Films like The Celluloid Closet

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   Disclosure

   Film · 2020 · also documentary

   An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel...

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   Welcome to Chechnya

   Film · 2020 · also documentary

   This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Rus...

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   Pray Away

   Film · 2021 · also documentary

   In the 1970s, five men struggling with being gay in their Evangelical church started a bible study to help each other leave the "homosexual lifestyle." They quickly recei...

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   Inside Deep Throat

   Film · 2005 · also documentary and history

   In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest...

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   Los Angeles Plays Itself

   Film · 2004 · also documentary and history

   From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a w...

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   The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

   Film · 2012 · also documentary

   A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious ap...

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   A Decade Under the Influence

   Film · 2003 · also documentary

   A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.

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   Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

   Film · 2016 · also documentary

   Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the m...

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   Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

   Film · 2014 · also documentary

   A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.

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    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

    Film · 2013 · also documentary

    An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American fol...

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