Homosexual history movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant homosexual history movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out queer cinema, captivating, touching, realistic, suspenseful and serious films and TV shows about / with lgbt, homosexual history, gay, gay interest, homosexual, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay subtext, gay relationship and gay love plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in UK, USA, Thailand and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as homosexual history: Dance of the 41 (2020), A Very British Sex Scandal (2007), Caravaggio (1986), Matthias and Maxime (2019), Ai no Kusabi (2012), Queers (2017), Holding the Man (2015), Tom of Finland (2017), From Afar (2015), Saturday Night at the Baths (1975).
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure, dark ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay lead character, homosexual history, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, gay, gay slur, orgy, gay orgy, gay sex, closeted gay, male nudity ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 1900s, 19th century, 90s
Place:
mexico city, mexico
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Very British Sex Scandal tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper. He is a closet homosexual and like many gay men at that time, lives in secret as homosexuality is against the law. One evening he ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sexual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gay interest, sex scandal, homosexuality, gay, closeted homosexual, scandal, lgbt, homosexual history, homosexual, gay slur, love affair, journalism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1955, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, stylized, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
painter, gay interest, art, male nudity, biopic, sexual relations, lifestyle, homoerotic fight, love triangle, older man younger man relationship, art history, rise and fall ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, 16th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, ...
Style:
touching, homoerotic, romantic, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay love, lgbtq, friendship, lgbt, homosexual history, life turned upside down, group of friends, first kiss, fight, society ...
Time:
year 2019, 90s, 2010s
Place:
montreal, quebec
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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Story:
This futuristic tale is set in a world where men are assigned various social classes based on their hair color. Iason Mink, a high-class Blondie, runs into Riki, a black-haired Mongrel, and makes him his "Pet." As Riki learns of the ...
Style:
yaoi, anime, erotic, futuristic, josei
Plot:
homosexual subtext, male male relationship, lgbt, homosexual history, male homosexuality, gay, impossible love, forbidden love, nude, racism, exploitation, bondage ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Eight short monologues charting the UK gay experience and in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, curated by Mark Gatiss. Each monologue is set in the same pub, taking place at various points in the last hundred years.
Style:
anthology, thrilling, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, homosexual history, lesbian, lgbt, gay culture, homosexual, lgbtq, gay interest, social history, social problems, social issues, multiple storylines ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the 1970s, a young Australian boy, Timothy, finds himself confused. He falls for the captain of the football team. What follows shows all aspects of a relationship, regardless of gender or sexual preference. Conflict, temptation, and a huge ...
Style:
sexy, lgbt cinema, touching, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay couple, gay student, aids, gay romance, lgbt, gay relationship, gay son, gay teenager, gay love, homosexual history ...
Time:
2000s, 70s, 80s, 90s, year 1978 ...
Place:
austria, australia, indiana, italy, sydney australia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of ...
Style:
homoerotic, serious, realistic, compassionate, romantic ...
Plot:
gay, male homosexuality, lgbtq, naked man, gay slur, lgbt, gay soldier, homosexual history, emigrant, homosexuality, gay relationship, lgbtqi ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, post world war two, year 1991
Place:
new york, san francisco, los angeles, berlin germany, helsinki finland ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela, Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lorenzo Vigas’ mesmerizing feature debut examines the struggles of a man petrified by the notion of human contact and intimacy. Armando, aged 50, (played by Pablo Larraín favourite Alfredo Castro in one of his most striking performances yet), ...
Style:
sexy, tense, psychological, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay crush, gay relationship, older man younger man relationship, gay latino, homosexual history, gay bashing, gay hustler, obsession, father son relationship, violence, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
venezuela
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, ...
Style:
queer cinema
Plot:
gay, homosexual history, homosexual, first gay sexual experience, male pubic hair, gay interest, bare chested male, female nudity, bathhouse, american football, male nudity, drag queen ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When successful writer Edu falls in love with a young hustler, Fabio, his initial fear is about contracting HIV, but emotional matters soon loom large as well.
Style:
touching, realistic, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, homosexual sex, male nudity, gay interest, unprotected sex, homosexuality, sex scene, lgbtq, homosexual, gay sex, love affair, relationships ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, erotic, tense, factual ...
Plot:
poet, artist, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, painter, homosexual, gay relationship, friendship, political unrest, closeted homosexual, spanish civil war ...
Time:
year 1936, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 2008
Place:
spain, andalusia, paris france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers. Some topics discussed were Greg's childhood problems, his homosexuality, and him contracting the HIV virus.
Style:
uplifting, captivating, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, hiv, aids, lgbt, lgbtq, biopic, olympics, gay athlete, olympic athlete, swimming, glbt, swimmer ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1984, 80s, year 1988
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Serbia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
ballet, dancer, gay, politics, cold war, dancing, nudity, painting, desertion, kgb, biopic, male nudity ...
Time:
50s, year 1961, year 2019, 1950s, year 1938
Place:
paris france, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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707
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Pob and Dew are friends who study at the same school but slowly realize, that there might be something more than friendship between them. Unfortunately, they live in an era which isn't open to homosexuals and thus the two get separated only to ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, tear jerker
Plot:
lgbt, lgbtq, gay asian, gay, forbidden love, gay teenager, closeted gay, repressed homosexual, gay couple, male homosexuality, lgbt teen, social issues ...
Place:
thailand
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, thought provoking, melancholic, political drama
Plot:
father son relationship, homosexual history, homosexuality, british history, lgbt, gay, biopic, gay son, hypocrisy, empathy, moral dilemma, family conflict ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953, 50s
Place:
oxford university, england
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Style:
period piece, controversial, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, homosexual history, gay son, homosexual, lgbtq, biopic, subculture, publisher, revolt, lgbtqi ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ho-jung is a scriptwriter in a local radio station. She is waiting for her 30th birthday and also eager to be promoted as a DJ of her own program. One day, she hears that Won-jae, her old flame, will be back to town again after 2 years studying in ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, love triangle, gay man straight woman relationship, gay husband, gay couple, male homosexuality, gay interest, long distance relationship, romantic rivalry, romantic triangle, homosexuality, fall in love ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, realistic, touching, social ...
Plot:
black lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay teenager, lgbt, human nature, society, lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, artists and showbiz, estrangement ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, africa
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332
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Orphaned at a very young age, Gui, a fourth-year engineering student, has had to work hard and earn for himself for as long as he can remember. Still, through the test of time, he still has a soft demeanor and a smile on his face.
Style:
touching, sentimental, suspense, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lgbt, homoerotic friendship, gay, gay relationship, friendship, homosexual history, boys love, romantic friendship, young love, friendship between teens, homosexual, relationships ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two emotionally unavailable men attempt a relationship.
Style:
raunchy comedy, art house, entertaining, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay relationship, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, sex, sex scene, gay sex, handsome man, gay couple, bare chested male, gay romance ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Boys On Film comes of age with uplifting and powerful tales recounting the lives of everyday heroes striving for their own identities and fighting for the right for us all to be ourselves. Volume 18: Heroes includes ten complete films: Dean ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay interest, coming of age, lgbt, gay lead character, desire for fame, homosexual history, gay stereotype, social problems, lifestyle, longing, social relations ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Follows the relationship of 27-year-old journalist Mitchell Crawford and 21-year-old bicycle messenger Raheim Rivers, who meet at a gay bar in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1993.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic, queer cinema
Plot:
gay interest, lgbt, gay, fall in love, gay subtext, gay lead character, gay love, male male relationship, couple relations, relationship problems, relationships, gay african american ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
TV show
Story:
A sweet love story of young doctor Kaufah who is stationed at a remote province hospital and the volunteer teacher with a bright personality, Prince.
Style:
captivating, romantic, psychological
Plot:
lgbt, doctor, gay, gay lead character, love story, love affair, homosexual love, gay love, gay couple, male male relationship, romantic relationship, relationships ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The DL Chronicles is a series of short stories about men of color who lead double sex lives. Episode; Wes introduces us to Wes Thomas, an upwardly mobile real estate banker who is overwhelmed by the demands of his marriage, career, and closeted ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, anthology, queer cinema
Plot:
closeted homosexual, gay interest, male male relationship, gay lead character, lgbt, gay, gay sex, gay relationship, closeted gay, gay african american, black man, homosexuality ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story takes place after the TV drama series Ossan's Love (2018). It's been a year since Haruta and Maki pledged their undying love. Haruta has now come back and receives a warm welcome from familiar faces, his boss Musashi Kurosawa and ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, suspense, touching
Plot:
gay, gay asian, office romance, love triangle, male homosexuality, romantic rivalry, friendship, lgbtq, gay couple, friends in love, love, friends ...
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Romance
Country: China
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
This is a love story between a ‘weirdo’, the novelist, Liang Ze and a ‘nice guy’, the pet shop owner, Hang Hang. Both of them know each other through Hang Hang’s online pet shop and meet each other for the first time in No.10 YanDaiXie ...
Style:
suspenseful, touching, sentimental, disturbing
Plot:
gay relationship, novelist, lgbt, love, new love, gay, love at first sight, homosexuality, homosexual love, homosexual history, gay love, homosexual ...
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Genre: Short, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story:
Friendship evolves into something more between two high school students: a playful chaebol heir and the diligent bodyguard who's always by his side.
Style:
dorama, suspenseful, disturbing, touching, sentimental
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay interest, lgbtq, gay subtext, gay relationship, homoerotic friendship, gay lead character, best friends in love, first love, homosexual love, lgbt teen ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred ...
Style:
homoerotic, costume drama, period piece, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, lgbt, glbt, writers, lgbtq, hypocrisy, male homosexuality, biopic, gay sex, scandal, gay lead character ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1880s, year 1997 ...
Place:
ireland, britain, england, europe, london ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of six university students facing new challenges like: studying hard, making new friends and enemies, and unexpectedly falling in love with the least likely person.
Style:
touching, disturbing, sentimental, suspenseful, smart
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, first love, friendship, first gay sexual experience, homosexual history, university, lgbtq, college life, homosexuality, love, gay friend ...
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