Great Gay Movies and Shows

[tallslenderguy]

i don't think i've seen this topic discussed, so thought i'd start a thread about gay movies or shows you've seen and liked.  i have quite a few, and am fond of productions from other countries as well.  Here's a few of my favorites (i have so many i love) to start off. 

Movies:

Home at the End of the World

Latter Days

Bent

Brokeback Mountain 

Series:

 

London Spy

Tales of the City

Animated:

Para Norman 

[Guest]

 

6 hours ago, tallslenderguy said:

i don't think i've seen this topic discussed, so thought i'd start a thread about gay movies or shows you've seen and liked.  i have quite a few, and am fond of productions from other countries as well.  Here's a few of my favorites (i have so many i love) to start off. 

Movies:

Home at the End of the World

Latter Days

Bent

Brokeback Mountain 

Series:

 

London Spy

Tales of the City

Animated:

Para Norman 

Ah ... So many !!! Of the top of my head...

Series -

Please Like Me (Australian Show) 

Queer As Folk (Showtime) [I prefer the US adaptation]

Made in Heaven (Amazon Original - Indian) 

Special (Netflix Original)

Bonding (Netflix)

Looking (HBO) [2 Seasons and a movie finale]

Angels in America (HBO) Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson... Do I need to say anything more?

Eastsiders (Netflix)

 

 

Movies :

Trick (1999)

Just a Question of Love (2000) (French) Juste une question d'amour (original title)

Shelter

Theo and Hugo , also known as 'Paris 05:59'

Call me By your Name

Love Simon

Milk

Holding the Man

The curiosity of Chance

The Way He Looks

The Broken Hearts Club

LOEV (Netflix)

Those People

Stonewall

 

 

 

 

 

[bredbiyou]

A couple recs from Canada:

C.R.A.Z.Y.

Lilies

[Daddyph]

A few I liked:

God’s own country 

freefall

Christopher and his kind

 

[Pozlover1]

Latter Days

Torch Song Trilogy

Angels in America

Mudge Boy

Stonewall (yeah I know but still pretty good)

Joshua Tree 1951

Beautiful Thing

 

[GeorgiaBoy]

Call Me By Your Name

 

[Pozzible]

Plainclothes trailer looks sooo good! starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey

Sundance Jury Award winner

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Pozzible
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[MuscledHorse]

I would place Love Simon (film), Love, Victor (series) at the top of the list for the coming out part. Love, Simon is best described as a teen gay coming out story if it had been done by John Hughes (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off). Love Victor is a follow-up to Love, Simon, set in the same school and universe. The ending of the NYC trip (Season 1, episode eight) when Victor and Simon meet outside a bar reduces me to a puddle of tears every time)

For the adult side of things I can't recommend Bros enough along with the beautiful and tragic Brokeback Mountain. Bros, made as the film for all us adult guy looking for love after the coming out story has ended, should have done as well at the box office as Love, Simon did but in between the two, COVID happened and too much of the self-eating toxic had come out on the Left and it was ripped apart over petty things. The film is a funny rom-com that makes fun of rom-coms and its  tropes but still manages to hit every one of them without detracting from its recurring central themes of self acceptance and self confidence. To get a real feel for what dating and relationships  and dangerous life was like in the Age of AIDS, I also recommend Jeffery (an all star cast, including a very gay interior designer played by the great Patrick Stewart) and Torch Song Trilogy with Harvey Fierstein and Matt Broderick.

 

All of these films and shows should have trailers on youTube, if you want to learn more about them.

[Pozzible]

2 hours ago, Pozzible said:

Plainclothes trailer looks sooo good! starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey

Sundance Jury Award winner

 

This movie opens in limited release today. 9/19/25. Don’t know if it’ll open wide in theatres or go direct to streaming.

[Pozzible]

1 hour ago, MuscledHorse said:

For the adult side of things I can't recommend Bros enough along with the beautiful and tragic Brokeback Mountain.

I’ll second Brokeback, of course. But Angels in America is at top of list. And Heaartstopper is sooo good.

[MuscledHorse]

40 minutes ago, Pozzible said:

I’ll second Brokeback, of course. But Angels in America is at top of list. And Heaartstopper is sooo good.

And Red White and Royal Blue has the single funniest coming out scene ever when the president's campaign manager discovers the truth. The actress who played her absolutely nailed it, right down to the belated curtsey and "your royal highness" after chewing out the british prince moments before.

[blackrobe]

I'm surprised to see the "Looking" TV series mentioned, but not the excellent film "Weekend" 2011 from the same director, Andrew Haigh. It got a Criterion release and is rated at 95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Some others worth your time that I didn't see mentioned:

• Beautiful Thing - 1996
• Breaking Fast - 2020
• Fire Island - 2022 (a modern gay retelling of Pride and Prejudice)
• Longtime Companion - 1989 
• Monsoon - 2020
• My Beautiful Launderette - 1985
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - 1994

[Pozzible]

7 minutes ago, blackrobe said:

from the same director, Andrew Haigh

All of Us Strangers
<chef’s kiss!>

[Poz50something]

Living in Montreal, the films I enjoyed were 

C.R.A.Z.Y. 

Being at Home With Claude 

J’ai tué ma mère 

Laurence Anyways 

There’s Philadelphia with Tom Hanks 

As for series, there’s 

Noah’s Arc 

Queer as Fuck (British version) 

Vicious 

the L Word 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Poz50something

[stillbreedin]

'latter days,' 'private romeo,' the 3 part 'love at the falls'