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1) Boy erased
Author
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After being outed by his parents, the son of a Baptist preacher is forced to take part in a church-supported gay conversion program.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Heroic, funny and romantic, Parting Glances is a triumph for everyone who has ever been in love-straight or gay. The story revolves around two men, Michael and Robert, who have been lovers for years. Robert is being transferred out of the country for two years, leaving Michael behind. Their best friend Nick, who is also Michael's former lover, is dying of AIDS. So begins a surprisingly funny, wonderfully acted love story set in the gay scene of Manhattan....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover, and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.
5) Nomadland
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A recently widowed woman leaves her hometown in Nevada after losing her job in a plant shutdown and embarks on a van-dwelling nomadic journey through the American West.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was at once a major twentieth century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, Black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy. James Baldwin: the price of the ticket captures on film the passionate intellect and courageous writing of a man who was born black, impoverished, gay and gifted. James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket uses striking archival...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gary Janetti is bothered. By a lot of things. And thank God he's here to tell us. He's bothered that he has to play football in high school gym when he'd rather be in the guidance counselor's office, faking sick and dishing about the latest dramas on his beloved soap operas. He's annoyed when, as a kid growing up in Queens, New York, there's a serial killer loose in his neighborhood, but Carole Burnett is on tv and he really doesn't want to miss...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Michael Scott is an earnest but clueless boss who can't help but contribute his own irreverant commentary to the daily happenings at the Scranton branch of the Dunder Mifflin paper company. As the staff deals with potential office closures, mergers, romances and advancement, Michael is always there to say all the wrong things at all the right times
10) Barry Lyndon
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling version of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O'Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest son Philip (Lip) trades his physics tutoring skills for sexual favors from neighborhood girls. Middle son Ian is gay. Youngest daughter Debbie is stealing money from her UNICEF collection. Ten-year-old Carl is a budding sociopath and an arsonist, and toddler Liam is, well, he might actually be black,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After her unprecedented victory over billionaire Arthur Frobisher, Patty Hewes has the legal world at her feet. Just as she is pondering her next move, Daniel Purcell, a man from Patty's past, throws her into a new legal challenge. What starts as a domestic murder case escalates into the highest reaches of government as Patty unearths a vast conspiracy. Ellen, at the same time, is on a mission to take Patty down. She's agreed to act as an informant...
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