1987 Gay Movies & Short Films

Maurice

1987 Drama, Romance

Two English school friends fall in love at Cambridge. To regain his social standing, Clive abandons Maurice and marries. Maurice finds new love with the gamekeeper Alec while staying with Clive and his wife.

Withnail and I

1987 Comedy, Drama

Two substance-abusing actors' holiday in 1969 countryside proves disastrous as their friendship unravels.

Prick Up Your Ears

1987 Drama

Biographer John Lahr writes about playwright Joe Orton, chronicling Joe's ten-year relationship with Kenneth. Both aspiring writers, only Joe finds success, straining their bond.

Law of Desire

1987 Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A gay filmmaker navigates an obsessive fan while yearning for a lost love and managing a complex relationship with his trans sister.

Two of Us

1987 Drama, Romance

Two schoolboys explore their budding romantic feelings amidst homophobic hostility from peers and family, leading them to run away together.

Temptation of the Mask

1987 Drama, Horror

An adopted orphan, in love with his sister and traumatized by abuse, becomes an arsonist as a gay detective investigates him.

SHORT FILM

Ostia

1987 Drama

Pier Paolo Pasolini takes up with a young man and journeys to Ostia, and his death.

Jeux d’artifices

1987 Comedy, Drama, Romance

Elisa and Eric are two teenage war orphans. They change their apartment on the outskirts of the city into a photo-studio to make a living, and they are very devoted to it. The two seem to live like heavenly beings without connecting to the outside world. They live in harmony until a young man, whom Elisa falls for, eventually leaves with Eric for the USA and left her brokenhearted alone in France.

SHORT FILM

A Moffie Called Simon

1987 Documentary

A collage of found footage from different media presenting the case of Simon Nkodi, a black gay activist and student leader in South Africa, who had been in jail for two years when the film was produced. Exploring the connections between anti-apartheid struggles and gay liberation, A Moffie Called Simon is based on letters from Nkodi to his lover, Ray, a Canadian gay journalist.

SHORT FILM

My New Friend

1987 Drama

An older man meets and becomes fascinated by a younger man in this somewhat autobiographical tale.

A Month in the Country

1987 Drama

Two soldiers recover from the first World War while spending a summer in a Yorkshire village.

Gay Films from 1987

All Gay Films from 1987

Maurice

Withnail and I

Prick Up Your Ears

Law of Desire

Two of Us

Temptation of the Mask

Ostia

Jeux d’artifices

A Moffie Called Simon

My New Friend

A Month in the Country

1987 Collections

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