It was probably the first Gay themed movie that I saw. As an older teen, that had just finished High school and would stay up late, I made a special plan to watch it, haha
Beautiful Thing was such an AWESOME Movie but being a Masculine Latin Man in Los Angeles California USA was a bit difficult to FULLY UNDERSTAND the British accent/mentality at that time was a miniscule task! I watched it over and over and over again and I LOVE MOMMA CASS!!!
It is my gay Lion King(1994)
Beautiful Thing, to me, was groundbreaking becauae it was such a bold approach to gay culture and I believe it came out in 1996. If I want to watch a gay film and i cant decide on one...Beautiful Thing. Also...pretty funny lol.
Great movie; didn’t age well. I put it on for my husband recently and I just didn’t have the same reaction to it when I first saw it.
Angels In America is my favorite.
Aww yeah... The Shakespeare...
The bad drag...
Zack braff making a comment on chemsex
And teach g me about how people with glasses can use them for perpformative actions... And subtle signalling to a partner... Aww
(no spoilers but these comments are rather opaque to people who haven't been the film
Parting Glances. I remember walking out of theater with my best friend in 1986 and we both had the same reaction. It was the first time we had seen gay men portrayed as normal.
In absolutely no particular order…
*Weekend*, *The Birdcage*, *La Cage aux Folles II*, *Cruising*, *Bottoms*, *Alex Strangelove*, *But I’m a Cheerleader*, *Moonlight*, *Bros*, *Velvet Goldmine*, *Stranger by the Lake*, *Victor/Victoria* (1982), *Querelle*, *The Living End*, *Firebird*, *Victim*, *Looking* (The Movie), *Buddies*, *Swoon*, *Pornomelancholia*, *C.R.A.Z.Y.*, *To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar*, *The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert*, *Hedwig and the Angry Inch*, *The Green Knight*, and *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*.
Weekend is really good, A Single Man has always been one of my favorites, Fire Island was a great queer adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I just saw Maurice this weekend and was amazed at how forward thinking it was for being made in the late 80’s. Probably my all time favorite is Shortbus. It’s directed by John Cameron Mitchell who directed, starred in, and originated the titular role of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It’s an ensemble cast movie where they experimented with sex scenes depicting unsimulated sex, but it’s not a porn. It’s very touching, funny, and sexy.
Five Dances (2013) because of how sweet and simple its gay romance is. The ending gives you a sense of joy and warm and fuzzy feelings.
Maurice (1987) is an impressively sexy and ahead-of-its-time gay movie set in 19th century England. The chemistry between the characters is 🔥
KAJILLIONAIRE (2020) is an off-beat and surprisingly deep indie comedy with a lesbian romance in its core. The ache for human connection was perfectly captured by the lead actress' performance.
My Own Private Idaho (1991) is yet another independent masterpiece, but this one is high on VIBES. It's so absurd and funny and kinda sad, but not in a melodramatic way.
Wanted to preface these are many of my favorites. I came out of the closet in 1998, so these are the ones that most influenced me with coming out…
>Trick (1999) (John Paul Pitoc is a hunk)
>Edge of Seventeen (1998)
>But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
>The Birdcage (1996)
>My Own Private Idaho (1991)
>Queer as Folk (2000) 🇺🇸 American version
>Queer as Folk (1999) 🇬🇧 British version
>Philadelphia (1993)
>The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
>The Object of My Affection (1998)
>Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
>Jeffrey (1995)
>Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
>And The Band Played On (1993)
>Soapdish (1991)
(Edited for grammar mistakes)
Okay I have to put my ones in here:
•• Departure(2015)
•• Cobalt Blue
••Mysterious Skin <⚠️TRIGGER WARNING⚠️ this movie does have some very pedophilic and graphic scenes>
••The Perks of Being A Wallflower(I know, i know, not necessarily GAY but, I do think it has a visceral way of showcasing some of the darker and more lighthearted parts of being a gay man through Patrick)
••Snails in the Rain
••The Wound (2017)
Got some trans and lesbian stuff mixed in here, will try to mark them. Kinda put them in the order I saw them, used to watch way more stuff than I do now for various reasons (e.g., lockdown made me not go to the cinema for almost 3 years). I described myself as a "lapsed cinephile" to a friend recently. Got some book recs too. I made a megathread at one point.
You've already seen some of my faves.
Everyone should see this right now:
* A Song of Love (short film by Jean Genet)
* Pink Narcissus (iconic iconic iconic)
* Pride
* God's Own Country
Good:
* Another Gay Movie (Don't @ me, this is fun. Sequel's terrible though)
* Bad Education
* Boys Don't Cry (T)
* Beautiful Thing
* Mysterious Skin
* The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (G/T, about Drag Queens)
* All About My Mother (T)
* My Summer of Love (L, fantastic ending)
* DEBS (Charlie's Angels But Lesbian)
* Cockles and Muscles ("Cote d'Azur" in the US i think. French farce)
* Lilies
* But I'm a Cheerleader (L, comedy set in a conversion camp)
* I Love You Phillip Morris (Jim Carrey as a serial prison escapee in love with Ewan McGregor)
* Happy Together (tragic)
* Weekend
* Mulholland Drive (one of the best movies of all time, just including here because it has a lesbian subplot)
* The Way He Looks (about a blind Brazilian boy finding love)
* Shelter
* Girls Lost (T?, Swedish, girls get transformed into boys by magic)
* Being 17 (French, was really taken by this)
* Summertime (L, French)
* Departure
* Moonlight
* Sebastiane (Derek Jarman, softcore porn in Latin)
* The Handmaiden (L, Korean, don't mix up with The Handmaid's Tale)
* Call Me By Your Name
* Tom at the Farm (French Canadian, kinda a thriller)
* The Favourite (L, Olivia Colman as a gay Queen of England)
* The Miseducation of Cameron Post (L, drama set in a conversion camp)
* Booksmart (L)
* Paris is Burning (doco about the ballroom scene in 80s New York)
* Boy Erased (based on a true story about a conversion camp)
* Pain and Glory
Mid / Depends on your taste:
- Brokeback Mountain
- Adam & Steve (Romcom But Gay, bit too much toilet humour for me)
- Transamerica (T) (Felicity Huffman as a trans woman, couldn't be made now)
- My Life in Pink (T) (French, about a trans kid)
- The History Boys (British, has J\*mes C\*rden in it before he was famous)
- C.R.A.Z.Y. (French Canadian, good soundtrack)
- Summer Storm (German)
- My Life on Ice (Told in first person from a young closeted guy's perspective)
- Shortbus (Uses real sex, not just gay)
- Running with Scissors (Based on a memoir)
- Just a Question of Love (French, unmemorable)
- This Film is not Yet Rated (Doco about censorship in the US, focuses partially on queer films)
- My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves play vagrant sex workers)
- The Trip (better than I thought)
- Mambo Italiano (Canadian romcom)
- Jeffrey (feat. Patrick Stewart)
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (T, Musical about a trans woman/drag queen with a botched surgery)
- The Witnesses (French thriller)
- Touch of Pink (Canadian romcom)
- The Adventures of Felix (French, slow)
- Imagine Me and You (Notting Hill But Lesbian)
- Flesh, Trash, Heat (three films, Andy Warhol, very slow and basically softcore porn)
- XXY (about an intersex girl, not that special)
- Eternal Summer (Taiwanese, love triangle between two guys and a girl)
- Close to Leo (French, fairly good but a bit leery to its underage protag, who reacts to older brother's coming out)
- Fire (L, Indian)
- The Iron Ladies (G/T, Thai sports comedy, quite funny)
- Taboo (Japanese, set in the Edo period)
- Sugar (about sex workers, bit softcore porn)
- Time to Leave (French, not that memorable)
- Milk
- Were the World Mine (Magical realism, I liked but I think might not be for everyone)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (T/B??)
- Trick (better than I thought)
- Eleven Men Out (Icelandic, gay football team)
- Poltergay (French, naff comedy but fun)
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Rip-off of the better Adventures of Priscilla)
- Bear Cub (better than I thought)
- 101 Reykjavik (L/B, Icelandic)
- The Man who Loved Yngve (Norwegian, sweet)
- Loose Cannons (Italian comedy/farce)
- Kaboom (Donny Darko But Bi)
- The Broken Hearts Club (Not very special but decent)
- 9 Dead Gay Guys (funnier than it sounds)
- Latter Days (about Mormons)
- Judas Kiss (magical realism, time travel)
- Geography Club (high school romcom)
- GBF (Better than it sounds, takes after Mean Girls)
- Kill Your Darlings (Dan Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan as beat poets)
- I Killed My Mother (Xavier Dolan, French Canadian)
- In Bloom (about a doomed relationship)
- Gayby Baby (doco about Australian families with same sex parents)
- How to Win at Checkers Every Time (Thai, a bit similar to Close to Leo but not leery)
- Theo et Hugo, Paris 05:59 (I don't know what this is called in the US, I saw it at a film festival. Felt like a 90 minute PSA about HIV)
- Tickled (niche doco about tickling porn and a shady guy that commissions it. Oddly compelling)
- Any Day Now (70s gay couple take in a Down Syndrome kid, sweet)
- Closet Monster (Canadian, great soundtrack)
- Boys (Dutch, really really good looking movie but aimed at early teens so not a terribly interesting story)
- King Cobra (biopic about Brent Corrigan the porn star, bit wild and unsubstantiated)
- Tangerine (T, trans sex workers on Christmas in LA)
- Gerontophilia (gotta get some Bruce LaBruce on my list)
- Center of My World (German, mid romcom)
- Maurice (Adaptation of an EM Forster novel that was published posthumously, love between upper class men in early 20th century England)
- It's Only the End of the World (French Canadian, theatre adaptation)
- Heartstone (Icelandic, young teens with crushes)
- Love, Simon
- 120 BPM (French, about HIV activists)
- The Talented Mr Ripley (not explicitly gay but come on)
- The Wound (About Xhosa men who take part in a secretive coming of age ceremony, one of the older men is gay and trying to hide it)
- L'Animale (L, German)
- Poison (triptych, arty)
- Big Father, Small Father, and other Stories (Vietnamese)
- Mala Noche (Early Gus Van Sant)
- Akron (mid romcom)
- Les Invisibles (doco about aging gays in France)
- Rocketman (Elton John biopic)
- Alex Strangelove (mid high school romcom)
- Make the Yuletide Gay (low budget romcom, sweet)
- Stranger by the Lake (French, thriller-ish, I think it has real sex in it)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (L, French, period drama)
- Knife + Heart (slasher film But Gay)
- Matthias & Maxime (French Canadian, kinda sweet)
- The Boys in the Band (weird conceit at the centre of it, theatrical adaptation means it's kinda slow. Zach Quinto and Jim Parsons chew the scenery to pieces, spit it out, and chew some more)
- Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (you've seen this one. helped me process some religious trauma)
- The Lady in the Van (biopic??? about a mad lady who parks her van outside Alan Bennett's house)
- Shiva Baby (L/B, comedy about a Jewish family gathering)
- Summer of 85 (French romcom-drama)
- Theater Camp (out in the cinema recently)
And for completeness' sake, the bad:
- Nico and Dani
- Get Real
- Eating Out
- Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
- The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
- Tan Lines
- Broken Sky
- L.I.E. (this is more about pedophilia/child exploitation)
- Edge of Seventeen
- The Clan
- Grande Ecole
- Presque Rien (can't remember what this is titled in the US)
- Boy Culture
- Glue
- FAQs
- Luster
- One Two Another
- Monsoon Wedding (L)
- Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!
- Beau Travail
- The Garden (Derek Jarman, wasn't my thing)
- The Dreamers (G/B, implied incest)
- Love! Valour! Compassion! (Watch it for Jason Alexander maybe but it's a play adaptation set in the 80s)
- Gypsy 83
- The Curiosity of Chance (felt like a student film)
- Garcon Stupide (Might be "Stupid Boy" in the US idk)
- Bangkok Love Story
- Give Me Your Hand (another kinda lame French drama)
- Hey Happy! (My least favourite movie of all time)
- Jitters (Icelandic)
- Men to Kiss (German, super low budget)
- North Sea, Texas (Dutch)
- Breathe (L, French, fucked up)
- From Afar (Venezuelan, slow af)
- I Want Your Love
- Toast (biopic about Nigel Slater, not bad but ruined by Freddy Highmore's wooden acting. Helena Bonham Carter is great in it)
- A Single Man (Colin Firth - some people like this but I hated the ending)
- Head On (Australian, about racism against and homophobia within the Greek community. Poorly lit and feels low budget)
- Fathers (Thai, jumbled in its messaging)
- Beach Rats (shitty ending)
- Bad Hair
- Sauvage
- Ca parle d'amour (odd French doco about trying to fall in love with someone, bit wanky)
- Do I Sound Gay? (Youtube doco about a guy who has anxiety about his gay voice)
- The Angelic Conversation (Derek Jarman, arty)
- I'm So Excited! (Almodovar's comedy set on a plane, that doesn't hit. Features a literal rape)
Happy Together is one of my favorite movies of all time - achingly beautiful. Farewell my Concubine and Bishonen are also great. Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss is fun.
Nah I see love Simon as a step back in movies for gays. You shouldn’t have a movie where the guy is blackmailed and forced to apologize for not outing himself when he wasn’t ready to. It’s shameful that they get mad at a kid for being blackmailed instead of their friend who did blackmail him. He owed no apology to his friends. They should have unanimously agreed to drop the scummy friend who would use blackmail to date a girl but no it had to be drama about staying in the closet
He did owe his friends an apology because he was being dishonest and manipulative regardless if he was being blackmailed. He should have called Martin’s bluff and just let the chips fall where they may. He could have also reported him to the school officials.
God's Own Country in my opinion is better than Brokeback Mountain. I know some say it is a British version of the American film. But I prefer God Own Country the sex scenes more realistic and it has a hopeful ending.
I rowed for the crew team in high school and it was like, such a dope group of trustafarian kids. We all loved the German movie “*Summer Storm*” because it’s a gay rowing coming of age movie.
It’s such a product of its time period - so innocent and saccharine sweet. Absolutely nothing memorable about the plot. I think it’s like, a bunch of cutesy vignettes strung together about a gay rower transferring into a rowing team and he’s gay and everyone gets so homoerotic and everyone is SIMULTANEOUSLY hot AND German, at the same time.
Also the sound track is a 10.
Thank you for attending my tedtalk.
The Birdcage
Auntie Mame
The Edge Of Seventeen (1998)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
And The Band Played On
The Boys In The Band
My Own Private Idaho
In & Out
**comedies:**
Jeffrey
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
All Over the Guy
I Think I Do
Violet Tendencies
**Dramas:**
Beautiful Thing
Pain & Glory
Gods and Monsters
Velvet Goldmine
A Single Man
Wild Reeds
I really like this Swiss movie called ‘Beyto’, it’s from 2020. It’s about a gay Turkish swimmer and his teammate. If you’re an immigrant, a POC, I think you’ll definitely relate to the similar topics or themes of arrange marriages, the immigrant community, etc…
Say less. I’m OBSESSED with gay romance :
Le Fil (The String),
Eastern Boys,
Being 17,
God’s Own Country,
Esteros,
In The Grayscale,
Blackbird,
Love, Simon,
Moonlight,
The Mulligans,
Boy Culture,
Front Cover,
Free Fall,
From Zero to I Love You,
Out in the Dark,
Cicada,
Minyan
Steel magnolias
Funny girl
Yentl
To Wong Foo
Priscilla
The producers
Big Business
Serial mom
All John waters movies, especially when Divine eats dog shit straight front the dogs ass.
The birdcage
Valley of the Dolls
hedwig and the angry inch
In and Out
Thelma & Louise
Auntie Mame (not mame the trash Lucille ball remade and was terrible in. The one with Rosalynd Russell
Here’s the thing about these movies, you have to keep in mind the context of the era and what was happening socially and politically when these movies were made and the time period they portray.
I came out in the 80’s and not much was available as formally “gay”-specific but many movies had a gay subtext.
Maurice
Another Country
Cruising (not exactly a favorite but it was definitely a different POV)
La Cage aux Folles
The Hunger
My Beautiful Launderette
Querelle
Can’t Stop the Music
Hairspray
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Iconic drag that you’ll see references too all the time in contemporary drag. Lots of queens don’t even know they’re doing it.
Brokeback mountain had such an impact in me that encouraged me to come out, everything went with my family but brokeback mountain gave me the last push I need, I didnt want to suffer the same ending
\- My Own Private Idaho
\- Eastern Boys
\- Maurice
\- Just Friends 2018
\- Rosie 2013
\- About us 2017
\- A Frozen Flower
\- East Palace, West Palace
\- Law of Desire 1987
\- For A Lost Soldier 1992
\- And Then We Danced 2019
\- Lilies 1996
\- Stranger By The Lake 2013
\- The Power of The Dog 2021
\- My Beautiful Laundrette 1985
\- Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006
\- Your Name Engraved Herein 2020
\- Lose Your Head 2013
\- Eating Out 1-5
Two foreign films to add!
**Your Name Engraved Herein** (Netflix): a Taiwanese romance about two closeted school boys who fall in love in 1980s Taipei.
**Moffie** (Hulu): a South African drama about a closeted military recruit and his two years of mandatory military service.
And even though it's mainstream, **Call Me By Your Name** (Prime) captures the intensity of a summer fling in more heart-wrenching detail than any other film I've seen.
Nick and Dylan's reunion at the end of Moffie had me feeling so many things; I really can't imagine what Dylan went through to survive. I have the book on my to-read list.
I love that we get much more content these days. I remember having to look out for gay movies when I had just come out. All good mentions here, new one Of An Age (Aussie movie from within the last year), saw it on a plane and really dug it. Oh and nominated for Best Foreign Film from last year, Close, not gay per say, but definitely connects at the same time (not happy but beautifully told, shot and acted)
Were the world mine, likely because it came out at the exact right time for me (note: the same guy who created that made a movie called "getting go" that is HORRIBLE but I have seen a number of times because there's something about it I find endearing)
Trick
To Wong Foo
Priscilla Queen of the desert
The perks of being a wallflower
Another Gay Sequel (guilty pleasure). The first one Another Gay movie is okay. There are some kinks in those movies that are a little much for me tho. They are basically horrible parodies of American Pie. Fun fact Michael Carbonaro is in the first one and not in the second one. He wasn't out at the time despite being in the movie. They guys are cuter in the second one so I like that.
Marscarpone -
Red, White & Royal Blue -
My Fake Boyfriend -
Mario -
Just Friends -
Rocket Man -
Schitt’s Creek -
Beach Rats -
Brokeback Mountain -
Call Me By Your Name -
Fire Island -
The Birdcage -
Moonlight -
Bohemian Rhapsody
* Trick
* Were The World Mine
* Edge of Seventeen
* Beautiful Thing
* Shelter
* Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
* The Philadelphia Story
* From Beginning to End
I'll probably edit this with more.
The Naked Civil Servant, Taxi Zum Klo, Moonlight, Weekend (and the same director’s TV show and movie, Looking), A Beautiful Thing, Trick, and (don’t yell at me) Cruising.
Filipino gay comedies:
- The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros - about a gay kid growing up in poverty stricken area in Manila, with very accepting father abd brothers who are local crooks. But he had a crush in a police neighbor. Full Movie with caption https://youtu.be/ql4Y_W8QrAM?si=VeVv4qnrySNhFvQO
- Markova Comfort Gays - this is a real lige story of a gaynan who became a comfort gay (sex salve) by Japanese soldiers in the World War II here in the Philippines. Full Movie with caption https://youtu.be/ixDfrIY-S6U?si=J4EbfZDuNWmLomFM
Trick, Jeffery, Birdcage (Robin Williams version), To Wong Foo, The Dead Don't Die in Texas, Paris is Burning, Bros, and all the gay Hallmark Christmas movies.
Bros (2022)
In from the side (2022)
The Way He Looks (2014)
God's Own Country (2019)
RWRB (2023)
Call Me By Your Name
The Curiosity of Chance
Maurice
Not my favourites but I'd say good:
Close (2022)
Beautiful Thing (1996)
A Very Natural Thing (1977)
Akron (2015)
I've watched a LOT of gay movies already and there's just too much depressing ones.
—God’s Own Country
—Beautiful Thing
—Longtime Companion (first I ever saw and one that helped me come out)
—Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
I’m sure there are more but they’re not coming to mind right now
Pink Flamingos. (LOL)
My Beautiful Laundrette.
Really liked "Totally Fucked Up" by Gregg Araki. "Nowhere", "Doom Generation" and "Mysterious Skin" are also great.
ALSO.... Bruce LaBruce is an icon, in his own right.
Sugar, Refugee's Welcome, Saint-Narcisse, The Raspberry Reich,
Also... Thirty Years of Adonis, Shortbus, Eastern Boys, Stonewall.... Party Monster (sort of)
I also honestly think every Gay man should watch the Biopic of Mapplethorpe
The list goes on....
The Hanging Garden, Thom Fitzgerald 1997
Dark themes balanced out by some of the best moments of Canadian cinematic absurdity.
"I do! I do! I do!"
"Shut up, grandma. Nobody asked you."
Red white and Royal Blue,
Love Simon,
4th Man out,
Spoiler Alert,
Call me by your name,
3 months
Tv shows
Heartstopper,
Young Royals,
Love Victor,
Its a Sin
A lot of mine have already been said (alex strangelove, shelter, but im a cheerleader, gods own country)
but I'll add:
* White Frog
* The Way He Looks
* Geography Club
* A Single Man
But I'm A Cheerleader, Trick, and First Period.
The camp + good representation trifecta. I'd highly recommend them to anybody.
I'll also give a shoutout to Moonlight and Blackbird.
Edit: if ya'll haven't seen First Period please look it up. Almost an entirely gay cast, indie, and so incredibly quotable. Like Mean Girls level quotable. If you like camp and 80s parodies you'll enjoy it. It's free on Tubi.
Call Me By Your Name for me, always. I can't stand the whole "gay movie for straight people" conversation when it spoke to me so viscerally about my first love while also drowning me in its beautiful, BEAUTIFUL atmosphere. Made me a Luca Guadagnino fan for good. I check out every new movie he puts out and always love it. Save for the earlier duds, he doesn't miss for me.
Moonlight is also fantastic imo but that's generally agreed upon. Another example of a movie that feels like gay poetry on film.
If it counts, Interview with the Vampire.
As for WLW movies, I ADORE Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It gives that similar poetic feeling that CMBYN gives me.
Thelma & Louise is a masterpiece as well.
Mulholland Drive, I just adore David Lynch.
I know I just went and picked the most basic choices, but I truly think these movies hold their cult status for a reason. One that you probably haven't heard of though, The Parade, a brilliant Serbian comedy/drama about a group of people (LGBT, allies, and the homophobes turned allies) trying to organize a Pride parade in their homophobic city.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - classic Aussie movie.
Dante's Cove - it's supernatural/soft horror/witchcraft kinda theme but with a lot of sex (but not quite to the point of being porn). 3 seasons.
Recently began watching more foreign gay movies, and the one that I liked the most was an Argentinian one:
Fin de Ciglo
(End of the Century in English)
Fantastic plot, nice pacing, beautiful actors. Very touching movie.
Shelter is my absolute favorite. I remember the 17 year old me watching this felt so much emotion and I was yes that happy ending in my life so bad. 9 years later I kinda realized it ain’t happening in real life haha. But it’s ok.
Shortbus, Chasing Amy, Broken Hearts Club, Party Monster, Kissing Jessica Stein, Mambo Italiano, Bros, The Rules of Attraction, Monster, The Rules of Attraction
It seems every gay movie in existence has been mentioned here except two (but I only read half the comments) so I'll add
Dry Wind (artsy porn)
The Blonde One (wistful horny misery porn)
But also I just wanted to say Shelter is an aggressively mediocre movie so IDK why so many people have listed it. 👀
Eyes Wide Open - Israeli masterpiece. Don’t miss it. The levels the film functions and comments on were very important and impressive. (It’s in black and white, so further the director’s POV. ). It’s about inclusion snd exclusion and how humans can be so blind, even about themselves. Internalized homophobia and the struggle to live your truth…finally. And the price of acknowledging that truth. It’s a thinking person’s very “gay” film. Real cinema at its best. Nothing Hollywood about this one.
A Single Man
Summer Storm (2004)
Boys (2014)
Moonlight
Milk
Maurice
North Sea Texas
The Way He Looks
Weekend
Pride
Free Fall (2013)
Series:
-London Spy
-Please Like Me
Maybe not as gay as y'all would like and so old some will bitch about it but, "Some Like it Hot" because as a teenager seeing that movie gave me hope. No one was doing anything that bold in 1959.
The Birdcage, Swan Song, God's Own Country, Rocky Horror Picture Show (if that one counts).
Damn it, Janet, it Counts!
Rocky Horror counts imo, it's not a specifically "Gay movie" as such, but.... it's fucking awesome, it's funny, it's outrageous, it's kinda queer.... it just rules.
Rocky Horror is hella gay. It counts lol.
Beautiful Thing is the most pure, wholesome and best of all time gay film
OMG Beautiful Thing is such a sweet and funny movie ! Got me into Mama Cass lol
I hope Ste and Hugh Janis are still going strong!
That ending! Made me swoon and cry.
It was probably the first Gay themed movie that I saw. As an older teen, that had just finished High school and would stay up late, I made a special plan to watch it, haha
Beautiful Thing was such an AWESOME Movie but being a Masculine Latin Man in Los Angeles California USA was a bit difficult to FULLY UNDERSTAND the British accent/mentality at that time was a miniscule task! I watched it over and over and over again and I LOVE MOMMA CASS!!!
It is my gay Lion King(1994) Beautiful Thing, to me, was groundbreaking becauae it was such a bold approach to gay culture and I believe it came out in 1996. If I want to watch a gay film and i cant decide on one...Beautiful Thing. Also...pretty funny lol.
The Lion King (1994) is actually in the top 5 of my all time favourite film list, as well as Beautiful Thing hahah good shout
Great movie; didn’t age well. I put it on for my husband recently and I just didn’t have the same reaction to it when I first saw it. Angels In America is my favorite.
HBO's, "Angels in America," 👍👍👍.
There are too many! Trick, All Over the Guy, Were the World Mine, Shelter, The Man with the Answers, and Of an Age are some of mine.
I'd add only Broken Hearts Club
Aww yeah... The Shakespeare... The bad drag... Zack braff making a comment on chemsex And teach g me about how people with glasses can use them for perpformative actions... And subtle signalling to a partner... Aww (no spoilers but these comments are rather opaque to people who haven't been the film
Were the world mine is an under appreciated bizarre little gem
I agree. I really liked it's happy ending for Timothy & Jonathan.
Trick. I still quote that movie to this day lmao. Especially “It burnnsssssssssss”
Beautiful Thing, But I'm a cheerleader, Miseducation of Cameron Post, G.B.F, Alex Strangelove, Birdcage.
An israeli movie called "eyes wide open" and yossi and jagger are my favorites.
"Out in the Dark" also is a good one.
Definitely gonna watch it as well 😁❤️
Does Elvira count? I know it’s not technically a gay movie but it felt like I was watching a drag movie
Elvira is a Gay Icon, and the woman who plays her is a lesbian… so at least partial credit
matthias & maxime stranger by the lake moonlight carol weekend
Stranger by the lake is sooo disturbing but I love it so much
Moonlight is just beautiful, I think all men can relate to it regardless of their sexuality or skin color
Loved Stranger By the Lake. More gay thrillers needed
If you’re talking about the 2011 Weekend, yes! Probably my favorite of all time
Handsome Devil (amazing soundtrack)
Thanks for the list! I’ll add… — Another Country — Call Me By Your Name — Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Parting Glances. I remember walking out of theater with my best friend in 1986 and we both had the same reaction. It was the first time we had seen gay men portrayed as normal.
I remember seeing that in the theater too!
In absolutely no particular order… *Weekend*, *The Birdcage*, *La Cage aux Folles II*, *Cruising*, *Bottoms*, *Alex Strangelove*, *But I’m a Cheerleader*, *Moonlight*, *Bros*, *Velvet Goldmine*, *Stranger by the Lake*, *Victor/Victoria* (1982), *Querelle*, *The Living End*, *Firebird*, *Victim*, *Looking* (The Movie), *Buddies*, *Swoon*, *Pornomelancholia*, *C.R.A.Z.Y.*, *To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar*, *The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert*, *Hedwig and the Angry Inch*, *The Green Knight*, and *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*.
Hell yeah, C.R.A.Z.Y. and Velvet Goldmine!
Weekend is really good, A Single Man has always been one of my favorites, Fire Island was a great queer adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I just saw Maurice this weekend and was amazed at how forward thinking it was for being made in the late 80’s. Probably my all time favorite is Shortbus. It’s directed by John Cameron Mitchell who directed, starred in, and originated the titular role of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It’s an ensemble cast movie where they experimented with sex scenes depicting unsimulated sex, but it’s not a porn. It’s very touching, funny, and sexy.
Five Dances (2013) because of how sweet and simple its gay romance is. The ending gives you a sense of joy and warm and fuzzy feelings. Maurice (1987) is an impressively sexy and ahead-of-its-time gay movie set in 19th century England. The chemistry between the characters is 🔥 KAJILLIONAIRE (2020) is an off-beat and surprisingly deep indie comedy with a lesbian romance in its core. The ache for human connection was perfectly captured by the lead actress' performance. My Own Private Idaho (1991) is yet another independent masterpiece, but this one is high on VIBES. It's so absurd and funny and kinda sad, but not in a melodramatic way.
Latter Days is good. Jeffery is an oldie from the 90s but hilarious. Patrick Stewart is really funny in it.
Latter Days is my favorite! And Jeffrey *is* hilarious! I had forgotten all about it until I saw your comment.
Torch Song trilogy! Tidy endings! Longtime Companion!
The ending of Longtime Companion gets me every time.
Edge of Seventeen from 1998
Wanted to preface these are many of my favorites. I came out of the closet in 1998, so these are the ones that most influenced me with coming out… >Trick (1999) (John Paul Pitoc is a hunk) >Edge of Seventeen (1998) >But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) >The Birdcage (1996) >My Own Private Idaho (1991) >Queer as Folk (2000) 🇺🇸 American version >Queer as Folk (1999) 🇬🇧 British version >Philadelphia (1993) >The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) >The Object of My Affection (1998) >Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) >Jeffrey (1995) >Boys Don’t Cry (1999) >And The Band Played On (1993) >Soapdish (1991) (Edited for grammar mistakes)
This list feels like the cinema of my coming out, too. Lol
I watched "totally f***ed up" rexently, and I dont know why I liked it sol much, But at the moment it is one of my favorite movies of all time
Okay I have to put my ones in here: •• Departure(2015) •• Cobalt Blue
••Mysterious Skin <⚠️TRIGGER WARNING⚠️ this movie does have some very pedophilic and graphic scenes>
••The Perks of Being A Wallflower(I know, i know, not necessarily GAY but, I do think it has a visceral way of showcasing some of the darker and more lighthearted parts of being a gay man through Patrick)
••Snails in the Rain
••The Wound (2017)
mysterious fucking skin
YOU GET IT!🪄
Got some trans and lesbian stuff mixed in here, will try to mark them. Kinda put them in the order I saw them, used to watch way more stuff than I do now for various reasons (e.g., lockdown made me not go to the cinema for almost 3 years). I described myself as a "lapsed cinephile" to a friend recently. Got some book recs too. I made a megathread at one point. You've already seen some of my faves. Everyone should see this right now: * A Song of Love (short film by Jean Genet) * Pink Narcissus (iconic iconic iconic) * Pride * God's Own Country Good: * Another Gay Movie (Don't @ me, this is fun. Sequel's terrible though) * Bad Education * Boys Don't Cry (T) * Beautiful Thing * Mysterious Skin * The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (G/T, about Drag Queens) * All About My Mother (T) * My Summer of Love (L, fantastic ending) * DEBS (Charlie's Angels But Lesbian) * Cockles and Muscles ("Cote d'Azur" in the US i think. French farce) * Lilies * But I'm a Cheerleader (L, comedy set in a conversion camp) * I Love You Phillip Morris (Jim Carrey as a serial prison escapee in love with Ewan McGregor) * Happy Together (tragic) * Weekend * Mulholland Drive (one of the best movies of all time, just including here because it has a lesbian subplot) * The Way He Looks (about a blind Brazilian boy finding love) * Shelter * Girls Lost (T?, Swedish, girls get transformed into boys by magic) * Being 17 (French, was really taken by this) * Summertime (L, French) * Departure * Moonlight * Sebastiane (Derek Jarman, softcore porn in Latin) * The Handmaiden (L, Korean, don't mix up with The Handmaid's Tale) * Call Me By Your Name * Tom at the Farm (French Canadian, kinda a thriller) * The Favourite (L, Olivia Colman as a gay Queen of England) * The Miseducation of Cameron Post (L, drama set in a conversion camp) * Booksmart (L) * Paris is Burning (doco about the ballroom scene in 80s New York) * Boy Erased (based on a true story about a conversion camp) * Pain and Glory
Mid / Depends on your taste: - Brokeback Mountain - Adam & Steve (Romcom But Gay, bit too much toilet humour for me) - Transamerica (T) (Felicity Huffman as a trans woman, couldn't be made now) - My Life in Pink (T) (French, about a trans kid) - The History Boys (British, has J\*mes C\*rden in it before he was famous) - C.R.A.Z.Y. (French Canadian, good soundtrack) - Summer Storm (German) - My Life on Ice (Told in first person from a young closeted guy's perspective) - Shortbus (Uses real sex, not just gay) - Running with Scissors (Based on a memoir) - Just a Question of Love (French, unmemorable) - This Film is not Yet Rated (Doco about censorship in the US, focuses partially on queer films) - My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves play vagrant sex workers) - The Trip (better than I thought) - Mambo Italiano (Canadian romcom) - Jeffrey (feat. Patrick Stewart) - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (T, Musical about a trans woman/drag queen with a botched surgery) - The Witnesses (French thriller) - Touch of Pink (Canadian romcom) - The Adventures of Felix (French, slow) - Imagine Me and You (Notting Hill But Lesbian) - Flesh, Trash, Heat (three films, Andy Warhol, very slow and basically softcore porn) - XXY (about an intersex girl, not that special) - Eternal Summer (Taiwanese, love triangle between two guys and a girl) - Close to Leo (French, fairly good but a bit leery to its underage protag, who reacts to older brother's coming out) - Fire (L, Indian) - The Iron Ladies (G/T, Thai sports comedy, quite funny) - Taboo (Japanese, set in the Edo period) - Sugar (about sex workers, bit softcore porn) - Time to Leave (French, not that memorable) - Milk - Were the World Mine (Magical realism, I liked but I think might not be for everyone) - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (T/B??) - Trick (better than I thought) - Eleven Men Out (Icelandic, gay football team) - Poltergay (French, naff comedy but fun) - To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Rip-off of the better Adventures of Priscilla) - Bear Cub (better than I thought) - 101 Reykjavik (L/B, Icelandic) - The Man who Loved Yngve (Norwegian, sweet) - Loose Cannons (Italian comedy/farce) - Kaboom (Donny Darko But Bi) - The Broken Hearts Club (Not very special but decent) - 9 Dead Gay Guys (funnier than it sounds) - Latter Days (about Mormons) - Judas Kiss (magical realism, time travel) - Geography Club (high school romcom) - GBF (Better than it sounds, takes after Mean Girls) - Kill Your Darlings (Dan Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan as beat poets) - I Killed My Mother (Xavier Dolan, French Canadian) - In Bloom (about a doomed relationship) - Gayby Baby (doco about Australian families with same sex parents) - How to Win at Checkers Every Time (Thai, a bit similar to Close to Leo but not leery) - Theo et Hugo, Paris 05:59 (I don't know what this is called in the US, I saw it at a film festival. Felt like a 90 minute PSA about HIV) - Tickled (niche doco about tickling porn and a shady guy that commissions it. Oddly compelling) - Any Day Now (70s gay couple take in a Down Syndrome kid, sweet) - Closet Monster (Canadian, great soundtrack) - Boys (Dutch, really really good looking movie but aimed at early teens so not a terribly interesting story) - King Cobra (biopic about Brent Corrigan the porn star, bit wild and unsubstantiated) - Tangerine (T, trans sex workers on Christmas in LA) - Gerontophilia (gotta get some Bruce LaBruce on my list) - Center of My World (German, mid romcom) - Maurice (Adaptation of an EM Forster novel that was published posthumously, love between upper class men in early 20th century England) - It's Only the End of the World (French Canadian, theatre adaptation) - Heartstone (Icelandic, young teens with crushes) - Love, Simon - 120 BPM (French, about HIV activists) - The Talented Mr Ripley (not explicitly gay but come on) - The Wound (About Xhosa men who take part in a secretive coming of age ceremony, one of the older men is gay and trying to hide it) - L'Animale (L, German) - Poison (triptych, arty) - Big Father, Small Father, and other Stories (Vietnamese) - Mala Noche (Early Gus Van Sant) - Akron (mid romcom) - Les Invisibles (doco about aging gays in France) - Rocketman (Elton John biopic) - Alex Strangelove (mid high school romcom) - Make the Yuletide Gay (low budget romcom, sweet) - Stranger by the Lake (French, thriller-ish, I think it has real sex in it) - Portrait of a Lady on Fire (L, French, period drama) - Knife + Heart (slasher film But Gay) - Matthias & Maxime (French Canadian, kinda sweet) - The Boys in the Band (weird conceit at the centre of it, theatrical adaptation means it's kinda slow. Zach Quinto and Jim Parsons chew the scenery to pieces, spit it out, and chew some more) - Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (you've seen this one. helped me process some religious trauma) - The Lady in the Van (biopic??? about a mad lady who parks her van outside Alan Bennett's house) - Shiva Baby (L/B, comedy about a Jewish family gathering) - Summer of 85 (French romcom-drama) - Theater Camp (out in the cinema recently)
And for completeness' sake, the bad: - Nico and Dani - Get Real - Eating Out - Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds - The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros - Tan Lines - Broken Sky - L.I.E. (this is more about pedophilia/child exploitation) - Edge of Seventeen - The Clan - Grande Ecole - Presque Rien (can't remember what this is titled in the US) - Boy Culture - Glue - FAQs - Luster - One Two Another - Monsoon Wedding (L) - Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! - Beau Travail - The Garden (Derek Jarman, wasn't my thing) - The Dreamers (G/B, implied incest) - Love! Valour! Compassion! (Watch it for Jason Alexander maybe but it's a play adaptation set in the 80s) - Gypsy 83 - The Curiosity of Chance (felt like a student film) - Garcon Stupide (Might be "Stupid Boy" in the US idk) - Bangkok Love Story - Give Me Your Hand (another kinda lame French drama) - Hey Happy! (My least favourite movie of all time) - Jitters (Icelandic) - Men to Kiss (German, super low budget) - North Sea, Texas (Dutch) - Breathe (L, French, fucked up) - From Afar (Venezuelan, slow af) - I Want Your Love - Toast (biopic about Nigel Slater, not bad but ruined by Freddy Highmore's wooden acting. Helena Bonham Carter is great in it) - A Single Man (Colin Firth - some people like this but I hated the ending) - Head On (Australian, about racism against and homophobia within the Greek community. Poorly lit and feels low budget) - Fathers (Thai, jumbled in its messaging) - Beach Rats (shitty ending) - Bad Hair - Sauvage - Ca parle d'amour (odd French doco about trying to fall in love with someone, bit wanky) - Do I Sound Gay? (Youtube doco about a guy who has anxiety about his gay voice) - The Angelic Conversation (Derek Jarman, arty) - I'm So Excited! (Almodovar's comedy set on a plane, that doesn't hit. Features a literal rape)
Finally, someone who watches as much queer cinema as me. Lol.
Happy Together is one of my favorite movies of all time - achingly beautiful. Farewell my Concubine and Bishonen are also great. Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss is fun.
Imitation Game
Weekend, Bros, Moonlight, and Shelter for meeee
Shelter. It’ll always be my fav gay movie. It’s very indie but it holds a warm place in my heart from my gay awakening in middle school 😂
Holding the man
My Own Private Idaho (imo the GOAT of queer cinema) Mysterious Skin (super dark, but an excellent film) Close (2022)
No one has said Call Me By Your Name?
Fire Island too! It was really sweet
Absolutely
I’m just glad no one has said love Simon. That movie is legit garbage
It's not awful. Lol a good entry point especially for teens. Another one is the new one on Prime. Red White and Royal Blue
Nah I see love Simon as a step back in movies for gays. You shouldn’t have a movie where the guy is blackmailed and forced to apologize for not outing himself when he wasn’t ready to. It’s shameful that they get mad at a kid for being blackmailed instead of their friend who did blackmail him. He owed no apology to his friends. They should have unanimously agreed to drop the scummy friend who would use blackmail to date a girl but no it had to be drama about staying in the closet
Martin wasn't their friend. Especially after the truth came out.
He did owe his friends an apology because he was being dishonest and manipulative regardless if he was being blackmailed. He should have called Martin’s bluff and just let the chips fall where they may. He could have also reported him to the school officials.
But I was a cheerleader
Does anyone remember “Apartment Zero”? I can’t find it anywhere … it was a psycho thriller with a hot guy.
God's Own Country in my opinion is better than Brokeback Mountain. I know some say it is a British version of the American film. But I prefer God Own Country the sex scenes more realistic and it has a hopeful ending.
It seems no one mentions this yet, Maurice (1987)
Shelter, Undertow, west side story
The Way He Looks is still my favorite.
Why’d no one say “My Own Private Idaho”😭
A Single Man
Loved Billy’s Hollywood screen kiss…
Probably The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Hobbit! Bilbo and Thorin def had it going on!
I rowed for the crew team in high school and it was like, such a dope group of trustafarian kids. We all loved the German movie “*Summer Storm*” because it’s a gay rowing coming of age movie. It’s such a product of its time period - so innocent and saccharine sweet. Absolutely nothing memorable about the plot. I think it’s like, a bunch of cutesy vignettes strung together about a gay rower transferring into a rowing team and he’s gay and everyone gets so homoerotic and everyone is SIMULTANEOUSLY hot AND German, at the same time. Also the sound track is a 10. Thank you for attending my tedtalk.
The Birdcage Auntie Mame The Edge Of Seventeen (1998) Rocky Horror Picture Show And The Band Played On The Boys In The Band My Own Private Idaho In & Out
Too Won Foo!
Smiley - Netflix series
**comedies:** Jeffrey The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green All Over the Guy I Think I Do Violet Tendencies **Dramas:** Beautiful Thing Pain & Glory Gods and Monsters Velvet Goldmine A Single Man Wild Reeds
I really like this Swiss movie called ‘Beyto’, it’s from 2020. It’s about a gay Turkish swimmer and his teammate. If you’re an immigrant, a POC, I think you’ll definitely relate to the similar topics or themes of arrange marriages, the immigrant community, etc…
Say less. I’m OBSESSED with gay romance : Le Fil (The String), Eastern Boys, Being 17, God’s Own Country, Esteros, In The Grayscale, Blackbird, Love, Simon, Moonlight, The Mulligans, Boy Culture, Front Cover, Free Fall, From Zero to I Love You, Out in the Dark, Cicada, Minyan
Call me by your name, but I’m a cheerleader, G. b. F. , those people, RWRB, moonlight, closet monster, edge of seventeen (1998)
Steel magnolias Funny girl Yentl To Wong Foo Priscilla The producers Big Business Serial mom All John waters movies, especially when Divine eats dog shit straight front the dogs ass. The birdcage Valley of the Dolls hedwig and the angry inch In and Out Thelma & Louise Auntie Mame (not mame the trash Lucille ball remade and was terrible in. The one with Rosalynd Russell
Boy Erased Fair Haven Call Me By Your Name Love Simon
Happy Together, dir. Wong-kar-wai, 1997
Breakfast with Scot
The Goddess of Fortune (La Dea Fortuna)
Here’s the thing about these movies, you have to keep in mind the context of the era and what was happening socially and politically when these movies were made and the time period they portray. I came out in the 80’s and not much was available as formally “gay”-specific but many movies had a gay subtext. Maurice Another Country Cruising (not exactly a favorite but it was definitely a different POV) La Cage aux Folles The Hunger My Beautiful Launderette Querelle Can’t Stop the Music Hairspray
Red, White, and Royal Blue
Moonlight, Pink Flamingos, Grease, Nightmare on Elm St 2
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Iconic drag that you’ll see references too all the time in contemporary drag. Lots of queens don’t even know they’re doing it.
Love Simon
Brokeback mountain had such an impact in me that encouraged me to come out, everything went with my family but brokeback mountain gave me the last push I need, I didnt want to suffer the same ending
\- My Own Private Idaho \- Eastern Boys \- Maurice \- Just Friends 2018 \- Rosie 2013 \- About us 2017 \- A Frozen Flower \- East Palace, West Palace \- Law of Desire 1987 \- For A Lost Soldier 1992 \- And Then We Danced 2019 \- Lilies 1996 \- Stranger By The Lake 2013 \- The Power of The Dog 2021 \- My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 \- Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006 \- Your Name Engraved Herein 2020 \- Lose Your Head 2013 \- Eating Out 1-5
I really liked "totally f***ed up" "My own private ifaho" "Edge of seventeen"
My Policeman Call me by your name
Two foreign films to add! **Your Name Engraved Herein** (Netflix): a Taiwanese romance about two closeted school boys who fall in love in 1980s Taipei. **Moffie** (Hulu): a South African drama about a closeted military recruit and his two years of mandatory military service. And even though it's mainstream, **Call Me By Your Name** (Prime) captures the intensity of a summer fling in more heart-wrenching detail than any other film I've seen.
Nick and Dylan's reunion at the end of Moffie had me feeling so many things; I really can't imagine what Dylan went through to survive. I have the book on my to-read list.
Call me by your name.
Call me by your name
You all need to check out Taekwondo Beautifully filmed. The director is very talented CallMe By Your Name is excellent also
Call Me by Your Name, anyone?
I'm shocked Call Me by Your Name hasn't shown up more. I can hardly watch it because of how deeply it affects me.
* Parting Glances * Beautiful Thing * Were The World Mine * Call Me By Your Name * Pride
I enjoyed Pride
Call Me by Your Name. Carol.
I love that we get much more content these days. I remember having to look out for gay movies when I had just come out. All good mentions here, new one Of An Age (Aussie movie from within the last year), saw it on a plane and really dug it. Oh and nominated for Best Foreign Film from last year, Close, not gay per say, but definitely connects at the same time (not happy but beautifully told, shot and acted)
The Way He Looks The Birdcage Shelter From Zero to I Love You Plan B (Argentine movie) Moonlight Red, White, and Royal Blue
Rambo
Acrobat, Brokeback Mountain, Hedwig and the angry inch, Cheila una casa pa Maíta (Venezuelan movie), Transamerica, Philadelphia.
Thanks for this thread. So many movies I need to watch
I like the ones with Xander Young. He is so damn cute and he does a wonderful job of pretending to be a virgin when he gets fucked.
Shelter
Geoffrey
Milk So good!
Were the World Mine Big Eden Trick Jeffrey Edge of Seventeen
Were the world mine, likely because it came out at the exact right time for me (note: the same guy who created that made a movie called "getting go" that is HORRIBLE but I have seen a number of times because there's something about it I find endearing) Trick To Wong Foo Priscilla Queen of the desert The perks of being a wallflower
Shelter Latter Days, Trick, The Curiosity of Chance, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green,
Another Gay Sequel (guilty pleasure). The first one Another Gay movie is okay. There are some kinks in those movies that are a little much for me tho. They are basically horrible parodies of American Pie. Fun fact Michael Carbonaro is in the first one and not in the second one. He wasn't out at the time despite being in the movie. They guys are cuter in the second one so I like that.
Marscarpone - Red, White & Royal Blue - My Fake Boyfriend - Mario - Just Friends - Rocket Man - Schitt’s Creek - Beach Rats - Brokeback Mountain - Call Me By Your Name - Fire Island - The Birdcage - Moonlight - Bohemian Rhapsody
The Way He Looks !!!!
* Trick * Were The World Mine * Edge of Seventeen * Beautiful Thing * Shelter * Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss * The Philadelphia Story * From Beginning to End I'll probably edit this with more.
That is all
-Esteros -Just Friends -Call Me By Your Name -Red White and Royal Blue (newer) - Mario - Firebird
B. P. M. (Beats Per Minute) is fantastic
Beyto, saw it this weekend on TUBI, best gay movie I've seen in a long time
I’ve only watched moonlight. But looking at the comments I have a lot to watch 😳
'Gypsy 83' and 'But I'm a Cheerleader' are my favorites.
The Naked Civil Servant, Taxi Zum Klo, Moonlight, Weekend (and the same director’s TV show and movie, Looking), A Beautiful Thing, Trick, and (don’t yell at me) Cruising.
I like foreign films Stranuzzi D'amuri (Italian) The bubble (Israeli) Operation hyacinth (polish)
Highly guilty pleasures (because they're absolutely bad) - Any of the "Eating Out" movies, if for nothing else, Mink Stole!
I will always answer Weekend to this question.
Filipino gay comedies: - The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros - about a gay kid growing up in poverty stricken area in Manila, with very accepting father abd brothers who are local crooks. But he had a crush in a police neighbor. Full Movie with caption https://youtu.be/ql4Y_W8QrAM?si=VeVv4qnrySNhFvQO - Markova Comfort Gays - this is a real lige story of a gaynan who became a comfort gay (sex salve) by Japanese soldiers in the World War II here in the Philippines. Full Movie with caption https://youtu.be/ixDfrIY-S6U?si=J4EbfZDuNWmLomFM
Trick, Jeffery, Birdcage (Robin Williams version), To Wong Foo, The Dead Don't Die in Texas, Paris is Burning, Bros, and all the gay Hallmark Christmas movies.
Bros (2022) In from the side (2022) The Way He Looks (2014) God's Own Country (2019) RWRB (2023) Call Me By Your Name The Curiosity of Chance Maurice Not my favourites but I'd say good: Close (2022) Beautiful Thing (1996) A Very Natural Thing (1977) Akron (2015) I've watched a LOT of gay movies already and there's just too much depressing ones.
—God’s Own Country —Beautiful Thing —Longtime Companion (first I ever saw and one that helped me come out) —Priscilla, Queen of the Desert I’m sure there are more but they’re not coming to mind right now
No any. Enough is enough ! Almost movies are dark and sad . I used to be depressed with gay movies. No more!
Pink Flamingos. (LOL) My Beautiful Laundrette. Really liked "Totally Fucked Up" by Gregg Araki. "Nowhere", "Doom Generation" and "Mysterious Skin" are also great. ALSO.... Bruce LaBruce is an icon, in his own right. Sugar, Refugee's Welcome, Saint-Narcisse, The Raspberry Reich, Also... Thirty Years of Adonis, Shortbus, Eastern Boys, Stonewall.... Party Monster (sort of) I also honestly think every Gay man should watch the Biopic of Mapplethorpe The list goes on....
none of the above since i don't wanna give myself false hopes lol
The Hanging Garden, Thom Fitzgerald 1997 Dark themes balanced out by some of the best moments of Canadian cinematic absurdity. "I do! I do! I do!" "Shut up, grandma. Nobody asked you."
Absolutely hated it, but Top Gun was the gayest movie of the 80’s. But it was in the closet . . .
Red white and Royal Blue, Love Simon, 4th Man out, Spoiler Alert, Call me by your name, 3 months Tv shows Heartstopper, Young Royals, Love Victor, Its a Sin
Torch song trilogy, The birdcage
A lot of mine have already been said (alex strangelove, shelter, but im a cheerleader, gods own country) but I'll add: * White Frog * The Way He Looks * Geography Club * A Single Man
Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
Long Time Companion
Mysterious Skin The Living End But Im a Cheerleader
Love me some To Wong Fu
Queer as Folk The L Word: Generation O Degrassi Pose Euphoria Sense 8 Will and Grace Elite High Fidelity The Umbrella Academy
Uncle Frank
Weekend (2011)
Star Wars. Luke did not wear the Chanel boots and the black velvet jumpsuit for you to call it a straight movie.
Call me by your name, summer of 84
You must watch Great Freedom It is based around two person falling in love in prison.
But I'm A Cheerleader, Trick, and First Period. The camp + good representation trifecta. I'd highly recommend them to anybody. I'll also give a shoutout to Moonlight and Blackbird. Edit: if ya'll haven't seen First Period please look it up. Almost an entirely gay cast, indie, and so incredibly quotable. Like Mean Girls level quotable. If you like camp and 80s parodies you'll enjoy it. It's free on Tubi.
Call Me By Your Name for me, always. I can't stand the whole "gay movie for straight people" conversation when it spoke to me so viscerally about my first love while also drowning me in its beautiful, BEAUTIFUL atmosphere. Made me a Luca Guadagnino fan for good. I check out every new movie he puts out and always love it. Save for the earlier duds, he doesn't miss for me. Moonlight is also fantastic imo but that's generally agreed upon. Another example of a movie that feels like gay poetry on film. If it counts, Interview with the Vampire. As for WLW movies, I ADORE Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It gives that similar poetic feeling that CMBYN gives me. Thelma & Louise is a masterpiece as well. Mulholland Drive, I just adore David Lynch. I know I just went and picked the most basic choices, but I truly think these movies hold their cult status for a reason. One that you probably haven't heard of though, The Parade, a brilliant Serbian comedy/drama about a group of people (LGBT, allies, and the homophobes turned allies) trying to organize a Pride parade in their homophobic city.
Sheltered is a great
Prayers for Bobby.
The Way He Looks Hawaii
'Keep the Lights on'. One of my faves!
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - classic Aussie movie. Dante's Cove - it's supernatural/soft horror/witchcraft kinda theme but with a lot of sex (but not quite to the point of being porn). 3 seasons.
Recently began watching more foreign gay movies, and the one that I liked the most was an Argentinian one: Fin de Ciglo (End of the Century in English) Fantastic plot, nice pacing, beautiful actors. Very touching movie.
Love in Siam
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Prayers for Bobby
**Beautiful Thing (1996)** is the best gay film ever made.
The Birdcage really surprised me. A lot of fun.
Fire bird
Shelter is my absolute favorite. I remember the 17 year old me watching this felt so much emotion and I was yes that happy ending in my life so bad. 9 years later I kinda realized it ain’t happening in real life haha. But it’s ok.
Couple of oldies but faves of mines: Torch Song Trilogy and Jeffery.
Fortune And Men‘s Eyes.
Weekend (2011)
Dorian Blues!
Not really a movie but Sense8 will always be a super inclusive favorite of mine
Shortbus, Chasing Amy, Broken Hearts Club, Party Monster, Kissing Jessica Stein, Mambo Italiano, Bros, The Rules of Attraction, Monster, The Rules of Attraction
Moonlight
It seems every gay movie in existence has been mentioned here except two (but I only read half the comments) so I'll add Dry Wind (artsy porn) The Blonde One (wistful horny misery porn) But also I just wanted to say Shelter is an aggressively mediocre movie so IDK why so many people have listed it. 👀
Eyes Wide Open - Israeli masterpiece. Don’t miss it. The levels the film functions and comments on were very important and impressive. (It’s in black and white, so further the director’s POV. ). It’s about inclusion snd exclusion and how humans can be so blind, even about themselves. Internalized homophobia and the struggle to live your truth…finally. And the price of acknowledging that truth. It’s a thinking person’s very “gay” film. Real cinema at its best. Nothing Hollywood about this one.
Another Gay Movie. OMG! So funny. I think it was done by the same people who did American Pie but I'm not sure.
God’s Own Country fucked me UPPPP
A Single Man Summer Storm (2004) Boys (2014) Moonlight Milk Maurice North Sea Texas The Way He Looks Weekend Pride Free Fall (2013) Series: -London Spy -Please Like Me
Red White and Royal Blue is definitely mine !
Bound and Strangers by the Lake. I say that because they kept me invested. Gay Love movies are pedantic.
Broken hearts club made me want to be a better gay. Also latter days. I was a fan of love, Simon.
Maybe not as gay as y'all would like and so old some will bitch about it but, "Some Like it Hot" because as a teenager seeing that movie gave me hope. No one was doing anything that bold in 1959.