The Celluloid Closet
19961h 42m7.3
Documentary, History
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Certificate
- R
- Revenue
- $1,400,591
- Origin
- France
About
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.
Where to watch
With ads
Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.
Details
- Director
- Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- Writing
- Armistead Maupin
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Mar 15, 1996
- Box office
- $1.4M
- Studio
- ZDF, ARTE
Cast
Lily Tomlin
Narrator (voice)
Tony Curtis
Self
Susan Sarandon
Self
Gore Vidal
Self
Whoopi Goldberg
Self
Antonio Fargas
Self
Shirley MacLaine
Self
John Schlesinger
Self
Armistead Maupin
Self
Arthur Laurents
Self
Tom Hanks
Self
Farley Granger
Self
Quentin Crisp
Self
Harry Hamlin
Self
Sharon Stone
Self
Susie Bright
Self
Mart Crowley
Self
Jay Presson Allen
Self
Richard Dyer
Self
Jan Oxenberg
Self
If you like this
Disclosure
20207.8
Welcome to Chechnya
20207.0
Los Angeles Plays Itself
20047.6
Inside Deep Throat
20056.4
Pray Away
20216.7
Fuck
20066.4
A Decade Under the Influence
20037.9
De Palma
20167.0
Love, Antosha
20197.4
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
20136.9
Circus of Books
20196.8
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
20236.1
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
20147.2
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
20216.0
Life Itself
20147.5
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
20127.3
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
20086.9
My Mom Jayne
20257.9
Come See Me in the Good Light
20257.1
Room 237
20126.1
Similar
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
19999.0
This is an Address
2026
Love Exiled
20105.6
This Day Won’t Last
2020
My Transgender Kid
20151.0
O CONTRA-REC
2020
Siemprevivas
2026
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
19955.8
Dark City Beneath the Beat
20207.0
Lua
2024
Drag is my Ecstasy
2014
The Butch Factor
20094.6
This Filthy World
20067.6
Femminielli, les sirènes de Naples
2026
The Lesbian Bar Project: FLINTA
20241.0
The Screen Director
19517.0