Best Gay Romance Movies

2021 · Lisa Ambjörn, Lars Beckung and Camilla Holter

A Swedish prince, a boarding school, and the best teen queer romance on streaming.

2025 · Jacob Tierney

Two hockey rivals, one decade-long secret, and the most talked-about queer show on television.

2023 · Matthew Lopez

The First Son and the Prince of Wales, forced into a friendship that stops being fake.

2025 · Harry Lighton

A shy traffic warden falls in with a biker, and the year's most talked-about queer romance.

2025 · Oliver Hermanus

Two young men travel New England recording folk songs, and fall in love doing it.

2005 · Ang Lee

The one that made straight America finally sit down and watch.

2017 · Luca Guadagnino

A summer in Italy and the best monologue about heartbreak ever written for a parent.

2022 · Alice Oseman

The gentle one. Two boys, a rugby team, and no tragedy.

2023 · Ron Nyswaner

Forty years of one affair, from the Lavender Scare to the AIDS crisis.

2019 · Celine Sciamma

Two women, one island, and the gayest painting in cinema history.

2015 · Todd Haynes

1950s longing in a fur coat, shot like every glance is a crime.

2014 · Andrew Haigh

Three friends in San Francisco, dating badly, talking honestly.

2011 · Andrew Haigh

Two days, two men, and the most honest gay conversation on film.

2017 · Francis Lee

Yorkshire sheep farm, two men, almost no dialogue, all feeling.

1996 · Hettie Macdonald

Two boys on a South London estate, and the sweetest ending in queer film.

2023 · Andrew Haigh

A lonely writer visits his dead parents and comes out to them at 40.

1997 · Wong Kar-wai

A couple falls apart in Buenos Aires, beautifully.