The Celluloid Closet Films

A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.

A new senior at a boy's prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach's wife.

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.

The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok.

Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

An interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up.

A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.

The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.

A gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?

Two men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.

When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur that lead Dr. Von Helsing to believe that the Countess must be a vampire.

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.

A comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.

During the 1970s, car-delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time, but always runs into trouble.

A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. Zach and Claire live a comfortable life secure in their love for one another when Bart, a swinging L.A. novelist, walks into Zach's office and awakens unfamiliar feelings in him. In a move which leaves him wracked with guilt, Zach cancels dinner with his wife in order to go out with Bart. He is inexplicably drawn to this man who seems intent on keeping him at arms distance. Why can't Bart allow their relationship to grow? he wonders. Exasperated, he asks Bart, "Do you snore? Does anybody ever get a chance to find out?" As Zach's absences become more and more frequent, Claire's concern manifests itself in the suspicion that he is having an affair with another woman. Jilted by Bart and feeling alone for the first time in his married life, Zach resolves to tell Claire the truth about himself. Predictably, Claire is shocked that she could have known so little about the man she has loved for so many years and accuses him of deceiving her from the very start.

A police officer goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.

After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.

The intertwined lives and loves of three highly ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.

A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.