Discover the best gay Drama movies full of love, courage, and emotion.
When Albert, an eccentric, aging painter and part-time psychotherapist is asked to counsel a friend’s depressed grandson, whose boyfriend problems are fueling the depression, their sessions reveal as much about Albert as they do about the grandson.
An Italian lesbian couple wants a child. A gay couple tries to help them. Four friends, hundreds of problems. One solution.
Director: Silvio Nacucchi
Olivier and James’ romantic break in the South of France is interrupted by the sudden arrival of Caroline. Friendships are questioned; sexuality tested.
Director: Philippe Audi-Dor
Stars: Hugo Bolton, Elly Condron, Simon Haycock
A summer in northern Italy, a first love that feels like music and bruises at the same time. Tender, sensual, and unforgettable.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Andreas and Stefan lead a happy and passionate life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna’s vineyards. They work as a musician and as a scheduler in the same orchestra and they love their large circle of friends. An unexpected and inexplicable outburst of violence suddenly shakes up the relationship and calls everything into question – the blind spot that resides in all of us.
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
A touching gay themed movie about faith, guilt, and forbidden love — when two former Mormon missionaries meet again, they face the truth they’ve spent years praying away.
Director: Jon Garcia
A chat hookup brings Manuel and Julio together, but the flirting quickly turns into interrogation, escape fantasies, and a not-so-cute question: who’s lying, and why does the money story keep changing?
Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.
Sea, sun, island, a family on vacation. And all Yuval wants is to get the heck out of there.
Directors: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon
Stars: Yiftach Klein, Oded Leopold, Hilla Vidor
Harley tries to deal with his tumultuous emotions after his gay best friend Lucas is horribly beaten in a hate crime. When Lucas is released from the hospital, Harley discovers his feeling have changed.
Director: Beatrice Schreiber
Australian gay drama about a hunky, good looking, straight acting, successful gay couple who desperately want a child. The two leads are very good actors and totally convincing as a non-stereotypical gay couple.
Director: Robert Chuter
Stars: Graeme Squires, Nicholas Gunn, Jessikah Brown
Ronda nocturna (Night Watch) is a stunning little foray into exploring the people who work by night in a big city, that big city could be anywhere in the world.
Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky
One Day in a Life (Italian: Un altro pianeta) is a 2008 Italian drama film directed by Stefano Tummolini. It entered the “Venice Days” section at the 65th Venice International Film Festival
In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.
Director: Travis Fine
Stars: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher
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
A young man mistakes his salt&pepper older neighbor for a handyman, which begins a gay romance story for the modern age.
Are you a Daddy or do you have Daddy-issues? The gay dating app, Daddyhunt has a web series that includes seven one and a half minute episodes combined into one video. The video follows a budding romance between two neighbors that starts after a case of mistaken identity.
Starring Jim Newman, BJ Gruber, David M. Farrington, Michael Snipe Jr & Alan Kelly and Soundtrack by Shirley House.
Written and Produced by Ra-ey Saleh & Carl Sandler.
Edited and Directed by Ra-ey Saleh.
‘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
SOBRE NOS (About us)
Brazil, 2016, 75 min film
Director: Mauro Carvalho
Two young students experience their first love.
Stani grows up in the wastelands. Far away from the next city and a gay youth group he discoveres his identity. During nights he meets other men at hidden places, who seek the same as him – until he gets to know a boy named Johannes.
Director: Sven Hensel
