Gay - Comedy, a list by Jef Westerveld

5.3

/10366/

60

/843/

60

/158/

2.0

/44290/

56

/18/

35

/105/

age 10+

Recently separated, Kate hopes to celebrate one last perfect family Christmas with her soon-to-be ex-husband Everett and their kids before their divorce is final and the house is sold. But her holiday plans are hilariously derailed when Everett unexpectedly brings his younger, successful new girlfriend.

62

24

6.3

/1105/

65

/75/

63

/9/

2.9

/1446/

The Keller family, including the parents and their three adult children, decide to take a European river cruise touring the Christmas Markets over the holidays, and each sibling is going through their own life challenge.

79

58

7.2

/2364/

70

/51/

77

/15/

3.7

/27955/

100

/66/

85

/20/

Wallflower Colin leads a humdrum existence until he meets the impossibly handsome Ray, a mysterious biker he is soon desperately devoted to. As Colin submits to Ray and enters an exciting new world of desire, he must decide the limits of his devotion.

56

14

5.4

/730/

57

/57/

62

/9/

2.7

/593/

Christmas angels used to working alone to bring “destined soulmates together” over the holidays, are unexpectedly paired; soon, their “clashing styles – and the undeniable spark growing between them – complicate their mission.”

65

22

5.9

/1060/

69

/98/

81

/8/

2.6

/932/

A princess looking to decompress before the holidays heads to a Montana ranch and meets a charming guide.

76

IMDb 91

6.9

/10045/

66

/308/

68

/109/

3.7

/66756/

90

/212/

77

/72/

78

/43/

3.5

age 15+

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

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8.3

/57/

100

/1/

This ensemble drama explores a number of interweaving relationships, all grappling with polyamory and sexual expression, amid the personal and societal expectations faced by each character.

81

7.4

/8497/

74

/473/

71

/70/

3.8

/96584/

97

/131/

94

/53/

80

/25/

3.5

age 15+

Two young men meet in a twin support group and form an unlikely friendship.

75

47

6.8

/888/

62

/31/

70

/5/

3.5

/3887/

94

/36/

92

/22/

73

/7/

age 14+

Griffin is the most ambitious playwright of his generation. He's also fourteen years old. When his mom hires a handsome 25-year-old handyman, Griffin's life and his new play take an inspired turn.

75

48

6.9

/725/

70

/19/

66

/16/

3.7

/9444/

89

/28/

81

/7/

After dying from a respiratory disease, a mother's spirit possesses a vacuum cleaner to protect her husband when he begins showing the same symptoms.

66

63

6.2

/4185/

65

/311/

67

/116/

2.8

/13662/

83

/96/

Abahachi, the Apache chief, and his white blood brother Ranger fight tirelessly for peace and justice - but a new, up-and-coming gang is making life particularly difficult for them! They lure Abahachi and Ranger into a trap in order to get their hands on the legendary “Canoe of Manitou”.

48

5.9

/26471/

66

/1738/

70

/510/

2.3

/314340/

29

/35/

39

/252/

39

/9/

1.5

age 14+

An ambitious American fulfilling her dream of studying at Oxford falls for a charming Brit hiding a secret that may upend her perfectly planned life.

65

?

5.7

/161/

64

/9/

70

/7/

3.4

/491/

Ranmaru is a 450-year-old vampire who works in a bathhouse. As a vampire he is particularly picky about his blood choices, his main goal being to drink the blood of an 18-year-old virgin. To do so, he has been watching 15-year-old Rihito, the son of the bathhouse owner who saved him from near death. Rihito must not lose his virginity before he turns 18 and Ranmaru does everything he can to prevent that. However, when Rihito starts to show interest in a classmate, Ranmaru's desperate fight to preserve the boys virginity begins.

59

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5.2

/95/

50

/35/

75

/8/

A married woman discovers her husband is having an affair with a male prostitute and wants to meet the lover to get answers. However, her plans are interrupted when she gets a heart-stopping call from the hospital — her husband had a stroke and is lying unconscious. The wife and the lover — who fell in love with the husband — both rush to the hospital, and the remainder of the film highlights the dynamic of the two grappling with their situation as they both wait for the husband to recover in the ICU.

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6.7

/59/

66

/3/

100

/1/

David is a dopey hopeless romantic with a hippy mother and a best friend who also works for him. After fifteen years of living together, on an impulse, he decides to ask his partner to marry him in Las Vegas. His anticipation for the dream wedding and trip is crushed when his partner answers ‘No’. David decides to power through with his plans and now he has ten days to find the knight in shining armor that will marry him in Las Vegas.

70

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6.0

/312/

65

/12/

90

/1/

3.3

/325/

Noah and Wade are expecting twins and must shift gears when each is offered their dream job, forcing one of them to assume the traditional stay-at-home parental role...only which one? What gift can life give the man who has everything? The answer is drama – and tons of it!

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5.0

/50/

52

/9/

40

/1/

At a high school, gang leader Yvoš coerces Tony into stealing what turns out to be his ex-girlfriend Valérie’s phone, planning to publicly humiliate her by projecting private photos at the school academy. Tony assembles a team of outcasts with Valérie to thwart Yvoš’s scheme.

61

18

6.9

/406/

67

/51/

42

/5/

3.4

/1303/

Matteo Lane shares stories from his life, travels and family - like chatting with a friend over brunch.

55

22

4.5

/645/

53

/33/

68

/6/

2.3

/1170/

Popcorn

65

/31/

Struggling writer Zack Anthony meets Zack Mandel, an assistant to a talent agent. Their connection begins with a small act of kindness and soon grows after a disastrous but comedic first date. As they spend more time together, they uncover a surprising shared past that feels like fate. Despite personal challenges and misunderstandings, their bond deepens as they navigate what could be the start of something special.

63

35

6.2

/269/

67

/70/

63

/39/

3.1

/2445/

Paul and Léa should never have met. But ever since, they've been irresistibly drawn to each other. Raphaëlle and Gabriel, two angels who are complete opposites, are forced to team up to put everything back in order and prevent these two humans from falling in love. If the angels fail, ambitious Raphaëlle can kiss her promotion to archangel goodbye. As for the swindler Gabriel, he'll be deposed and must spend eternity on Earth.

73

6.3

/4065/

64

/265/

70

/50/

3.3

/39890/

86

/170/

84

/63/

68

/31/

3.5

age 15+

Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.

81

7.3

/6784/

73

/326/

74

/48/

3.6

/38199/

95

/75/

96

/45/

85

/7/

3.5

When Naveen brings his fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.

72

47

6.8

/958/

65

/55/

68

/22/

3.5

/5555/

92

/24/

Edward, a gay novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brink of literary success. With pressure to go on a US book tour mounting, the last thing Edward needs is his friends jetting off to Spain for an impromptu Pride holiday, leaving their mothers on his doorstep! Over a chaotic weekend, he has to juggle his burgeoning career with the care of four eccentric, combative, and wildly different ladies.

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5.8

/52/

65

/2/

75

/2/

Jero and Tom are the perfect couple everyone wants to be. Jero takes care of his aesthetics and his cryptocurrencies. Tom is alternative and loves poetry. On the day of their first anniversary, Tom abandons Jero and, as his only explanation, leaves a box with 300 letters. Jero, reading them, discovers a different Tom and the great love story they were living collapses under the title of "The Jero Project". But all pain has an end and the hope of a new love could be the cure for their suffering.

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4.7

/46/

80

/1/

Santiago, a 20 year-old twink shaped by the anonymity of the virtual world, becomes frustrated with gay dating apps and starts obsessively looking for a real experience in the Buenos Aires nightlife.

80

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7.8

/50/

95

/2/

3.4

/223/

A must-see northern comedy-drama that dissects a toxic relationship with humor and raw emotion. Inspired by real heartbreak, this Manchester-made feature follows Benji, who meets the elusive and dominant Jake at an airport check-out gate. What begins as thrilling monthly getaways to Amsterdam soon unravels into a doomed power dynamic. Struggling to move on after being dumped, Benji spirals into addiction and fleeting hook-ups, haunted by the love he lost. Created by a collective of working-class LGBT+ filmmakers, Departures is a darkly comic, emotionally charged journey—think Shirley Valentine meets LGBTQ Trainspotting.

64

24

6.2

/239/

64

/29/

71

/13/

3.0

/4909/

Two great friends meet again after five years. Among so many things that have changed, the resumption of the bond awakens an old feeling for which they remain unprepared.

60

5.7

/8700/

61

/1056/

60

/141/

2.8

/32434/

49

/37/

84

/90/

45

/10/

3.0

age 15+

Boyfriends Josh and Rohan plan a weekend getaway to introduce their parents, only to discover that their rental is home to a 400-year-old poltergeist.

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7.1

/45/

60

/3/

Just out of their teens, young men Liam and Anatole were in the throes of an exciting relationship- until they had fight, and Anatole disappeared. Liam can’t accept breakup. And, since his boyfriend doesn’t reply to his calls and text messages, Liam decides to follow him to a Halloween organized by one of Anatole’s friends to try find him. The wild night that ensues will test boys’ true feelings for each other, as well as force them to confront some hard inner truths once and for all.

66

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6.5

/185/

70

/2/

50

/2/

3.4

/491/

86

/73/

60

/9/

Victor wonders if he’s too late to join dating games in his 40s. His sister Annika, an opera singer, wonders how different life could have been after receiving a surprising medical diagnosis. Their grandmother wonders if she should end her life right away. These are people who embark on a heartfelt quest for the perfect fulfillment of life, which proves to be a near impossible task.

73

53

6.8

/867/

70

/80/

69

/76/

3.6

/21648/

89

/9/

Friendship and rebellion - but how will a secret play out in the masculine world of motocross? Willy and Jojo are best friends. They share a passion for motocross - whereas Willy uses it to honour his deceased father, it is only by excelling in the sport that Jojo’s father will notice him. Also the masculine world or racing is perfectly suited to suppress their own insecurities. Yet when Willy one fateful night discovers the hidden love life of Jojo, he will be forced to take sides in the wave of homophobia that follows.

55

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5.6

/125/

40

/4/

70

/1/

Otto Brooks is 16 with a massive imagination and a big secret he’s ready to reveal – he’s gay. Otto has the usual family, parents who love and embarrass him, a Uni student sister who wants to change the world, a pop culture-loving Nana and a best friend, Max, who he’s secretly in love with. Add to that, a school bully out for blood, and Otto has a lot to go through before he becomes what he really wants, to be: out, happy, and in love. Time to delve into the world according to Otto.

60

14

5.4

/221/

58

/5/

63

/6/

3.3

/1076/

Milagros stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan seeks solace in Grindr to overcome abandonment issues. A delirious road movie, full of music, where a mysterious mermaid will set the course of the journey....

76

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7.4

/376/

90

/2/

3.3

/515/

Ryan and Daniel, two childhood best friends and aspiring actors, spend one final weekend together before RYAN has to move to Canada with his fiancé. Wanting to create one lasting memory, they decide to make a movie... about two guys making a movie.. about two guys making a movie. Along the way, they unpack their decades-long friendship and prepare for the next chapters of their respective lives.

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6.4

/33/

60

/6/

100

/1/

For Tamagawa, volunteering at a cat café is the only relief from his stressful job. The manager tells him to, "relax and learn to be spoiled," but he doesn't know what that means until a new customer, Rai Shindo, comes to the café and tells Tamagawa he wants to keep him as a cat! Enter their strange, but fateful relationship. A pure-hearted and soothing romantic comedy.

64

22

5.9

/600/

68

/28/

67

/6/

3.1

/16389/

age 13+

When Bambi discovers that her family has squandered their savings, they devise a plan to cover their debts — but first, she must fake her death.

56

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5.7

/580/

54

/40/

53

/9/

3.0

/457/

In 1951, a doctor wants to make the holiday special for his worried wife before he is shipped out to serve in Korea, but when she suffers a minor fracture to her arm his carefully planned out Christmas Eve plans are upended. In 2003, a newly married couple who are always in agreement about everything hosts two sets of in-laws for Christmas Eve for the first time and find that they may not have had as much in common as they thought they did. And in 2024, a couple tries to arrange special Christmas surprises for each other but keeping them a secret may be harder than they thought.

74

72

6.4

/3274/

69

/494/

68

/73/

3.7

/145805/

100

/7/

71

/53/

Pop icon Sabrina Carpenter jingles all the bells in her first-ever variety music special full of holiday hits, unexpected duets and comedic cameos.

64

38

3.9

/516/

42

/28/

43

/8/

2.7

/2514/

94

/17/

95

/5/

83

/4/

London, today. A refugee washes up naked in a suitcase on the bank of the Thames. The enigmatic, sexually fluid stranger introduces himself to a bourgeois, upper-class family, who invite him to stay on as an employee. The Visitor soon seduces each member in a series of explicit sexual encounters. He will turn their world upside down as they can redefine themselves in new, radical ways.

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5.6

/30/

56

/3/

50

/1/

This romantic dramedy highlights the relationship between Ace, the influential Mendoza family’s perfect son, and Gio, a gay porn content creator and sex worker. While they see themselves an ideal match, the uptight Mendoza matriarch Angelica doesn’t seem to think so.

53

5.5

/8708/

65

/1174/

66

/290/

2.7

/19396/

48

/42/

47

/191/

54

/12/

1.5

age 8+

When a powerful spell turns her parents into giant monsters, a teenage princess must journey into the wild to reverse the curse before it's too late.

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7.5

/37/

65

/2/

Noah and Medhi didn’t expect to make any real connections when they encountered one another cruising in a park. But what starts as a meaningless and transactional hookup, soon blossoms into something unexpectedly romantic and meaningful as they wander the quiet streets of London one remarkable night.

62

32

6.5

/1412/

67

/120/

59

/20/

2.9

/1252/

Self-described bookworm Avery is paired with retired hockey star Wes to compete in a holiday race across America. The team struggles through themed challenges until romance runs its course.

76

7.1

/1625/

68

/43/

70

/35/

3.6

/10130/

96

/26/

83

/7/

3.0

Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

57

5.7

/9426/

68

/985/

63

/257/

2.4

/45068/

69

/13/

42

/70/

age 10+

On a quest to reconnect with the man of her dreams, Layla races across New York City to find a ticket to a sold-out Pentatonix Christmas Eve concert.

68

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7.0

/562/

54

/10/