Gay Documentary Movies & Short Films

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A Family Portrait

2011 Documentary

A story about a gay couple raising two young children, the documentary shows their will to overcome societal challenges using the power of timeless family values.

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Doggers

2015 Documentary

This documentary short film, produced in collaboration with Miguel Arroja, features footage capturing unique activities that impressed the filmmaker upon visiting in 2013, offering a firsthand experience of its intriguing environment.

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Consenting Adults 1: The Men

1967 Documentary

Explores how societal attitudes towards homosexuality impact a diverse group of interviewees, shedding light on personal struggles and societal change.

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Michael Lost and Found

2017 Documentary

Benjie seeks closure from his ex-boyfriend Michael, now an ex-gay evangelical, in a poignant exploration of identity and personal transformation.

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Bailão

2009 Documentary

A generation reminisces about its own memory — what was it like to be a queer man in decades past? With São Paulo in the background, they reflect about the urgency of a life that was kept hidden for so long. And it is at Bailão that these various stories converge.

The End of Cruising

2013 Documentary

A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.

Sex and the Silver Gays

2016 Documentary

A group of older gay men get together every month and have intimate parties.

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In a Strange Room

2020 Documentary

In the summer of 2008, Enzo travels to Berlin to work on a creative documentary and find a former lover.

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Motta

2020 Documentary

Brazilian artist Fabio da Motta explores photography's intersection with fantasy, power, and art.

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Positively Naked

2005 Documentary

Spencer Tunick's photography of 85 HIV-positive individuals marks POZ magazine's anniversary.

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Belonging

2020 Documentary

A parallel story of two generations of gay activism. Explores the impact and legacy of LGBTQI+ campaigner Rodney Croome through the lens of a road trip across the state by young Tasmanian Sam Watson. With archival footage and interviews with Sam and Rodney's families and friends, the film examines Tasmania's journey from a place of exclusion to inclusion, from prejudice to acceptance, from hatred to embrace.

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After Party

2017 Documentary

Follows two men as they film their breakup, using their emotions to document the passion of their relationship's final stage.

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Loveboard

2024 Documentary

An obsolete phone and the digital memory of a broken relationship. Both fragile, both recomposed to reveal the fragments of a first love. A playful reflection on what remains.

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Prey to Me

2024 Documentary

Two lovers cross the border in search of a common pleasure zone where they can let go between intensity and lasciviousness.

We Can Be Gay Today: Baltic Pride 2013

2014 Documentary

Chronicles the work of the Lithuanian Gay League and the historic 2013 Pride march, capturing a pivotal moment in the country's fight for LGBTQ+ equality as activists organized one of Lithuania's first major public demonstrations for equal rights.

Merchant Ivory

2023 Documentary

Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company.

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Pehlivan

1964 Documentary

In an ancient wrestling competition lasting three days, Pehlivan is called to fight, immersed in the intensity of the event.

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Facing a New Age

2008 Documentary

As the Stonewall generation confronts retirement, they grapple with the complexities of aging openly gay in a society still wrestling with equality, challenging their hard-won freedoms.

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AIDS: Doctors and Nurses tell their Stories

2017 Documentary

For the first time, doctors and nurses who cared for Britain's first AIDS patients in the 1980s tell of the extraordinary situation they found themselves in and the rules they had to break to help patients forgotten by the state.

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Tigger!

2016 Documentary

Celebrated as one of the leading figures in contemporary boylesque, Tigger! is a New York–based performance artist whose bold, theatrical style has helped redefine modern burlesque entertainment.

Gay Documentary Movies & Short Films

All Gay Documentary Films

A Family Portrait

Doggers

Consenting Adults 1: The Men

Michael Lost and Found

Bailão

The End of Cruising

Sex and the Silver Gays

In a Strange Room

Motta

Positively Naked

Belonging

After Party

Loveboard

Prey to Me

We Can Be Gay Today: Baltic Pride 2013

Merchant Ivory

Pehlivan

Facing a New Age

AIDS: Doctors and Nurses tell their Stories

Tigger!

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