Gay movie you liked

[dutchal]

On 6/28/2025 at 8:57 PM, Lucky said:

We just watched Akron, a 2017 movie about two cute college guys who fall in love, only to have their mothers get in the way. I found it quite touching. It's on Amazon Prime.

I loved Akron.

Edmund Donovan, who played Christopher (the blond), has gone on to have a significant film, tv, and stage career, and is straight, or at least is reported in a relationship with a woman.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Donovan

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3942758/

Matthew Frias, who played Benny, the brunette, had a few other parts in the twenty-teens, but is now a trainer/coach "I help ambitious gay men achieve their dream body, maximize performance at work and feel grounded it the process."  He is out.

https://www.instagram.com/matthewfrias/reels/?hl=en

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4524452/

If you thought he was cute in the movie, here he is three years ago:  

Per his instagram, currently with more facial hair and not as cut.  Has a boyfriend and a dachshund:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DOeRxFIgcRQ/?hl=en

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TonyDown]

On 3/17/2018 at 2:52 PM, Oscar Not Wilde said:

A Single Man with Colin Firth.

A Single Man is streaming on The Movie Channel.  

I didn't catch the first part.  I'd like to watch it again.  I enjoyed the cast and the acting.

I haven't read the book, by Christopher Isherwood.

 

 

[Rod Hagen]

On 12/11/2025 at 5:18 PM, TonyDown said:

A Single Man is streaming on The Movie Channel.  

I didn't catch the first part.  I'd like to watch it again.  I enjoyed the cast and the acting.

I haven't read the book, by Christopher Isherwood.

Movie is beautiful bullshit.  The book is a masterwork.

[samhexum]

On 3/31/2017 at 1:04 AM, WilliamM said:

"Shelter" is not a well-known known gay film, but it deals well with difficult family issues while being enjoyable as well.

I thought it was pretty good.  I liked it.

 

 

Edited Monday at 10:21 AM by samhexum
but nobody really knows why

[samhexum]

On 4/2/2017 at 1:08 PM, s1conrad said:

More recent flick: The Trip (2002) tells a funny + heartbreaking story, with two very *hot* leads: Steve Braun & Larry Sullivan (+ a hysterical cameo by Jill St. John).

I wasn't particularly impressed.

[samhexum]

On 4/2/2017 at 7:08 PM, ursalex said:

Nobody mentioned "Big Eden" I think it's a very poignant movie, and there's one scene I watch every time I need a good cry, but the movie is so much more than that -- a fairy tale about love and redemption.

 

On 3/30/2017 at 8:37 AM, Gvtire said:

Big Eden

As soon as I saw the opening credits with such 1980s TV luminaries as Corrine Bohrer, George Coe, Nan Martin, Arye Gross, and Tim (don't call me Tooth) DeKay, I knew I was going to see a nice, solid Hallmark or Lifetime movie which made it appropriate to watch on YouTube since they now have as many ad breaks as network TV (although shorter).  As I often do on YouTube I watched it at 1.25X, which cuts 20% off the runtime without affecting the ability to follow the dialogue one bit.

I'm just curious... when you check the time remaining every five minutes for the last 45 minutes of a movie, that's a good thing, right?
 

Edited yesterday at 03:49 AM by samhexum
when he awoke from the stupor he'd fallen into whilst watching this drivel

[samhexum]

At the end of the day calls itself a comedy but it really isn't one.  It's a rather earnest film about a professor at a Christian college who infiltrates an LGBTQ+ support group for nefarious purposes but learns some life lessons along the way.  Not THOSE kind of lessons... he doesn't realize he's gay.

For most of the film I wasn't particularly impressed, thinking it was too cliched and simplistic but I wound up enjoying it well enough... of course I watched it at 1.25 X speed.

[BSR]

1 hour ago, samhexum said:

At the end of the day calls itself a comedy but it really isn't one.  It's a rather earnest film about a professor at a Christian college who infiltrates an LGBTQ+ support group for nefarious purposes but learns some life lessons along the way.  Not THOSE kind of lessons... he doesn't realize he's gay.

For most of the film I wasn't particularly impressed, thinking it was too cliched and simplistic but I wound up enjoying it well enough... of course I watched it at 1.25 X speed.

I got “video unavailable” on my browser.  What movie are you referring to?

[samhexum]

In the 2016 movie Fair Haven, 19 year old pianist James, just home from months of Christian conversion therapy with the well-preserved remnants of Gregory Harrison, tries to fight his feelings for ex-boyfriend Charlie, all the while wishing his dad still looked like Luke Duke, rather than the what's left of Tom Wopat.

Edited 23 hours ago by samhexum
but if he told you why he'd have to kill you

[samhexum]

25 minutes ago, BSR said:

I got “video unavailable” on my browser.  What movie are you referring to?

2 hours ago, samhexum said:

At the end of the day calls itself a comedy but it really isn't one.  

[samhexum]

On 8/26/2020 at 12:36 AM, Trick said:

Out in the Dark

I just watched this Israeli film and the Palestinian psych student told the Israeli lawyer that his father died when he was 12.  What's up with characters in gay romances losing parents when they are 12?

The film was very sad but good.

Edited 4 hours ago by samhexum
but wouldn't life be just a little more fun if he didn't tell you why?

[Becket]

Still enjoy Latter Days, even though I've seen it many times. Still makes me teary.

[samhexum]

I'm not one to watch many movies but with many network shows on hiatus and the NBA just having had its all-star weekend (which bores the $&@? out of me) I've been on a gay romance flick kick.  In ESTEROS, a man agrees to let his girlfriend's makeup artist friend turn them into zombies for a costume party.  Of course the friend is the boy he was in love with when he was 13.

The movie takes place in two timelines, telling the story of then and now.  It's not spectacular but it passed the time (especially at 1.25X).