Gay Themed Movies from USA
Cinematic journeys of love, identity, and freedom.
A gay man travels across the country to spend the weekend with someone he’s been talking to for months on a dating app, hoping to find the kind of romance that he grew up thinking he’d never get to experience.
Director: Tyler Rabinowitz
Alan meets Joseph in the laundromat while doing his weekly laundry. What begins as a possible romantic setting soon becomes a chase through the streets of New York. A chase for clothes.
Director: Hugo Kenzo
Stars: Jordan Firstman, Tommy Lewis
A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his “gay affliction”, where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.
Director: Robert Cary
Urbania (2000) is a raw, unsettling queer drama about one sleepless night in New York. Charlie drifts through bars, parties and strange encounters, while underneath it all he is circling the man who shattered his life – and the grief and rage he can no longer outrun.
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
Director: Rodney Evans
Logan and Gil may come from vastly different backgrounds, but they gradually find themselves drawn together in this independent drama from director Rob Williams. Despite their strengthening bond, however, these two men soon discover that a secret from Gil’s past and a shocking revelation may be enough to destroy their fragile relationship once and for all.
Friendship, love, and acceptance, set in the heartland of America.
Director: Jim Fields
As 14 year old Carey prepares for his first dance, his father sets out to get the perfect picture. But when Carey refuses to let his dad meet his date, a split second decision must be made.
Director: Morgan Jon Fox
A punk-flavored road movie by Gregg Araki, The Living End follows two very different men who collide, connect, and spiral into a reckless journey across a hostile landscape. With sharp visuals, a killer soundtrack, and raw emotional bite, it’s a key early film of New Queer Cinema that still feels dangerous.
Hunky writer Markus (Andreas) returns home to find his boyfriend of four years naked with another man. Newly single, he begins waiting tables at a swinging Chelsea hotspot where the indelible supporting cast of co-workers offers conflicting directions on the off-road map to love and lust in New York City.
Five best friends in their late 20’s discover new truths about themselves and the friendships they thought would last forever.
Director: Chris Mason Johnson
A diverse group of couples from different sexual orientations struggle and support each other through various issues, including violent hate crimes, HIV, conception, commitment, and love in 1990s Los Angeles.
Director: P.J. Castellaneta
A preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
Director: Duncan Tucker
Zak faces the past head on, finding out burried secrets which test his sobriety. A heartfelt gay film full of love and heartbreak.
Director: Jaydon Taylor
“Passing” examines experiences of racism and sexism today, through the eyes of 3 transmen of colour.
Directed By: J. Mitchel Reed & Lucah Rosenberg Lee
The Revival follows Eli, a small-town Baptist pastor whose carefully built life starts cracking when a drifter named Daniel enters his church. What begins as kindness turns into desire, shame, and a scandal the community is ready to use as entertainment.
Director: Jennifer Gerber
An unlikely pair, Jarod, outgoing and confident and Chris, reserved and closeted, meet, fall in love, and marry only to have outdated U.S. military policy threaten to unravel their world. “Undone” reminds us of the disturbingly intrusive potential our current government can have if allowed to choose who we fight and who we love.
Griff wants to maintain just a superficial relationship with his all-gay boyfriend, who gets seriously wounded in a gay bashing.
Director: John Keitel
A sexy, comedic drama about two college friends questioning their careers and sexuality in east Los Angeles.
Director: Jesse Rosen
Sebastian, an aspiring filmmaker, gets hired to work on a documentary about gay relationships despite his ignorance of the subject. Once his friend Daria introduces him to her gay cohorts, Sebastian is in for more enlightenment than he bargained for.
