Gay Romance

10 GREAT GAY ROMANTIC MOVIES

Got a date? Need a pick me up? Want to make sure your movie has a happy ending? Here's 10 sure fire bets. Microwave some popcorn and get ready to feel good!
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Beautiful Thing
This is the movie every gay boy should've seen at 13. It's sweet, innocent honest and effortlessly hopeful. See if you can make it through the "Peppermint Foot Lotion Scene" without shedding a tear. Will any new coming of age/gay teen love story ever top this?

The Adventures of Felix
I had to throw in this 2002 French release. "Felix" is sweet, light and breathes fresh air into a mass of new films crowded with overdoses and broken hearts. Watch this simple delicious road movie with someone special.

The Journey of Jared Price
It's a good thing seeing low budget films take some risks. This indie attempts to blur the lines between feature and erotica. There are some steamy, naked guy sex as Jared comes of age. But there is also a very sweet story woven throughout this feature that speaks to the heart of every romantic.

Parting Glances
There are so many wonderful things about this movie. It's Steve Buscemi's first film. In it he plays the screen's first non-apologetic gay man with AIDS at the height of the terror in 1986. Kathy Kinney has a secondary role as the supportive fag hag best friend. And the two lovers, played by Richard Ganoung and John Bolger have an amazingly sexy opening foreplay to sex scene. But the real lovers in this classic are Ganoung and Buscemi's characters who despite being ex-boyfriends continue to love each other more than anyone else.

I Think I Do
College friends reuniting 5 years after graduation for a wedding? Partridge Family music peppered throughout the movie? What's not to love about this silly tale of mistaken affection and finally finding Mr. Right, or not? Alexis Arquette and Christian Maelen charm their way into each other's hearts with a little help from their friends, including a hilarious performance from Guillermo Diaz (the Parker Posey of gay indies) finally playing straight, well not that straight, he's stoned through the entire movie.

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Alive and Kicking Do opposites attract? You'll find out in this charming love story set in a time before AIDS meds helped people survive. Not only are these two opposite in looks and age, but in HIV status as well. The dated sense of urgency to the storyline due to one character's symptomatic status does not take away from the richness of this endearing film. Not to be missed is an aging choreographer played by Dorothy Tutin, in the early stages of Alzheimer's. The lover's are brilliantly portrayed by Anthony Sher and Jason Flemyng.

All Over the Guy What would happen if Hollywood made schmaltzy love stories with one catch: characters who just happen to be gay? They'd make "All Over the Guy." A guy and a girl meet, they fall in love. Then they set out to matchmake their best friends, both of whom conveniently happen to be handsome gay men. So what if it's not realistic. Sometimes you need a break from reality. With cameos by Doris Roberts (as a potty-mouthed AIDS clinic volunteer), Christina Ricci and Lisa Kudrow, how can you lose?

Maurice Forget Hugh Grant ever became a big Hollywood star. Watch him twitch and squirm in this classic from Merchant-Ivory. E.M. Forster's adaptation takes unrequited love to new heights as we watch Grant and James Wilby make their way through early 20th Century repressed England. The styling is perfect, the tension unnerving.

The Wedding Banquet
Ang Lee's ("Eat, Drink, Man, Woman", "Ice Storm" & "Crouching Tiger...") hysterical comedy about a sweet gay couple (one Asian, one Caucasian) doing just fine with their simple life in the U.S. till the Asian's parents decide to visit from Taiwan to find out why their son hasn't settled down and found a girl to marry yet. It's screwball and it's poignant. It's Ang Lee's first English-speaking film and it's a gem.

Like It Is
Cultures clash when a naive Blackpool youth meets a somewhat jaded D.J./P.R. London fag. It's realistic, tender and chocked with just enough violence to make you queasy. The boys are sexy as hell and Roger Daltry is creepy as the money-hungry old queen who's never believed in love. Lucky for us, some boys disagree.