The Celluloid Closet

7.219961h 42mReleased
Documentary
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Overview

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.

StatusReleased
Release Date1996-03-15
Runtime1h 42m
LanguagesEnglish
CountriesFranceGermanyUnited KingdomUnited States of America
Revenue$1,400,591

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CinemaSerf

Nov 17, 2025

7/10

Ok, so perhaps some of the claims made in the narration about some of the stars featured here are a bit optimistically speculative, but it still manages to use some very well researched archive and the benefit of hindsight to portray a sort of “Hollywood Babylon” approach to a century of gay Hollywood film-making. Starting way back, pre-code, with

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