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The bold Tira works as a dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair.

At the turn of the century, in the port town of Seville, it's carnival week, and the blood of enemies and the passions of lovers run hot. But, none so much as those of a young revolutionary, his old friend, and the new woman who comes between them both.

In Amsterdam of 1642, master painter Rembrandt Van Rijn enjoys a full life until the sudden death of his wife. Bankrupt and bereft, he finds comfort in the arms of a pretty servant.

The story of an aging film queen who prepares for her grand comeback to stardom.

After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and Stella's husband Stanley.

Karen Stone, a lonely, aging actress, lives in a luxurious apartment in Rome where she has a romantic fling with a young gigolo.

Chance Wayne, an ambitious man craving fame, returns to his southern home with an alcoholic movie star in tow, Alexandra Del Lago. Hoping to capitalize on Del Lago's fame and checkbook, Chance seeks to reunite with his former girlfriend.

A defrocked, alcoholic, and emotionally-troubled minister struggles with his desire for earthly pleasures as a tour guide in Mexico. Shepherding a busload of school teachers and one libidinous 18-year old girl, he becomes entangled with the teen, suffers a nervous breakdown when discovered, and strands the group at the remote and rundown seaside hotel of his old friend Maxine.

Adventure story of the giant ape King Kong, discovered on Skull Island, his voyage to New York and his fatal attraction to a young woman, leading to death and destruction as he pursues her.

Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help create a new creature, a woman, to be the companion of the monster. (Note Ernest Thesiger's performance as Doctor Pretorius).

Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California, replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. In a race for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people.

With a contract to perform a drag show out in the Australian desert, three drag queens each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered pink tour bus "Priscilla," the trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.

When Batman and Robin get a tip that Commodore Schmidlapp is in danger aboard his yacht, they launch a rescue mission. Starring Adam West, and based on campy television series.

Megan's super normal suburban existence is filled with friends, pom-poms and rah-rah enthusiasm until her parents suspect that she may be showing deviant tendencies.

An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret.

Contains: Playing the Part; Jumping the Gun; Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film; Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst is your Waffen; Little Women in Transit.

A pharmacist's daughter seduced by her father's assistant has a child and is banished to a repressive reform school. Escaping, she makes her way penniless to a brothel where she lives for the moment.

Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue. (Ricki Lake, Divine)

A black comedy about a rich, disturbed, young man, fascinated with death and funerals, who has an affair and a series of adventures with an eccentric and independent 80-year-old woman.

This is the story of Hedwig, an ambitious glam-rocker who comes to America determined to find fame, fortune, and his "other half." Based on the smash hit New York show.

Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec.

Orlando is an English nobleman who defies the laws of nature with surprising results. Evideo

Babs Johnson, a trailer park bon vivant proudly claims the title of the filthiest person alive. The envy of every neighborhood degenerate, it isn't long before another couple set their sites on Divine's legacy, and in the proud American tradition, competition forces each contender to outdo the other.

A mixture of fantastical rock opera and horror movie spoof, this film begins when a couple of ordinary, clean-cut kids have car trouble one dark rainy night and knock on the door of a looming gothic mansion.

Not exactly a fact-based story of the Tchaikovsky's marriage, this is a lavishly produced picture with music played by the London Symphony Orchestra.

A dazzling depiction of the life of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. Mahler's turbulent marriage, passionate affairs, and rejection of Judaism are depicted through flashbacks and dream sequences.

A rock music extravaganza fantasizing the musical and erotic life of Franz Liszt.

The "unblinking behind-the-scenes story of the fashion-obsessed New Yorkers who created 'voguing' and drag balls, and turned these raucous celebrations into a powerful expression of fierce personal pride"

A visual and oral biography of Andy Warhol as his friends, family, and colleagues saw him. Includes film clips of Warhol.

An in-depth look at the early career of cult filmmaker John Waters.

A look at North American drag king culture through interviews and performance footage.

A tale of love and oppression, with women becoming the social focus for the oppression that love can create.

Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him.

A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that his values are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned.

Sicilian villagers plot to overthrow the tyranny of wholesalers depriving them of a decent living.