Jeremy Irons gives another superb and underrated performance in M Butterfly, an elegant adaptation of the Broadway hit by playwright David Henry Hwang. Irons plays a French diplomat in China in 1964 who falls in love with a star of the Beijing Opera, not realizing that the entrancing performer holds secrets that will ruin his life--that the singer is a spy for the Communist government ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon
Directed By: David Cronenberg

Set in L.A. over the course of one crazy day, this film surveys the emotional and sexual turmoil experienced by a multiracial, pan-sexual group of adolescents.

Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Starring: James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Chiara Mastroianni, Debi Mazar
Directed By: Gregg Araki

In Common Ground director Donna Deitch (Desert Hearts) uses three stories to explore attitudes toward homosexuality in the fictional small town of Homer, Connecticut, over a period of almost half a century. "A Friend of Dorothy's" tells the story of a girl who returns to Homer in 1954 after leaving the Navy. When it emerges that she was discharged after being arrested in a gay bar, ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Erik Knudsen, Brittany Murphy, Jason Priestley, Margot Kidder, Helen Shaver
Directed By: Donna Deitch

The great improvisational comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May reunited to (respectively) direct and write this update of the French comedy La Cage Aux Folles. Robin Williams stars as a gay Miami nightclub owner who is forced to play it straight and ask his drag-queen partner (Nathan Lane) to hide out when Williams's son invites his prospective--and highly conservative--in-laws and ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman
Directed By: Mike Nichols

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Sam Bould, Martin Donovan (II), Ian Hart, Joely Richardson, Jason Flemyng
Directed By: Angela Pope

Philadelphia wasn't the first movie about AIDS (it followed such worthy independent films as Parting Glances and Longtime Companion), but it was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that sense, Philadelphia is a historically important film. As such, it's worth remembering that director Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard, ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman, Karen Finley
Directed By: Jonathan Demme

Manufacturer: Studio / Sterling
Starring: Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, Mischa Barton, Jackie Burroughs, Mimi Kuzyk
Directed By: Léa Pool

Fasten your garter belt and come up to the lab and see what's on the slab! It's The Rocky Horror Picture Show Special Edition, a screamingly funny, sinfully twisted salute to sci-fi, horror, B-movies and rock music, all rolled into one deliciously decadent morsel. And now there's even more to make you shiver with antici...pation: two additional musical numbers, "Once In A While" and ...

Manufacturer: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Starring: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn
Directed By: Jim Sharman

There's a reason why Cindy Crawford was dubbed "Baby Gia" when she first hit the modeling scene. Indeed, Crawford, now the world's best-known supermodel, greatly resembled model Gia Carangi, who went from high school to the cover of British Vogue in less than two years. Carangi appeared on many more covers of Vogue (French, British, Italian, and American) and Cosmopolitan ...

Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Michael Cole, Kylie Travis, Louis Giambalvo
Directed By: Michael Cristofer

Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, and director André Téchiné collaborate for the second time (following their outstanding My Favorite Season) in a powerful story about a Paris cop (Auteuil) who comes from a criminal family. When his father and brother are murdered, suspicion shifts to his lover (actress Laurence Côté), who then disappears. Auteuil's character reluctantly teams up with ...

Manufacturer: Columbia/Tri-Star
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Laurence Côte, Benoît Magimel, Babe
Directed By: André Téchiné