I’m just in the mood for a movie with gay (or bi) dudes!

That’s not Call Me By Your Name or Love, Simon or another one that’s been recced to me a hundred times already.

Disclaimer: this is not an official rec list of The Best Movies with MLM That You Absolutely Must See! There’s a pretty wide variety to content and tone.

Not all the movies I’m going to recommend are explicitly queer — some of them center heavy implications or are easily read as homoerotic and/or homoromantic, but part of the reason I want to recommend them anyway is because for me, it doesn’t make them less satisfying or exciting to engage with, especially when we’re on the hunt for something to scratch that itch.

With that said, I’m going to put a note before each recommendation noting how implicit/explicit the queerness is, and I’m also going to make an explicit note if a character or relationship is only a side plot or smaller thread, so that you go in knowing what to expect!

I’m not going to be recommending Moonlight (2016) (it’s not under-recommended, it’s just new and lauded for good reason) or God’s Own Country (2017), Maurice (1987), Call Me By Your Name (2017), Love, Simon (2018), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Handsome Devil (2016), The Birdcage (1996) or La cage aux Folles (1978), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Kill Your Darlings (2013), Rent (2005) or A Single Man (2009).