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Love does not recognize any boundaries – it does not matter the 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 sharp, since the society surrounding the heroes is usually intolerant of representatives of sexual minorities.
10 Brokeback Mountain
«Brokeback Mountain“- a drama about same-sex love, undeservedly underestimated by Hollywood film academics. The picture played a huge role in recognizing the bright acting talent of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, who played cowboy lovers in it. After participating in the film, the actors became close friends, which gave rise to many rumors about their sexual orientation.
Ennis and Jack are hired as shepherds and go to herd sheep in the Brokeback Mountain region for the summer. One night, under the influence of alcohol, their friendship develops into something more. In the autumn they part. Despite the fact that Ennis and Jack are starting families, they constantly reminisce about the summer they spent together in the mountains.
9. You will not catch
«You will not catch“- a picture full of drama about the same-sex love of two high school students.
In a private college located in a magnificent forest, girls from wealthy families study. Modest Mary, sent to an expensive institution on the advice of her stepmother, is taken under her wing by her roommates, Poulin and Victoria. She notices that there is a closer connection between the girls than just friendship. When their relationship goes public, Victoria, afraid of disappointing her strict parents, turns her back on Powleen. The only friend of the latter is Mary, who was not afraid of the contemptuous glances of others.
8. For candelabras
The list of paintings about same-sex love continues with the biographical melodrama “For candelabras“. In the 1950s – 70s, the showman Liberace enjoyed great popularity in the United States, striking the audience with elaborate outfits. He meets XNUMX-year-old animal trainer Scott Thorson and makes him his assistant. A romantic relationship develops between them, but after a few years, Liberace cools off towards her lover and breaks off relations with him. Then the rejected Thorson turns to lawyers to sue part of the showman’s fortune.
7. Monster
«Monster” is a drama film about same-sex love that tells the true story of Eileen Wuornos, a street prostitute who killed seven men. Since childhood, she did not know affection (her mother left the four-year-old Eileen and her older brother in the care of her parents), she once meets a lesbian Selby Wall and falls in love with her. Eileen wants to start a new life and tries to get a job, but gets rejected everywhere – no one wants an elderly former prostitute. She has to return to her old occupation in order not to lose Selby, who needs attention and money. When one of the clients beats Eileen, she kills the rapist and takes his car. From that moment on, Wuornos’s rage and her hatred for her clients finds a way out – she begins to kill everyone she considers a bastard. For the brutal murders she committed, she received the nickname “Monster”.
This is interesting: the criminal Eileen Wuornos was brilliantly played by Charlize Theron, who received her first Oscar for this role. Thanks to the make-up and gained 13 kilograms of excess weight, the actress has changed beyond recognition, but these metamorphoses were adequately rewarded.
6. Full eclipse
«Full eclipse“- an extraordinary picture about same-sex love, telling about the dramatic relationship between two great French poets XIX century. Arthur Rimbaud, one of the most mysterious poets who suddenly stopped writing after he turned 20, was a revelation for Paul Verlaine. The 26-year-old poet, who by that time had already become famous, met the young Rimbaud, who had come from the provinces to Paris. Thus begins their complex relationship, full of ambiguity, sexuality and drunken stupor.
5. lonely man
Film about same-sex lovelonely man“- one of the best works of British actor Colin Firth. Professor of English literature George Carlisle Falconer is grieving over the death of his partner Jim, with whom he lived for 16 years. The bitterness of loss overshadows the fact that the main character, due to the homophobia of Jim’s relatives, was unable to attend his funeral. George is ready to die at any moment. He gives himself one day to answer the question: will he be able to live after Jim’s departure.
4. Prayers for Bobby
Dramatic film about same-sex lovePrayers for Bobby“- a clear example of how intolerance and misunderstanding on the part of the closest people can lead to irreparable. Mary Griffith is a deeply religious Christian whose life changes completely after the news that her son Bobby is homosexual. All the other members of the family gradually come to terms with this fact, but Mary firmly believes that God can “heal” the lost Bobby. In dire need of understanding from his mother and feeling unworthy of her, the young man throws himself from the bridge under the wheels of a 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 gay parents.
3. Adel’s life
Film about same-sex loveAdel’s lifetells about a 15-year-old French high school student living in the suburbs of Lille. She is noticed by Toma, a guy from her school, and they arrange a date. On the same day, Adele sees a girl with blue hair and feels drawn to a stranger. After the first meeting with Tom, she realizes that they are infinitely far from each other. Leaving the young man, Adele goes to have fun in a nightclub and again meets a stranger with blue hair there. Emma is an art student. Girls are drawn to each other, although they are completely different in character and life values. The friendship between Adele and Emma develops into a passionate romance, but the difference between them gradually leads the girls to insurmountable difficulties in relationships.
2. I love you, Phillip Morris
«I love you, Phillip Morris“- a tragicomedy about same-sex love about the life of the famous gay fraudster Stephen Russell. An exemplary family man and a hidden homosexual, after a car accident, decides to live the rest of his life without hiding his orientation and not being limited by moral standards. After a daring scam, he ends up in prison, where he finds true love in the person of the same prisoner.
1. Wilde
«Wilde“- a biographical picture about the great English writer of the Victorian era, Oscar Wilde, who lost his family and respect in society because of his many novels with young people.