Gay Films with a Rural Setting

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Glow

2022 Documentary

Follows Ukrainian Yusuf during an ordinary day in his life in a Dutch asylum center. Slowly, he transforms into his alter ego Grizolda, who gives him hope and strength outside the walls of the asylum center.

COMING SOON SHORT FILM

The Motive

2026 Drama, Mystery

A famed Detective arrives to a remote mansion to find a Murderer standing over the body of someone he just killed, and desperately tries to get him to confess his motive.

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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.

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The Nettle

2017 Drama

As summer returns, unspoken desires and secrets grow like nettles. Will the pain they bring linger like the sting of nettles?

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Campfire

2000 Drama, Romance

A camping trip strains relationships among scouts when a boy's feelings for his best friend ignite tension in the group.

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Soul Eater

2014 Drama

A young man loses his clothes while skinny dipping and turns the blame on his friend, sparking tension between them.

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Brink

2016 Drama

The brutal aftermath of a vicious homophobic attack on a young man are shown as he verges on the brink of death, thinking back on life.

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.

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A Little Comfort

2004 Drama, Romance

High school seniors Arnaud and Guillaume face the uncertainties of adolescence as summer approaches. With thoughts of cigarettes, alcohol, and intimacy, they're left questioning their attractions and future.

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Brazil Jungle

2016 Drama

Set in the male garden of Eden. A lost paradise of the Brazilian Amazon. The sex, the desire and the chasing are universal primitive animal instincts.

Sorry Guys

2017 Comedy, Drama

In Berlin, 1999, gay couple Robert and Louis ask Louis’ sister Svenja to be their surrogate. But when she shows up with her clueless new boyfriend, the night spirals into chaos, testing family ties and buried plans.

The Man Who Surprised Everyone

2018 Drama

When a Siberian state forest guard discovers he has cancer and only two months left to live, he chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease.

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The Swimming Trunks

2013 Drama

On holiday on a campsite by the seaside, Remy, is fascinated by Stephan, the father of one of his playmates. This is a new, confusing feeling for him. Nobody knows what he is going through especially not handsome Stephan.

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Strangers

2011 Thriller

On a freezing winter night, a young driver stops to help a stranded stranger along a deserted highway. What begins as a simple act of kindness soon turns into a dangerous encounter with unexpected consequences.

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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.

The Land of Owls

2021 Drama, Romance

In the Catskill Mountains, a relationship retreat pushes two Brooklyn couples out of their comfort zones. Removed from city life and engaging in honest communication, they have the chance to save their relationships - or leave them behind.

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Weekend in the Countryside

2007 Drama

Pierre joins his friend Marc for a weekend at a country house, encountering Marc's unruly dogs and navigating their friendship's boundaries amidst personal advances and canine hostility.

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No Brakes

2008 Drama

A brother falls in love with his sister's friend.

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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.

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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.

An Ordinary Family

2011 Comedy, Drama

Thomas is blindsided when his estranged brother, Seth, shows up unannounced to the annual family vacation with his boyfriend. Despite a well meaning attempt to surprise everyone, things do not go as planned, throwing Thomas and the family into an awkward week long vacation where everyone has problems and no one wants to talk about them.

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Wrestling

2007 Drama

Amidst Iceland's rugged landscapes, a clandestine romance brews between two gay wrestlers, concealed from the intense masculinity of Iceland's national sport scene.

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The Light

2013 Drama, Musical, Romance

Driven by a longing for change, a man sets out to break free from the fears that have held him back. Along the way, he discovers that the path to understanding life, love, and his own identity begins with embracing his true self.

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.

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Lovely Faggot

2013 Drama

Walking along the beach, Peter unexpectedly runs into his classmate Chris, who is drunk and taunts him with a homophobic slur.

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Bare Romance

2014 Drama, Romance

A woman awaits the arrival of a man. They don't know one another. The only string between them is the engagement to meet and make use of each other. In an empty house in the woods they are faced with their search for love and their ambivalent sexuality.

Out Here

2013 Documentary

Examines the lives of queer farmers across the US. It looks at the role they have in the broader farming community and what unique perspectives they bring to farming as queer people.