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Summary: In the early 1980s, the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York led to an emergence of homosexual activists. With support from the medical community, they try to raise awareness about the disease.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: TV-MA

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,158,775
Summary: On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Gay Rights Movement, the film explores the drama, struggle and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience. Belove...
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 33,443
Summary: Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
Runtime: 1 h 31 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Domestic: $ 87,400
Summary: "Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol. Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwrig...
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 28,032
Summary: A struggling playwright invites a young writer to his home to discuss a script, but the meeting spirals into a deadly game of deception and betrayal.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,282,134
Summary: Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,654,743
International: $ 18,184
Summary: A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: R

Countries: France, United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,000,000
Domestic: $ 453,377
International: $ 196,249
Summary: About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United Kingdom, Spain
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,500,000
Domestic: $ 481,586
International: $ 285,981
Summary: A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
Release Date: November 10, 1968
Genres: Comedy, Music
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 941,000
Domestic: $ 328,673
International: $ 46,851
Summary: Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 21,000,000
Domestic: $ 177,200,000
International: $ 271
Summary: A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,021,175
International: $ 31,366,512
Summary: A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United States, Japan
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 437,547
International: $ 132,449
Summary: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in Los Angeles.
Runtime: 2 h 01 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,970,078
Summary: An oddly naive man-child stalks his childhood best friend and tries to reconnect with their past.
Release Date: August 04, 2000
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 250,000
Domestic: $ 1,055,671
International: $ 126,394
Summary: Miguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at age 40: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.
Release Date: April 12, 2002
Genres: Drama, Biography
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 275,171
Summary: After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Runtime: 2 h 14 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 45,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,398,532
International: $ 18,676,786
Summary: A Hollywood composer endures a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a newly married woman honeymooning at a Mexican resort.
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: 18A

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 74,865,517
Summary: A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Runtime: 2 h 18 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,400,000
Domestic: $ 63,463
International: $ 91,273
Summary: Set in 1930s London, this movie involves stage actors and actresses and their experiences with love and revenge.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000
Domestic: $ 7,739,049
International: $ 6,600,122