Global goodies.As Cote d'Azur and Summer Storm prove, great gay movies are being made all over the world. Here are six more to check out Beautiful Boxer: The true story of Thai teenager Nong Toom, who grew up knowing she was a girl trapped in a boy's body and raised money for gender-reassignment surgery by becoming a kick-boxing champion. Beautifully told by director Ekachai Uekrongtham. (Here/TLA Releasing) Gasoline: Two young lovers--a shy, mousy mous·y also mous·ey adj. mous·i·er, mous·i·est 1. Resembling a mouse, especially: a. Having a drab, pale brown color: mousy hair. b. blond and her butch new girlfriend--go on the run after they accidentally kill the blond's mom. Gasoline features a memorable relationship between the two leads enhanced by some hot lovemaking love·mak·ing n. 1. Sexual activity, especially sexual intercourse. 2. Courtship; wooing. lovemaking Noun 1. scenes. (Strand) Producing Adults: This Finnish charmer charm·er n. 1. One that charms, especially a disarmingly attractive person. 2. One who casts spells; an enchanter or magician. Noun 1. is a gentle lesbian romance about a female fertility counselor desperate to get pregnant who falls into the arms of a female doctor at her clinic when she discovers her boyfriend is trying to sabotage her plans to have kids. (Wolfe) Yossi & Jagger jag 1 n. 1. A sharp projection; a barb. 2. a. A hanging flap along the edge of a garment. b. A slash or slit in a garment exposing material of a different color. tr.v. : One of the most tender gay love stories on the screen in years, Eytan Fox's film stars Ohad Knoller as a macho company commander in the Israeli army and Yehuda Levy (a big TV star in Israel) as his second-in-command and lover. Their closeted clos·et·ed adj. Being In a state of secrecy or cautious privacy. affair is doomed to tragedy. (Strand Burnt Money: The true story, set in 1965, of two bank robbers--one Argentinian (played by Leonardo Sbaraglia), one Spanish (Eduardo Noriega)--on the run from the police in Uruguay after a failed heist in Argentina. The robbers are also dysfunctional lovers, and it doesn't hurt the erotic scenes that Sbaraglia and Noriega are pinup pin·up n. 1. a. A picture, especially of a sexually attractive person, that is displayed on a wall. b. A person considered a suitable model for such a picture. 2. handsome. (Strand) You I Love: "Zany" and "Russian" don't usually appear in the same sentence, but this charming comedy about a straitlaced advertising exec who runs over a Mongolian zoo-worker and then falls in love with him is both Russian and zany--as well as sweet and sexy. (Picture This!) |
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