Top 10 Must Watch Gay Movies
So here we are with our list of top 10 gay movies for our LGBT individuals but don’t worry if you are straight and want a sneak-peak into gay lives because these movies are gonna be interesting for you as well.This list is particularly for gay guys because they can relate with stories of these movies more than anyone else.Without any delay , let us start-
1. God’s Own country
Cast: Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu , Ian Hart, Gemma Jones
Director: Francis Lee
Ratings: 7.7/10 IMDB 85% Metacritic
Our View: So this is at position 1 in our list and it has all the reasons for it. This movie as perceived by me is a story of a depressed, unaccepted , fully torned from inside youth who changes and transforms into this beautiful and sensitive person with the help of a stranger who came into his life. This movie is a message to the harsh, prejudice society which is still biased towards LGBT community about how they are causing irreversible harm and unbearable pain in the lives of helpless homosexual individuals. This movie also throws light on the sanctity and truthfulness of gay relationships which many people think is purely sexual based and emotionless. With this movie director shows us the deep emotions and healing ability of love which two homosexual individuals share. This is a must watch tale of unseen love , change and happy ending.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1YAhyU6-tA
2. The Way He Looks
Cast: Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim
Director: Daniel Ribeiro
Ratings: 7.9/10 IMDB 71% Metacritic
This movie is based on a short film released in portuguese named ‘Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho’ . The story roams around a blind teenager boy who is good, sweet and cute all at the same time, But he is frustrated with over care and helping which he receives from his parents and friends, this makes him feel like he is some pitiful person who needs utmost care and attention. He wants to do things on his own and wants to go to America for further studies but his over-caring mother refuses the request. This story is about a blind boy who discovers his potential and sexuality along the course of his journey. This is also a beautiful story which is very hard to occur in real life but every gay guy dreams of it i.e. loving a person without knowing his sexuality and founding he is also gay not only that he is into you too. So you will experience never before emotions and unexplainable connection with the protagonist of this movie after watching it.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ardyebDVYw
3. Undertow
Cast: Cristian Mercado, Tatiana Astengo, Manolo Cardona
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Ratings: 7.7/10 IMDB 76% Metacritic
Well this movie holds the top third position in our list and this is because it is a very unusual story which makes it stand different from others. This story deals with dilemmas of a bisexual fisherman who lives in an orthodox town. The fisherman is married but he also shares a romantic homosexual relationship with a male photographer who came from outside of town. The plot involves supernatural element which makes story more deep and meaningful. Here we will not reveal plot of the movie , we want you to find it yourself. At most this movie is very moving and heart-touching which shows us how love can deeply affect a person, his psychology , personality and his viewpoints.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm1-tDY-esU
4. Milk
Cast: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch
Director: Gus Van Sant
Ratings: 7.6/10 IMDB 84% Metacritic
Now let’s get Political. This movie is about rights and freedom of LGBT individuals. This is real life story of “Harvey Milk” who became first openly gay official to be elected to California’s public office. This is the story of discrimination, oppression , unifying , protesting and snatching justice. We are putting it on number 4 because this story needs to be told and deserves appropriate platform. The story moves around struggles and difficulties faced by Harvey Milk and problems in his personal life. His never quitting attitude , persistent efforts for benefit of whole the LGBT community , excellent organizing skills , active and impactful methods of protest and wonderful motivational skills will make you fall in love with him. Besides if you are an LGBT individual yourself, it holds a special significance for you as it will tell you about the history of freedom and rights enjoyed by you now. You will also get to know about the life of previous generation LGBT individuals of US.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcbrY2wQpx4
5. Centre Of My World
Cast: Svenja Jung, Jannik Schümann, Bendix Hansen
Director: Jakob M. Erwa
Ratings: 7.2/10 IMDB 100% Rotten Tomatoes
So this movie is important for two reasons one is its unique mysterious plot and another its sexy character ‘Nicholas’ , you might wonder that should you watch a movie just because it has a sexy actor ? I’ll answer yes.
This movie has out of the world greek god actor ‘Jannik Schümann’ as ‘Nicholas’. Not only that he had done some most horny and most fantasised sex scenes in the movie. This is the second best reason to watch this movie because I bet any gay guy will drool over keyboard( if he is using a PC or Mac ) after watching those scenes. Lets come to the first best reason, the story is mainly about a single mother with her two kids and how they overcome various problems faced by all three of them because of his mother’s mysterious behaviour and an untold secret. This movie will leave you with a great shock besides that it is a sexy-masterpiece.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k521dEBRs8
6. Call Me By Your Name
Cast: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Ratings: 7.9/10 IMDB 93% Metacritic
There are very much chances that you might have heard about this film or even watched it. Comparatively new and winner of 2018 Academy Award for best writing adapted screenplay.The story shows a family with lavishing lifestyle in 1980’s Italy . The boy in family who is in his seventeens falls in love with a much older man who works as a research assistant for his father. The film is full of beautiful sceneries, the joyous and happy summer afternoons filled with greenery and fountains everywhere. I can assure you that you will find the depicted places enchanting , heavenly and magical. The film might seem slow but the beauty of places shown will compensate for that. Besides beautiful surroundings this movie is worth watching to understand the psychology of teens who falls in love with fully grown man and their state of minds while dealing with this feelings.Overall you’ll not regret your decision of watching CMBYN.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9AYPxH5NTM
7. Love, Simon
Cast: Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel
Director: Greg Berlanti
Ratings: 7.7/10 IMDB 92% Rotten Tomatoes
So I’ll say it seems a typical gay movie with a guy who is in closet and by the end of the film he finally comes in terms with his own feelings as well as feelings of his loved ones after knowing his secret. But Love, Simon is something more than that. The film aims at breaking various stereotypes about gay teens. It also shows us how drastically someone’s life changes after being open either good or bad. The film also have a message for all closeted gay people living out there to come out in open without any fears and shame and feels the joy one gets after coming out of the closet. This movie is again about love which our protagonist continuously tries to find in the film and ultimately finds his soulmate at the end of movie when he had lost all hope and went into despair. Watch Love, Simon if you like such stories.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0cbWdlQg_8
8. Moonlight
Cast: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes
Director: Barry Jenkins
Ratings: 7.4/10 IMDB 99% Metacritic
Again Academy Award Winner film of 2017 for Best Picture. Well moonlight deals with struggles of a young african-american boy ‘chiron’ . Chiron’s mother is a drug addict but chiron loves his mom very much (and who doesn’t )inspite of her unacceptable behaviour towards him. The problems just doesn’t end there he faces bullying as well as his strange and surprising sexual feelings towards same sex starts . The movie delivers a clear message that anyone can be gay regardless of Race and skin colour which is among it’s various
appreciable messages. The film might seem somewhat slow and very boring because time in film progresses but incidents take a very long time to occur. I’ll suggest moonlight only if you are interested in realistic stories and can tolerate temporary boredom of a movie.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NJj12tJzqc
9. Brokeback Mountain
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams
Director: Ang Lee
Ratings: 7.4/10 IMDB 87% Metacritic
One of the most famous gay movies of all times, Brokeback Mountain is an evergreen movie which will never lose its charm. It is in our list at number 9 just because it is quite old and a lot more inspiring and intimidating movies had come since its release. So it is a story of two young cowboys who went to Wyoming Mountains in order to herd sheep and guess what, they develop a sexual and emotional relationship over the course of their journey. But the movie is set in
1963 , the times when world was too cruel for such relationships so the movie is about how they keep their affair going in spite of getting married with two wonderful women and how they both deal with non understanding people around them. Ultimately, one of them dies and other. We revealed the plot of the movie because we think it is a very famous movie especially among LGBT community and there is no need to hide spoilers. Overall , we would say it’s an all time classic and you must watch it once in your lifetime.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMA30rThECg
10. Hidden Kisses
Cast: Patrick Timsit, Barbara Schulz, Bruno Putzulu
Director: Didier Bivel
Ratings: 7.4/10 IMDB not-reviewed Metacritic
So what makes Hidden Kisses stand out from others is the fact that it shows discrimination and bias in modern day France towards individuals belonging to LGBT community very boldly and in a intriguing manner. Story itself shows the miserable life of our protagonist, a teen, who is in great trouble just because of a picture which reveals his sexual orientation to whole school which then turns out to be more of a hell than school. To make his life worse his own love interest beats him and refuse to accept his own identity as a gay person. This movie beautifully depicts father-son relationship where father turns out to be very understanding, accepting and supporting. The ending is happy so you’ll have smile of hope on your face after watching the film which has a long emotional starting. It depicts all issues faced by today’s LGBT youth who doesn’t live in metropolitans from depression to being at the verge of suicide. If you want to watch something general and casual this movie is the best choice.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or7FcsBSOvs
Designed and Written By Anant-Saini.
1. God’s Own country
Cast: Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu , Ian Hart, Gemma Jones
Director: Francis Lee
Ratings: 7.7/10 IMDB 85% Metacritic
Our View: So this is at position 1 in our list and it has all the reasons for it. This movie as perceived by me is a story of a depressed, unaccepted , fully torned from inside youth who changes and transforms into this beautiful and sensitive person with the help of a stranger who came into his life. This movie is a message to the harsh, prejudice society which is still biased towards LGBT community about how they are causing irreversible harm and unbearable pain in the lives of helpless homosexual individuals. This movie also throws light on the sanctity and truthfulness of gay relationships which many people think is purely sexual based and emotionless. With this movie director shows us the deep emotions and healing ability of love which two homosexual individuals share. This is a must watch tale of unseen love , change and happy ending.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1YAhyU6-tA
2. The Way He Looks
Cast: Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim
Director: Daniel Ribeiro
Ratings: 7.9/10 IMDB 71% Metacritic
This movie is based on a short film released in portuguese named ‘Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho’ . The story roams around a blind teenager boy who is good, sweet and cute all at the same time, But he is frustrated with over care and helping which he receives from his parents and friends, this makes him feel like he is some pitiful person who needs utmost care and attention. He wants to do things on his own and wants to go to America for further studies but his over-caring mother refuses the request. This story is about a blind boy who discovers his potential and sexuality along the course of his journey. This is also a beautiful story which is very hard to occur in real life but every gay guy dreams of it i.e. loving a person without knowing his sexuality and founding he is also gay not only that he is into you too. So you will experience never before emotions and unexplainable connection with the protagonist of this movie after watching it.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ardyebDVYw
3. Undertow
Cast: Cristian Mercado, Tatiana Astengo, Manolo Cardona
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Ratings: 7.7/10 IMDB 76% Metacritic
Well this movie holds the top third position in our list and this is because it is a very unusual story which makes it stand different from others. This story deals with dilemmas of a bisexual fisherman who lives in an orthodox town. The fisherman is married but he also shares a romantic homosexual relationship with a male photographer who came from outside of town. The plot involves supernatural element which makes story more deep and meaningful. Here we will not reveal plot of the movie , we want you to find it yourself. At most this movie is very moving and heart-touching which shows us how love can deeply affect a person, his psychology , personality and his viewpoints.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm1-tDY-esU
4. Milk
Cast: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch
Director: Gus Van Sant
Ratings: 7.6/10 IMDB 84% Metacritic
Now let’s get Political. This movie is about rights and freedom of LGBT individuals. This is real life story of “Harvey Milk” who became first openly gay official to be elected to California’s public office. This is the story of discrimination, oppression , unifying , protesting and snatching justice. We are putting it on number 4 because this story needs to be told and deserves appropriate platform. The story moves around struggles and difficulties faced by Harvey Milk and problems in his personal life. His never quitting attitude , persistent efforts for benefit of whole the LGBT community , excellent organizing skills , active and impactful methods of protest and wonderful motivational skills will make you fall in love with him. Besides if you are an LGBT individual yourself, it holds a special significance for you as it will tell you about the history of freedom and rights enjoyed by you now. You will also get to know about the life of previous generation LGBT individuals of US.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcbrY2wQpx4
5. Centre Of My World
Cast: Svenja Jung, Jannik Schümann, Bendix Hansen
Director: Jakob M. Erwa
Ratings: 7.2/10 IMDB 100% Rotten Tomatoes
So this movie is important for two reasons one is its unique mysterious plot and another its sexy character ‘Nicholas’ , you might wonder that should you watch a movie just because it has a sexy actor ? I’ll answer yes.
This movie has out of the world greek god actor ‘Jannik Schümann’ as ‘Nicholas’. Not only that he had done some most horny and most fantasised sex scenes in the movie. This is the second best reason to watch this movie because I bet any gay guy will drool over keyboard( if he is using a PC or Mac ) after watching those scenes. Lets come to the first best reason, the story is mainly about a single mother with her two kids and how they overcome various problems faced by all three of them because of his mother’s mysterious behaviour and an untold secret. This movie will leave you with a great shock besides that it is a sexy-masterpiece.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k521dEBRs8
6. Call Me By Your Name
Cast: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Ratings: 7.9/10 IMDB 93% Metacritic
There are very much chances that you might have heard about this film or even watched it. Comparatively new and winner of 2018 Academy Award for best writing adapted screenplay.The story shows a family with lavishing lifestyle in 1980’s Italy . The boy in family who is in his seventeens falls in love with a much older man who works as a research assistant for his father. The film is full of beautiful sceneries, the joyous and happy summer afternoons filled with greenery and fountains everywhere. I can assure you that you will find the depicted places enchanting , heavenly and magical. The film might seem slow but the beauty of places shown will compensate for that. Besides beautiful surroundings this movie is worth watching to understand the psychology of teens who falls in love with fully grown man and their state of minds while dealing with this feelings.Overall you’ll not regret your decision of watching CMBYN.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9AYPxH5NTM
7. Love, Simon
Cast: Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel
Director: Greg Berlanti
Ratings: 7.7/10 IMDB 92% Rotten Tomatoes
So I’ll say it seems a typical gay movie with a guy who is in closet and by the end of the film he finally comes in terms with his own feelings as well as feelings of his loved ones after knowing his secret. But Love, Simon is something more than that. The film aims at breaking various stereotypes about gay teens. It also shows us how drastically someone’s life changes after being open either good or bad. The film also have a message for all closeted gay people living out there to come out in open without any fears and shame and feels the joy one gets after coming out of the closet. This movie is again about love which our protagonist continuously tries to find in the film and ultimately finds his soulmate at the end of movie when he had lost all hope and went into despair. Watch Love, Simon if you like such stories.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0cbWdlQg_8
8. Moonlight
Cast: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes
Director: Barry Jenkins
Ratings: 7.4/10 IMDB 99% Metacritic
Again Academy Award Winner film of 2017 for Best Picture. Well moonlight deals with struggles of a young african-american boy ‘chiron’ . Chiron’s mother is a drug addict but chiron loves his mom very much (and who doesn’t )inspite of her unacceptable behaviour towards him. The problems just doesn’t end there he faces bullying as well as his strange and surprising sexual feelings towards same sex starts . The movie delivers a clear message that anyone can be gay regardless of Race and skin colour which is among it’s various
appreciable messages. The film might seem somewhat slow and very boring because time in film progresses but incidents take a very long time to occur. I’ll suggest moonlight only if you are interested in realistic stories and can tolerate temporary boredom of a movie.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NJj12tJzqc
9. Brokeback Mountain
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams
Director: Ang Lee
Ratings: 7.4/10 IMDB 87% Metacritic
One of the most famous gay movies of all times, Brokeback Mountain is an evergreen movie which will never lose its charm. It is in our list at number 9 just because it is quite old and a lot more inspiring and intimidating movies had come since its release. So it is a story of two young cowboys who went to Wyoming Mountains in order to herd sheep and guess what, they develop a sexual and emotional relationship over the course of their journey. But the movie is set in
1963 , the times when world was too cruel for such relationships so the movie is about how they keep their affair going in spite of getting married with two wonderful women and how they both deal with non understanding people around them. Ultimately, one of them dies and other. We revealed the plot of the movie because we think it is a very famous movie especially among LGBT community and there is no need to hide spoilers. Overall , we would say it’s an all time classic and you must watch it once in your lifetime.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMA30rThECg
10. Hidden Kisses
Cast: Patrick Timsit, Barbara Schulz, Bruno Putzulu
Director: Didier Bivel
Ratings: 7.4/10 IMDB not-reviewed Metacritic
So what makes Hidden Kisses stand out from others is the fact that it shows discrimination and bias in modern day France towards individuals belonging to LGBT community very boldly and in a intriguing manner. Story itself shows the miserable life of our protagonist, a teen, who is in great trouble just because of a picture which reveals his sexual orientation to whole school which then turns out to be more of a hell than school. To make his life worse his own love interest beats him and refuse to accept his own identity as a gay person. This movie beautifully depicts father-son relationship where father turns out to be very understanding, accepting and supporting. The ending is happy so you’ll have smile of hope on your face after watching the film which has a long emotional starting. It depicts all issues faced by today’s LGBT youth who doesn’t live in metropolitans from depression to being at the verge of suicide. If you want to watch something general and casual this movie is the best choice.
Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or7FcsBSOvs
Designed and Written By Anant-Saini.
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