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Suggested Viewing Gay-Themed Movies We Liked There's lot's of really good gay themed movies out there to watch! The links take you to the IMDb website (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 almost two hundred to get you started. Enjoy! The Tarheel Writer - On the Web since 24 February 2003. Celebrating 21 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 | 2003 (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)
Starring Parker Young, Evan Todd and Chord Overstreet
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)
Starring Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Robin Wright
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)
Starring Jeremie Renier, Louise Monot and Bruno Todeschini
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 | 2009 (USA)
Starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode
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)
Starring Robert McLane, Curt Gareth and Bo White
When David, an ex-monk still in his twenties meets Mark, he falls hard; soon he's asked Mark if they can live together. Things go well for awhile, and then differences in their definition of "commitment" begin to push them apart. Mark wants other sexual adventures, David tries to go along. Can they talk through the crisis in their relationship or is a breakup in the offing?
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Rated R | 1h 44min | Comedy, Music | 1994 (USA)
Starring Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
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Akron
Not Rated | 1h 28min | Drama, Family, Romance | 2016 (USA)
Starring Matthew Frias, Cailan Rose and Luis Gabriel Canas
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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All Over the Guy
Rated R | 1h 35min | Comedy, Romance | 2001 (USA)
Starring Dan Bucantinsky, Richard Ruccolo and Sasha Alexander
"All Over The Guy" is a contemporary romantic comedy about the quest to find the "one" when "the one" doesn't know he's the "one." It explores the unlikely pairing of Eli and Tom, two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance. They do everything they can to NOT fall in love, but finally they overcome the dysfunction of their parents and surrender to their hearts.
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Angels in America
TV Mini Series TV-MA | 5h 52min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 2001 (USA)
Starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson
The epic HBO miniseries Angels in America is directed by Mike Nichols and written by the play's author, Tony Kushner. This six-part drama is adapted from the two full-length award-winning plays (Part I: The Millennium Approaches and Part II: Perestroika) originally performed on Broadway in 1993. Set in New York City during the mid-'80s, the story follows the interconnected lives of several people affected by the AIDS crisis, intense spiritual experiences, and the Reagan Administration.
NOTE from Jevic: In 1993 or 1994, Jeff and I went to Blumenthal Preforming Arts Center two blocks from the square in Charlotte, NC and saw the play. I still remember the preachers protesting on the sidewalk. Oh, the play was excellent
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Angels of Sex
Not Rated | 1h 45min | Drama, Romance | 2012 (Spain)
Starring Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Álvaro Cervantes and Llorenç González
Struggling martial artist and dancer Bruno loves his girlfriend Carla, but when he meets fellow dancer Rai, serious sparks begin to fly, opening the couple up to new possibilities. A new generation navigates sexual fluidity, torn affections, and open relationships in this steamy love triangle. But once Bruno's clandestine encounters with Rai are revealed, a confused and hurt Carla kicks him out. But she simply doesn't want to give up on her love. Eventually she agrees that Bruno can date them both as long as he keeps his life with Rai relatively separate.
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Another Gay Movie
Not Rated | 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance | 2012 (USA)
Starring Michael Carbonaro, Jonathan Chase, Jonah Blechman and Graham Norton
It is summer and a quartet of graduates from San Torum High are in desperate need to lose their virginity. Each represents the stereotypical vision of movie youth: the buff yet dumb jock Jarod (Jonathan Chase), the brainy and bespectacled nerd Griff (Mitch Morris), the effeminate zany Nico (Jonah Blechman), and the seemingly normal all-American Andy (Michael Carbonaro).
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As You Are
Not Rated | 1h 50min | Drama, Mystery | 2017 (USA)
Starring Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton (Jonothan Byers in Stranger Things) and Amandla Stenberg
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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Bad Education
Rated NC-17 | 1h 46min | Crime, Drama | 2004 (Spain)
Starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martinez and Javier Camara
The title "Bad Education" only hints at what Director Almodovar's magnificent new film is all about. The sexual abuse the boy Ignacio suffers at the hands of Father Monolo is largely the contributing factor in the way his life turns out. The film's most telling line occurs when the boy, on realising the priest's betrayal, says that at that moment he lost his faith and his belief in God and hell, that he was no longer afraid and without fear was capable of anything.
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Barcelona Summer Night
Not Rated | 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2013 (Spain)
Starring Francesc Colomer, Jan Cornet, Joan Dausà
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)
Starring Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein and Kate Hodge
A Brooklyn teenager spends his days experimenting with drugs and looking online for older men to meet with.
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Bear City
Not Rated | 1h 44min | Comedy, Romance | 2010 (USA)
Starring Alex Di Dio, Kevin E. Smith and Joe Conti
Set in New York's gay "bear" scene and taking a cue from the popular HBO franchise "Sex and the City," BearCity follows a tight-knit pack of friends experiencing comical mishaps, emotionally sweet yet lusty romantic encounters and a cast of colorful, diverse characters as they gear up for a big party weekend.
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Beautiful Thing
Rated R | 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1996 (UK)
Starring Glen Berry, Scott Neil and Linda Henry
What 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)
Starring Ethan Sharrett, Chase Conner and Brandi Price
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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Before Stonewall
Not Rated | 1h 27min | Documentary, History | 1984 (USA)
Starring Rita Mae Brown, Bruce Nugent and Henry Otis
New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots.
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Beginers
Rated R | 1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2010 (USA)
Starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer and that he has a young male lover.
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Behind the Candelabra
Rated TV-MA | 1h 58min | Biography, Drama, Music | 2013 (USA)
Starring Micheal Douglas, Matt Damon and Scott Bakula
A chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.
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Behind Every Good Man
Rated TV-MA | 8min | Documentary, Short | 1967 (USA)
Directed by Nick Elliot
Being an independent short subject from 1966 it follows a day in the life of a drag queen on the streets of LA, a 'young lady' waits in her lonely apartment for her date to show up.
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Being 17
Not Rated | 1h 54min | Drama, Romance | 2016 (France)
Starring Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein and Corentin Fila
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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Bent
Rated 17 (male full frontal nudity) | 1h 45min | Drama, History, Romance, War | 1997 (United Kingdom)
Starring Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen and Mick Jagger
Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay, and gets a yellow label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays). In camp, he falls in love with fellow prisoner Horst, who wears his pink label with pride.
The stunning film adaptation of Martin Sherman's award-winning play.
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Big Eden
Rated PG-13 | 1h 58min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2000 (USA)
Starring Ayre Gross, Eric Schweig and Tim DeKay
"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)
Starring Sean Hayes, Brad Rowe and Armando Valdes-Kennedy
Billy (Sean Hayes), a struggling young gay photographer (who likes Polaroids), tired of being the "other man", falls in love with Gabriel (Brad Lowe), a waiter and aspiring musician who is probably straight but possibly gay or at least curious. Billy tries to get Gabriel to model for his latest project, a series of remakes of famous Hollywood screen kisses, featuring male couples, while also trying to win his affections
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The Birdcage
Rated R | 1h 57min | Comedy | 1996 (USA)
Starring Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and Gene Hackman
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 | 2006 (USA)
Starring Derek Derek Magyar, George Jonson and Patrick Bauchau
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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Boy Erased
Rated R | 1h 55min | Biography, Drama | 2018 (USA)
Starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Joel Edgerton
The Eamons family's lives center on their evangelicalism, on patriarch Marshall (Russell Crowe), and on only offspring, eighteen-year-old Jared Lucas Hedges), a freshman at a Christian college. Initiated by an unfounded accusation, Marshall and his wife Nancy (Nicole Kidman) send Jared to a conversion therapy assessment camp under the direction of Victor Sykes (Joel Edgerton), the aim of the camp to decide on the next step of the appropriate conversion therapy. Accompanied by Nancy staying at a nearby hotel, Jared willingly goes in knowing his own internal feelings regardless of what his parents have been told about him in that half truth accusation. Jared's recent past leading up to this moment is told in flashback, an outwardly straight-laced existence of that centered on the church and the long-term "natural path" of marriage - which thus included Chloe (Madelyn Cline), a girlfriend in high school - and children. While Jared does his best to adhere to what is asked of him to tell his truth, that truth may set him on a path to what he needs to do for himself, the question then becoming whether he will be allowed to pursue that path, especially if it goes against Victor or his parents.
Yes, I have seen this film and enjoyed it very much.
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Boys
Not Rated | 1h 18min | Drama, Romance | TV Movie 2014 (Netherlands)
Starring Gijs Blom, Ko Zandvliet and Jonas Smulders
Sieger Gijs Blom), a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc (Ko Zandvliet). The friendship that develops seems nothing out of the ordinary, but Sieger secretly harbours stronger feelings for Marc.
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Boys Don't Cry
Rated R | 1h 58min | Biography, Crime, Drama | 1999 (USA)
Starring Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III
Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys and dating hometown beauty Lana; however, he's forgotten to mention one important detail. It's not that he's wanted in another town for GTA and other assorted crimes, but that Brandon Teena was actually born a woman named Teena Brandon. When his best friends make this discovery, Brandon's life is ripped apart.
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The Boys in the Band
Rated R | 1h 58min | Drama | 1970 (USA)
Starring Kenneth Nelson, Peter White, Leonard Frey and Robert La Tourneaux
It's Harold's Leonard Frey) birthday, and his closest friends throw him a party at Michael's (Kenneth Nelson) apartment. Among Harold's presents is "Cowboy" (Robert La Tourneaux), since Harold may have trouble finding a cute young man on his own now that he's getting older. As the party progresses the self-deprecating humor of the group takes a nasty turn as the men become drunker. Climaxed by a cruel telephone "game" where each man must call someone and tell him (or her?) of his love for them.
Trivia: Stars all of the same actors from the original play. Producer/author Mart Crowley insisted that the entire original cast of the off-Broadway production be used in the film.
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Breaking the Surface (The Greg Louganis Story)
Rated TV-PG | 1h 35min | Biography, Drama, Sport | TV Movie 1997 (USA)
Starring Mario Lopez, Michael Murphy and Jeffrey Meek
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 | 2005 (USA)
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams and Randy Quaid Ennis )Heath Ledger) and Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.
It's sad that Heath Ledger overdosed and died in 2008 at age 29.
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)
Starring Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain and Zach Braff
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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The Bubble
Not Rated | 1h 57min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2006 (Israel)
Starring Ohad Knoller, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid and Tzion Baruch
The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. The movie looks at young people's lives in Tel Aviv through the POVs of gays and straights, Jews and Arabs, men and women. It all begins when Noam, a young Israeli soldier, serves in the reserve forces and meets at a check point a Palestinian young man called Ashraf. Following an incident during which Noam misplaces his ID card at the check point, Ashraf shows up on the doorstep of the apartment that Noam shares with a gay man and a straight woman. How will the meeting affect all of their lives?
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Burning Blue
Rated R | 1h 36min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 2013 (USA)
Starring Trent Ford, Tammy Blanchard and Morgan Spector
Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray. Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier, a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent the inevitable third chain breaking accident which abruptly changes course when a sailor reports seeing one of the top ranking fighter pilots in a gay club. The aviator and three of his squadron mates and their spouses all become the subject of a deadly modern day witch hunt entangling them in a web of jealousy and deceit which tests their concept of love, friendship and honor and changes their lives forever.
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Burnt Money
Rated R | 2h 5min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 2000 (Argentina, Spain, Uruguay)
Starring Eduardo Noriego, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Pablo Echarri
Burnt Money, is set in Argentina in 1965. This true story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of Argentinian crime history.
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C.R.A.Z.Y.
Not Rated | 2h 9min | Comedy, Drama | 2006 (Canada)
Starring Michael Côté, Marc-André Grondin and Danielle Proulx
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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Cabaret
Not Rated | 2h 7min | Comedy, Drama | 2006 (USA)
Starring Liza Minelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem and Joel Grey
Cambridge University student Brian Roberts (Michael York) arrives in Berlin in 1931 to complete his German studies. Without much money, he plans on making a living teaching English while living in an inexpensive rooming house, where he befriends another of the tenants, American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli). She is outwardly a flamboyant, perpetually happy person who works as a singer at the decadent Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret styled venue. Sally's outward façade is matched by that of the Klub, overseen by the omnipresent Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey). Sally draws Brian into her world, and initially wants him to be one of her many lovers, until she learns that he is a homosexual, albeit a celibate one. Among their other friends are his students, the poor Fritz Wendel, who wants to be a gigolo to live a comfortable life, and the straight-laced and beautiful Natalia Landauer, a Jewish heiress. Fritz initially sees Natalia as his money ticket, but eventually falls for her.
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Call Me by Your Name
Rated R | 2h 12min | Drama, Romance | 2017 (Italty, France))
Starring Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg
It's the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old young man, spends his days in his family's 17th-century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio's sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American college graduate student working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
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)
Starring Louis Hofmann, Jannik Schümann and Sabine Timoteo
17-year-old Phil (Louis Hofmann) comes back from a summer camp and returns to the old mansion Visible where he lives with his mother, Glass (Sabine Tomoteo), and his twin sister, Dianne. They barely have contact with the other citizens of this village, who consider Phil's family to be strange—Dianne is said to be able to talk with animals. However, they are often visited by Tereza, a lawyer, who always has some good advice for Phil. Phil does notice that something has changed between his mother and his sister and that they do not talk to each other anymore. He spends the last days of his summer holidays with his best friend Kat. When school begins, the mysterious Nicholas (Jannik Schümann) enters the class. Phil feels drawn to him and they soon engage in a passionate love affair, even though it turns Phil's feelings upside down because he does not know what Nicholas thinks of him. Furthermore, his friendship with Kat is tested because Phil's first love causes envy and jealousy. Finding his center of the world becomes Phil's biggest challenge.
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Children of God
Not Rated | 1h 44min | Drama | 2010 (Bahamas)
Starring Johnny Ferro and Stephen Tyrone Williams
The phrase "Children of God" is the religious expression used by Christians to refer to human divinity as being all God's Children. Four Bahamian individuals set out on a journey from the frenetic energy of Nassau to the slower-paced and open Eleuthera. The year is 2004, when the Caribbean world is rocked by the emergence of Rosie O'Donnell's gay family cruise ship. Actual documentary footage details the mass hysteria that divides the Caribbean, as some fundamentalists lead widespread rallies.
Jonny, a young, obsessive-compulsive white Bahamian artist, faces losing his scholarship at a local university if he does not live up to the potential his professors believe he has. Jonny escapes from his gritty inner-city life, in Nassau, to the under-populated and dramatic Bahamian island of Eleuthera.
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Christopher and His Kind
Rated TV-14 | 1h 30min | Biography, Drama, Romance | TV Movie (BBC) | 2011 (UK)
Starring Matt Smith, Alexander Dreymon and Douglas Booth
In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood (Matt Smith) goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He work as an English teacher and his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and would-be actress Jean Ross, who sings tunelessly in a seedy cabaret club. They and others he meets get put into his stories. After a fling with sexy rent boy Caspar (Alexander Dreymon), he falls for street sweeper Heinz and pays his sickly mother's medical bills--to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt. With Fascism rapidly rising, Christopher returns to London with Heinz but can't prevent his return to Germany when his visa expires. Years later, successful author Christopher returns to Berlin for a final meeting with Heinz, who is now married with children.
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Ciao
Rated R | 1h 27min | Drama, Romance | 2008 (USA)
Starring Adam Neal Smith, Alessandro Calza and Chuck Blaum
Jeff (Adam Neil Smith) is taking care of everything Mark left behind when he died in an accident. Mark was about to have a visitor, Andrea (Alessandro Calza), 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 | 2015 (Canada)
Starring Aaron Abrams, Jack Fulton and Joanne Kelly
8-year-old Oscar Madly became traumatized. Around the same time that his mother left their family (with Oscar firmly taking his dad's side), Oscar witnessed a gay hate crime at school that left the victim bloodied and permanently paralyzed. Ten years pass. Oscar, befriended by his talking hamster Buffy, wants to get into a special effects make-up school (using his friend Gemma as a model), and has come to realize his spiteful father's anti-social, immature short-comings. When Oscar meets co-worker Wilder at the hardware store, sexual feelings begin to stir but accompanied by severe stomach pains (the memory of the hate crime). A farewell costume party for Wilder brings Oscar's issues to a head, expressed sometimes in surreal terms.
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Dallas Buyers Club
Rated R | 1h 57min | Biography, Drama | 2013 (USA)
Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto
In mid 1980s Texas, electrician Ron Woodroof is starting to learn that he has AIDS. Though told he has just 30 days left to live, Woodroof refuses to give in to despair. He seeks out alternative therapies and smuggles approved drugs into the US from where ever he can find them. Woodroof joins forces with a fellow AIDS patient and begins selling the treatments to the growing number of people who can't wait for the medical establishment to save them.
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Date and Switch
Rated R | 1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2014 (USA)
Starring Nicholas Braun, Hunter Cope and Dakota Johnson
High school seniors Michael (Nicholas Braun) and Matty (Hunter Cope) make a pact to help each other lose their virginity before their high school prom. Their plan hits a snag when Matty tells his best friend that he's gay. Michael's supportive but awkward attempts to help Matty fit in put a strain on their decade-long friendship. Their friendship is further tested when Michael falls for Matty's former girlfriend and Matty falls for a guy whom Michael wouldn't approve of. Prom looms and Michael and Matty have to repair their friendship and then figure out their love lives.
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Death in Venice
Rated GP | 2h 10min | Drama, Romance | 1971 (Italy)
Starring Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen and Mark Burns
In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Sir Dirk Bogarde) travels to a Venetian seaside resort seeking repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), an adolescent on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Aschenbach has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals.
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Departure
Not rated | 1h 49min | Drama, Romance | 2015 (UK)
Starring Juliet Stevenson, Alex Lawther and Phénix Brossard
An English mother and her teenage son spend a week in the South of France breaking up a summer home that has become one of the casualties of the boy's parents' crumbling marriage. Matters only become more complicated when an enigmatic local boy enters their lives.
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Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves
Not rated | 2h 54min | Drama | TV Mini-Series | 2012 (Sweden)
Starring Adam Lundgren, Adam Pålsson and Björn Kjellman
A story of love and death. Rasmus (Adam Palsson), 19, escapes to Stockholm and finds love in the religious Benjamin (Adam Lundgren) 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 (USA)
Starring Michael McMillian, Lea Coco and Steve Fletcher
A small-town young man realizes why he's such a misfit - he's gay! Adolescence is proving a pain for the always-thinking Dorian (Michael McMillian. He's an outcast and the butt of classmates' fag jokes at high school. He's different and understands why when he reaches the conclusion that he's a "stereotypical gay." He soon announces this discovery to his homophobic, Nixon-loving dad. As Dad throws him out of the house, Dorian's off to NYU to encounter a new world of coffee houses, sophisticates and handsome men.
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Dream Boy
Rated R | 1h 28min | Drama, Romance | 2008 (USA)
Starring Stephan Bender, Thomas Jay Ryan and Maximillian Roeg
Shy and withdrawn, Nathan (played by Stephan Bender) is new to his school, unusually smart (a grade ahead) and the silent tension at home nearly unbearable. Mom, Dad, and Nathan have moved constantly, town after town, landing, inexplicably, in god-fearing "St. Francisville, Louisiana". Roy (played by the multi-talented Max Roeg), a year older than Nathan, confident and hard-working, drives the bus to their school while a friendship blooms between them into a relationship that is fraught with confusion and yearning. But secrets pick at the relationship, the unspoken rules of their angst-driven interactions unravel as Nathan's world again comes crashing inwards. Tension crescendos as shame and terror, stress and disaster all compete to immobilize and destroy both of their worlds.
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Drown
Not rated | 1h 33min | Drama, Thriller, Sport | 2015 (Australia)
Starring Matt Levett, JayR Tinaco and Jack Matthews
In the cloistered world of competitive surf-lifesaving, an Australian hero is de-throned as the reigning champion by a younger, gay competitor. He embarks on a campaign of intimidation and bullying against the newcomer but is forced to confront his own repressed homoerotic desire. A booze-fueled night out brings jealousy, homophobic fear and unrequited lust to a tragic and shocking climax.
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Eating Out
Not rated | 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2004 (USA)
Starring Scott Lunsford, Jim Verraros and Emily Brooke Hands
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.
SEQUEL
Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
Not rated | 1h 19min | Comedy, Romance | 2006 (USA)
Starring Jim Verraros, Emily Brooke Hands and Rebekah Kochan
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
Rated TV-MA | 1h 39min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1998 (USA)
Starring Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes and Anderson Gabrych
David Moreton’s 1998 film, Edge of Seventeen, opens like a familiar coming-of-age movie. Written by (and drawn from the life of) screenwriter Todd Stephens, it follows Eric (Chris Stafford), an awkward, gangly white boy, and his best friend Maggie (Tina Holmes), as they end their 1984 junior school year and launch themselves into the promise of summer. Fuelled by a car-ride lip sync to a cassette tape of Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” the pair begin their summer working at an amusement park restaurant where everything—the food, the walls, the uniforms—seems to be some shade of brown. But the performatively saccharine customer service voice of butch lesbian Angie, played by Lea DeLaria, hints that there is something beyond what we see on the surface.
Read an article at Xtra about the movie.
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Elite
Rated TV-MA | 1h 0min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 2018-2024 Netflix Series (Spain)
Starring Manu Ríos, Omar Ayuso, Maguel Bernardeau and André Lamoglia
Las Encinas is the most exclusive school in the country, where the Elite sends their children to study. Three working-class teens have just been admitted as new students after an earthquake destroyed their school. The clash between those who have everything and those who have nothing to lose creates a perfect storm that ends in a murder. Who committed the crime?
Eight seasons of Elite has its fair share of some hot boy on boy sex.
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Elliot Loves
Not Rated | 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance | 2012 (USA)
Starring Robin de Jesus, Alfredo Narciso and Antoni Porowski
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 (Argentina)
Starring Ignacio Rogers and Esteban Masturini
Matias (Ignacio Rogers) and Jeronimo (Esteban Masturini) have known each other since childhood, but their friendship took a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both sexually awoke together. Matias's father indirectly broke up their relationship by accepting a job very far away. More than ten years later, Matias returns to his old town for carnival with his girlfriend and unexpectedly runs into Jeronimo. Feelings will slowly reappear and will reach a climax, but at what price?
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Fair Haven
Not rated | 1h 30min | Drama | 2016 (USA)
Starring Michael Grant, Tom Wopat (Dukes of Hazard) and Gregory Harrison
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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Far from Heaven
Rated PG-13 | 1h 47min | Drama, Romance | 2002 (USA)
Starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid and Dennis Haysbert
Cathy (Julianne Moore) is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she stumbles in on her husband Frank (Dennis Quaid), kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond (Dennis Haysbert) - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives.
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Five Dances
Rated TV-14 | 1h 23min | Drama, Music, Romance | 2013 (USA)
Starring Ryan Steele, Reed Luplau and Catherine Miller
A creatively adventurous narrative feature film set in the New York 'downtown' modern dance world. The story follows the rocky emotional journey of an 18-year old dancer with talent to burn, who must choose between his responsibility to his broken family in the Midwest, and forging a life and career for himself.
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Floating Skyscrapers
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (Poland)
Starring Mateusz Banasiuk, Marta Nieradkiewicz and Bartosz Gelner
Kuba (Mateusz Banasiuk) is a promising competitive swimmer who spends his time training, refereeing between his argumentative mother and girlfriend, and getting blowjobs in the changing room toilets (supposedly from other young men, although the sound effects make it seem like he's got a hungry labrador in there with him). Then he meets Michal, and perhaps both young men will come out of the closet. But in Poland, that's not necessarily an easy thing to do
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Four Moons
Not rated | 1h 50min | Drama, Romance | 2014 (Mexico)
Starring Antonio Velázquez, Alejandro de la Madrid and Cesar Ramos
Four stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them's fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.
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Free Fall
Not Rated | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (Germany)
Starring Hanno Koffler, Max Riemelt and Attila Borlan
With a promising police career and a baby on the way, Marc's (Hanno Koffler) life seems to be right on track - then he meets fellow policeman Kay (Max Riemelt). During their regular jogs, Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness - and what it means to fall in love with another man. Torn between his family and his new feelings for Kay, Marc sees his world careening more and more out of control. Suddenly, his life is in free fall and Marc realizes that, try as he may, he can't make everyone happy - least of all himself.
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Friends and Family
Not Rated | 1h 27min | Comedy, Crime | 2001 (USA)
Starring Greg Lauren, Chris Gartin and Rebacca Creskoff
In New York City, Stephen and Danny live well: they're smooth, cool, in love, and good at what they do. Stephen's Midwestern parents pay them a surprise visit. Meanwhile, Jenny and Damon tell their parents they are engaged: Matt's parents, Midwestern paramilitary fanatics, take it as a sign to gather their group to invade New York. Jenny's father is the local Mob boss who employs Stephen and Danny as enforcers. He's unhappy that Jenny is marrying someone who is neither Sicilian nor Catholic. Stephen's parents know he's gay, they just don't know what his job is. Here come the parents; will the children survive? All roads lead to the engagement party.
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From Beginning to End
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance, Incest | 2009 (Brazil)
Starring Fábio Assunção and Jean Pierre Noher
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 | 2014 (USA)
Starring Michael J. Willett, Paul Iacono Sasha Pieterse
Social warfare erupts when three high school clique queens battle for supremacy: drama diva Caprice, Mormon princess 'Shley and blonde fashionista Fawcett (Sasha Pieterse). When unassuming Tanner (Michael J. Willett) is outted, he finds himself cast as the hottest new teen-girl accessory: The Gay Best Friend. The clique queens immediately pounce and makeover Tanner into their ideal arm candy, forcing him to choose between popularity and the true friends - including his own B.F.F. Brent (Paul Iacono) - that he's leaving behind.
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Gaybe
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2012 (USA)
Starring Jenn Harris and Matthew Wilkas
Jenn (straight) and Matt (gay) are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn (Jenn Harris) spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt (Matthew Wilkas) suffers from comic-book writer's block and can't get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a promise to have a child together... the old-fashioned way. Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as they attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track in preparation for parenthood? 'Gayby' is an irreverent comedy about friendship, sex, loneliness, and the family you choose.
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Geography Club
Rated PG-13 | 1h 24min | Comedy | 2014 (USA)
Starring Cameron Deane Stewart, Justin Deeley, Ally Maki, Nikki Blonsky and Alex Newell
"What am I looking for?" asks 16-year old Russell Middlebrook (Cameron Deane Stewart) of himself as he heads off on his newest adventure. Russell is still going on dates with girls, while Kevin (Justin Deeley) will do anything to prevent his football teammates from finding out what he is concealing, Min (Ally Maki) and Terese (Nikki Blonsky)tell everyone they're really just good friends, and Ike (Alex Newell) can't figure out who he is or what he wants to be. But the truth is too hard to hide - at least from each other - so they form the Geography Club. Nobody else will discover the truth about them as no other students in their right minds would ever join a club that sounds so boring. Their secrets will be safe from classmates. But are they? "Geography Club" is a smart, fast, moving and funny account of contemporary teenagers as they discover their own sexual identities, dreams and values and not merely live out their parents' desires and ambitions. Russell, Kevin, Min, Terese and Ike may not learn about actual places in their undercover social club, but they daringly explore the danger-filled, clique-mined landscape of Goodkind High School and courageously begin their journey in the exciting, still uncharted terrain of the human heart.
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Get Real
Rated R | 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1998 (UK)
Starring Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton and Charlotte Brittain
This tenderly romantic film tells the story of Steve (Ben Silverstone), a young boy in a at secondary school, as he struggles with coming out and falling in love with John (Brad Gorton), 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)
Starring Cameron Watson, Anthony Meindl, Grady Hutt and Blayn Barbosa
Social Worker Gloria finds brothers T.J. (Gradu Hutt) and Brian (Blayn Barbosa), once again, abandoned by their alcoholic mother. With nowhere else to turn, she delivers them to a gay couple (Phil and Eric) (Cameron Watson and Anthony Meindl) 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)
Starring Tanner Cohen and Matthew Camp
College boy "Doc" (Tanner Cohen) is obsessed with a well-known NYC go-go dancer, nicknamed "Go." (Matthew Camp) 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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Gods and Monsters
Rated R | 1h 45min | Biography, Drama | 1998 (USA)
Starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser and Lynn Redgrave
1957. Long having retired, James Whale, arguably most famous for directing Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) among some other 1930s horror classics, has burned his bridges with the Hollywood community in that they have abandoned him, the possible exception being his continuing friendship with former lover David Lewis. James had been openly gay even during his working period and is in declining health. Having been recently released from a hospital where he was recuperating from a stroke, he left with some permanent health issues, the aftermath of the stroke. Much against the disapproval of his loyal longtime housekeeper Hanna, his health does not prevent him from toying with the handsome young men who may wander into his midst in his continuing homosexual desires.
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God's Own Country
Not Rated | 1h 44min | Drama, Romance | 2017 (UK)
Starring Josh O'Conner and Alec Secareanu
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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Gun Hill Road
Rated R | 1h 26min | Drama | 2011 (USA)
Starring Esai Morales, Robert Salzman, Ty Jones and Harmony Santana
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three years in prison to discover his wife estranged and his child exploring a gender transformation that will test the fragile bonds of their family.
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Guys and Balls
Rated R | 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2004 (Germany)
Starring Maximilian Brückner, Lisa Marie Potthoff and Dietmar Bär
Fair-haired Ecki (Maximilian Bruckner), the baker's son, has grown up the golden boy of his home town. All that changes the instant he and his soccer teammates discover he's gay. Now the object of scorn and ridicule (and finding himself unceremoniously kicked off his team), Ecki travels to the city of Dortmund to recruit an all-gay soccer team to return and prove to his town and his former soccer mates who the best men are. As first-time-out Ecki searches blindly through gay watering holes for players, his parents endure a rash of derisive gay jokes from the townies, leaving Ecki's gruff father to hope for a change in his son's orientation while also considering closing down the family business.
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Handsome Devil
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 2017 (Ireland)
Starring Fionn O'Shea, Ardal O'Hanlon and Amy Huberman
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)
Starring Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Chang Chen
Yiu-Fai Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Po-Wing (Lesie Cheung) 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 (Chang Chen) from Taiwan. Yiu-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)
Starring Bryce Johnson, Cole Williams and Rain Phoenix
Harry (Bryce Johnson) is a 23-year-old former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max (Cole Williams), 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.
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Harvest
Not Rated | 1h 28min | Drama, Romance | 2011 (Germany)
Starring Lukas Steltner and Kai Michael Müller
Breathtaking in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but ever increasingly passionate affair that develops between two simple farmhands. Life on a farm is all that sullen teen Marco knows- leading a perfunctory and quiet life of working, going to school and avoiding the advances of girls. However, his self-imposed solitude ends when curly-haired Jakob, rejecting the banking world for farming, arrives to train on the farm. Although initially cautious and tentative with each other, it is soon obvious that the unspoken sexual tension is becoming increasingly hard to resist - something a spontaneous trip to Berlin. Proving that true love can blossom in even the most unlikely of places, Harvest is as rich and rewarding as it is heart-warming.
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Hawaii
Not Rated | 1h 42min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (Argentia)
Starring Manuel Vignau and Mateo Chiarina
Martin (Mateo Chiarino) seeks for a temporary job at Eugenio's house. When they recognize to be childhood friends, Eugenio (Manuek Vignau) offers him work for the summer. A power and desire game starts and their relationship grows beyond their friendship.
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Heartbeats
Not Rated | 1h 41min | Drama, Romance | 2010 (Canada)
Starring Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri and Neils Schneider
In a story interspersed with interview tales of romantic pitfalls, friendship turns to romantic rivalry for gay man Francis (Xavier Dolan) and straight woman Marie (Monia Chokri) when a veritable Adonis named Nicolas (Neils Schneider) enters their lives. Sexual tensions mount as Francis and Marie await Nicolas' show of preference.
This film is written and directed by Xavier Dolan, its main star.
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Heartstone
Not Rated | 2h 9min | Drama, Romance | 2016 (Iceland)
Starring Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson and Dilja Valsdottir
A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor (Baldur Einarsson) and Christian (Blaer Hinriksson) experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.
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Heartstopper
Rated TV-14 | 30min | Drama, Romance | TV Movie | 2022 (UK)
Starring Joe Locke and Kit Connor
The story of two British teens, Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) and Charlie Spring (Joe Locke), at an all-boys grammar school. Charlie, a high-strung, openly gay overthinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, one day are made to sit together in class. Their friendship quickly becomes something more for openly gay Charlie, but he initially does not believe he has a chance with Nick, but love works in surprising ways, with Nick more interested in Charlie than either of them realized. Heartstopper is about love, friendship, and loyalty. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make something larger.
I watched this series on Netlix. It was awesome. There are two seasons with eight spisodes in each season. That 16 episodes. Binge!
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Rated R | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Music | 2001 (Canada)
Starring John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor and Michael Pitt
Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell), born male as Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a Gender Reassignment Surgery in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to - years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S., telling her life story through a series of concerts at Bilgewater Inn seafood restaurants. Her tour dates coincide with those of arena-rock star Tommy Gnosis (Michael Pitt), a wide-eyed boy who once loved Hedwig - but then left with all her songs.
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Hidden Kisses
Not Rated | 1h 27min | Drama | TV Movie | 2016 (France)
Starring Bérenger Anceaux, Jules Houplain and Nicolas Carpentier
Nathan (Bérenger Anceaux) is the new student in town, his father is a chief of police and his mother has passed away. Not long after arriving at the school he is invited to a big class party, but he sneaks out to the greenhouse where he meets up and kisses Louis (Jules Houplain) - the first kiss for both of them, but someone saw them and took a picture and posted it online.
Nathan's world quickly falls apart, he is forced to come out of the closet to his father, who at first rejects him, and he refuses to tell his classmates who the other boy is, which has the entire school in an uproar.
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The History Boys
Rated R | 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2006 (UK)
Starring Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison and Stephen Campbell Moore
In 1980s Britain, a group of young men at Cutlers' Grammar School all have the brains, and the will to earn the chance of getting accepted in the finest universities in the nation, Oxford and Cambridge. Despite the fine teaching by excellent professionals like Mrs. Dorothy Lintott (Frances de la Tour) in history and the intellectually enthusiastic Mr. Hector (Richard Griffiths) in General Studies, the Headmaster (Clive Merrison) is not satisfied. He signs on the young Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore) to polish the students' style to give them the best chance. In this mix of intellectualism and creative spirit that guides a rigorous preparation regime for that ultimate educational brass ring, the lives of the randy students and the ostensibly restrained faculty intertwine that would change their lives forever.
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Holding the Man
Not rated | 2h 7min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 2015 (Australia)
Starring Ryan Corr, Craig Stott and Sarah Snook
Tim (Ryan Corr) and John (Craig Scott) 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)
Starring James Franco, Zachary Quinto and Emma Roberts
The incredible true-life story of Michael Glatze (James Franco), a high profile gay youth activist who created a national controversy when he claimed to no longer be gay and became a straight Christian pastor. The film follows Michael from his life in San Francisco with his boyfriend Bennett (Zachary Quinto), where he pursues political activism, a journalist career at XY Magazine, social awareness, and sexual exploration, to his days of personal self-discovery. After a traumatic scare, Michael is plagued by doubt and paranoia, and begins a religious reawakening. Michael renounces his gay lifestyle, rejects his friends, and endeavors to find his "true self." He explores Buddhism and Mormonism, yet ultimately lands at a Christian Bible school in rural Wyoming where he meets his girlfriend Rebekah (Emma Roberts) and becomes the pastor of his own church.
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I Killed My Mother
Not Rated | 1h 36min | Drama, Romance | 2009 (Canada)
Starring Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval and François Arnaud
Teenager Hubert haughtily regards his mother with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters and kitsch decorations. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parent's cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of adolescence - artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, and ostracism. The turbulent relationship between mother and son unfolds with a compelling combination of savage fury and melting affection. The stunning, semi-autobiographical directing debut of 20-year-old actor Xavier Dolan. He also directed "Heartbeats" which is also on this page.
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I Love You Phillip Morris
Rated R | 1h 38min | Comedy, Romance | 2009 (USA/France)
Starring Jim Carey, Ewan McGregor and Leslie Mann
Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven becomes open about his homosexuality and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lifestyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the Texas State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another.
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I Think I Do
Not Rated | 1h 30min | Comedy, Romance | 1997 (USA)
Starring Alexis Arquette, Christain Maelen and Jamie Harrold
Screwball comedy with a modern twist; instead of Kate Hepburn and Cary Grant, it's Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. Two college roommates (victims of a mutually unrequited love) meet up again five years after school at their housemate's wedding. With the introduction of a Bellamy-esque soap star, the sparks, sexual and verbal, start to fly, as the ex-roommates try to navigate their new romance.
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In and Out
Rated PG-13 | 1h 30min | Comedy, Romance | 1997 (USA)
Starring Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck and Matt Dillon
All of Greenleaf, Indiana, is watching this year's telecast of the Oscars as Hollywood heartthrob and local boy made good Cameron Drake (Matt Dillion) has been nominated for his first ever Best Actor Oscar for his latest movie role as a gay soldier. Cameron's high school English teacher Howard Brackett (Kevin Cline) is overjoyed when Cameron wins the award and mentions Howard's contribution in his acting life. That joy turns to horror when Cameron mentions to the worldwide audience that Howard is gay, especially horrific to Howard as he is engaged to fellow teacher Emily Montgomery (Joan Cusack), a woman with self-esteem issues as she had battled weight issues most of her life before she lost seventy-five pounds for the wedding. Howard's life is totally disrupted as Hollywood media descends on Greenleaf in order to get Howard's story. The rest of Greenleaf also openly wonders if Howard is indeed gay, as he exhibits many stereotypical gay tendencies, such as being neat, and loving music, dancing, poetry and Barbra Streisand. His cause is not helped in that his and Emily's relationship has not yet been consummated. The one person not concerned is Emily, who trusts Howard. As Howard continues to deny being gay to his family, friends and colleagues, he begins to examine himself hypercritically if only because if others believe he's gay, there may be some merit to the claim, as well as because of an incident that occurs with Hollywood reporter Peter Malloy, who is doing a week-long piece on Howard leading up to his and Emily's wedding. But Cameron Drake may be able to provide some overall perspective to what is happening to Howard and the frenzy he has caused.
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In the Grayscale
Not rated | 1h 41min | Drama, Romance | 2015 (Chile)
Starring Francisco Celhay, Emilio Edwards and Daniela Ramírez
Bruno (Francisco Celhay) is an architect who has a perfect life: A nice family and a good job. Anyway, Bruno has a deep sense of unease. He decides to leave his wife to be alone and have time to find him self. A business man offers him to build an iconic landmark in Santiago city. Motivated by this professional challenge, Bruno feels he can find a twist in his life by a vocational route. He start working with a young history teacher named Fer (29) who is agile, energetic, captivating and gay. Starts between them an unexpected and intense romance. At this point he must decide his path. The biggest learning: simplicity is the best way to get up again.
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Jeffrey
Rated R | 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama | 1995 (USA)
Starring Steven Weber, Michael T, Weiss, Peter Jacobson and Patrick Stewart
Jeffrey, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decides to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
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Just a Question of Love
(Juste une question d'amour)
Not Rated | TV Movie | 1h 28min | Drama, Romance | 2000 (France)
Starring Cyrille Thouvenin, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié and Éva Darlan
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)
Starring Harry Gilby, Scot Williams and Mark Carter
Charlie Lyndsay (Harry Gilby), 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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Keep the Lights On
Not Rated | 1h 41min | Drama, Romance | 2012 (USA)
Starring Thure Lindhart, Zachary Booth and Julianne Nicholson
It's 1998 and New York City is in a state of intense flux when documentary filmmaker Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt) first meets Paul Lucy (Zachary Booth), a handsome but closeted lawyer in the publishing field. What begins as a highly charged first encounter soon becomes something much more, and a relationship quickly develops. As the two men start building a home and life together, each continues to privately battle their own compulsions and addictions. A film about sex, friendship, intimacy, and most of all, love.
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Kill Your Darlings
Rated R | 1h 44min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 2013 (USA)
Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane HeHaan, Michael C. Hall
In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, (Dane DeHaan William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston). Together, this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever.
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King Cobra
Not Rated | 1h 31min | Crime, Drama | 2016 (USA)
Starring Garrett Clayton, Christian Slater, Molly Ringwald, James Kelley and James Franco
This ripped-from-the-headlines drama covers the early rise of gay porn headliner Sean Paul Lockhart (a.k.a. Brent Corrigan) before his falling out with the producer who made him famous. When Sean decides he'd be better off as a free agent, a cash-strapped pair of rival producers aim to cash in by any means possible.
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Kiss Me, Guido
Rated R | 1h 26min | Comedy | 1997 (USA)
Starring Nick Scotti, Anthony Barrile and Anthony DeSando
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)
Starring Paul Dano, Brian Cox and Billy Kay
Fifteen-year-old Howie (Paul Dano) loses just about everything and everyone in the space of a single week, but ends up finding himself in the process. His mother has just died. His father, a building contractor, can barely keep tabs on his young girlfriend, let alone his own son. Thus, the teen must navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Floating towards an ill-behaved existence, Howie and his crowd begin robbing houses in the middle-class neighborhoods off the Long Island Expressway. Together, he and his best friend Gary (Billy Kay) break into a place belonging to an old guy named Big John, a local man who is a respected pillar of the community. When Big John (Brian Cox) fingers Gary for the crime, Howie learns that his pal has been leading a secret, dangerous but also alluring double life. Subsequently, we also discover that Big John has secrets of his own.
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La Cage aux Folles
Rated R | 1h 37min | Comedy | 1978 (France)
Starring Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault and Claire Maurier
The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
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Land of Storms
Not Rated | 1h 45min | Drama, Romance, Sport | 2014 (Hungary)
Starring András Sütö, Ádám Varga and Sebastian Urzendowsky
Szabolcs (András Sütö) 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 (Ádám Varga) and they both explore their identities.
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The Last Match
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2013 (Cuba)
Starring Milton García, Reinier Díaz and Jenifer Rodríguez
Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier (Reinier Díaz) 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)
Starring Wes Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss and Mary Kay Place
Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss) and Christian Markelli (Wes Ramsey) are perhaps the two most opposite people in the world. Aaron is a passionate young Elder (a Mormon missionary) who wants to do his family and church proud. Christian is a shallow West Hollywood waiter/party boy who only looks forward to what man the next night will bring to him. After Aaron and three other Elders move into the apartment across from his, Christian's friends make a bet that he can't get one of them into the sack, so he instantly latches onto Aaron, suspecting there is more than meets the eye to him.
Yes,I have seen this wonderful film.
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Lilies
Rated R | 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy | 1996 (Canada)
Starring Ian D. Clark, Marcel Sabourin and Aubert Pallascio
1952: Bishop Bilodeau (Marcel Sabourin) visits a québécois prison to hear the confession of a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. The inmates force the prelate to watch a play depicting what really happened in 1912. We meet him as a young man, strait-laced, intent on convincing Simon (Jason Cadieux-younger Simon) to join the seminary with him. Vallier, the son of an impoverished and eccentric countess, loves Simon and he is drawn to Vallier, but in fear of his father's wrath for kissing Vallier during drama rehearsal, Simon courts a visiting Parisian, asking her to marry him. Vallier, encouraged by his mother, attends the engagement party to declare his love for Simon (Aubert Pallascio-older Simon). And what does the watchful Bilodeau do?
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Lilting
Not Rated | 1h 31min | Drama, Romance | 2014 (UK)
Starring Pei-Pei Cheng, Ben Whishaw and Andrew Leung
In contemporary London, a Cambodian-Chinese mother mourns the untimely death of her son. Her world is further disrupted by the presence of a stranger. We observe their difficulties in trying to connect with each other without a common language as, through a translator, they begin to piece together memories of a man they both loved.
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Longtime Companion
Rated R | 1h 36min | Drama, Romance | 1989 (USA)
StarrinStephen Caffrey, Patrick Cassidy and Brian Cousins
Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates the lives of our protagonists. Jumping between Manhattan and Fire Island, vignettes carry us from the it-couldn't-happen-to-me mentality of the early days of the disease to the invasive effect it has had on all of our lives, today. The title of the film comes from the New York Times' refusal to acknowledge homosexual relationships in their obituary section during this period. Instead, survivors were referred to as "Longtime Companions" of the deceased.
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Lost in Paradise
Not rated | 1h 43min | Drama, Romance | 2012 (Taiwan)
Starring Manh Hai Luong, Vinh Khoa Ho and Linh Son Nguyen
Khoi (Vinh Khoa Ho), 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 (Linh Son Nguyen), a handsome extrovert who offers to share his apartment.
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Love is Strange
Rated R | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2014 (USA)
Starring John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei and Charlie Tahan
After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But George loses his job soon after, and the couple must sell their apartment and--victims of the relentless New York City real estate market--temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. While George moves in with two cops (Cheyenne Jackson and Manny Perez) who live downstairs, Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew (Darren Burrows), his wife (Marisa Tomei), and their temperamental teenage son (Charlie Tahan), with whom Ben shares a bunk bed. While struggling with the pain of separation, Ben and George are further challenged by the intergenerational tensions and capricious family dynamics of their new living arrangements.
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Love of Siam
Not Rated | 2h 34min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 2007 (Thailand)
Starring Sinjai Plengpanich, Songsit Roongnophakunsri and Pimpan Buranapim
Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy's older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late teens, the boys meet again. One of them is now the leader of an aspiring boy band whose managing assistant bears a striking resemblance to the lost sister. The boys must deal with their family and social lives and their feelings for each other
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Love Simon
Rated PG-13 | 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2018 (USA)
Starring Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel
Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) 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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Make the Yuletide Gay
Not Rated | 1h 29min | Comedy, Romance | 2009 (USA)
Starring Keith Jordan, Wyatt Fenner and Steve Callahan
Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson (Keith Jordan), an out-and-proud gay college student, crawls back into the closet to survive the holidays with his family. He keeps his cool as his quirky Midwestern-hearted parents try to set him up with his high school sweetheart, Abby (Haley Hirsh). But when his boyfriend, Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero), shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret. With pressure mounting from all sides, will Gunn come out before the truth does?
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Making Love
Rated R | 1h 53min | Drama | 1982 (USA)
Starring Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson and Harry Hamlin
A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. Zach (Michael Ontkean) and Claire (Kate Jackson) live a comfortable life secure in their love for one another when Bart (Harry Hamlin), a swinging L.A. novelist, walks into Zach's office and awakens unfamiliar feelings in him.
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Mambo Italiano
Rated R | 1h 39min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2003 (Canada)
Staring Luke Kirby, Peter Miller and Ginette Reno
Angelo Barberini (Luke Kirby) is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino (Paul Sorvino) and Maria (Ginette Reno), who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the States. Angelo shocks his parents by moving out on his own without getting married, and shocks them further still when he reveals that he's gay. But his boyfriend, policeman Nino Paventi (Peter Miller) isn't as ready to come out of the closet -- especially not to his busybody mother, Lina (Mary Walsh).
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Man in an Orange Shirt
Rated TV-14 | 2h | Drama, Romance | TV Mini Series | 2017 (USA)
Starring Julian Morris, Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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)
Starring James Wilby, Rupert Graves and Hugh Grant
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)
Starring Tim Boardman, Molly Shannon and Stephen Root
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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Milk
Rated R | 2h 8min | Biography, Drama | 2009 (USA)
Starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Emile Hirsch
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)
Starring Tristan Barr, Lucas Linehan and Rohana Hayes
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))
Starring Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris and Trevante Rhodes
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)
Starring Leo Minaya, Jack Kesy and Darra Like Dat Boyd
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)
Starring Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth and Daniel Day-Lewis
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)
Starring River Phoenix, Kaenu Reeves,James Russo and William Richert
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)
Starring Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue and Chase Ellison
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom
Rated R | 1h 41min | Drama, Romance | TV Movie | 2008 (USA)
Starring Darryl Stephens, Rodney Chester, Gary LeRoi Gray and Christian Vincent
Noah, Alex, Ricky, Chance and their significant others travel to Martha's Vineyard for a weekend wedding getaway. Drama ensues as one-by-one their relationships start to crack under the pressure of closer examination. Newly successful screenwriter Noah looks to his friends for advice as he prepares to move his relationship to a more serious level while struggling to keep his first studio movie alive. But the friends are of little help as they juggle their own issues. Elder statesmen Chance and Eddie attempt to scratch their seven-year itch but worry their marriage has permanently lost its spark. And playboy Ricky flaunts his barely legal college student fling in the face of his monogamous friends but hides a surprising secret that threatens to rock the house. Add to the mix Alex's crazy-making wedding prep, a closeted superstar rapper, a high-maintenance studio exec, and a surprise visitor and you've got the makings of a hilarious and poignant romantic comedy.
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The Normal Heart
Rated TV-MA | 2h 12min | Biography, Drama, History | TV Movie | 2014 (USA)
Starring Mark Ruffalo, Jonathan Groff and Frank De Julio
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
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North Sea Texas
Not Rated | 1h 38min | Drama, Romance | 2 November 2012 (Belgium)
Starring Den Van den Heuvel, Eva van der Gucht and Thomas Coumans
Pim, the emotionally abandoned and affection-starved young gay son of a small seaside town's resident floozy, grows up dreaming intensely of a loving father who will someday come for him, but never does. Frequently home alone, Pim often spends time at a neighbor's house where another single mom and her two teenage children accept him matter-of-factly.
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The Opposite of Sex
Rated R | 1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1998 (USA)
Starring Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow and Lyle Lovett
A 16 year old Louisiana girl moves in with her gay half-brother and immediately starts coming on to his sexual partner, finally forcing him into an affair in which she becomes pregnant. The whole affair blows into a scandal exposing her school teacher brother and the true parent of the child is called into question as it is revealed that there have been a series of lovers.
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Out in the Dark
Not Rated | 1h 36min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 2012 (Germany)
Starring Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Jameel Khoury and Alon Pdut
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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Paris 5:59; Theo & Hugo
Not Rated | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 2016 (France)
Starring Mario Fanfani and Geoffrey Couët
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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Paris is Burning
Rated R | 1h 28min | Documentary | 2018 (USA)
Starring Brooke Xtravaganza, Andre Christian and Dorian Corey
A documentary of New York's LGBT scene in the 1980s, showing the real life of poor Black and Latin LGBT people, introduce the ballrooms, the categories, the houses, the voguing, and the dreams and ambitions of these people who are systematically excluded from society, they fight to conquer the right to be and to reinvent themselves in a world starring straight and white people. They use the balls to show their creativity, have fun with their community and family, shining, and having their names recognized in the ballroom scene.
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Parting Glances
Not Rated | 1h 30min | Drama, Music, Romance | 1986 (USA)
Starring John Bolger, Richard Ganoung and Steve Buscemi
As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa, Michael must face Robert's true motives for leaving while dealing with their circle of eccentric friends, including Nick, who is living with AIDS.
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The Pass
Not Rated | 1h 28min | Drama, Romance | 2018 (UK)
Starring Russell Tovey, Arinzé Kene and Lisa McGrillis
A romantic interaction between two young footballers profoundly affects one of them throughout the rest of his life and career.
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Patrik, Age 1.5
Not Rated | 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2008 (Sweden)
Starring Gustaf Skarsgard, Torkle Patersson and Tom Ljungman
Goran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and are given the option to adopt Swedish orphan "Patrik 1,5," but when Patrik arrives, he turns out not to be the little boy they were expecting. A comma was misplaced, and the boy they receive is a 15-year-old homophobe with a criminal past.
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Philadelphia
Rated PG-13 | 2h 5min | Drama | 1994 (USA)
Starring Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Roberta Maxwell
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. Powerful stuff.
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Plan B
Not Rated | 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2009 (Argentina)
Stearring Manuel Vignau, Lucas Ferraro and Mercedes Quinteros
Bruno is dumped by his girlfriend; behind a calm, indifferent expression, his mind plans a cold, sweet vengeance. She, a modern girl, keeps on seeing him once in a while, but has another boyfriend, Pablo. Bruno becomes Pablo's friend, with the idea of eroding the couple, maybe introducing him to another woman. But, along the way, the possibility of a plan B arises, a more effective one, which will put his own sexuality into question.
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Portrait of Jason
Rated R | 1h 44min | Drama | 2004 (USA)
Starring Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke and Carl Lee
The highlights of a 12-hour interview with Aaron Payne, alias Jason Holliday, a former houseboy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler who, while drinking and smoking cigarettes and pot, tells stories and observations of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960s America.
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Poster Boy
Rated R | 1h 44min | Drama | 2004 (USA)
Starring Matt Newton, Michael Lerner and Karen Allen
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)
Starring Sigourney Weaver , Henry Czerny and Ryan Kelley
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)
Starring Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Sominic West
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 R | 1h 38min | Drama, Romance | 1994 (USA)
Starring Linus Roache,Tom Wilkinson and Robert Carlyle
A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own..
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Private Romeo
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2011 (USA)
Starring Hale Appleman, Charlie Barnett and Adam Barrie
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 Prom
Rated PG-13 | 2h 10min | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 2020 (USA)
Starring Meryl Streep, James Cordon, Nicole Kidman ,Kerry Washington and Andrew Rannells.
Angie Dickinson (Meryl Streep) and Trent Oliver (Andrew Rannells), head to the small town of Edgewater, Indiana, to help Emma, a bright-eyed high-school student who has recently come out, make her dream of taking her girlfriend to the prom come true in the face of intolerance. Can the bold quartet give Emma the prom she deserves?
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Rent
Rated PG-13 | 2h 15min | Drama, Musical, Romance | 1975 (USA)
Starring Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia and Rosario Dawson
This is the film version of the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning musical about Bohemians in the East Village of New York City struggling with life, love and AIDS, and the impacts they have on America. It tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rated R | 1h 40min | Comedy, Musical | 1975 (UK)
Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien and Peter Hinwood
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, many times! Let's do the time warp again!!
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Romeos
Not Rated | 1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2011 (Germany)
Starring Rick Okon, Max Befort and Liv Lisa Fries
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)
Starring Sasa Kekez, Predrag Bjelac and Ljubisa Grujcic
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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Scorpio Rising
Not Rated | 28min | Short, Music | 1963 (USA)
Starring Ernie Allo, Bruce Byron and Frank Carifi
An army of gay/nazi bikers make their engines roar and ride the way to pain/pleasure as sexual and sadistic symbols are intercut into the dazing chaos and rhythmic experiences of this underground film by cult director Anger.
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Seashore
Not rated | 1h 23min | Drama, Romance | 2015 (Brazil)
Starring Mateus Almada,Mauricio Barcellos and Elisa Brites
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)
Starring Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe and Tina Holmes
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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Shortbus
Not Rated | 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2006 (USA)
Starring Sook-Yin Lee, Peter Stickles, PJ DeBoy and Paul Dawson
Numerous New York City dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the sexual issues other couples have. Two of her patients are Jamie and James, a gay couple who have been monogamous for five years and counting. James wants to bring other men in to the relationship, and his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth (pronounced Seth) may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb, a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. Sophia visits Severin, a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal.
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Silent Youth
Not Rated | 1h 13min | Drama, Romance | 2012 (Spain)
Starring Martin Bruchmann,Josef Mattes and Mathias Neuber
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)
Starring Yoav Reuveni, Yehuda Nahari Halevi and Yariv Mozer
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)
Starring Jonny Labey, Laura Ainsworth and Daniel Brocklebank
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)
Starring Grant Davis, Davi Santos and Ben Baur
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)
Starring Pierre-Matthieu Vital, Qilun Gao and Yung Yung Yu
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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Stranger by the Lake
Not Rated | 1h 40min | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 2013 (France)
Starring Pierre Deladonchamps, Christhe Paou and Patrick d'Assumcoa
Franck, a fit gay man, seeks love at a lakeside gay cruising beach. Among the mostly pudgy nude sunbathers, he befriends Henri, a depressed middle-aged bi-sexual who enjoys the quiet but accepts Franck's company. When Michel appears, Franck finally spots a man he'd like to know sexually. Unfortunately, he also spots him drowning his gay lover but opts not to tell anyone in order to consider having a relationship with this handsome yet remorseless killer.
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The String
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 2010 (France)
Starring Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly Viswanadhen and Salim Kechiouche
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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The Sum of Us
Rated R | 1h 40min | Drama, Romance | 1994 (Australia)
Starring Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe and John Polson
Set in Sydney, Australia. A (heterosexual) father and his gay son are trying to find Ms/Mr Right respectively. The film shows their relationships with one another and the objects of their affection as tradgedy strikes. There is no overt 'message' in the film, just a very natural, entertaining story-telling.
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Summer Storm
Rated R | 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2004 (Germany)
Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann and Miriam Morgenstern
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Tell No One
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Comedy, Romance | 2012 (Italy)
Starring Josafot Vagni, Monica Guerritore and Francesco Montanari
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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The Thing About Harry
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Comedy, Romance | 2012 (Italy)
Starring Jake Barelli, Niko Terho and Peter Paige
In his final year in the Political Science program at college in Chicago, Sam Basilli is still recovering from the breakup with his last boyfriend, Malcolm, that breakup which resulted in him not only losing his lover but his best friend. Sam, not the type for one night stands, still vows never to date a friend to avoid such double blows. With regard to relationships, Sam's best female friend since first year, Stasia Cooper, conversely never considers herself to have a boyfriend regardless of what the outside world sees in she not believing in commitment. On the Valentine's weekend, Sam reluctantly agrees, as a favor to friends, to what he considers his worst nightmare in giving Harry Turpin a ride - nine hours - to their hometown, Harry, also a student at the same college, who tormented Sam all through high school for being gay. While Sam's initial impression of Harry is still the same - self-absorbed, adolescent minded, the type of guy that strings girlfriends along until it becomes too messy for him - it isn't until midway through their trip that Sam views Harry in a slightly different light on an admission: that Harry had long ago come out as being pansexual. That discovery at least leads to them having a more fulsome discussion about their lives on the remainder of the drive. With bumps along the way over the next few years, Sam and Harry teeter on the brink of friendship to being in that same vein of friend for Sam that Malcolm was and Stasia still is. As Sam develops even deeper feelings, he has to decide if he will break his vow not to date friends. In the end, generally controlled Sam may be taken over by emotions, both good and bad
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Those People
Not Rated | 1h 29min | Drama, Romance | 2016 (USA)
Starring Jonathan Gordon, Jason Ralph and Haaz Sleiman
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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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
PG-13 | 1h 49min | Drama, Comedy | 1995 (USA)
Starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze and John Leguizamo
Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
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Torch Song Trilogy
Rated R | 2h | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1988 (USA)
Starring Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick and Harvey Fierstein
Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and oftentimes piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment--and endurance--in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.
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Touch of Pink
Rated R | 1h 31min | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 2004 (UK)
Starring Jimi Mistry, Kris Holden-Ried and Suleka Mathew
A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit.
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Transamerica
Rated R | 1h 43min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 2005 (USA)
Starring Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers and Fionnula Flagagan
Southern Californian Bree Osbourne has finally received the news for which she has been waiting: she has been approved for male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery. But before Margaret, her therapist, will allow her to go through with the surgery scheduled in a week's time, Bree has to deal with an unresolved problem from her past. Bree gets a telephone call from a seventeen year old man named Toby Wilkins, who is looking for who he thinks is his father. Toby is in a New York jail, having been supporting himself by petty crime and hustling. Bree knew nothing about Toby before the telephone call. Toby apparently is all alone in the world, with his mother having committed suicide and being estranged from his stepfather in Tennessee. Masquerading as a Christian social worker, Bree (not telling him either of her true identity or her transgender status ) bails Toby out of jail and tells him she will take him to Los Angeles, where Toby has aspirations of becoming a porn actor and reconnecting with who he thinks his his father. As Bree and Toby take their trans-American journey which includes some interesting encounters along the way, Bree has to decide what is best for Toby while having the foremost goal of making it back to Los Angeles for the scheduled surgery.
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Trick
Rated R | 1h 29min | Comedy, Music, Romance | 1999 (USA)
Starring Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc and Tori Spelling
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
Rated R | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2002
Starring Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun and Ray Baker
Romance, politics, sex and humor all collide during two men's 11-year journey of passion, self-discovery and adventure.
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Undertow
Not Rated | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 16 April 2010 (Colombia)
Starring Cristian Mercado, Tatiana Astengo and Manola Cardona
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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Velvet Goldmine
Rated R | 1h 58min | Drama, Music | 1998 (USA/UK)
Starring Ewan McGregor, Jonathon Rhys Meyers, and Christian Bale
London, 1971 - Flower Power is on the wane and floundering hippie troubadour Brian Slade feels old-fashioned and out of step until he experiences the raw power of rock musician and exhibitionist Curt Wild at a live concert. Smitten and inspired, Slade rises from the ashes of fussy brocade, reincarnating as the ambiguous pop-rock God/dess of platinum dust and phoenix feathers, Maxwell Demon. His alluring androgynous imagery and the seductive sounds his 'glitter rock' seduce teenagers across the world, offering refuge for the weird and unwanted with the promise of an everything-goes hedonism. At the height of his fame and cultural influence, he plots his sensational demise to escape, alienating his fans and falling into obscurity. On the 10th anniversary of the character assassination, journalist Arthur Stuart investigates Slade's disappearance, forcing him to revisit his own confusing teenage identity crisis and rebirth mirroring that of his idol Brian Slade.
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Victor/Victoria
Rated PG | 2h 14min | Comedy, Music, Romance | 1982 (UK/USA)
Starring Julie Andrews, James Garner and Robert Preston
In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant (Dame Julie Andrews), a native Brit, can't get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn't even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole "Toddy" Todd (Robert Preston) may befall the same fate as Victoria, as he was just fired from his singing gig at a second-rate club named "Chez Lui". To solve their problems, Toddy comes up with what he considers to be an inspired idea: with Toddy as her manager, Victoria, pretending to be a man, get a job singing as a female impersonator. If they pull this scheme off, Toddy vows Victoria, as her male alter ego, will be the toast of Paris and as such be extremely wealthy.
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The War Boys
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 30 May 2009 (USA)
Starring Victor Rasuk, Brian J. Smith and Benjamin Walker
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)
Starring Tye Olson, Kyle Clare and Ellie Araiza
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)
Starring Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi and Tess Amorim
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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The Wedding Banquet
Rated R | 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1993 (Taiwan)
Starring Winston Chao, May Chin and Ah-Lei Gua
Simon and Wei-Tung are a gay couple living together in Manhattan. To defer the suspicions of Wei-Tung's parents, Simon suggests a marriage of convenience between Wei-Tung and Wei-Wei, an immigrant in need of a green card. When Wei-Tung's parents come to America for the wedding, they insist upon an elaborate banquet, resulting in several complications.
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Weekend
Not Rated | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 2011 (UK)
Starring Tom Cullen, Chris New and Jonathan Race
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)
Starring Tonner Cohen, Wendy Robie and Judy McLane
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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Wild Reeds
Not Rated | 1h 50min | Drama | 1994 (France)
Starring Elodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel and Stéphane Rideau
A village in Southern France, 1962. The Algerian war is coming to an end. Teenagers Maïte and François are friends. François realizes he has feelings for his classmate Serge, who is instead attracted to Maïte - but Maïte is more interested in politics than in Serge. Her views are opposed to those of Henri, another classmate of the boys. The four of them entangle in a game of tensions and emotions.
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Word Is Out
Not Rated | 2h 4min | Documentary | 1977 (USA)
Starring Pat Bond, John Burnside and Sally M. Gearhart
More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay. Their stories are arranged in loose chronology: early years, fitting in (which for some meant marriage), disclosing their sexuality, establishing adult identities, and reflecting on how things have changed and how things should be. Some speak as couples and some as singles. One lost her children in a custody decision, one was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army, two were sent to insane asylums. All see social progress as they reflect. News footage and a few vocal performances provide breaks as topics shift.
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Yossi and Jagger
Rated R | 1h 5min | Drama, Romance, War | 2002 (Israel)
Starring Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi and Assi Cohen
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)
Starring Ohad Knoller, Shlomo Sadan and Oz Zehavi
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)
Starring George Taylor, Eric Klotzsch and Michael Grabowski
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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Young Royals
Rated TV-MA | 1h 19min | Drama, Romance | TV Series | 2014 (Sweden)
Starring Edvin Ryding, Omar Rudberg and Mimmi Cyon
Young Royals is a Swedish teen drama romance streaming television series on Netflix. Set at the fictional elite boarding school Hillerska, the plot primarily follows the fictional Prince Wilhelm of Sweden (Edvin Ryding), his romance with fellow student Simon Eriksson (Omar Rudberg), and the drama which results.
Yes, I watched this on Netflix. Excellent!
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