Gay Thriller Movies & Short Films

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Sugar Pine Falls

2017 Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Monty is 16 and can't yet shake the responsibility of looking after his emotionally erratic mum. When they arrive at the Sugar Pine Caravan Park, Monty forms an unexpected friendship with James; an intriguing and artistic older boy.

Birder

2023 Drama, Thriller

Birdwatcher Kristian Brooks disrupts a queer campground in New Hampshire, challenging notions of consent.

NEW

The Activist

2025 Thriller

A young man infiltrates a radical neo-Nazi group to find the killer of his LGBT+ activist boyfriend.

Monster

2023 Drama, Thriller

As her young son Minato begins behaving strangely, his mother senses something amiss. Upon discovering a teacher's involvement, she confronts the school, demanding answers.

Graupel Poetry

2011 Drama, Thriller

Inseparable brothers Leung and Ming move to the city to chase their dreams of becoming actors. Their bond deepens into an intimacy that crosses taboo boundaries, leaving Leung trapped in his brother’s shadow. As he struggles to step back from their entanglement, he finds himself unable to escape a reality that has already begun to collapse.

Nevrland

2019 Drama, Horror, Thriller

A 17-year-old with an anxiety disorder develops a virtual friendship with a 26-year-old artist, leading to unexpected events when they finally meet in person.

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Discreet

2025 Thriller

A young man’s longing grows into an all-consuming obsession as he attempts to remake himself in the likeness of another.

Rapture in Blue

2020 Horror, Thriller

Wracked with desires he's long tried to ignore, the lines between real and unreal blur into obscurity for an anxious young man who's just encountered the insidious new boy living in his childhood home.

The Year I Lost My Mind

2017 Drama, Thriller

A lonely young man becomes obsessed with a stranger, leading to a dangerous game of stalking and confrontation that turns the tables unexpectedly.

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Night Stage

2025 Drama, Romance, Thriller

An actor and a politician embark on an affair that spirals into a shared fetish for public sex. As their fame grows, so does their hunger for increasingly dangerous encounters.

The Prodigy

2024 Horror, Thriller

Street hustler Adam has just about given up on life. When he finds himself held captive at the mercy of a deranged psychopath, he must decide whether to give up or fight.

Rotting in the Sun

2023 Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Sebastián Silva is detached from life, struggling to succeed in the art world and habitually taking ketamine. When he meets social media influencer Jordan Firstman at a nudist beach, the two discuss collaborating, but fate has other plans.

Downriver

2015 Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Although a young man is accused of drowning a little boy and is placed in juvenile detention, he has little memory of the event. Now, out on parole, he searches for answers that may give a grieving mother closure.

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The Cruise

2020 Horror, Thriller

On Halloween night, a gay couple ventures into the woods to conjure up an urban legend.

COMING SOON

Forty Love

2026 Drama, Romance, Thriller

Sacha Gallo is a rising tennis star chasing victory in Paris under the guidance of his demanding father. But when a charismatic new rival enters his life, Sacha faces an unexpected challenge that forces him to question ambition, identity and the one opponent he never prepared for: love.

NEW

Body Blow

2025 Mystery, Thriller

Aiden, a young cop, embarks on a risky undercover mission where he meets Cody, a captivating male sex worker controlled by a drug lord drag queen. Aiden dives into a perilous world, getting entangled in a deadly police conspiracy.

NEW

Fraternity

2024 Drama, Thriller

Carlos and Dani enter a university residence and accept the challenge of hazing in order to fit in and make friends. What starts as a fun game soon turns into a perverse spiral where they will have to face the worst of themselves.

A Useful Ghost

2025 Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Worried about her husband being allergic to dust, Nat, a recently-dead woman, returns as a ghost possessing a vacuum cleaner to clean the house and protect her family from other vengeful ghosts in the house. To become a useful ghost, she needs to get rid of the useless ones.

SHORT FILM

Salt

2016 Thriller

A reclusive computer technician wanders into a hidden online realm of unnerving desires and meets a man who shares his fixation. Their arranged meeting unfolds into a night that alters them in a way neither can reverse.

Misrule

2017 Thriller

Security Services officer Christian, confused and unsure of who he really is anymore, must come to terms with his own identity while on the hunt for a Russian agent.

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Leviticus 20:13

2023 Thriller

Damien, consumed by obsession, prowls the city at night in search of gay-friendly venues, driven by a lifetime of buried abuse. What follows is a violent ritual of revenge, both bloody and cathartic.

The One You Feed

2020 Drama, Thriller

An injured stranger wakes in a remote, timeworn house, tended to by a man and woman whose strange behavior suggests they’re anything but ordinary.

Hot Guys with Guns

2013 Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller

Danny and his ex, Pip, enlist the help of a jaded private investigator to stop a crime spree sending shock waves through a Hollywood community.

Into the Lion’s Den

2011 Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller

When three gay men on a cross-country road trip enter a redneck bar, the culture clash has deadly results.

SHORT FILM

Trip

2023 Horror, Thriller

A man relives the terrifying night his best friend disappeared.

Reckless

2014 Thriller

Two ex-cons kidnap a millionaire's daughter and hold her for ransom, only to see their scheme go awry when she proves herself to be more cunning than expected.

SHORT FILM

Stink

2024 Thriller

Obsessed with the scent of his victims, a stalker pushes boundaries like never before in his pursuit of his latest obsession.

Gay Thriller Movies & Short Films

Sugar Pine Falls

Birder

The Activist

Monster

Graupel Poetry

Nevrland

Discreet

Rapture in Blue

The Year I Lost My Mind

Night Stage

The Prodigy

Rotting in the Sun

Downriver

The Cruise

Forty Love

Body Blow

Fraternity

A Useful Ghost

Salt

Misrule

Leviticus 20:13

The One You Feed

Hot Guys with Guns

Into the Lion’s Den

Trip

Reckless

Stink

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