"My Beautiful Laundrette" is a classic. Set in the Thatcher-era UK, it's another queer film that is so much more than a queer film. It's about discrimination based on ethnicity, and it's about very different people coming together to resist, as much as it is about falling in love.

Given today's reactionary political environment on both sides of the Atlantic, I don't think the film would feel all that dated! Everything old is new again, as they say.