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Classic Films
Related: About this forumTCM Schedule for Monday June 30, 2025 - Pride Night 2 - New Queer Cinema
Daytime features earlier films with (coded or not) LGBTQ themes.(all times Eastern)
6:00 AM Tea and Sympathy (1956)
2h 2m | Drama | TV-PG
A faculty wife risks her marriage to help a troubled teen tormented by his fellow students.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
8:15 AM The Fox (1967)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-14
A sexy male drifter upsets the relationship between two female farmers.
Director: Mark Rydell. Cast: Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea, Anne Heywood
10:15 AM Cabaret (1972)
2h 4m | Musical | TV-14
Set in Berlin in 1931, a starry-eyed singer and the club's master of ceremonies try to bring happiness and decadence to the lives of Berliners as the spectre of Nazism grows around them and threatens to destroy their lives.
Director: Bob Fosse. Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
12:30 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
1h 36m | Suspense | TV-PG
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
2:15 PM Some Like It Hot (1959)
2h | Comedy | TV-PG
When a pair of bumbling, out-of-work musicians, accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day gangster murders, they disguise themselves as women and join up with a travelling all-womens' band to escape the mobsters after them.
Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
4:30 PM Red River (1948)
2h 5m | Western | TV-PG
A young cowhand rebels against his rancher stepfather during a perilous cattle drive.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
6:45 PM The Queen (1968)
1h 8m | Documentary | TV-14
A behind-the-scenes look at a 1967 national drag queen contest in New York City, including the rehearsals leading up to the contest, the conversations in the dressing room and the jealousies that emerge before and after the competition.
Director: Frank Simon. Cast: Bernard Giquel, Jack Doroshow, Jim Dine
8:00 PM Milk (2008)
2h 8m | Biography | TV-MA
The story of American gay activist Harvey Milk, who fought for gay rights and was elected as California's first openly gay official.
Director: Gus Van Sant. Cast: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch
10:15 PM Go Fish (1994)
1h 25m | Comedy |
A comedy of manners involving a group of young lesbians living in Chicago.
Director: Rose Troche. Cast: Arthur C Stone, Elizabeth Kydd, Mimi Wadell
11:45 PM Without You I'm Nothing (1990)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-MA
Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience.
Director: John Boskovich. Cast: Sandra Bernhard, John Doe, Steve Antin
1:30 AM Paris Is Burning (1990)
1h 11m | Documentary | TV-MA
Against a backdrop of poverty, AIDS, and discrimination in 1980s New York City, this seminal documentary chronicles Harlem drag balls as houses compete in various categories, using fashion, movement and style to win trophies.
Director: Jennie Livingston. Cast: Carmen, Paris Dupree, Pepper Labeija
3:00 AM Fox and His Friends (1975)
2h 3m | Drama | TV-MA
Franz "Fox" is a working-class, carnival worker in need of cash for his weekly lottery purchase. He's picked up by an older man named Max, who introduces him to two young gay men. The next day, Fox wins 500,000 marks in the lottery, and the two young men suddenly become Fox's friends.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karl Boehm
5:30 AM MGM Parade Show #27 (1955)
25m | Documentary | TV-G
Walter Pidgeon introduces Part One of "Captains Courageous" and introduces a clip from "Forbidden Planet."
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew