20,000 Species of Bees

The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Serge Gainsbourg

Cast

Joe Dallesandro, Jane Birkin, Hugues Quester

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

Runtime

2h 37m

Director

Ridley Scott

Cast

Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Gus Van Sant

Cast

Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Geoff Murphy

Cast

Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Anzac Wallace

Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Lucía Puenzo

Cast

Inés Efrón, Martín Piroyansky, Ricardo Darín