Gay Themed Movies from Spain
Cinematic journeys of love, identity, and freedom.
After been diagnosed with VIH, Víctor gets in touch with his former lover, Héctor. That night, in his room, both will confront the silence, the words, as well as the limits of their relationship.
Director: Castro
Stars: Joan Sureda, Milo Taboada
Elías is just beginning his career as a high school teacher and just beginning his relationship with Pedro when he finds out that he’s HIV positive. How will he tell his new lover?
Director: Álvaro Pastor
Pedro is a 17 years old boy who attends high school as all the boys do. In the afternoon he and his friends mess around. What Pedro loves the most is mothers baked beans.
Director: Venci Kostov
Hugo is a boy who lives anchored in the routine, focused on his tasks and responsibilities. Unable to look forward, he lets opportunities pass, stalling in the past. On the contrary, Cosmo is a free soul that lives without looking back, always going from one place to another no matter where. One summer afternoon their gazes cross by chance. It is only an instant, but it will be the birth of a relationship that will make them stop for the first time to live the present.
Director: Adria Guxens
“Pixels” portrays the disintegration of a relationship. When the distance between the couple seems hopeless, facing it will be the only option.
Director: Jordi Núnez
Alex and Hugo are a young couple who had been together for a little more than six months. One Friday night, when they arrive at Alex’s flat, they will discuss some pending issues about their relationship sexual roles. What seems to start as a simple discussion will become something more serious exposing some important issues about the necessary things needed to make a relationship work.
Director: Carlos Ocho
Jota and Santi are two teenage boys who live in Madrid, looking for something that beats the summer heat. There is a story about a magnificent pool in one of the most controversial places of the city and they are willing to take the risk.
Director: Carlos Ruano
Niko is a guy who enjoys life and sexuality at it’s full potential. Suddenly he will have to go back home to his country in eastern Europe to take care of his ill mother. He will soon realize what is really going on.
Director: David Velduque
A middle aged teacher meets one of his young students whilst cruising in the local woods. Between them commences a love affair that takes a dark turn.
A middle aged teacher meets one of his young students whilst cruising in the local woods. Between them commences a love affair that takes a dark turn.
Juan is a seductive and cold man who easily attracts women. But his mind is immersed into a spiral of emotions and experiences in order to discover who he is and find his real identity, suppressed by his father’s strong conservative education.
Directed by Alexander Lemus Gadea
Boys spy on a topless sunbather from the roof, but one of the friends does not share the same interest as the others.
Directed by Damià Serra Cauchetiez
Toni (Fabian Castro) and Emma (Julia Hernandez) are brother and sister who owns a stable farm. Ramon (Richie Ormon) and his son, Aaron (Christian Blanch) works for them. Toni is openly gay who loves to party, Emma has a crush on Aaron who is a closeted gay who is afraid that his father might find out, but his father also has a secret that will lead to murder.
Alex returns to his village with Jordi, after a while, in order to celebrate San Juan night. However, due to a summer storm, they have to shelter in an old abandoned house where both played when they were children. In there, some conflicts of the past will turn up.
Director: Gabriel Dorado
Two couples trapped and intertwined in a melancholic spiral of desire and pain, power and freedom, addiction and beauty. A contrast of images, ideas, atmospheres and sensations that unites them to the same destiny: immortality together.
Director : Jordi Estrada
The infinite yearning for the best friend. His proximity, his body, his love. That’s what Miguel feels for his buddy Lucas.
Director: Roberto Carlos Marrero
Eduardo, a snob publicist who lives cranky most of the day and David, a shy student of literature are neighbors in a building under construction. After 6 months of hardly a greeting a scaffold intercedes between them causing unexpected reactions in each.
Director: Juanma Carrillo
Pau Ribes wanted to be a synchronized swimmer since he watched his first show at the age of 7. Unfortunately, at the time, synchronized swimming was a sport only practiced professionally by women. Still, he didn’t give up on his passion, with the help of Panteres Grogues—a nonprofit dedicated to helping the LGBT community succeed in sports. In 2015, Ribes made his debut on the world stage, marking the first time men were allowed to compete on an international level. He hopes to continue swimming and smashing barriers, with the goal of one day being able to compete in the Olympics.
A familiy tragedy forces Alberto to come back to his oppressive hometown in Spain from Berlin, where he has a free live working as comic illustrator.
Director: Miguel Lafuente
‘Marica Tú’ is about the life of Julian, a gay young man who doesn’t get over the break with his ex boyfriend. To try it, he refuges in casual sex and some other temporary appointments. Julian reflects some of homosexual realities. It becomes a cliché character through which some everyday dramas that can feel a gay guy in the XXI century. In short, the film conveys that it’s okay to be single because they keep a relationship is becoming more difficult. The film is directed by Ismael Nunez sawed, novel filmmaker who after filming several short films makes the leap to movies, by medium-length format.
Director: Ismael Núnez
AFRAID OF NOTHING
A film by JUANMA CARRILLO
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