Discover the best gay Drama movies full of love, courage, and emotion.
In a French bordello, a young sailor meets a murderer who also is his supposed brother. Based on Jean Genet’s novel.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writers: Jean Genet (novel), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (screenplay)
Stars: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau
A drama focusing on a group of friends in their late 20s.
Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Harris Dickinson, Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval
A musician from Montana finds work and other things at The Continental Baths in New York City, 1974.
Director: David Buckley
Writers: Franklin Khedouri, David Buckley
Stars: Robert Aberdeen, Ellen Sheppard, Don Scotti
Dumped by his male lover, a man (David Rudd) embarks on a quest to ruin the relationships of a group of friends (Alexis Suarez, Bryan West).
Director: Richard LeMay
A closeted man visits a cruising spot under a bridge, hoping for anonymous relief. Instead, one encounter pulls him toward a truth he can’t ignore.
Director: Bonnie Moir
Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another’s arms in a daisy-chained exploration of love’s bittersweet embrace.
Director: Tom Gustafson
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves with his lover Roland to Berlin. They renovate an apartment with the intention of finally living together. Their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesn’t know: while secretly checking out Berlin’s night life, Lars is experimenting with a deadly poison.
Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Label Me, the second film from German filmmaker Kai Kreuser, depicts the illicit sexual relationship between a rich German man named Lars (Nikolaus Benda) and a Syrian refugee-hustler named Waseem (Renato Schuch).
Colt, (Evan Spergel) a struggling aspiring writer collects money after having sex with a complete stranger. Soon after the stranger is gone, an unexpected knock comes. Fearful for his safety, he makes a run for it.
Director: Francis Luta
Paul’s dad unexpectedly picked him up from work today. And then a hooker. After dropping them off at a seedy roadside motel, Paul’s father handed him two hundred dollars and told him not to come out until he’s a man.
Director: Dennis Shinners
A young man involved in a love affair that will change his life for ever, while his lover wrestles his demons on a journey that will force him to come to terms with his sexuality, leaving lives destroyed in the wake.
Stars: Jonny Labey, Laura Ainsworth, Daniel Brocklebank, Suzanne Collins
This is the story of present-day Hungary’s most famous gay celebrity who openly admits his homosexuality and fights for gay rights in a society where so many alternative values are denied. But then something happens and he is shocked to discover his growing interest in the female of the species.
Director: Dénes Orosz
After his family falls apart Joshua is forced to move to Canada to live with his estranged father. It is there he meets Jay, a local tattoo artist. The two becomes closer despite the negativity that surrounds them.
Stars: Aaron Ellis, Hunter Page, Jamie Knox
Morning is Broken is a coming-of-age short film about a young man who is struggling to deal with his sexuality.
Director: Simon Anderson
Stars: Nigel Allen, Jack Hawkins, Elisabeth Hopper, Matthew Tennyson
A car mechanic in a small, working class town comes out of the closet to his unsuspecting, blue-collar best friends.
Director: Andrew Nackman
Stars: Evan Todd, Parker Young, Chord Overstreet, Jon Gabrus, Kate Flannery
Rosie (2013) follows Lorenz, a Berlin writer forced back home when his stubborn mother’s health collapses. A quiet Swiss drama where caregiving, old secrets, and small-town pressure turn love into something messy and painfully real.
It’s Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film, among other things. As his extended family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire contribute to the eruption of long-held secrets. This hypnotic story from Chile is both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller about the ways that passion and desire control our lives – from our pop-culture tastes to our sexual fantasies.
Director: Alberto Fuguett
Stars: Santiago Rodríguez Costabal, Cristóbal Rodríguez Costabal, Carmina Riego
When Emma moves in with her estranged, gay son, the pair must learn to reconnect through food where words fail, and face the foreclosure of the family’s Chinese restaurant and a stubborn fear of intimacy.
Director: David Au
Stars: Sharon Omi, Edward Chen, Nicole Sullivan, Aidan Bristow
Two men meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together they realize that they have already met twenty years ago.
Director: Lucio Castro
Stars: Juan Barberini, Ramon Pujol, Mía Maestro
The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.
Director: Jayro Bustamante
