L’Américain (2013) Short film by Jim Le
24/10/2018
A chance encounter unexpectedly leads to an unlikely friendship when a young, reserved Parisian takes in a mysterious American backpacker for a few days.
Director: Jim Le
Gay Themed Movies from France
Cinematic journeys of love, identity, and freedom.
Thirty-Six Hours (2016)
23/10/2018
Model-turned-director duo Kristell Chenut and Vincent Lacrocq’s surreal narrative short starring male models Clément Chabernaud and Jon Kortajarena and shot in Lanzarote.
1992 (2016): gay short film by Anthony Doncque
17/10/2018
Martin is seventeen and spends all day recording everything with his Hi8 camera. One day Martin meets Dominique, who works as a watchman at his school.
Director: Anthony Doncque
Man at Bath (2010) – Trailer
02/06/2018
Man at Bath (French: Homme au bain) is a 2010 French film by Christophe Honoré starring François Sagat and Chiara Mastroianni. The film premiered in competition at Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland in 2010 and was released in cinemas on 22 September 2010.
Three Dancing Slaves (2004) music video
26/05/2018
Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, lands a job, and must overcome various temptations in order to keep it. Olivier, nearing 18, may be falling in love with Hicham, a young man who constantly practices capoeira on the shores of the lake. Both violence and fraternity are close to the surface of most interactions. How each brother emerges from his challenge comprises the film’s drama. Is there any way in which these men can be a family?
Call Me by Your Name (2017): A Summer That Stays Under Your Skin
23/04/2018
A summer in northern Italy, a first love that feels like music and bruises at the same time. Tender, sensual, and unforgettable.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
ARRIERE-PLAN (2015)
18/02/2018
A gangster and a police detective meet each other for a mysterious exchange of information but nothing happens as planned.
Background (Arrière Plan) is a student project and additionnaly one of my first short movie. It seems to be a polar but it deals (in the background) with self social acceptance. Protagonists are not free to be who they really are.
The Obstacle Course
21/01/2018
(Le Parcours)
Short film created for LGBT – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender inter-association.
Agency : TBWA Paris
Production : Alexis Bensa // Moonwalk Films
DOP : Patrick Duroux
Production Design : Stéphane Rozenbaum
Editor : Léo Gatelier // Nightshift
Music : Jean-Pierre Taïeb
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (2016) – Trailer
21/03/2017
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.
Directors: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Dans la décapotable (1996)
14/02/2017
Two men are going away together for the weekend but one seems more concerned than the other that there are condoms available…
Director: Merzak Allouache
The Strange Ones (2011)
02/02/2017
A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is quite what it seems to be.
Directors: Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein
Workout – Sexual Tension: Volatile (2012)
20/12/2016
Short movie from Sexual Tension: Volatile (2012).
Workout (Entrenamiento), starts out with casual eroticism of two guys working out together, and the touching and intimacy of that. Later on they end up taking sexy photos of one another to send to some women, which ends up escalating until one wants to take a shot of the other’s erection.
Director: Marco Berger
Stars: Jorge Carossia, Fede Guasch
The Cousin ( El Primo) – Sexual Tension: Volatile (2012)
17/12/2016
The object of affection is a boy who never speaks (something that can work wonders in a film of this length), but whose crotch outline seems to be everywhere the lustful visitor (Javier De Pietro, previously seen in Berger’s Absent and Hawaii) casts his eyes.
Director: Marco Berger
Hidden Kisses (2016): When a Private Kiss Becomes Public Punishment
30/11/2016
In this French coming-of-age drama, Nathan and Louis are pushed into the spotlight after a party kiss is photographed and shared. What follows is bullying, family pressure, and the brutal cost of pretending, until one honest connection becomes the thing that keeps them alive.
Pool Blue (2011)
18/11/2016
Pool Blue is an attempt which tells, without dialogue nor rationality, a connection fantasized between two boys. It is the fantastical projection which reveals certain eroticism. Pointless and discreet, the desire is present, two men are careful, gauge to the point to create a link of seduction. This link is intelligently staged, it is invisible with the eyes of the other swimmers, mysterious for both men and very explicit for the spectator.
Utopia (2012)
04/10/2016
Two young French men from different social backgrounds spend time together to know each other. They explore the suburbs around Paris and visit vacated utopian architectural projects built in an era when a better future for all was still the goal of society.
Director: Manfred Rott
Being 17 (2016)
02/10/2016
(original title) Director: Writers: Genre: Country: Language: Duration: min Year: Stars: Quand on a 17 ans (2016) Director: André Téchiné Writers:André Téchiné, Céline Sciamma Genres:Drama, Romance
His Brother (2003) – a gay drama by Patrice Chéreau – Trailer
12/09/2016
Two brothers with a problematic relationship in the past, find together again when the elder one gets a dangerous disease and asks his brother to accompany him to several doctors.
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Sunshine Sparkling in My Eyes (2009)
01/11/2015
Raphaël is seventeen years old and in love. It is the story of an awakening, the painful explosion of the adolescence.
La dérade (2011) – A Story of Secrets, Sacrifice, and the Fragility of Life
14/10/2015
Two lovers talking on a beach in France. One hides the fact that he is in need of a heart transplant. He knows that someone has to die so that he may live. But to find out who it was that died so that he may live.
Director: Pascal Latil