Tearoom
2007•56m•6.0•Released
Documentary
Tearoom consists of footage shot by the police in the course of a crackdown on public sex in the American Midwest. In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department photographed men in a restroom under the main square of the city. The cameramen hid in a closet and watched the clandestine activities through a two-way mirror. The film they shot was used in court as evidence against the defendants, all of whom were found guilty of sodomy, which at that time carried a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in the state penitentiary. The original surveillance footage shot by the police came into the possession of director William E. Jones while he was researching this case for a documentary project. The unedited scenes of ordinary men of various races and classes meeting to have sex were so powerful that the director decided to present the footage with a minimum of intervention.
Director
William E. Jones
Languages
No Language
Recommended
6.9
Welcome to Chechnya
2020
6.7
Tongues Untied
1990
7.5
The Last Repair Shop
2024
6
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
8
My Mom Jayne
2025
7.3
I Am Divine
2014
6.2
Naqoyqatsi
2002
7.5
The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
6.5
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
2010
7.2
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
2022
7.4
I Am Heath Ledger
2017
7.2
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
7.1
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
2020
6.9
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
7.2
Come See Me in the Good Light
2025
7.7
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes
2019
7.3
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
2019
7.4
McQueen
2018
6.8
Looking for Richard
1996
8.1
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
Similar Movies
3.3
Ballot Measure 9
1995
Reiwa Uprising
2019
Studio Visits: Richard Haines
2018
This Is Not a Dream
2012
Queer Gardening
2022
The Oldest LESBIAN in the World!
2011
10
Tailor
2017
Layering
2023
Someone Waits For Me
2021
4.4
Things We Dare Not Do
2020
Jacques Maritain: The Amorous Philosopher
2007
Girl-Boy
2025
Tri Me: The Siri Lindley Story
2025
Atopia
2022
A Brief History of Gay and Lesbian Cinema
2017
detours while speaking of monsters
2024
I Don’t Want to Be Just a Memory
2024
5
Playback
2019
4.2
Absolutely Trans Is Beautiful!
2017
Take Care, Till Springtime
2025