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Suggested Viewing Gay-Themed Movies We Liked Scroll down for page content There's lot's of really good gay themed movies out there to watch! The links take you to the IMDb (International Movie Database), not to somewhere you can actually watch the movie. That's left up to you and whatever service you have. Here's over a hundred to get you started. Enjoy! The Tarheel Writer - On the Web since 24 February 2003. Celebrating 20 Years on the Internet! Tarheel Home Page |
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Not Rated | 2h 23min | Drama | 2017 (France)
Starring Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel
Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic. Set in Paris in the early 1990s.
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Not Rated | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2013 (USA)
Starring Matt Walton, Sean Matic, Anothony Ames
Conrad is a gay man living in NYC. Although Conrad is still in love with his ex, Martin, he hires a young Aussie hustler named Tyler, first for a night and then to work for his company.
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4th Man Out
Not Rated | 1h 26min | Comedy, Drama | 2016 (USA)
A car mechanic in a small, working class town comes out of the closet to his unsuspecting, blue-collar best friends.
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A Home at the End of the World
Rated R | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 2004 (Netherlands)
A boy who has experienced many losses in his life grows to manhood and enters into a love triangle with a woman and his boyhood friend.
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A Love to Hide
1h 43min | Drama, Romance, War | TV Movie | 2005 (France)
A young Jewish girl is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich. Sara flees into the comforting care of childhood summer-vacation chum Jean and his faithful lover Philippe.
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A Single Man
Rated R | 1h 39min | Drama, Romance | 2010 (USA)
An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.
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A Very Natural Thing
Rated R | 1h 20min | Drama, Romance | 1974 (USA)
A poignant romantic drama examines the life of gay 26 year old, ex-monk, school teacher living in Manhattan. When he meets a man at a gay bar, they connect and are soon living together. Unfortunately their views on monogamy don't match.
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Akron
Not Rated | 1h 28min | Drama, Family, Romance | 2016 (USA)
Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. Akron is a moving family drama and a sensitive young adult love story of two young men falling in love in the Midwest and their will to overcome the most painful of truths.
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Angels of Sex
Not Rated | 1h 45min | Drama, Romance | 2012 (USA)
The established relationship between university student Bruno and aspiring photographer Carla is thrown into turmoil when Bruno feels drawn to sexy karate instructor/break dancer Rai.
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As You Are
Not Rated | 1h 50min | Drama, Mystery | 2017 (USA)
Set in the early 1990's, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.
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Barcelona Summer Night
Not Rated | 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2013 (Spain)
On the night 18th August 2013, Comet Rose shot across the Barcelona skyline, offering a show that will not be seen again for several hundreds of years. The same night, new relationships blossomed while others faded away. Amid whispers of sweet nothings, throes of passion, love and tears, 567 different love stories played out that night beneath the Barcelona sky. We are going to tell you about six of them.
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Beach Rats
Rated R | 1h 38min | Drama | 2018 (Germany)
A Brooklyn teenager spends his days experimenting with drugs and looking online for older men to meet with.
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Beautiful Thing
Rated R | 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1996 (USA)
Starring Glen Berry, Scott Neil
IWhat is it about this little U.K. charmer that turned it into such a gay classic? The answer may be its subject matter: gay teens. This 1996 film was the first in a virtual tidal wave of movies and books in which the sensitive teen misfit with a best female friend falls for the jock who turns out to be gay. But hey, haven’t most of us been there, on one side or other of the misfit/jock divide? This movie, based on a stage play by Jonathan Harvey (who also wrote the film’s screenplay), was originally intended for television, but it was so successful that the producers decided to give it a theatrical release. And let’s not forget the inspired soundtrack of Mama Cass songs — an example of a perfect fit between music and movie subject matter. Make your own kind of music, indeed. -- TheBacklot.
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Before the Fall
Not Rated | 1h 50min | Drama, Mystery | 2017 (USA)
Ben Bennet is an affluent but seemingly arrogant attorney who unknowingly insults Lee Darcy, a detached factory worker wrongly charged with domestic abuse. Both men form an immediate dislike for each other which becomes a significant problem when Ben falls in love with Lee.
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Being 17
Not Rated | 1h 56min | Drama, Romance | 2016 (France)
Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them.
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Big Eden
Rated PG-13 | 1h 58min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2000 (USA)
"Big Eden" tells a story of gay love in a small Montana town where the residents are so accepting of homosexuality that the old coots around the cracker barrel at the general store rush to the window to monitor the progress of a triangle involving the local hunk, the artist feller from New York, and a tall, silent Indian.
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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Rated R | 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance | 1998 (USA)
Billy is a gay fine-arts photographer who falls in love with straight coffee-shop waiter Gabriel.
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The Birdcage
Rated R | 1h 57min | Comedy | 1996 (USA)
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancee's right-wing moralistic parents.
Yes, I have seen this film many times!
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Boy Culture
Not Rated | 1h 28min | Drama, Romance | 2007 (France)
A successful male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships with his two roommates and an older, enigmatic male client.
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Boys
Not Rated | 1h 18min | Drama, Romance | TV Movie 2014 (Netherlands)
A sexually awakening gay teen athlete finds himself in a budding relationship with his mutually attracted relay race teammate.
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Breaking the Surface (The Greg Louganis Story)
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Biography, Drama, Sport | TV Movie 1997 (USA)
Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers. Some topics discussed were Greg's childhood problems, his homosexuality, and him contracting the HIV virus.
Yes, I have seen this film and Mario Lopez is absolutely delicious!
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Brokeback Mountain
Rated R | 2h 14min | Drama, Romance | 2006 (USA)
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.
Yes, I went to see this film at the theater! Twice!
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The Broken Hearts Club
Rated R | 1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2000 (USA)
A group of gay friends in West Hollywood lean on each other to work their way through gay life, not always with success.
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Burning Blue
Rated R | 1h 36min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 2014 (USA)
Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray.
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Burnt Money
Rated R | 2h 5min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 2000 (Argentina)
Nene and Angel, and their accomplice Cuervo, participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down.
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C.R.A.Z.Y.
Not Rated | 2h 7min | Comedy, Drama | 2006 (Italy)
A young French-Canadian, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging homosexuality with his father's conservative values and his own Catholic beliefs.
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Call Me by Your Name
Rated R | 2h 12min | Drama, Romance | 2018 (USA)
In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
Yes, I saw this one at the theater. Awesome film!
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Center of My World
Not Rated | 1h 55min | Drama | 2016 (Germany)
After a summer spent with his his best friend Kat to escape his family, Phil goes back to school and starts to question his feelings towards Nicholas, a new classmate.
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Children of God
Not Rated | 1h 44min | Drama | 2011 (USA)
The story of two young Bahamian men who fall in love with each other and portrays the homophobia of the Bahamian society.
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Christopher and His Kind
Rated TV-14 | 1h 30min | Biography, Drama, Romance | TV Movie (BBC) | 2011 (UK)
How real-life British-American author Christopher Isherwood and his German boyfriend Heinz met and fell in love during the 1930s and the rise of Nazism.
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Ciao
Rated R | 1h 27min | Drama, Romance | 2008 (USA)
Jeff is taking care of everything Mark left behind when he died in an accident. Mark was about to have a visitor, Andrea, an Italian guy he met online. Jeff and Andrea have the chance to share memories of the Mark they knew while getting to know each other.
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Closet Monster
Not Rated | 1h 30min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 2016 (Taiwan)
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
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Date and Switch
Rated R | 1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2014 (USA)
Two guys who make a pact to lose their virginity before prom find their friendship tested when one of them comes out of the closet.
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Departure
Not rated | 1h 49min | Drama, Romance | 2016 (UK)
A nuclear family unravels in the South of France. Husband and wife are seperating and their son is dealing with coming out as gay.
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Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves
Not rated | 2h 54min | Drama | TV Mini-Series | 2012 (Sweden)
A story of love and death. Rasmus, 19, escapes to Stockholm and finds love in the religious Benjamin just as the AIDS epidemic hits the city's gay community.
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Dorian Blues
Not Rated | 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2004 (Germany)
High school senior Dorian begins a gay man's odyssey when he determines that he's gay and decides to come out. Chief among concerns is the reaction of his father, who has never liked him.
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Dream Boy
Rated R | 1h 28min | Drama, Romance | 2008 (Germany)
Chronicles the relationship between two gay teenagers in the rural south in the late '70s.
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Drown
Not rated | 1h 33min | Drama, Romance, Sport | 2015 (Poland)
Three surf lifesavers on a big night out. Jealousy, homophobic fears and unrequited lust culminate in a tragic booze-fueled episode of near-fatal bullying.
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Eating Out
Not rated | 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2004 (Poland)
After getting dumped by his slutty girlfriend, Caleb falls in love with Gwen. However, thanks to Caleb's roommate, Gwen thinks he's gay and sets him up with her roommate, Marc.
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Not rated | 1h 19min | Comedy, Romance | 2006 (Germany)
After Marc dumps him, Kyle unites with Gwen and Tiffani to land sexually confused art model Troy by pretending to be straight. However, Marc wants Troy, too, and members from a notorious "ex-gay" group are slipping for the both of them.
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Edge of Seventeen
Not Rated | 1h 39min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1998 (Australia)
A teenager copes with his sexuality on the last day of school in 1984. It shows him coping with being gay and being with friends.
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Elliot Loves
Not Rated | 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance | 2012 (USA)
Two stages of a Dominican-American's life; first as a boy trying to bond with his young mother, then a 21-year-old looking for love in New York City.
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Esteros
Not rated | 1h 23min | Drama, Romance | 2016 (USA)
Matias and Jeronimo know each other since childhood. Their friendship takes a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both experience their sexual awakening.
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Fair Haven
Not rated | 1h 30min | Drama | 2016 (USA)
A young man returns to his family farm, after a long stay in ex-gay conversion therapy, and is torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father, and the memories of a past, loving relationship he has tried to bury.
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Five Dances
Rated TV-14 | 1h 23min | Drama, Music, Romance | 2013 (USA)
The coming of age tale of an extraordinarily gifted young dancer recently arrived in New York City.
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Floating Skyscrapers
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (Poland)
The story of a young man discovering his homosexuality, while his girlfriend tries to cling onto him.
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Four Moons
Not rated | 1h 50min | Drama, Romance | 2014 (Mexico)
Four stories of love and disgust between men of different generations facing their conflicts and their fears.
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Free Fall
Not Rated | 1h 40min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (Germany)
A soon-to-be-father policeman falls for a gay fellow officer and his life starts falling apart.
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Friends and Family
Not Rated | 1h 27min | Comedy, Crime | 2001 (USA)
A gay couple are hit men for the mafia.
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From Beginning to End
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2009 (Brazil)
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
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G.B.F.
Rated R | 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2013 (USA)
What happens after Tanner is outed by his classmates and becomes the title "gay best friend" for three high school queen bees?
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Geography Club
Rated PG-13 | 1h 24min | Comedy | 2014 (USA)
At Goodkind High School, a group of students with varying sexual orientations form an after-school club as a discreet way to share their feelings and experiences.
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Get Real
Rated R | 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1999 (UK)
This tenderly romantic film tells the story of Steve, a young boy in a at secondary school, as he struggles with coming out and falling in love with John, the top athlete at school - who, amazingly, falls in love with him as well.
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Get Your Stuff
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama | 2000 (USA)
Social Worker Gloria finds brothers T.J. and Brian, once again, abandoned by their alcoholic mother. With nowhere else to turn, she delivers them to a gay couple (Phil and Eric) on a waiting list to adopt an infant. While 8-year-old Brain is ready to give this new situation a go, 12-year-old T.J. has already been hardened by past rejections to give ANY situation a go. Both boys must either accept this situation or be split up in group homes. After several calls, T.J. gets his drunken mother, Cat, to drop by, and she ends up staying as well. This puts a strain on the gay men's relationship, forcing one to leave while the other remains to fix the problems with the boys and their mother.
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Getting Go, the Go Doc Project
Not Rated | 1h 31min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (USA)
College boy "Doc" is obsessed with a well-known NYC go-go dancer, nicknamed "Go." He befriends his hunky crush under the ruse of shooting a movie about what it's like to live in his skin. Camera in hand, he follows his subject across the city - into bars, onto rooftops, over dance floors and, ultimately, into his bedroom - but as they grow closer, flirtation blurs the line between subject and filmmaker until a steamy night together solidifies deeper feelings.
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God's Own Country
Not Rated | 1h 44min | Drama, Romance | 2017 (UK)
Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
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Handsome Devil
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 2017 (Ireland)
Ned and Conor, two underclassmen roommates at an all-boys boarding school eventually and unexpectedly bond, one a social outcast, the other a star rugby player. With a new English teacher challenging students to find their own voices, the boys' friendship is tested by the rugby-obsessed expectations of others after one is found to be gay.
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Happy Together
Not Rated | 1h 36min | Drama, Romance | 1997 (Hong Kong)
Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Uhf zacnjb-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.
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Harry + Max
Not Rated | 1h 14min | Drama, Romance | 2004 (USA)
Harry is a 23-year-old former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max, 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry has detoured on his way to a Japanese concert tour to escort Max on a long-promised camping adventure. Their trip begins on a note of camaraderie but quickly turns serious as old wounds resurface, forcing them to come to terms with their dysfunctional past--Harry's drinking problems, his disconnection from the family, and, most of all, his relationship with Max and the emotional dependency that keeps them from moving into adulthood. Max is played by Cole Williams whose father is singer/songwriter Paul Williams.
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Harvest
Not Rated | 1h 28min | Drama, Romance | 2011 (Germany)
A drama that tracks the relationship between two young apprentices working on an agricultural complex south of Berlin.
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Hawaii
Not Rated | 1h 42min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (Argentia)
"Hawaii" lays out the day to day interactions between Eugenio (played by the unconventionally handsome Manuel Vignau, "Bruno" from "Plan B") and Martín (played by Mateo Chiarino) that build a budding romance neither knows how to address. Tension builds until, finally, a fateful kiss that changes everything.
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Heartbeats
Not Rated | 1h 41min | Drama, Romance | 2010 (Canada)
In a story interspersed with interview tales of romantic pitfalls, friendship turns to romantic rivalry for gay man Francis and straight woman Marie when a veritable Adonis named Nicolas enters their lives. Sexual tensions mount as Francis and Marie await Nicolas' show of preference.
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Heartstone
Not Rated | 2h 9min | Drama, Romance | 2016 (Iceland)
In a fishing village in Iceland, a boy develops feelings for his best friend as his best friend pursues his affections for a girl.
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Hidden Kisses
Not Rated | 1h 27min | Drama | TV Movie | 2016 (France)
Nathan, 16, lives alone with his father Stephane. A newcomer in high school, he is invited to a party and falls in love with Louis, a boy in his class.
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Holding the Man
Not rated | 2h 7min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 2015 (Australia)
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it - the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses - until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.
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I Am Michael
Not Rated | 1h 38min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 2015 (USA)
Based on the fascinating true-life story of Michael Glatze, a gay activist who becomes a Christian pastor after identifying as a heterosexual.
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I Think I Do
Not Rated | 1h 30min | Comedy, Romance | 1997 (USA)
A screwball comedy about a gay couple at a straight couple's wedding.
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In the Grayscale
Not rated | 1h 41min | Drama, Romance | 2015 (Chile)
Bruno, an architect with a great life, is hired to build an iconic landmark, and as he works with a gay history teacher named Fer, an unexpected and intense romance starts to blossom.
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Just a Question of Love
Not rated | 1h 28min | Drama, Romance | TV Movie | 2000 (France)
After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.
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Just Charlie
Note Rated | 1h 37min | Drama | Movie | 23 June 2017 (UK)
Harry Gilby plays Charlie Lyndsay, a teenager who is a superior football (soccer) player at his school. He's so skilled that he's already being recruited by a major football team. Life is good, but it isn't. Charlie realizes that she is really a girl trapped in a boy's body. She's not gay, but rather has what is now called gender dsyphoria. This would be hard enough without football, but it's worse for Charlie because she really wants to play football, although she wants to play on the women's team.
Yes, I have seen this film and really enoyed it.
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Kill Your Darlings
Rated R | 1h 44min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 2013 (USA)
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster).
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King Cobra
Not Rated | 1h 31min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 2016 (USA)
Veteran gay pornography producer Stephen battles two rival producers over the rights to his underage porn star creation, Brent Corrigan, with deadly results.
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Kiss Me, Guido
Rated R | 1h 26min | Comedy | 1997 (USA)
Warren has an extra room in his apartment (and is five months behind on the rent) after his lover moves out, so a friend places an ad on his behalf for a GWM roommate. Frankie, a pizza baker (and aspiring actor), decides to move out of his family's flat in The Bronx when he comes home one evening and walks in on his brother making love to Frankie's girlfriend. Frankie checks ads for roommates in "the city" (i.e., Manhattan), notices Warren's ad and decides to answer it, reasoning that GWM stands for "Guy With Money."
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L.I.E.
Rated R | 1h 37min | Crime, Drama | 2002 (UK)
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
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Land of Storms
Not Rated | 1h 45min | Drama, Romance, Sport | 2014 (Hungary)
Szabolcs quits football against his father's will and returns to his country in Hungary to take charge of an inheritance from his grandfather. There, he meets Aron and they both explore their identities.
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The Last Match
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (Cuba)
Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field at their neighbourhood in Havana.
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Latter Days
Rated R | 1h 47min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2003 (USA)
A promiscuous gay party animal falls for a young Mormon missionary, leading to crisis, cliche, and catastrophe.
Yes,I have seen this wonderful film.
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Longtime Companion
Rated R | 1h 36min | Drama, Romance | 1989 (USA)
The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.
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Lost in Paradise
Not rated | 1h 43min | Drama, Romance | 2012 (Taiwan)
Khoi, a naive twenty-year-old, travels to Ho Chi Minh City from the countryside to begin a new life. It's his first time in the big city and he's looking for a place to live. He befriends Dong, a handsome extrovert who offers to share his apartment.
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Love of Siam
Not Rated | 2h 34min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 2007 (Thailand)
Two boyhood friends are separated due to the disappearance of the sister of one of them, then later meet again as teenagers, when one of them has become a pop singer, and they discover feelings that they did not know they had.
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Love Simon
Rated PG-13 | 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2018 (USA)
Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends, and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.
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Mambo Italiano
Rated R | 1h 39min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2003 (USA)
The son of Italian immigrants to Canada struggles to find the best way to reveal to his parents that he's gay.
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Man in an Orange Shirt
Rated TV-14 | 2h | Drama, Romance | TV Mini-Series | 2017 (USA)
Tales of love across two films highlighting the very different challenges that face the couples, With Michael and Thomas just after WWII, and Adam and Steve in the present day.
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Maurice
Rated R | 2h 20min | Drama, Romance | 1987 (USA)
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
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Miles
Not rated | 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 2017 (USA)
A kid from middle America, desperate to move to Chicago, joins the volleyball team to get a scholarship - the only catch is that his high school only has a girls team.
Yes, I have seen this wonderful film.
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MilkRated R | 2h 8min | Biography, Drama | 30 January 2009 (USA)
The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.
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Monster Pies
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (Australia)
Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.
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Moonlight
Rated R | 1h 51min | Drama | 2016 (USA))
A chronicle of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young, African-American, gay man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
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Morgan
Not rated | 1h 29min | Drama, Romance | 2014 (Poland)
A paralyzed gay bicycle racer risks home, relationships and personal health to reenter the fray as a paraplegic racer.
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My Beautiful Laundrette
Rated R | 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1986 (USA)
An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat. Stars Daniel Day Lewis.
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My Own Private Idaho
Rated R | 1h 44min | Drama | 1991 (USA)
Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way.
Yes, I have seen this film. OMG, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves!
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Mysterious Skin
Not Rated | 1h 45min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 2005 (USA)
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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The Normal Heart
Rated TV-MA | 2h 12min | Drama, History, Romance | TV Movie | 2014 (USA)
A gay activist attempts to raise H.I.V. and A.I.D.S. awareness during the early 1980s.
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North Sea Texas
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2 November 2012 (Belgium)
A teenage boy's search for love finds him fixated on a boy who lives nearby.
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Out in the Dark
Not Rated | 1h 36min | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 2013 (Germany)
A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.
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Over the Edge
Rated PG | 1h 35min | Drama, Crime, Straight, One of my favorites | 1979 (USA)
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.
This is not a GAY movie. It is; however, it is Matt Dillon's first movie ever. There's a lot of other teenage hunks in this films as well. I have seen this film at last a half dozen times. Hehe ... time to watch it again.
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Paris 5:59; Theo & Hugo
Not Rated | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 2016 (France)
Theo and Hugo are two young gay men who meet one night during a gay orgy at an underground sex club in Paris, France. After building a special connection, they meet outside the club where they realize they had unprotected sex. The action of the film is set entirely in real time as it begins at 4:27 am and concludes at 5:59 am.
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The Pass
Not Rated | 1h 28min | Drama, Romance | 2018 (UK)
A romantic interaction between two young footballers profoundly affects one of them throughout the rest of his life and career.
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Patrick, Age 1.5
Not Rated | 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2008 (Sweden)
A Swedish gay couple adopt what they think is an 18-month-old orphan, only to meet their new son, a 15-year-old homophobic delinquent.
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Philadelphia
Rated PG-13 | 2h 5min | Drama | 1994 (USA)
When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.
Yes, I have seen this film starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.
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Poster Boy
Rated R | 1h 44min | Drama | 2004 (USA)
With the help of a hot, slightly older new acquaintence, the closeted son of a conservative U.S. Senator puts a shocking spin on his dad's re-election campaign.
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Prayers for Bobby
Rated TV-14 | 1h 30min | Biography, Drama, Romance | TV Movie | 2009 (USA)
In "Prayers for Bobby," Mary Griffith (Sigourney Weaver) is a devout Christian who raises her children with the conservative teachings of the Presbyterian Church. However, when her son Bobby (Ryan Kelley) confides to his older brother he may be gay, life changes for the entire family after Mary learns about his secret. While Bobby's father (Henry Czerny) and siblings slowly come to terms with his homosexuality, Mary believes God can cure him of what she considers his 'sin' and persuades Bobby to pray harder and seek solace in church activities in hopes of changing him
Yes, I have seen this film.
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Pride
Rated R | 1h 59min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 2014 (UK)
U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
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Priest
Rated PG-13 | 1h 27min | Action, Fantasy, Horror | 13 May 2011 (USA)
A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece.
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Private Romeo
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2011 (USA)
A modern take on Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. Set at an isolated all-boys military academy, it follows the forbidden relationship between two cadets.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rated R | 1h 40min | Comedy, Musical | 1975 (UK)
On a wild and rain-swept late-November evening, somewhere at an empty stretch of road outside Ohio's merry Denton, blissfully-affianced, prudish, boringly-innocent young pair Brad Majors and Janet Weiss find themselves stranded on their way to visit an ex-tutor. Instead, the couple will inadvertently unearth the cross-dressing Dr. Frank-N-Furter's (Tim Curry) spooky lair of inexhaustible oddities
Yes, I have seen this film many, many times! Let's do the time warp again!!
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Romeos
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2011 (Germany)
A drama centered on the relationship between a two young men, as one of them navigates the difficulties of life as a transgender man.
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Sasha
Not Rated | 1h 42min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 2011 (Germany)
Sasha is a piano prodigy under pressure to gain admittance to a prestigious music school. What is really stressing Sasha is his emerging sexuality, plus his piano tutor is moving away, because Sasha is in love with him, and no one knows.
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Seashore
Not rated | 1h 23min | Drama, Romance | 2015 (Brazil)
Two boys on the edge of adulthood find themselves exploring their relationship.
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Shelter
Rated R | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance, Sport | 2007 (USA)
When his college dreams are sidelined by family obligations, a young man finds comfort in surfing with his best friend's brother.
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Silent Youth
Not Rated | 1h 13min | Drama, Romance | 2012 (Spain)
Silent Youth is a film for misfits, dreamers and lovers. It's the classic story of a coming out, but it focuses on the moments one tends to quickly forget: the first approach, the creaking of the chair while sitting across from each other, not knowing what to say. And it's about the silence.
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Snails in the Rain
Not Rated | 1h 22min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (Israel)
Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male-written, love letters that undermines his sexual identity and interfere with his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.
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Soft Lad
Not Rated | 1h 27min | Drama, Romance | 2015 (UK)
A young man involved in a love affair that will change his life for ever, while his lover wrestles his demons on a journey that will force him to come to terms with his sexuality, leaving lives destroyed in the wake.
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Something Like Summer
Not Rated | 1h 55min | Drama, Musical, Romance | 2017 (Australia)
Something Like Summer traces the tumultuous relationship of Ben and Tim, secret high school sweethearts who grow over the years into both adulthood enemies and complicated friends.
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Speechless
Not Rated | 1h 32min | Drama | 2012 (China)
A guy is found by the police swimming naked. He can't, or refuses to, speak and is sent to a hospital. Since no diagnosis can be made, he will be transferred to a mental hospital, when his male nurse decides to take another route. Slowly the reason for his speechlessness becomes clear. Together with the nurse's girlfriend and a female friend of the silent stranger, their history is explained.
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The String
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 2010 (France)
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
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Summer Storm
Rated R | 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2004 (Germany)
A close friendship between two crew teammates is tested when one slowly discovers he's gay and attracted to the other.
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Tell No One
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Comedy, Romance | 2012 (Italy)
Matthia is about to move to Madrid to be with his boyfriend Eduard, so he won't have to reveal to the family of being gay. Eduard, however, is convinced that their marriage has the blessing of all family members. On the day before Matthia leaves for Spain, Eduard announces his arrival in Rome to meet the in-laws. Matthia must now choose whether to finally come clean with his companion, or confess to being a formidable liar.
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Those People
Not Rated | 1h 29min | Drama, Romance | 2016 (USA)
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous socialite best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign concert pianist.
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Touch of Pink
Rated R | 1h 31min | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 2004 (UK)
A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit.
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Trick
Rated R | 1h 29min | Comedy, Music, Romance | 1999 (USA)
The misadventures of two young gay men, trying to find a place to be alone, one night in Manhattan.
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The Trip
Not Rated | 1h 52min | Comedy, Drama | 2010 (UK)
Steve Coogan has been asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, but after his girlfriend backs out on him he must take his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
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Undertow
Not Rated | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 16 April 2010 (Colombia)
An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
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The War Boys
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 30 May 2009 (USA)
Three young vigilantes huddle on la linea ready to chase illegals back across the border into Mexico... but they soon learn that there are borderlines deep within each one of them that each of them has to cross.
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Watercolors
Not Rated | 1h 54min | Drama, Romance | 2009 (USA)
A story about two classmates - one smart and openly gay and the other school swimming star. They grow as friends and discover their attraction to each other. This story has been told many times but the characters in this version are very endearing. On a side note, Greg Louganis plays the swim coach.
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The Way He Looks
Not Rated | 1h 36min | Drama, Romance | 2014 (USA)
Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend, Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.
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Weekend
Not Rated | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 2011 (UK)
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
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Were the World Mine
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 2008 (Germany)
A bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school uses a magical flower derived from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream' to turn many in his community gay, including a comely rugby player for himself.
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Yossi and Jagger
Rated R | 1h 5min | Drama, Romance, War | 2002 (Israel)
Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border.
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Yossi
Not Rated | 1h 24min | Drama, Romance | 2012 (Israel)
This sequel to Yossi and Jagger finds Dr. Yossi Gutmann reminiscing about his love ten years after his death; however, as he encounters a group of young soldiers, one of them, Tom, reignites his romantic feelings.
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You and I
Not rated | 1h 19min | Drama, Romance | 2014 (Germany)
Summer in Berlin. Jonas is planning a trip through the little known area of the Uckermark in preparation for a photography project. He invites his best friend, Phillip, to come along. They haven't met since the time they spent together in London. So they pack up their Mercedes camper and take off across uncharted territory, stopping whenever they see something they like, taking pictures and generally enjoying a laid-back road trip. The fact that Phillip is gay has never been an issue for either of them. When they pick up a hitchhiker named Boris, however, who shows Jonas some interesting spots and starts to make moves on Phillip, the friendship of the two starts to fray. Maybe three's a crowd after all? By the end of the summer, things between Jonas and Phillip won't ever be the same again.
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