Min-soo keeps looking at the intimidating boy whose sharp eyes are hidden under his baseball cap. On a warm spring day Min-soo, a small boy, meets tall and broad-shouldered Seok-yi inside a bus. Ye Jin confesses her love to Hae Soo when she is sure about her feelings. Ye Jin, a high school girl and frequent customer, starts to work at the cafe and falls for Hae Soo. Hae Soo moves to another city and opens a cafe to start her new life. One of her documentaries surprisingly becomes popular overnight. She runs her own production company, although she’s the only employee. Even though she is a drama writer, she tries to write her scripts in a literary style. Her personality is unique, talking to a luxurious purse at times. Im Jin Joo is a drama writer with a lot of emotional ups and downs. She is a single mother who struggles to balance her work and personal life as she is raising a kid. Hwang Han Joo is the head of a marketing team for a drama production company. Im Jin Joo, Lee Eun Jung, and Hwang Han Joo are best friends who are 30-years-old. Each team took one chapter consisting of two episodes. Stephanie Note: People call this a gay movie, but really, it just has the one gay character. I first didn’t like this movie, but after a rewatch I find it delightful and have big hopes that, in the future, way off screen, the owner and the baker end up up togehter.īeating Heart is a MBC experimental omnibus drama composed of six chapters with the title: “When did you feel your heart beating the hardest?” Conveying answers, such as love, sorrow and joy, are six pairs of directors and screenwriters who participated in this drama. Although seemingly careless and happy, each of the four men have unforgettable past that they are afraid to face, but their secrets slowly begin to unravel. Along with an ex-boxing champion Gi Beom and a clueless bodyguard Su Young, the four unique and handsome young men stir up the quiet neighborhood at their cake shop, Antique. He hires Sun Woo, a talented patisserie who had a crush on Jin Hyuk back in high school. So he sets up a cake shop where women are sure to come. Stephanie Note: Gah, he might just be a side character but he really is the heart of this drama, check it out.Īs an heir to the family fortune, Jin Hyuk has money, the looks, the charm, everything except finding the love of his life. As the timeline moves back and forth between their past as 18-year-old high schoolers in 1997 and their present as 33-year-olds at their high school reunion dinner in 2012, where one couple will announce that they’re getting married. Set in the 1990’s, the drama centers around a female high school student Shi Won, who idolizes boyband H.O.T and her 5 high school friends in Busan. My stomach is fluttering with butterflies because of my manager nowadays.
Stephanie Note: Eh, seems more of a chance for a couple of boom boom jiggity scenes.Īm I The Only One With Butterflies? (2018) They have contrasting viewpoint when it comes to politics, however, the two are discreetly having a homosexual affair. His secret yearning is dedicated to a young scholar in his commission. On a rainy day during the Joseon Dynasty, a chancellor casually recites a poem of solitude. For now, we rounded up 35 of our favorite LGBTQ movies, from a sapphic historical romance to a cheesy early-aughts coming out rom-com and everything in between.A secret relationship between two Korean government employees is complicated by the difference in the men’s ranks. With more queer-identifying filmmakers, actors, producers, and directors than ever before given the opportunity to share their stories, we can only expect more fantastic LGBTQ+ films in the future. While we’re a long way from total inclusivity and gay movies sans stereotypes, the film industry has made recent strides in centering LGBTQ+ characters. For marginalized groups, truthful representation in film is imperative, even lifesaving, and in today’s stormy political climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgender people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetically - and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like because they live it. Still, from Sacha Baron Cohen’s fashion-obsessed Brüno to a Scream Queens character nicknamed Predatory Lez, we unfortunately continue to see it all.
LGBTQ people have long been buried under tropes and unsubtle stereotypes in film and television. LGBTQ movies are a rarity, even more so than accurately portrayed queer characters in film nowadays.