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So as we start to enjoy some nights in cuddling up on the couch with our man, what's there to watch? OutUK has compiled the must have Top 10 list of all time great gay movies. A mixture of pride, drama, romance, discrimination, determination and most importantly love. All the movies are still available as a download or a DVD from Amazon - just click on the film poster or the film title for more details.
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1. Summer StormSummer Storm is a fine coming of age adventure from gay Director Marco Kreuzpaintner. Set at a summer camp for rowers, best friends Tobi and Achim share a bond that goes beyond friendship: They’re soul mates. But the arrival of a competing team of rowers who all happen to be gay awakens something in Tobi, and life as he knows it is about to change forever. The film has some touching sex scenes between Tobi and his new found friend Leo just as a big race looms on the horizon. | |
2. God's Own CountryFrancis Lee’s God’s Own Country captures not only what masculinity does and how it comes undone, but the complex apparatus that keeps it into place: the family’s surveillance, the silence, the shame. The story follows a young sheep farmer in Yorkshire whose life is transformed by the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker he falls in love with. It is a film about a young man’s painful excursion into queerness that's brilliantly acted by The Crown's Josh O'Connor and Alec Secareanu. | 
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3. Beautiful ThingBeautiful Thing has adolescent angst at its core. Screenwriter Jonathan Harvey sets the story in Thamesmead, a working class area of South East London dominated by post-war council estates, with a key scene in the nearby gay pub, the Greenwich Tavern. This made for TV film is a must have in any gay movie collection if only for the wonderful music from Mama Cass. Only child Jaime (Glen Berry) attempts to start a romance with his hesitant heartrob neighbour Ste (Scott Neal) and their romance then blossoms for all to see. | |
4. Man In An Orange ShirtTwo films that highlight the very different challenges that face Michael and Thomas just after WWII, and Adam and Steve in the present day. British Army captain Michael Berryman falls in love with war artist Thomas March in the chaos of the Italy campaign, but will their love endure when the war is over? Young vet Adam Berryman forms a relationship with architect Steve hired to renovate the cottage where Michael and Thomas lived in secret. Two love stories, sixty years apart, chart the changes and challenges of these couples living a gay life in England. | 
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5. Call Me By Your NameSet in northern Italy in 1983, Call Me by Your Name chronicles the romance between teenager Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and a strapping young American grad student (Armie Hammer) working with Elio’s archaeologist father. Awash in golden light, leisurely outdoor meals, and stolen sensuous moments, the film garnered four Oscar nominations, including best picture and best actor for Chalamet, the third youngest in the category at age 22. The film's final moments and last shot are already iconic. | |
6. Brokeback MountainAng Lee's heartbreaking story sees two shepherds - no, not cowboys, struggling to come to terms with their love for each other over decades, set against a society and culture which would find their relationship unacceptable. "I wish I knew how to quit you." It's the line that's reduced many of us to a sobbing mess spoken by Jake Gyllenhaal’s Jack to Heath Ledger’s Ennis towards the end of the film. One of the best gay sex scenes ever in movies can be found in Brokeback Mountain. | 
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7. Red, White and Royal BlueBased on the New York Times bestseller, Red, White & Royal Blue centers around Alex, the president’s son (Taylor Zakhar-Perez), and Britain’s Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine) whose long-running feud threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations. When the rivals are forced into a staged truce, their icy relationship begins to thaw and the friction between them sparks something deeper than they ever expected. Considering their high-profile public lives, they must keep their relationship a secret at all costs. | |
8. Mambo ItalianoAngelo Barberini is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino and Maria, who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the United States. Angelo shocks his parents – and his sister, Anna – by moving out on his own without getting married, and, shortly after that, shocks them further still when he reveals he is gay. But his boyfriend and childhood best friend, policeman Nino Paventi, isn't as ready to come out of the closet – especially not to his busybody Sicilian mother, Lina. Will they resist the pressure on them from all sides and survive as a couple? | 
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9. PrideMatthew Warchus' Pride is a highly enjoyable and inspiring real story starring George MacKay, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West and Andrew Scott. The film follows a group of lesbian and gay activists who raise money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, a campaign officially named Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. When some miners reject their support, a group of activists decide to take their donations directly to a small mining village in Wales. | |
10. The BirdcageAn American re-make of the 1978 film French film 'La Cage aux Folles' from the director Mike Nichols. Armand (Robin Williams) runs the Birdcage nightclub in Miami South Beach where his partner Albert (Nathan Lane) is the star drag act. When Armand's son announces his intention to marry the daughter of a right wing senator (Gene Hackman), and the in-laws arrive expecting to meet Armand and his wife, a grand farce ensues. The final scene with Gene Hackman getting dragged up in order to leave the nightclub is nothing short of a classic. | 
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So that's OutUK's Top 10 Gay Movies of all time! Of course there were loads we couldn't include, such as: Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Boys, Cabaret, Clapham Junction, Codebreaker, Get Real, Gods and Monsters, Floating Skyscrapers, Free Fall, Love Simon, Maurice, My Beautiful Launderette, My Own Private Idaho, My Policeman, Paris is Burning, Priest, Stranger by the Lake, The Adventures of Priscilla - Queen of the Dessert, The Wedding Banquet and Weekend ... but that would take a Top 30 to achieve. Whichever movie you choose to enjoy we hope you have a great night! | ||