Gay Themed Movies from France
Cinematic journeys of love, identity, and freedom.
When a delivery mix-up leads to two strangers being locked on a roof, they are forced to trade their prejudices for a conversation and a slice of pizza.
A lonely young man in Paris is mistaken for a street hustler and decides to go along with it just to have someone to talk to. A simple, atmospheric short about a chance encounter and the need for human connection.
Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life is a queer western shaped less by gunfire than by regret. With Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke trading longing, pride, and old pain, the film turns a reunion into a tense reckoning between love and duty.
Oskar is on the night train, heading home after an interview in Stockholm. With a long night ahead of him, he makes eye contact with Ahmad. For the first time he meets the gaze of someone who feels the same desire as he does.
Down in Paris follows Richard, a gay filmmaker in his forties who abandons his own film shoot and wanders through Paris at night. Along the way he meets drivers, hustlers, ex-lovers, prophets and ghosts from his past, each stripping away a layer of ego until only a scared, honest man is left.
Fine Young Men (2024) takes us into a Catholic boys’ school where money, machismo and politics matter more than truth. Alf comes back from a year away, falls for Oliver’s world, then betrays him in one desperate move to stay “one of the guys”. One party, one lie and a guilt you can’t wash off.
I Am Jonas follows a man forced to confront the one summer that shaped him and the boy whose disappearance still defines his life.
Director: Christophe Charrier
A sensitive French short film about anxiety, love, and emotional dependence. Juliette & Roméo (2024) shows how affection can both heal and hurt — and how recovery begins when love ends.
The confidences, hopes and disappointments of a group of friends.
Director: Ferzan Özpetek
Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother’s summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. A love-story begins between the two boys.
Fei works illegally to support family, but they reject his lifestyle. Through Long, Fei finds hope, until encountering Xiaolai, his past love, who makes him confront his guilt.
Director: C.B. Yi
An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. He is also there to face the memories of his first love. The people & places he returns to evoke many feelings from the past.
Director: Olivier Peyon
A quiet queer short about a writer in crisis, a stranger by the sea, and the dangerous beauty of desire mistaken for inspiration. The Unknown Man explores obsession, longing, and the fragile line between fantasy and reality.
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.
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Stars: Cristian Mercado, Tatiana Astengo, Manolo Cardona
Cécile must go to rehearse Romeo & Juliet, but boyfriend Thomas wants to come watch. When Cécile is called away to a school interview, the play director asks Thomas to step in as Juliet to rehearse with Jérémie as Romeo, but Thomas is resistant because Jérémie might just be his fantasy. Will Thomas allow Jérémie to kiss him?
Director: Julien Eger
Summer is coming. Arthur, a 20-year-old student, sees his fellow best friend Tony from college getting ready to leave for Canada. The idea of being far away from Tony unexpectedly awakens a deep sense of attachment in Arthur. He’s about to face up to his feelings and the way others seem him, before it’s too late. Director: Mickaël Weber
Oliver and Chris, a couple in crisis, meet another couple, Tommy and Greta who offer them to stay in the guest house they’ve just opened. Oliver and Chris hesitate then accept, entering a new and strange world which will upset all their bearings…
Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She’s…
Directed by Francis Girod. Starring Richard Bohringer.
A gay couple’s marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman.
Directed by Ira Sachs
The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin Alexis, who murders all too easily. When Alexis himself is fatally gunned down, grief-stricken Fernando hunts for his young lover’s killer in the Medellin slums, but instead encounters Wilmar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Alexis.
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