Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "gay-muslim"

1. Elite (2018–2024)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When three working-class teenagers begin attending an exclusive private school in Spain, the clash between them and the wealthy students leads to murder.

Stars: Omar Ayuso, Itzan Escamilla, Mina El Hammani, Miguel Bernardeau

Votes: 91,166

2. Love, Victor (2020–2022)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Victor is a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation.

Stars: Michael Cimino, Rachel Hilson, Anthony Turpel, Bebe Wood

Votes: 22,128

3. Uncle Frank (2020)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina, for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover, Walid.

Director: Alan Ball | Stars: Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Steve Zahn

Votes: 23,096

4. Out in the Dark (2012)

Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.

Director: Michael Mayer | Stars: Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Jameel Khoury, Alon Pdut

Votes: 9,266

5. East Is East (1999)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.

Director: Damien O'Donnell | Stars: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi

Votes: 20,072 | Gross: $4.17M

6. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Graham

Votes: 17,335 | Gross: $2.45M

7. Sleeper Cell (2005–2006)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An American undercover FBI agent is assigned to infiltrate a terrorist sleeper cell that is planning an attack in Los Angeles.

Stars: Michael Ealy, Oded Fehr, Henri Lubatti, Melissa Sagemiller

Votes: 6,740

8. Religulous (2008)

R | 101 min | Documentary, Comedy, War

Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, Jonathan Boulden, Steven Burg

Votes: 60,285 | Gross: $13.00M

9. Beyto (2020)

TV-MA | 98 min | Drama

Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice-- Beyto is in the midst of life, with a bright future ahead of him. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces.

Director: Gitta Gsell | Stars: Burak Ates, Dimitri Stapfer, Ecem Aydin, Beren Tuna

Votes: 1,453

10. No Hard Feelings (2020)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance

Second-generation Irani-German Parvis works at a refugee shelter where he meets brother and sister Irani refugees and develops a tenuous romance with Amon as his friends attempt refugee status.

Director: Faraz Shariat | Stars: Benjamin Radjaipour, Banafshe Hourmazdi, Eidin Jalali, Mashid Shariat

Votes: 1,626

11. Poppy Field (2020)

Unrated | 81 min | Drama

A young police officer, Cristi, tries to find the balance between two opposing parts of his identity: that of a man working in a macho hierarchical environment and that of a closeted gay person who tries to keep his personal life a secret.

Director: Eugen Jebeleanu | Stars: Conrad Mericoffer, Alexandru Potocean, Radouan Leflahi, Cendana Trifan

Votes: 1,393

12. The Yacoubian Building (2006)

165 min | Drama

Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.

Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Adel Emam, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra, Essad Youniss

Votes: 7,270

13. Labyrinth of Passion (1982)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza ... See full summary »

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné, Marta Fernández Muro

Votes: 4,716

14. When the Dust Settles (2020)

58 min | Drama

The interweaved stories of 8 very different people during the days before and after a terrorist attack shocks Copenhagen, all fundamentally changed by the tragic incident.

Stars: Karen-Lise Mynster, Jacob Lohmann, Malin Crépin, Henning Jensen

Votes: 1,690

15. Breaking Fast (2020)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.

Director: Mike Mosallam | Stars: Haaz Sleiman, Michael Cassidy, Amin El Gamal, Patrick Sabongui

Votes: 3,446

16. Zenne Dancer (2011)

104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values. Can, a flamboyant, out and proud male belly dancer with lots... See full summary »

Directors: Caner Alper, Mehmet Binay | Stars: Kerem Can, Giovanni Arvaneh, Erkan Avci, Tilbe Saran

Votes: 2,870

17. The Bubble (2006)

Unrated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

"The Bubble" is the story of a group of young people who live in Tel Aviv, Israel. The movie follows the group's difficulties of living in Israel's reality. Their routine breaks when a young Palestinian man enters their lives.

Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: Ohad Knoller, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid, Daniella Wircer, Alon Friedman

Votes: 5,679 | Gross: $0.16M

18. Touch of Pink (2004)

R | 91 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance

A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit.

Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid | Stars: Jimi Mistry, Kris Holden-Ried, Suleka Mathew, Kyle MacLachlan

Votes: 4,473 | Gross: $0.56M

19. L'arche de Noé (2023)

103 min | Drama

An association welcomes young LGBT people put on the street by their families. Behind the apparent comedy, the excesses, the desire to assert oneself, lie broken lives. Everyone has this ... See full summary »

Director: Bryan Marciano | Stars: Valérie Lemercier, Finnegan Oldfield, Elsa Guedj, Olivier Claverie

Votes: 77

20. Immaculate Conception (1992)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Romance

A childless Western couple visit a fertility shrine in Karachi run by eunuchs and set off a huge culture clash.

Director: Jamil Dehlavi | Stars: James Wilby, Melissa Leo, Shabana Azmi, Zia Mohyeddin

Votes: 239

21. Protect Me from What I Want (2009)

Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Romance

Saleem is an Asian student from Bradford. He meets Daz in a gay cruising spot, and they have a night of mutually enjoyable sex. Saleem is nonetheless ashamed of what he has done, but on leaving the next day he turns around to smile at Daz.

Director: Dominic Leclerc | Stars: Naveed Choudhry, Elliott Tittensor

Votes: 1,521

22. Salvation Army (2013)

Unrated | 81 min | Drama

In a working class neighborhood in Casablanca, Abdellah, a homosexual teen, tries to build his own life within his big family, caught between an authoritarian mother and an older brother, who he adores.

Director: Abdellah Taïa | Stars: Said Mrini, Karim Ait M'Hand, Amine Ennaji, Frédéric Landenberg

Votes: 677 | Gross: $0.00M

23. El Houb - The Love (2022)

102 min | Drama

Moroccan-Dutch Karim returns to his family home and opens up to his parents about being into men. Their reaction inspires a journey of discovery through Karim's isolation as he attempts to break an ingrained culture of silence.

Director: Shariff Nasr | Stars: Fahd Larhzaoui, Lubna Azabal, Slimane Dazi, Sabri Saddik

Votes: 502

24. The String (2009)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have ... See full summary »

Director: Mehdi Ben Attia | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Salim Kechiouche, Driss Ramdi

Votes: 2,227

25. My Brother the Devil (2012)

Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being Egyptians growing up on the streets of gangland London.

Director: Sally El Hosaini | Stars: James Krishna Floyd, Elarica Johnson, Fady Elsayed, Saïd Taghmaoui

Votes: 3,365 | Gross: $0.01M

26. Mixed Kebab (2012)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Romance

Ibrahim chooses to live with Kevin over marrying his cousin Elif.

Director: Guy Lee Thys | Stars: Cem Akkanat, Simon Van Buyten, Gamze Tazim, Karlijn Sileghem

Votes: 1,313

27. All My Life (2008)

Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Romance

For Rami, all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, as long as he keeps to himself. But when his longtime lover leaves him to marry a woman and his best friends drift away, ... See full summary »

Director: Maher Sabry | Stars: Seham Saneya Adelsalam, Mehammed Amadeus, Janaan Attia, Ayman

Votes: 2,553

28. Oriented (2015)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary

A feature documentary that follows the lives of three gay Palestinian friends exploring their national and sexual identity in Tel-Aviv during the Israel-Gaza conflict of 2014.

Director: Jake Witzenfeld | Stars: Khader Abu Seif, Fadi Daeem, Naeem Jiryes, David Pearl

Votes: 537

29. The Wedding (2018)

75 min | Drama, Romance

Rami, a young Muslim man, is preparing for his wedding with Sara while fulfilling a queer sexuality in secret due to a strict religious and cultural upbringing.

Director: Sam Abbas | Stars: Nikohl Boosheri, Sam Abbas, Harry Aspinwall, Hend Ayoub

Votes: 84

30. Dog Sweat (2010)

90 min | Drama

Intertwines the lives of six young Iranians as they struggle to satisfy their private desires in the face of conservative Islamic society.

Director: Hossein Keshavarz | Stars: Sara Esfahani, Tahereh Azadi, Shahrokh Taslimi, Ahmad Akbarzadeh

Votes: 174

31. Break Me (2018)

15 min | Short, Drama

A young cage fighter must choose between his head and his heart after his father discovers the truth.

Director: Irasj Asanti | Stars: Ravdeep Singh Bajwa, Fredrik Skogsrud, Irasj Asanti, Hamid Karimi

Votes: 68

32. The Road to Love (2001)

Not Rated | 70 min | Drama

This romantic-kitsch story goes from Paris to Marseille, from Amsterdam to Morocco via Jean Genet's grave in Larache, and on to Tangiers. The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French ... See full summary »

Director: Rémi Lange | Stars: Karim Tarek, Riyad Echahi, Sihem Benamoune, Zakariya Gouram

Votes: 395

33. Naz & Maalik (2015)

Not Rated | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Two closeted Muslim teens hawk goods across Brooklyn and struggle to come clean about their sexuality, as their secretive behavior leads them unknowingly into the cross-hairs of the War on Terror.

Director: Jay Dockendorf | Stars: Kerwin Johnson Jr., Curtiss Cook Jr., Annie Grier, Ashleigh Awusie

Votes: 473

34. A Jihad for Love (2007)

Unrated | 81 min | Documentary

A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.

Director: Parvez Sharma | Stars: Muhsin Hendricks, A.K. Hoosen, Mazen, Abdellah Taïa

Votes: 715 | Gross: $0.11M

35. Marco (I) (2019)

22 min | Short, Drama

When a banker invites a sex worker to his London apartment, he finds himself coming face to face with both his own past, and one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.

Director: Saleem Haddad | Stars: Zed Josef, Marwan Kaabour, Amal Haddad

Votes: 277

36. 7 Kinds of Wrath (2014)

105 min | Drama

Petros is an archaeologist who experiences the naked Greek paranoia in the center of Athens. Either by choice or coincidence, he comes into contact with people who are "different": An Arab ... See full summary »

Director: Christos Voupouras | Stars: Maximos Moumouris, Nikos Gelia, Sofia Kokkali, Haris Fragoulis

Votes: 118

37. Kuma (2012)

93 min | Drama

Ayse is wed to Hasan, the handsome son of house-proud mother Fatma. Ayse is whisked away to Vienna where she soon finds that the marriage is a sham and she is to be the second wife to Fatma's husband.

Director: Umut Dag | Stars: Nihal G. Koldas, Begüm Akkaya, Vedat Erincin, Murathan Muslu

Votes: 840

38. Isha (II) (2018)

15 min | Short, Drama

Unable to tell his family the truth about his sexuality, Rahmi leads a double life.

Director: Christopher Manning | Stars: Horia Savescu, Dario Coates, Lino Facioli, Maia Morgenstern

Votes: 82

39. Abu: Father (2017)

80 min | Documentary

Using family archives and animation, Arshad Khan shares a deeply personal story of migration from Pakistan to Canada, self-discovery and familial reconciliation.

Director: Arshad Khan

Votes: 275

40. Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (2005 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 54 min | Documentary

Examines the diversity of human sexual and gender variance around the globe, with commentary by scientific experts and first-hand accounts of people who do not conform to a simple male/female binary.

Director: Antony Thomas | Stars: Gore Vidal, Calpernia Addams, Beth Aynsley, Max Beck

Votes: 286

41. Faith (2010)

88 min | Drama

The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where ... See full summary »

Director: Burhan Qurbani | Stars: Carlo Ljubek, Jerry Hoffmann, Maryam Zaree, Marija Skaricic

Votes: 419

42. Muslims Like Us (2016)

Reality-TV

Britain's 2.7 million Muslims are united by their faith, but there is much debate about what it means to be a Muslim. A group of 10 very different British Muslims are placed in a house ... See full summary »

Stars: Adeel Akhtar, Mehreen Baig, Nabil Abdulrashid, Abdul Haq

Votes: 41

43. Out of Iraq (2016)

81 min | Documentary

In 2004, Ramadi was the most dangerous place on earth and the last place anyone would expect to find love. But that's what happened between an Iraqi translator working for the U.S. and an Iraqi soldier.

Directors: Chris McKim, Eva Orner | Stars: Btoo Allami, Michael Failla, Nayyef Hrebid

Votes: 153

44. I Am Gay and Muslim (2012)

59 min | Documentary, Biography

This intimate documentary I AM GAY AND MUSLIM follows a number of young Moroccan gay men in their exploration of their religious and sexual identity. The men portrayed in the film openly ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Belloni | Star: Rayan Rayan

Votes: 41

45. Life Kills Me (2002)

89 min | Drama

Based on Jack-Alain Léger's novel, this drama focuses on Paul and Daniel, two different brothers of North African origin, and their efforts to succeed in life. Paul has an university degree... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Pierre Sinapi | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Jalil Lespert, Sylvie Testud, Simon Bakinde

Votes: 203

46. City of Borders (2009)

66 min | Documentary

Interviews with the owners and diverse patrons of a Jerusalem gay bar called "Shushan."

Director: Yun Suh | Stars: Boody, Ravit Geva, Sa'Ar Netanel, Adam Russo

Votes: 81

47. Breaking Fast (2015)

Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

On the holiest night during the month of Ramadan, Mo, a practicing Muslim reluctantly attends his best friend's birthday party, where he unexpectedly meets Kal, a 30-year-old all-American ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Mosallam | Stars: Adrian Anchondo, Tom Berklund, Meena Dimian, Aline Elasmar

Votes: 108

48. The Out List (2013)

TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary

A documentary about being among the LGBT community in modern society, told through interviews with LGBT celebrities and community leaders.

Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders | Stars: Dustin Lance Black, R. Clarke Cooper, Wade Davis, Ellen DeGeneres

Votes: 686

49. Muslims Like Us (2018– )

Australian version of the British TV show "Muslims Like Us".

Stars: Anthony Griffis, Mina Zaki

Votes: 9

50. Rayes Korso (2019– )

40 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The rise of Ottoman sailor Hasan Qorso in Ottoman-Algeria. He started his life as a slave and rose from piracy to commander to the highest rank in the Ottoman-Algerian navy.

Stars: Salah Aougrout, Adel Cheikh, Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Ali Charaf

Votes: 19