Gay Films about Religion - Gay Films Matter

Ready? OK!

2008 Comedy

A single mom struggles to understand her young son's obsession with dresses, dolls, and girls' cheerleading. With her father's recent death and her wayward brother's return home. they must all learn to face reality and what being a family truly means.

I Am Samuel

2020 Documentary

An intimate portrait of a Kenyan man torn between balancing duty to his family with his dreams for his future.

A Queer Country

2016 Documentary

Israel is governed by Orthodox civil law and yet hosts the world's biggest gay pride. Is this a cynical marketing ploy or a political awakening?.

Cut Sleeve Boys

2006 Comedy, Romance

Two British Chinese gay men decides to re-examine their lives following a death of their friend. Mel sleeps around whilst rejecting the love of Todd and Ash decides to cross dress to find his knight in shining armour.

Perfect Cowboy

2014 Drama

Two gay fathers raise a straight country-western singer in a rural community, where the family plays music together. But when Jimmy Poole is released from prison, he returns home and kicks his stepson Mark out of the band.

The Catholic School

2021 Drama

In late September 1975, a renowned Catholic school in Rome for sheltered, upper-middle-class boys is attacked in what became known as the Circeo Massacre. The film examines what triggered the violence.

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Why Does God Hate Me?

2011 Comedy, Drama

A gay teen in a religious town faces hostility from family and community over his sexuality. His best friend Esther tries to "cure" him after he comes out to her.

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It’s Consuming Me

2012 Drama, Romance

Caught in memories of what could have been, one struggles to move forward while losing grip on reality.

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Flex

2020 Comedy

Charles's childhood fascination with a muscle-flexing man in a TV ad sparks a lifelong journey of self-discovery and growth.

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Fish Boy

2023 Drama

A lyrical meditation on faith and queerness through the eyes of an Asian American teenager. When 16-year-old Patrick questions his love for God and his sexuality, scales start to grow from his skin.

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I Am So Happy

2011 Drama

Fragments of a Saturday winter day. The Vittenzein brothers are alone at their family house. Mateo stops by to pick up Bruno and Camilo and drive them to the country house where their mother awaits. A sudden break slam brings them into the intimacy of a waste land.

The Canterbury Tales

1972 Comedy, Drama

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

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I Love You

2013 Musical, Romance

Johannes is about to move to London with his girlfriend. At the last moment he realizes he can't leave. There is someone else he loves.

COMING SOON

Hunky Jesus

2026 Documentary

Tells the story of the wildly popular, annual Easter Sunday tradition in San Francisco known as Hunky Jesus.

COMING SOON

Out Late

2026 Comedy, Drama, Romance

After the death of his wife, widower Angelo forms an unexpected bond with Edmond, an openly gay dancer. As their friendship turns into romance, Angelo finally embraces his sexuality, only to face fierce resistance from his family and lifelong friends.

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Way With Words

2019 Musical

A glamorous and heartfelt tribute to the 80’s, glitter, and self-expression that fuses a church service and a classic prom to tell the story - and praise the resiliency - of Southern gay love, featuring the music of Brooklyn singer-songwriter Johnny Darlin.

The Garden

1990 Drama

A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus.

Showboyz

2009 Drama

As a struggling gay bar faces closure, its manager and his macho dancer boyfriend find their relationship tested by financial pressure and uncertainty. Their lives begin to shift when a young man from the countryside arrives in search of someone from his past, bringing unexpected changes to their fragile world.

Church & State

2018 Documentary

An inexperienced gay rights activist and a small Salt Lake City law firm take on Utah's ban on same sex marriage, sparking a legal battle that would reshape the country. Along the way, the film explores the influence of the Mormon Church in state politics and the divisions within the gay community that nearly threatened a landmark victory.

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Assi Doesn’t Live Here

2022 Drama

Assi, a gay sailor, returns for a one-day visit in his conservative hometown. While trying to meet the child he once abandoned, Assi must face his estranged relatives.

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See Me

2025 Drama

Haunted by online grooming, a young man navigates a strained relationship with his father and superficial encounters in his search for connection.

On the Downlow

2004 Drama

Isaac and Angel are two young Latinos involved in a south side Chicago gang. They have a secret in a world where secrets are forbidden.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1975 Drama

In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines subject their victims to 120 days of torture.

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Willem

2020 Drama

It is 1943. In a confined prison cell, Alexander, a young Nazi officer is awaiting his new prisoner he has been tasked with watching over until their execution. His prisoner is Willem, a Dutch resistance fighter, who has been convicted of blowing up a building that held records of local Jewish residents the Nazi army have been pursuing, in an attempt to fight back against the ever-growing rise of fascism. Willem is also openly homosexual, in a time when people were persecuted for such lifestyles.

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What You Looking At?

2011 Comedy

In London's Lambeth borough, a drag queen and a woman in a burka find unexpected common ground during a chance encounter in an elevator, challenging assumptions and forging a surprising connection.

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Age 17

2013 Drama

Matteo discovers love and acceptance with village priest Don Massimo, overcoming fear and finding emotional liberation.

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The Society

2015 Drama

A short film from Iraq, talks about the freedom that we need and our right of talking