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1. Just Go with It (2011)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Romance
On a weekend trip to Hawaii, a plastic surgeon convinces his loyal assistant to pose as his soon-to-be-divorced wife in order to cover up a careless lie he told to his much-younger girlfriend.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker, Nicole Kidman
Votes: 266,884 | Gross: $103.03M
2. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
R | 134 min | Drama, Romance
Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid
Votes: 384,168 | Gross: $83.04M
3. Moonlight (I) (2016)
R | 111 min | Drama
A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
Director: Barry Jenkins | Stars: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes, Alex R. Hibbert
Votes: 333,608 | Gross: $27.85M
4. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
R | 113 min | Drama
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver
Votes: 121,324 | Gross: $44.79M
5. The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
R | 94 min | Biography, Drama, War
Former Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.
Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: Paul Rudd, Pierfrancesco Favino, Tom Wilkinson, Connie Nielsen
Votes: 11,941 | Gross: $0.71M
6. Battle of the Sexes (2017)
PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Stars: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman
Votes: 60,327 | Gross: $12.64M
7. Child's Play (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mother gives her 13-year-old son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.
Director: Lars Klevberg | Stars: Tim Matheson, Ben Daon, Zahra Anderson, Serge Jaswal
Votes: 56,582 | Gross: $29.21M
8. Bad Education (2019)
TV-MA | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Director: Cory Finley | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Welker White, Allison Janney
Votes: 43,737
9. The Skeleton Twins (2014)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Having both coincidentally cheated death on the same day, estranged twins reunite with the possibility of mending their relationship.
Director: Craig Johnson | Stars: Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell
Votes: 45,162 | Gross: $5.28M
10. Shelter (II) (2007)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
When his college dreams are sidelined by family obligations, a young man finds comfort in surfing with his best friend's brother.
Director: Jonah Markowitz | Stars: Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe, Tina Holmes, Jackson Wurth
Votes: 24,160 | Gross: $0.14M
11. Benediction (2021)
PG-13 | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
Legendary 20th century English war poet Siegfried Sassoon embarks on a life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships. True salvation can only come from within.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Jack Lowden, Thom Ashley, Orlando Jopling, Christopher Naylor
Votes: 3,750
12. The Normal Heart (2014 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the early 1980s, the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York led to an emergence of homosexual activists. With support from the medical community, they try to raise awareness about the disease.
Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Jonathan Groff, Frank De Julio, William DeMeritt
Votes: 38,060
13. Uncle Frank (2020)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina, for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover, Walid.
Director: Alan Ball | Stars: Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Steve Zahn
Votes: 23,112
14. Of an Age (2022)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
In the summer of 1999, a 17-year-old Serbian-born Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother.
Director: Goran Stolevski | Stars: Thom Green, Matthew Page, Elias Anton, Hattie Hook
Votes: 4,119
15. Punch (I) (2022)
TV-MA | 98 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life's trajectory and his sexuality after tangling with Whetu, a gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach.
Director: Welby Ings | Stars: Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, Conan Hayes, Abigail Laurent
Votes: 1,387
16. The Way He Looks (2014)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.
Director: Daniel Ribeiro | Stars: Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim, Lúcia Romano
Votes: 27,782 | Gross: $0.10M
17. Land of Storms (2014)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Szabolcs quits football against his father's will and returns to his country in Hungary to take charge of an inheritance from his grandfather. There, he meets Aron and they both explore their identities.
Director: Ádám Császi | Stars: András Sütö, Ádám Varga, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Enikö Börcsök
Votes: 4,674
18. Eismayer (2022)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, History, Romance
Vice Lieutenant Eismayer is the most feared trainer and model macho in the Austrian Military and lives as a gay man in secret. When he falls in love with a young, openly gay soldier, his world gets turned upside down. Based on real events.
Director: David Wagner | Stars: Gerhard Liebmann, Luka Dimic, Julia Koschitz, Anton Noori
Votes: 1,712
19. Taekwondo (2016)
Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man invites another guy he trains with to spend some time in his country house among other male friends.
Directors: Marco Berger, Martín Farina | Stars: Gabriel Epstein, Lucas Papa, Nicolás Barsoff, Francisco Bertín
Votes: 3,344
20. 4 Moons (2014)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Four stories of love and disgust between men of different generations facing their conflicts and their fears
Director: Sergio Tovar Velarde | Stars: Antonio Velázquez, Alejandro de la Madrid, Cesar Ramos, Gustavo Egelhaaf
Votes: 4,907
21. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Not Rated | 129 min | Comedy, Drama
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Émile Vallée
Votes: 34,306
22. The Wedding Banquet (1993)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua, Sihung Lung
Votes: 17,224 | Gross: $6.93M
23. The Swimmer (2021)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Sees the discriminative tendencies in sports against LGBTQ people, and how a sportsman learns to accept and love himself despite that.
Director: Adam Kalderon | Stars: Omer Perelman Striks, Asaf Jonas, Ofek Nicki-Cohen, Gal Ben Amra
Votes: 937
24. Being 17 (2016)
Unrated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret
Votes: 7,276 | Gross: $0.05M
25. Closet Monster (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Director: Stephen Dunn | Stars: Aaron Abrams, Jack Fulton, Joanne Kelly, Isabella Rossellini
Votes: 9,256 | Gross: $0.04M
26. Susie Searches (2022)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
An awkward college student who seizes the opportunity to bolster her popularity and her under-the-radar true-crime podcast by solving the disappearance of a classmate.
Director: Sophie Kargman | Stars: Kiersey Clemons, Alex Wolff, Jim Gaffigan, Ken Marino
Votes: 819
27. Dare (2009)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A drama centered around three high school seniors - an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner - who become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship.
Director: Adam Salky | Stars: Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Ashley Springer, Cady Huffman
Votes: 4,497
28. Mulligans (2008)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Two college friends take a journey home. One of them makes a mistake that may tear a family apart. Sometimes there are no second chances, sometimes there are no mulligans.
Director: Chip Hale | Stars: Dan Payne, Thea Gill, Charlie David, Derek Baynham
Votes: 3,428
29. Beyto (2020)
TV-MA | 98 min | Drama
Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice-- Beyto is in the midst of life, with a bright future ahead of him. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces.
Director: Gitta Gsell | Stars: Burak Ates, Dimitri Stapfer, Ecem Aydin, Beren Tuna
Votes: 1,421
30. Edge of Seventeen (1998)
TV-MA | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A teenager copes with his sexuality on the last day of school in 1984. It shows him coping with being gay and being with friends.
Director: David Moreton | Stars: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych, Stephanie McVay
Votes: 7,137 | Gross: $0.87M
31. It's Still Your Bed (2019)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
David (Damian Joseph Quinn), just came home from college, but his parents let their newly hired farm hand, Brent (Cooper Stone), to stay in his room. The attraction is there, but somehow, both of them have been sizing each other up.
Director: Tyler Reeves | Stars: Damian Joseph Quinn, Cooper Stone, Jonathan Fahn, Lauren Elyse Buckley
Votes: 686
32. 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: 4,642 | Gross: $0.38M
33. Straight-Jacket (2004)
TV-MA | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
In 1950's Hollywood, movie star Guy Stone must marry a studio secretary in order to conceal his homosexuality. Sally has no idea her marriage is a sham, though, and turns Guy's life upside-down. Then he falls in love.
Director: Richard Day | Stars: Matt Letscher, Carrie Preston, Adam Greer, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 950 | Gross: $0.05M
34. Túnel de lavado (2023)
29 min | Short, Drama
Two boys from a soccer team disguise their love relationship as sheer friendship so as not to be discovered. One night of passion inside a car wash could trigger a different path in their lives.
Director: Lucas Sogas | Stars: Xavier Arqué, Marc Baltà, Edu de Guirior, Álvaro Lucas
Votes: 8
35. That Is All (2019)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Romance
While trying to navigate life as he enters his 30s, Ryan slips further into loneliness. A chance meeting with a friend's boyfriend, Sam, changes that and as they grow closer, Ryan must come... See full summary »
Director: Mark Weeden | Stars: Joel Ballanger, Al Braatz, Sara Hinding, Daniel Bossenberry
Votes: 282
36. Fuccbois (2019)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ace (23) and Miko (17) desperately want to become famous actors but it seems the universe has a different plan for their lives.
Director: Eduardo W. Roy Jr. | Stars: Royce Cabrera, Kokoy De Santos, Ricky Davao, Yayo Aguila
Votes: 306
37. Moonlit Winter (2019)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Yoon-Hee lives with her teenage daughter Sae-Bom. On a winter day, Yoon-Hee receives a letter from Otaru, Japan. Sae-Bom accidentally reads the letter and learns about her mother's first love, which she never spoke about before.
Director: Dae Hyung Lim | Stars: Kim Hee-ae, Yûko Nakamura, Kim Sohye, Sung Yoo-bin
Votes: 1,145
38. The Man Who Loved Yngve (2008)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A teenage boy loses his footing when he finds himself drawn to the new boy in class.
Director: Stian Kristiansen | Stars: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Arthur Berning, Ida Elise Broch, Ole Christoffer Ertvaag
Votes: 5,077
39. The String (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have ... See full summary »
Director: Mehdi Ben Attia | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Salim Kechiouche, Driss Ramdi
Votes: 2,237
40. In a Moment (2019)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
In this gay short, Max is new at school and still coming to terms with his sexuality, until Leon compels him to write a love song.
Director: Sharlin Lucia | Stars: Björn Jochum, Aaron Rufer, Juliane Selesnew, Ben Hüwelmeier
Votes: 306
41. You Are My Sunshine (2021)
Unrated | 114 min | Drama, History, Romance
The affectionate story of the lifelong romance between Tom and Joe, from their first humble meeting in the 1970s, a world only just waking up to homosexuality, through to their heartbreaking final days, decades later.
Director: David Hastings | Stars: Steve Salt, Jack Knight, Charles O'Neill, Ernest Vernon
Votes: 201
42. Love My Life (2006)
96 min | Drama
Ichiko and Eri are two Japanese university students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian. Her best ... See full summary »
Director: Kôji Kawano | Stars: Rei Yoshii, Asami Imajuku, Naomi Akimoto, Miyoko Asada
Votes: 917
43. Circus of Books (2019)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking ... See full summary »
Director: Rachel Mason | Stars: Karen Mason, Barry Mason, Micah Mason, Rachel Mason
Votes: 5,028
44. Lilting (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his 4-year male lover, who grieve but don't speak a lick of each other's language.
Director: Hong Khaou | Stars: Pei-Pei Cheng, Ben Whishaw, Andrew Leung, Peter Bowles
Votes: 6,603 | Gross: $0.02M
45. Just Friends? (2009)
29 min | Short, Drama, Musical
Expecting a cozy night outside of the barracks, Seok visits his boyfriend Min-soo who is serving in the military. However when Min-soo's mother questions their relationship, the only answer they can give is that they are 'just friends'.
Director: Jho Kwang-soo Kim | Stars: Lee Chae-eun, Lee Jehoon, Go Su-hee, Yeon Woo-jin
Votes: 669
46. Fag (2019)
Not Rated | 35 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Thomas, a 17-year-old high school student, finds himself attracted to Esteban, another boy from his school. The rumor of Thomas's homosexuality is spreading fast, and he begins to suffer the gaze of others.
Director: Olivier Lallart | Stars: Paul Gomerieux, Jacques Lepesqueur, Yannis Perrier-Gustin, Henri Flesselle
Votes: 651
47. Four (I) (2012)
R | 75 min | Drama, Romance
On a hot 4th of July night, sparks fly between four people as they test the limits and possibilities of their own freedom.
Director: Joshua Sanchez | Stars: E.J. Bonilla, Emory Cohen, Aja Naomi King, Wendell Pierce
Votes: 581
48. Broil (2020)
TV-14 | 90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Broil follows a dysfunctional family vying to control the future of their wealth.
Director: Edward Drake | Stars: Jonathan Lipnicki, Avery Konrad, Timothy V. Murphy, Corey Large
Votes: 1,871
49. The Son (2012)
22 min | Short, Drama
Pedro is a 17 years old boy who attends high school as all the boys do. In the afternoon he and his friends mess around. What Pedro loves the most is mothers baked beans.
Director: Venci Kostov | Stars: Ignacio Montes, Pedro Casablanc, Fanny de Castro, Mateo Rubistein
Votes: 178
50. Tiger Orange (2014)
Unrated | 75 min | Drama
In the small Central California town where they grew up, two estranged gay brothers struggle to reconnect after the recent death of their father.
Director: Wade Gasque | Stars: Mark Strano, Frankie Valenti, Gregory Marcel, Ty Parker
Votes: 1,538