Disability/Illness in Gay Movies

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The Consequences of Monsters

2026 Compilation, Horror

Across decades, the echoes of past horrors shape the nightmares of the present in this anthology feature of queer bedtime stories - where every choice leaves a shadow, and every monster comes with a consequence.

Serviced

2019 Documentary

Serviced explores touch based service businesses including cuddling, erotic massage, sex surrogacy and sex work.

A Silent Agreement

2017 Drama, Romance

A stammering writer reaches out to an industry mentor, with the encouragement of his profoundly deaf partner, only to be betrayed by the mentor and forced to find his own resilience.

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Close To

1997 Drama

Two men have a brief encounter in a New York City subway that sets off feelings of anxiety and desperation.

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Yeah No Definitely

2007 Drama

A repressed young man struggles to confront his buried grief and desire. At a summer party, his intense bond with a friend turns volatile, leading to a dangerous eruption of emotion. A haunting look at denial and self-deception.

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Zerch

2015 Drama, Horror, Romance

Zerch asks his boyfriend Cano to do something terrible for him. Cano, driven by a powerful love, agrees without knowing he is about to sacrifice more than he imagined.

Memorabilia

2024 Drama

As an older gay man lies dying in a hospital room, he tries to remember all of his past lovers. Over the years, he had filmed many of his lovers as a way to capture them, but now the films are disintegrating – fading away just like his memories.

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Like Father

2017 Drama

A Jewish New Yorker is bedridden patriarch dying of lung cancer, confesses for the first time to son that he was always attracted to men. Despite his long-lasting marriage and faithfulness to wife.

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Inflatable Swamp

2010 Drama

att's journey reconciling carnal desires with emotional needs when Luke enters his life.

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Freefall

2017 Drama, Romance

After Ivan was diagnosed with ALS, his relationship with Lucas is challenged when he starts to lose control of his own body.

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Naked Men in the Woods

2022 Comedy, Drama

A complicated marriage: She has a tumor, he is gay, both conceal the fact. The chase is on when she believes that he has an affair.

Millionaire Man

2017 Drama

On his deathbed, a wealthy man looks back on the life changing mistake that made his fortune. After his mother's death, he was broke, grieving and close to homelessness until two strangers offered him an opportunity that changed everything.

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Shelly’s Leg

2025 Documentary

In 1970, an eccentric young stripper named Shelly Baumann loses her leg in a freak parade canon accident, then uses her settlement money to open 'Shelly's Leg' disco - one of the nation's first and most consequential openly gay spaces.

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Pittsburgh

2013 Drama

A gay couple, navigating commitment issues, have a pivotal conversation complicated by one partner's deafness, requiring a unique form of communication.

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I Scream Your Name

2015 Comedy, Drama

Living in a retirement home, Nicolas struggles with growing loneliness and the monotony of daily life. Seeking comfort through anonymous phone companionship, his routine is unexpectedly transformed when a new resident named Daniel arrives, opening the door to an unlikely connection.

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The Package

2013 Drama, Romance

In Sao Paulo, Leandro navigates a blossoming relationship with Jefferson, facing challenges when Jefferson reveals he is HIV-positive, prompting Leandro to reassess their future together.

Blue

1993 Drama

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman’s experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

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Middle Man

2014 Comedy, Drama

Davie's new job at a call center for the deaf throws him into a dramatic encounter between a feuding couple, revealing the complexities of communication and relationships.

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Fufu

2022 Romance

Two husbands, Tatsuki and Yudai have been for many years. It is getting closer to the day that Yudai will say goodbye. Now, their memories are flashing.

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You Don’t Know Jack

2023 Comedy

Jack is always on the hunt for hook-ups until he meets his match with physical challenges.

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Victor’s Body

2020 Documentary

A baby is born, but does not cry. A body screams and is not heard. Paints that run in a promised future do not reach a person with a disability. Victor makes himself the canvas in a universe of absent painters.

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An Ordinary Night

1996 Comedy, Drama

After a night out, a young French man rides his bicycle through the streets of the city, making his way to his boyfriend’s home for an intimate evening together.

Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda

2014 Documentary

As most of the world moves forward toward gay equality, Russia is seemingly heading backward. Antigay sentiment and legislation are spreading rapidly throughout the country. In 2013, the Russian parliament passed a ban on so-called 'gay propaganda' that effectively makes nearly any public discussion of gay equality a crime. It is my hope that this documentary will educate viewers to their reality.

Sleight

2020 Drama

When a degenerative neurological disorder takes over his life, Dennis Clemens must learn to find happiness amidst the destruction of his mind.

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The Last Kiss

2018 Drama

Ant and Tremor meet up in a hotel lobby in downtown Chicago. Tremor is moving to Florida tomorrow, so this is the last chance they have to express their feelings for each other.

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ShirtTugger

2022 Drama

Max has Binge Eating Disorder. After another secret late night binge, Max spends the next day dodging "food noise" as he tries to keep his struggles from his partner and everyone else. Will Max keep his dark secret another day? Or is today the day that Max will finally break the cycle?

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The Night Belongs to Children

2017 Documentary

A filmmaker reflects on his lifelong struggle with anorexia nervosa, from childhood through adolescence, and explores his complex relationship with food as an adult.