Gay Films Featuring Mature Gay Men

Fox and His Friends

1975 Drama, Romance

After winning the lottery, a suggestible working-class man falls prey to his bourgeois boyfriend and materialistic friends, testing his values and self-worth.

La Cage aux Folles

1978 Comedy

About the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag performances and his star attraction are a gay couple. Chaos ensues when his straight son brings home his fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents for a visit.

La cage aux folles II

1980 Comedy

A gay couple becomes entangled in a web of intrigue involving cops and spies over stolen microfilm.

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Lay-by

2024 Comedy

A closeted man gets more than he bargained for on his first gay hookup.

The Celluloid Closet

1995 Documentary

Surveying Hollywood's depictions and societal attitudes toward homosexuals throughout North American film history.

Flawless

1999 Drama

A conservative guard's stroke leads to singing lessons with a drag queen, challenging his beliefs.

American Beauty

1999 Drama

A father faces a mid-life crisis when he becomes infatuated with his daughter's charismatic best friend, navigating desire, morality, and the complexities of aging.

Wonder Boys

2000 Comedy, Drama

An English professor struggles with his wife leaving him, his editor's demands for a long-overdue book, and the chaotic issues of his friends and associates.

An Almost Ordinary Summer

2019 Comedy, Romance

Two very different families share a seaside holiday home. One is wealthy, eccentric and carefree. The other is working class, close knit and traditional. Their uneasy balance shatters when Tony and Carlo reveal they are engaged, turning a quiet summer into a moment that changes everything.

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The Unknown Man

2021 Drama

Flemish writer Louis travels to Côte d'Azur, hoping the resplendent isolation will bring him the inspiration he needs to overcome his writer's block.

Boy

2012 Drama

Follows an undocumented Filipino cleaner balancing life with his dancer boyfriend and supporting his family back home. His world changes when his boyfriend auditions for a dance company, an employer dies, and a photographer invites him to model.

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The Girl That Got Away

2023 Documentary

A four decades playing tough guy roles, a Mexican-American actor navigates their gender identity at the risk of job security and family acceptance.

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Clothes & Blow

2018 Comedy, Drama

Daniel juggles a hectic London life with introspection sparked by his visiting mother, questioning his authenticity along the way.

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

2005 Comedy, Romance

Balancing his career as a personal assistant, a young gay man searches for love amid the challenges of modern life.

Antibodies

2005 Drama, Horror, Thriller

Serial killer Gabriel Engel is arrested, and small-town cop Michael Martens travels to interrogate him, discovering more than he expected.

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And Just Two More

2021 Drama

In Iran, a man living with his male mannequin lover faces bureaucratic hurdles to include his companion in the national census.

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Nightswimming

2009 Romance

Breaking into a swimming facility, runaways Luke and Ellen become entangled with Martin, leading to unexpected emotional conflicts.

The Man of My Life

2006 Drama, Romance

Frédéric's encounter with Hugo during a summer holiday in Provence disrupts his family dynamics.

Back Soon

2007 Drama, Romance

Logan and Guillermo, drawn together after personal losses, navigate a complex relationship that challenges their identities and pasts. As secrets unravel, their bond faces a transformative test.

Boystown

2007 Comedy

In Madrid's Chueca, Victor murders elderly owners to sell apartments to affluent gay couples, aiming to transform the area. Ray inherits a victim's apartment, causing tension with his mother Antonia and drawing Inspector Mila's investigation as Victor targets Antonia through Leo.

On the Go

2023 Comedy, Drama

Milagros embraces her carefree youth in the final years of her fertility, while Jonathan turns to Grindr to cope with abandonment issues. Their journey unfolds like a delirious road movie filled with music, guided by a mysterious mermaid who steers their course.

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Stepdaddy

2019 Comedy

Two estranged friends rediscover their profound incompatibility over dinner, only to learn that the one thing they share might force them together, forever.

Handsome Harry

2009 Drama

A retired Navy diver fulfills a dying friend's final request, reopening old wounds and reconnecting with former comrades to uncover a buried wartime secret.

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Matinee Baby

2024 Comedy

Best friends Robby and Noah Lee, who work at Portland’s historic Clinton Street Theater, are suddenly surrounded by a stream of increasingly odd and unpredictable romantic prospects.

Gods and Monsters

1998 Drama

Academy Award winner James Whale, acclaimed creator of the Frankenstein movies, begins an unlikely friendship with his handsome gardener.

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Stranger Out of You

2019 Drama, Thriller

After meeting his ideal man, obsession quickly morphs into possession that ventures beyond reality.

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Night Disclosure

2021 Drama, Romance

Marc's nightcap celebration with his married boss triggers a journey into blurred boundaries and personal truths, challenging conventional ideas of trust and fidelity in both professional and personal realms.