Singer Murray Head is the bisexual lover to both Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch's Jewish homosexual doctor in this dramatic portrayal of middle-class life and permissive love in the 1970s.
Starring: Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft, Tony Britton
Comedy-thriller about two gay scouse teenagers who witness a murder at a club called the Fruit Machine and flee to Brighton. Robbie Coltrane appears as an oversized drag queen called Annabelle.
Starring: Emile Charles, Tony Forsyth, Robert Stephens, Clare Higgins, Bruce Payne
In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and the past floods back, transporting him to other times and places. Was he once the most famous man in London? The artist crucified by a society that once worshipped him? The lover imprisoned and freed, yet still running towards ruin in the final chapter of his life? Under the microscope of death he reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his long suffering wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross who tried and failed to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris freedom is elusive and Oscar is a penniless vagabond, always moving on, shunned by his old acquaintance, but revered by a strange group of outlaws and urchins to whom he tells the old stories - his incomparable wit still sharp. THE HAPPY PRINCE is a portrait of the dark side of a genius who lived and died for love in the last days of the nineteenth century.
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas
Bittersweet drama based on the novel by David Leavitt. When Philip (Angus MacFadyen) falls in love with the wealthy and manipulative American Elliot (Corey Parker) and decides to come out of the closet, his friends are supportive and positive. But when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a maelstrom of hidden feelings and secrets that threaten to destroy their marriage.
Starring: Brian Cox, Rene Auberjonois, John Schlesinger
Classic TV drama which traces the life of the flamboyant British eccentric Quentin Crisp as he grows up in a society not prepared to accept his openly homosexual lifestyle. A landmark of British television, this adaptation of Crisp's autobiography earned BAFTAs for both its star, John Hurt, and director, Jack Gold.
Starring: John Rhys-Davies, John Hurt, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Stanley Lebor, Katharine Schofield
