Gay Films about Grief - Gay Films Matter

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After

2020 Drama, Musical, Romance

A couple's once perfect relationship is turned upside-down as they deal with the loss of their daughter in opposite and conflicting ways.

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.

Black Dog

2023 Comedy, Drama

Two teenage boys from very different London backgrounds embark on a road trip North together. As they start to open up about their pasts, the boys learn they have far more in common than they first thought.

COMING SOON

A Long Winter

2026 Drama

After his mother disappears during the first blizzard of the season, a young man refuses to give up hope as one long Montana winter reshapes his relationship with his father and his understanding of the man he is becoming.

The Leather Boys

1964 Drama, Romance

An immature teenager enters a marriage with a young biker, only to become disillusioned with the realities of working-class life and her husband's close bond with his best friend.

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.

Drawn Back Home

2020 Drama

After the death of his father and end of his marriage, Eric becomes restless and rudderless. When an old friend comes to town looking to reconnect with Eric, the two must navigate unresolved issues of the past and uncertainties of the future.

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.

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Paper Airplanes

2022 Drama, Romance

Mateo goes through a confused homosexual and psychic awakening. The spirit of his mother, tries to say goodbye. At the same time, Mateo establishes a bizarre relationship with the spirit of Enrique, who has just committed suicide.

Love Songs

2007 Drama, Musical, Romance

Ismael and Julie enter a playful yet emotionally laced encounter with Alice. When tragedy strikes, these Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love.

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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Warm Smooth Mean

2015 Drama, Musical

When country singer River Nelson committed suicide, his young son Hunter was left grieving and looking for answers. Years later, Hunter attempts to track down Jerry Lee McCoy, his father's former bandmate, to find out what really happened between them all those years ago.

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Sunset Cemetery

2020 Romance

Joseph isn't particularly happy, even though he's good at hiding it. The day his brother dies, he becomes certain he'll miss out on his life. So that it doesn't slip away from him, one night, he gives in to his desire.

Winter Boy

2022 Drama

17-year-old Lucas is in his final year of boarding school when his father's sudden death shatters everything he took for granted. Filled with rage and despair, he visits his older brother in Paris to seek solace in this new city.

Counting for Thunder

2017 Comedy, Drama, Romance

An actor unlucky in work, money and love goes back home to the deep south to help out during a family crisis and is inspired to find his true voice as his mother is finally finding hers.

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Daddy

2024 Drama

After his father’s death, a grieving young man meets with his late father’s older friend and business partner. What begins as a tense reunion soon reveals buried emotions and blurred boundaries, forcing both to confront what they truly mean to each other.

Tropical Night

2017 Drama, Romance

After a South Korean soldier dies by suicide while on leave. Searching for answers, his younger brother travels to meet the man his brother loved, uncovering painful truths about grief, loss, and the bonds left behind.

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Swim

2011 Drama

Burdened by guilt over the death of a childhood friend, a filmmaker looks back on the moments that shaped his life, weaving together memories of friendship, pop culture, sexuality, and the lingering weight of regret.

COMING SOON

Trash Mountain

2026 Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young gay man returns from Chicago to his Missouri hometown after the death of his father, who struggled with hoarding.

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".

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With the Dust

2008 Drama, Romance

François's love for Michel is tested when Alice enters their lives, disrupting their delicate balance and challenging their understanding of love and commitment amidst youthful desires and societal expectations.

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Adult

2017 Drama

Having enabled a loss that now torments her, a woman enters an adult store in search of redemption. Adapted from a short story by Christos Tsiolkas.

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The Blame Silence

2025 Drama

After his father's death, Mauro, a farmer from the countryside, is confronted with a freedom he has long denied himself. Torn between guilt and longing, he must overcome years of fear to embrace, for the first time, the possibility of loving another man.

Clay Farmers

1988 Drama, Mystery

Mike works a quiet farm life with Dan, a drifter he's clearly drawn to. They grow close, along with Gary, a troubled teen from a nearby farm. But when a moment of innocent fun is twisted by suspicion, the small town turns against them.

A Jenkins Family Christmas

2021 Drama

After burying their father earlier in the year, two sisters must make Christmas happen without getting into arguments, but an unexpected twist arrive at the festivities.

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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.

Gemmel & Tim

2021 Documentary, Drama

Friends reminisce on the lives and deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, two black gay men who died at the hands of West Hollywood politico Ed Buck.