List of feature films with gay characters
The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual gay characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video , or on a streaming platform (non-linear network).
Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.
20th century
1900–1959
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
1919
Different from the Others
Paul Körner
Conrad Veidt Karl Giese (young)
The first film supportive of homosexuality.
Germany
[ 1] [ 2]
1924
Michael
Claude Zoret
Benjamin Christiensen
Claude is a painter who falls in love with his assistant, Michael. Michael eventually leaves Claude for a woman.
Germany
[ 3]
1941
The Maltese Falcon
Joel Cairo
Peter Lorre
In the novel upon which the film is based , Cairo is referred to as "queer" and a "fairy" but, in the film, his sexuality is not directly addressed, likely a decision by filmmakers to comply with the Hays Code , which banned the depiction of homosexuality in American films.
United States
[ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
1948
Rope
Phillip Morgan
Farley Granger
Because of the Hays Code , the word "homosexual" could not be stated outright and was referred to as "it".
Adapted from the 1929 British play Rope's End , which is loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case.
United States
[ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
Brandon Shaw
John Dall
1950
All About Eve
Addison DeWitt
George Sanders
Addison is a gossip columnist who engages in loveless relationship predation.
(The constraints of the Motion Picture Production Code did not allow homosexuality to be portrayed overtly.)
United States
[ 10] [ 11]
1955
Rebel Without a Cause
John "Plato" Crawford
Sal Mineo
Plato was brought in for killing a litter of puppies.
United States
[ 12] [ 13]
1959
North by Northwest
Leonard
Martin Landau
Leonard is Vandamm's right-hand man.
United States
[ 14]
1959
Suddenly, Last Summer
Sebastian Venable
(Uncredited)
The film centers on Catherine Holly, a young woman who was evaluated by a psychiatric doctor to receive a lobotomy after the events surrounding her cousin Sebastian's death
United Kingdom, United States
[ 15]
1960–1969
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
1960
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Robert Morley
The film is a biography of poet and playwright Oscar Wilde.
United Kingdom
[ 16]
1960
Spartacus
Crassus
Laurence Olivier
In a deleted scene, Crassus attempts to seduce his slave Antoninus.
United States
[ 17]
1961
A Taste of Honey
Geoffrey Ingham
Murray Melvin
Ingham is Jo's friend.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1961
Victim
Melville Farr
Dirk Bogarde
Melville is a barrister threatened with blackmail.
The film is credited for being important in the decriminalization of homosexuality in Britain. It is also the first British film to use the word "homosexual" in the narrative.
United Kingdom
[ 19] [ 20]
1962
Advise & Consent
Senator Brigham "Brig" Anderson
Don Murray
Anderson is a Senator in Utah .
United States
[ 18]
1962
The L-Shaped Room
Johnny
Brock Peters
Johnny is a resident in a run down boarding house in Notting Hill , London.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1962
The Trial
Josef K.
Anthony Perkins
A closeted homosexual.
France, Italy, West Germany
[ 21]
1963
Scorpio Rising
Scorpio
Bruce Byron
The film follows a group of bikers preparing for a night out.
United States
[ 18]
1964
The Leather Boys
Pete
Dudley Sutton
Pete is Reggie's fellow biker friend.
United Kingdom
[ 22]
1965
Bus Riley's Back in Town
Spencer
Crahan Denton
Spencer is the boss of a customer of Bus's.
United States
[ 18]
1965
Darling
Robert Gold
Dirk Bogarde
Gold is a literary interviewer/director for television arts programmes
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1965
Inside Daisy Clover
Wade Lewis
Robert Redford
An extremely intoxicated Melora Swan reveals to Daisy that she had an affair with closet homosexual Wade.
United States
[ 23]
1965
King Rat
Steven
Michael Lees
Stevens is a hospital staff.
United States
[ 18]
1965
The Loved One
Mr. Starker
Liberace
Mr. Joyboy is Whispering Glade's chief embalmer.
United States
[ 18]
Mr. Joyboy
Rod Steiger
1965
The Pawnbroker
Rodriguez
Brock Peters
Rodriguez is a racketeer who uses Nazerman's pawnshop as a front.
United States
[ 18]
1967
Bedazzled
Envy
Barry Humphries
Envy and Vanity are Stanley's staff of seven deadly sins , who are helping him with minor acts of vandalism and spite to be readmitted to Heaven.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
Vanity
Alba
1967
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Herbert von Krolock
Iain Quarrier
Krolock is a local vampire lord in Transylvania .
United States
[ 18]
1967
The Incident
Kenneth Otis
Robert Fields
Otis is a homosexual who earlier made an unsuccessful attempt at befriending McCann.
United States
[ 18]
1967
Portrait of Jason
Himself
Jason Holliday
Documentary about American hustler and nightclub performer Jason Holliday.
United States
[ 18]
1967
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Major Weldon Pendertis
Marlon Brando
Penderton is a closeted homosexual army Major and husband to Leonora.
United States
[ 18]
1967
Tony Rome
Rood
Lloyd Bochner
Rood is a drug dealer.
United States
[ 18]
1968
The Anniversary
Henry Taggart
James Cossins
Henry is a transvestite .
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1968
Boom!
The Witch of Capri
Noël Coward
The Witch of Capri is Mrs. Goforth's wickedly gossipy friend.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1968
The Boston Strangler
Terence Huntley
Hurd Hatfield
Huntley is a rich murder suspect who is interrogated by Detective Bottomly in a gay bar.
United States
[ 18]
1968
Deadfall
Richard
Eric Portman
Fé and Clarke begin a romantic affair, which Fé's husband Richard, who has a young male lover, does not discourage.
United Kingdom
[ 24]
1968
The Detective
Teddy Leikman
James Inman
Teddy, the son of a powerful businessman, is found murdered.
United States
[ 18]
Colin MacIver
William Windom
1968
Flesh
The Artist
Maurice Braddell
The Artist wishes to draw Joe, a hustler working on the streets of New York City.
United States
[ 25]
David
Louis Waldon
Joe's Customer
John Christian
1968
if....
Wallace
Richard Warwick
Wallace is Mick Trav 's fellow non-conformist friend in the lower sixth form , their penultimate year at a traditional British public school for boys in the late 1960s.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
Bobby Philips
Rupert Webster
1968
Inadmissible Evidence
Maples
John Normington
Maples is a distraught client of Barrister, Bill Maitland.
United Kingdom
[ 26]
1968
Joanna
Lord Peter Sanderson
Donald Sutherland
Sanderson has a terminal illness and sponsors an exhibit of Hendrik's paintings.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1968
The Lion in Winter
Philip II of France
Timothy Dalton
Philip reveals he had been caballing with Richard separately, and that he and Richard may once have been lovers.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 18]
Richard the Lionheart
Anthony Hopkins
1968
The Mercenary
Ricciolo (Curly)
Jack Palance
Curly is Kowalski's flamboyant American rival.
Italy, Spain, United States
[ 27] [ 28]
1968
No Way to Treat a Lady
Christopher Gill
Rod Steiger
Gill is a serial killer fixated on his late mother, a noted stage actress.
United States
[ 18]
1968
P.J.
Shelton Quell
Severn Darden
Quell is the family butler.
United States
[ 18]
1968
The Queen
Himself
Flawless Sabrina
Sabrina is the mistress of ceremonies for the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest.
United States
[ 18]
1968
The Sergeant
Albert Callan
Rod Steiger
Callan is a dedicated and decorated war veteran, posted in France at a fuel supply depot in 1952.
United States
[ 29] [ 30]
1968
Star!
Noël Coward
Daniel Massey
Biopic about Gertrude Lawrence who, besides collaborating with him in theater productions, also had a close friendship with Coward off stage.
United States
[ 31] [ 32] [ 33]
1969
Angel, Angel, Down We Go
Willy Steele
Charles Aidman
Willy is a wealthy airplane manufacturer and the closeted father of Tara.
United States
[ 34]
1969
The Damned
Konstantin von Essenbeck
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Part of a wealthy industrialist family, Konstantin is an SA officer who is part of homosexual orgy in Wiesee.
Italy, West Germany
[ 35] [ 36] [ 37]
1969
Fellini Satyricon
Ascyltus
Hiram Keller
Encolpius and his friend Ascyltus to win the heart of a young boy named Gitón within a surreal and dreamlike Roman landscape.
Italy, France
[ 38]
1969
The Gay Deceivers
Malcolm
Michael Greer
Malcolm is Danny and Elliot's landlord, who has a husband.
United States
[ 18]
Colonel Dixon
Jack Starrett
1969
Justine
Toto
Cliff Gorman
The film centers around Justine, who is working against the British government to send weapons to Jews in Palestine. Toto is among the film's casualties.
United States
[ 18]
1969
Listen, Let's Make Love
Baron von Tummler
Amerigo Tot
Lallo's presence arouses the sexual interest of Baron von Tummler, an old homosexual, and Flavia, a steel heiress. Tummler competes with her at an auction for a pair of antique cufflinks that interest Lallo.
Italy, France
[ 39]
1969
Midnight Cowboy
Young Student
Bob Balaban
The young student offers Joe money in exchange for giving Joe fellatio in a Times Square movie house and afterward confesses he has no money to pay him.
United States
[ 18]
1969
Riot
Mary Sheldon
Clifford David
Sheldon is a tough prison queen Briston faced.
United States
[ 18]
1969
Staircase
Harry C. Leeds
Richard Burton
An ageing couple who own a barber shop in the East End of London .
United Kingdom
[ 18]
Charles Dyer
Rex Harrison
1969
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Marcus
Ram John Holder
Marcus makes a pass at Roddy.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 40]
1969
Women in Love
Loerke
Vladek Sheybal
Loerke is a German sculptor who is befriended by Gudrun, who is also an artist.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1969
Z
Vago
Marcel Bozzuffi
Vago is based on Emmanouel Emmannouilidis, the man who struck Lambrakis .
Algeria, France
[ 18]
1970–1979
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
1970
Bloody Mama
Kevin Dirkman
Bruce Dern
Kevin is Fred's older cellmate who eventually became his lover.
United States
[ 41]
1970
The Boys in the Band
Michael
Kenneth Nelson
This was the first Hollywood film in which all of the principal characters are homosexual.
United States
[ 18]
Harold
Leonard Frey
Emory
Cliff Gorman
Hank
Laurence Luckinbill
Donald
Frederick Combs
1970
The Conformist
Marcello Clerici
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Clerici is a mid-level Fascist functionary (Trintignant) who is ordered to assassinate his former professor, an antifascist dissident in Paris.
Italy, France, West Germany
[ 42]
1970
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Ed
Harry Andrews
Ed is Kath's closeted brother.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1970
The Kremlin Letter
The Warlock
George Sanders
"The Warlock" is a culturally sophisticated homosexual member of the group.
United States
[ 18]
1970
Little Big Man
Little Horse
Robert Little Star
Little Horse is a native American that holds a sacred position in the tribe.
United States
[ 18] [ 43]
1970
Loot
Dennis
Hywel Bennett
Hal is the seaside hotel owner's son, and he robbed a bank with his boyfriend, Dennis.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
Hal
Roy Holder
1970
Myra Breckinridge
Irving "Blaggot" Amadeus
Calvin Lockhart
Blaggot is an effete man.
United States
[ 44] [ 45]
1970
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Robert Stephens
Offering an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes , and draws a distinction between the "real" Holmes and the character portrayed by Watson in his stories for The Strand magazine.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 18]
1970
Something for Everyone
Konrad Ludwig
Michael York
Konrad and Helmuth are star-crossed lovers.
United States
[ 18]
Helmuth von Ornstein
Anthony Higgins
1970
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Warren
Robert Moore
Warren is the paraplegic friend of Junie Moon whom she meets in an institution.
United States
[ 18]
Guiles
Leonard Frey
1971
The Anderson Tapes
Haskins
Martin Balsam
Haskins is a crooked antique dealer.
United States
[ 18]
1971
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Dr. Braun
Horst Frank
Dr. Braun is a scientist and one of the innocent leads in a murder case.
Italy, France, West Germany
[ 46]
1971
Death in Venice
Gustav von Aschenbach
Dirk Bogarde
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for rest, due to serious health concerns.
France, Italy
[ 18]
1971
Diamonds Are Forever
Mr. Wint
Bruce Glover
Wint and Kidd are hit men who work for Ernst Stavro Blofeld .
United Kingdom
[ 18]
Mr. Kidd
Putter Smith
1971
Fortune and Men's Eyes
Queenie
Michael Greer
Queenie is a drag queen incarcerated for robbery.
Mona is a teenager who was arrested for flirting with boys.
United States
[ 18]
Mona
Danny Freedman
1971
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Daniel
Bernd Feuerhelm
Daniel from the province comes to Berlin and meets Clemens. Both experience great love, move in together and try to copy the bourgeois marriage.
West Germany
[ 18]
Clemens
Berryt Bohlen
1971
The Last Picture Show
Coach Popper
Bill Thurman
Coach Popper is closeted and married to Ruth.
United States
[ 47] [ 48]
1971
The Music Lovers
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Richard Chamberlain
Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period .
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1971
Pink Narcissus
Pan
Bobby Kendall
Pan is a young and attractive male escort.
United States
[ 49]
Bar Owner
Charles Ludlam
1971
Shaft
Rollie
Rex Robbins
Rollie is the bartender at a bar that Shaft frequents.
United States
[ 50]
1971
Some of My Best Friends Are...
Scott
Gil Gerard
On Christmas Eve of 1971, in Greenwich Village , a group of gay men and lesbians meet at the Blue Jay Bar to talk about their lives and relationships.
United States
[ 18]
Jim
Gary Sandy
1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Daniel Hirsh
Peter Finch
Hirsh is a Jewish doctor.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1971
Vanishing Point
Male hitchhiker No. 1
Anthony James
The two men hitchhike while standing next to a broken-down car with a "Just Married" sign on the back. Kowalski picks them up and they attempt to rob him before he throws them out of the car.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 51]
Male hitchhiker No. 2
Arthur Malet
1971
Villain
Vic Dakin
Richard Burton
Dakin is a ruthless and sadistic London gangster.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1971
Whity
Frank Nicholson
Ulli Lommel
Frank is a member of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878.
West Germany
[ 52]
1972
Blacula
Bobby McCoy
Ted Harris
Bobby and Billy are lovers and interior decorators. They purchase the coffin containing Blacula and ship it to Los Angeles, becoming his first victims.
United States
[ 18]
Billy Schaffer
Rick Metzler
1972
Georgia, Georgia
Herbert Thompson
Roger Furman
Herbert is Georgia's manager.
United States
[ 18]
1972
Pete 'n' Tillie
Jimmy Twitchell
René Auberjonois
Jimmy is Tillie's close friend.
United States
[ 18]
1972
Play It as It Lays
B.Z. Mendenhall
Anthony Perkins
B.Z. is a suicidal movie producer and best friend of Maria.
United States
[ 18]
1972
X Y & Zee
Gordon
John Standing
Gordon is a close friend of Zee's.
United Kingdom
[ 53]
1973
A Bigger Splash
David Hockney
Himself
Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic about Hockney.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
Peter Schlesinger
Himself
1973
Day for Night
Alexandre
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Alexandre is an actor whose lover is killed in a car accident.
France
[ 18]
1973
The Day of the Jackal
Bernard
Anton Rodgers
Bernard is picked up by the Jackel at a Turkish bathhouse and murdered.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1973
The Last of Sheila
Tom Parkman
Richard Benjamin
Screenwriter Parkman is a guest on a one-week Mediterranean pleasure cruise aboard the yacht of movie producer Clinton Greene.
United States
[ 18]
1973
Ludwig
Ludwig II of Bavaria
Helmut Berger
Ludwig has doubts if he can be a good husband to Sophie who loves him, and he postpones and eventually cancels the marriage. Instead, he starts having relationships with his servants, although being a devout Catholic makes him feel guilt about his homosexuality.
Italy, France, West Germany
[ 54] [ 55]
1973
Papillon
André Maturette
Robert Deman
Maturette is an orderly and fellow prisoner who assists Papillon in his escape plot from a labor camp in French Guiana .
United States
[ 18]
1973
Scarecrow
Riley
Richard Lynch
Riley is an inmate who sexually assaults Lion in prison.
United States
[ 18]
1973
Sleeper
Jeb Hrmthmg
Spencer Milligan
Jeb is a futuristic man that has a gay robot.
United States
[ 18]
1973
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Bobby Walden
Ron Rickards
Bobby comes out to his parents at 15 and later moves to Amsterdam.
United States
[ 18]
1973
The Tenderness of Wolves
Fritz Haarmann
Kurt Raab
Based on the crimes of German serial killer and cannibal Fritz Haarmann.
West Germany
[ 18]
1973
Theatre of Blood
Meredith Merridew
Robert Morley
Meredith is the theatre critic who wears a pink suit and has two poodles.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1974
125 Rooms of Comfort
Billie Joyce
Tim Henry
Billie is left with ownership of his father's hotel after he dies.
Canada
[ 56]
1974
Butley
Ben Butley
Alan Bates
Butley, a literature professor and longtime T. S. Eliot scholar with a recently developed interest in Beatrix Potter , is a suicidal alcoholic, who loses his wife and his male lover on the same day.
United States, Canada, United Kingdom
[ 18]
1974
The Conversation
Martin Stett
Harrison Ford
Martin is the Director's loyal assistant.
United States
[ 57]
1974
The Night Porter
Bert
Amedeo Amodio
Bert is a German dancer.
Italy
[ 58]
1974
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Subway passenger
Gary Bolling
Based on the 1973 novel of the same name
United States
[ 18]
1974
The Tamarind Seed
Fergus Stephenson
Dan O'Herlihy
Stephenson is a conduit of state secrets .
United States
[ 18]
1974
A Very Natural Thing
David
Robert Joel
David is a public school teacher and former monastic monk. He meets Mark at a disco. After their relationship ends he meets Jason, a photographer who came out after divorcing his wife.
Containing documentary footage of the Christopher Street Liberation Day March in New York City (known today as NYC Pride March ).
United States
[ 59] [ 60]
Mark
Curt Gareth
Jason
Bo White
Alan
Jay Pierce
1975
Barry Lyndon
British Soldier
Anthony Dawes
While on the run, Barry stumbles upon two soldiers in a pond, naked and holding hands, professing their love for each other. He takes the uniform of one of the men in an attempt to steal his identity.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 18]
1975
Deep Red
Carlo Manganiello
Gabriele Lavia
Carlo is Marucs' best friend.
Italy
[ 61]
1975
The Eiger Sanction
Miles Mellough
Jack Cassidy
Miles is an assassin.
United States
[ 18]
1975
Fox and His Friends
Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Fox is a working-class man who wins the lottery.
West Germany
[ 18]
1975
Funny Lady
Bobby Moore
Roddy McDowall
Bobby is Fanny's assistant and friend.
United States
[ 18]
1975
In Celebration
Colin Shaw
James Bolam
Shaws' son Colin, who was a Communist party member for a year, is now a prosperous but unfulfilled industrial relations manager for a car manufacturer, dealing with negotiations with the unions.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 62]
1975
Mahogany
Sean McAvoy
Anthony Perkins
Sean is a fashion designer who works with Tracy.
United States
[ 18]
1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dale Harding
William Redfield
Dale is a patient at the mental institution.
United States
[ 18]
1975
Saturday Night at the Baths
Scotti
Don Scotti
Scotti manages a bathhouse and falls in love with Michael, a bisexual piano player.
United States
[ 18]
1975
The Sunday Woman
Massimo Campi
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Massimo is Anna's best friend.
Italy, France
[ 63]
1976
L'Alpagueur
Gilbert ("L'Epervier")
Bruno Cremer
Gilbert is a killer and crook who has feelings for a young man he hires to rob a jewelry store.
France
[ 64]
1976
The Best Way to Walk
Marc
Patrick Dewaere
In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country in 1960, Marc and Philippe are two of the counsellors.
France
[ 18]
Philippe
Patrick Bouchitey
1976
Car Wash
Lindy
Antonio Fargas
Lindy is the flamboyant, yet unashamed employee of the car wash.
United States
[ 18]
1976
Coup de Grâce
Erich von Lhomond
Matthias Habich
Lhomond is the leader of a group of soldiers in Russian Civil War that followed the Bolshevik Revolution
West Germany, France
[ 65]
1976
Drum
Bernard DeMarigny
John Colicos
Bernard is a villainous plantation owner in 19th century New Orleans.
United States
[ 18]
1976
Face to Face
Dr. Tomas Jacobi
Erland Josephson
Dr. Jacobi is a close friend of Dr. Jenny.
Sweden
[ 18]
1976
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Oliver V. Farnsworth
Buck Henry
Oliver is a lawyer and Newton's business partner.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1976
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Bernstein
Antonio Fargas
Bernstein has a Norwegian lover and becomes close friends with Larry and Sarah after they move to Greenwich Village.
United States
[ 18]
1976
Norman... Is That You?
Garson Hobart
Dennis Dugan
Norman is Ben's only child. Garson is Norman's lover.
United States
[ 18]
Norman Chambers
Michael Warren
1976
Ode to Billy Joe
Billy Joe McAllister
Robby Benson
Billy Joe is a high school student in Mississippi who jumps off of a bridge due to the shame he feels for his sexuality.
United States
[ 18]
1976
The Ritz
Chris
F. Murray Abraham
Chris befriends Jack, a heterosexual businessman who goes into hiding from his murderous mobster brother-in-law at a gay bathhouse in Manhattan. Chris shows him the ropes.
Claude is the "chubby chaser" who regularly patronizes the bathhouse.
United States
[ 18]
Claude Perkins
Paul B. Price
1976
Sebastiane
Sebastian
Leonardo Treviglio
The events of the life of Saint Sebastian , including his iconic martyrdom by arrows.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1976
Swashbuckler
Lord Durant
Peter Boyle
Durant is the tyrannical and cruel governor of Jamaica.
United States
[ 66]
1977
The Choirboys
Blaney
Michael MacKenzie Wills
Blaney is a closeted high school student who is murdered.
United States
[ 18]
1977
Hidden Pleasures
Eduardo
Simón Andreu
Eduardo is a middle-aged, closeted banker from a wealthy family, who falls in love with a much younger heterosexual man.
Spain
[ 18]
1977
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Gary
Tom Berenger
Gary is a repressed homosexual who flies into a rage and murders Theresa when she suggests that he might be gay.
Inspired by the 1973 murder of New York City schoolteacher Roseann Quinn .
United States
[ 18]
1977
Outrageous!
Robin Turner
Craig Russell
Robin is a hairstylist who creates a drag act to earn extra money after his schizophrenic friend, Liza, becomes pregnant and needs to move in with him.
Canada
[ 18]
1977
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
Broderick Crawford
Fictionalized chronicle of forty years in the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, from his earliest days in the FBI in the 1920s until his death in 1972.
United States
[ 18]
1977
Rituals
Martin
Robin Gammell
Martin is one of five doctors who are targeted by a killer while they are on group camping trip for the weekend.
Canada
[ 67]
1977
A Special Day
Gabriele
Marcello Mastroianni
Set in Rome in 1938, the narrative follows Antonietta and her neighbor, Gabriele, who stay home the day Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini ; the same day that Gabriele comes out to her.
Italy, Canada
[ 68] [ 69]
1977
To an Unknown God
José
Héctor Alterio
José is an aging man coming to terms with his homosexuality and mortality.
Spain
[ 18]
1978
The Betsy
Loren Hardeman Jr.
Paul Ryan Rudd
Loren is the closeted son of a tycoon.
United States
[ 18]
1978
The Big Sleep
Arthur Geiger
John Justin
Geiger is a homosexual pornographer .
United States, United Kingdom
[ 70]
1978
Bloodbrothers
Paulie
Bruce French
Paulie is a jewelry salesman who has a strained relationship with his father.
United States
[ 18]
1978
California Suite
Sidney Cochran
Michael Caine
Sidney is a closeted antique dealer and husband of movie star, Diane Barrie.
United States
[ 71]
1978
A Different Story
Albert Walreavens
Perry King
A man and a lesbian who become temporary housemates end up falling in love with each other.
Film critic Janet Maslin's original review elaborates: "The movie's use of [Albert and Stella's] homosexuality is indeed exploitative, insensitive, and offensive in a variety of ways. Even worse, it is unconvincing ... Albert's homosexuality is nothing but a gimmick, something for the screenplay to coax him out of."
United States
[ 18]
1978
El diputado
Roberto Orbea
José Sacristán
Roberto gets elected as Deputy and falls in love with Juanito.
Spain
[ 72]
Juanito
José Luis Alonso
1978
Midnight Express
Erich
Norbert Weisser
Erich is a Swedish drug smuggler.
United States
[ 18]
1978
Nighthawks
Jim
Ken Robertson
Jim is a geography teacher who goes to gay pubs at night. His students ultimately challenge him with questions as to whether he is "bent" (i.e. homosexual). He responds that he is and answers their questions about his homosexuality calmly.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1979
10
Hugh
Robert Webber
Hugh is George's best friend.
United States
[ 18]
1979
Ernesto
Ernesto
Martin Halm
In Trieste , Austria-Hungary (Italy after the end of World War I) in 1911, Ernesto (Martin Halm ) is a 17-year-old boy who lives with his widowed mother in the home of his violin-loving Jewish uncle and works in an office at a routine job. He espouses socialist views largely to cause his uncle distress.
Italy, Spain, West Germany
[ 18]
The Man / The stableman
Michele Placido
1979
Hot Potato
Claudio
Massimo Ranieri
Claudio is a frail young mana involved in a fascist gang beating.
Italy
[ 73]
1979
Saint Jack
Senator
George Lazenby
The subplot involves a closeted and married conservative senator who flies to Singapore to pick up male prostitutes.
United States
[ 18]
1979
Savage Weekend
Nicky
Christopher Allport
Nicky is one of the members of a friend group who go away for the weekend and are stalked by a masked killer.
United States
[ 74]
1979
To Forget Venice
Nicky
Erland Josephson
Nicky has resided in Milan for three years with his partner Picchio.
Italy
[ 18]
1980–1989
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
1980
American Gigolo
Leon James
Bill Duke
James is Julian's pimp.
United States
[ 18]
1980
Cruising
Ted Bailey
Don Scardino
Ted is the next-door neighbor of undercover cop Steve. The two become friends while Steve works to track down a serial killer targeting gay men. Gregory is Ted's boyfriend.
United States
[ 18] [ 75]
Gregory
James Remar
1980
Fame
Montgomery MacNeil
Paul McCrane
Montgomery is a student in the Drama department who comes out to his peers during their second year.
United States
[ 18]
1980
Happy Birthday, Gemini
Francis Geminiani
Alan Rosenberg
On the eve of his 21st birthday, Francis realizes that he is in love with his girlfriend's brother, Randy.
United States
[ 18]
1980
The Last Married Couple in America
Donald
Stewart Moss
Donald and Reggie are the neighbors of Jeff and Marie. While most couples that Jeff and Marie know have crumbling relationships, Donald and Reggie are well adjusted and happy.
United States
[ 18]
Reggie
Colby Chester
1980
Life and Death
John
[actor name N/A]
A medical student.
Norway
[ 76] [ 77]
1980
The Long Good Friday
Colin
Paul Freeman
Colin is the underworld lieutenant whose murder triggers a bloodbath.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1980
Nijinsky
Sergei Diaghilev
Alan Bates
Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality .
Diaghilev is an impresario .
United States
[ 18]
Vaslav Nijinsky
George de la Peña
1980
Serial
Luckman
Christopher Lee
Luckman is an executive headhunter by day and the head of a motorcycle gang by night.
United States
[ 18]
1980
Squeeze
Paul
Paul Eady
Paul is a timid young man who develops a relationship with bisexual businessman, Grant.
New Zealand
[ 78]
1980
Stir Crazy
Rory Schultebrand
Georg Stanford Brown
A drag-wearing convict who killed his stepfather.
(For his drag performance, Brown was nominated for the 1980 Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award as "Worst Supporting Actress ".)
United States
[ 79] [ 80]
1980
Taxi zum Klo
Frank
Frank Ripploh
Frank ponders whether to continue a life on anonymous sex or settle down with his eventual boyfriend, Bernd.
West Germany
[ 18]
Bernd
Bernd Broaderup
1981
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
Phil Brody
Caskey Swaim
Landers is Billy and Eddie's basketball coach.
United States
[ 81] [ 82]
Coach Tom Landers
Steve Eastin
1981
The Fan
Douglas Breen
Michael Biehn
Douglas is the obsessed fan of film star Sally Ross.
United States
[ 18]
1981
Knightriders
Pippin
Warner Shook
Troupe member Pippin comes to terms with his homosexuality and finds love with Punch.
United States
[ 18]
1981
Mad Max 2
The Golden Youth
Jimmy Brown
The Golden Youth is a punk on a motorcycle in post-nuclear society.
Australia
[ 18]
1981
Only When I Laugh
Jimmy Perry
James Coco
Jimmy a struggling actor and the best friend of Georgia.
United States
[ 18]
1981
The Woman Next Door
Roland Duguet
Roger Van Hool
France
[ 18]
1981
Zorro, the Gay Blade
Bunny Wigglesworth
George Hamilton
Wigglesworth is Zorro 's twin brother.
United States
[ 18]
1982
Angel
Angelos
Michalis Maniatis
Michalis is a young man in Athens, Angelos, who keeps his sexual identity a secret from his family. He falls hard for a rough sailor, Mihalis, and moves in with him.
Greece
[ 83]
1982
The Clinic
Dr. Eric Linden
Chris Haywood
Linden is a doctor at Melbourne VD (venereal disease) clinic.
Australia
[ 18]
1982
Deathtrap
Sidney Bruhl
Michael Caine
Sidney and Clifford are lovers trying to do away with Sidney's wife.
United States
[ 18]
Clifford Anderson
Christopher Reeve
1982
Drifting
Robi
Jonathan Sagall
Robi is a young man trying to find love and break into the movie business.
Israel
[ 84]
1982
Evil Under the Sun
Rex Brewster
Roddy McDowall
Rex is a gossip columnist in the process of writing a biography of Arlene Stuart Marshall.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1982
Forty Deuce
Ricky
Kevin Bacon
Ricky is a street hustler in Times Square.
United States
[ 18]
1982
Labyrinth of Passion
Riza Niro
Imanol Arias
Niro is the son of the Emperor of Tiran (a fictional Middle Eastern country).
Spain
[ 85]
Sadec
Antonio Banderas
1982
Luc or His Share of Things
Luc
Pierre Normandin
After coming out as gay, Luc grapples with depression and suicidal thoughts but is saved by the acceptance and support of his friends, François and Louis.
Canada
[ 86]
1982
Making Love
Zack Elliot
Michael Ontkean
Considered a Hollywood landmark film, for its portrayal of the relationship between Zack and Bart as equally valid to a heterosexual one.
United States
[ 18]
Bart McGuire
Harry Hamlin
1982
Night Shift
Prisoner
Charles Fleischer
Fleischer has a cameo as a Prisoner in the film.
United States
[ 18]
1982
Partners
Kerwin
John Hurt
Officer Kerwin is a Records Clerk.
United States
[ 18]
1982
Privates on Parade
Capt. Terri Dennis
Denis Quilley
Dennis is the military drag queen in the movie.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1982
Victor/Victoria
Carroll "Toddy" Todd
Robert Preston
Toddy is an aging performer at Club Chez Lui in Paris.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 18]
'Squash' Bernstein
Alex Karras
1982
The Year of Living Dangerously
Wally O'Sullivan
Noel Ferrier
Wally is an Australian journalist.
United States, Australia
[ 18]
1983
The Dresser
Norman
Tom Courtenay
During World War II, Norman works as a dresser who falls in love with an actor he serves.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1983
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Capt. Yonoi
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Capt. Yonoi is the commander of the POW camp in Lebak Sembada in Japanese-occupied Java in 1942.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
1983
Self Defense
Daniel
Terry-David Després
While the police are on strike, a fascist group goes to a gay bar and begins murdering the patrons. Daniel is the sole bar patron that escapes and he takes refuge in a local apartment.
Canada
[ 18]
1983
Sleepaway Camp
John Baker
Dan Tursi
Baker and his boyfriend, Lenny, take John's children Angela and Peter on a boating trip.
United States
[ 18] [ 87]
Lenny
James Paradise
1983
Staying Alive
Butler
Charles Ward
Butler is replaced as the lead dancer in a Broadway show by Tony.
United States
[ 18]
1983
Streamers
Richie
Mitchell Lichtenstein
In 1965, four young soldiers waiting to be shipped to Vietnam deal with racial tension and their own intolerance when Richie reveals his sexuality.
United States
[ 18]
1983
To Be or Not to Be
Sasha
James Haake
Sasha is Anna's dresser.
United States
[ 18]
1983
Without a Trace
Philippe
Keith McDermott
Philippe is Susan's housecleaner.
United States
[ 18]
1984
Another Country
Guy Bennett
Rupert Everett
Explorating Bennett's homosexuality and exposure to Marxism , while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public school system .
United Kingdom
[ 18]
James Harcourt
Cary Elwes
1984
Beverly Hills Cop
Serge
Bronson Pinchot
Serge is an art dealer.
United States
[ 88]
1984
Garbo Talks
Bernie Whitlock
Harvey Fierstein
Bernie is a kindhearted man on Fire Island who helps Gilbert find reclusive Hollywood legend Greta Garbo for his mother as her dying wish.
United States
[ 18]
1984
Horror Vacui
Frankie
Folkert Milster
Hannes attempts to save his lover, Frankie, by stopping him from joining a religious cult.
West Germany
[ 18]
Hannes
Tom Vogt
1984
The Hotel New Hampshire
Frank
Paul McCrane
Frank is one of the Berry's kid.
United States, United Kingdom, Canada
[ 18]
1984
Irreconcilable Differences
Howard Kay
Richard Minchenberg
Howard becomes Lucy's secretary after she achieves great success as a writer.
United States
[ 18]
1984
La Muerte de Mikel
Mikel
Imanol Arias
Mikel falls in love with a drag queen and is murdered by his mother.
Spain
[ 18]
Fama
Fernando Telletxea
1984
Mass Appeal
Deacon Mark Dolson
Željko Ivanek
Seminarian Mark Dolson questions Farley's position on the ordination of women .
United States
[ 18]
1984
Meatballs Part II
Lieutenant Felix Foxglove
John Larroquette
Felix is the closeted assistant of Colonel Hershy.
United States
[ 18]
1984
Mike's Murder
Philip Green
Paul Winfield
Philip is the sympathetic and straightforward record producer who was in a relationship with Mike prior to his murder.
United States
[ 18]
1984
Monaco Forever
Karate Man
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Marking the first (although brief) appearance of Jean-Claude Van Damme
United States
[ 89]
1984
Protocol
Jerry
Grainger Hines
Jerry and Ben are in a committed relationship and are the roommates of Sunny.
United States
[ 18]
Ben
Joel Brooks
1984
Revenge of the Nerds
Lamar Lutrell
Larry B. Scott
Lamar is an openly fraternity member.
United States
[ 90]
1985
Adiós, Roberto
Marcelo
Víctor Laplace
Marcelo is the roommate of Roberto.
Argentina
[ 91]
1985
After Hours
Mark
Robert Plunket
Mark is a novelist who picks up Paul.
United States
[ 18]
1985
The Boys Next Door
Chris
Paul C. Dancer
Chris is the ill-fated gay bar patron who unknowingly invites two killers to his apartment on the evening of their murder spree.
United States
[ 18]
1985
Buddies
Robert Willow
Geoff Edholm
David is the volunteer "buddy" from the Gay Center who is assigned to help care for Robert, who is dying of AIDS. The film explores how David copes with Robert's illness and death.
It is the first narrative film about the AIDS crisis, preceding television film, An Early Frost (also released in 1985).
United States
[ 18]
Steve
David Rose
1985
A Chorus Line
Paul San Marco
Cameron English
San Marco and Walter are part of the dancers auditioning for a part in a new Broadway musical.
United States
[ 18] [ 92]
Greg Gardner
Justin Ross
1985
Colonel Redl
Colonel Alfred Redl
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Redl is head of the Austrian Imperial Secret Service who gets exposed as a spy.
West Germany
[ 18]
1985
Dona Herlinda and Her Son
Ramón
Arturo Meza
Rodolfo, a young bachelor doctor, has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramón.
Mexico
[ 18]
1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Luis Molina
William Hurt
Luis is a prisoner who survives through recreating old movie fantasies.
(Hurt won an Academy Award for his performance.)
United States
[ 18]
1985
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Yukio Mishima
Ken Ogata
Depicting the life and work of the eponymous writer and activist.
United States
[ 18]
1985
My Beautiful Laundrette
Omar Ali
Gordon Warnecke
Focusing on Omar, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reunion and eventual romance with his childhood friend Johnny.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
Johnny
Daniel Day-Lewis
1985
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Coach Schneider
Marshall Bell
Jesse is caught by Schneider ordering a drink in a gay bar and is made to run laps at school as punishment.
United States
[ 18]
1985
Once Bitten
Sebastian
Cleavon Little
Sebastian is the flamboyant, stereotypically servant to the Countess. The film contains a running gag of Sebastian continuously "coming out" of the Countess' closet.
United States
[ 18]
1985
Spies Like Us
Russian Rocket Crew Member No. 1
Bjarne Thomsen
The two Russian crew members go off arm in arm into the woods.
United States
[ 18]
Russian Rocket Crew Member No. 2
Sergei Rousakov
1985
St. Elmo's Fire
Ron Dellasandro
Matthew Laurance
Dellasandro is Jules' neighbor.
United States
[ 18]
1985
Westler
Felix
Sigurd Rachman
Felix and Thomas are lovers who are divided by the Berlin Wall .
West Germany
[ 18]
Thomas
Rainer Strecker
1986
Absolute Beginners
Henley of Mayfair
James Fox
Suzette plans to marry the middle-aged, homosexual Henley for her career.
United Kingdom
[ 93]
1986
Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Nigel Terry
Fictionalised retelling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio .
United Kingdom
[ 18]
Jerusaleme
Spencer Leigh
1986
The Decline of the American Empire
Claude
Yves Jacques
Claude speaks about pursuing men reckless of fear of STDs , while secretly being fearful of having one to his friends.
Canada
[ 94]
1986
Mala Noche
Walt Curtis
Tim Streeter
Walt falls in love with Mexican migrant, Johnny.
United States
[ 18]
1986
The Morning After
Frankie
James Haake
Frankie is the drag queen friend of Alex, who lets her borrow clothing while she is on the run from the police for suspicion of murder.
United States
[ 18]
1986
Parting Glances
Michael
Richard Ganoung
One of the first motion pictures to deal frankly and realistically with the subject of AIDS and the impact of the relatively new disease on the gay community in the Ronald Reagan era and at the height of the pandemic.
United States
[ 18]
Nick
Steve Buscemi
Robert
John Bolger
1986
Tough Guys
Bar Patron
Matthew Faison
Long was asked by the bar patron for a dance in a gay bar.
United States
[ 18]
1987
Beyond Therapy
Bob
Christopher Guest
Bob is Bruce's jealous live-in lover who decides to assert himself and do everything possible to maintain his status quo.
United States
[ 95]
1987
Friends Forever
Patrick
Thomas Sigsgaard
Partrick is the best friend of the main protagonist, Kristian, and develops a relationship with Mads, the captain of the soccer team.
Denmark
[ 96]
Mads
Morten Stig Christensen
1987
The Heart Exposed
Jean-Marc
Gilles Renaud
Jean-Marc and Mathieu fall in love despite a ten-year age difference and the complication that Mathieu is the father of a five-year-old son.
Canada
[ 97]
Mathieu
Michel Poirier
1987
Law of Desire
Pablo Quintero
Eusebio Poncela
Focusing on a complex love triangle between three men. Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director, and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.
Spain
[ 98]
Antonio Benítez
Antonio Banderas
Juan
Miguel Molina
1987
Maurice
Clive Durham
Hugh Grant
Hall struggles to fit into society, and ultimately united with his life partner.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
Maurice Hall
James Wilby
Alec Scudder
Rupert Graves
1987
A Month in the Country
James Moon
Kenneth Branagh
Moon is a archaeologist and a war veteran who forms a close friendship with Birkin.
United Kingdom
[ 99]
1987
No Way Out
Scott Pritchard
Will Patton
Pritchard is the general counsel to Brice.
United States
[ 100]
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
Joe Orton
Gary Oldman
Playwright Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are lovers.
United Kingdom
[ 18]
Kenneth Halliwell
Alfred Molina
1987
Radio Days
Fred
Robert Joy
Fred's coming out is treated with compassion and understanding by his girlfriend, Bea, when he bursts into tears after hearing "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You ", a song which reminds him of his departed lover.
United States
[ 18]
1987
Stage Fright
Brett
Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Brett is one of the actors in a theater troupe being targeted by a killer wearing an owl mask.
Italy
[ 101]
1987
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Lonnie Pangborn
R. Patrick Sullivan
Pangborn is Pond's effete husband
United States
[ 102]
1987
Withnail and I
Monty
Richard Griffiths
Monty is Withnail's Uncle.
United Kingdom
[ 103]
1988
The Fruit Machine
Eddie
Emile Charles
Eddie and Michael are best friends who are on the run from a killer after they witness him murdering a drag queen at a gay club called "The Fruit Machine."
United Kingdom
[ 104]
Michael
Tony Forsyth
1988
Madame Sousatzka
Mr. Cordle
Geoffrey Bayldon
Mr. Cordle is an osteopath who obsessively creates color-coded maps of the human body
United Kingdom, Canada
[ 105]
1988
Once More
Louis
Jean-Louis Rolland
Following Louis' life through the span of 10 years.
France
[ 106]
1988
Salome's Last Dance
Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
Douglas Hodge
Douglas is Oscar Wilde 's lover.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 107]
1988
Torch Song Trilogy
Arnold Beckoff
Harvey Fierstein
Arnold Beckoff is a Jewish homosexual, drag queen , and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
United States
[ 108]
Alan Simon
Matthew Broderick
David
Eddie Castrodad
1988
We Think the World of You
Frank Meadows
Alan Bates
Frank is a middle-aged man who helps support the younger and bisexual Johnny and his family.
United Kingdom
[ 109]
1989
Apartment Zero
Adrian LeDuc
Colin Firth
LeDuc is the British owner of a revival house in Buenos Aires.
United Kingdom, Argentina
[ 110]
1989
Coming Out
Philipp Klarmann
Matthias Freihof
Klarmann is a high school teacher who is "coming out " and accepting himself as gay.
East Germany
[ 111]
Matthias
Dirk Kummer
1989
Fun Down There
Buddy Fields
Michael Waite
Fields is a young man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.
United States
[ 112]
Joseph
Nickolas B. Nagourney
1989
Getting It Right
Harry
Richard Huw
Harry is the best friend of the protagonist, Gavin. Winthrop is Harry's boyfriend.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 113]
Winthrop
Kevin Drinkwater
1989
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Harry Black
Stephen Lang
Black is a union strike overseer trying to hide his homosexuality in a bitter marriage.
West Germany, United States
[ 114]
1989
Longtime Companion
David
Bruce Davison
Bruce, a wealthy man, becomes the caregiver of his lover, Sean, a soap opera writer, after he is infected with the HIV virus. The film depicts the increasing effect of HIV/AIDS on a group of gay men during eight-years, between 1981 and 1989.
Willy and Fuzzy begin a relationship and move in together.
United States
[ 115] [ 116]
Fuzzy
Stephen Caffrey
Sean
Mark Lamos
Willy
Campbell Scott
1989
Looking for Langston
James
Akim Mogaji
James and Beauty fall in love in 1920s Harlem.
United Kingdom
[ 117]
Beauty
Matthew Baidoo
1990–1999
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
1990
Europa Europa
Robert Kellerman
André Wilms
Robert and Solek (a Jewish) hold each other's secret in solidarity while fighting in the German Army during World War II.
Germany, France, Poland
[ 118]
1990
Miller's Crossing
Bernie Bernbaum
John Turturro
Bernbaum is Verna's bookie brother, who is skimming off the match fixing scheme of Leo's rival
United States
[ 119]
Eddie Dane
J.E. Freeman
Mink Larouie
Steve Buscemi
1990
Q & A
Josè Malpica
International Chrysis
Malpica is Montalvo's lover
United States
[ 120]
Roger Montalvo
Paul Calderón
1991
The Adjuster
Larry
Stephen Ouimette
Larry is The Butterfly Collector.
Canada
[ 121]
1991
Edward II
Edward II
Steven Waddington
Based on the play of the same name by Christopher Marlowe , the film revolves around Edward II of England 's infatuation with Piers Gaveston , which proves to be the downfall of both of them
United Kingdom
[ 122]
Piers Gaveston
Andrew Tiernan
1991
The Fisher King
Homeless Cabaret Singer
Michael Jeter
Jack first meets a homeless cabaret singer in a hospital, and who talks to him about losing his friends.
United States
[ 123]
1991
Frankie and Johnny
Tim
Nathan Lane
Tim is Frankie's friend and neighbor and is in a relationship with Bobby.
United States
[ 124]
1991
The Hours and Times
Brian Epstein
David Angus
Epstein was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles .
United States
[ 125]
1991
JFK
Willie O'Keefe
Kevin Bacon
Willie is a male prostitute serving five years in prison for soliciting . He was romantically involved with Clay.
United States
[ 126] [ 127]
Clay Shaw
Tommy Lee Jones
1991
Madonna: Truth or Dare
Himself
Salim "Slam" Gauwloos
The documentary film chronicles the life of entertainer Madonna during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour .
United States
[ 128]
Himself
Gabriel Trupin
1991
My Own Private Idaho
Mikey Waters
River Phoenix
Waters is a street hustler . He embarks on a journey of personal discovery with his friend Scott Favor that takes them from Portland, Oregon , to Mike's hometown in Idaho , and then to Rome in search of Mike's mother.
United States
[ 129]
1991
Naked Lunch
Yves Cloquet
Julian Sands
Cloquet is an attractive young Swiss gentleman.
Canada, United Kingdom, Japan
[ 130]
1991
The Prince of Tides
Eddie Detreville
George Carlin
Detreville is Savannah's neighbor.
United States
[ 124]
1991
Queens Logic
Eliot
John Malkovich
Eliot is a later friend who roomed with a group of working-class, now-thirtysomething childhood neighborhood friends in a two-bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens as adults and is lonely but dislikes "camp " men.
United States
[ 131]
1991
Young Soul Rebels
Caz
Mo Sesay
Caz is a soulboy and is in a relationship with punk Billibud.
United Kingdom
[ 132]
1992
Being at Home with Claude
Yves
Roy Dupuis
Yves is a man who has just murdered his lover Claude, and is attempting to explain his reasons to the police investigator
Canada
[ 133]
Claude
Jean-François Pichette
1992
Inside Monkey Zetterland
Brent Zetterland
Tate Donovan
Brent is Monkey's brother, who is a hairdresser.
United States
[ 134]
1992
The Living End
Jon
Craig Gilmore
Luke is a restless and reckless drifter and Jon is a relatively timid and pessimistic film critic. Both are HIV positive.
United States
[ 135] [ 136]
Luke
Mike Dytri
1992
The Long Day Closes
Bud
Leigh McCormack
Concerning a shy twelve-year-old boy, Bud, and his loving mother and siblings in Liverpool in the mid-1950s
United Kingdom
[ 137]
1992
Passed Away
Boyd Pinter
Tim Curry
Pinter is Terry's former husband.
United States
[ 138]
1992
Peter's Friends
Peter
Stephen Fry
Peter has inherited the family estate, and invites his friends up for the 1992-1993 New Year's weekend.
United Kingdom
[ 139]
1992
Single White Female
Graham Knox
Peter Friedman
Knox is Allie's neighbor and an aspiring actor.
United States
[ 124]
1992
Swoon
Richard Loeb
Daniel Schlachet
Recount of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other films based on the case.
United States
[ 140]
Nathan Leopold Jr.
Craig Chester
1992
When the Party's Over
Banks
Kris Kamm
Banks is an actor who is best friends with Amanda.
United States
[ 141]
1993
Blue
Himself
Derek Jarman
This was Jarman's final experimental film and documents his last years while living with AIDS. It was released four months before his death.
United Kingdom
[ 142]
1993
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
The Countess
John Hurt
The Countress is a femine hygiene products mogul.
United States
[ 143]
1993
Farewell My Concubine
Cheng Dieyi
Leslie Cheung
Retelling the troubled relationship between Peking opera actors Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou, and Xiaolou's wife Juxian.
British Hong Kong
[ 144]
1993
Grief
Mark
Craig Chester
Mark is a writer who contemplates suicide on the one year anniversary of his lover's death.
United States
[ 145]
1993
Love and Human Remains
David McMillan
Thomas Gibson
McMillan and his heterosexual, female roommate try to find love and sexual gratification in Edmonton , as a serial killer is loose in the city.
Canada
[ 146]
1993
M. Butterfly
René Gallimard
Jeremy Irons
Loosely based on true events which involved French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu .
United States
[ 147]
Song Liling
John Lone
1993
Mrs. Doubtfire
Frank
Harvey Fierstein
"Uncle Frank" is Daniel's brother. He and his partner "Aunt Jack" are makeup artists.
United States
[ 148] [ 149]
Jack
Scott Capurro
1993
Naked in New York
Chris
Ralph Macchio
Chris is Jake's best friend who kisses him during a party.
United States
[ 150]
1993
Philadelphia
Andrew Beckett
Tom Hanks
Beckett was fired from his employment as a senior associate attorney at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia after they found out he had AIDS.
Alvarez is Beckett's partner.
Philadelphia is the first major Hollywood film to deal with the subject of AIDS.
United States
[ 151] [ 152] [ 153]
Miguel Alvarez
Antonio Banderas
1993
Six Degrees of Separation
Paul
Will Smith
Paul is a skillful con-artist, who mysteriously appears at Kittredges' door one night, injured and bleeding
United States
[ 154] [ 155]
1993
This Boy's Life
Arthur Gayle
Jonah Blechman
Gayle is a misfit classmate of Toby at school whom he befriends.
United States
[ 156]
1993
Tombstone
Billy
Jason Priestley
Billy is an outlaw in the Old West nicknamed "Sister Boy."
United States
[ 157]
1993
The Wedding Banquet
Wai-Tung Gao
Winston Chao
Gao marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card .
Taiwan, United States
[ 158]
1994
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Anthony "Tick" Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra
Hugo Weaving
Bernadette is shocked to learn that Anthony/Mitzi was not only once married to a woman but also has a son.
Australia
[ 159]
1994
Der bewegte Mann
Norbert Brommer
Joachim Król
Walter is a crossdresser using the name "Waltraud".
Germany
[ 160]
Horst/Metzger
Armin Rohde
Walter/Waltraud
Rufus Beck
1994
Double Happiness
Andrew Chau
Johnny Mah
While on the date, Chau reveals his sexuality to a relieved Jade as he describes hiding his identity and managing to only be set up once a year.
Canada
[ 161]
1994
Drunken Master III
Gay bus passenger
Simon Yam
Yam played a gay bus passenger who wants to steal Sum-yuk's jade thumb ring.
Hong Kong
[ 162]
1994
Ed Wood
John "Bunny" Breckinridge
Bill Murray
Bunny is Ed's drag queen friend.
United States
[ 163]
1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Gareth
Simon Callow
Gareth and Matthew are romantic partners.
United Kingdom
[ 164]
Matthew
John Hannah
1994
A Man of No Importance
Alfred Byrne
Albert Finney
Byrne is a closeted homosexual bus conductor in 1963 Dublin . His sister tries to find him a suitable woman, but his real passion is putting on amateur theatre productions of Oscar Wilde plays, particularly Salome . The film deals with his struggle, temptation, and friendships, and how they are affected by his homosexuality.
United Kingdom, Ireland
[ 165]
1994
Oh! My Three Guys
Ching Yu-hoi
Lau Ching-wan
Good friends Kau, Hoi and Fa are homosexual men. Hoi works in an advertising firm while Kau and Fa have not found a suitable job yet. Hoi's new female colleague Mei became interested in him.
British Hong Kong
[ 166]
Fa
Dayo Wong
Kau Ku-neung
Eric Kot
1994
Prêt-à-Porter
Cy Bianco
Forest Whitaker
Bianco and Romney are fashion designers.
United States
[ 167]
Cort Romney
Richard E. Grant
1994
Priest
Father Greg Pilkington
Linus Roache
Concerning a Roman Catholic priest (Pilkington) as he struggles with two difficulties that precipitate a crisis of faith. He meets Graham at a local gay hangout and the two embark on a physical relationship.
United Kingdom
[ 168]
Graham
Robert Carlyle
1994
Pulp Fiction
Zed
Peter Greene
Zed rapes Marsellus Wallace.
United States
[ 169] [ 170]
1994
Reality Bites
Sammy Gray
Steve Zahn
Gray is Vickie's friend who remains celibate, not due to a fear of AIDS, but because forming a relationship would force him to come out to his conservative parents.
United States
[ 171]
1994
The Sum of Us
Jeff Mitchell
Russell Crowe
Widower Harry Mitchell lives with his son Jeff, with both men struggling in their searches for true love.
Australia
[ 172]
1994
Threesome
Eddy
Josh Charles
Alex falls in love and tries unsuccessfully to seduce; Eddy falls in love with Stuart; Stuart is in love with Alex.
United States
[ 173]
1994
Trevor
Trevor
Brett Barsky
Following what happens to 13-year-old Trevor, a Diana Ross fan, when his crush on a schoolmate named Pinky Faraday gets discovered.
United States
[ 174]
1994
Uncovered
César
John Wood
César is Julia's guardian.
United Kingdom
[ 175]
1994
Wagons East
Julian Rogers
John C. McGinley
In the 1860s Wild West , Rogers is a bookseller.
United States
[ 176]
1994
Wild Reeds
François Forestier
Gaël Morel
Forestier is a shy young man from the lower middle class in southwest France in 1962, is working towards his high school diploma.
France
[ 177]
1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
Meredith Potter
Hugh Grant
Meredith is a manager, actor and director of a troupe.
United Kingdom
[ 178]
1995
The Basketball Diaries
Swifty
Bruno Kirby
Swifty is Jim's coach.
United States
[ 179]
1995
Billy Madison
Max Anderson
Josh Mostel
The principal of the elementary school, and a former masked wrestler known as the "Revolting Blob".
United States
[ 180]
1995
Braveheart
Prince Edward
Peter Hanly
Edward II was the fourth son of Edward I .
United States
[ 124]
1995
Carrington
Lytton Strachey
Jonathan Pryce
Lytton is the sadomasochistic lover of Roger.
Lytton was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group . His homosexuality was well known.
France, United Kingdom
[ 181] [ 182]
1995
Clueless
Christian Stovitz
Justin Walker
Stovitz is a fashion-conscious new student Christian Stovitz attracts Cher's attention and becomes her target for a boyfriend.
United States
[ 183]
1995
Home for the Holidays
Tommy Larson
Robert Downey Jr.
Tommy married his boyfriend Jack in a beach wedding.
United States
[ 184]
Jack
Sam Slovick
1995
Jefferson in Paris
Richard Cosway
Simon Callow
Richard is the husband of Maria Cosway , a beautiful Anglo-Italian painter and musician.
France, United States
[ 185]
1995
Jeffrey
Darius
Bryan Batt
Based on the play of the same name by Paul Rudnick ,
United States
[ 186]
Steve Howard
Michael T. Weiss
Jeffrey
Steven Weber
Sterling
Patrick Stewart
1995
Nixon
J. Edgar Hoover
Bob Hoskins
Hoover was first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
United States
[ 187]
1995
Party Girl
Derrick
Anthony DeSando
Derrick is a gal bestie of Nary.
United States
[ 188]
1995
Stonewall
La Miranda
Guillermo Díaz
Fictionalized account of the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots , a seminal event in the modern American gay rights movement.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 189]
Matty Dean
Frederick Weller
Vinnie
Bruce MacVittie
Bostonia
Duane Boutte
Ethan
Brendan Corbalis
1995
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Vida Boheme
Patrick Swayze
Vida and Noxeema are drag queens.
United States
[ 190] [ 191]
Noxeema Jackson
Wesley Snipes
1995
Total Eclipse
Arthur Rimbaud
Leonardo DiCaprio
Presenting a historical account of the passionate and violent relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, at a time of soaring creativity for both men.
United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, United States
[ 192]
1995
Waiting to Exhale
David Matthews
Giancarlo Esposito
Matthews is Gloria's ex-husband and father of Tarik.
United States
[ 193]
1996
Beautiful Thing
Ste Pearce
Scott Neal
Set in Thamesmead , a working class area of South East London dominated by post-war council estates , teenager Jamie is in love with his classmate, Ste
United Kingdom
[ 194] [ 195]
Jamie Gangel
Glen Berry
1996
The Birdcage
Agador
Hank Azaria
A same-sex couple whose son is set to marry the daughter of a conservative senator.
United States
[ 196] [ 43]
Albert Goldman
Nathan Lane
Armand Goldman
Robin Williams
1996
Dream for an Insomniac
Rob
Michael Landes
Rob is apprehensive about coming out to his father.
United States
[ 197]
1996
Flirting with Disaster
Paul Harmon
Richard Jenkins
Tony and Paul are ATF agents who are in a relationship with each other.
United States
[ 198]
Tony Kent
Josh Brolin
1996
Get on the Bus
Kyle
Isaiah Washington
Kyle is an ex-Marine who is the midst of breaking up with his lover Randall.
United States
[ 199]
Randall
Harry Lennix
1996
Hollow Reed
Martyn Wyatt
Martin Donovan
Martyn, a family doctor, married Hannah to hide his homosexuality, and they divorced after he finally came out.
Tom is Martyn's lover.
Germany, United Kingdom, Spain
[ 200] [ 201]
Tom Dixon
Ian Hart
1996
I Shot Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Jared Harris
The life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with the artist Andy Warhol .
United Kingdom, United States
[ 202]
1996
Indian Summer
Tonio
Jason Flemyng
Tonio is a rising young star of a London ballet company. Ramon is the former star-turned-choreographer of the company, who is dying of AIDs. Jack is an older Therapist who falls in love with Tonio.
United Kingdom
[ 203]
Jack
Antony Sher
Ramon
Anthony Higgins
1996
It's My Party
Nick Stark
Eric Roberts
Stark, an architect who hosted a two-day party after being diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy , will fall into a state of mental lapse lasting for months until his death. He decides to host a party for his family and friends, at the end of which he will commit suicide by taking Seconal .
United States
[ 204]
1996
Johns
Donner
Lukas Haas
Donner is a fellow hustler who's new to the streets and has fallen for John.
United States
[ 205]
1996
Mrs. Winterbourne
Paco
Miguel Sandoval
Paco is the loyal chauffeur of the Winterbournes.
United States
[ 206]
1996
Mulholland Falls
Jimmy Fields
Andrew McCarthy
Allison's friend, Jimmy Fields, admits that he and Allison made numerous such films, including one with Hoover in it.
United States
[ 207]
1996
Sling Blade
Vaughn Cunningham
John Ritter
Cunningham is Linda's friend and boss.
United States
[ 208] [ 209]
1996
Stealing Beauty
Alex Parrish
Jeremy Irons
Parrish is a dying English writer and a guest at the Tuscan villa of the Graysons.
United Kingdom
[ 210]
1996
When the Cat's Away
Michel
Olivier Py
Michel is a friend of Chloé who she shares an apartment with.
France
[ 211] [ 212]
1996
Who's the Woman, Who's the Man?
Auntie
Eric Tsang
Auntie is Sam's manager.
Hong Kong
[ 213]
1997
All Over Me
Luke
Pat Briggs
Jesse is Claude's co-worker at the pizzeria.
Luke is a musician who has just moved into Claude's apartment building.
United States
[ 214] [ 215]
Jesse
Wilson Cruz
1997
As Good as It Gets
Simon Bishop
Greg Kinnear
Simon is an artist living in Manhattan. We learn that his parents kicked him out for being homosexual and was abused by his father because of it. Homophobic neighbor Melvin Udall uses derogatory terms when referring to Simon, but after Simon is brutally attacked he becomes the caretaker of Simon's dog, Verdell.
United States
[ 216]
1997
Bent
Max
Clive Owen
Max is a promiscuous man living in 1930s Berlin. He is at odds with his wealthy family because of his homosexuality.
United Kingdom, Japan
[ 217]
Ruby
Brian Webber II
1997
Best Men
Sergeant Buzz Thomas
Dean Cain
Thomas is a former soldier and a groomsman.
United States
[ 218]
1997
Black Rose II
Dan
Blackie Ko
Dan is Chi-Mo's co-worker and a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual.
Hong Kong
[ 219]
1997
Boogie Nights
Scotty J.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Scotty is a boom operator who is in love with Dirk.
United States
[ 220]
1997
Chasing Amy
Hooper
Dwight Ewell
Hooper is a black cartoonist, an African-American writer and activist who masks his flamboyantly personality with a militant image to promote his comic White-Hating Coon.
United States
[ 221]
1997
The Fifth Element
Baby Ray
Ian Beckett
Baby Ray is a background character accompanied by a male significant.
United States
[ 222]
1997
The Full Monty
Lomper
Steve Huison
Lomper is a security guard at the steel mill where Dave and Gaz once worked.
United Kingdom
[ 223]
Guy
Hugo Speer
1997
The Hanging Garden
William
Chris Leavins
Hinging on a fateful incident from William's teenage years, when his grandmother caught him attempting to have sex with his friend Fletcher, involuntarily outing him to his dysfunctional family.
United Kingdom, Canada
[ 224]
Fletcher
Joel Keller
1997
Happy Together
Ho Po-Wing
Leslie Cheung
Ho Po-Wing and Lai Yiu-Fai are a couple from Hong Kong with a tumultuous relationship marked by frequent separations and reconciliations. They visit Argentina together but break up after they become lost while traveling to visit the Iguazu Falls.
British Hong Kong
[ 225]
Lai Yiu-Fai
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
1997
In & Out
Howard Brackett
Kevin Kline
Inspired by Tom Hanks 's tearful speech when he accepted his 1994 Oscar (for his role in Philadelphia ), in which he mentioned his high-school drama coach Rawley Farnsworth, and his former classmate John Gilkerson, "two of the finest gay Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with."
United States
[ 226]
Peter Malloy
Tom Selleck
1997
The Jackal
Douglas
Stephen Spinella
Douglas is a man who the Jackal encountered earlier in a bar and pretends to date with.
United States
[ 227]
1997
Kiss Me, Guido
Warren
Anthony Barrile
Warren is an actor who's recently broken up with his director boyfriend.
United States
[ 228]
1997
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Gregory Mitchell
Stephen Bogardus
Revolving around eight gay men who gather for three summer weekends at a lakeside house in Dutchess County, New York , where they relax, reflect, and plan for survival in an era plagued by AIDS.
United States
[ 229]
James Jeckyll
John Glover
Perry Sellars
Stephen Spinella
Buzz Hauser
Jason Alexander
Ramon Fornos
Randy Becker
Arthur Pape
John Benjamin Hickey
Bobby Brahms
Justin Kirk
1997
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Jim Williams
Kevin Spacey
Williams is an antiques dealer.
United States
[ 230] [ 231]
1997
My Best Friend's Wedding
George Downes
Rupert Everett
George is Julianne's friend and confidante. He agrees to pose as her fiancé so that she can make Michael, the college friend she thought would marry her, jealous.
United States
[ 232] [ 233]
1997
Nowhere
Cowboy
Guillermo Diaz
Cowboy and Bart are bandmates as well as boyfriends.
United States
[ 234]
Bart
Jeremy Jordan
1997
Spice World
Himself
Elton John
John, who is a world-renowned musician and a homosexual, has a role as himself in the film.
United Kingdom
[ 235]
1997
Swept from the Sea
Dr. James Kennedy
Ian McKellen
Local doctor Dr. Kennedy's compassion towards Yanko marks the beginning of a devoted friendship.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 236]
1997
'Til There Was You
Gregory
Ken Olin
Gregory is a college professor and an architect.
United States
[ 237]
1997
Waiting for Guffman
Corky St. Clair
Christopher Guest
In the fictional small town of Blaine, Missouri , a few residents prepare to put on a community theater production led by eccentric director Corky St. Clair.
United States
[ 238] [ 239]
1997
Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Stephen Fry
Oscar loves his wife and children, but is sexually attracted to men. He becomes obsessed with Alfred.
Alfred is Wilde's lover. Their relationship becomes a scandal resulting in Oscar's downfall.
United Kingdom
[ 240] [ 241]
Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas
Jude Law
John Gray
Ioan Gruffudd
1998
Alice and Martin
Benjamin
Mathieu Amalric
Martin's half-brother Benjamin is a struggling actor sharing living arrangements with his best friend Alice, a violinist in a local quintet that specializes in tango music.
France, Spain
[ 242]
1998
B. Monkey
Paul Neville
Rupert Everett
Paul and Bruno are a couple and Beatrice's partners in crime.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 243]
Bruno
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
1998
Bedrooms and Hallways
Darren
Tom Hollander
Darren is a roommate of Leo's.
United Kingdom
[ 244]
1998
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Billy Collier
Sean Hayes
Billy is a photographer who falls in love with sexually ambiguous waiter/model Gabriel. He hires Gabriel
Perry is Billy's mentor, patron, and admirer.
Fernando is Billy's on-again, off-again lover. He has an open relationship, but frequently pursues Billy.
United States
[ 245]
Perry
Richard Ganoung
Fernando
Armando Valdes-Kennedy
1998
Dark Harbor
Young Man
Norman Reedus
David and the young man are lovers.
United States
[ 246]
1998
Edge of Seventeen
Eric Hunter
Chris Stafford
In 1984 Sandusky, Ohio , Hunter is a Eurythmics -obsessed, musically driven teenager coming to terms with his sexual identity.
United States
[ 247]
1998
54
Steve Rubell
Mike Myers
Steve Rubell is co-owner of the New York City disco Studio 54 .
United States
[ 248]
1998
Bishonen
Jet
Stephen Fung
Jet is a handsome hustler whose sex appeal seems to know no bounds.
Hong Kong
[ 249]
1998
Get Real
Steven Carter
Ben Silverstone
Centering the coming of age of a teen while growing up in rural Britain during the Cool Britannia era of the late 1990s.
United Kingdom
[ 250]
John Dixon
Brad Gorton
1998
Gods and Monsters
George Cukor
Martin Ferrero
Recounting the partly fictionalized last days of the life of film director James Whale .
United Kingdom, United States
[ 251] [ 252] [ 253]
David Lewis
David Dukes
James Whale
Ian McKellen
1998
Head On
Ari
Alex Dimitriades
Retelling the story of Ari, a dissolute 19-year-old Greek-Australian drug addict living in St Kilda, Victoria.
Australia
[ 254] [ 255]
1998
Hold You Tight
A-che
Lawrence Ko
The story of a man living in Hong Kong who is initially drawn to a young woman, but soon finds he is more attracted to her boyfriend.
Hong Kong
[ 256]
Tong
Eric Tsang
1998
Illuminata
Umberto Bevalaqua
Christopher Walken
A flamboyant theater critic.
United States
[ 257]
1998
The Impostors
Mr. Sparks
Billy Connolly
Sparks is an aging professional tennis player .
United States
[ 258]
1998
The Object of My Affection
George Hanson
Paul Rudd
George is a first grade teacher.
United States
[ 259]
1998
The Opposite of Sex
Bill Truitt
Martin Donovan
Bill is Dedee's much older half-brother and a teacher in a conservative, suburban community in Saint Joseph County , Indiana .
United States
[ 260]
Matt Mateo
Ivan Sergei
1998
The Velocity of Gary
Valentino
Vincent D'Onofrio
Valentino is a former porn star.
Gary (not his real name, which is never revealed) is a hustler walking through the streets of New York City, looking for business.
United States
[ 261]
Gary
Thomas Jane
1999
Advice from a Caterpillar
Spaz
Andy Dick
Spaz is Missy's best friend.
United States
[ 262]
1999
American Beauty
Jim Berkley
Sam Robards
Frank is closeted.
United States
[ 263] [ 264]
Jim Olmeyer
Scott Bakula
Frank Fitts
Chris Cooper
1999
Big Daddy
Phil D'Amato
Allen Covert
D'Amato and Grayton are lawyer friends of Sonny's who are also in a relationship.
United States
[ 265]
Tommy Grayton
Peter Dante
1999
The Big Tease
Crawford Mackenzie
Craig Ferguson
Mackenzie is a Scottish hairdresser who, while being filmed as part of a fly-on-the-wall BBC documentary, is invited to the World Hairdresser International Federation annual contest.
United States
[ 266]
1999
Black and White
Terry Donager
Robert Downey Jr.
Terry is the closeted husband of a documentary filmmaker.
United States
[ 267]
1999
Blast from the Past
Troy
Dave Foley
Troy is Eve's housemate and best friend.
United States
[ 268]
1999
The Boondock Saints
Paul Smecker
Willem Dafoe
Smecker is an FBI agent who is assigned to the murders linked to the MacManus twin brothers.
United States
[ 269]
1999
But I'm a Cheerleader
Dolph
Dante Basco
Dolph, Clayton, Andre, and Joel are campers.
Rock is the son of Mary Brown, the founder of True Directions. Supposedly straight, he is actually closeted.
Mike is supposedly an ex-gay who helps with the process of "curing" campers of their homosexuality; however, he is clearly shown to be still attracted to men.
Lloyd and Larry are a couple described as "ex, ex-gays ". Before the events of the film, they were once campers at True Directions before they defected. They help the campers sneak out and go party at a gay bar, and also give advice about dealing with one's own sexuality. They let ex-camper Dolph live with them when he is expelled from True Directions for having sex at the camp.
United States
[ 270] [ 271] [ 272]
Clayton Dunn
Kip Pardue
Andre
Douglas Spain
Joel Goldberg
Joel Michaely
Rock Brown
Eddie Cibrian
Mike
RuPaul
Lloyd Morgan-Gordon
Wesley Mann
Larry Morgan-Gordon
Richard Moll
1999
Cruel Intentions
Blaine Tuttle
Joshua Jackson
Tuttle is a friend of Sebastian who is struggling towards his relationship with a Football stud at his private school, Greg.
United States
[ 273]
1999
East Is East
Nazir "Nigel" Khan
Ian Aspinall
Nigel is one the Khans' children.
United Kingdom
[ 274]
1999
Go
Adam
Scott Wolf
Adam and Zack are soap opera actors who are in a relationship.
United States
[ 275]
Zack
Jay Mohr
1999
Happy, Texas
Sheriff Chappy Dent
William H. Macy
Dent is the sheriff of Happy, Texas .
United States
[ 276]
1999
It's the Rage
Chris
David Schwimmer
Chris and Tim are a couple.
United States
[ 277]
Tim
Andre Braugher
1999
Magnolia
"Quiz Kid" Donnie Smith
William H. Macy
Former What Do Kids Know? champion Donnie Smith, whose parents took all his prize money, has been fired from his job due to performance issues and is in love with a male bartender with braces .
United States
[ 278]
1999
Man of the Century
Tim
Anthony Rapp
Tim is a photographer.
United States
[ 279]
1999
Second Skin
Diego
Javier Bardem
Diego is the handsome surgeon who Alberto has an affair with.
Spain
[ 280]
1999
Summer of Sam
Bobby Del Fiore
Brian Tarantina
Del Fiore is a customer in the Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx
United States
[ 281]
1999
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Peter Smith-Kingsley
Jack Davenport
Peter is Ripley's lover later in the story.
United States
[ 282]
1999
Three to Tango
Peter Steinberg
Oliver Platt
Steinberg has landed a career-making opportunity to design a multimillion-dollar cultural center for wealthy businessman Charles Newman along with Novak.
Australia, United States
[ 283]
1999
Trick
Gabriel
Christian Campbell
Gabriel, an office temp by day and aspiring Broadway composer by night, makes eye contact with Mark, a go-go dancer at a gay bar. The two meet again in the subway the same night, and go back to Gabriel's place to have sex.
United States
[ 284]
Mark Miranda
John Paul Pitoc
1999
The Underground Comedy Movie
Gay Man
Ant
Gay Virgin has repeatedly protested to a persistent would-be sex partner that he is saving himself for the right man.
United States
[ 285]
Gay Virgin
Michael Clarke Duncan
21st century
2000–2004
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
2000
American Psycho
Luis Carruthers
Matt Ross
Carruthers is a colleague of Bateman and closeted homosexual
United States
[ 286]
2000
Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas
Javier Bardem
Reinaldo is imprisoned in Cuba for his homosexuality and later moves to New York City, where he contracts HIV/AIDS . He begins friendships with two other men, Pepe and Tomas.
José is a literature writer.
Virgilio is an influential writer.
Pepe is in a relationship with Reinaldo before leaving him to pursue a woman.
United States
[ 287] [ 288] [ 289]
José Lezama Lima
Manuel González
Tomas Diego
Santiago Magill
Virgilio Piñera
Héctor Babenco
2000
Best in Show
Scott Donlan
John Michael Higgins
Donlan and Vanderhoof are a campy couple who take great pride in their Shih Tzu Miss Agnes
United States
[ 290] [ 291]
Stefan Vanderhoof
Michael McKean
2000
Billy Elliot
Michael Caffrey cross-dresser
Stuart Wells (young Michael) Merryn Owen (adult Michael)
Michael is a young boy and the best friend of Billy Elliot. At some point, Michael is seen using a dress and makeup. He shows interest in Billy, who does not reciprocate but is supportive of his friend.
United Kingdom
[ 292]
2000
Borstal Boy
Charlie Milwall
Danny Dyer
Charlie is a young Irish sailor in 1941.
United Kingdom, Ireland
[ 293]
2000
Bounce
Seth
Johnny Galecki
Seth is Buddy's secretary
United States
[ 294]
2000
Bring It On
Les
Huntley Ritter
Les is a member of the Toros cheerleading team.
United States
[ 295]
2000
The Broken Hearts Club
Benji
Zach Braff
The film follows the lives of a group of friends in West Hollywood .
United States
[ 296] [ 297]
Cole
Dean Cain
Dennis
Timothy Olyphant
Howie
Matt McGrath
Kevin
Andrew Keegan
Marshall
Justin Theroux
Patrick
Ben Weber
Taylor
Billy Porter
2000
Chuck & Buck
Buck O'Brien
Mike White
Buck O'Brien is a 27-year-old amateur playwright with the maturity level of an adolescent.
United States
[ 298]
2000
Finding Forrester
William Forrester
Sean Connery
Forrester is a reclusive writer who James befriends.
United States
[ 299]
2000
Lavender
Chow Chow
Eason Chan
Chow Chow is Athena's nosy next door neighbor.
Hong Kong
[ 300] [better source needed ]
2000
The Next Best Thing
Robert Whittaker
Rupert Everett
Robert is Abbie's best friend, who she decides to have a child with.
United States
[ 301]
2000
Sexy Beast
Teddy Bass
Ian McShane
Bass is a London crime boss.
United Kingdom, Spain
[ 302]
2000
Traffic
Francisco "Frankie Flowers" Flores
Clifton Collins Jr.
Flores is a sicario who works for the Obregón brothers.
United States
[ 303]
2000
28 Days
Dutch Gerhardt
Alan Tudyk
Gerhardt is a patient in rehab and a dancer.
United States
[ 304]
2000
Urbania
Charlie
Dan Futterman
After an unsuccessful bout of masturbation to the sound of his upstairs neighbors having sex, he prowls the streets looking for a man he saw several months earlier. The implication is that he's had a one night stand with the man, cheating on his boyfriend Chris.
United States
[ 305]
Chris
Matt Keeslar
Brett
Alan Cumming
2000
Wonder Boys
James Leer
Tobey Maguire
Leer is one of Grady's students.
United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
[ 306]
2001
Blow
Derek Foreal
Paul Reubens
Foreal is a marijuana dealer.
United States
[ 307]
2001
The Deep End
Beau Hall
Jonathan Tucker
Beau is a high school senior dating a 30-year-old club owner.
United States
[ 308]
2001
Der Schuh des Manitu
Winnetouch
Michael Herbig
Winnetouch is the effeminate twin brother of Abahachi and owner of the all-pink Powder Rouge Ranch.
Germany
[ 309] [ 310] [ 311]
2001
Gypsy 83
Clive Webb
Kett Turton
Clive is a young goth who joins his friend Gypsy on a road trip to see a Stevie Nicks tribute in New York City.
United States
[ 312]
2001
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Luther Robinson
Maurice Dean Wint
Robinson is an American soldier in East Germany .
United States
[ 313]
2001
Josie and the Pussycats
Wyatt Frame
Alan Cumming
Wyatt is a record producer.
United States
[ 314]
2001
Kissing Jessica Stein
Martin
Michael Mastro
Martin and Sebastian are Helen's friends.
United States
[ 315] [ 316]
Sebastian
Carson Elrod
2001
Lan Yu
Lan Yu
Liu Ye
The story of an affair between a young man and a middle-aged man. Set in mainland China.
China, Hong Kong
[ 317]
Chen Handong
Hu Jun
2001
Legally Blonde
Enrique Salvatore
Greg Serano
Salvatore is the pool boy and a lynchpin in Elle's defense case with fitness guru Brooke Windham.
United States
[ 318]
2001
L.I.E.
Howie Blitzer
Paul Dano
Howie is discovering his sexual orientation.
Gary is a hustler who becomes a friend of Howie.
Big John is Gary's client and a pedophile.
United States
[ 319] [ 320]
Gary Terrio
Billy Kay
Big John Harrigan
Brian Cox
2001
The Man Who Wasn't There
Creighton Tolliver
Jon Polito
Tolliver is a businessman looking for investors to invest $10,000 in a new technology called dry cleaning in 1949 Santa Rosa, California .
United Kingdom, United States
[ 321]
2001
The Mexican
Leroy
James Gandolfini
Leroy is a hitman.
United States
[ 322]
2001
Saving Silverman
J.D McNugent
Jack Black
Judith helps J.D. realize his sexuality.
United States
[ 323]
2001
Shake It All About
Jørgen
Troels Lyby
Jacob asks Jørgen to marry him, and he happily accepts. However, Jacob falls in love with another woman.
Denmark
[ 324]
2001
Wet Hot American Summer
McKinley
Michael Ian Black
McKinley and Ben are camp counselors and lovers.
United States
[ 325] [ 326]
Ben
Bradley Cooper
2002
Bend It Like Beckham
Tony
Ameet Chana
Tony is Jess's best friend.
United Kingdom, United States, Germany, India
[ 327]
2002
Boat Trip
Lloyd Faversham
Roger Moore
Brian and Michael are boyfriends.
United States
[ 328] [ 329]
Brian
Artie Lange
Michael
Will Ferrell
2002
Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeremy Renner
The story of the real-life serial killer of the same name.
United States
[ 330]
2002
Far from Heaven
Frank Whitaker
Dennis Quaid
Frank is an executive at Magnatech, a television advertising company and Cathy's husband. She walks in on him passionately kissing a man and he confesses to having had "problems" as a young man.
United States
[ 331] [ 332]
2002
Friday After Next
Damon Pearly
Terry Crews
Damon is a newly released ex-convict who developed homosexual tendencies in prison.
United States
[ 333]
2002
The Hours
Richard Brown
Ed Harris
Richard is a moody poet and author living with AIDS .
United Kingdom, United States
[ 334] [ 335]
2002
Sweet Home Alabama
Bobby Ray
Ethan Embry
Bobby Ray is outed by his best friend.
United States
[ 336]
2002
Unconditional Love
Dirk
Rupert Everett
Dirk is closeted singer Victor Fox 's former lover.
United States
[ 337]
Victor Fox
Jonathan Pryce
2003
American Wedding
Bear
Eric Allan Kramer
Bear is a balding shaggy lineman sort of guy who Kevin and Finch meet in the gay bar.
United States
[ 338]
2003
Arisan!
Nino
Surya Saputra
The first Indonesian film to feature a same-sex kiss.
Indonesia
[ 339]
Sakti
Tora Sudiro
2003
Bright Young Things
Miles Maitland
Michael Sheen
Maitland is forced to flee the country to avoid prosecution for homosexuality.
United Kingdom
[ 340]
2003
Latter Days
Christian Markelli
Wes Ramsey
Christian makes a bet with his friends that he can seduce a neighbor (Aaron) who is a Mormon missionary.
United States
[ 341]
Aaron Davis
Steve Sandvoss
2003
Mambo Italiano
Angelo Barberini
Luke Kirby
Angelo is the son of Italian immigrants. Nino is boyfriend, who is not out to his parents.
Canada
[ 342]
Nino Paventi
Peter Miller
2003
Party Monster
Michael Alig
Macaulay Culkin
Based on Disco Bloodbath , the memoir of James St. James which details his friendship with Alig, an infamous New York City party promoter, that later fell apart as Alig's drug addiction worsened, and ended after he murdered Andre "Angel" Melendez and went to prison.
United States
[ 343]
James St. James
Seth Green
2004
The 24th Day
Dan
James Marsden
Tom has been diagnosed with HIV and believes he infected his late wife with the AIDS virus. He had only one sexual encounter with a man, Dan, and thinks that it was he who transmitted the disease to him. Tom kidnaps Dan with the intent to kill him.
United States
[ 344] [ 345]
2004
Alexander
Hephaistion
Jared Leto
Alexander has relationships with childhood friends Hephaistion and Bagoas.
Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States
[ 346]
Bagoas
Francisco Bosch
2004
Bad Education
Enrique Goded
Fele Martínez
Focusing on two reunited childhood friends and lovers caught up in a stylized murder mystery .
Spain
[ 347]
Father Manolo
Daniel Giménez Cacho
Ignacio Rodriguez
Francisco Boira
2004
Brother to Brother
Perry
Anthony Mackie
Black art student Perry is thrown out by his parents for his homosexuality and is further disturbed by a potential romantic entanglement with a white boy in his class.
United States
[ 348]
2004
Enter the Phoenix
Georgie Hung Chi Kit
Daniel Wu
Georgie lives as a cook with his boyfriend Frankie, is uninterested to continue his father's work.
Hong Kong
[ 349]
2004
Formula 17
Chou T'ien Tsai
Tony Yang
Chou is looking for romance as he takes a trip to the capital, Taipei , to visit an online boyfriend in person for the first time. Disappointed to find that his online friend only wants sex and has no interest in forming a romantic bond, he starts to look elsewhere, finding his internet relationship. T'ien's roommate and friends help him look for the man of his dreams.
The film was banned in Singapore because it "portrays homosexuality as normal, and a natural progression of society".
Taiwan
[ 350]
Bai Tieh Nan/Richard Bai
Duncan Lai
Yu
King Chin
Jun
Jason Chang
C.C.
Dada Ji
Alan
James Yun
Ray
Jeff Locker
Kevin
Ladder Yu
2004
Hellbent
Joey
Hank Harris
Joey is one of Eddie's friends.
United States
[ 351]
2004
A Home at the End of the World
Jonathan Glover
Harris Allan / Dallas Roberts
Bobby finds a new home with his childhood friend Jonathan. The two boys come of age together and discover their sexuality.
United States
[ 352]
Bobby Morrow
Colin Farrell
2004
Leave Me Alone
Yiu Chun Man
Ekin Cheng
Yiu is a fashion designer who has a boyfriend.
Hong Kong
[ 353]
Man's boyfriend
Jan Lamb
2004
Mean Girls
Damian Leigh
Daniel Franzese
Leigh is Janis and Cady' friend.
United States
[ 354]
2004
Mysterious Skin
Neil McCormick
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Neil is the son of an irresponsible single mother who is already discovering his own homosexuality. He is sexually abused by the Little League baseball coach.
Netherlands, United States
[ 355]
2004
Rice Rhapsody
Daniel
Alvin Chiang
Daniel and Harry are the sons of Jen Fan, owner of a successful restaurant in Singapore's Chinatown .
Hong Kong, Singapore
[ 356]
Harry
Craig Toh
2004
Saved!
Dean
Chad Faust
Dean is sent away by his parents to be "degayified".
Mitch is Dean's boyfriend.
United States
[ 357] [ 358]
Mitch
Kett Turton
2004
Somersault
Richard
Erik Thomson
Richard is a neighbour who is in town for a few days clearing out his relative's house before it goes to auction.
Australia
[ 359]
2004
Stage Beauty
George Villiers
Ben Chaplin
Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham , is the lover of Kynaston.
Germany, United Kingdom, United States
[ 360]
2004
The Stepford Wives
Roger Bannister
Roger Bart
Roger and his long-time partner Jerry are residents of Stepford.
United States
[ 361]
Jerry Harmon
David Marshall Grant
2004
Summer Storm
Tobi
Robert Stadlober
Tobi fells in love with his heterosexual childhood friend Achim.
Germany
[ 362]
2004
Touch of Pink
Alim
Jimi Mistry
Alim and Giles are in an open relationship, but Alim is not out to his Muslim mother and family. When Alim's mother announces that she is going to be visiting him, he and Giles must pretend that they are only roommates, which begins to strain their relationship.
Canada, United Kingdom
[ 363] [ 364]
Giles
Kris Holden-Ried
2004
Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1
Jürgen T. Kork
Christian Tramitz
Parody of Star Trek with Jürgen T. Kork (i.e. James T. Kirk) and Mr. Spuck (i.e. Spock) depicted as effeminate.
Germany
[ 365] [ 366]
Mr. Spuck
Michael Herbig
2005–2009
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
2005
Be Cool
Elliot Wilhelm
Dwayne Johnson
Elliot is Raji's Samoan bodyguard.
United States
[ 367]
2005
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
Maximo "Maxi" Oliveros
Nathan Lopez
Oliveros is a teenage effeminate boy who becomes infatuated with a police officer who rescued him from harassment.
Philippines
[ 368]
2005
Brokeback Mountain
Randall Malone
David Harbour
Randall has an affair with Jack.
United States
[ 369] [ 370] [ 371]
2005
Capote
Truman Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Following the events during the writing of Capote's book In Cold Blood .
United States, Canada
[ 372]
Jack Dunphy
Bruce Greenwood
2005
The Constant Gardener
Arnold Bluhm
Hubert Koundé
Arnold Bluhm is a Belgian doctor who Tessa befriends during her husband's posting in Kenya, and keeps his homosexuality a secret.
United Kingdom, Germany
[ 373]
2005
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Zachary Beaulieu
Marc-André Grondin
Zac is a young man dealing with homophobia whike growing up with his four brothers and his father in Quebec during the 1960s and 1970s.
Canada
[ 374]
2005
Cursed
Bo
Milo Ventimiglia
Bo is a wrestler repressing his sexuality.
United States
[ 375] [ 376]
2005
The Dying Gaul
Robert Sandrich
Peter Sarsgaard
In 1995 Hollywood, novice screenwriter Sandrich has written an autobiographical script inspired by his lover's death by AIDS-related cerebral tuberculosis .
United States
[ 377]
2005
The Family Stone
Thad Stone
Tyrone Giordano
Thad is deaf and is the youngest son in the Stone family. He and his partner, Patrick, have an adopted son.
United States
[ 378]
Patrick Thomas
Brian J. White
2005
Happy Endings
Charley Peppitone
Steve Coogan
Charlie runs a restaurant. Gil is his partner.
United States
[ 379]
Gil Palmer
David Sutcliffe
2005
Kinky Boots
Simon / Lola
Chiwetel Ejiofor
A man who is a drag queen performer, with Simon as his alter ego.
United Kingdom
[ 380]
2005
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Perry Van Shrike/"Gay Perry"
Val Kilmer
Perry is a detective.
United States
[ 381]
2005
Little Fish
Lionel Dawson
Hugo Weaving
Rugby star Dawson is the former lover of 'The Jockey', a local gangster on the point of retirement.
Australia
[ 382]
2005
Loggerheads
George
Michael Kelly
George is a friendly motel owner who offers Mark, a young man obsessed with loggerhead sea turtles , to stay.
United States
[ 383]
Mark
Kip Pardue
2005
Monster-in-Law
Remy
Adam Scott
Remy is Charlie's neighbor and best friend.
United States
[ 384]
2005
My Fair Son
Ray
Junrui Wang
Ray falls in love with one of his father's colleagues.
China
[ 385]
Unnamed student
Guifeng Wang
2005
Rent
Thomas B. "Tom" Collins
Jesse L. Martin
"Tom" Collins is an anarchist and philosophy professor with AIDS.
Schunard is a drag queen and street musician who is also suffering from AIDS.
United States
[ 386] [ 387]
Angel Dumott Schunard
Wilson Jermaine Heredia
2005
Tides of War
Frank Habley
Adrian Paul
Cmdr. Habley and Lt. Cmdr. Palatonio (Frank's executive officer) are partners serving on the same submarine. Tom is killed in a battle and Frank must continue to serve on the same vessel.
Released in theaters as Phantom Below with the gay theme excluded. The original gay version was broadcast by the Here network.
United States
[ 388] [ 389] [ 390]
Tom Palatonio
Mike Doyle
2005
V for Vendetta
Gordon Deitrich
Stephen Fry
Deitrich is Evey's former boss and a talk show host.
Germany, United Kingdom, United States
[ 391]
2005
Wedding Crashers
Todd Cleary
Keir O'Donnell
Todd is the hunchbacked brother of Claire who aggressively comes on to Jeremy. A GQ review described the character as an inexcusably unfunny riff on the old "predatory gay man" trope.
United States
[ 392]
2006
Another Gay Movie
Griff
Mitch Morris
Following four friends, Andy, Jarod, Nico and Griff, who vow upon graduating high school that they will all lose their "anal virginity " before their friend's Labor Day party.
United States
[ 393]
Nico Hunter
Jonah Blechman
Jarod
Jonathan Chase
Andy Wilson
Michael Carbonaro
2006
The Architect
Shawn
Paul James
Martin is a college dropout who explores his sexuality with a young man named Shawn.
United States
[ 394]
Martin Waters
Sebastian Stan
2006
Boy Culture
Alex "X"
Derek Magyar
Identical to the novel's plot, the film follows a man who goes by only the letter "X" to maintain his anonymity and relationships between his two roommates—one of whom he's in love with
United States
[ 395]
Andrew
Darryl Stephens
Joey
Jonathon Trent
Gregory Talbot
Patrick Bauchau
2006
The Bubble
Ashraf
Yousef 'Joe' Sweid
Retelling the story of two men who fall in love, one Israeli and one Palestinian .
Israel
[ 396]
Noam
Ohad Knoller
Yali
Alon Friedman
2006
Confetti
Archie
Vincent Franklin
Archie and Gregory are wedding planners and partners in both business and love.
United Kingdom
[ 397]
Gregory
Jason Watkins
2006
Crank
Kaylo
Efren Ramirez
Kaylo is Chev Chelios' informant.
United States
[ 398] [ 399]
2006
The Devil Wears Prada
Nigel Kipling
Stanley Tucci
Nigel is Runway Magazine's art director.
United States
[ 400]
2006
Eternal Summer
Jonathan
Bryant Chang
Jonathan, a studious schoolboy, is asked by his teacher to look after another boy, Shane, who is rebellious and dislikes learning. Ten years on, they have developed a good friendship despite their divergent lives: Jonathan on course to go to university and Shane to become a basketball player. Jonathan is also attracted to Shane, but the attraction is not reciprocated. However, the young men's fates change when a girl, Carrie, has a secret affair with Shane (who is determined to keep it secret in order to protect Jonathan's feelings) and also does her best to persuade Shane to abandon basketball and instead work hard to try to enter university.
Taiwan
[ 401]
2006
The History Boys
Douglas Hector
Richard Griffiths
Based on the play of the same name .
United Kingdom
[ 402]
Tom Irwin
Stephen Campbell Moore
David Posner
Samuel Barnett
2006
Infamous
Truman Capote
Toby Jones
The time of author Capote's life during which he researched and wrote In Cold Blood .
United States
[ 403]
2006
Let's Go to Prison
Barry
Chi McBride
Barry and Biederman eventually develop a romantic relationship in the movie's process.
United States
[ 404]
Nelson Biederman IV
Will Arnett
2006
Little Miss Sunshine
Frank Ginsberg
Steve Carell
Frank, an unemployed scholar of Proust , is temporarily living with his sister's family after having attempted suicide.
United States
[ 405]
2006
The Night Listener
Gabriel Noone
Robin Williams
Gabriel is a popular New York City radio show host, is dealing with a separation from his partner, Jess.
United States
[ 406]
Jess
Bobby Cannavale
2006
No Regret
Lee Su-min
Lee Yeong-hoon
Jae-min is a former driving client of Su-min who falls in love with him.
South Korea
[ 407]
Song Jae-min
Kim Nam-gil
2006
Poseidon
Richard Nelson
Richard Dreyfuss
Nelson is an architect and one of the survivors.
United States
[ 408]
2006
Running with Scissors
Neil Bookman
Joseph Fiennes
Augusten and Neil begin an erratic sexual relationship.
United States
[ 409]
Augusten Burroughs
Joseph Cross
2006
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Billy
Ewan McGregor
Billy and Brian are life-partners.
United Kingdom
[ 410]
Brian
Douglas Hodge
2006
Shortbus
James
Paul Dawson
James and Jamie are a couple. James wants to introduce other men into their relationship for sex.
Canada
[ 411] [ 412]
Jamie
PJ DeBoy
2006
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Jean Girard
Sacha Baron Cohen
Jean is a French Formula One driver and Bobby's archrival.
United States
[ 413]
2006
United 93
Mark Bingham
Cheyenne Jackson
During the September 11 attacks in 2001, Mark was on board United Airlines Flight 93 . He was among the passengers who formed the plan to retake the airplane from the hijackers , resulting in the plane crashing into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania , and thwarting the hijackers' plan to crash into a building in Washington, D.C. (most likely either the U.S. Capitol Building or the White House ).
United States
[ 414]
2007
Breakfast with Scot
Eric McNally
Tom Cavanagh
McNally is a retired hockey player turned television sportscaster who lives with his partner Sam, a sports lawyer.
Canada
[ 415]
Sam
Ben Shenkman
Scot
Noah Bernett
2007
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Fred Duncan
Ving Rhames
Duncan is a firefight who despite his intimidating appearance, is uncomfortable of disclosing his sexuality.
United States
[ 416]
2007
Love Songs
Erwann
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Ismaël, Julie, and Alice are in a ménage-à-trois. After a tragedy strikes and breaks them apart, the characters learn to deal with loss and mourning. Ismaël unexpectedly finds love again with a young man named Erwann.
France
[ 417]
2007
Shelter
Shaun
Brad Rowe
Shaun is Gabe's older brother who develops a close relationship with Zack, his brother's best friend, and struggles with his sexuality.
United States
[ 418]
2007
Stardust
Captain Shakespeare
Robert De Niro
Captain Shakespeare is a sky pirate.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 419]
2007
The Walker
Carter Page III
Woody Harrelson
A middle-aged male escort living in Washington, D. C.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 420]
2008
Brideshead Revisited
Anthony Blanche
Joseph Beattie
Flyte is the younger son of Lord and Lady Marchmain who forms a deep friendship with Ryder.
Blanche is a friend of Flyter and Ryder's and an overt homosexual.
United Kingdom
[ 421]
Lord Sebastian Flyte
Ben Whishaw
Charles Ryder
Matthew Goode
2008
Death Race
Joseph "Machine Gun Joe" Mason
Tyrese Gibson
Machine Gun Joe is a sociopathic racer who looks to use Death Race as a means to escape from prison.
United States
[ 422]
2008
Doubt
Donald Miller
Joseph Foster
Miller is the first black student in a Catholic school in The Bronx who fears his homophobic father would kill him if he knew.
United States
[ 423]
2008
Dream Boy
Nathan Davies
Stephan Bender
Following two teenagers falling in love in the rural South in the late 1970s.
United States
[ 424]
Roy
Maximillian Roeg
2008
Hamlet 2
Rand Posin
Skylar Astin
A drama student in love with his drama teacher.
United States
[ 425]
2008
Little Ashes
Salvador Dalí
Robert Pattinson
An unconsummated sexual attraction between Dali and Lorca (whose homosexuality was known).
United Kingdom, Spain
[ 426] [ 427] [ 428]
Federico García Lorca
Javier Beltrán
2008
Mamma Mia!
Harry Bright
Colin Firth
Harry tells Donna: "You were the first woman I ever loved, and also the last."
Germany, United Kingdom, United States
[ 429] [ 430]
2008
Milk
Harvey Milk
Sean Penn
Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors .
Smith and Lira are Milk's lovers.
United States
[ 431] [ 432] [ 433]
[ 434]
Cleve Jones
Emile Hirsch
Jack Lira
Diego Luna
Scott Smith
James Franco
2008
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Beefy Guy (Lethario)
Jonathan B. Wright
Dev and Thom are Nick's bandmates. Beefy Guy is their new friend.
United States
[ 435]
Dev
Rafi Gavron
Thom
Aaron Yoo
2008
RocknRolla
Handsome Bob
Tom Hardy
Bob is a gangster.
United States, United Kingdom, France
[ 436] [ 437]
2008
Sex Drive
Rex Lafferty
James Marsden
At Thanksgiving dinner, Rex tells his family about his sexuality.
United States
[ 438]
2008
Tropic Thunder
Alpa Chino
Brandon T. Jackson
Cino is a closeted rapper who is attempting to cross over into acting, portraying a soldier named Motown, while promoting his "Bust-A-Nut" candy bar and "Booty Sweat" energy drink.
United States, Germany, United Kingdom
[ 439]
2008
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Brandon St. Randy
Justin Long
Randy is Bobby's porn star boyfriend.
United States
[ 440]
2009
44 Inch Chest
Meredith
Ian McShane
Meredith is a suave gambler.
United Kingdom
[ 441]
2009
Brüno
Brüno Gehard
Sacha Baron Cohen
Gehard is a flamboyantly fashion reporter from Austria.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 442]
2009
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Mr. Tiny
Michael Cerveris
Mr. Tiny is a meddling trickster of immense magical power, responsible numerous creations.
United States
[ 443]
2009
Horsemen
Corey Kurth
Patrick Fugit
Kurith is Taylor's brother.
United States
[ 444]
2009
I Killed My Mother
Hubert Minel
Xavier Dolan
Following the complicated relationship between a young man and his mother.
Canada
[ 445]
2009
I Love You, Man
Robbie Klaven
Andy Samberg
Robbie is Peter's brother.
United States
[ 446]
2009
I Love You Phillip Morris
Phillip Morris
Ewan McGregor
While incarcerated, Steve falls in love with his fellow inmate, Morris.
France, United States
[ 447]
Steven Russell
Jim Carrey
2009
Permanent Residence
Ivan
Sean Li
Ivan seeks a long-term relationship with a straight friend. Befriending another young man, Windson, at a public sports club, the two build up a friendly rapport. However, Windson becomes aware of his inclination, and while happy to remain his friend, is initially very reluctant to become emotionally involved with him.
This is the first feature film directed by award-winning Chinese LGBT filmmaker known as 'Scud '.
Hong Kong
[ 448]
2009
Shank
Cal
Wayne Virgo
Cal is a 19-year-old closeted homosexual member and hooks up with Scott online before assaulting and abandoning him out in the countryside.
Acting on his own attraction to Cal, Olivier seduces him and in doing so, exposes Cal to new emotions and a tenderness that he has never experienced before.
United Kingdom
[ 449]
Olivier
Marc Laurent
Scott
Garry Summers
Jonno
Tom Bott
2009
A Single Man
George Falconer
Colin Firth
In 1962, George dreams that he encounters the body of his longtime partner, Jim, at the scene of the car accident that took his life.
United States
[ 450]
Jim
Matthew Goode
2009
Soundless Wind Chime
Ricky
Lu Yulai
An interracial love story, told through a linear narrative and a series of complex, interlocking flashbacks. Ricky, who has arrived in Hong Kong from mainland China, works as a delivery boy. He is robbed by a Swiss thief, Pascal, who admits his crime and returns the stolen item. The two eventually embark on a love affair, but through several flashbacks, it eventually becomes clear that Pascal has subsequently been killed in a road accident near their flat, which Ricky had witnessed. Some years later, Ricky visits Pascal's former home in Switzerland to find it abandoned. During his time there, he meets Pascal's doppelgänger in a man called Ueli, who nevertheless has a very different personality. They, too, fall in love and the contentment that Ricky finds enables him to reflect on the relationship he had with Pascal.
Hong Kong, Switzerland, China
[ 451]
Pascal
Bernhard Bulling
Ueli
Bernhard Bulling
2009
Taking Woodstock
Elliot Teichberg/Tiber
Demetri Martin
Tiber volunteered his family's motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers which would take place on a nearby farm.
United States
[ 452]
2009
Undertow
Santiago
Manolo Cardona
Miguel is married to Mariela, who is pregnant with their first son, but he also has a secret affair with a male painter called Santiago.
Peru, Colombia, France, Germany
[ 453]
2010–2014
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
2010
Amphetamine
Daniel
Thomas Price
Daniel is a wealthy Chinese-Australian investment banker working in Hong Kong meets and befriends Kafka, a young swimming instructor from a poor local family, who has strong religious beliefs. Kafka was sexually assaulted as a teenager by a male gang after successfully defending a young woman from being raped, and as a result, he has become impotent and a habitual user of recreational drugs. Although initially uncomfortable with Daniel's obvious sexual attraction to him, he soon sees Daniel as offering him new hope in life, and he falls deeply in love with him. But Kafka's life begins to fall apart again when his mother dies suddenly, and he attempts to end his life.
Hong Kong
[ 454]
2010
Beginners
Hal
Christopher Plummer
Shortly after his wife's death, Hal comes out to his son and begins exploring life as an openly gay man.
United States
[ 455]
2010
Burlesque
Sean
Stanley Tucci
A wisecracking man who works in a strip club .
United States
[ 456]
2010
Death at a Funeral
Frank Lovett
Peter Dinklage
A dwarf in love with the late father of the protagonist.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 457]
2010
Dirty Girl
Clarke Walters
Jeremy Dozier
Walters is a chubby, shy 15-year-old classmate of Edmondston.
United States
[ 458]
2010
Easy A
Brandon
Dan Byrd
Olive's friend Brandon is bullied by other students for being gay.
United States
[ 459]
2010
Every Day
Jonah Freed
Ezra Miller
As a father, Ned is worried about his son coming out.
United States
[ 460]
2010
For Colored Girls
Carl Bradmore
Omari Hardwick
Carl is a rich closeted conducting a doomed marriage with Jo.
United States
[ 461]
2010
Howl
Allen Ginsberg
James Franco
Ginsberg is a central figure of the Beat Generation . Fellow poet Orlovsky is Ginsberg's life partner for over forty years.
United States
[ 462]
Peter Orlovsky
Aaron Tveit
2010
The Last Exorcism
Logan
Logan Craig Reid
Logan explains to the crew about his sexuality and only had a brief conversation with Nell during a party at Manley's house six months prio
United States
[ 463]
2010
Little White Lies
Vincent
Benoît Magimel
Osteopath Vincent confesses his attraction to restaurateur Max.
France
[ 464]
2010
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott aka "Other Scott"
Ben Lewis
Ben is Wallace's best friend.
Wallace is Scott's roommate, who has a boyfriend named Scott. He also hooked up with Stacey's boyfriend Jimmy.
United Kingdom, United States, Japan
[ 465] [ 466]
Stephen Stills
Mark Webber
Wallace Wells
Kieran Culkin
2010
Valentine's Day
Sean Jackson
Eric Dane
Sean comes out on national television, and Holden, Sean's lover, goes back to him
United States
[ 467]
Holden Wilson
Bradley Cooper
2011
Bernie
Bernie Tiede
Jack Black
Bernie is a closeted, yet flamboyant mortician who befriends a mean elderly widow.
United States
[ 468]
2011
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Graham Dashwood
Tom Wilkinson
Dashwood is a High Court judge who lived in Jaipur as a child, abruptly retires to return there.
United Kingdom
[ 469]
2011
The Broken Tower
Hart Crane
James Franco
Biopic about the American poet.
United States
[ 470] [ 471] [ 472]
Emile Opffer
Michael Shannon
2011
The Guard
Garda Aidan McBride
Rory Keenan
McBride is Sergeant Boyle's new subordinate.
Ireland, United Kingdom
[ 473]
2011
J. Edgar
J. Edgar Hoover
Leonardo DiCaprio
Focusing on Hoover's life from the 1919 Palmer Raids onward.
United States
[ 474]
2011
Just Go With It
Ian Maxtone-Jones
Dave Matthews
Katherine's frenemy from college, Devlin, confesses that she is divorcing Ian because of his homosexuality.
United States
[ 475]
2011
The Ledge
Chris
Christopher Gorham
Chris is Gavin's roommate.
United States
[ 476]
2011
Love Actually... Sucks!
Bridesman
Ryo van Kooten
Inspired by real-life events, the film tells a series of interconnected stories, several with LGBT relationships. The opening wedding banquet reveals a sex affair between the bridegroom and a bridesman . Other stories include a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who becomes involved with his senior student, and a role-playing lesbian couple.
Hong Kong
[ 477] [ 478]
Model
Tang Wei
Painter
John Tai
2011
North Sea Texas
Pim
Jelle Florizoone
Pim and his mother, Yvette, live in the Belgian countryside with their Miniature Pinscher .
Belgium
[ 479]
2011
Romeos
Lukas
Rick Okon
Trans man Lukas falls in love with cis man Fabio
Germany
[ 480]
Fabio
Maximilian Befort
2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Peter Guillam
Benedict Cumberbatch
Peter is a spy.
United Kingdom
[ 481]
2011
The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin
Private Benjamin Santos VIII
Vice Ganda
Santos joins the military to save his grandfather.
Philippines
[ 482]
2011
Weekend
Russell
Tom Cullen
Russell and Glen are two men who meet and begin a sexual relationship the weekend before one of them plans to leave the country.
United Kingdom
[ 483]
Glen
Chris New
2012
Celeste and Jesse Forever
Scott
Elijah Wood
Celeste runs her own media company with a business partner, Scott.
United States
[ 484]
2012
Cloud Atlas
Rufus Sixsmith
James D'Arcy
Rufus is Robert's lover.
Germany, United States
[ 485]
2012
For a Good Time, Call...
Jesse
Justin Long
Jesse is Lauren's friend.
United States
[ 486]
2012
Four
Joe
Wendell Pierce
Joe, a married middle-aged black man, goes out on a date with a young man with his daughter and her date.
United States
[ 487]
2012
Ginger & Rosa
Mark
Timothy Spall
Both Marks are port of a group of older activists in Anti-nuclear movement .
United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada
[ 488]
Mark II
Oliver Platt
2012
Hit and Run
Terry Rathbinn
Jess Rowland
Terry is Gil's brother and a police officer.
United States
[ 489]
2012
On the Road
Tall thin salesman
Steve Buscemi
Sal and Dean travel back to New York with a tall, thin salesman from whom Dean tries to get money in exchange for sex.
France, United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, United States, Canada
[ 490] [ 491]
2012
The Paperboy
Ward Jansen
Matthew McConaughey
Ward is not resented by his brother Jack for being a homosexual, but for keeping it a secret from him.
United States
[ 492]
2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Brad
Johnny Simmons
Patrick and Brad, the high school quarterback at Charlie's school, are in a relationship.
United States
[ 493]
Patrick
Ezra Miller
2012
Rock of Ages
Lonny Barnett
Russell Brand
Dupree is the owner of the Bourbon Room and Barnett is his right-hand man.
United States
[ 494] [ 495]
Dennis Dupree
Alec Baldwin
2012
Sassy Pants
Chip Hardy
Haley Joel Osment
Chip is Dale's boyfriend.
United States
[ 496] [ 497]
Dale Pinto
Diedrich Bader
2012
Speechless
Luke
Pierre-Matthieu Vital
A mute Frenchman (Luke) is found naked by the banks of a river in Wuhan in mainland China. He is rescued and sent to a local hospital where he is treated by a nurse who cares for him and later discovers the secrets of his past.
Hong Kong, China
[ 498]
2012
Struck by Lightning
Nicholas Forbes
Carter Jenkins
As Carson is finishing up the school paper at night, he catches wealthy student Nicholas Forbes and the drama club president Scott Thomas kissing.
United States
[ 499] [better source needed ]
Scott Thomas
Graham Rogers
2012
Ted
Guy
Patrick Warburton
Guy is John's co-worker and Patrick is his boyfriend.
United States
[ 500] [better source needed ]
Jared
Ryan Reynolds
2013
After the Dark
Jack
Freddie Stroma
In the third trial, Petra saves Jack, who is gay outside of the simulation, to preserve diversity.
Indonesia, United States
[ 501]
2013
The Amazing Praybeyt Benjamin
Private Benjamin Santos VIII
Vice Ganda
On a mission in Paris, Praybeyt Benjamin and his platoon defeat a horde of zombies in a parody of Plants vs. Zombies, leading to his promotion to Colonel
Philippines
[ 502]
2013
Baggage Claim
Sam
Adam Brody
Aam is one of Montana's friends.
United States
[ 503]
2013
The Bling Ring
Marc Hall
Israel Broussard
Hall is a quiet student arriving as a new student at Indian Hills High School in Agoura Hills, California .
United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan
[ 504]
2013
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Valentin
Sandor Funtek
Valentin is Adèle's close friend.
France, Belgium, Spain
[ 505]
2013
Free Fall
Kay Engel
Max Riemelt
While on a training course, Borgmann meets fellow police officer Engel, and a romance develops between the two men.
Germany
[ 506]
2013
G.B.F.
Tanner Daniels
Michael J. Willett
Daniels is a comic book geek who is the first "out of the closet gay" at his school.
Van Camp is Tanner's best friend who is very feminine and sassy.
United States
[ 507]
Brent Van Camp
Paul Iacono
2013
Geography Club
Russell Middlebrook
Cameron Deane Stewart
Following a group of high school students who feel like outsiders, some because of their sexual orientations . Middlebrook then finds himself helping his friend Min to form an after-school club for the students, so that they can hang out together for support.
United States
[ 508] [ 509]
2013
Grown Ups 2
Kyle
Oliver Hudson
Kyle is a yoga teacher at Squats Fitness.
United States
[ 510]
Nick
Nick Swardson
2013
Kick-Ass 2
Insect-Man
Robert Emms
Insect-Man is an insect-themed superhero and a member of the Justice Forever team. He was bullied, inspiring him to become a superhero to stand up for the defenseless. He does not wear a mask because hiding his identity would feel like going back into the closet.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 511]
2013
Kill Your Darlings
Lucien Carr
Dane DeHaan
Carr is an unruly character who holds strong anti-establishment beliefs who runs into Allen Ginsberg in 1944 Columbia University .
United Kingdom
[ 512]
2013
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Alec Lightwood
Kevin Zegers
Magnus is a warlock.
Canada, Germany, United States, United Kingdom
[ 513]
2013
Philomena
Michael
Sean Mahon
Hess is a lawyer and senior official in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations.
France, United Kingdom, United States
[ 514]
2013
Pit Stop
Ernesto
Marcus DeAnda
Retelling the story of two men in a small town in Texas .
United States
[ 515]
Gabe
Bill Heck
2013
SDU: Sex Duties Unit
Hai Mai
Derek Tsang
The youthful Mai is teased often by his teammates of the SDU .
Hong Kong
[ 516]
2013
Starred Up
Neville Love
Ben Mendelsohn
Neville falls in love with his male inmate.
United Kingdom
[ 517]
2013
Tom at the Farm
Tom Podowski
Xavier Dolan
Tom travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother, Francis.
Canada
[ 518]
2013
Voyage
Ryo
Ryo van Kooten
Filmed across Asia and Europe, the story follows the journey of Ryo, a young Hong Kong psychiatrist, who is accompanied by his male lover as he visits former patients in neighbouring countries of South East Asia. Several of his clients are themselves in LGBT relationships. (The film features frequent full-frontal male nudity.)
Hong Kong
[ 519]
Jip
Jason Poon
2014
Blackbird
Randy Rousseau
Julian Walker
In a small baptist community in the south of Mississippi , Rousseau is a 17-year-old high school senior and talented singer juggles with his sexuality and religion while also dealing with the disappearance of his younger sister as it tore his family apart.
United States
[ 520]
2014
Boulevard
Nolan Mack
Robin Williams
Mack has worked at the same bank for almost 26 years in a life of monotony. He and his wife, Joy, have embraced their marriage as a convenient and comfortable distraction from facing reality
United States
[ 521]
2014
The Circle
Ernst Ostertag
Matthias Hungerbühler
Docudrama about Ernst Ostertag and Röbi Rapp , the first gay men to register a domestic partnership in Switzerland.
Switzerland
[ 522]
Röbi Rapp
Sven Schelker
2014
Coming In
Robert
Ken Duken
Robert is the boyfriend of protagonist Tom Herzner.
Germany
[ 523]
2014
Date and Switch
Matty
Hunter Cope
Best friends Matty and Michael make a pact to have a sexual relationship with an older woman after breaking up with their high-school girlfriends, while Matty also comes out as gay to his ex-girlfriend Em.
United States
[ 524]
2014
Dear White People
Lionel Higgins
Tyler James Williams
Higgins, a black student, gets a chance to find his place at Winchester by being recruited by the school's most prestigious student newspaper to write a piece on Sam and the black experience at Winchester.
United States
[ 525] [ 526]
2014
Futuro Beach
Donato
Wagner Moura
Donato leaves for Berlin in search of his German lover, Konrad, whom he had met ten years earlier at Praia do Futuro and saved from drowning.
Brazil, Germany
[ 527]
Konrad
Clemens Schick
2014
The Imitation Game
Alan Turing
Benedict Cumberbatch (adult) Alex Lawther (young)
Biopic about Turing, who deciphered the code of the Enigma machine , a device used by Nazi Germany during World War II. After the end of the war, he is convicted of indecency because of his homosexuality, undergoes chemical castration , and later commits suicide.
The young Turing was close to his classmate Christopher Morcom, and they passed written encoded notes to each other. Their friendship ends when Christopher dies from bovine tuberculosis . Turing names the Enigma-breaking machine "Christopher" after him.
United States
[ 528]
Christopher Morcom
Jack Bannon
2014
Just Before I Go
Zeke Morgan
Kyle Gallner
Ted's nephew, Zeke, is secretly gay and is involved with a schoolmate, Romeo (Evan Ross).
United States
[ 529]
Romeo Semple
Evan Ross
2014
Lilting
Kai
Andrew Leung
Retelling the story of a mother's attempt at understanding who her son was after his untimely death. Her world is suddenly disrupted by the presence of his lover.
United Kingdom
[ 530]
Richard
Ben Whishaw
2014
Love Is Strange
George Garea
Alfred Molina
Ben and George, a couple from Manhattan , get married after 39 years together.
United States, France
[ 531]
Ben Hull
John Lithgow
2014
Obvious Child
Joey
Gabe Liedman
Joey is Donna and Nellie's friend, who is also a comedian.
United States
[ 532]
2014
Pride
Mark Ashton
Ben Schnetzer
Based on a true story, a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign.
United Kingdom
[ 533] [ 534] [ 535]
Mike Jackson
Joe Gilgun
Jonathan Blake
Dominic West
Gethin Roberts
Andrew Scott
Jeff Cole
Freddie Fox
Reggie
Chris Overton
Ray
Joshua Hill
Joe "Bromley" Cooper
George Mackay
Cliff Barry
Bill Nighy
Tim
Russel Tovey
2014
The Skeleton Twins
Milo Dean
Bill Hader
Milo reconnects with his high school English teacher Rich, with whom he had a sexual relationship when he was 15.
United States
[ 536]
2014
Space Station 76
Captain Glenn Terry
Patrick Wilson
Captain Terry, whose struggle with his homosexuality caused his breakup with Daniel, and then his alcoholism.
United States
[ 537]
Daniel
Matthew Morrison
2014
The Way He Looks
Leonardo
Ghilherme Lobo
Leonardo is a blind high school student who falls in love with the new kid, Gabriel.
Gabriel falls in love with Leo. He was once aroused when he saw Leo naked in the showers.
Brazil
[ 538]
Gabriel
Fabio Audi
2014
White Bird in a Blizzard
Mickey
Mark Indelicato
Mickey is one of Kat's best pals from high school.
France, United States
[ 539]
2015–2019
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
2015
4th Man Out
Adam
Evan Todd
Adam struggles to come out as gay to his three best friends.
United States
[ 540]
2015
American Ultra
Petey Douglas
Tony Hale
Douglas is Lasseter's former assistant.
United States
[ 541]
2015
Burnt
Tony Balerdi
Daniel Brühl
Tony is a restaurant owner who's in love with Adam.
United States
[ 542]
2015
The Danish Girl
Henrik Sandahl
Ben Whishaw
Gerbada introduces Einar, who dressed as Lili somewhat dowdy companion as Einar's cousin, at a party. This strategy is so successful that Lili stirs the amorous interest of a man named Henrik.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 543]
2015
Entourage
Lloyd Lee
Rex Lee
Lloyd marries Greg Louganis. His former boss, Ari, gives him away at the wedding.
United States
[ 544]
2015
Get Hard
Chris
T. J. Jagodowski
Darnell befriends a man named Chris, even after Chris aggressively flirts with him.
United States
[ 545]
2015
The Heroes of Evil
Aritz
Jorge Clemente
Outcast teenagers Esteban, Sarita and Aritz share a common context of humiliation by their classmates meet, develop a strong friendship and plot to exert revenge .
Spain
[ 546]
2015
Holding the Man
John Caleo
Craig Stott
Retelling of Conigrave's 15-year love affair with John Caleo, which started when they met in the mid-1970s at Xavier College , an all-boys Jesuit Catholic school in Melbourne , and follows their relationship through the 1990s when they both developed AIDS.
Australia
[ 547]
Timothy Conigrave
Ryan Corr
2015
Holy Mess
Oscar
Anton Lundqvist
Centering around Simon and Oscar, a couple that is expecting a child along with their close friend Cissi (Rakel Wärmländer ).
Sweden
[ 548]
Simon
Anastasios Soulis
2015
James White
Nick
Scott Mescudi
Nick is White's friend who works at a resort in Mexico.
United States
[ 549]
2015
Legend
Ronnie Kray
Tom Hardy
Dealing with the Kray twins ' career and the relationship that bound them together, and follows their gruesome career to life imprisonment in 1969.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 550]
Teddy Smith
Taron Egerton
2015
Stonewall
Danny Winters
Jeremy Irvine
Shortly before fleeing the conservative countryside in the late 1960s and moving to New York City, Winters, a boy from Indiana , is discovered by friends while making love with his boyfriend.
United States
[ 551]
2015
Those People
Charlie
Jonathan Gordon
Charlie has always been in love with his best friend Sebastian. Both of them are too afraid to admit their love for each other. But after some life changing events happen in their lives, they try to figure out what their relationship really is.
United States
[ 552]
Sebastian
Jason Ralph
2015
Utopians
Antonio Ming
Jackie Chow
Ming is the professor of Hins Gao, and later begins a romantic relationship with him.
Hong Kong
[ 553]
2015
Wild Horses
Ben Briggs
James Franco
Ben is kicked out of the house by his father for his homosexuality.
United States
[ 554]
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Himself
Graham Norton
United Kingdom, United States
[ 555]
2016
As You Are
Jack
Owen Campbell
Jack is clearly in love with Mark. They later reunite in private, where Mark implies his feelings for Jack, and they kiss passionately.
United States
[ 556]
Mark
Charlie Heaton
2016
Being 17
Damien Delille
Kacey Mottet Klein
The movie follows the romantic and sexual awakening of Damien and Thomas as their initial animosity, expressed in violence, morphs into love.
France
[ 557]
Thomas Chardoul
Corentin Fila
2016
Cell
Thomas "Tom" McCourt
Samuel L. Jackson
McCourt is a train conductor.
United States
[ 558] [ 559]
2016
Center of My World
Phil
Louis Hofmann
When school begins, the mysterious Nicholas enters the class. Phil feels drawn to him and they soon engage in a passionate love affair, even though it turns Phil's feelings upside down because he does not know what Nicholas thinks of him.
Germany
[ 560]
Nicholas
Jannik Schümann
2016
Curmudgeons
Jackie
Danny DeVito
Surrounding the relationship between two senior citizens, Jackie and Pajovic.
United States
[ 561]
Ralph Pajovic
David Margulies
2016
Dirty Grandpa
Bradley
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Bradley is a friend of Jason's old photography classmate Shadia.
United States
[ 562]
2016
Handsome Devil
Conor Masters
Nicholas Galitzine
Masters is Ned's new roommate.
A new English teacher, Mr Sherry, arrives at the school, who, though stern, is encouraging towards Ned and Conor.
Ireland
[ 563]
Dan Sherry
Andrew Scott
2016
Heartstone
Kristján
Blær Hinriksson
Focusing on two young friends – Thor and Kristján – on the verge of puberty.
Iceland
[ 564]
2016
Independence Day: Resurgence
Dr. Brackish Okun
Brent Spiner
Dr. Okun is a Scientist. Dr. Isaacs is his co-worker and lover.
United States
[ 565]
Dr. Isaacs
John Storey
2016
It's Only the End of the World
Louis
Gaspard Ulliel
Louis is a playwright dealing with a terminal illness.
Canada, France
[ 566]
2016
King Cobra
Brent Corrigan
Garrett Clayton
Focusing on the life and early career of former pornographic film actor Sean Paul Lockhart .
United States
[ 567]
Harlow Cuadra
Keegan Allen
Joe Kerekes
James Franco
Bryan Kocis
Christian Slater
Mikey
Spencer Lofranco
2016
Miss Stevens
Sam
Anthony Quintal
Sam is an affable student of Stevens'.
United States
[ 568]
2016
The Mobfathers
Wulf
Gregory Wong
Wulf is a flamboyantly ex-cop.
Hong Kong
[ 569] [better source needed ]
2016
Moonlight
Chiron Harris ("Little" / "Black")
Trevante Rhodes
Chiron is a young Black man who grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood in Miami.
United States
[ 570]
Ashton Sanders
Alex Hibbert
2016
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Pete Regazolli
Dave Franco
Regazolli is one of Sanders' former frat brothers.
United States
[ 571]
2016
Nocturnal Animals
Carlos Holt
Michael Sheen
Holt is Alessia's husband.
United States
[ 572]
2016
Other People
David Mulcahey
Jesse Plemons
David has a strained relationship with his father, who still refuses to accept David's sexuality ten years after he came out. He has broken up with his boyfriend Paul.
United States
[ 573]
Paul
Zach Woods
2016
Rage
Yūma Fujita
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Naoto hides out at a gay bathhouse in Tokyo to avoid people. One night, he is approached by Yuma, an open homosexual. Naoto resists Yuma at first, but Yuma holds Naoto down and they have rough sex. Then, Yuma takes Naoto out for dinner and learns that he does not have a place to stay. Yuma offers to let him stay with him until Naoto finds a permanent place and they both become housemates. They slowly fall in love and Yuma even introduces Naoto to his sick mother and his other friends.
Japan
[ 574]
Onishi Naoto
Go Ayano
2016
Raw
Adrien
Rabah Naït Oufella
On her first night, Justine meets her roommate Adrien, and they are forced to partake in a week-long hazing ritual, welcoming the new students.
France, Belgium
[ 575]
2016
Spa Night
David
Joe Seo
David, an 18-year-old living in Koreatown, Los Angeles becomes an employee at a spa to help his financially struggling parents. He soon discovers illicit gay sex between the customers, which forces him to consider his own sexuality.
United States
[ 576] [ 577]
2016
Tallulah
Andreas
Zachary Quinto
Unknown to Tallulah, Margo is struggling with her own marital problems after her ex-husband Stephen has left her for a man, Andreas, and is pressing Margo to finalize their divorce.
United States
[ 578]
Stephen Mooney
John Benjamin Hickey
2016
Two Is a Family
Bernie
Antoine Bertrand
Bernie is a Frenchman who works in the film industry and offers Samuel a stunt job.
France
[ 579]
2017
Alien: Covenant
Carl Lope
Demián Bichir
Sergeant Lope is the head of the security unit aboard the Covenant and Sergeant Hallett's husband.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 580]
Hallett
Nathaniel Dean
2017
Battle of the Sexes
Ted Tinling
Alan Cumming
Biopic based on champion tennis player Billie Jean King and the 1973 match between her and Bobby Riggs .
United Kingdom, United States
[ 581] [ 582] [ 583]
2017
Beach Rats
Frankie
Harris Dickinson
Frankie is a repressed Brooklyn teen who has sex with older men.
United States
[ 584]
2017
Beauty and the Beast
LeFou
Josh Gad
LeFou is Gaston's sidekick.
United States
[ 585] [ 586] [ 587]
2017
God's Own Country
Gheorghe Ionescu
Alec Secareanu
Following a young sheep farmer in Yorkshire whose life is transformed by a Romanian migrant worker .
United Kingdom
[ 588]
Johnny Saxby
Josh O'Connor
2017
Lady Bird
Danny O'Neill
Lucas Hedges
After the opening night of the school production of Merrily We Roll Along , Lady Bird sees Danny kissing a boy in a bathroom stall so she breaks up with him.
United States
[ 589]
2017
My Friend Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer
Ross Lynch
Based on the serial killer's early life.Dahmer has shown to be obsessed with a male jogger.
United States
[ 590]
2017
Permission
Hale
David Joseph Craig
Hale is Anna's brother and Reece's boyfriend.
Reece, Hale's boyfriend and Will's co-worker.
United States
[ 591]
Reece
Morgan Spector
2017
Rift
Einar
Sigurdur Thor Oskarsson
Gunnar and Einar get to grips with their fractured relationship amid some spooky situations in a remote cabin in Iceland.
Iceland
[ 592]
Gunnar
Bjorn Stefansson
2017
The Shape of Water
Giles
Richard Jenkins
Elisa's next door neighbor is closeted and fearful, but bravely helps her and the Amphibian Man.
United States
[ 593]
2017
Speech & Debate
Howie
Austin P. McKenzie
Howie is new to the school, lonely, and tries to form a GSA (gay student alliance) club, but is blocked by the predominantly male conservative school board.
United States
[ 594]
2017
Thirty Years of Adonis
Yang Ke
Adonis He Fei
Focusing on a young man named Yang Ke, who is a Beijing Opera actor. He decides to pursue acting, and soon becomes a commercial sex worker for men and women.
Hong Kong, Taiwan, China
[ 595]
2017
Tom of Finland
Touko Laaksonen
Pekka Strang
Laaksonen is an artist who known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art.
Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, United States
[ 596] [ 597]
2018
Alex Strangelove
Alex Truelove
Daniel Doheny
At a party, Alex meets Elliot, an openly gay teenager. Alex's continued interactions with Elliot, who has an obvious crush on Alex, lead him to question his sexuality.
United States
[ 598]
Elliott
Antonio Marziale
2018
Bird Box
Greg
BD Wong
Greg is a man with a gratuitous allusion to his husband.
United States
[ 599]
2018
Bohemian Rhapsody
Jim Hutton
Aaron McCusker
Retelling the story of the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of British rock band Queen , from the formation of the band in 1970 up to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the original Wembley Stadium .
United Kingdom, United States
[ 600] [ 601]
Paul Prenter
Allen Leech
John Reid
Aidan Gillen
2018
Boy Erased
Jared Eamons
Lucas Hedges
Jared's childhood in a fundamentalist family in Arkansas that enrolled him in conversion therapy . (Based on Garrard Conley 's memoir of the same name .)
United States
[ 602]
2018
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Jack Hock
Richard E. Grant
Hock is a foppish drifter who helps Israel forging and selling rare literary letters to bolster her failing writing career.
United States
[ 603]
2018
Come Sunday
Reggie
Lakeith Stanfield
Reggie is Pearson's accompanist.
United States
[ 604]
2018
Crazy Rich Asians
Oliver T'sien
Nico Santos
T'sien is Nick's second cousin.
United States, Singapore
[ 605]
2018
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
John F. Donovan
Kit Harington
Donovan is a closeted actor.
Canada
[ 606]
2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Donnie
Jonah Hill
Donnie is John Callahan 's Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) sponsor.
United States
[ 607]
Martingale
Ronnie Adrian
2018
Game Over, Man!
Joel aka "Baby Dunk"
Blake Anderson
The film has a comedic subplot about Joel's sexuality.
United States
[ 608]
2018
Giant Little Ones
Ray Winter
Kyle MacLachlan
Ray leaves his wife for another man, causing his son Franky to refuse to talk to him despite his pleas.
Canada
[ 609]
2018
Green Book
Don Shirley
Mahershala Ali
Shirley had a homosexual encounter with a white man at a pool.
United States
[ 610]
2018
The Happy Prince
Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas
Colin Morgan
Centering on how Wilde lives out his remaining days in isolation and looks back at his life with great irony and wit.
Germany, Belgium, Italy, United Kingdom
[ 611]
Robbie Ross
Edwin Thomas
Reggie Turner
Colin Firth
Oscar Wilde
Rupert Everett
2018
Ideal Home
Erasmus Brumble
Steve Coogan
Erasmus, a famous chef, and Paul, the producer of his cooking show, are a couple. They live in a large showplace house in New Mexico.
United States
[ 612]
Paul Morgan
Paul Rudd
2018
Love, Simon
Simon Spier
Nick Robinson
Based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda .
United States
[ 613] [ 614] [ 615]
Bram Greenfeld
Keiynan Lonsdale
2018
Mary Queen of Scots
Lord Darnley
Jack Lowden
Mary marries Darnley, only to discover him in bed with her private secretary, David Rizzio.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 616]
David Rizzio
Ismael Cruz Córdova
2018
Rainbow's Sunset
Ramoncito Estrella
Eddie Garcia
Ramon who is married to a woman and has children comes out as an elderly man. He has a secret relationship with his long-time friend Fredo who is dying of cancer.
Philippines
[ 617]
Alfredo Veneracion
Tony Mabesa
2018
School's out
Pierre Hoffman
Laurent Lafitte
Pierre is a substitute teacher who becomes obsessed with his students' strange behavior. He is in love with his male best friend who just had a child. He also has a crush on one of his male colleagues who appears to be straight.
France
[ 618]
2018
Set It Up
Duncan
Pete Davidson
Duncan is Charlie's roommate.
United States
[ 619]
2018
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Lucas Krapf
Trezzo Mahoro
Lucas is one the crushes that Lara Jean Covey wrote a letter to and then locked away. Kitty, Lara's younger sister, found the letter and sent it to him without Lara's knowledge. After reading it, he told Lara he was gay.
United States
[ 620]
2018
Truth or Dare
Brad Chang
Hayden Szeto
Brad is closeted.
United States
[ 621]
2018
You Are the Apple of My Eye
Kazuki Sugimura
Ryosuke Yusa
Sugimura is in a romantic relationship with his Indian business partner.
Japan
[ 622]
2019
Booksmart
George
Noah Galvin
George and Alan are theater obsessed classmates of Amy and her best friend Molly.
United States
[ 623] [ 624]
Alan
Austin Crute
2019
Frankie
Michel
Pascal Greggory
Michel, Frankie's first husband, learned about his homosexuality.
United States, France, Portugal
[ 625]
2019
The Gentlemen
Fletcher
Hugh Grant
Fletcher is a fast-talking, cockney-accented hustler.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 626]
2019
The Good Liar
Steven
Russell Tovey
Steven does research on Hans, who raped Lili, confirming his identity in a DNA test using a lock of Hans' hair.
It is revealed at the end of the film that Michael is Lili's grandson and Steven's boyfriend.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 627] [ 628] [ 629]
Michael
Tunji Kasim
2019
Isn't It Romantic
Donny
Brandon Scott Jones
Donny is Natalie's normally gruff neighbor, who has always come across as a misogynist, becomes a flamboyant homosexual friend offering advice.
United States
[ 630]
2019
Jojo Rabbit
Captain Klenzendorf
Sam Rockwell
Set in 1945 in Nazi Germany, Klenzendorf and Freddy are in a secret relationship.
United States, New Zealand, Czech Republic
[ 631] [ 632]
Freddy Finkel
Alfie Allen
2019
Judy
Dan
Andy Nyman
Stan opens up to Judy Garland about the difficulties he and Dan have had maintaining their relationship in the face of legal persecution.
United States
[ 633]
Stan
Daniel Cerqueira
2019
Monsoon
Kit
Henry Golding
Durin his journey, Kit falls for Lewis, an American whose father had fought in the war.
United States
[ 634] [ 635] [ 636]
Lewis
Parker Sawyers
2019
Nevrland
Jacob
Simon Frühwirth
17-year-old Jacob and 26-year-old Kristjan begin an intimate relationship after meeting in a video chat.
Austria
[ 637]
Kristjan
Paul Forman
2019
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
Tunde Johnson
Steven Silver
Johnson is a Nigerian-American teenager who is in a secret relationship with his school's white lacrosse champion Soren.
United States
[ 638]
2019
Pain and Glory
Salvador Mallo
Antonio Banderas
Retelling the story of Salvador's childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his poor parents to a small village in Valencia. (The story was inspired by director Pedro Almodóvar 's personal experience.)
Spain
[ 639] [ 640]
2019
Rialto
Colm
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
Colm is a closeted homosexual married to a woman. Jay is a hustler. They enter into an intimate relationship.
Ireland, United Kingdom
[ 641] [ 642]
Jay
Tom Glynn-Carney
2019
Rocketman
Elton John
Taron Egerton
Biopic about the singer-musician's journey dealing with drug addiction and accepting his homosexuality.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 643]
John Reid
Richard Madden
2019
Straight Up
Ryder
James Scully
Ryder is Todd's longtime friend.
United States
[ 644]
Todd
James Sweeney
2019
Suk Suk
Hoi
Ben Yuen
Despite having families of their own, Hoi and Pak fell in love in their twilight years.
Hong Kong
[ 645]
Pak
Tai Bo
2019
What Men Want
Brandon Wallace
Josh Brener
Wallace is Ali's assistant.
United States
[ 646]
2020
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
2020
The Boys in the Band
Michael
Jim Parsons
Based on the 1968 play of the same name , a group of men gather for a birthday party in New York City.
United States
[ 647]
Harold
Zachary Quinto
Donald
Matt Bomer
Larry
Andrew Rannells
Cowboy
Charlie Carver
Emory
Robin de Jesús
Bernard
Michael Benjamin Washington
Hank
Tuc Watkins
2020
Breaking Fast
Kal
Michael Cassidy
Mo is a Muslim doctor in Los Angeles who is emotionally closed off following a painful breakup with his former partner Hassan.
United States
[ 648]
Mo
Haaz Sleiman
2020
Falling
John Peterson
Viggo Mortensen
John lives with his husband Eric in California.
United States
[ 649] [ 650]
Eric Peterson
Terry Chen
2020
Fantasy Island
Brax Weaver / Tattoo
Jimmy O. Yang
Brax is the stepbrother of JD.
United States
[ 651]
2020
Freaky
Josh Detmer
Misha Osherovich
Josh is Millie's best friend.
United States
[ 652]
2020
Happiest Season
John
Dan Levy
John is Abby's best friend.
United States
[ 653]
2020
Isa Pang Bahaghari
Domingo "Domeng" delos Reyes
Phillip Salvador
Long-time friend of Rey, a returning seaman aiming to amend with his estranged wife and children. Domeng, a baklang martir who has unrequited love towards Rey since their teenage years, seeks to help his friend regarding his family issue.
Philippines
[ 654] [ 655]
2020
Joe Bell
Jadin Bell
Reid Miller
Following the true story of a man named Joe Bell, who sets out walking across America to speak out against bullying and honoring his teenage son, Jadin Bell , who died by suicide after he was bullied for being gay.
United States
[ 656]
2020
Jump, Darling
Russell
Thomas Duplessie
A rookie drag queen reeling from a break-up.
Canada
[ 657]
2020
My Spy
Carlos
Devere Rogers
Carlos, Sophie's neighbor, and Todd are partners.
United States
[ 658]
Todd
Noah Danby
2020
The Old Guard
Yusuf Al-Kaysani / Joe
Marwan Kenzari
Yusuf is a Saracen who fought against the Crusaders , and Niccolò is a Genovese knight who fought in the Crusades. They are in a romantic relationship.
United States
[ 659]
Niccolò di Genova / Nicky
Luca Marinelli
2020
The Prom
Barry Glickman
James Corden
Barry is a narcissistic Broadway actor.
United States
[ 660]
2020
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan
Kartik Singh
Ayushmann Khurrana
Kartik is an out young man in love with Aman, who is closeted. It is the first Bollywood feature film to show two men kissing passionately.
India
[ 661]
Aman Tripathi
Jitendra Kumar
2020
Stage Mother
Ricky Metcalf
Eldon Thiele
Following a conservative church choir director who inherits a drag club in San Francisco started by her deceased son Ricky, from whom she was estranged after he came out as gay.
United States
[ 662]
2020
Summer of 85
Alexis Robin
Félix Lefebvre
The intense friendship and romance of teenagers Alexis and David during a summer in Normandy in 1985.
France
[ 663]
2020
Supernova
Sam
Colin Firth
Sam and Tusker are partners for 20 years and amateur astronomers.
United Kingdom
[ 664] [ 665]
Tusker
Stanley Tucci
2020
The Thing About Harry
Sam Baselli
Jake Borelli
Sam connects with his high school bully Harry, who reveals to him that he is pansexual. Sam begins a romantic relationship with Harry, and they later marry.
United States
[ 666]
2020
Uncle Frank
Frank Bledsoe
Paul Bettany
A college professor who has been living with a man named Walid ("Wally") for over ten years and tries to come out to his family.
United States
[ 667] [ 668]
2020
Your Name Engraved Herein
Chang Jia-han
Edward Chen Hao-Sen
Chang Jia-han and Wang Po Tea are students who fall in love.
Taiwan
[ 669] [ 670]
Wang Po Te
Jing-Hua Tseng
2021
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
2021
Benediction
Siegfried Sassoon
Jack Lowden
Following the life of Siegfried Sassoon , a British poet and decorated World War I combat veteran who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance. He had love affairs with several men during the 1920s.
United Kingdom
[ 671]
Peter Capaldi
United States
2021
Candyman
Troy Cartwright
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Grady's partner is Troy, Brianna's brother.
United States, Canada
[ 672]
Grady Greenberg
Kyle Kaminsky
2021
Cruella
Artie
John McCrea
Artie is the first openly gay character in a live-action Disney film.
United States
[ 673] [ 674]
2021
The Dig
Stuart Piggott
Ben Chaplin
In the movie, the marriage between real life archeologists Stuart Piggott and his wife Peggy is portrayed as a May-September relationship between the young, fresh-out-of-grad school Peggy and the older, closeted gay man Stuart.
United Kingdom
[ 675]
2021
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Jamie New / Mimi Me
Max Harwood
Jamie wants to be a drag queen.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 676]
2021
The French Dispatch
Roebuck Wright
Jeffrey Wright
Wright is an American author who chose exile in Ennui-sur-Blasé. He became a food writer, and his report here is centered on Lieutenant Nescaffier, the greatest chef of police cuisine.
United States
[ 677]
2021
Great Freedom
Hans Hoffmann
Franz Rogowski
In post-World War II West Germany , Hans is imprisoned by the post war government having previously been imprisoned in a concentration camp for infringing the Nazi anti-gay laws, which are still on the statute. Hans develops a relationship with his cellmate Viktor, a convicted murderer.
Austria, Germany
[ 678]
Viktor Kohl
Georg Friedrich
2021
Halloween Kills
Big John
Scott MacArthur
Big John and Little John live together as a couple in Michael Myers ' former house.
United States
[ 679]
Little John
Michael McDonald
2021
Jungle Cruise
McGregor Houghton
Jack Whitehall
McGregor is the heroine's brother and reluctant assistant. He turned down three engagements with women because of his sexual orientation.
United States
[ 680]
2021
Licorice Pizza
Joel Wachs
Benny Safdie
Joel is a politician running for Mayor of Los Angeles.
United States
[ 681]
2021
Moneyboys
Liang Fei
Kai Ko
Featuring the journey of Liang Fei, whose world collapses when he realizes that his family accepts his money but not his homosexuality.
Taiwan, Austria, France, Belgium
[ 682]
2021
No Time to Die
Q
Ben Whishaw
When James Bond and Moneypenny arrived at Q's house, Q was setting up a date for himself and another man.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 683]
2021
Operation Hyacinth
Arek
Hubert Miłkowski
Arek is an informant in the investigation of murdered gay men.
Poland
[ 684]
2021
The Power of the Dog
Phil Burbank
Benedict Cumberbatch
Phil is a repressed homosexual, and a charismatic rancher who likes to torment his brother's wife and step-son.
United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Canada, New Zealand
[ 685]
2021
Single All the Way
Peter
Michael Urie
Peter asks his best friend Nick to pose as his boyfriend, and they develop feelings for each other.
James is the blind date that Peter's mother sets him up with.
United States
[ 686] [ 687]
Nick
Philemon Chambers
James
Luke Macfarlane
2021
Swan Song
Dustin
Michael Urie
Dustin is Rita's nephew.
United States
[ 688]
Pat Pitsenbarger
Udo Kier
2021
Tick, Tick... Boom!
Michael
Robin de Jesús
Michael is Jonathan's best friend.
United States
[ 689]
2022
Year
Title
Character(s)
Actor
Notes
Country
Ref(s)
2022
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Aristotle "Ari" Mendoza
Max Pelayo
Following two Mexican-American teenage boys who find an instant connection in 1987 El Paso, Texas
United States
[ 690] [ 691]
Dante Quintana
Reese Gonzales
2022
Badhaai Do
Shardul Thakur
Rajkummar Rao
Shardul enters into a lavender marriage with Suman Singh to escape the pressure from their families.
India
[ 692] [ 693] [ 694]
2022
The Blackening
Dewayne
Dewayne Perkins
Dewayne joins nine college besties at a cabin deep, deep in the woods over Juneteenth weekend when things takes a turn.
United States
[ 695]
2022
Bros
Bobby Lieber
Billy Eichner
Following two men in Manhattan who avoid commitment but are drawn to each other.
United States
[ 696]
Aaron Shepard
Luke Macfarlane
2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Thomas Barrow
Rob James-Collier
Uncloseted butler at the manor, he leaves to travel the world with Guy Dexter, a movie star in a film production filmed on the estate.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 697] [ 698]
2022
Fire Island
Charlie
James Scully
Following a group of friends who go on vacation to Fire Island , only for things to become complicated by classism and romance.
United States
[ 699]
Howie
Bowen Yang
Noah
Joel Kim Booster
Will
Conrad Ricamora
2022
The Inspection
Ellis French
Jeremy Pope
Following a young black man who defiantly endures brutal training at a Marine Corps boot camp, seeking approval from his homophobic mother.
United States
[ 700]
2022
A Madea Homecoming
Timothy "Tim" Marshall
Brandon Black
Tim is Cora's grandson and Laura's son who is struggling to come out
United States
[ 701]
2022
My Fake Boyfriend
Andrew
Keiynan Lonsdale
Andrew is trying to find a way to get over his toxic ex-boyfriend when meddling friends Jake and Kelly get involved.
Canada
[ 702]
2022
My Policeman
Patrick Hazlewood
David Dawson
Set in 1950s Brighton, Patrick is a museum curator in a relationship with a married policeman.
United States
[ 703] [ 704]
Rupert Everett
2022
Punch
Jim
Jordan Oosterhof
Jim is a boxer growing up in a seaside town in New Zealand where homophobia is alive and kicking
New Zealand
[ 705]
2022
See How They Run
Mervyn Cocker-Norris
David Oyelowo
Mervyn is a well-known playwright and screenwriter.
United States, United Kingdom
[ 706]
2022
Spoiler Alert
Michael Ausiello
Jim Parsons
Based on the Ausiello's 2017 memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies .
United States
[ 707] [ 708] [ 709]
Kit Cowan
Ben Aldridge
2022
Swallowed
Benjamin
Cooper Koch
Benjamin is celebrating their last night together with his friend Dom in a small Maine town before Ben flies to Los Angeles to become a gay porn star.
United States
[ 710]
2022
Three Months
Caleb Kahn
Troye Sivan
Caleb is a South Florida boy realizes he has been exposed to HIV.
United States
[ 711]
2022
Two And One
Tino
Miggy Jimenez
Tino and Chan are both "tops " and sexually incompatible. They agree to find a "bottom " to have a threesome with, and meet Joaquin.
Philippines
[ 712]
Chan
Paolo Pangilinan
Joaquin
Cedrick Juan
2022
The Whale
Charlie
Brendan Fraser
Charlie left his family for a man, who later died. He then went on to binge eat out of pain and guilt.
United Kingdom, United States
[ 713]
2022
Winter Boy
Lucas
Paul Kircher
Lucas is a teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide.
France
[ 714]
2023
2024
Notes
See also
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