Discover the best gay Biography movies full of love, courage, and emotion.
How real-life British-American author Christopher Isherwood and his German boyfriend Heinz met and fell in love during the 1930s and the rise of Nazism.
Directed by Geoffrey Sax
Toxic friendship between Marty and Bobby, where Marty endures physical and emotional abuse. When Marty meets Lisa, she challenges Bobby’s dominance and sparks a seed of rebellion in Marty’s mind. The film follows their journey as they navigate abuse, revenge, and the consequences of their actions.
Directed by Larry Clark
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Directed by Paul Morrison. Starring Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán.
I’m a Porn Star follows the lives of guys in the neighborhood who are likely a lot more famous than you – at least on the Internet. There are an estimated 370 million pornographic websites on-line. Porn is now a thirteen BILLION dollar business. So who’s doing all this moonlighting? Turns out — probably some people you know.
Director: Charlie David
A pseudo autobiography of disco’s The Village People.
Director: Nancy Walker
Gods and Monsters is a 1998 drama film that recounts the (somewhat fictionalized) last days of the life of troubled film director James Whale, whose homosexuality is a central theme.
The story of Boy George, the famous androgynous lead singer of the band, Culture Club.
Director: Julian Jarrold
Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.
Director: John Maybury
Based on the fascinating true-life story of Michael Glatze, a gay activist who becomes a Christian pastor after identifying as a heterosexual.
Director: Justin Kelly
The documentary film about gay icon Peter Berlin directed by Jim Tushinski. Berlin talk about his own life in interviews. Many other artists (porn stars, photographers, writers, contemporaries) comment on his legacy in gay culture.
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show ‘Steptoe and Son’. However, the show’s success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal. The show runs for several years, incorporating film spin-offs but both, in their own way, feel that they have invoked the curse of Steptoe.
The story of Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West.
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Writers: David Hare (screenplay), Julie Kavanagh
Stars: Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann, Adele Exarchopoulos, Sergei Polunin, Olivier Rabourdin, Raphaël Personnaz
Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the rugby team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can’t solve tried to destroy them.
Crutch (2004) Director: Rob MorettiWriters: Paul Jacks, Rob MorettiGenre: Drama, BiographyCountry: USALanguage: English Duration: 88 minYear: 2004 Stars: Eben Gordon, Rob Moretti, Juanita
The Circle (2014) “Der Kreis” (original title) Director: Stefan Haupt Writers: Stefan Haupt (screenplay), Christian Felix (screenplay), Urs Frey, Ivan Madeo, Sabine Pochhammer Genres:
The Imitation Game (2014) Director: Morten Tyldum Writers: Andrew Hodges (book), Graham Moore (screenplay) Genre: Drama, Biography, Thriller, War Country: UK Language: English, German Duration:
Two close family friends, Jeremy and Alphonse, American and French, spend a few weeks together in Brooklyn. Jeremy is confused about his understanding of the friendship, while obsessed with the ducks in the Prospect Park lake and finishing a school paper about their migration. Alphonse likes to ride bicycles and does not want to leave town. The ducks inevitably leave, Alphonse goes back to Paris, and Jeremy stays in his house, but all of them depart to discover something new.
Sal (I) (2011) Director: James Franco Writers: James Franco (story), Vince Jolivette (story),Val Lauren ( story), Michael Gregg Michaud Genre: Biography, Drama Country: USA
The Consul of Sodom (2009) “El cónsul de Sodoma” (original title) Director: Sigfrid Monleón Writers: Miguel Dalmau (collaboration), Miguel Dalmau (novel), Miguel Ángel
