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1. All of Us Strangers (2023)
R | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with his downstairs neighbor while discovering a mysterious new way to heal from losing his parents 30 years ago.
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John Grout, Jamie Bell
Votes: 49,679
2. The Normal Heart (2014 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the early 1980s, the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York led to an emergence of homosexual activists. With support from the medical community, they try to raise awareness about the disease.
Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Jonathan Groff, Frank De Julio, William DeMeritt
Votes: 37,855
3. Holding the Man (2015)
Unrated | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
The warm, funny and achingly sad story of the 15-year-long love affair between Timothy Conigrave and the boy he fell in love with at high school, John Caleo.
Director: Neil Armfield | Stars: Ryan Corr, Sarah Snook, Francesco Ferdinandi, Craig Stott
Votes: 13,405
4. Jezabel (2022)
108 min | Crime, Thriller
Four upper-class high school students who live carefree between drugs, games and love until one of the girls, Eli, is brutally killed. Sixteen years later, the memory of the crime torments Alain, another member of the group.
Director: Hernán Jabes | Stars: Gabriel Agüero, Eliane Chipia, Johanna Juliethe, Shakti Maal
Votes: 379
5. Making Love (1982)
R | 113 min | Drama
A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Wendy Hiller
Votes: 2,967 | Gross: $11.90M
6. The Happy Prince (2018)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama
The untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humor.
Director: Rupert Everett | Stars: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Colin Morgan
Votes: 5,889 | Gross: $0.47M
7. Bad Boy (2018– )
Short, Comedy
Scott, a mild-mannered gay writer in Los Angeles, gets wrapped up into a world of bad boys and their crazy, crime-filled family after they decide he's their "Daddy Scott", whether he likes it or not.
Stars: Artie O'Daly, Drew Canan, Alex Dyon, Alina Bock
Votes: 227
8. Other People (I) (2016)
Unrated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A struggling comedy writer, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worst year of his life, returns to Sacramento to care for his dying mother.
Director: Chris Kelly | Stars: Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, Bradley Whitford, Maude Apatow
Votes: 12,620 | Gross: $0.09M
9. Spiral (I) (2019)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A same-sex couple move to a small town to enjoy a better quality of life and raise their daughter with strong social values. But when neighbors throw a very strange party, nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood.
Director: Kurtis David Harder | Stars: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen, June Laporte, Ty Wood
Votes: 5,065
10. The Capote Tapes (2019)
98 min | Documentary, Biography
The rise and fall of Truman Capote, the iconic writer of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, as told by his friends and enemies.
Director: Ebs Burnough | Stars: Truman Capote, Kate Harrington, Dotson Rader, Sally Quinn
Votes: 659
11. Desire Will Set You Free (2015)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye. Based on a true story, the plot follows the ... See full summary »
Director: Yony Leyser | Stars: Yony Leyser, Tim-Fabian Hoffmann, Chloe Griffin, Amber Benson
Votes: 279
12. Some of My Best Friends (2001)
30 min | Comedy
Warren Fairbanks is a gay Greenwich Village writer. His sexual orientation isn't suspected initially by the fellow who has responded to his newspaper ad for a new roommate. Though the road ... See full summary »
Stars: Jason Bateman, Danny Nucci, Alec Mapa, Jessica Lundy
Votes: 295
13. Soap Opera (2023– )
Comedy
Screenwriter Isabel is betrayed by her mentor Lauro but when she decides to confront him Isabel ends up magically inside her soap opera, Rebound of Fate as the protagonist.
Stars: Monica Iozzi, Miguel Falabella, Caio Menck, Maria Bopp
Votes: 108
14. Rosie (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Lorenz Meran, (40) a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. When he finds ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Gisler | Stars: Sibylle Brunner, Fabian Krüger, Judith Hofmann, Sebastian Ledesma
Votes: 437
15. The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (2017)
91 min | Documentary
Following one of the world's most beloved storyteller's evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to re-claim their lives.
Directors: Jennifer M. Kroot, Bill Weber | Stars: Armistead Maupin, Laura Linney, Ian McKellen, Richard Thieriot
Votes: 825
16. The Latent Image (2019)
Not Rated | 21 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
A young writer retreats to an isolated cabin to work on a mystery thriller. One night, a mysterious stranger arrives at his door needing help.
Director: Alexander McGregor Birrell | Stars: Jay Clift, Joshua Tonks
Votes: 31
17. Death in Venice, CA (1994)
Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Drama, Romance
A stressed out writer's getaway is complicated by advances from a lascivious 17-year-old male relative.
Director: P. David Ebersole | Stars: Nick Rafter, Robert Glen Keith, Shirley Knight, John Forristal
Votes: 184
18. Poesias Para Gael (2017)
Short, Drama, Romance
Director: Victor Neves | Stars: Flávio Leimig, Victor Neves, Natalie Smith
Votes: 29
19. Estou com AIDS (1986)
75 min | Documentary
A documentary that reveals about the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. There's also interviews with famous Brazilian ... See full summary »
Director: David Cardoso | Stars: David Cardoso, Samir Achoa, Sandra Alegre, Aldo Angelica
Votes: 20
20. Poesias Para Gael 2 (2018)
Short, Drama, Romance
Director: Victor Neves | Stars: Flávio Leimig, Victor Neves, Natalie Smith
Votes: 10
21.
Feud (2017–2024)
Episode:
The Secret Inner Lives of Swans
(2024)
TV-MA | 46 min | Biography, Drama
In November 1975, the day after the Esquire article is published, Truman receives an inspiring visit from a fellow writer.
Director: Max Winkler | Stars: Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart
Votes: 545