Gay Films Featuring Crime - Gay Films Matter

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Richard & Gilbert

2015 Horror

A quiet village grapples with a series of chilling and inexplicable homicides.

Cloudy Clouds

2021 Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Seventeen-year-old Paul is drawn to the strange and mysterious, like stealth trails and abandoned places. His peculiar interests attract his classmate Dala and his teacher Mr. Bulwer, both intrigued by his enigmatic nature. When a boy's body is found in the forest, their hidden desires come to the surface.

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Lady Champagne

2026 Action, Comedy

Champagne is one of San Francisco’s most notorious dancers. When she’s framed for her recent hubby’s death, she must outwit sinister businesswomen, incompetent detectives and sadistic prison guards.

Martinez, Margaritas and Murder!

2025 Comedy, Horror, Mystery

As Freddy Martinez's friends are murdered one by one, he is recruited by a private investigator to help set a trap for the killer responsible: The Bedroom Butcher.

Party Monster

1998 Documentary

Explores the rise and fall of Club Kid legend Michael Alig in 1996, focusing on his relationship with his dealer/roommate Angel Melendez.

The Everlasting Secret Family

1988 Drama, Romance

A youth becomes a senator's lover, realizing he's valued only for his youth, and schemes for change.

AKA

2002 Drama, Romance

Dean, seeking a new identity in 1970s Britain, enters high society while navigating love and deception, questioning the sacrifices needed to maintain his charade.

The Boy and the Wind

1967 Drama, Mystery

A young engineer on holiday befriends a boy with a mysterious relationship with the wind. Their close bond raises suspicions in a small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of his murder.

The Big Night (La notte brava)

1959 Drama

Scinttilone and Ruggeretto's escapades in Rome lead to a night of adventure and self-discovery, blurring lines between friendship and survival.

Johns

1996 Drama, Romance

It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a night worker on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel.

The Ploy

2016 Drama, Thriller

In the summer of '75, Pier Paolo Pasolini's film "Salò" is stolen from the lab where he is editing it, setting off a chain of events leading to the poet's violent death.

Confessions of a Congressman

1978 Drama

Forbidden love between a politician and a teenage hustler hired by secret police for blackmail. Their relationship takes an unexpected romantic turn, leading to a dangerous situation involving betrayal and potential murder.

Lakki

1992 Drama

A friendless, lonely boy dreams of escape from a troubled home with neglectful, alcoholic parents and an absent father.

One Taxi Ride

2019 Documentary

Erick's life changed forever when he got into a taxi. The driver and two accomplices sexually assaulted him. The then 17-year-old never went to the police, never saw a doctor and never told his family or friends. After feeling broken for 10 years, he goes on a journey to reclaim his life - changing the world around him along the way.

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The Venmo Vanisher

2023 Comedy

Set in Los Angeles, Greg goes on a desperate search for Loine after he goes missing but still hasn’t paid Greg back from brunch.

Life Like

2019 Sci-Fi, Thriller

An idealistic, attractive young couple acquires a stunning, life-like robot named Henry for guilt-free help; but, as the three grow closer, their perception of humanity will be altered forever.

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Insomnia

2018 Drama, Mystery

A young man, alone in his room, is visited by a mysterious voice, who forces him to reveal the murder he committed.

COMING SOON SHORT FILM

Esta Noche

2027 Comedy, Drama, Romance

Seventeen-year-old Benni, a gay Latin American runaway experiencing homelessness, prepares for his first drag competition with his older boyfriend, RJ. But after a brutal assault turns the day upside down, Benni must decide whether he can still take the stage — and what performing now means to him.

Half Brother

2018 Drama

Sandra's mother has been missing for days. Disoriented and without money, she asks Jorge, her distant half brother, for help, but after recording a homophobic aggression, he is being threatened to not release the images.

Innocent Noir

2013 Romance

An assassin whose specialize is to make his hits look like suicide has a fateful encounter with a barkeeper and soon the two young men dream of a better future together in the countryside.

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I Wouldn’t Wish the Eighties on Anyone!

2013 Comedy, Drama, Horror

Set in the 1980s, a troubled young man seeks help to unburden a dark secret, only to find his psychiatrist is more interested in seducing him than saving him.

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Hot Legs

1995 Drama, Thriller

Tim holds Dave, the man he once love in high school captive, the same man who beat up and humiliated him when they were teenagers, now Tim want answers for the betrayal that ends up badly.

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Out to Run: A Tale of Blood Velvet

2024 Drama, Horror

A gay couple is attacked by vampires that drink the blood of queer people.

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Actos impuros

1993 Horror, Thriller

Oscar's work at a public bath takes a dark turn as he becomes entangled in a series of murders.

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The Motive

2026 Drama, Mystery

A famed Detective arrives to a remote mansion to find a Murderer standing over the body of someone he just killed, and desperately tries to get him to confess his motive.

Papillon

2017 Drama

Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter, Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

Upstairs Inferno

2015 Documentary

On June 24, 1973, a gay bar in New Orleans called the Up Stairs Lounge was deliberately set on fire: an event that for over 40 years, was considered the "Largest Gay Mass Murder in U.S. History".