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Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
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Our list of the Foremost LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time stretches back 90 years to the pioneering German film, Mädchen in Uniform, which was subsequently banned by the Nazis, and crosses multiple continents, cultures, and genres. There are broad American comedies (The Birdcage), artful Korean crime dramas (The Handmaiden), groundbreaking indies (Tangerine), and landmark documentaries (Paris Is Burning). Over the last few years, we added titles like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about LGBTQ+ activists risking their lives for
Netflix Exposes the Confidential Gay History of Nazi Germany
The Eldorado, the swinging, anything-goes nightspot that gives the recent NetflixdocumentaryEldorado its label, was an LGBTQ haven during Germany’s Weimar Republic, accepted among Berlin’s transitioned population and anyone else who liked to let their hair down in public. It was also, as the film’s subtitle puts it, Everything the Nazis Hate. Which didn’t stop burly Hitler confidante and head of the Nazi SA paramilitary wing Ernst Röhm, a not-terribly-closeted homosexual man, from frequenting the establishment. As the film explains, the SA had a strong homoerotic element, a disgust with women and femininity they somehow used to justify homosexuality – for a time, anyway. At a certain point, Röhm’s friendship with Hitler could only take him so far in a Nazi regime increasingly set on eradicating homosexuality.
Röhm is but one player in this concise, deftly told doc that uses the Eldorado as a launching pad into a broader story about organism gay in Nazi Germany. It’s a tale of feral n
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Eldorado - Everything the Nazis Dislike shows queer lives in s Berlin and the shift from the Weimar Republic to National Socialism
Klaus Mueller (pictured on the left) and Benjamin Cantu (pictured on the right)On June 28, , the documentary Eldorado - Everything the Nazis Hate is coming to Netflix.
The film tells the story of how a nightclub in s Berlin became a haven for the gender non-conforming community and explores the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power.
The director, Benjamin Cantu, explains his thinking behind the plot: “We wanted to show gender non-conforming lives that took place in Berlin and who experienced the shift from the Weimar Republic to National Socialism. What was important to us was to show how homosexuality was defined at that time from distinct directions - socially, scientifically, and politically.
“It was completely new at that time to talk so broadly and publicly about homosexuality. The topic was politically instrumentalized by the Nazis as adv as the Social Democrats and Communists. The characters this movie is about were affected by these dynamics i
28 Best German Movies on Netflix (July )
Netflix has become the melting pot of universal cinematic cultures in contemporary times. It has established itself as a platform where diverse filmmaking methods from all over the world appear together to celebrate the power of cinema. Right from the Western part of the globe, including America, to the Eastern sphere, including India, Netflix boasts them all. With such a varied organization of nationalities, the omniscient German industry has some great uploads on Netflix. Esteemed filmmakers like Luis Bunuel and Werner Herzog have paved the way for German films to be considered at par with quality cinema, and the new age visionaries have added more wonderful stories to the list.
The Heartbreak Agency ()
In Shirel Peleg’s rom-com ‘The Heartbreak Agency,’ we meet Maria, who runs the titular agency aimed at helping lovelorn individuals and heartbroken lovers, and Karl, a sexist magazine columnist who goes about sleeping with women without regard for their feelings. The two characters couldn’t be more different from each ot