Best movies like The Gays
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Plot Summary:
Wouldn't it be great if your parents taught you how to hold your own in a fag-eat-fag world? Rod Gay and Bob Gay-Paris are the streetwise gay mentors you never had. Come revel in the raunchy wisdom they pass along to their two gay sons - Alex and Tommy - advice that will empower the boys to bend the world over, lube it up, and snap one off!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Rhythm & Blues (2000)
Plot Summary:
John (Paul Blackthorne), lonely and living in London, unexpectedly meets outlandish druggie skinhead Byron (Ian Henderson), and suddenly, John's life turns to wacky. When Byron takes him to Boys Galore, a gay escort agency, John is introduced to wealthy American Bad Daddy (Angus MacInnes), who hires John on the spot. But the hovering presence of a strange and sinister Ripper, another rent boy, threatens derail the evening of fun in this gay thriller comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, queer cinema
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Fun Down There (1989)
Plot Summary:
Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Beverly Kills (2005)
Plot Summary:
Whacked-out, muscle-bound, cross-dressing actor Beverly Jackson has been rejected for a role in Pride Playhouses nude theatrical production of "Balls Out." Furious, Beverly decides to form a diabolical cult of revenge! Meanwhile, back at the Playhouse, adorable employee Shane falls right into the arms of Ray, a lighting designer, and the two are swept into Beverly's bizarre scheme. Featuring lots of cuties, a hot romance and a twisted drag queen, you are guaranteed loads of laughs with this riotous comedy from the twisted mind of filmmaker Damion Dietz.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Group Therapy (2004)
Plot Summary:
Main character starts group therapy after feeling uncomfortable following string of random sexual encounters. In therapy he meets people with various emotional problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, homoerotic, gay cinema
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Ma saison super 8 (2005)
Plot Summary:
A cinematic homage to the Front Homosexual d'Action Révolutionnaire, the first gay rights movement in France, AllesandroAvellis' compassionate drama tells the tale of a young activist living in Paris when homosexuals had no place in society. The year is 1968; Marc is adrift in the city after failing in his efforts to gain national acceptance for gay rights. One day, during a park pick-up, he meets Andre, a small town factory worker still exploring his sexuality but convinced that he will one day marry and start a family. Over the course of the next three years, Marc and Andre continue their heated affair as Marc continues to advocate fiercely for gay rights while butting heads with his close-minded father, a Paris police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: period piece, queer cinema
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Necro-Mancing Dennis (2018)
Plot Summary:
A straight wrestling coach finds himself smitten with one of his gay students. A student whose life may soon be in danger. Meanwhile a deranged cemetery worker is infatuated with someone of his own. Someone he can never have....alive! Their stories become entangled in this featurization of the short film "The Caretaker Of Cook County" Adult film sensation Grayson Lange stars with newcomer Daniel Jensen, in his first gay erotic scenes, on or off camera! Also starring Babaloo favorite Addison Graham and Harper Stevenson. This Mystery/Horror film is Written and Directed by Steven Vasquez.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, queer cinema
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A Slice of Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
Pizza isn't the only thing delivered in this horror-comedy. Zaffo is a pizza-delivery guy who's constantly ridiculed by his friends and co-workers. When a group of teenagers force Zaffo into a homoerotic situation, he finally decides to fight back, enlisting the help of a psychic and an over-the-top gay customer to cast spells on the boys. Once Zaffo has them under his power, he tortures them … one at a time.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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G.A.Y. (Good As You) (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eight characters meet during New Year 's Eve , inexorably crossing their lives. Four men and four women, gay , lesbian and bisexual , dealing with everyday life, sentimental and working problems, jealousy and betrayals. "Good As You", acrostic of the word " gay ", was the slogan used by the homosexual movement in the sixties of the twentieth century , during the protest marches.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Some Boys Do (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nothing is left to the imagination in this sexy gay tale about love and the meaning of life.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Angels with Tethered Wings (2014)
Plot Summary:
Angels with Tethered Wings is an unusual, quirky and erotic three-part drama - a back-from-the-grave revenge flick about hope and forgiveness! The film follows what happens when a good man does a bad thing for a good reason. He tries to right a wrong by freeing two young lovers but instead forever entraps them to their mortal coils. In the end their collective love for each other will give an almost perfect stranger the wings to fly.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, homoerotic, hood
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Go-Go Boy Interrupted (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Fowlie (writer/actor) developed the concept for “Go-Go Boy Interrupted” from his time as a go-go dancer in LA. He was inspired to create his own sketch show at The Groundlings Theater, where he regularly performs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Aaron... Albeit a Sex Hero (2009)
Plot Summary:
Wild and unpredictable events shake up the life of Aaron (Matthew Burnett), who, before being stung by a scorpion and kidnapped, was a simple wage slave. Now, he's immersed in a strange adventure that will find him seduced by a coworker and assaulted by a gang of elderly women...and that's just the start of his trials and tribulations!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, queer cinema
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Buffering (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seb and Aaron have overspent and built up debts on their credit card. Aaron decides to take matters into his own hands and secretly films their sex life to broadcast online. The money pours in until he gets caught! Realising that the scheme could sort their financial problems, Seb agrees to allow things to continue until they are back in the black. When their friend Jem arrives and suggests a third party might help them make even more cash, things start to get a little tricky.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Strapped for Danger (2017)
Plot Summary:
A very adult comedy heist film from Scorpio Film Releasing!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Men and Women (1999)
Plot Summary:
Xiao Bo arrives in Beijing, gets a job at a boutique, and is invited to stay with his lady boss, Ah Qing, and her husband, Kang. Knowing that Xiao Bo is still single, his host tries to introduce him to her best friend, Ah Meng. After a few dates, Ah Meng begins to suspect Xiao Bo is gay. She tells Ah Qing, who then informs her husband Kang. After learning this, Kang attempts to rape Xiao Bo when his wife isn't at home. Xiao Bo leaves the house, quits his job and joins his old friend, Chong Chong, and realizes that he has a gay lover, Gui Gui. Some time later, Ah Qing confesses to Kang that she had an affair with Ah Meng.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Hannah and her Brothers (2000)
Plot Summary:
Amidst a large family who doesn’t understand him, Martin yearns to find someone who does. His shelter from familial storms is Theodora, an amateur photographer who helps Martin find someone in the responses to his personal ads.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Saugatuck Cures (2015)
Plot Summary:
Drew and his best friend Brett set out on a road trip to pose as ex-gay ministers using exuberant high jinks to scam churchgoers, all in order to raise money for his mother's experimental cancer treatment.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Lieve Jongens (1980)
Plot Summary:
Lieve Jongens (“Sweet Boys”) explores the sexual fantasies of a middle-aged writer and the handsome young men who dominate his life. Wolf, a successful writer of romantic novels, is plagued by self doubt and writer's block. Though pleasant looking and well-preserved, he fears age will rob him of the youthful companionship he so desperately craves. With the help of his equally randy and manipulative young sex partner, Wolf plots to seduce the gentle Muskrat from the arms of a much older lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the death of Jean, Matthias, the coach, decides to take Selime, a young man from the suburbs he believes is gay, to accompany the Shiny Shrimps to the Gay Games in Tokyo, on a trip to pay tribute to their friend who left too early. But after they miss their connection, they find themselves stranded in Russia, in one of the not the most gay-friendly regions in the world. The start of a crazy adventure as incredible as it is perilous.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, queer cinema
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Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, heterosexual piano player who gets a job at the notorious nightclub and must therefore reconsider his attitudes. His girl friend helps him too. In the end, he winds up becoming sure of his sexuality when he tries to sleep with a gay man.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Et + si @ff (2006)
Plot Summary:
The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, erotic, queer cinema
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Family Commitments (2015)
Plot Summary:
The happy gay couple David and Khaled would love to marry publicly - if there weren't Khaled's homophobic father Faisal, David's pseudo orthodox Jewish acting mother Lea and a possible paternity and gallery insolvency.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, rough, feel good, entertaining, contemplative, queer cinema
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Eating Out: The Open Weekend (2011)
Plot Summary:
Zack and Benji open their relationship for a weekend of fun at a gay resort in Palm Springs but the arrival of Zack's ex-boyfriend, Casey, complicates things.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, realistic, not serious, erotic, independent film, sexual, sex comedy, queer cinema
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Kill the Monsters (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three men struggle to save their relationship while traveling across country in search of a doctor they believe will make one of them well.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, tense, light, romantic, sexy, touching, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Eating Out: Drama Camp (2011)
Plot Summary:
With raging boy hormones and the laugh quotient turned on full, Chris Salvatore and Daniel Skelton return, along with Rebekah Kochan and cult icon Mink Stole in the fourth installment of Q. Allan Brocka's hilarious and over-the-top sexual antic-laden Eating Out series!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, not serious, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, erotic, funny, touching, independent film
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Homo Promo (1991)
Plot Summary:
How did Hollywood pitch movies about gays and lesbians between 1956 and 1977? Here are theatrical trailers for 27 mainstream and art-house films, presented chronologically from "Tea and Sympathy" to "Outrageous!" More than half are films released between 1968 and 1972. Half are dramas and half are comedies, with farce dominating the films released after 1971. At least three advertise X-rated films: "The Killing of Sister George," "Midnight Cowboy," and Visconti's "The Damned." There's no voice-over commentary for this compilation, but it does include advertisements for snacks and one warning against public displays of affection aimed at "her" to control "him.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dating My Mother (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dating My Mother explores the intimate and sometimes tumultuous relationship between a single mother and her gay son as they navigate the dizzying world of online dating.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, queer cinema
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Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Carmen Electra, Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film, queer cinema
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That's Not Us (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three twenty-something couples, one gay, one lesbian, and one straight, travel to a beach house to enjoy the last days of summer, but what should be a fun and carefree weekend becomes an exploration of what it takes to sustain a healthy relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, romantic, lgbt cinema, romantic comedy, independent film
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Hunting Season (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hunting Season is an American LGBT-themed comedy-drama web series created by Jon Marcus. Following the romantic and sexual exploits of Alex (Ben Baur) and his small group of friends in New York City, the story was inspired by and largely based on the 2005–08 blog The Great Cock Hunt and the 2008 novel of the same name published by Kensington Books.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining, contemplative, erotic, sex comedy, queer cinema