt) of their relationship beautifully (and tragically) unravel on the big screen.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE I
ISBN: B00CU00J7C
Publication Date: 2013
My Beautiful LaunderetteAn uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE MY
ISBN: 9781681430249
Publication Date: 1985
PariahAlike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity--sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE PARIAH
ISBN: B005S9EIGU
Publication Date: 2012
The Strong OnesLucas travels to visit his sister, who lives in a remote town in Southern Chile. Beside the ocean shrouded in the wintry mist, he meets Antonio, a boatswain on a local fishing boat. When an intense romance blossoms between them, their strength, their independence, and their adulthood become immovable, just like the ebb and flow of the tide.
Call Number: ESPANOL DVD PELICULA STRONG
ISBN: 0850010363578
Publication Date: 2019
TangerineIt's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE TANGERINE
ISBN: 0876964009041
Publication Date: 2015
TomboyLaure is 10 years old and a tomboy. On arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Summer becomes a big playground and Laure pretends to be "Mikael", a boy like the others, different enough to get the attention of Lisa, who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE TOMBOY
ISBN: B007OXB1H2
Publication Date: 2012
XXYThe dramatic story of Alex, a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call 'ambiguous genitalia,' whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites a surgeon friend and his family, including a 16-year-old son, to visit. The surgeon thinks that it is a very important time in Alex's physical development for her to choose a gender and have surgery. However, the attraction which builds between the two teenagers forces both sets of parents to face their fears about their children's sexuality.
Call Number: ESPANOL DVD PELICULA XXY
ISBN: 9781436140874
Publication Date: 2008
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