Here at Round the World Magazine, we take our time to devise LGBTQIA+ inclusive media lists. As proud members of the LGBTQIA+ community, we understand how frustrating it can be when trying to find a TV series or a movie with a good LGBTQIA+ presence and also with a happy ending!
After the success of our List of Gay Movies, we have searched Netflix for the best Gay Movies and Documentaries for our LGBTQIA_ readers to embrace and enjoy!
If you’d prefer a shorter fix of media, we also have lists for Gay Web Series, Gay TV Shows, or even our list of Gay Fiction Books.
Grab a bucket of popcorn and enjoy the multi-genre list of Gay Movies on Netflix below.
I Am (2010)
I Am is a 2010 Indian anthology film by Onir. It consists of four short films: “Omar”, “Afia”, “Abhimanyu”, and “Megha”.
Omar is the short that has a gay-themed storyline. – Omar is from Bangalore and he meets Jai, a struggling actor in Mumbai. They flirt and have dinner together and then have intimate relations at a public place.
A policeman threatens Jai to turn him in under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and blackmails into giving 100,000 Rupees as a bribe.
Omar goes with Jai’s ATM card to draw money, meanwhile, the policeman rapes Jai. Omar returns with 50,000 Rupees, which the policeman takes along with both Jai and Omar’s cellphones.
With many twists and turns, “Omar” is inspired by true stories and research material provided by the online portal Gay Bombay.
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God’s Own Country (2017)
Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor) works long hours in brutal isolation on his family’s remote farm in the north of England.
He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex. When a handsome Romanian migrant worker (Alec Secareanu) arrives to take up temporary work on the family farm, Johnny suddenly finds himself having to deal with emotions he has never felt before.
An intense relationship forms between the two which could change Johnny’s life forever.
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Far From Heaven (2002)
The story – which crosses both sexual and racial lines – revolves around a privileged suburban family whose lives are filled with daily family etiquette, social events at the club, and an overall desire to keep up with the Joneses.
The family is turned upside down when both husband and wife are faced with choices that not only create a gossip mill for the entire community but also change their entire lives forever.
Starring Dennis Haysbert, Julianne Moore, and Dennis Quaid.
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Dream Boat (2017)
Once a year, the Dream Boat sets sail – a cruise only for gay men. Far from their families and political restrictions, we follow five men from five countries on a quest for their dreams.
The cruise promises seven days of sunshine, love, and freedom – but on board are also their personal stories, their doubts, and uncertainties.
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I Am Michael (2017)
An interesting true-life story of Michael Glatze (Franco), a high profile queer youth activist who created a national controversy when he claimed to no longer be gay and became a straight Christian pastor. The film follows Michael from his life in San Francisco with his boyfriend Bennett (Quinto), where he pursues political activism, a journalist career at XY Magazine, social awareness, and sexual exploration, to his days of personal self-discovery.
After a traumatic scare, Michael is plagued by doubt and paranoia and begins a religious reawakening.
Michael renounces his gay lifestyle, rejects his friends, and endeavors to find his “true self.” He explores Buddhism and Mormonism, yet ultimately lands at a Christian Bible school in rural Wyoming where he meets his girlfriend, Rebekah (Roberts), and becomes the pastor of his own church.
This powerful new film captures one man’s haunting journey through modern concepts of love, denial, and redemption.
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Handsome Devil (2017)
Ned, the bullied outsider, and Conor, a new boy and star athlete, are forced to room together at their cloistered boarding school. Conor is drafted into the senior rugby team, whose actions dominate school life and whose privilege and entitlement have made Ned’s life to date at the school a misery.
The boys take an instant and visceral dislike to each other, and Ned and Conor seem destined to remain enemies until an English teacher, Mr. Sherry (Andrew Scott), begins to drill into them the value of finding one’s own voice. This lesson isn’t appreciated by everyone though, not least the rugby coach, Pascal (Moe Dunford), who has his own agenda, and who harbors some deep suspicions about Sherry.
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Last Ferry (2019)
Joseph, a young lawyer living in Harlem, makes a pilgrimage to the fabled Fire Island, desperately seeking romance and community. Only trouble is, it’s April, the thick of the off-season, and the island is dead. Joseph does meet a cute boy — but only to realize he is a mugger who has drugged him to steal his belongings.
During his impaired state, he witnesses a murder and narrowly escapes the grasp of the murderer. He awakes in The Pines, under the care of Cameron and his friends. As Joseph integrates into the group and begins to fall for Cameron, he forgets about what he witnessed when he was drugged — only for the murderer to reemerge right under his nose.
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Mapplethorpe (2019)
Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits, images of calla lilies, and chronicles of New York City’s underground BDSM scene remain touchstones of 20th-century photography even now, nearly three decades after his death from complications of HIV/AIDS in 1989. Mapplethorpe revisits the titular photographer’s legacy, beginning at the moment just before he takes up residence in the Chelsea Hotel. There, Mapplethorpe begins to amass a portfolio of images-and, at the same time, to explore his formerly suppressed attraction to men.
But Mapplethorpe’s relentless ambition-as he says in one early scene, “I can’t just be Mapplethorpe the photographer,” fancying himself a “modern Michelangelo”-threatens to tear apart the relationships he cherishes the most. From the early ’70s until his untimely death at age 42, the film explores the intersection of his art and his sexuality, his struggle for mainstream recognition, and, looming above it all, the specter of the emerging AIDS crisis.
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Life in the Doghouse (2018)
Life in the Doghouse tells the inspiring stories of couple, Danny and Ron’s Dog Rescue center.
The film showcases their unique approach to dog rescue and adoption, which has enabled them to rescue and adopt out 10,000 dogs.
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People You May Know (2017)
‘People You May Know’ tells the story of four friends in their 40s who are living in Los Angeles.
They have to confront a new reality when Delia gets pregnant from Joe, the best-friend who happens to be gay.
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Jewel’s Catch One (2016)
Catch One is one of our favorite nightclubs in the world! Jewel’s Catch One explores the legacy of legendary Los Angeles nightclub, Catch One, and the life-changing impact its owner, Jewel Thais-Williams, had on her community breaking down racial and cultural barriers and building the oldest black-owned disco in America.
Catch One is offers a safe space for the LGBTQIA+ community and Jewel’s story celebrates music, fashion, celebrities and activism that helped changed the course of our country.
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I Am Happiness On Earth (2014)
Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation.
The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.
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Dear Ex (2018)
A teenage boy and his mother are further driven apart when they find out that his father’s life insurance policy is to be received by his lover.
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LOEV (2015)
Loev (pronounced love) is a 2015 Indian romantic drama film written and directed by Sudhanshu Saria.
It stars Dhruv Ganesh and Shiv Panditt as two friends who set off to the Western Ghats for a weekend trip and focuses on their complex emotional and sexual relationship.
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Papi Chulo (2019)
After a newly-single TV weatherman is put on leave following an on-air meltdown, he directs his energy into home improvement and hires a middle-aged Latino day laborer named Ernesto to help.
Despite a language barrier and having nothing in common, the two men develop an unexpected but profound friendship.
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All in My Family (2019)
All in My Family is a 2019 American short documentary film directed by Hao Wu. The film follows a traditional family where the son is a gay Chinese man who has chosen to have kids via surrogates.
The documentary was released on Netflix on May 3, 2019.
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Evening Shadows (2018)
In a small town in Southern India that lives within a cocoon of traditions and social morality, when a young gay man Kartik (Devansh Doshi), comes out to his mother Vasudha (Mona Ambegaonkar), her entire world comes crashing down. She has no one to turn to dispel her fears and doubts, to understand her loving son’s truth.
Moreover, as a woman, trapped within a patriarchal conservative society, her biggest challenge is to deal with her dogmatic husband Damodar (Ananth Mahadevan), and the conservative society around her. Evening Shadows is a universal story about a mother-son bonding and its emotional strength to withstand the ravages of time and harsh realities.
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Michael Lost and Found (2017)
When a feature film is made about them seven years after their break-up, Benjie Nycum visits his ex-boyfriend Michael Glatze in Wyoming.
He finally tries to get answers about his bewildering shift from gay activist to ex-gay evangelical church pastor.
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Snervous Tyler Oakley (2015)
After eight years of sharing snippets of his life online, see the intimate truth of Actor and YouTuber, Tyler Oakley’s relationship with family, followers and fame on his sold out international Slumber Party world tour.
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I Am Jonas (2019)
Two moments of Jonas’s life intertwine, each reflecting the other: in 1995, when he was a secretive teenager, and 18 years later, as an attractive and impulsive thirty-something looking for balance in his life.
His past haunts him as he recalls a teenage love affair with impulsive, twisted and irresistible Nathan.
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Alex Strangelove (2018)
A high school senior plans on losing his virginity to his girlfriend.
Things get complicated when he meets a handsome and charming man from the other side of town who unwittingly sends him on a roller-coaster journey of sexual identity.
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Holding The Man (2015)
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school.
Their romance endured for 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses.
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Circus of Books (2020)
For over 35 years, the gay adult entertainment store, Circus of Books, served as the epicenter for LGBT life and culture in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to many in the community it served, the store was cultivated and cared for by its owners, Karen and Barry Mason; a straight couple with three children.
Netflix’s Circus of Books is an intimate portrayal of the Masons and their journey to become one of the biggest distributors of hardcore adult entertainment in the United States. Their story unfolds through the lens of their daughter, filmmaker and artist, Rachel Mason.
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