Oooh, I'll have to take a look at A Great and Terrible Beauty.

I definitely agree with you about the modern cases. Basically I tend to have this expectation that if something isn't marketed to me as Queer Film I'm not going to find any gay characters in it, and that any queerness in it will probably be coming from me and not from the movie itself. I am slowly beginning to settle down and not clutch desperately at everything where the author or creators or actors INTENDED the homoeroticism. But it's slow-going.