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8. Broken Sky 2006 
    MY TAKE: If you want to see the complexities of love condensed into 2 hours and 20 minutes of jaw-dropping cinematographic beauty, check out "Broken Sky." Along with "Angels In America" and "Trick" -- yes, "Trick" -- this is my favorite gay movie. It's unforgettable. Never before have I sat in front of a screen and been so stunned by the artful beauty of a film. You become a drop of blood in a pounding heart.
   PLOT: Set at the National Autonomous University of Mexico -- a dramatic campus with 144,000 undergraduate students alone -- the film luxuriates in its three chief characters, a trio of seriously lustful gay students longing for love. Its frank portrayal of gay sex -- frank but not pornographic -- would turn off many people. So would its pace and depth, both of which make "Brokeback Mountain" look like a romantic comedy. You could print the movie's dialogue on a gum wrapper. Everything is expressed through the actors' eyes and bodies, through the camera's mournful lens.
   FAVE SCENE: I can't pick one. Check out the video below.

   SEX QUOTIENT: Intense.

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7. Adventures Of Felix 2000 
    MY TAKE: Sami Bouajila plays a cute, gay, HIV-positive Arab who lives in an English Channel town on the northwest coast of France. The film is a classic character study, weaving homophobia, racism and AIDS into a meandering 95 minutes. In a cool touch, it's set in spring, so the skies often are dramatic but the scenery dew-fresh, which fits the flick's tone.
   PLOT: Felix loses his job and decides to take a five-day trip -- via feet and thumb -- to the South of France, hoping to meet his father for the first time. En route, he finds a new "family" of sorts.

   FAVORITE SCENES: In the beginning of the film, the camera follows Felix as he rides his bicycle along the oceanfront in his English Channel hometown of Dieppe. It's the sort of scene that would probably be chopped in half or less by an American movie-maker. But it evokes wonderful feelings of youth and freedom. At the end of the film, Felix is reunited with his boyfriend after his journey to Marseilles. Their playful warmth is every gay guy's dream. 

    SEX QUOTIENT: Nothing overt, though there is full frontal nudity in one scene. But, hey, Sami's a beautiful human being. Enjoy.

    MORE: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/adventures_of_felix/

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6. Slutty Summer 2005 
    MY TAKE: The critics hated this little flick. But I liked it, maybe because I didn't expect a cinematic masterpiece from a film shot on a shoestring budget in Manhattan. Yes, the acting is uneven. Some is bad, some is very good. But the story is cute, if cliche-ridden, and the actors even cuter. Luke (Jesse Archer), as the most stereotypical gay character, is totally endearing, if endlessly horny. And Tyler (Jamie Hatchett), as the BritBoy model, is astonishingly beautiful and sexy. What's not to like? Oh, and I love Tyler's quote when Markus (writer-director-actor Casper Andreas) asks him to define their relationship: "Well, I hesitate to call us fuck buddies," he said in his clipped British accent, "because i do enjoy talking to you."
   PLOT: Four pretty, young gay guys get jobs as waiters at a Chelsea restaurant and spend the summer looking for sex and love.
   FAVE SCENE: The gay Jewish dork, Peter, finds a boyfriend -- a cool black kid -- and the two of them walk hand-in-hand down a neighborhood sidewalk in Manhattan.
   SEX QUOTIENT: Not real explicit, but sexy.
  TRIVIA: Jamie Hatchett is a former Versace underwear model.
  MORE:  http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/slutty_summer/