gay artist movies

As Good as It Gets (1997)
7.398 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Romance

Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon....

Little Ashes (2008)
5.9 / 10

Drama, Romance

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

Pain and Glory (2019)
7.407 / 10

Drama

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a...

Fassbinder (2015)
6.2 / 10

Documentary

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
6.4 / 10

Drama, History

England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with...

Downtown '81 (2001)
6.9 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Music

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been...

Benjamin Smoke (2000)
4.2 / 10

Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin...

Tom of Finland (2017)
6.7 / 10

Drama

Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland...

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
6 / 10

Drama

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer,...

Variações: Guardian Angel (2019)
7.1 / 10

Music, History, Drama

Film biography dwelling on the hectic artistic life of António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s, who died from...

I Am Divine (2013)
7.4 / 10

Documentary

Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body...

Mapplethorpe (2019)
6.6 / 10

Drama, History

A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

Danny Says (2015)
6.9 / 10

Documentary, Music

DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture with seminal acts...

The Source (1999)
5.1 / 10

Documentary, History

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in...

A Bigger Splash (1973)
5.9 / 10

Drama, Documentary

After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends.

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary

An intimate look at pioneering artist George Platt Lynes, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. The documentary reveals Lynes’...

McKellen: Playing the Part (2018)
7.3 / 10

Documentary, History

Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landmarks of McKellen's life, from early childhood...

Cranko (1969)
0 / 10

Drama

The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is attacked for his homosexuality, and after many...

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2018)
7.1 / 10

Documentary

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2021)
3 / 10

Documentary

The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating...