Βρισκόμαστε στη Νέα Υόρκη. Ο Μέλβιν Ουντάλ, ένας ευέξαπτος, ισχυρογνώμων και ψυχαναγκαστικός συγγραφέας,ο οποίος αγνοεί την έννοια της ανθρώπινης επαφής,βρίσκει τη ζωή του να γυρίζει ανάποδα όταν ο ομοφυλόφιλος γείτονάς του μπαίνει στο νοσοκομείο και του αφήνει να προσέχει το σκύλο του. Σαν να μην έφτανε αυτό, η Κάρολ, η μοναδική γκαρσόνα που τον ανέχεται, πρέπει να σταματήσει τη δουλειά της για να φροντίσει τον άρρωστο γιο της, Η σχέση του με τους δύο αυτούς ανθρώπους - οι μόνοι που μπορούν να τον ανεχτούν - θα τον κάνει να αντιληφθεί την πραγματική σημασία της ζωής και να τον μετατρέψει από ένα απάνθρωπο τέρας σ' έναν αξιολάτρευτο άνθρωπο.

O Σαλβαδόρ Μάγιο, ένας σκηνοθέτης του κινηματογράφου που είναι πλέον στην παρακμή του, ξεκλειδώνει το κουτί των αναμνήσεων από την παιδική του ηλικία, ενώ στο παρόν προσπαθεί να κλείσει τους ανοιχτούς λογαριασμούς του.

Ο Touko Laaksonen, διακοσμημένος αξιωματικός, επιστρέφει σπίτι μετά από μια οδυνηρή και ηρωική εμπειρία που υπηρετεί τη χώρα του στον Β Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο, αλλά η ζωή στη Φινλανδία κατά τη διάρκεια της ειρήνης αποδεικνύεται εξίσου δυσάρεστη. Βρίσκει την ειρηνική εποχή του Ελσίνκι αδιάκοπα με τη δίωξη των ομοφυλόφιλων ανδρών γύρω του, ακόμη και υπό πίεση να παντρευτούν γυναίκες και να έχουν παιδιά. Ο Τούκο βρίσκει καταφύγιο στην απελευθερωτική του τέχνη, που ειδικεύεται στα ομοιορθωτικά σχέδια των μυών, απαλλαγμένων από αναστολές. Το έργο του - φημισμένο με την υπογραφή του «Τομ της Φινλανδίας» - έγινε το έμβλημα μιας γενιάς ανδρών και εξασθένισε τις φλόγες μιας ομοφυλοφιλικής επανάστασης.

Archive footage of interviews, concerts and personal material bring to light the solo performance work of Mercury, the lead singer of Queen.

Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine succeeded in becoming an internationally recognized icon, recording artist, and character actor of stage and screen. Glenn went from the often-mocked, schoolyard fat kid to underdog royalty, standing up for millions of gay men and women, drag queens and punk rockers, and countless other socially ostracized misfits and freaks. With a completely committed in-your-face style, he blurred the line between performer and personality, and revolutionized pop culture.

An intimate look at pioneering artist George Platt Lynes, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. The documentary reveals Lynes’ gifted eye for the male form, his long-term friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alfred Kinsey, and his lasting influence as one of the first openly gay American artists.

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique beginning to their love affair, the well-connected and volatile artist assimilates Dyer into his circle of eccentric friends, as Dyer's struggle with addiction strains their bond.

After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends.

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.

A documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. A respected photographer, artist, and set designer, Beaton was best known for designing on award-winning films such as 'Gigi' (1958) and 'My Fair Lady' (1964). The film features archive footage and interviews with a number of models, artists, and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career.

A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

Ο Ίαν ΜακΚέλεν αφηγείται τη ζωή και την καριέρα του ως θεατρικού και κινηματογραφικού ηθοποιού.

Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of experiences of LGBT Italians during the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini (1922-43); intimate words that contrast with the lyrics of popular songs and the propaganda of the time, obsessed with extolling the myths of virility, femininity and motherhood and constrained by sexual repression.

Film biography dwelling on the hectic artistic life of António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.

The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating sublime works, were haunted by the ghosts of the past, the shadow of constant doubt, the demon of addictions and the blinding, deceptive glare of success.

England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics that roiled NYC’s art elite. Brezinski’s quest for fame gives an intimate portrait of the art world’s attitude towards success and failure, fame and fortune, notoriety and erasure.

In his time of greatest splendor, the singer Miguel 'Bambino' Vargas Jiménez (1940-99) was the last frontier of flamenco, an immense musical genre that he developed and brought closer to large audiences: an artist of artists, the idol of the roadside bars, whose inimitable style, scenic magnetism and heartbreaking personality made of his figure a myth, a king without a kingdom, a giant of the popular music of the 20th century.