Bel Ami's site specializes in showcasing 18 to 25 year old eastern and central european gay men. Based in Prague in the Czech Republic, the company was established by industry veteren George Duroy - whose name is a pseudonym based on a real life character in Guy De Maupassant's 1885 novel Bel Ami.

In French "Bel Ami" means "beautiful friend" and there is no doubt that Bel Ami has produced some of the most sought after content of beautiful and friendly men. Their movie entitled "An American in Prague" is said to be the highest selling gay film of all time.

Their site offers much of their photo and video content and they have tried hard to make it easy to access with a clean site layout. In 2004 surfers responded by awarding Bel Ami the coveted Cybersocket Surfer’s Choice Award in the best video company site category.

Membership Levels

Bel Ami has 4 different membership levels including Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. With the exception of Platinum, members can either buy into a level or stay a member for a certain time period. The main purpose of these levels is to give higher level members access to more archived content.

Bronze
Purchasable
Access to all the Exclusive Content for the last 30 Days
Access to the last 7 Days of Casting

Silver
Purchasable or 3 months of membership
Access to all the Exclusive Content for the last 30 Days
Access to the last 14 Days of Casting
Frequent Renter Advantage Discounts in the VOD site

Gold
Purchasable or 6 months of membership
Access to all the Exclusive Content for the last 60 Days
Access to the last 14 Days of Casting
Frequent Renter Advantage Discounts in the VOD site

Platinum
12 months of membership
Access to all the Exclusive Content for the last 90 Days
Access to the last 14 Days of Casting
Frequent Renter Advantage Discounts in the VOD site

Photo Galleries

With over 300 Bel Ami models to choose from, members can find high resolution photo sets of their favorite stars. While they did not appears to be downloadable they are presented using Macromedia's Flash browser plugin that enables a convenient automated slideshow format. Galleries at Bel Ami can be sorted by couples or singles as well as most recently added ones.

Videos

You can download or stream a whole assortment of high quality video clips from Bel Ami. Members also get discounted rates on full length video on demand (VOD) and DVDs through Bel Ami's associated store called Silver Screen.

While all members have access to the videos, members at higher levels have access to more archived content. The videos fall under a few different categories including, Exclusive Website Videos, Movie Theatre, ScreenShots and Silver Screen.

The Exclusive Website Videos are updated often and of course are exclusive to Bel Ami. They are further divided up into sections including "Photo Sessions" (softcore solo videos of models posing for photos), "Training Sessions" (softcore couple action) and "In Bed With" (more hardcore scenes).

The Movie Theatre videos are clips from one of Bel Ami's many full length movies. They are typically only a few minutes long but with a few from each movie they add up. Members can often get the full length movies from which the clips are from at a discount on DVD or VOD from their Silver Screen site.

ScreenShots are photo sets from scenes of a few dozen popular Bel Ami movies and SIlver Screen is as mentioned before Bel Ami's VOD site where members get discounts.

Other Areas

Some other areas of interest at the Bel Ami site include the Casting area where members can cast votes and comments on new models trying out to become Bel Ami models. It is updated often and a popular area. In the Behind The Scenes area members can read interviews with models.

Conclusion

Bel Ami has a large amount of quality content and has managed to make most of it accessible through an easy to navigate interface. Their unique multi leveled membership system rewards those members who stay around or sign up for extended time periods. Even at their basic Bronze membership, members are sure to find plenty of high quality content. You can check out Bel Ami's web site at www.belamionline.com.