Love does not recognize any boundaries - it does not matter age, social status, or even the sex of the object of adoration. Films about same-sex love will clearly show how a real strong feeling can overcome all obstacles. These paintings 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 movie academics. The film played a huge role in recognizing the bright acting talent of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, who played in it cowboy lovers. 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 by the shepherds and set off for the summer to graze sheep in the Brokeback Mountain area. One night, under the influence of alcohol, their friendship grows into something more. In the fall they part. Despite the fact that Ennis and Jack have families, they constantly recall the summer spent together in the mountains.
9. You will not be caught up
«You will not be caught up"- a drama full of same-sex love between two high school students.
In a private college located in a magnificent forest, girls from wealthy families study. The modest Mary, sent to an expensive institution on the advice of her stepmother, is taken under her care by her roommates - Poulin and Victoria. She notes that there is a closer connection between the girls than just friendship. When their relationship gets publicized, Victoria, fearing to disappoint strict parents, turns away from Poulin. The only friend of the latter is Mary, who was not afraid of the scornful looks of others.
8. Behind the candelabra
The list of paintings about same-sex love continues the biographical melodrama "Behind the candelabra". In the 1950s and 70s, the showman Liberace was very popular in the USA, striking viewers with elaborate outfits. He meets seventeen-year-old animal trainer Scott Thorson and makes him his assistant. A romantic relationship is established between them, but after a few years, Liberace cools down to his lover and breaks off his relationship. Then the rejected Thorson turns to lawyers to sue part of the showman's fortune.
7. Monster
«Monster"- a dramatic film about same-sex love, telling the true story of Eileen Wornos, a street prostitute who killed seven men. Since childhood she did not know affection (her mother left 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 is trying to get a job, but gets rejected 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 clients beats Eileen, she kills the rapist and picks up his car. From this moment on, the fury of Wornos and her hatred of her clients finds a way out - she begins to kill everyone whom she considers a scum. For the committed brutal murders, she received the nickname "Monster".
This is interesting: the criminal Eileen Warnos was brilliantly played by Charlize Theron, who received her first Oscar for this role. Thanks to the make-up and the gained 13 kilograms of excess weight, the actress has changed beyond recognition, but these metamorphoses were worthily rewarded.
6. Total Eclipse
«Full eclipse"- an extraordinary picture about same-sex love, telling about the full dramatic relationship between the two great French poets of the XIX century. Arthur Rimbaud - one of the most mysterious poets, who suddenly stopped writing after he turned 20, became a discovery for Paul Verlaine. The 26-year-old poet, who by then had already become famous, became acquainted with the young Rimbaud who had arrived from the provinces in Paris. Thus begins their complex relationship, full of ambiguity, sexuality and drunken stupor.
5. Single man
A film about same-sex lovelonely man"- one of the best works of British actor Colin Firth. Professor of English Literature, George Carlisle Falconer, is struggling with the death of his partner Jim, with whom he lived for 16 years. The bitterness of loss is overshadowed by the fact that the main character, due to homophobia of his 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 leaves.
4. Prayers for Bobby
Dramatic picture about same-sex love "Prayers 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 is completely changing after the news that her son Bobby is homosexual. All other family members are gradually resigning themselves to this fact, but Mary firmly believes that God can “cure” the lost Bobby. Severely in need of understanding from his mother and feeling unworthy of her, the young man throws himself 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.
3. Adele's life
A film about same-sex loveAdel's life”Talks about a 15-year-old French high school student living in a suburb of Lille. Tom, the guy from her school, pays attention to her, and they make an appointment. On the same day, Adele sees a girl with hair dyed blue, 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 the young man, Adele goes to have fun in a nightclub and again meets a stranger with blue hair there. Emma is a student at the Faculty of Arts. Girls are attracted to each other, although they are completely different in character and in 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 the relationship.
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, not hiding his orientation and not limited to moral standards. After a daring scam, he ends up in jail, where he finds true love in the person of the same prisoner.
1. Wilde
«Wilde"- a biographical picture of the great English Victorian writer Oscar Wilde, who lost his family and respect in society because of his many novels with young people.