2025 Gay Movies & Short Films

Plainclothes

2025 Drama, Romance, Thriller

A promising undercover agent assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target.

Twinless

2025 Comedy, Drama

Two young men cross paths in a twin bereavement support group. What begins as awkward small talk between two strangers gradually turns into a raw and unexpected friendship. As they navigate the blurry line between healing and holding on, their bond becomes a lifeline neither saw coming.

COMING SOON

Free at Heart

2025 Drama, Romance

Sebastian’s life is turned upside down when his family takes in Kolja, the son of his father’s late girlfriend. The two discover they are brothers, and what begins as a strong bond soon grows into forbidden love. Their secret is eventually exposed, forcing the family to confront the judgment of their small-town community.

Pillion

2025 Drama, Romance

A directionless man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

The History of Sound

2025 Drama, Musical, Romance

In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over their mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.

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Only Good Things

2025 Drama, Romance

In the countryside of Brazil in 1984, a lonely farmer discovers his world turned upside down after rescuing a motorcyclist who crashes near his land. As the two men grow closer, an unexpected romance blossoms, pushing them to confront deep emotions and the limits of the lives they’ve always known.

SHORT FILM

Practically Gay

2025 Drama, Romance

Paige and Brent are in a happy, apparently heteronormative relationship. They invite Alex, whose boyfriend Sean has just broken up with him at a family wedding, to go for a night swim in their pool. Over the course of the evening, Alex learns some surprising truths about his friends, which just may give Alex the confidence he needs to put his own truth back out into the world.

SHORT FILM

Two Black Boys in Paradise

2025 Animation

Eden and Dula are two Black boys on a journey of self-acceptance. Their love for each other, and their refusal to hide it, lands them in a paradise free from shame and judgement. Based on the poem by Dean Atta.

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Departures

2025 Comedy, Drama, Romance

Benji encounters Jake at an airport gate, sensing attraction. Their relationship unfolds through Amsterdam trips and intimacy, revealing complex power dynamics.

SHORT FILM

Why Did You Invite Me to Your Wedding

2025 Drama

When Kevin Atwater gets a bizarre invitation out of the blue from an old friend, he’s met with tumultuous feelings of past love, heartbreak, and grief. Inspired by the true story told in Atwater's acclaimed song of the same title

On Swift Horses

2025 Drama

Muriel and her husband Lee are about to begin a bright new life, which is upended by the arrival of Lee's brother. Muriel embarks on a secret life, gambling on racehorses and discovering a love she never thought possible.

SHORT FILM

Outed

2025 Comedy

An overbearing mother implores her horny son to resist his urges to save him from the fate she endured.

The Male Gaze: Reality Bites

2025 Compilation

There exists a line between resistance and satisfaction, faith and sin, pleasure and danger. These six short films explore how in all our lives, there exists the temptation to cross that line.

The Male Gaze: Breaking Dawn

2025 Compilation

5 short film from France, Switzerland, Brazil and Romania. Reality takes an unexpected detour, and things turn out a little differently when sunrise comes.

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A True Story

2025 Drama

During a hot summer in Rome, Giulio and Alessio begin a brief romance that catches them both off guard. What starts as something fleeting quickly grows into a tenderness neither of them expected.

SHORT FILM

A Friend of Dorothy

2025 Comedy, Drama

A lonely widow's quiet life is upended when a teenage boy accidentally kicks his football into her garden.

Sandbag Dam

2025 Drama

In a flood-threatened village, Marko's life is turned upside down when Slaven returns for his father's funeral and rekindles their forbidden romance. Marko must confront his family and make a difficult choice.

SHORT FILM

Just Friends

2025 Drama

A tender story of unrequited love between a young gay man and his straight best friend, set in the summer of New York City.

SHORT FILM

No Man Is an Island

2025 Documentary, Drama

Combining dramatic re-enactments with restored archival footage, the film explores the painful consequences of public humiliation in a tight-knit island community. As fear spreads over the upcoming changes to laws around gay relationships, the media steps in as an unofficial enforcer, pressuring men to hide their identities even beyond the reach of the courts.

The Parenting

2025 Comedy, Horror

A couple rents a countryside house for a weekend with their parents and then discover it's inhabited by a 400-year-old poltergeist.

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Blowie

2025 Comedy, Horror

A group of sex workers rent a mansion in the middle of nowhere to shoot adult content. After a tragic accident they are stalked by Blowie - the doll-faced killer.

Perro Perro

2025 Comedy, Drama, Romance

During a trip, Juan discovers a mysterious man behaving like a dog, lost and alone. Moved by compassion, he takes the man in, tending to him with food, gentle care, and affection. But Juan’s girlfriend warns him that becoming emotionally involved could have unexpected consequences.

10Dance

2025 Drama, Romance

Two accomplished dancers, Shinya Sugiki and Shinya Suzuki, team up to challenge themselves by learning each other’s styles ahead of a major competition. As they train, lingering rivalries resurface and an unexpected attraction begins to blur the line between rivalry and partnership.

According to Otto

2025 Comedy

Welcome to the world of Otto, today he's coming out.

SHORT FILM

Sunset Lullaby

2025 Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a future where androids blend seamlessly with humans, they face a mandatory memory wipe every 25 years. On the eve of this reset, Adam spends one last day with his android partner, Noah, grappling with the heartbreak of watching the man he loves slowly forget their life together as the sun sets.

SHORT FILM

Meat Raffle

2025 Comedy, Drama

When a closeted father fears his son might be about to come out as gay, he becomes desperate to reaffirm his own masculinity. His solution? To secretly fix his local pub’s Christmas turkey raffle - a misguided bid to show himself, and everyone else, what a “real man” looks like.

COMING SOON

On the Road

2025 Drama, Thriller

Veneno, a rebellious drifter who survives on fleeting encounters with truckers, persuades Muñeco, a guarded driver, to take him on a long haul across northern Mexico. As desire and trust slowly grow between them, Veneno’s dark past resurfaces, threatening to destroy them both.

Gay Films from 2025

All Gay Films from 2025

Plainclothes

Twinless

Free at Heart

Pillion

The History of Sound

Only Good Things

Practically Gay

Two Black Boys in Paradise

Departures

Why Did You Invite Me to Your Wedding

On Swift Horses

Outed

The Male Gaze: Reality Bites

The Male Gaze: Breaking Dawn

A True Story

A Friend of Dorothy

Sandbag Dam

Just Friends

No Man Is an Island

The Parenting

Blowie

Perro Perro

10Dance

According to Otto

Sunset Lullaby

Meat Raffle

On the Road

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