After making us crack up with sketches like “The Gay Age Gap” and “When gay guys get rejected,” then creating the best damn web series — LGBTQ-themed or otherwise — we’ve ever seen with The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, writer/actor Brian Jordan Alvarez has set his sights on a feature film. And we are so ready for it.
The coming-of-age story of young milkboy Martín (García Bernal). While his friends Jesús (Altomaro) and Roberto (Mora) are cocky and apparently they have a lot of experience in sex, young Martín is shy, quiet and virgin. Everything changes when the young cocky boys want to prove they’re men and go to a brothel without Martín.
Edge of Seventeen 1998
1h 39min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 20 April 2000 (Australia)
Storyline:
A gay teen finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle America in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers.
License to Drive 1988
1h 28min | Comedy | 6 July 1988 (USA)
Storyline:
Les doesn’t have a driving license yet, but to impress his gorgeous date Mercedes he borrows his grandpa’s Cadillac for a night out… and has to witness the poor car going through more and more intense maltreatments.
The Art of Crying 2006
Kunsten at græde i kor (original title)
1h 46min | Comedy, Drama | 27 April 2007 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Follows a precocious, eleven-year-old Allan, who tries desperately to keep his dysfunctional, rural family together during the social upheavals of the early seventies. Allan reveres his father, Henry, the local milkman, and can’t understand why others don’t feel the same way. His family life is so twisted he thinks it’s perfectly normal to stay awake all night dealing with his father’s hysterics and suicidal threats. Allan’s older brother left town several years ago, and his mother gave up long before that, relying on sleeping pills to escape Henry’s tantrums. Allan then becomes obsessed with a rival family, whom he considers foolish white trash until they start taking away Henry’s customers. He is frustrated that his mother doesn’t take his father’s complaints seriously, and is perplexed by the increasingly rebellious and bizarre behavior of his sister, Sanne. Incapable of understanding what’s going on and heavily influenced by his father, Allan commits appalling acts, unaware of their import.
Love Steaks 2013
1h 29min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 27 March 2014 (Germany)
Storyline:
A luxury hotel. Steaks frizzle, muffintops getting massaged. Clemens (rare) joins the wellness area as a rookie. Lara (well-done) needs to assert herself in the kitchen pack. The elevator brings the two of them together. Hanging in dependence. They encounter each other, until they clash.
Ruby Sparks 2012
R | 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 6 September 2012 (Portugal)
Storyline:
Calvin is a genius novelist who begins to type a new novel on his manual typewriter about Ruby, his dream girl. He can’t believe his eyes, because the next day, Ruby becomes a real person, and they begin to have a beautiful relationship together. If the relationship isn’t perfect, all Calvin has to do is simply type the words on the page and Ruby’s actions change to what he needs.