Gay Films about Grief - Gay Films Matter

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Separate Rooms

2026 Drama, Romance

Fleeing from the image of his boyfriend who recently committed suicide, Leo arrives in England in order to descend into anonymity. Yet even here his mind continually turns to the reality of his lover’s death and their experiences together.

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Making It Fit

2026 Animation, Documentary

A look at the ways in which the members of the Queer community have been instinctively reinventing their grieving and celebration ceremonies for their late loved ones.

SHORT FILM

Hateful Dead

2025 Drama

David, a closeted football player, returns to his boyfriend Harman's grave to say goodbye. Once he mysteriously re-animates, David is forced to confront his own guilt. A difficult confrontation leads him to make a life-altering decision about how to move on.

Right Near the Beach

2020 Drama

When prominent Jamaican sprinter Jeffrey Jacobs is brutally murdered, rumors about the secret life he may have lived create public uproar, causing obstacles to the murder investigation and for Jeffrey’s father, who simply wants justice for his son.

Renaître

2025 Drama

After the death of her young actor husband, Rose, a 60-year-old artist, tries to overcome her grief with the help of her gay friend Ivan. He introduces her to “hot guys” just as she likes them, hoping to revive her taste for life.

Oh Happy Day

2007 Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two colleagues navigate the aftermath of a one-night stand just before starting a new job together, discovering that honesty and vulnerability are key to building a lasting relationship.

Onomatopeya

2024 Drama

a young man attempts to re-enter society by joining the workforce of a local supermarket.

Men in Love

1990 Drama, Romance

A man travels to a New Age center to cope with the death of his lover.

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Strokes

2024 Animation

A gay man tries to paint a portrait of his conservative father who has recently passed away.

Valhalla Dreams

2021 Drama

Hugh and Struan’s happy world as a couple in their tenth year together is turned upside down when Struan’s mother dies and they take in his father.

An Early Frost

1985 Drama

Young attorney Michael Pierson hasn't told his parents Nicholas and Katherine about his homosexuality. Now he must tell them that he has contracted AIDS - at a time when the diagnosis was still a death sentence.

Kanones ithikis – To xypnima tis anoixis

2020 Drama

A contemporary film adaptation of Frank Wedekind's 'Spring Awakenin' reimagined for the modern stage.

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Loves Company

2026 Comedy

Lonely Antoinette thinks she's been saved from misery when her favorite Hollywood personality, Blake de Troy, a washed-up, professional guest-star, crashes in the Florida swamps near her home. But don't meet (or kidnap) your idols.

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Keep Coming Back – A Year of Sobriety

2026 Romance

Gabriel is about to celebrate one year of sobriety when an unexpected eviction notice shatters his plans. As friends arrive for the cancelled dinner party, they refuse to leave him alone, turning the evening into an emotional confrontation with loss, guilt and friendship during a moment of crisis.

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Silim

2025 Drama

On the eve of his first Christmas after a deep personal loss, Hayden flees to the Philippines in hopes of escaping his rapidly devolving personal life. His desperate bid for human connection propels him through a roiling Manila night that brings him face to face with the last person he wants to see: himself.

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According to My Mother

2016 Comedy, Drama

After the death of his beloved aunt, Daniel, a gay, struggling actor, visits Esther, his devout Christian, Korean mother. Despite their differences, they try to heal together. But old habits die hard.

No Breathing

2013 Drama, Romance

Two very different restless youths join a swimming competition for love and friendship which is, in fact, a rite of passage to growing up.

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Toe Tag

2023 Drama

After discovering a mysterious toe tag on Fire Island, Sam Foster seeks to find its owner, unlocking a painful history he himself buried away.

One Deep Breath

2014 Drama, Thriller

Maël tries hard to cope with his partner Adam's suicide as well as their troubled past together. Patricia, also one of Adam's lovers, gets herself into danger in her attempt to help Maël in his grief.

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Distressed

2023 Comedy, Drama

Two widows from different generations and cultures meet in a grief support group: an older Asian American woman embracing life after loss, and a young French gay man struggling to let go of the past. An unexpected road trip along the Pacific Coast brings them together, helping them discover friendship, healing, and a renewed sense of hope.

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The Witching Hour

2023 Horror

Victor grieves the death of his father but late at night a mysterious entity claiming to be him plagues Victor’s mind with disturbing thoughts.

Torch Song Trilogy

1988 Comedy, Drama, Romance

Arnold is a gay man working as drag queen in New York City. He meets a bisexual man.

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Between Breath & Silence

2026 Drama

As his father’s health deteriorates, Tom returns home to a family he has kept at a distance. Over one difficult day, unspoken tensions surface as they face the reality of losing him, forcing Tom to confront everything he may have left too late to say.

The Sum of Us

1994 Comedy, Drama

A widowed father searches for love while supporting his gay son in his own pursuit of happiness.

B.O.Y. – Bruises of Yesterday

2024 Drama

A young man, who spends the summer with his grandparents, falls in love with another man, but when tragedy strikes he falls into a dark hole of self-harm, ldesire, and loneliness.

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EX

2023 Drama

A man tries to help his lover overcome an addiction, only to find out that change must come from within.

Guidance

2014 Comedy

Fabricating credentials to score a last-ditch job as a high school guidance counsellor, a boozing, drug-addled former child star becomes an improbable hit with his students by dispensing the worst advice possible.