Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "discovering-someone-is-gay"

1. Brokeback Mountain (2005)

R | 134 min | Drama, Romance

Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid

Votes: 384,076 | Gross: $83.04M

2. Lady Bird (2017)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

In 2002, an artistically inclined 17-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.

Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges

Votes: 331,439 | Gross: $48.96M

3. Fireworks (2023)

134 min | Drama, Romance

The troubled relationship between Gianni and Nino, set in the narrow-minded and prejudencial Sicily of 1982.

Director: Giuseppe Fiorello | Stars: Simone Raffaele Cordiano, Antonio De Matteo, Raffaele Gangale, Simona Malato

Votes: 1,708

4. Far from Heaven (2002)

PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Romance

In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson

Votes: 49,389 | Gross: $15.85M

5. 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: 23,089

6. Taekwondo (2016)

Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A man invites another guy he trains with to spend some time in his country house among other male friends.

Directors: Marco Berger, Martín Farina | Stars: Gabriel Epstein, Lucas Papa, Nicolás Barsoff, Francisco Bertín

Votes: 3,355

7. Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992 TV Movie)

92 min | Drama

A young college student, his family's "golden child," brings his fiancee home to meet them.

Director: Ken Olin | Stars: James Sikking, Bibi Besch, William McNamara, Jayne Brook

Votes: 2,440

8. The Sum of Us (1994)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."

Directors: Geoff Burton, Kevin Dowling | Stars: Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe, John Polson, Deborah Kennedy

Votes: 5,835 | Gross: $2.51M

9. Mambo Italiano (2003)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The son of Italian immigrants to Canada struggles to find the best way to reveal to his parents that he's gay.

Director: Émile Gaudreault | Stars: Luke Kirby, Peter Miller, Ginette Reno, Paul Sorvino

Votes: 6,964 | Gross: $6.24M

10. That Certain Summer (1972 TV Movie)

73 min | Drama

Teenager Nick Salter visits his divorced father Doug and meets Dad's new friend Gary McLain. But Doug enjoys Gary's company more than the company of women. Nick must then learn to deal with Doug's homosexuality.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, Joe Don Baker, Marlyn Mason

Votes: 492

11. A Change of Heart (1998 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama

A woman discovers that her husband has been hiding a secret.

Director: Arvin Brown | Stars: Jean Smart, John Terry, Gretchen Corbett, Phillip Geoffrey Hough

Votes: 266

12. You Are My Sunshine (2021)

Unrated | 114 min | Drama, History, Romance

The affectionate story of the lifelong romance between Tom and Joe, from their first humble meeting in the 1970s, a world only just waking up to homosexuality, through to their heartbreaking final days, decades later.

Director: David Hastings | Stars: Steve Salt, Jack Knight, Charles O'Neill, Ernest Vernon

Votes: 203

13. It's Still Your Bed (2019)

Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama, Romance

David (Damian Joseph Quinn), just came home from college, but his parents let their newly hired farm hand, Brent (Cooper Stone), to stay in his room. The attraction is there, but somehow, both of them have been sizing each other up.

Director: Tyler Reeves | Stars: Damian Joseph Quinn, Cooper Stone, Jonathan Fahn, Lauren Elyse Buckley

Votes: 693

14. Guys and Balls (2004)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After their most recent loss, a soccer team discovers its goalie is gay and casts him out. He retaliates by bringing back an all-gay team for a game to prove who's better.

Director: Sherry Hormann | Stars: Maximilian Brückner, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Dietmar Bär, Eileen Eilender

Votes: 1,951 | Gross: $0.03M

15. 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

16. Wild About Harry (2009)

PG-13 | 83 min | Drama, Family

In 1973 playing it straight can get a little twisted... Set in 1973 and inspired by true events, 'American Primitive' tells the story of the havoc that is wreaked in a teenage girl's life ... See full summary »

Director: Gwen Wynne | Stars: Tate Donovan, Adam Pascal, Danielle Savre, Skye McCole Bartusiak

Votes: 237

17. This Girl Is Bad-Ass!! (2011)

R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A bike messenger, hired by competing mob bosses to smuggle goods, finds that her only way out is a confrontation erupting into a battle of bullets, blows and kicks to the face.

Director: Phetthai Vongkumlao | Stars: Phetthai Vongkumlao, JeeJa Yanin, Kom Chauncheun, Bawriboon Chanreuang

Votes: 702

18. Retablo (2017)

95 min | Drama

Segundo Paucar, wants to become a master story-box maker just like his father to carry on with the family legacy.

Director: Alvaro Delgado Aparicio | Stars: Junior Bejar, Amiel Cayo, Magaly Solier, Hermelinda Luján

Votes: 1,949

19. Dirty Magazines (2008)

Not Rated | 39 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

In the '80s, a mother/son relationship takes a wild left turn after she discovers adult, all-male material under her son's bed the morning of his 16th birthday!

Director: Jay J. Levy | Stars: Suzan Brittan, Josh Hahn, Frances Manzo, John Zderko

Votes: 105

20. Grown Up Movie Star (2009)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.

Director: Adriana Maggs | Stars: Shawn Doyle, Tatiana Maslany, Julia Kennedy, Jonny Harris

Votes: 434

21. Flyover Country (2013)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

Friendship, love, and acceptance, set in the heartland of America.

Director: Jim Fields | Stars: Mike Mecek, Myles Dabbs, Garrett Palensky, Keith Homan

Votes: 119

22. Pedro (2008)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

In 1994 Pedro Zamora was the first HIV-positive gay man to appear in a reality show on MTV. The audience of 'The Real World: San Francisco' identified easily with this intelligent, ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Oceano | Stars: Alex Loynaz, Justina Machado, Hale Appleman, DaJuan Johnson

Votes: 539

23. Violet's Visit (1997)

84 min | Comedy, Drama

Violet, a fiesty 15 year-old who prefers the nickname "Scooter" , decides to run away from her boring life in a small town and goes to visit with the father she has never seen. She believes... See full summary »

Director: Richard Turner | Stars: Rebecca Smart, Graham Harvey, David Franklin, Caleb Packham

Votes: 120

24. Long Haul (2019)

Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Drama

Bo, a religious and ultra-conservative teen goes on a cross-country delivery job with his estranged father. On the trip, Bo struggles with his parent's recent divorce and discovering that his father is gay.

Director: Bryan Fugal | Stars: Jacob Buster, Jeffrey Hanson, Sarah Kent, Nicole Weeks

Votes: 27

25. Lokas (2008)

90 min | Comedy

Charly is a homophobic man who discovers that Mario, his own father, is gay. Against his will, Charly have to deal with the tender relationship that Mario develops with his grandson Pedro.

Director: Gonzalo Justiniano | Stars: Rodrigo Bastidas, Coco Legrand, Raimundo Bastidas, Fabiola Campomanes

Votes: 185

26. A Wedding Like That (2015)

44 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Sam, an affable, yet oblivious father, finds out his daughter is gay a week before she is to get married, and while trying to come to terms with his feelings, he encounters his straight-laced future in-laws.

Directors: Lewis D. Chaney, Neil Kellen | Stars: Mark Dessauer, Cindy Maples, Roni Jonah, Todd Reynolds

Votes: 21

27. Les étrangers (1999 TV Movie)

70 min | Drama

A young French soldier of Algerian origin, volunteers to join the U.N. peacekeeping forces in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzogovina, after his traditional family discovers that he is gay.

Director: Philippe Faucon | Stars: Yamina Amri, Pierre Baux, Mohamed Chabane-Chaouche, Stéphane Ferrara

Votes: 69

28. Noboru (2016)

Unrated | 15 min | Short, Drama, Romance

A young Japanese man, Noboru, moves from Japan to Los Angeles in order to escape a traumatic memory of his father unexpectedly discovering that he is gay.

Director: Francisco J. Núñez | Stars: Kiyoshi Shishido, Shu Sakimoto, Liana Bassior, Ken Otsuki

29. How I Came Out (2019)

6 min | Short, Comedy

A man has an incredible coming out story, he just doesn't realize it yet.

Director: Mark Jones | Stars: Vincent Astor, Anne Marie Caskey, Maurin Penn, Zac Roberts

Votes: 15

30. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: What If I'm Gay? (1987)

45 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The popular and macho captain of the high-school soccer team is forced to confront his homosexuality, after his buddies discover a male-pornography magazine in his bedroom.

Director: Jeffrey D. Brown | Stars: Richard Joseph Paul, Evan Handler, Manfred Melcher, Gabrielle Carteris

Votes: 155

31. Maude (1972–1978)
Episode: The Gay Bar (1977)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

Arthur does not like having a gay bar in town.

Director: Hal Cooper | Stars: Bea Arthur, Bill Macy, Conrad Bain, Rue McClanahan

Votes: 91

32. Shameless (2011–2021)
Episode: Pilot (2011)

TV-MA | 58 min | Comedy, Drama

Drunken father Frank is of no use to his dysfunctional family; Fiona meets a handsome stranger when her purse is stolen; Lip is shocked to discover his brother Ian is gay.

Director: Mark Mylod | Stars: William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin, Ethan Cutkosky

Votes: 3,999