List of feature films with gay characters

This article is about live-action feature films. For animated films, see List of animated films with LGBT characters. For television films, see List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters.

For lesbian, bisexual, transgender characters, see List of feature films with lesbian characters, List of feature films with bisexual characters, and List of feature films with transgender characters.

The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual gay characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-linear network).

Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

20th century

1900–1959

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
1919	Different from the Others	Paul Körner	Conrad Veidt Karl Giese (young)	The first film supportive of homosexuality.	Germany
1924	Michael	Claude Zoret	Benjamin Christiensen	Claude is a painter who falls in love with his assistant, Michael. Michael eventually leaves Claude for a woman.	Germany
1941	The Maltese Falcon	Joel Cairo	Peter Lorre	In the novel upon which the film is based, Cairo is referred to as "queer" and a "fairy" but, in the film, his sexuality is not directly addressed, likely a decision by filmmakers to comply with the Hays Code, which banned the depiction of homosexuality in American films.	United States
1948	Rope	Phillip Morgan	Farley Granger	Because of the Hays Code, the word "homosexual" could not be stated outright and was referred to as "it". Adapted from the 1929 British play Rope's End, which is loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case.	United States
		Brandon Shaw	John Dall
1950	All About Eve	Addison DeWitt	George Sanders	Addison is a gossip columnist who engages in loveless relationship predation. (The constraints of the Motion Picture Production Code did not allow homosexuality to be portrayed overtly.)	United States
1955	Rebel Without a Cause	John "Plato" Crawford	Sal Mineo	Plato was brought in for killing a litter of puppies.	United States
1959	North by Northwest	Leonard	Martin Landau		United States
1959	Suddenly, Last Summer	Sebastian Venable	(Uncredited)		United Kingdom, United States

1960–1969

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
1960	Oscar Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Robert Morley		United Kingdom
1960	Spartacus	Crassus	Laurence Olivier	In a deleted scene, Crassus attempts to seduce his slave Antoninus.	United States
1961	A Taste of Honey	Geoffrey Ingham	Murray Melvin		United Kingdom
1961	Victim	Melville Farr	Dirk Bogarde	Melville is a barrister threatened with blackmail. The film is credited for being important in the decriminalization of homosexuality in Britain. It is also the first British film to use the word "homosexual" in the narrative.	United Kingdom
1962	Advise & Consent	Senator Brigham "Brig" Anderson	Don Murray		United States
1962	The L-Shaped Room	Johnny	Brock Peters		United Kingdom
1962	The Trial	Josef K.	Anthony Perkins	A closeted homosexual.	France, Italy, West Germany
1963	Scorpio Rising	Scorpio	Bruce Byron		United States
1964	The Leather Boys	Pete	Dudley Sutton	Pete is Reggie's fellow biker friend.	United Kingdom
1965	Bus Riley's Back in Town	Spencer	Crahan Denton		United States
1965	Darling	Robert Gold	Dirk Bogarde		United Kingdom
1965	Inside Daisy Clover	Wade Lewis	Robert Redford	An extremely intoxicated Melora Swan reveals to Daisy that she had an affair with closet homosexual Wade.	United States
1965	King Rat	Steven	Michael Lees		United States
1965	The Loved One	Mr. Starker	Liberace		United States
		Mr. Joyboy	Rod Steiger
1965	The Pawnbroker	Rodriguez	Brock Peters		United States
1967	Bedazzled	Envy	Barry Humphries		United Kingdom
		Vanity	Alba
1967	The Fearless Vampire Killers	Herbert von Krolock	Iain Quarrier		United States
1967	The Incident	Kenneth Otis	Robert Fields		United States
1967	Portrait of Jason	Himself	Jason Holliday		United States
1967	Reflections in a Golden Eye	Major Weldon Pendertis	Marlon Brando	Penderton is a closeted homosexual army Major and husband to Leonora.	United States
1967	Tony Rome	Nicky	Lloyd Bochner		United States
1968	The Anniversary	Henry Taggart	James Cossins		United Kingdom
1968	Boom!	The Witch of Capri	Noël Coward		United Kingdom
1968	The Boston Strangler	Terence Huntley	Hurd Hatfield		United States
1968	Deadfall	Richard	Eric Portman		United Kingdom
1968	The Detective	Teddy Leikman	James Inman		United States
		Colin MacIver	William Windom
1968	Flesh	The Artist	Maurice Braddell		United States
		David	Louis Waldon
		Joe's Customer	John Christian
1968	if....	Wallace	Richard Warwick		United Kingdom
		Bobby Philips	Rupert Webster
1968	Inadmissible Evidence	Maples	John Normington	Maples is a distraught client of Barrister, Bill Maitland.	United Kingdom
1968	Joanna	Lord Peter Sanderson	Donald Sutherland		United Kingdom
1968	The Lion in Winter	Philip II of France	Timothy Dalton		United States, United Kingdom
		Richard the Lionheart	Anthony Hopkins
1968	The Mercenary	Ricciolo (Curly)	Jack Palance		Italy, Spain, United States
1968	No Way to Treat a Lady	Christopher Gill	Rod Steiger		United States
1968	P.J.	Shelton Quell	Severn Darden		United States
1968	The Queen	Himself	Flawless Sabrina		United States
1968	The Sergeant	Albert Callan	Rod Steiger		United States
1968	Star!	Noël Coward	Daniel Massey	Biopic about Gertrude Lawrence who, besides collaborating with him in theater productions, also had a close friendship with Coward off stage.	United States
1969	Angel, Angel, Down We Go	Willy Steele	Charles Aidman	Willy is a wealthy airplane manufacturer and the closeted father of Tara.	United States
1969	The Damned	Konstantin von Essenbeck	Reinhard Kolldehoff	Part of a wealthy industrialist family, Konstantin is an SA officer who is part of homosexual orgy in Wiesee.	Italy, West Germany
1969	Fellini Satyricon	Ascyltus	Hiram Keller		Italy, France
1969	The Gay Deceivers	Malcolm	Michael Greer		United States
		Colonel Dixon	Jack Starrett
1969	Justine	Toto	Cliff Gorman		United States
1969	Listen, Let's Make Love	Baron von Tummler	Amerigo Tot		Italy, France
1969	Midnight Cowboy	Young Student	Bob Balaban	The young student offers Joe money in exchange for giving Joe fellatio in a Times Square movie house and afterward confesses he has no money to pay him.	United States
1969	Riot	Mary Sheldon	Clifford David		United States
1969	Staircase	Harry C. Leeds	Richard Burton		United Kingdom
		Charles Dyer	Rex Harrison
1969	Women in Love	Loerke	Vladek Sheybal		United Kingdom
1969	Z	Vago	Marcel Bozzuffi		Algeria, France

1970–1979

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
1970	Bloody Mama	Kevin Dirkman	Bruce Dern	Kevin is Fred's older cellmate who eventually became his lover.	United States
1970	The Boys in the Band	Michael	Kenneth Nelson	This was the first Hollywood film in which all of the principal characters are homosexual.	United States
		Harold	Leonard Frey
		Emory	Cliff Gorman
		Hank	Laurence Luckinbill
		Donald	Frederick Combs
1970	The Conformist	Marcello Clerici	Jean-Louis Trintignant		Italy, France, West Germany
1970	Entertaining Mr Sloane	Ed	Harry Andrews		United Kingdom
1970	The Kremlin Letter	The Warlock	George Sanders		United States
1970	Little Big Man	Little Horse	Robert Little Star	Little Horse is a native American that holds a sacred position in the tribe.	United States
1970	Loot	Dennis	Hywel Bennett		United Kingdom
		Hal	Roy Holder
1970	Myra Breckinridge	Irving "Blaggot" Amadeus	Calvin Lockhart		United States
1970	The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes	Robert Stephens		United States, United Kingdom
1970	Something for Everyone	Konrad Ludwig	Michael York	Konrad and Helmuth are star-crossed lovers.	United States
		Helmuth von Ornstein	Anthony Higgins
1970	Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon	Warren	Robert Moore	Warren is the paraplegic friend of Junie Moon whom she meets in an institution.	United States
		Guiles	Leonard Frey
1971	The Anderson Tapes	Haskins	Martin Balsam		United States
1971	The Cat o' Nine Tails	Dr. Braun	Horst Frank	Dr. Braun is a scientist and one of the innocent leads in a murder case.	Italy, France, West Germany
1971	Death in Venice	Gustav von Aschenbach	Dirk Bogarde		France, Italy
1971	Diamonds Are Forever	Mr. Wint	Bruce Glover	Wint and Kidd are hit men who work for Ernst Stavro Blofeld.	United Kingdom
		Mr. Kidd	Putter Smith
1971	Fortune and Men's Eyes	Queenie	Michael Greer		United States
		Mona	Danny Freedman
1971	It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives	Daniel	Bernd Feuerhelm		West Germany
		Clemens	Berryt Bohlen
1971	The Last Picture Show	Coach Popper	Bill Thurman	Coach Popper is closeted and married to Ruth.	United States
1971	The Music Lovers	Tchaikovsky	Richard Chamberlain		United Kingdom
1971	Pink Narcissus	Pan	Bobby Kendall	Pan is a young and attractive male escort.	United States
		Bar Owner	Charles Ludlam
1971	Shaft	Rollie	Rex Robbins	Rollie is the bartender at a bar that Shaft frequents.	United States
1971	Some of My Best Friends Are...	Scott	Gil Gerard	On Christmas Eve of 1971, in Greenwich Village, a group of gay men and lesbians meet at the Blue Jay Bar to talk about their lives and relationships.	United States
		Jim	Gary Sandy
1971	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Daniel Hirsh	Peter Finch	Hirsh is a gay Jewish doctor.	United Kingdom
1971	Vanishing Point	Male hitchhiker No. 1	Anthony James	The two men hitchhike while standing next to a broken-down car with a "Just Married" sign on the back. Kowalski picks them up and they attempt to rob him before he throws them out of the car.	United States, United Kingdom
		Male hitchhiker No. 2	Arthur Malet
1971	Villain	Vic Dakin	Richard Burton		United Kingdom
1972	Blacula	Bobby McCoy	Ted Harris	Bobby and Billy are lovers and interior decorators. They purchase the coffin containing Blacula and ship it to Los Angeles, becoming his first victims.	United States
		Billy Schaffer	Rick Metzler
1972	Georgia, Georgia	Herbert Thompson	Roger Furman	Herbert is Georgia's manager.	United States
1972	Pete 'n' Tillie	Jimmy Twitchell	René Auberjonois	Jimmy is Tillie's close friend.	United States
1972	Play It as It Lays	B.Z. Mendenhall	Anthony Perkins	B.Z. is a suicidal movie producer and best friend of Maria.	United States
1972	X Y & Zee	Gordon	John Standing	Gordon is a close friend of Zee's.	United Kingdom
1973	A Bigger Splash	David Hockney	Himself	Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic about Hockney.	United Kingdom
		Peter Schlesinger	Himself
1973	Day for Night	Alexandre	Jean-Pierre Aumont	Alexandre is an actor whose lover is killed in a car accident.	France
1973	The Day of the Jackal	Bernard	Anton Rodgers	Bernard is picked up by the Jackel at a Turkish bathhouse and murdered.	United Kingdom
1973	The Last of Sheila	Tom Parkman	Richard Benjamin		United States
1973	Ludwig	Ludwig II of Bavaria	Helmut Berger	Ludwig has doubts if he can be a good husband to Sophie who loves him, and he postpones and eventually cancels the marriage. Instead, he starts having relationships with his servants, although being a devout Catholic makes him feel guilt about his homosexuality.	Italy, France, West Germany
1973	Papillon	André Maturette	Robert Deman		United States
1973	Scarecrow	Riley	Richard Lynch	Riley is an inmate who sexually assaults Lion in prison.	United States
1973	Sleeper	Jeb Hrmthmg	Spencer Milligan	Jeb is a futuristic gay man that has a gay robot.	United States
1973	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams	Bobby Walden	Ron Rickards	Bobby comes out to his parents at 15 and later moves to Amsterdam.	United States
1973	The Tenderness of Wolves	Fritz Haarmann	Kurt Raab		West Germany
1973	Theatre of Blood	Meredith Merridew	Robert Morley	Meredith is the theatre critic who wears a pink suit and has two poodles.	United Kingdom
1974	125 Rooms of Comfort	Billie Joyce	Tim Henry	Billie is left with ownership of his father's hotel after he dies.	Canada
1974	Butley	Ben Butley	Alan Bates		United States, Canada, United Kingdom
1974	The Conversation	Martin Stett	Harrison Ford	Martin is the Director's loyal assistant.	United States
1974	The Night Porter	Bert	Amedeo Amodio	Bert is a German dancer.	Italy
1974	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three	subway passenger	Gary Bolling		United States
1974	The Tamarind Seed	Fergus Stephenson	Dan O'Herlihy		United States
1974	A Very Natural Thing	David	Robert Joel	David is a public school teacher and former monastic monk. He meets Mark at a disco. After their relationship ends he meets Jason, a photographer who came out after divorcing his wife. The film contains documentary footage of the Christopher Street Liberation Day March in New York City (known today as NYC Pride March).	United States
		Mark	Curt Gareth
		Jason	Bo White
		Alan	Jay Pierce
1975	Barry Lyndon	British Soldier	Anthony Dawes	While on the run, Barry stumbles upon two soldiers in a pond, naked and holding hands, professing their love for each other. He takes the uniform of one of the men in an attempt to steal his identity.	United States, United Kingdom
1975	Deep Red	Carlo Manganiello	Gabriele Lavia	Carlo is Marucs' best friend.	Italy
1975	The Eiger Sanction	Miles Mellough	Jack Cassidy	Miles is an assassin.	United States
1975	Fox and His Friends	Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Fox is a working-class gay man who wins the lottery.	West Germany
1975	Funny Lady	Bobby Moore	Roddy McDowall	Bobby is Fanny's assistant and friend.	United States
1975	In Celebration	Colin Shaw	James Bolam		United Kingdom, United States
1975	Mahogany	Sean McAvoy	Anthony Perkins	Sean is a fashion designer who works with Tracy.	United States
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Dale Harding	William Redfield	Dale is a patient at the mental institution.	United States
1975	Saturday Night at the Baths	Scotti	Don Scotti	Scotti manages a bathhouse and falls in love in love with Bisexual piano player, Michael.	United States
1975	The Sunday Woman	Massimo Campi	Jean-Louis Trintignant	Massimo is Anna's best friend.	Italy, France
1976	L'Alpagueur	Gilbert ("L'Epervier")	Bruno Cremer	Gilbert is a killer and crook who has feelings for a young man he hires to rob a jewelry store.	France
1976	The Best Way to Walk	Marc	Patrick Dewaere	In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country in 1960, Marc and Philippe are two of the counsellors.	France
		Philippe	Patrick Bouchitey
1976	Car Wash	Lindy	Antonio Fargas	Lindy is the flamboyant, yet unashamed gay employee of the car wash.	United States
1976	Coup de Grâce	Erich von Lhomond	Matthias Habich		West Germany, France
1976	Drum	Bernard DeMarigny	John Colicos	Bernard is a villainous plantation owner in 19th century New Orleans.	United States
1976	Face to Face	Dr. Tomas Jacobi	Erland Josephson	Dr. Jacobi is a close friend of Dr. Jenny.	Sweden
1976	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Oliver V. Farnsworth	Buck Henry	Oliver is a lawyer and Newton's business partner.	United Kingdom
1976	Next Stop, Greenwich Village	Bernstein	Antonio Fargas	Bernstein has a Norwegian lover and becomes close friends with Larry and Sarah after they move to Greenwich Village.	United States
1976	Norman... Is That You?	Garson Hobart	Dennis Dugan	Norman is Ben's only child. Garson is Norman's lover.	United States
		Norman Chambers	Michael Warren
1976	Ode to Billy Joe	Billy Joe McAllister	Robby Benson	Billy Joe is a high school student in Mississippi who jumps off of a bridge due to the shame he feels for being gay.	United States
1976	The Ritz	Chris	F. Murray Abraham	Chris befriends Jack, a heterosexual businessman who goes into hiding from his murderous mobster brother-in-law at a gay bathhouse in Manhattan. Chris shows him the ropes. Claude is the "chubby chaser" who regularly patronizes the bathhouse.	United States
		Claude Perkins	Paul B. Price
1976	Sebastiane	Sebastian	Leonardo Treviglio		United Kingdom
1976	Swashbuckler	Lord Durant	Peter Boyle	Durant is the tyrannical and cruel governor of Jamaica.	United States
1977	The Choirboys	Blaney	Michael MacKenzie Wills	Blaney is a closeted high school student who gets murdered.	United States
1977	Hidden Pleasures	Eduardo	Simón Andreu	Eduardo is a middle-aged, closeted banker from a wealthy family, who falls in love with a much younger heterosexual man.	Spain
1977	Looking for Mr. Goodbar	Gary	Tom Berenger	Gary is a repressed homosexual who flies into a rage and murders Theresa when she suggests that he might be gay. The film was inspired by the 1973 murder of New York City schoolteacher Roseann Quinn.	United States
1977	Outrageous!	Robin Turner	Craig Russell	Robin is a hairstylist who creates a drag act to earn extra money after his schizophrenic friend, Liza, becomes pregnant and needs to move in with him.	Canada
1977	The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover	J. Edgar Hoover	Broderick Crawford		United States
1977	Rituals	Martin	Robin Gammell	Martin is one of five doctors who are targeted by a killer while they are on group camping trip for the weekend.	Canada
1977	A Special Day	Gabriele	Marcello Mastroianni	Set in Rome in 1938, the narrative follows Antonietta and her neighbor, Gabriele, who stay home the day Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini; the same day that Gabriele comes out to her.	Italy, Canada
1977	To an Unknown God	José	Héctor Alterio		Spain
1978	The Betsy	Loren Hardeman Jr.	Paul Ryan Rudd	Loren is the closeted son of a tycoon.	United States
1978	The Big Sleep	Arthur Geiger	John Justin		United States, United Kingdom
1978	Bloodbrothers	Paulie	Bruce French	Paulie is a jewelry salesman who has a strained relationship with his father.	United States
1978	California Suite	Sidney Cochran	Michael Caine	Sidney is a closeted antique dealer and husband of movie star, Diane Barrie.	United States
1978	A Different Story	Albert Walreavens	Perry King	A gay man and a lesbian who become temporary housemates end up falling in love with each other. Film critic Janet Maslin's original review elaborates: "The movie's use of [Albert and Stella's] homosexuality is indeed exploitative, insensitive, and offensive in a variety of ways. Even worse, it is unconvincing ... Albert's homosexuality is nothing but a gimmick, something for the screenplay to coax him out of."	United States
1978	El diputado	Roberto Orbea	José Sacristán	Roberto gets elected as Deputy and falls in love with Juanito.	Spain
		Juanito	José Luis Alonso
1978	Midnight Express	Erich	Norbert Weisser		United States
1978	Nighthawks	Jim	Ken Robertson	Jim is a geography teacher who goes to gay pubs at night. His students ultimately challenge him with questions as to whether he is "bent" (i.e. homosexual). He responds that he is and answers their questions about his homosexuality calmly.	United Kingdom
1979	10	Hugh	Robert Webber	Hugh is George's best friend.	United States
1979	Ernesto	Ernesto	Martin Halm		Italy, Spain, West Germany
		The Man / The stableman	Michele Placido
1979	Hot Potato	Claudio	Massimo Ranieri		Italy
1979	Saint Jack	Senator	George Lazenby	The film's subplot involves a closeted and married conservative senator who flies to Singapore to pick up male prostitutes.	United States
1979	Savage Weekend	Nicky	Christopher Allport	Nicky is one of the members of a friend group who go away for the weekend and are stalked by a masked killer.	United States
1979	To Forget Venice	Nicky	Erland Josephson		Italy

1980–1989

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
1980	American Gigolo	Leon James	Bill Duke		United States
1980	Cruising	Ted Bailey	Don Scardino	Ted is the next-door neighbor of undercover cop Steve. The two become friends while Steve works to track down a serial killer targeting gay men. Gregory is Ted's boyfriend.	United States
		Gregory	James Remar
1980	Fame	Montgomery MacNeil	Paul McCrane	Montgomery is a student in the Drama department who comes out to his peers during their second year.	United States
1980	Happy Birthday, Gemini	Francis Geminiani	Alan Rosenberg	On the eve of his 21st birthday, Francis realizes that he is in love with his girlfriend's brother, Randy.	United States
1980	The Last Married Couple in America	Donald	Stewart Moss	Donald and Reggie are the neighbors of Jeff and Marie. While most couples that Jeff and Marie know have crumbling relationships, Donald and Reggie are well adjusted and happy.	United States
		Reggie	Colby Chester
1980	Life and Death	John	[actor name N/A]	A medical student.	Norway
1980	The Long Good Friday	Colin	Paul Freeman	Colin is the gay underworld lieutenant whose murder triggers a bloodbath.	United Kingdom
1980	Nijinsky	Sergei Diaghilev	Alan Bates		United States
		Vaslav Nijinsky	George de la Peña
1980	Serial	Luckman	Christopher Lee	Luckman is an executive headhunter by day and the head of a gay motorcycle gang by night.	United States
1980	Squeeze	Paul	Paul Eady	Paul is a timid young man who develops a relationship with bisexual businessman, Grant.	New Zealand
1980	Stir Crazy	Rory Schultebrand	Georg Stanford Brown	A drag-wearing convict who killed his stepfather. (For his drag performance, Brown was nominated for the 1980 Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award as "Worst Supporting Actress".)	United States
1980	Taxi zum Klo	Frank	Frank Ripploh	The film explores the life of schoolteacher Frank, as he ponders whether to continue a life on anonymous sex or settle down with his eventual boyfriend, Bernd.	West Germany
		Bernd	Bernd Broaderup
1981	Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker	Phil Brody	Caskey Swaim		United States
		Coach Tom Landers	Steve Eastin
1981	The Fan	Douglas Breen	Michael Biehn	Douglas is the obsessed fan of film star Sally Ross.	United States
1981	Knightriders	Pippin	Warner Shook		United States
1981	Mad Max 2	The Golden Youth	Jimmy Brown	The Golden Youth is a punk on a motorcycle in post-nuclear society.	Australia
1981	Only When I Laugh	Jimmy Perry	James Coco	Jimmy a struggling actor and the best friend of Georgia.	United States
1981	The Woman Next Door	Roland Duguet	Roger Van Hool		France
1981	Zorro, the Gay Blade	Bunny Wigglesworth	George Hamilton		United States
1982	Angel	Angelos	Michalis Maniatis	Michalis is a young man in Athens, Angelos, who keeps his sexual identity a secret from his family. He falls hard for a rough sailor, Mihalis, and moves in with him.	Greece
1982	The Clinic	Dr. Eric Linden	Chris Haywood		Australia
1982	Deathtrap	Sidney Bruhl	Michael Caine	Sidney and Clifford are lovers trying to do away with Sidney's wife.	United States
		Clifford Anderson	Christopher Reeve
1982	Drifting	Robi	Jonathan Sagall	Robi is a young man trying to find love and break into the movie business.	Israel
1982	Evil Under the Sun	Rex Brewster	Roddy McDowall	Rex is a gossip columnist in the process of writing a biography of Arlene Stuart Marshall.	United Kingdom
1982	Forty Deuce	Ricky	Kevin Bacon	Ricky is a street hustler in Times Square.	United States
1982	Labyrinth of Passion	Riza Niro	Imanol Arias		Spain
		Sadec	Antonio Banderas
1982	Luc or His Share of Things	Luc	Pierre Normandin	After coming out as gay, Luc grapples with depression and suicidal thoughts but is saved by the acceptance and support of his friends, François and Louis.	Canada
1982	Making Love	Zack Elliot	Michael Ontkean	Considered a Hollywood landmark film, for its portrayal of the relationship between Zack and Bart as equally valid to a heterosexual one.	United States
		Bart McGuire	Harry Hamlin
1982	Night Shift	Prisoner	Charles Fleischer		United States
1982	Partners	Kerwin	John Hurt		United States
1982	Privates on Parade	Capt. Terri Dennis	Denis Quilley		United Kingdom
1982	Victor/Victoria	Carroll "Toddy" Todd	Robert Preston	Toddy is an aging performer at Club Chez Lui in Paris.	United Kingdom, United States
		'Squash' Bernstein	Alex Karras
1982	The Year of Living Dangerously	Wally O'Sullivan	Noel Ferrier	Wally is an Australian journalist.	United States, Australia
1983	The Dresser	Norman	Tom Courtenay	During World War II, Norman works as a dresser who falls in love with an actor he serves.	United Kingdom
1983	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	Capt. Yonoi	Ryuichi Sakamoto		United Kingdom
1983	Self Defense	Daniel	Terry-David Després	While the police are on strike, a fascist group goes to a gay bar and begins murdering the patrons. Daniel is the sole bar patron that escapes and he takes refuge in a local apartment.	Canada
1983	Sleepaway Camp	John Baker	Dan Tursi		United States
		Lenny	James Paradise
1983	Staying Alive	Butler	Charles Ward	Butler is replaced as the lead dancer in a Broadway show by Tony.	United States
1983	Streamers	Richie	Mitchell Lichtenstein		United States
1983	To Be or Not to Be	Sasha	James Haake		United States
1983	Without a Trace	Philippe	Keith McDermott		United States
1984	Another Country	Guy Bennett	Rupert Everett		United Kingdom
		James Harcourt	Cary Elwes
1984	Garbo Talks	Bernie Whitlock	Harvey Fierstein	Bernie is a kindhearted gay man on Fire Island who helps Gilbert find reclusive Hollywood legend Greta Garbo for his mother as her dying wish.	United States
1984	Horror Vacui	Frankie	Folkert Milster	Hannes attempts to save his lover, Frankie, by stopping him from joining a religious cult.	West Germany
		Hannes	Tom Vogt
1984	The Hotel New Hampshire	Frank	Paul McCrane		United States, United Kingdom, Canada
1984	Irreconcilable Differences	Howard Kay	Richard Minchenberg	Howard becomes Lucy's secretary after she achieves great success as a writer.	United States
1984	La Muerte de Mikel	Mikel	Imanol Arias	Mikel falls in love with a drag queen and is murdered by his mother.	Spain
		Fama	Fernando Telletxea
1984	Mass Appeal	Deacon Mark Dolson	Željko Ivanek		United States
1984	Meatballs Part II	Lieutenant Felix Foxglove	John Larroquette	Felix is the closeted gay assistant of Colonel Hershy.	United States
1984	Mike's Murder	Philip Green	Paul Winfield	Philip is the sympathetic and straightforward record producer who was in a relationship with Mike prior to his murder.	United States
1984	Monaco Forever	Karate Man	Jean-Claude Van Damme		United States
1984	Protocol	Jerry	Grainger Hines	Jerry and Ben are in a committed relationship and are the roommates of Sunny.	United States
		Ben	Joel Brooks
1984	Revenge of the Nerds	Lamar Lutrell	Larry B. Scott	Lamar is an openly gay fraternity member.	United States
1985	Adiós, Roberto	Marcelo	Víctor Laplace	Marcelo is the roommate of Roberto.	Argentina
1985	After Hours	Mark	Robert Plunket	Mark is a novelist who picks up Paul.	United States
1985	The Boys Next Door	Chris	Paul C. Dancer	Chris is the ill-fated gay bar patron who unknowingly invites two killers to his apartment on the evening of their murder spree.	United States
1985	Buddies	Robert Willow	Geoff Edholm	David is the volunteer "buddy" from the Gay Center who is assigned to help care for Robert, who is dying of AIDS. The film explores how David copes with Robert's illness and death. It is the first narrative film about the AIDS crisis, preceding television film, An Early Frost (also released in 1985).	United States
		Steve	David Rose
1985	A Chorus Line	Paul San Marco	Cameron English		United States
1985	A Chorus Line	Greg Gardner	Justin Ross		United States
1985	Colonel Redl	Colonel Alfred Redl	Klaus Maria Brandauer	Redl is head of the Austrian Imperial Secret Service who gets exposed as a gay spy.	West Germany
1985	Dona Herlinda and Her Son	Ramón	Arturo Meza		Mexico
1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Luis Molina	William Hurt	Luis is a prisoner who survives through recreating old movie fantasies. (Hurt won an Academy Award for his performance.)	United States
1985	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Yukio Mishima	Ken Ogata	The film depicted the life and work of the eponymous writer and activist.	United States
1985	My Beautiful Laundrette	Omar Ali	Gordon Warnecke		United Kingdom
		Johnny	Daniel Day-Lewis
1985	A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge	Coach Schneider	Marshall Bell		United States
1985	Once Bitten	Sebastian	Cleavon Little	Sebastian is the flamboyant, stereotypically gay servant to the Countess. The film contains a running gag of Sebastian continuously "coming out" of the Countess' closet.	United States
1985	Spies Like Us	Russian Rocket Crew Member No. 1	Bjarne Thomsen		United States
		Russian Rocket Crew Member No. 2	Sergei Rousakov
1985	St. Elmo's Fire	Ron Dellasandro	Matthew Laurance		United States
1985	Westler	Felix	Sigurd Rachman	Felix and Thomas are lovers who are divided by the Berlin Wall.	West Germany
		Thomas	Rainer Strecker
1986	Absolute Beginners	Henley of Mayfair	James Fox		United Kingdom
1986	Caravaggio	Caravaggio	Nigel Terry		United Kingdom
		Jerusaleme	Spencer Leigh
1986	The Decline of the American Empire	Claude	Yves Jacques		Canada
1986	Mala Noche	Walt Curtis	Tim Streeter	Walt falls in love with Mexican migrant, Johnny.	United States
1986	The Morning After	Frankie	James Haake	Frankie is the drag queen friend of Alex, who lets her borrow clothing while she is on the run from the police for suspicion of murder.	United States
1986	Parting Glances	Michael	Richard Ganoung		United States
		Nick	Steve Buscemi
		Robert	John Bolger
1986	Tough Guys	Bar Patron	Matthew Faison		United States
1987	Beyond Therapy	Bob	Christopher Guest		United States
1987	Friends Forever	Patrick	Thomas Sigsgaard	Partrick is the best friend of the main protagonist, Kristian, and develops a relationship with Mads, the captain of the soccer team.	Denmark
		Mads	Morten Stig Christensen
1987	The Heart Exposed	Jean-Marc	Gilles Renaud	Jean-Marc and Mathieu fall in love despite a ten-year age difference and the complication that Mathieu is the father of a five-year-old son.	Canada
		Mathieu	Michel Poirier
1987	Law of Desire	Pablo Quintero	Eusebio Poncela		Spain
		Antonio Benítez	Antonio Banderas
		Juan	Miguel Molina
1987	Maurice	Clive Durham	Hugh Grant		United Kingdom
		Maurice Hall	James Wilby
		Alec Scudder	Rupert Graves
1987	No Way Out	Scott Pritchard	Will Patton		United States
1987	Prick Up Your Ears	Joe Orton	Gary Oldman		United Kingdom
		Kenneth Halliwell	Alfred Molina
1987	Radio Days	Fred	Robert Joy	Fred's coming out is treated with compassion and understanding by his girlfriend, Bea, when he bursts into tears after hearing "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You", a song which reminds him of his departed lover.	United States
1987	Stage Fright	Brett	Giovanni Lombardo Radice	Brett is one of the actors in a theater troupe being targeted by a killer wearing an owl mask.	Italy
1987	Tough Guys Don't Dance	Lonnie Pangborn	R. Patrick Sullivan		United States
1987	Withnail and I	Monty	Richard Griffiths		United Kingdom
1988	The Fruit Machine	Eddie	Emile Charles	Eddie and Michael are best friends who are on the run from a killer after they witness him murdering a drag queen at a gay club called "The Fruit Machine."	United Kingdom
		Michael	Tony Forsyth
1988	Madame Sousatzka	Mr. Cordle	Geoffrey Bayldon		United Kingdom, Canada
1988	Once More	Louis	Jean-Louis Rolland	The film follows Louis' life through the span of 10 years.	France
1988	Salome's Last Dance	Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas	Douglas Hodge		United Kingdom, United States
1988	Torch Song Trilogy	Arnold Beckoff	Harvey Fierstein		United States
		Alan Simon	Matthew Broderick
		David	Eddie Castrodad
1988	We Think the World of You	Frank Meadows	Alan Bates	Frank is a middle-aged man who helps support the younger and bisexual Johnny and his family.	United Kingdom
1989	Apartment Zero	Adrian LeDuc	Colin Firth		United Kingdom, Argentina
1989	Coming Out	Philipp Klarmann	Matthias Freihof		East Germany
		Matthias	Dirk Kummer
1989	Fun Down There	Buddy Fields	Michael Waite		United States
		Joseph	Nickolas B. Nagourney
1989	Getting It Right	Harry	Richard Huw	Harry is the best friend of the film's protagonist, Gavin. Winthrop is Harry's boyfriend.	United Kingdom, United States
		Winthrop	Kevin Drinkwater
1989	Last Exit to Brooklyn	Harry Black	Stephen Lang	Black is a union strike overseer trying to hide his homosexuality in a bitter marriage.	West Germany, United States
1989	Longtime Companion	David	Bruce Davison	Bruce, a wealthy man, becomes the caregiver of his lover, Sean, a soap opera writer, after he is infected with the HIV virus. The film depicts the increasing effect of HIV/AIDS on a group of gay men during eight-years, between 1981 and 1989. Willy and Fuzzy begin a relationship and move in together.	United States
		Fuzzy	Stephen Caffrey
		Sean	Mark Lamos
		Willy	Campbell Scott
1989	Looking for Langston	James	Akim Mogaji	James and Beauty fall in love in 1920s Harlem.	United Kingdom
		Beauty	Matthew Baidoo

1990–1999

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
1990	Europa Europa	Robert Kellerman	André Wilms	Robert is gay and Solek is Jewish. They hold each other's secret in solidarity while fighting in the German Army during World War II.	Germany, France, Poland
1990	Miller's Crossing	Bernie Bernbaum	John Turturro		United States
		Eddie Dane	J.E. Freeman
		Mink Larouie	Steve Buscemi
1990	Q & A	Josè Malpica	International Chrysis		United States
		Roger Montalvo	Paul Calderón
1991	The Adjuster	Larry	Stephen Ouimette		Canada
1991	Edward II	Edward II	Steven Waddington		United Kingdom
		Piers Gaveston	Andrew Tiernan
1991	The Fisher King	Homeless Cabaret Singer	Michael Jeter		United States
1991	Frankie and Johnny	Tim	Nathan Lane		United States
1991	The Hours and Times	Brian Epstein	David Angus		United States
1991	JFK	Willie O'Keefe	Kevin Bacon	Willie is a male prostitute serving five years in prison for soliciting. He was romantically involved with Clay.	United States
		Clay Shaw	Tommy Lee Jones
1991	Madonna: Truth or Dare	Himself	Salim "Slam" Gauwloos		United States
		Himself	Gabriel Trupin
1991	My Own Private Idaho	Mike Waters	River Phoenix		United States
1991	Naked Lunch	Yves Cloquet	Julian Sands		Canada, United Kingdom, Japan
1991	The Prince of Tides	Eddie Detreville	George Carlin		United States
1991	Queens Logic	Eliot	John Malkovich		United States
1991	Young Soul Rebels	Caz	Mo Sesay		United Kingdom
1992	Being at Home with Claude	Yves	Roy Dupuis		Canada
		Claude	Jean-François Pichette
1992	Inside Monkey Zetterland	Brent Zetterland	Tate Donovan	Brent is Monkey's brother, who is a hairdresser.	United States
1992	The Living End	Jon	Craig Gilmore		United States
		Luke	Mike Dytri
1992	The Long Day Closes	Bud	Leigh McCormack		United Kingdom
1992	Passed Away	Boyd Pinter	Tim Curry		United States
1992	Peter's Friends	Peter	Stephen Fry		United Kingdom
1992	Single White Female	Graham Knox	Peter Friedman		United States
1992	Swoon	Richard Loeb	Daniel Schlachet		United States
		Nathan Leopold Jr.	Craig Chester
1992	When the Party's Over	Banks	Kris Kamm		United States
1993	Blue	Himself	Derek Jarman	This was Jarman's final experimental film and documents his last years while living with AIDS. It was released four months before his death.	United Kingdom
1993	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	The Countess	John Hurt	The Countress is a femine hygiene products mogul.	United States
1993	Farewell My Concubine	Cheng Dieyi	Leslie Cheung	The film tells the troubled relationship between Peking opera actors Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou, and Xiaolou's wife Juxian.	British Hong Kong
1993	Grief	Mark	Craig Chester	Mark is a writer who contemplates suicide on the one year anniversary of his lover's death.	United States
1993	Love and Human Remains	David McMillan	Thomas Gibson		Canada
1993	M. Butterfly	René Gallimard	Jeremy Irons		United States
		Song Liling	John Lone
1993	Mrs. Doubtfire	Frank	Harvey Fierstein		United States
		Jack	Scott Capurro
1993	Naked in New York	Chris	Ralph Macchio	Chris is Jake's best friend who kisses him during a party.	United States
1993	Philadelphia	Andrew Beckett	Tom Hanks	Beckett was fired from his employment as a senior associate attorney at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia after they found out he had AIDS. Alvarez is Beckett's partner. Philadelphia is the first major Hollywood film to deal with the subject of AIDS.	United States
		Miguel Alvarez	Antonio Banderas
1993	Six Degrees of Separation	Paul	Will Smith		United States
1993	This Boy's Life	Arthur Gayle	Jonah Blechman		United States
1993	The Wedding Banquet	Wai-Tung Gao	Winston Chao		Taiwan, United States
1994	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Anthony "Tick" Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra	Hugo Weaving	Near the end of the film, Bernadette is shocked to learn that Anthony/Mitzi was not only once married to a woman but also has a son.	Australia
1994	Der bewegte Mann	Norbert Brommer	Joachim Król	Walter is a crossdresser using the name "Waltraud".	Germany
		Horst/Metzger	Armin Rohde
		Walter/Waltraud	Rufus Beck
1994	Double Happiness	Andrew Chau	Johnny Mah		Canada
1994	Drunken Master III	Gay bus passenger	Simon Yam		Hong Kong
1994	Ed Wood	John "Bunny" Breckinridge	Bill Murray	Bunny is Ed's drag queen friend.	United States
1994	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Gareth	Simon Callow		United Kingdom
		Matthew	John Hannah
1994	A Man of No Importance	Alfred Byrne	Albert Finney	Byrne is a closeted homosexual bus conductor in 1963 Dublin. His sister tries to find him a suitable woman, but his real passion is putting on amateur theatre productions of Oscar Wilde plays, particularly Salome. The film deals with his struggle, temptation, and friendships, and how they are affected by his homosexuality.	United Kingdom, Ireland
1994	Oh! My Three Guys	Ching Yu-hoi	Lau Ching-wan	Good friends Kau, Hoi and Fa are homosexual men. Hoi works in an advertising firm while Kau and Fa have not found a suitable job yet. Hoi's new female colleague Mei became interested in him.	British Hong Kong
		Fa	Dayo Wong
		Kau Ku-neung	Eric Kot
1994	Prêt-à-Porter	Cy Bianco	Forest Whitaker	Bianco and Romney are fashion designers.	United States
		Cort Romney	Richard E. Grant
1994	Priest	Father Greg Pilkington	Linus Roache		United Kingdom
		Graham	Robert Carlyle
1994	Pulp Fiction	Zed	Peter Greene	He rapes Marsellus Wallace.	United States
1994	Reality Bites	Sammy Gray	Steve Zahn		United States
1994	The Sum of Us	Jeff Mitchell	Russell Crowe		Australia
1994	Threesome	Eddy	Josh Charles		United States
1994	Trevor	Trevor	Brett Barsky		United States
1994	Uncovered	César	John Wood	César is Julia's guardian.	United Kingdom
1994	Wagons East	Julian Rogers	John C. McGinley		United States
1994	Wild Reeds	François Forestier	Gaël Morel		France
1995	An Awfully Big Adventure	Meredith Potter	Hugh Grant	Meredith is a manager, actor and director of a troupe.	United Kingdom
1995	The Basketball Diaries	Swifty	Bruno Kirby		United States
1995	Billy Madison	Max Anderson	Josh Mostel	The principal of the elementary school, and a former masked wrestler known as the "Revolting Blob".	United States
1995	Braveheart	Prince Edward	Peter Hanly		United States
1995	Carrington	Lytton Strachey	Jonathan Pryce	Lytton is the sadomasochistic lover of Roger. Lytton was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. His homosexuality, as depicted in the film, was well known.	France, United Kingdom
1995	Clueless	Christian Stovitz	Justin Walker		United States
1995	Home for the Holidays	Tommy Larson	Robert Downey Jr.	Tommy married his boyfriend Jack in a beach wedding.	United States
		Jack	Sam Slovick
1995	Jefferson in Paris	Richard Cosway	Simon Callow		France, United States
1995	Jeffrey	Darius	Bryan Batt		United States
		Steve Howard	Michael T. Weiss
		Jeffrey	Steven Weber
		Sterling	Patrick Stewart
1995	Nixon	J. Edgar Hoover	Bob Hoskins		United States
1995	Party Girl	Derrick	Anthony DeSando		United States
1995	Stonewall	La Miranda	Guillermo Díaz		United Kingdom, United States
		Matty Dean	Frederick Weller
		Vinnie	Bruce MacVittie
		Bostonia	Duane Boutte
		Ethan	Brendan Corbalis
1995	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	Vida Boheme	Patrick Swayze	Vida and Noxeema are drag queens.	United States
		Noxeema Jackson	Wesley Snipes
1995	Total Eclipse	Arthur Rimbaud	Leonardo DiCaprio	The film presents a historical account of the passionate and violent relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, at a time of soaring creativity for both men.	United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, United States
1995	Waiting to Exhale	David Matthews	Giancarlo Esposito		United States
1996	Beautiful Thing	Ste Pearce	Scott Neal		United Kingdom
		Jamie Gangel	Glen Berry
1996	The Birdcage	Agador	Hank Azaria		United States
		Albert Goldman	Nathan Lane
		Armand Goldman	Robin Williams
1996	Dream for an Insomniac	Rob	Michael Landes	Rob is apprehensive about coming out to his father.	United States
1996	Flirting with Disaster	Paul Harmon	Richard Jenkins	Tony and Paul are ATF agents who are in a relationship with each other.	United States
		Tony Kent	Josh Brolin
1996	Get on the Bus	Kyle	Isaiah Washington	Kyle is an ex-Marine who is the midst of breaking up with his lover Randall.	United States
		Randall	Harry Lennix
1996	Hollow Reed	Martyn Wyatt	Martin Donovan	Martyn, a family doctor, married Hannah to hide his homosexuality, and they divorced after he finally came out. Tom is Martyn's lover.	Germany, United Kingdom, Spain
		Tom Dixon	Ian Hart
1996	I Shot Andy Warhol	Andy Warhol	Jared Harris		United Kingdom, United States
1996	Indian Summer	Tonio	Jason Flemyng	Tonio is a rising young star of a London ballet company. Ramon is the former star-turned-choreographer of the company, who is dying of AIDs. Jack is an older Therapist who falls in love with Tonio.	United Kingdom
		Jack	Antony Sher
		Ramon	Anthony Higgins
1996	It's My Party	Nick Stark	Eric Roberts	Stark, an architect who hosted a two-day party after being diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, will fall into a state of mental lapse lasting for months until his death. He decides to host a party for his family and friends, at the end of which he will commit suicide by taking Seconal.	United States
1996	Johns	Donner	Lukas Haas		United States
1996	Mrs. Winterbourne	Paco	Miguel Sandoval		United States
1996	Mulholland Falls	Jimmy Fields	Andrew McCarthy		United States
1996	Sling Blade	Vaughn Cunningham	John Ritter		United States
1996	Stealing Beauty	Alex Parrish	Jeremy Irons		United Kingdom
1996	When the Cat's Away	Michel	Olivier Py		France
1996	Who's the Woman, Who's the Man?	Auntie	Eric Tsang		Hong Kong
1997	All Over Me	Luke	Pat Briggs		United States
		Jesse	Wilson Cruz
1997	As Good as It Gets	Simon Bishop	Greg Kinnear	Simon is an artist living in Manhattan. We learn that his parents kicked him out for being homosexual and was abused by his father because of it. Homophobic neighbor Melvin Udall uses derogatory terms when referring to Simon, but after Simon is brutally attacked he becomes the caretaker of Simon's dog, Verdell.	United States
1997	Bent	Max	Clive Owen	Max is a promiscuous gay man living in 1930s Berlin. He is at odds with his wealthy family because of his homosexuality.	United Kingdom, Japan
		Ruby	Brian Webber II
1997	Best Men	Sergeant Buzz Thomas	Dean Cain		United States
1997	Black Rose II	Dan	Blackie Ko		Hong Kong
1997	Boogie Nights	Scotty J.	Philip Seymour Hoffman		United States
1997	Chasing Amy	Hooper	Dwight Ewell	Hooper is a black cartoonist.	United States
1997	The Fifth Element	Baby Ray	Ian Beckett		United States
1997	The Full Monty	Lomper	Steve Huison		United Kingdom
		Guy	Hugo Speer
1997	The Hanging Garden	William	Chris Leavins		United Kingdom, Canada
		Fletcher	Joel Keller
1997	Happy Together	Ho Po-Wing	Leslie Cheung	Ho Po-Wing and Lai Yiu-Fai are a gay couple from Hong Kong with a tumultuous relationship marked by frequent separations and reconciliations. They visit Argentina together but break up after they become lost while traveling to visit the Iguazu Falls.	British Hong Kong
		Lai Yiu-Fai	Tony Leung Chiu-wai
1997	In & Out	Howard Brackett	Kevin Kline		United States
		Peter Malloy	Tom Selleck
1997	The Jackal	Douglas	Stephen Spinella		United States
1997	Kiss Me, Guido	Warren	Anthony Barrile		United States
1997	Love! Valour! Compassion!	Gregory Mitchell	Stephen Bogardus		United States
		James Jeckyll	John Glover
		Perry Sellars	Stephen Spinella
		Buzz Hauser	Jason Alexander
		Ramon Fornos	Randy Becker
		Arthur Pape	John Benjamin Hickey
		Bobby Brahms	Justin Kirk
1997	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	Jim Williams	Kevin Spacey		United States
1997	My Best Friend's Wedding	George Downes	Rupert Everett	George is Julianne's friend and confidante. He agrees to pose as her fiancé so that she can make Michael, the college friend she thought would marry her, jealous.	United States
1997	Nowhere	Cowboy	Guillermo Diaz	Cowboy and Bart are bandmates as well as boyfriends.	United States
		Bart	Jeremy Jordan
1997	Spice World	Himself	Elton John		United Kingdom
1997	Swept from the Sea	Dr. James Kennedy	Ian McKellen	The film recounts the partly fictionalized last days of the life of film director James Whale.	United Kingdom, United States
1997	'Til There Was You	Gregory	Ken Olin		United States
1997	Waiting for Guffman	Corky St. Clair	Christopher Guest		United States
1997	Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Stephen Fry	Oscar loves his wife and children, but is sexually attracted to men. He becomes obsessed with Alfred. Alfred is Wilde's lover. Their relationship becomes a scandal resulting in Oscar's downfall.	United Kingdom
		Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas	Jude Law
		John Gray	Ioan Gruffudd
1998	Alice and Martin	Benjamin	Mathieu Amalric		France, Spain
1998	Bedrooms and Hallways	Darren	Tom Hollander		United Kingdom
1998	Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss	Billy Collier	Sean Hayes	Billy is a photographer who falls in love with sexually ambiguous waiter/model Gabriel. He hires Gabriel Perry is Billy's mentor, patron, and admirer. Fernando is Billy's on-again, off-again lover. He has an open relationship, but frequently pursues Billy.	United States
		Perry	Richard Ganoung
		Fernando	Armando Valdes-Kennedy
1998	Dark Harbor	Young Man	Norman Reedus	David and the young man are lovers.	United States
1998	Edge of Seventeen	Eric Hunter	Chris Stafford		United States
1998	54	Steve Rubell	Mike Myers	Steve Rubell is co-owner of the New York City disco Studio 54.	United States
1998	Bishonen	Jet	Stephen Fung		Hong Kong
1998	Get Real	Steven Carter	Ben Silverstone		United Kingdom
		John Dixon	Brad Gorton
1998	Gods and Monsters	George Cukor	Martin Ferrero		United Kingdom, United States
		David Lewis	David Dukes
		James Whale	Ian McKellen
1998	Head On	Ari	Alex Dimitriades		Australia
1998	Hold You Tight	A-che	Lawrence Ko	The story of a man living in Hong Kong who is initially drawn to a young woman, but soon finds he is more attracted to her boyfriend.	Hong Kong
		Tong	Eric Tsang
1998	Illuminata	Umberto Bevalaqua	Christopher Walken	A flamboyant theater critic.	United States
1998	The Impostors	Mr. Sparks	Billy Connolly	Sparks is an aging professional tennis player.	United States
1998	The Object of My Affection	George Hanson	Paul Rudd	George is a first grade teacher.	United States
1998	The Opposite of Sex	Bill Truitt	Martin Donovan		United States
		Matt Mateo	Ivan Sergei
1998	The Velocity of Gary	Valentino	Vincent D'Onofrio		United States
		Gary	Thomas Jane
1999	Advice from a Caterpillar	Spaz	Andy Dick	Spaz is Missy's best friend.	United States
1999	American Beauty	Jim Berkley	Sam Robards	Frank is closeted.	United States
		Jim Olmeyer	Scott Bakula
		Frank Fitts	Chris Cooper
1999	Big Daddy	Phil D'Amato	Allen Covert		United States
		Tommy Grayton	Peter Dante
1999	The Big Tease	Crawford Mackenzie	Craig Ferguson		United States
1999	Black and White	Terry Donager	Robert Downey Jr.	Terry is the closeted husband of a documentary filmmaker.	United States
1999	Blast from the Past	Troy	Dave Foley		United States
1999	The Boondock Saints	Paul Smecker	Willem Dafoe	Smecker is an FBI agent who is assigned to the murders linked to the MacManus twin brothers.	United States
1999	But I'm a Cheerleader	Dolph	Dante Basco	Dolph, Clayton, Andre, and Joel are campers. Rock is the son of Mary Brown, the founder of True Directions. Supposedly straight, he is actually closeted. Mike is supposedly an ex-gay who helps with the process of "curing" campers of their homosexuality; however, he is clearly shown to be still attracted to men. Lloyd and Larry are a couple described as "ex, ex-gays". Before the events of the film, they were once campers at True Directions before they defected. They help the campers sneak out and go party at a gay bar, and also give advice about dealing with one's own sexuality. They let ex-camper Dolph live with them when he is expelled from True Directions for having sex at the camp.	United States
		Clayton Dunn	Kip Pardue
		Andre	Douglas Spain
		Joel Goldberg	Joel Michaely
		Rock Brown	Eddie Cibrian
		Mike	RuPaul
		Lloyd Morgan-Gordon	Wesley Mann
		Larry Morgan-Gordon	Richard Moll
1999	Cruel Intentions	Blaine Tuttle	Joshua Jackson		United States
1999	East Is East	Nazir "Nigel" Khan	Ian Aspinall		United Kingdom
1999	Go	Adam	Scott Wolf	Adam and Zack are soap opera actors who are in a relationship.	United States
		Zack	Jay Mohr
1999	Happy, Texas	Sheriff Chappy Dent	William H. Macy		United States
1999	It's the Rage	Chris	David Schwimmer		United States
		Tim	Andre Braugher
1999	Magnolia	"Quiz Kid" Donnie Smith	William H. Macy		United States
1999	Man of the Century	Tim	Anthony Rapp		United States
1999	Second Skin	Diego	Javier Bardem	Diego is the handsome surgeon who Alberto has an affair with.	Spain
1999	Summer of Sam	Bobby Del Fiore	Brian Tarantina		United States
1999	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Peter Smith-Kingsley	Jack Davenport	Peter is Ripley's lover later in the story.	United States
1999	Three to Tango	Peter Steinberg	Oliver Platt		Australia, United States
1999	Trick	Gabriel	Christian Campbell		United States
		Mark Miranda	John Paul Pitoc
1999	The Underground Comedy Movie	Gay Man	Ant		United States
		Gay Virgin	Michael Clarke Duncan

21st century

2000–2004

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2000	American Psycho	Luis Carruthers	Matt Ross		United States
2000	Before Night Falls	Reinaldo Arenas	Javier Bardem	Reinaldo is imprisoned in Cuba for his homosexuality and later moves to New York City, where he contracts HIV/AIDS. He begins friendships with two other men, Pepe and Tomas. José is a literature writer. Virgilio is an influential writer. Pepe is in a relationship with Reinaldo before leaving him to pursue a woman.	United States
		José Lezama Lima	Manuel González
		Tomas Diego	Santiago Magill
		Virgilio Piñera	Héctor Babenco
2000	Best in Show	Scott Donlan	John Michael Higgins		United States
		Stefan Vanderhoof	Michael McKean
2000	Billy Elliot	Michael Caffrey cross-dresser	Stuart Wells (young Michael) Merryn Owen (adult Michael)	Michael is a young boy and the best friend of Billy Elliot. At some point, Michael is seen using a dress and makeup. He shows interest in Billy, who does not reciprocate but is supportive of his friend.	United Kingdom
2000	Borstal Boy	Charlie Milwall	Danny Dyer	Charlie is a young Irish sailor in 1941.	United Kingdom, Ireland
2000	Bounce	Seth	Johnny Galecki	Seth is Buddy's secretary	United States
2000	Bring It On	Les	Huntley Ritter	Les is a member of the Toros cheerleading team.	United States
2000	The Broken Hearts Club	Benji	Zach Braff	The film follows the lives of a group of gay friends in West Hollywood.	United States
		Cole	Dean Cain
		Dennis	Timothy Olyphant
		Howie	Matt McGrath
		Kevin	Andrew Keegan
		Marshall	Justin Theroux
		Patrick	Ben Weber
		Taylor	Billy Porter
2000	Chuck & Buck	Buck O'Brien	Mike White		United States
2000	Lavender	Chow Chow	Eason Chan		Hong Kong
2000	The Next Best Thing	Robert Whittaker	Rupert Everett	Robert is Abbie's best friend, who she decides to have a child with.	United States
2000	Sexy Beast	Teddy Bass	Ian McShane		United Kingdom, Spain
2000	Traffic	Francisco "Frankie Flowers" Flores	Clifton Collins Jr.		United States
2000	28 Days	Dutch Gerhardt	Alan Tudyk		United States
2000	Urbania	Charlie	Dan Futterman		United States
		Chris	Matt Keeslar
		Brett	Alan Cumming
2000	Wonder Boys	James Leer	Tobey Maguire		United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
2001	Blow	Derek Foreal	Paul Reubens		United States
2001	The Deep End	Beau Hall	Jonathan Tucker	Beau is a high school senior dating a 30-year-old club owner.	United States
2001	Gypsy 83	Clive Webb	Kett Turton	Clive is a young goth who joins his friend Gypsy on a road trip to see a Stevie Nicks tribute in New York City.	United States
2001	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Luther Robinson	Maurice Dean Wint		United States
2001	Josie and the Pussycats	Wyatt Frame	Alan Cumming	Wyatt is a record producer.	United States
2001	Kissing Jessica Stein	Martin	Michael Mastro		United States
		Sebastian	Carson Elrod
2001	Lan Yu	Lan Yu	Liu Ye	The story of an affair between a young man and a middle-aged man. Set in mainland China.	China, Hong Kong
		Chen Handong	Hu Jun
2001	Legally Blonde	Enrique Salvatore	Greg Serano		United States
2001	L.I.E.	Howie Blitzer	Paul Dano	Howie is discovering his sexual orientation. Gary is a hustler who becomes a friend of Howie. Big John is Gary's client and a pedophile.	United States
		Gary Terrio	Billy Kay
		Big John Harrigan	Brian Cox
2001	The Man Who Wasn't There	Creighton Tolliver	Jon Polito		United Kingdom, United States
2001	The Mexican	Leroy	James Gandolfini		United States
2001	Saving Silverman	J.D McNugent	Jack Black		United States
2001	Shake It All About	Jørgen	Troels Lyby	Jacob asks Jørgen to marry him, and he happily accepts. However, Jacob falls in love with another woman.	Denmark
2001	Wet Hot American Summer	McKinley	Michael Ian Black	McKinley and Ben are camp counselors and lovers.	United States
		Ben	Bradley Cooper
2002	Bend It Like Beckham	Tony	Ameet Chana		United Kingdom, United States, Germany, India
2002	Boat Trip	Lloyd Faversham	Roger Moore	Brian and Michael are boyfriends.	United States
		Brian	Artie Lange
		Michael	Will Ferrell
2002	Dahmer	Jeffrey Dahmer	Jeremy Renner	The story of the real-life serial killer of the same name.	United States
2002	Far from Heaven	Frank Whitaker	Dennis Quaid		United States
2002	Friday After Next	Damon Pearly	Terry Crews	Damon is a newly released ex-convict who developed homosexual tendencies in prison.	United States
2002	The Hours	Richard Brown	Ed Harris	Richard is a moody poet and author living with AIDS.	United Kingdom, United States
2002	Sweet Home Alabama	Bobby Ray	Ethan Embry		United States
2002	Unconditional Love	Dirk	Rupert Everett		United States
		Victor Fox	Jonathan Pryce
2003	American Wedding	Bear	Eric Allan Kramer		United States
2003	Arisan!	Nino	Surya Saputra	The first Indonesian film to feature a same-sex kiss.	Indonesia
		Sakti	Tora Sudiro
2003	Bright Young Things	Miles Maitland	Michael Sheen		United Kingdom
2003	Latter Days	Christian Markelli	Wes Ramsey	Christian makes a bet with his friends that he can seduce a neighbor (Aaron) who is a Mormon missionary.	United States
		Aaron Davis	Steve Sandvoss
2003	Mambo Italiano	Angelo Barberini	Luke Kirby	Angelo is the openly gay son of Italian immigrants. Nino is boyfriend, who is not out to his parents.	Canada
		Nino Paventi	Peter Miller
2003	Party Monster	Michael Alig	Macaulay Culkin		United States
		James St. James	Seth Green
2004	The 24th Day	Dan	James Marsden	Tom has been diagnosed with HIV and believes he infected his late wife with the AIDS virus. He had only one sexual encounter with a man, Dan, and thinks that it was he who transmitted the disease to him. Tom kidnaps Dan with the intent to kill him.	United States
2004	Alexander	Hephaistion	Jared Leto	Alexander has relationships with childhood friends Hephaistion and Bagoas.	Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States
		Bagoas	Francisco Bosch
2004	Bad Education	Enrique Goded	Fele Martínez		Spain
		Father Manolo	Daniel Giménez Cacho
		Ignacio Rodriguez	Francisco Boira
2004	Brother to Brother	Perry	Anthony Mackie	Black art student Perry is thrown out by his parents for his homosexuality and is further disturbed by a potential romantic entanglement with a white boy in his class.	United States
2004	Enter the Phoenix	Georgie Hung Chi Kit	Daniel Wu	Georgie lives as a cook with his boyfriend Frankie, is uninterested to continue his father's work.	Hong Kong
2004	Formula 17	Chou T'ien Tsai	Tony Yang	Chou is looking for romance as he takes a trip to the capital, Taipei, to visit an online boyfriend in person for the first time. Disappointed to find that his online friend only wants sex and has no interest in forming a romantic bond, he starts to look elsewhere, finding his internet relationship. T'ien's roommate and friends help him look for the man of his dreams. The film was banned in Singapore because it "portrays homosexuality as normal, and a natural progression of society".	Taiwan
		Bai Tieh Nan/Richard Bai	Duncan Lai
		Yu	King Chin
		Jun	Jason Chang
		C.C.	Dada Ji
		Alan	James Yun
		Ray	Jeff Locker
		Kevin	Ladder Yu
2004	Hellbent	Joey	Hank Harris		United States
2004	A Home at the End of the World	Jonathan Glover	Harris Allan / Dallas Roberts	Bobby finds a new home with his childhood friend Jonathan. The two boys come of age together and discover their sexuality.	United States
		Bobby Morrow	Colin Farrell
2004	Leave Me Alone	Yiu Chun Man	Ekin Cheng	Yiu is a fashion designer who has a boyfriend.	Hong Kong
		Man's boyfriend	Jan Lamb
2004	Mean Girls	Damian	Daniel Franzese		United States
2004	Mysterious Skin	Neil McCormick	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Neil is the son of an irresponsible single mother who is already discovering his own homosexuality. He is sexually abused by the Little League baseball coach.	Netherlands, United States
2004	Rice Rhapsody	Daniel	Alvin Chiang		Hong Kong, Singapore
		Harry	Craig Toh
2004	Saved!	Dean	Chad Faust	Dean is sent away by his parents to be "degayified". Mitch is Dean's boyfriend.	United States
		Mitch	Kett Turton
2004	Somersault	Richard	Erik Thomson		Australia
2004	Stage Beauty	George Villiers	Ben Chaplin	Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, is the lover of Kynaston.	Germany, United Kingdom, United States
2004	The Stepford Wives	Roger Bannister	Roger Bart	Roger and his long-time partner Jerry are residents of Stepford.	United States
		Jerry Harmon	David Marshall Grant
2004	Touch of Pink	Alim	Jimi Mistry	Alim and Giles are in an open relationship, but Alim is not out to his Muslim mother and family. When Alim's mother announces that she is going to be visiting him, he and Giles must pretend that they are only roommates, which begins to strain their relationship.	Canada, United Kingdom
		Giles	Kris Holden-Ried

2005–2009

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2005	Be Cool	Elliot Wilhelm	Dwayne Johnson	Elliot is Raji's Samoan bodyguard.	United States
2005	The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros	Maximo "Maxi" Oliveros	Nathan Lopez	A teenage effeminate gay boy who gets infatuated with a police officer who rescued him from harassment.	Philippines
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Randall Malone	David Harbour	Randall has an affair with Jack.	United States
2005	Capote	Truman Capote	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The film follows the events during the writing of Capote's book In Cold Blood.	United States, Canada
		Jack Dunphy	Bruce Greenwood
2005	C.R.A.Z.Y.	Zachary Beaulieu	Marc-André Grondin		Canada
2005	Cursed	Bo	Milo Ventimiglia		United States
2005	The Dying Gaul	Robert Sandrich	Peter Sarsgaard		United States
2005	The Family Stone	Thad Stone	Tyrone Giordano	Thad is deaf and is the youngest son in the Stone family. He and his partner, Patrick, have an adopted son.	United States
		Patrick Thomas	Brian J. White
2005	Happy Endings	Charley Peppitone	Steve Coogan	Charlie runs a restaurant. Gil is his partner.	United States
		Gil Palmer	David Sutcliffe
2005	Kinky Boots	Simon / Lola	Chiwetel Ejiofor	A man who is a drag queen performer, with Simon as his alter ego.	United Kingdom
2005	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Perry Van Shrike/"Gay Perry"	Val Kilmer		United States
2005	Loggerheads	George	Michael Kelly		United States
		Mark	Kip Pardue
2005	Monster-in-Law	Remy	Adam Scott	Remy is Charlie's neighbor and best friend.	United States
2005	My Fair Son	Ray	Junrui Wang		China
		Unnamed student	Guifeng Wang
2005	Rent	Thomas B. "Tom" Collins	Jesse L. Martin		United States
		Angel Dumott Schunard	Wilson Jermaine Heredia
2005	Tides of War	Frank Habley	Adrian Paul	Cmdr. Habley and Lt. Cmdr. Palatonio (Frank's executive officer) are partners serving on the same submarine. Tom is killed in a battle and Frank must continue to serve on the same vessel. Released in theaters as Phantom Below with the gay theme excluded. The original gay version was broadcast by the Here network.	United States
		Tom Palatonio	Mike Doyle
2005	V for Vendetta	Gordon Deitrich	Stephen Fry		Germany, United Kingdom, United States
2005	Wedding Crashers	Todd Cleary	Keir O'Donnell	Todd is the hunchbacked brother of Claire who aggressively comes on to Jeremy. A GQ review described the character as an inexcusably unfunny riff on the old "predatory gay man" trope.	United States
2006	Another Gay Movie	Griff	Mitch Morris		United States
		Nico Hunter	Jonah Blechman
		Jarod	Jonathan Chase
		Andy Wilson	Michael Carbonaro
2006	The Architect	Shawn	Paul James		United States
		Martin Waters	Sebastian Stan
2006	Boy Culture	Alex "X"	Derek Magyar		United States
		Andrew	Darryl Stephens
		Joey	Jonathon Trent
		Gregory Talbot	Patrick Bauchau
2006	The Bubble	Ashraf	Yousef 'Joe' Sweid		Israel
		Noam	Ohad Knoller
		Yali	Alon Friedman
2006	Confetti	Archie	Vincent Franklin		United Kingdom
		Gregory	Jason Watkins
2006	Crank	Kaylo	Efren Ramirez	Kaylo is Chev Chelios' informant.	United States
2006	Eternal Summer	Jonathan	Bryant Chang	Jonathan, a studious schoolboy, is asked by his teacher to look after another boy, Shane, who is rebellious and dislikes learning. Ten years on, they have developed a good friendship despite their divergent lives: Jonathan on course to go to university and Shane to become a basketball player. Jonathan is also attracted to Shane, but the attraction is not reciprocated. However, the young men's fates change when a girl, Carrie, has a secret affair with Shane (who is determined to keep it secret in order to protect Jonathan's feelings) and also does her best to persuade Shane to abandon basketball and instead work hard to try to enter university.	Taiwan
2006	The History Boys	Douglas Hector	Richard Griffiths	Based on the play of the same name.	United Kingdom
		Tom Irwin	Stephen Campbell Moore
		David Posner	Samuel Barnett
2006	Infamous	Truman Capote	Toby Jones	The time of author Capote's life during which he researched and wrote In Cold Blood.	United States
2006	Let's Go to Prison	Barry	Chi McBride		United States
		Nelson Biederman IV	Will Arnett
2006	Little Miss Sunshine	Frank Ginsberg	Steve Carell	Frank, an unemployed scholar of Proust, is temporarily living with his sister's family after having attempted suicide.	United States
2006	The Night Listener	Gabriel Noone	Robin Williams	Gabriel is a popular gay New York City radio show host, is dealing with a separation from his partner, Jess.	United States
		Jess	Bobby Cannavale
2006	No Regret	Lee Su-min	Lee Yeong-hoon		South Korea
		Song Jae-min	Kim Nam-gil
2006	Poseidon	Richard Nelson	Richard Dreyfuss	Nelson is an architect and one of the survivors.	United States
2006	Running with Scissors	Neil Bookman	Joseph Fiennes	Augusten and Neil begin an erratic sexual relationship.	United States
		Augusten Burroughs	Joseph Cross
2006	Scenes of a Sexual Nature	Billy	Ewan McGregor		United Kingdom
		Brian	Douglas Hodge
2006	Shortbus	James	Paul Dawson	James and Jamie are a couple. James wants to introduce other men into their relationship for sex.	Canada
		Jamie	PJ DeBoy
2006	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby	Jean Girard	Sacha Baron Cohen	Jean is a French Formula One driver and Bobby's archrival.	United States
2007	Breakfast with Scot	Eric McNally	Tom Cavanagh		Canada
		Sam	Ben Shenkman
		Scot	Noah Bernett
2007	I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry	Fred Duncan	Ving Rhames		United States
2007	Love Songs	Erwann	Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet	Ismaël, Julie, and Alice are in a ménage-à-trois. After a tragedy strikes and breaks them apart, the characters learn to deal with loss and mourning. Ismaël unexpectedly finds love again with a young man named Erwann.	France
2007	Shelter	Shaun	Brad Rowe		United States
2007	Stardust	Captain Shakespeare	Robert De Niro	Captain Shakespeare is a sky pirate.	United States, United Kingdom
2007	The Walker	Carter Page III	Woody Harrelson	A middle-aged gay male escort living in Washington, D. C.	United States, United Kingdom
2008	Brideshead Revisited	Anthony Blanche	Joseph Beattie		United Kingdom
		Lord Sebastian Flyte	Ben Whishaw
		Charles Ryder	Matthew Goode
2008	Death Race	Joseph "Machine Gun Joe" Mason	Tyrese Gibson		United States
2008	Doubt	Donald Miller	Joseph Foster		United States
2008	Dream Boy	Nathan Davies	Stephan Bender		United States
		Roy	Maximillian Roeg
2008	Hamlet 2	Rand Posin	Skylar Astin	A drama student in love with his drama teacher.	United States
2008	Little Ashes	Salvador Dalí	Robert Pattinson	An unconsummated sexual attraction between Dali and Lorca (whose homosexuality was known).	United Kingdom, Spain
		Federico García Lorca	Javier Beltrán
2008	Mamma Mia!	Harry Bright	Colin Firth	Harry tells Donna: "You were the first woman I ever loved, and also the last."	Germany, United Kingdom, United States
2008	Milk	Harvey Milk	Sean Penn	Milk is the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Smith and Lira are Milk's lovers.	United States
		Cleve Jones	Emile Hirsch
		Jack Lira	Diego Luna
		Scott Smith	James Franco
2008	Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist	Beefy Guy (Lethario)	Jonathan B. Wright		United States
		Dev	Rafi Gavron
		Thom	Aaron Yoo
2008	RocknRolla	Handsome Bob	Tom Hardy	Bob is a gangster.	United States, United Kingdom, France
2008	Sex Drive	Rex Lafferty	James Marsden		United States
2008	Tropic Thunder	Alpa Chino	Brandon T. Jackson	Cino is a closeted rapper who is attempting to cross over into acting, portraying a soldier named Motown, while promoting his "Bust-A-Nut" candy bar and "Booty Sweat" energy drink.	United States, Germany, United Kingdom
2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno	Brandon St. Randy	Justin Long		United States
2009	44 Inch Chest	Meredith	Ian McShane	Meredith is a suave gambler.	United Kingdom
2009	Brüno	Brüno Gehard	Sacha Baron Cohen	A flamboyantly gay fashion reporter from Austria.	United States, United Kingdom
2009	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant	Mr. Tiny	Michael Cerveris		United States
2009	Horsemen	Corey Kurth	Patrick Fugit		United States
2009	I Killed My Mother	Hubert Minel	Xavier Dolan		Canada
2009	I Love You, Man	Robbie Klaven	Andy Samberg	Robbie is Peter's brother.	United States
2009	I Love You Phillip Morris	Phillip Morris	Ewan McGregor	While incarcerated, Steve falls in love with his fellow inmate, Morris.	France, United States
		Steven Russell	Jim Carrey
2009	Permanent Residence	Ivan	Sean Li	Ivan seeks a long-term relationship with a straight friend. Befriending another young man, Windson, at a public sports club, the two build up a friendly rapport. However, Windson becomes aware of his inclination, and while happy to remain his friend, is initially very reluctant to become emotionally involved with him. This is the first feature film directed by award-winning Chinese LGBT filmmaker known as 'Scud'.	Hong Kong
2009	Shank	Cal	Wayne Virgo		United Kingdom
		Olivier	Marc Laurent
		Scott	Garry Summers
		Jonno	Tom Bott
2009	A Single Man	George Falconer	Colin Firth	In 1962, George dreams that he encounters the body of his longtime partner, Jim, at the scene of the car accident that took his life.	United States
		Jim	Matthew Goode
2009	Soundless Wind Chime	Ricky	Lu Yulai	An interracial love story, told through a linear narrative and a series of complex, interlocking flashbacks. Ricky, who has arrived in Hong Kong from mainland China, works as a delivery boy. He is robbed by a Swiss thief, Pascal, who admits his crime and returns the stolen item. The two eventually embark on a love affair, but through several flashbacks, it eventually becomes clear that Pascal has subsequently been killed in a road accident near their flat, which Ricky had witnessed. Some years later, Ricky visits Pascal's former home in Switzerland to find it abandoned. During his time there, he meets Pascal's doppelgänger in a man called Ueli, who nevertheless has a very different personality. They, too, fall in love and the contentment that Ricky finds enables him to reflect on the relationship he had with Pascal.	Hong Kong, Switzerland, China
		Pascal	Bernhard Bulling
		Ueli	Bernhard Bulling
2009	Taking Woodstock	Elliot Teichberg/Tiber	Demetri Martin		United States
2009	Undertow	Santiago	Manolo Cardona	Miguel is married to Mariela, who is pregnant with their first son, but he also has a secret affair with a male painter called Santiago.	Peru, Colombia, France, Germany

2010–2014

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2010	Amphetamine	Daniel	Thomas Price	Daniel, an openly-gay wealthy Chinese-Australian investment banker working in Hong Kong meets and befriends Kafka, a young swimming instructor from a poor local family, who has strong religious beliefs. Kafka was sexually assaulted as a teenager by a male gang after successfully defending a young woman from being raped, and as a result, he has become impotent and a habitual user of recreational drugs. Although initially uncomfortable with Daniel's obvious sexual attraction to him, he soon sees Daniel as offering him new hope in life, and he falls deeply in love with him. But Kafka's life begins to fall apart again when his mother dies suddenly, and he attempts to end his life.	Hong Kong
2010	Beginners	Hal	Christopher Plummer	Shortly after his wife's death, Hal comes out to his son and begins exploring life as an openly gay man.	United States
2010	Burlesque	Sean	Stanley Tucci	A wisecracking man who works in a strip club.	United States
2010	Death at a Funeral	Frank Lovett	Peter Dinklage	A dwarf in love with the late father of the protagonist.	United States, United Kingdom
2010	Dirty Girl	Clarke Walters	Jeremy Dozier		United States
2010	Easy A	Brandon	Dan Byrd		United States
2010	Every Day	Jonah Freed	Ezra Miller		United States
2010	For Colored Girls	Carl Bradmore	Omari Hardwick		United States
2010	Howl	Allen Ginsberg	James Franco	Ginsberg is a central figure of the Beat Generation. Fellow poet Orlovsky is Ginsberg's life partner for over forty years.	United States
		Peter Orlovsky	Aaron Tveit
2010	Kaboom	Oliver	Brennan Mejia		United States
2010	The Last Exorcism	Logan	Logan Craig Reid		United States
2010	Little White Lies	Vincent	Benoît Magimel		France
2010	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	Scott aka "Other Scott"	Ben Lewis	Ben is Wallace's gay best friend. Wallace is Scott's gay roommate, who has a boyfriend named Scott. He also hooked up with Stacey's boyfriend Jimmy.	United Kingdom, United States, Japan
		Stephen Stills	Mark Webber
		Wallace Wells	Kieran Culkin
2010	Valentine's Day	Sean Jackson	Eric Dane	Sean comes out on national television, and Holden, Sean's lover, goes back to him	United States
		Holden Wilson	Bradley Cooper
2011	Bernie	Bernie Tiede	Jack Black	Bernie is a closeted, yet flamboyant mortician who befriends a mean elderly widow.	United States
2011	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Graham Dashwood	Tom Wilkinson		United Kingdom
2011	The Broken Tower	Hart Crane	James Franco	Biopic about the American poet.	United States
		Emile Opffer	Michael Shannon
2011	The Guard	Garda Aidan McBride	Rory Keenan		Ireland, United Kingdom
2011	J. Edgar	J. Edgar Hoover	Leonardo DiCaprio		United States
2011	Just Go With It	Ian Maxtone-Jones	Dave Matthews		United States
2011	The Ledge	Chris	Christopher Gorham		United States
2011	Love Actually... Sucks!	Bridesman	Ryo van Kooten	Inspired by real-life events, the film tells a series of interconnected stories, several with LGBT relationships. The opening wedding banquet reveals a sex affair between the bridegroom and a bridesman. Other stories include a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who becomes involved with his senior student, and a role-playing lesbian couple.	Hong Kong
		Model	Tang Wei
		Painter	John Tai
2011	North Sea Texas	Pim	Jelle Florizoone		Belgium
2011	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Peter Guillam	Benedict Cumberbatch	Peter is a spy.	United Kingdom
2011	The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin	Private Benjamin Santos VIII	Vice Ganda	A gay man who joins the military to save his grandfather	Philippines
2011	Weekend	Russell	Tom Cullen		United Kingdom
		Glen	Chris New
2012	Celeste and Jesse Forever	Scott	Elijah Wood		United States
2012	Cloud Atlas	Rufus Sixsmith	James D'Arcy	Rufus is Robert's lover.	Germany, United States
2012	For a Good Time, Call...	Jesse	Justin Long		United States
2012	Four	Joe	Wendell Pierce		United States
2012	Ginger & Rosa	Mark	Timothy Spall		United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada
		Mark II	Oliver Platt
2012	Hit and Run	Terry Rathbinn	Jess Rowland		United States
2012	On the Road	Tall thin salesman	Steve Buscemi		France, United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, United States, Canada
2012	The Paperboy	Ward Jansen	Matthew McConaughey	Ward is not resented by his brother Jack for being a homosexual, but for keeping it a secret from him.	United States
2012	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Brad	Johnny Simmons		United States
		Patrick	Ezra Miller
2012	Rock of Ages	Lonny Barnett	Russell Brand		United States
		Dennis Dupree	Alec Baldwin
2012	Sassy Pants	Chip Hardy	Haley Joel Osment	Chip is Dale's boyfriend.	United States
		Dale Pinto	Diedrich Bader
2012	Speechless	Luke	Pierre-Matthieu Vital		Hong Kong, China
2012	Struck by Lightning	Nicholas Forbes	Carter Jenkins		United States
		Scott Thomas	Graham Rogers
2012	Ted	Guy	Patrick Warburton		United States
		Jared	Ryan Reynolds
2013	After the Dark	Jack	Freddie Stroma		Indonesia, United States
2013	The Amazing Praybeyt Benjamin	Private Benjamin Santos VIII	Vice Ganda		Philippines
2013	Baggage Claim	Sam	Adam Brody		United States
2013	The Bling Ring	Marc Hall	Israel Broussard		United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan
2013	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	Valentin	Sandor Funtek	Valentin is Adèle's close friend.	France, Belgium, Spain
2013	Free Fall	Kay Engel	Max Riemelt		Germany
2013	G.B.F.	Tanner Daniels	Michael J. Willett		United States
		Brent Van Camp	Paul Iacono
2013	Geography Club	Russell Middlebrook	Cameron Deane Stewart		United States
2013	Grown Ups 2	Kyle	Oliver Hudson		United States
		Nick	Nick Swardson
2013	Kick-Ass 2	Insect-Man	Robert Emms	Insect-Man is an insect-themed superhero and a member of the Justice Forever team. He was bullied, inspiring him to become a superhero to stand up for the defenseless. He does not wear a mask because hiding his identity would feel like going back into the closet.	United Kingdom, United States
2013	Kill Your Darlings	Lucien Carr	Dane DeHaan		United Kingdom
2013	The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones	Alec Lightwood	Kevin Zegers	Magnus is a warlock.	Canada, Germany, United States, United Kingdom
2013	Philomena	Michael	Sean Mahon		France, United Kingdom, United States
2013	Pit Stop	Ernesto	Marcus DeAnda		United States
		Gabe	Bill Heck
2013	SDU: Sex Duties Unit	Hai Mai	Derek Tsang		Hong Kong
2013	Starred Up	Neville Love	Ben Mendelsohn	Neville falls in love with his male inmate.	United Kingdom
2013	Tom at the Farm	Tom Podowski	Xavier Dolan	Tom travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother, Francis.	Canada
2013	Voyage	Ryo	Ryo van Kooten	Filmed across Asia and Europe, the story follows the journey of Ryo, a young Hong Kong psychiatrist, who is accompanied by his male lover as he visits former patients in neighbouring countries of South East Asia. Several of his clients are themselves in LGBT relationships. (The film features frequent full-frontal male nudity.)	Hong Kong
		Jip	Jason Poon
2014	Blackbird	Randy Rousseau	Julian Walker		United States
2014	Boulevard	Nolan Mack	Robin Williams		United States
2014	Dear White People	Lionel Higgins	Tyler James Williams		United States
2014	Futuro Beach	Donato	Wagner Moura		Brazil, Germany
		Konrad	Clemens Schick
2014	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing	Benedict Cumberbatch (adult) Alex Lawther (young)	Biopic about Turing, who deciphered the code of the Enigma machine, a device used by Nazi Germany during World War II. After the end of the war, he is convicted of indecency because of his homosexuality, undergoes chemical castration, and later commits suicide. The young Turing was close to his classmate Christopher Morcom, and they passed written encoded notes to each other. Their friendship ends when Christopher dies from bovine tuberculosis. Turing names the Enigma-breaking machine "Christopher" after him.	United States
		Christopher Morcom	Jack Bannon
2014	Jongens	Marc	Ko Zandvliet		Netherlands
		Sieger	Gijs Blom
2014	Lilting	Kai	Andrew Leung	The film tells the story of a mother's attempt at understanding who her son was after his untimely death. Her world is suddenly disrupted by the presence of his lover.	United Kingdom
		Richard	Ben Whishaw
2014	Love Is Strange	George Garea	Alfred Molina	Ben and George, a couple from Manhattan, get married after 39 years together.	United States, France
		Ben Hull	John Lithgow
2014	Obvious Child	Joey	Gabe Liedman		United States
2014	Pride	Mark Ashton	Ben Schnetzer		United Kingdom
		Mike Jackson	Joe Gilgun
		Jonathan Blake	Dominic West
		Gethin Roberts	Andrew Scott
		Jeff Cole	Freddie Fox
		Reggie	Chris Overton
		Ray	Joshua Hill
		Joe "Bromley" Cooper	George Mackay
		Cliff Barry	Bill Nighy
		Tim	Russel Tovey
2014	The Skeleton Twins	Milo Dean	Bill Hader	Milo reconnects with his high school English teacher Rich, with whom he had a sexual relationship when he was 15.	United States
2014	Space Station 76	Captain Glenn Terry	Patrick Wilson		United States
		Daniel	Matthew Morrison
2014	The Way He Looks	Leonardo	Ghilherme Lobo	Leonardo is a blind high school student who falls in love with the new kid, Gabriel. Gabriel falls in love with Leo. He was once aroused when he saw Leo naked in the showers.	Brazil
		Gabriel	Fabio Audi
2014	White Bird in a Blizzard	Mickey	Mark Indelicato		France, United States

2015–2019

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2015	4th Man Out	Adam	Evan Todd	Adam struggles to come out as gay to his three best friends.	United States
2015	American Ultra	Petey Douglas	Tony Hale		United States
2015	Burnt	Tony Balerdi	Daniel Brühl	Tony is a restaurant owner who's in love with Adam.	United States
2015	Entourage	Lloyd Lee	Rex Lee	Lloyd gets married to Greg Louganis. His former boss, Ari, gives him away at the wedding.	United States
2015	Get Hard	Chris	T. J. Jagodowski		United States
2015	The Heroes of Evil	Aritz	Jorge Clemente		Spain
2015	Holding the Man	John Caleo	Craig Stott		Australia
		Timothy Conigrave	Ryan Corr
2015	Holy Mess	Oscar	Anton Lundqvist		Sweden
		Simon	Anastasios Soulis
2015	James White	Nick	Scott Mescudi		United States
2015	Legend	Ronnie Kray	Tom Hardy		United Kingdom, United States
		Teddy Smith	Taron Egerton
2015	Stonewall	Danny Winters	Jeremy Irvine		United States
2015	Those People	Charlie	Jonathan Gordon	Charlie has always been in love with his best friend Sebastian. Both of them are too afraid to admit their love for each other. But after some life changing events happen in their lives, they try to figure out what their relationship really is.	United States
		Sebastian	Jason Ralph
2015	Utopians	Antonio Ming	Jackie Chow	Ming is the professor of Hins Gao, and later begins a romantic relationship with him.	Hong Kong
2015	Wild Horses	Ben Briggs	James Franco	Ben is kicked out of the house by his father for being gay.	United States
2016	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	Himself	Graham Norton		United Kingdom, United States
2016	As You Are	Jack	Owen Campbell		United States
		Mark	Charlie Heaton
2016	Being 17	Damien Delille	Klein	The movie follows the romantic and sexual awakening of Damien and Thomas as their initial animosity, expressed in violence, morphs into love.	France
		Thomas Chardoul	Corentin Fila
2016	Cell	Thomas "Tom" McCourt	Samuel L. Jackson		United States
2016	Center of My World	Phil	Louis Hofmann		Germany
		Nicholas	Jannik Schümann
2016	Curmudgeons	Jackie	Danny DeVito		United States
		Ralph Pajovic	David Margulies
2016	Dirty Grandpa	Bradley	Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman		United States
2016	Handsome Devil	Conor Masters	Nicholas Galitzine		Ireland
		Dan Sherry	Andrew Scott
2016	Heartstone	Kristján	Blær Hinriksson		Iceland
2016	Independence Day: Resurgence	Dr. Brackish Okun	Brent Spiner	Dr. Okun is a Scientist. Dr. Isaacs is his co-worker and lover.	United States
		Dr. Isaacs	John Storey
2016	It's Only the End of the World	Louis	Gaspard Ulliel	Louis is a playwright dealing with a terminal illness.	Canada, France
2016	King Cobra	Brent Corrigan	Garrett Clayton		United States
		Harlow Cuadra	Keegan Allen
		Joe Kerekes	James Franco
		Bryan Kocis	Christian Slater
		Mikey	Spencer Lofranco
2016	Miss Stevens	Sam	Anthony Quintal		United States
2016	The Mobfathers	Wulf	Gregory Wong		Hong Kong
2016	Moonlight	Chiron Harris ("Little" / "Black")	Trevante Rhodes	Chiron is a young Black man who grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood in Miami.	United States
			Ashton Sanders
			Alex Hibbert
2016	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	Pete Regazolli	Dave Franco		United States
2016	Nocturnal Animals	Carlos Holt	Michael Sheen		United States
2016	Other People	David Mulcahey	Jesse Plemons	David has a strained relationship with his father, who still refuses to accept David's sexuality ten years after he came out. He has broken up with his boyfriend Paul.	United States
		Paul	Zach Woods
2016	Rage	Yūma Fujita	Satoshi Tsumabuki		Japan
		Sieger	Gijs Blom
2016	Raw	Adrien	Rabah Naït Oufella		France, Belgium
2016	Spa Night	David	Joe Seo		United States
2016	Tallulah	Andreas	Zachary Quinto		United States
		Stephen Mooney	John Benjamin Hickey
2016	Two Is a Family	Bernie	Antoine Bertrand		France
2017	Alien: Covenant	Carl Lope	Demián Bichir		United Kingdom, United States
		Hallett	Nathaniel Dean
2017	Battle of the Sexes	Ted Tinling	Alan Cumming	Biopic based on champion tennis player Billie Jean King and the 1973 match between her and Bobby Riggs.	United Kingdom, United States
2017	Beach Rats	Frankie	Harris Dickinson	Frankie is a repressed Brooklyn teen who has sex with older men.	United States
2017	Beauty and the Beast	LeFou	Josh Gad	LeFou is Gaston's sidekick.	United States
2017	God's Own Country	Gheorghe Ionescu	Alec Secareanu		United Kingdom
		Johnny Saxby	Josh O'Connor
2017	Lady Bird	Danny O'Neill	Lucas Hedges		United States
2017	My Friend Dahmer	Jeffrey Dahmer	Ross Lynch	Based on the serial killer's early life.Dahmer has shown to be obsessed with a male jogger.	United States
2017	Permission	Hale	David Joseph Craig		United States
		Reece	Morgan Spector
2017	Rift	Einar	Sigurdur Thor Oskarsson		Iceland
		Gunnar	Bjorn Stefansson
2017	The Shape of Water	Giles	Richard Jenkins	Elisa's next door neighbor is closeted and fearful, but bravely helps her and the Amphibian Man.	United States
2017	Speech & Debate	Howie	Austin P. McKenzie		United States
2017	Thirty Years of Adonis	Yang Ke	Adonis He Fei		Hong Kong, Taiwan, China
2017	Tom of Finland	Touko Laaksonen	Pekka Strang	Laaksonen is an artist who known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art.	Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, United States
2018	Alex Strangelove	Alex Truelove	Daniel Doheny		United States
		Elliott	Antonio Marziale
2018	Bird Box	Greg	BD Wong		United States
2018	Bohemian Rhapsody	Jim Hutton	Aaron McCusker	The film tells the story of the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of British rock band Queen, from the formation of the band in 1970 up to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the original Wembley Stadium.	United Kingdom, United States
		Paul Prenter	Allen Leech
		John Reid	Aidan Gillen
2018	Boy Erased	Jared Eamons	Lucas Hedges	Jared's childhood in a fundamentalist family in Arkansas that enrolled him in conversion therapy. (Based on Garrard Conley's memoir of the same name.)	United States
2018	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock	Richard E. Grant	Hock is a foppish drifter who helps Israel forging and selling rare literary letters to bolster her failing writing career.	United States
2018	Come Sunday	Reggie	Lakeith Stanfield		United States
2018	Crazy Rich Asians	Oliver T'sien	Nico Santos		United States, Singapore
2018	The Death & Life of John F. Donovan	John F. Donovan	Kit Harington	Donovan is a closeted actor.	Canada
2018	Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot	Donnie	Jonah Hill		United States
		Martingale	Ronnie Adrian
2018	Giant Little Ones	Ray Winter	Kyle MacLachlan	Ray leaves his wife for another man, causing his son Franky to refuse to talk to him despite his pleas.	Canada
2018	Green Book	Don Shirley	Mahershala Ali	Shirley had a homosexual encounter with a white man at a pool.	United States
2018	The Happy Prince	Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas	Colin Morgan		Germany, Belgium, Italy, United Kingdom
		Robbie Ross	Edwin Thomas
		Reggie Turner	Colin Firth
		Oscar Wilde	Rupert Everett
2018	Ideal Home	Erasmus Brumble	Steve Coogan	Erasmus, a famous chef, and Paul, the producer of his cooking show, are a couple. They live in a large showplace house in New Mexico.	United States
		Paul Morgan	Paul Rudd
2018	Love, Simon	Simon Spier	Nick Robinson	Based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.	United States
		Bram Greenfeld	Keiynan Lonsdale
2018	Mary Queen of Scots	Lord Darnley	Jack Lowden		United Kingdom, United States
		David Rizzio	Ismael Cruz Córdova
2018	Rainbow's Sunset	Ramoncito Estrella	Eddie Garcia	Ramon who is married to a woman and has children comes out as gay as an elderly man. He has a secret relationship with his long-time friend Fredo who is dying of cancer.	Philippines
		Alfredo Veneracion	Tony Mabesa
2018	School's out	Pierre Hoffman	Laurent Lafitte	Pierre is a substitute teacher who becomes obsessed with his students' strange behavior. He is in love with his male best friend who just had a child. He also has a crush on one of his male colleagues who appears to be straight.	France
2018	Set It Up	Duncan	Pete Davidson	Duncan is Charlie's roommate.	United States
2018	To All the Boys I've Loved Before	Lucas Krapf	Trezzo Mahoro	Lucas is one the crushes that Lara Jean Covey wrote a letter to and then locked away. Kitty, Lara's younger sister, found the letter and sent it to him without Lara's knowledge. After reading it, he told Lara he was gay.	United States
2018	Truth or Dare	Brad Chang	Hayden Szeto	Brad is closeted.	United States
2018	You Are the Apple of My Eye	Kazuki Sugimura	Ryosuke Yusa		Japan
2019	Booksmart	George	Noah Galvin	George and Alan are theater obsessed classmates of Amy and her best friend Molly.	United States
		Alan	Austin Crute
2019	Frankie	Michel	Pascal Greggory		United States, France, Portugal
2019	The Gentlemen	Fletcher	Hugh Grant	Fletcher is a fast-talking, cockney-accented hustler.	United Kingdom, United States
2019	The Good Liar	Steven	Russell Tovey	Steven does research on Hans, who raped Lili, confirming his identity in a DNA test using a lock of Hans' hair. It is revealed at the end of the film that Michael is Lili's grandson and Steven's boyfriend.	United Kingdom, United States
		Michael	Tunji Kasim
2019	Isn't It Romantic	Donny	Brandon Scott Jones		United States
2019	Jojo Rabbit	Captain Klenzendorf	Sam Rockwell	Set in 1945 in Nazi Germany, Klenzendorf and Freddy are in a secret relationship.	United States, New Zealand, Czech Republic
		Freddy Finkel	Alfie Allen
2019	Judy	Dan	Andy Nyman		United States
		Stan	Daniel Cerqueira
2019	Monsoon	Kit	Henry Golding	Durin his journey, Kit falls for Lewis, an American whose father had fought in the war.	United States
		Lewis	Parker Sawyers
2019	The Obituary of Tunde Johnson	Tunde Johnson	Steven Silver		United States
2019	Pain and Glory	Salvador Mallo	Antonio Banderas	The film tells the story of Salvador's childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his poor parents to a small village in Valencia. (The story was inspired by director Pedro Almodóvar's personal experience.)	Spain
2019	Rialto	Colm	Tom Vaughan-Lawlor	Colm is a closeted homosexual married to a woman. Jay is a hustler. They enter into an intimate relationship.	Ireland, United Kingdom
		Jay	Tom Glynn-Carney
2019	Rocketman	Elton John	Taron Egerton	Biopic about the singer-musician's journey dealing with drug addiction and accepting his homosexuality.	United Kingdom, United States
		John Reid	Richard Madden
2019	Straight Up	Ryder	James Scully		United States
		Todd	James Sweeney
2019	Suk Suk	Hoi	Ben Yuen	Despite having families of their own, Hoi and Pak fell in love in their twilight years.	Hong Kong
		Pak	Tai Bo
2019	What Men Want	Brandon Wallace	Josh Brener		United States

2020

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2020	The Boys in the Band	Michael	Jim Parsons	Based on the 1968 play of the same name. The film revolves around a group of gay men who gather for a birthday party in New York City.	United States
		Harold	Zachary Quinto
		Donald	Matt Bomer
		Larry	Andrew Rannells
		Cowboy	Charlie Carver
		Emory	Robin de Jesús
		Bernard	Michael Benjamin Washington
		Hank	Tuc Watkins
2020	Breaking Fast	Kal	Michael Cassidy		United States
		Mo	Haaz Sleiman
2020	Falling	John Peterson	Viggo Mortensen	John lives with his husband Eric in California.	United States
		Eric Peterson	Terry Chen
2020	Freaky	Josh Detmer	Misha Osherovich	Josh is Millie's best friend.	United States
2020	Happiest Season	John	Dan Levy	John is Abby's best friend.	United States
2020	Isa Pang Bahaghari	Domingo "Domeng" delos Reyes	Phillip Salvador	Long-time friend of Rey, a returning seaman aiming to amend with his estranged wife and children. Domeng, a baklang martir who has unrequited love towards Rey since their teenage years, seeks to help his friend regarding his family issue.	Philippines
2020	Joe Bell	Jadin Bell	Reid Miller		United States
2020	Jump, Darling	Russell	Thomas Duplessie	A rookie drag queen reeling from a break-up.	Canada
2020	The Old Guard	Yusuf Al-Kaysani / Joe	Marwan Kenzari	Yusuf is a Saracen who fought against the Crusaders, and Niccolò is a Genovese knight who fought in the Crusades. They are in a romantic relationship.	United States
		Niccolò di Genova / Nicky	Luca Marinelli
2020	The Prom	Barry Glickman	James Corden	Barry is a narcissistic Broadway actor.	United States
2020	Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan	Kartik Singh	Ayushmann Khurrana	Kartik is an out young man in love with Aman, who is closeted. It is the first Bollywood feature film to show two men kissing passionately.	India
		Aman Tripathi	Jitendra Kumar
2020	Stage Mother	Ricky Metcalf	Eldon Thiele		United States
2020	Summer of 85	Alexis Robin	Félix Lefebvre	The intense friendship and romance of teenagers Alexis and David during a summer in Normandy in 1985.	France
2020	Supernova	Sam	Colin Firth	Sam and Tusker are partners for 20 years and amateur astronomers.	United Kingdom
		Tusker	Stanley Tucci
2020	The Thing About Harry	Sam Baselli	Jake Borelli	Sam connects with his high school bully Harry, who reveals to him that he is pansexual. Sam begins a romantic relationship with Harry, and they later marry.	United States
2020	Uncle Frank	Frank Bledsoe	Paul Bettany	A college professor who has been living with a man named Walid ("Wally") for over ten years and tries to come out to his family.	United States
2020	Your Name Engraved Herein	Chang Jia-han	Edward Chen Hao-Sen	Chang Jia-han and Wang Po Tea are students who fall in love.	Taiwan
		Wang Po Te	Jing-Hua Tseng

2021

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2021	Benediction	Siegfried Sassoon	Jack Lowden		United Kingdom
			Peter Capaldi		United States
2021	Candyman	Troy Cartwright	Nathan Stewart-Jarrett	Grady's partner is Troy, Brianna's brother.	United States, Canada
		Grady Greenberg	Kyle Kaminsky
2021	Cruella	Artie	John McCrea	Artie is the first openly gay character in a live-action Disney film.	United States
2021	The Dig	Stuart	Ben Chaplin		United Kingdom
2021	Everybody's Talking About Jamie	Jamie New / Mimi Me	Max Harwood	Jamie is a gay boy who wants to be a drag queen.	United Kingdom, United States
2021	The French Dispatch	Roebuck Wright	Jeffrey Wright	Wright is an American author who chose exile in Ennui-sur-Blasé. He became a food writer, and his report here is centered on Lieutenant Nescaffier, the greatest chef of police cuisine.	United States
2021	Great Freedom	Hans Hoffmann	Franz Rogowski		Austria, Germany
		Viktor Kohl	Georg Friedrich
2021	Halloween Kills	Big John	Scott MacArthur	Big John and Little John live together as a couple in Michael Myers' former house.	United States
		Little John	Michael McDonald
2021	Jungle Cruise	McGregor Houghton	Jack Whitehall	McGregor is the heroine's brother and reluctant assistant. He turned down three engagements with women because of his sexual orientation.	United States
2021	Licorice Pizza	Joel Wachs	Benny Safdie	Joel is a politician running for Mayor of Los Angeles.	United States
2021	Moneyboys	Liang Fei	Kai Ko	The film features the journey of Liang Fei, whose world collapses when he realizes that his family accepts his money but not his homosexuality.	Taiwan, Austria, France, Belgium
2021	No Time to Die	Q	Ben Whishaw	When James Bond and Moneypenny arrived at Q's house, Q was setting up a date for himself and another man.	United Kingdom, United States
2021	Operation Hyacinth	Arek	Hubert Miłkowski	Arek is an informant in the investigation of murdered gay men.	Poland
2021	The Power of the Dog	Phil Burbank	Benedict Cumberbatch	Phil is a repressed homosexual, and a charismatic rancher who likes to torment his brother's wife and step-son.	United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Canada, New Zealand
2021	Single All the Way	Peter	Michael Urie	Peter asks his best friend Nick to pose as his boyfriend, and they develop feelings for each other. James is the blind date that Peter's mother sets him up with.	United States
		Nick	Philemon Chambers
		James	Luke Macfarlane
2021	Swan Song	Dustin	Michael Urie		United States
		Pat Pitsenbarger	Udo Kier
2021	Tick, Tick... Boom!	Michael	Robin de Jesús	Michael is Jonathan's best friend.	United States

2022

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2022	Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe	Aristotle "Ari" Mendoza	Max Pelayo		United States
		Dante Quintana	Reese Gonzales
2022	Badhaai Do	Shardul Thakur	Rajkummar Rao	Shardul enters into a lavender marriage with Suman Singh to escape the pressure from their families.	India
2022	The Blackening	Dewayne	Dewayne Perkins		United States
2022	Bros	Bobby Lieber	Billy Eichner		United States
		Aaron Shepard	Luke Macfarlane
2022	Downton Abbey: A New Era	Thomas Barrow	Rob James-Collier	Uncloseted butler at the manor, he leaves to travel the world with Guy Dexter, a movie star in a film production filmed on the estate.	United Kingdom, United States
2022	Fire Island	Charlie	James Scully		United States
		Howie	Bowen Yang
		Noah	Joel Kim Booster
		Will	Conrad Ricamora
2022	The Inspection	Ellis French	Jeremy Pope		United States
2022	A Madea Homecoming	Timothy "Tim" Marshall	Brandon Black		United States
2022	My Fake Boyfriend	Andrew	Keiynan Lonsdale		Canada
2022	My Policeman	Patrick Hazlewood	David Dawson	Set in 1950s Brighton, Patrick is a museum curator in a relationship with a married policeman.	United States
			Rupert Everett
2022	Punch	Jim	Jordan Oosterhof		New Zealand
2022	See How They Run	Mervyn Cocker-Norris	David Oyelowo	Mervyn is a well-known playwright and screenwriter.	United States, United Kingdom
2022	Spoiler Alert	Michael Ausiello	Jim Parsons		United States
		Kit Cowan	Ben Aldridge
2022	Three Months	Caleb	Troye Sivan		United States
2022	Two And One	Tino	Miggy Jimenez	Tino and Chan are both "tops" and sexually incompatible. They agree to find a "bottom" to have a threesome with, and meet Joaquin.	Philippines
		Chan	Paolo Pangilinan
		Joaquin	Cedrick Juan
2022	The Whale	Charlie	Brendan Fraser	Charlie left his family for a man, who later died. He then went on to binge eat out of pain and guilt.	United Kingdom, United States
2022	Winter Boy	Lucas	Paul Kircher		France

2023

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2023	All of Us Strangers	Adam	Andrew Scott	Adam and Harry are neighbors in a modern London apartment tower, who develop a romantic relationship.	United Kingdom
		Harry	Paul Mescal
2023	American Fiction	Clifford "Cliff" Ellison	Sterling K. Brown		United States
2023	Asteroid City	Conrad Earp	Edward Norton	Earp and Hall are lovers.	United States
		Jones Hall	Jason Schwartzman
2023	Broken Heart's Trip	TBA	Christian Bables	Plays as a host for a reality television show with five other LGBT contestants	Philippines
2023	Cassandro	Cassandro	Gael García Bernal	Cassandro is a wrestler.	United States
2023	The Critic	Jimmy Erskine	Ian McKellen		United Kingdom
2023	Dicks: The Musical	Harris	Nathan Lane		United States
2023	Down Low	Gary	Zachary Quinto		United States
2023	Fairyland	Steve Abbott	Scoot McNairy		United States
2023	Femme	Jules	Nathan Stewart-Jarrett	Jules is a gay man targeted in a horrific homophobic attack.	United States
2023	Good Grief	Marc Dreyfus	Dan Levy	Oliver is Marc's late husband.	United States
		Oliver	Luke Evans
2023	Knock at the Cabin	Andrew	Ben Aldridge	Andrew and Eric are married.	United States
		Eric	Jonathan Groff
2023	Marry My Dead Body	Mao Pang-yu (Mao Mao)	Austin Lin	Mao was discussing marriage with his boyfriend but died unjustly because of an accident.	Taiwan
2023	Nuovo Olimpo	Enea	Damiano Gavino	Enea and Pietro are lovers.	Italy
		Pietro	Andrea Di Luigi
2023	Our Son	Gabriel	Billy Porter		United States
		Nicky	Luke Evans
2023	Passages	Martin	Ben Whishaw	Martin is married to Tomas.	France
2023	Red, White & Royal Blue	Prince Henry	Nicholas Galitzine	Henry is the spare to the British throne.	United States
2023	Rustin	Bayard Rustin	Colman Domingo		United States
2023	Strange Way of Life	Sheriff Jake	Ethan Hawke	Jake and Silva are old friends.	Spain
		Silva	Pedro Pascal
2023	Theater Camp	Gigi Charbonier	Owen Thiele		United States

2024

Year	Title	Character(s)	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
2024	I Don't Understand You	Cole	Andrew Rannells	Cole and Dom are a couple.	United States
		Dom	Nick Kroll

See also

• List of feature films with lesbian characters
• List of feature films with bisexual characters
• List of feature films with transgender characters
• List of film franchises with LGBT characters
• List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters
• List of LGBT-related films
• List of LGBT-related films by year
• Films about intersex

Further reading

• Barrios, Richard (2003). Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall (1st ed.). United Kingdom: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415923286.
• Davies, Steven Paul (2008). Out at the Movies: A History of Gay Cinema (1st ed.). Harpenden, United Kingdom: Kamera Books. ISBN 978-1842432914.
• Hadleigh, Boze (1993). The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films: Their Stars, Makers, Characters,and Critics. New York: Citadel Press. ISBN 0806513411.
• Russo, Vito (25 June 1979). "The Closet Syndrome: Gays in Hollywood". The Village Voice. (2019 reprint)