Gay Themed Movies from France
Cinematic journeys of love, identity, and freedom.
With Scotland in the World Cup in 1974, 13 year old Stephen is more into Glam Rock than football.
A story of a family coming to terms with change in uncertain times.
Director: David Andrew Ward
A drama that charts ten years in the relationship of a male-to-female transsexual’s relationship with her lover.
Director: Xavier Dolan
This coming-of-age drama deals with a young man, realizing who he really is and which things he will never do. Loic, 18 years old, being annoyed by his work in a chocolate factory, cruises in the internet by night to have sex with older men. His life is turned upside down by a row of events such as his friendship to a man who is not just interested in his body and the suicide of his best friend…
A quirky, wild, and surprisingly heartfelt story about love, fraud, and prison escapes — all sparked by a single look in the prison yard.
The title of this French comedy alone is enough to tell you that this is a rubbish, 20-years-too-late cash-in aimed at the more undiscerning of gay viewers.
A narcoleptic transvestite who yearns to become a transsexual dreams up elaborate musical numbers in which she’s the star.
This is the dramatic story of a intersexed 15-year-old. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.
When a 30-something gay guy comes out to his ostensibly liberal parents, things don’t go according to plan. Director: Régis Musset, France, Comedy, 2006
This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin…
Director: Stéphane Giusti
Man Is a Woman (French title: L’homme est une femme comme les autres) is a 1998 French film directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann.
The Virgins aka Les Puceaux (1998 France) Two Experienced French Boy Virgins.
Director: François Ozon
When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he’s HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11 year Marcel, the youngest, is too young to understand and the family agrees to keep the unsettling news from him.
Directed by Gabriel de Monteynard. With Felipe Catalano, Thierry Serva.
The beautifully shot think-piece 14h05 follows a couple as they anticipate the arrival of their new adopted baby. But maybe Julien isn’t as ready as he would let Alex believe.
Pierre is invited to go on a weekend trip to an old country house belonging to best friend Marc. The property is overrun by Marc’s frighteningly unruly dogs. Marc assures Pierre that they are harmless, but when Pierre rebuffs Marc’s sexual advances, the canines turn nasty
Director: Matthieu Salmon
This romantic-kitsch story goes from Paris to Marseille, from Amsterdam to Morocco via Jean Genet’s grave in Larache, and on to Tangiers. The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man beginning a sociology study of gay islamic homosexualities and discovering gay love with a young French steward.
1 of 5 short films produced by French TV & French Ministry of Health & Sport for widest possible viewer ship to combat homophobic bullying & beating of gay & lesbian (LBGT) kids.
Director: Sebastien Gabriel, short movie, 2009, France
Father (Andrej Shetinin) and Son (Alexei Nejmyshev) live together in a rooftop apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world…
Drama, Rusia, 2003, Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Comedy, 2001, Director:Francis Veber
In the 70s Germany, a 50 year old businessman falls in love with a 20 year old boy.
Drama, France, Director: François Ozon, 2000
