Gay Films Featuring Crime - Gay Films Matter

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Islands

2017 Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Characters navigate a labyrinth of love and desire, where passion and longing intertwine.

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Unsettled

2024 Drama, Horror, Thriller

A young man is drugged and abducted from a gay club, escapes and seeks to bring his tormentors to justice in a deeply conservative Bible Belt Oklahoma.

Angel

1982 Drama, Romance

A handsome young Athenian attempts to escape his abusive alcoholic father and the grinding poverty of his daily life by falling in love with a macho sailor who promises him a better life.

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A Study in Red

2013 Drama

In a prologue, two acts and a musical number.

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The Interpreter

2019 Drama, Romance

Kaito, a Japanese-American interpreter in Tokyo, is hired to bridge the language gap between Jacob, an American pursuing a romance with a Japanese woman named Hiromi. But as he becomes increasingly involved in their lives, Kaito begins to notice unsettling inconsistencies that suggest someone is hiding a dangerous secret. To uncover the truth, he must step out from behind the scenes before it's too late.

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Matsalab

2025 Action, Comedy, Romance

In the aftermath of a chase, a wounded young stunna finds comfort in the hands of another.

The Editor

2014 Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A film editor gets embroiled in a string of murders.

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Aban and Khorshid

2014 Drama, Romance

Inspired by true events, this film intimately portrays two lovers' final moments before their execution for being gay.

An Eye for an Eye and a Hole for a Hole

2015 Comedy

Kenji, the young head of Kato yakuza organisation, just got out of the jail. He comes home and founds out the opposing Sawaki yakuza is invading Kato’s territory. Sawaki recruited Ikeyama and asked him to kill Kenji, but Ikeyama was Kenji’s lover who exchanged the cup of brothers in a jail.

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Light

2021 Romance

Scarred by a painful past and forced into sex work, Light struggles to believe a different life is possible. Everything begins to change when he crosses paths with Shuo, an undercover police officer who offers him a safe place to stay. As trust slowly replaces fear, Light must decide whether he's ready to leave his past behind and embrace the chance for a new beginning.

Dark Blue Almost Black

2006 Comedy, Drama, Romance

Just as his childhood sweetheart Natalia returns, his infertile brother Antonio asks Jorge to impregnate Paula, Antonio's imprisoned girlfriend.

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Adonis

2014 Drama, Romance, Thriller

Follows twin brothers whose bond is tested when one becomes consumed by the pursuit of bodybuilding, risking his health and the lives of those around him in an obsessive quest for physical perfection.

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The Raspberry Reich

2004 Comedy, Romance

A left-wing terrorist group, consisting of several gay men and a female leader, kidnaps the son of a wealthy industrialist.

A Florida Enchantment

1914 Comedy

A young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.

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The Fans

2020 Drama

In Moscow, two skinheads in a sexual relationship embark on a violent spree targeting homosexual men, grappling with masculinity, identity, and belonging in a provocative exploration of contemporary Russian society and extremism.

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Love Kills

2008 Drama

Young Tim leads an easy life - spoiled by his eccentric mother and his older, well-to-do boyfriend. Then, one day, he meets Bosi, a straight, low-level thug, and falls for him. Thus begins and impossible and potentially dangerous affair on the hard streets of Germany.

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Bullied

2010 Documentary, Drama

Everyday, thousands of gay and lesbian students are verbally and physically harassed in schools. Jamie Nabozny was tormented by classmates for years. He eventually fought back - not with his fists, but in a courtroom.

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Regrets

2011 Horror, Thriller

After waking beside a stranger with no memory of the night before, a man is overcome by an unsettling sense of dread. As eerie clues begin to surface.

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Kanbrik

2005 Drama

Amid the Atlas Mountains' backdrop and muezzin chants, a young man reflects on a lost lover.

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The Latent Image

2019 Horror, Thriller

A young writer retreats to an isolated cabin to work on a mystery thriller. One night, a mysterious stranger arrives at his door needing help.

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Fucked

2011 Drama

Sixteen-year-old Son celebrates finishing exams at a gay nightclub with his best girlfriend, but finds himself in a life-altering situation spurred by the music and atmosphere.

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Candy

2012 Horror

A man calls adult phone lines looking for a partner. Vic, a college student, is interested, but is too nervous to accept, prompting the caller to take matters into his own hand.

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Feriado

2013 Drama, Horror

A group of queer friends vacationing at a seaside house encounter unexpected dangers.

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Filius

2020 Drama, Thriller

By day, Cristo earns an honest living at a neighborhood market; by night, he takes freelance assassination jobs. When he's offered one last contract, what seems like a routine assignment spirals into a reckoning that forces him to confront the life he's built - and the man he has become.

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Marz

2017 Drama

A lifelong friendship faces an uncertain future when a brief encounter sparks unexpected and complex emotions that challenge both parties.

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The Embrace of Men

2019 Drama, Romance

After sharing a kiss while strolling along the Seine in Paris, two young men are assaulted by a group of thugs.

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Kali Ma

2007 Comedy, Thriller

An Indian mother takes justice into her own hands when she discovers her son is a victim of bullying.