Trying to keep from relisting anything that's on the wikipedia page:

Bringing Up Baby has the first use in film of the term "gay" for homosexual.  No actual homosexual (characters) are made clear, however, and it is just a throwaway line (from the bisexual and supersexy Mr. Grant).

And, speaking of Hepburns and Cary Grant... there's a soft subtext of a relationship between two men (two of the baddies, one of whom is James Coburn) in Charade.

There's a collection of short films on DVD called She Likes Girls that ranges from the great to okeh and involves at one point, cross-dressing as a Beatle and breaking and entering.

From an academic standpoint (or a soap-opera-y one), That Tender Touch (behold! seventies lesbians written by men - and suicide shall come of it!) is definitely mine-able.  As is the deliberate (well, they merged the love-interest in with the male-friend and then even the actors are acknowledging the energy) romancy-ness of the two leads in Hot Fuzz.

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"But I'm a Cheerleader" :3

If These Walls Could Talk 2. -- 3 stories about 3 different sets of lesbians, in different generations. The first one is so sad but I think the best story.

Not the first one! The "2" is really important!

Does the Crying Game count?

^ "My Summer of Love" is very good.

The Incredibly True Story of Two Girls in Love

D.E.B.S.

Saving Face

Totally Fucked Up

High Art

A Home at the end of the world

Flawless

^ THIS.

Then there's also a list I at some point wanted to go through...

And random movies I watch on TV and find some gay crumbs in it. A woman in Mona Lisa Smile (2003) had a 'partner', but that's as gay as it gets. The mention of it. On the other hand, Coming Soon (1999) (a movie I never managed to Google properly thanks to the idiotic title) has one of the girls realizing she's gay. And she gets a kiss. With a sexy drummer girl. Mmm.

I wonder will this be just a list or will it also include some descriptions and such? Because the Wikipedia article seems detailed enough to just copy-paste. I mean, they listed a Croatian movie with lesbians (Fine mrtve djevojke). I'm impressed. Even though it's not one of those movies I'd want to watch twice. Heavy stuff.

lex wrote:

Prey for Rock and Roll

Just recently saw this one. "A murderer, a rapist and a tattoo artist walk into a bar....a little help here?" Awesome movie.

lex wrote:

Prey for Rock and Roll

That is an awesome movie.

The Hours.

One of my favorites.

Also, Chasing Amy.

Arki wrote:

I wonder will this be just a list or will it also include some descriptions and such? Because the Wikipedia article seems detailed enough to just copy-paste. I mean, they listed a Croatian movie with lesbians (Fine mrtve djevojke). I'm impressed. Even though it's not one of those movies I'd want to watch twice. Heavy stuff.

I took a very brief look at the Wikipedia article, and although it seems useful(and I definitely plan to comb through it), a lot of the films listed don't have descriptions/aren't true LBGT films. A movie with a gay character isn't quite what I'm looking for - I'd like to compile a list of movies which incorporate homosexuality as one of the main themes.

ie. Bound isn't about being gay, but lesbianism definitely plays a strong part in the film(as it rightly should, if you ask me ).

If anybody is curious, my ultimate plan is to make a list of LBGT movies for our resource center including IMDB ratings and a short description for each film. I'd also like to purchase some of the better films from the list to add to our future film library. Soooo, if you guys all say that RENT is the best movie ever, I'll probably go out and buy it.

May is an interesting case because she's just looking for attention (and perfection, natch), but she moves through men and women without the gender issue really coming to the fore.  She also lives in superflirty world where everything sounds like a porno flick come on, so...

Chasing Amy, though... it's my least favorite Kevin Smith flick and I just find everything post the main convention preachy and annoying.  That last speech of hers, at the end?  "I'm not your fucking whore" is all that was needed.