Australian LGBT movies
by jvoutos | created - 05 Jan 2018 | updated - 03 May 2018 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Music
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Director: Stephan Elliott | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell
Votes: 54,917 | Gross: $11.22M
2. The Sum of Us (1994)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."
Directors: Geoff Burton, Kevin Dowling | Stars: Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe, John Polson, Deborah Kennedy
Votes: 5,824 | Gross: $2.51M
3. Head On (1998)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A 19 year old Greek Australian youth struggles with his sexual identity and has one clumsy heterosexual and several homosexual encounters.
Director: Ana Kokkinos | Stars: Alex Dimitriades, Elle Mandalis, Damien Fotiou, Alex Papps
Votes: 4,621 | Gross: $0.38M
4. Holding the Man (2015)
Unrated | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
The warm, funny and achingly sad story of the 15-year-long love affair between Timothy Conigrave and the boy he fell in love with at high school, John Caleo.
Director: Neil Armfield | Stars: Ryan Corr, Sarah Snook, Francesco Ferdinandi, Craig Stott
Votes: 13,373
5. The Getting of Wisdom (1977)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to ... See full summary »
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Susannah Fowle, Dorothy Bradley, Patricia Kennedy, Sheila Helpmann
Votes: 558
6. 52 Tuesdays (2013)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.
Director: Sophie Hyde | Stars: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Imogen Archer, Del Herbert-Jane
Votes: 1,539
7. The Suicide Theory (2014)
R | 98 min | Drama
A suicidal man hires a demented killer to assist him in suicide, but for some reason, miraculously survives each attempt on his life.
Director: Dru Brown | Stars: Steve Mouzakis, Leon Cain, Joss McWilliam, Matthew Scully
Votes: 2,698
8. Ecco Homo (2015)
98 min | Documentary, Biography
Provocateur, artist, performer: Peter Vanessa "Troy" Davies was a chameleon. Using layers of identity at will, Davies charmed his way through a lifetime of secrets and lies, prostitution, art, HIV, abuse, incest and gender subversion, leaving a legacy of unanswered questions, influential performances and reams of enigmatic home video.
Directors: Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn | Stars: James Andrews, Matthew Connell, Dana Miltins, Jagger Serafin
Votes: 16
9. The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style (1978)
85 min | Documentary, Comedy, Romance
A tongue-in-cheek sex education documentary covering a different subject for each letter of the alphabet, e.g. A is for Anatomy, B is for Babies, etc.
Director: John D. Lamond | Stars: Sandy Gore, Michael Cole, Maj-Brith Bergström-Walan, Ian Broadbent
Votes: 181
10. Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
R | 78 min | Comedy, Romance
A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.
Director: Emma-Kate Croghan | Stars: Frances O'Connor, Alice Garner, Matt Day, Matthew Dyktynski
Votes: 2,071 | Gross: $0.21M
11. Remembering the Man (2015)
83 min | Documentary, History, Romance
At a prestigious Catholic boys school in Melbourne in the seventies, Tim Conigrave and John Caleo fell madly in love. Their passionate, tempestuous, operatic romance lasted for sixteen ... See full summary »
Directors: Nickolas Bird, Eleanor Sharpe | Stars: George Banders, Reece Manning, Richard Bligh, Denis Moore
Votes: 165
12. Gayby Baby (2015)
PG | 85 min | Documentary, Family
GAYBY BABY follows the lives of four kids - Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham - whose parents all happen to be gay. As they each wrestle with personal change, the outside world wrestles with the ... See full summary »
Director: Maya Newell | Stars: Ebony, Graham, Gus, Matt
Votes: 845
13. Dead Europe (2012)
84 min | Drama
In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to unveil dark truths that forced his father to flee years ago.
Director: Tony Krawitz | Stars: Ewen Leslie, William Zappa, Thanos Samaras, Theodora Tzimou
Votes: 749
14. The Everlasting Secret Family (1988)
Unrated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long... See full summary »
Director: Michael Thornhill | Stars: Arthur Dignam, Mark Lee, Heather Mitchell, Dennis Miller
Votes: 373
15. The Clinic (1982)
93 min | Comedy
A series of humorous vignettes set in a clinic for venereal diseases. Although the film concentrates on relationships, it is also a source of instruction on safe sexual practices and STD (... See full summary »
Director: David Stevens | Stars: Chris Haywood, Simon Burke, Gerda Nicolson, Rona McLeod
Votes: 104
16. Downriver (2015)
TV-MA | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Although a young man is accused of drowning a little boy and is placed in juvenile detention, he has little memory of the event. Now, out on parole, he searches for answers that may give a grieving mother closure.
Director: Grant Scicluna | Stars: Reef Ireland, Kerry Fox, Robert Taylor, Helen Morse
Votes: 679
17. Emo: The Musical (2016)
TV-14 | 94 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Ethan, a sullen high-school student whose life is defined by what he hates, finds love with a blindly optimistic Christian girl Trinity, much to the annoyance of his angst-filled band mates and her evangelistic brethren.
Director: Neil Triffett | Stars: Benson Jack Anthony, Jordan Hare, Rahart Adams, Jon Prasida
Votes: 1,558
18. The Lives We Lead (2015)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama
Two sisters and their male counterparts struggle with the negative influences of their youths over a 50-year period.
Director: Davo Hardy | Stars: Sally Williams, Georgina Neville, Josh Wiseman, Davo Hardy
Votes: 195
19. The Monkey's Mask (2000)
R | 93 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.
Director: Samantha Lang | Stars: Susie Porter, Kelly McGillis, Abbie Cornish, Brendan Cowell
Votes: 1,638 | Gross: $0.05M
20. Mull (1989)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
An Australian film about a teenage girl who takes responsibility for keeping her "family" together.
Director: Don McLennan | Stars: Nadine Garner, Bill Hunter, Sue Jones, Craig Morrison
Votes: 75
21. Newcastle (2008)
Unrated | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Tragedy befalls one of three brothers while on an outback surfing outing with friends.
Director: Dan Castle | Stars: Lachlan Buchanan, Xavier Samuel, Reshad Strik, Kirk Jenkins
Votes: 1,733
22. Night Out (1990)
50 min | Drama
Tony goes out for a few drinks when his lover, Steve goes on a business trip. Feeling lonely, he is picked up by another young man and they have semi-public sex only to be interrupted by ... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Johnston | Stars: Colin Batrouney, David Bonney, John Brumpton, Luke Elliot
Votes: 21
23. Orchids: My Intersex Adventure (2010)
56 min | Documentary
Documentary filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on a journey of self-discovery around her hidden intersex condition.
Director: Phoebe Hart | Stars: Phoebe Hart, Bonnie Hart, James Davidson, Dennis Hart
Votes: 128
24. Performance Anxiety (2008)
72 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In this quirky romance, Jeff is a messy, hippie musician, while Peter is a tidy, almost obsessive, office worker. Their idiosyncratic natures lead them on unusual journeys that have amusing consequences, and lead them to a moment of truth.
Director: Paul Dangerfield | Stars: Luke Mitchell, Joss Mars, Wanda D'Parke, Julie-Anna Evans
Votes: 40
25. The Set (1970)
102 min | Drama
Paul Lawrence is a working class man who dates Cara, sells shirts at a Sydney department store, and dreams of attending art school.
Director: Frank Brittain | Stars: Hazel Phillips, Sean Myers, Rod Mullinar, Denis Doonan
Votes: 131
26. The Snowtown Murders (2011)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris, Bob Adriaens
Votes: 20,591 | Gross: $0.01M
27. Strange Bedfellows (2004)
R | 100 min | Comedy
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
Director: Dean Murphy | Stars: Michael Caton, Paul Hogan, Andy Pappas, Paula Duncan
Votes: 2,000
28. Wake in Fright (1971)
R | 109 min | Drama, Thriller
After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay
Votes: 13,930 | Gross: $0.05M
29. Walk Like a Man (2008)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, Sport
Narrated by former rugby champion, Ian Roberts, Walk Like A Man traces the journey of two of the world's best gay rugby teams - reigning champions, San Francisco Fog and feisty upstarts, ... See full summary »
Directors: Jim Morgison, Patricia Zagarella | Stars: Annah-Ruth Dominis, Pete Dubois, Sean Dmyterko, Bryce Eberhart
Votes: 19
30. Walking on Water (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
After the death of a friend, a household of long time friends and family are tossed into the myopic world of grief, where jealousy, betrayal and desire override more polite reactions to death.
Director: Tony Ayres | Stars: Vince Colosimo, Maria Theodorakis, Nathaniel Dean, Judi Farr
Votes: 489
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