The Boys in the Band (1970), Love, Simon (2018), Freier Fall (2013), Get Real (1998), Saving Face (2004), Big Eden (2000), The Sum of Us (1994), Mine vaganti (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Coming Out movies.
Storyline: It's Harold's birthday, and his closest friends throw him a party at Michael's apartment. Among Harold's presents is "Cowboy", since Harold may have trouble finding a cute young man on his own now that he's getting older. As the party progresses the self-deprecating humor of the group takes a nasty turn as the men become drunker. Climaxed by a cruel telephone "game" where each man must call someone and tell him (or her?) of his love for them.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: stage play adaptation, 1970s, confined space, psychological drama, alcoholism, emotional conflict, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young coming-of-age tale about a teenage boy, Simon Spier, goes through a different kind of Romeo and Juliet story. Simon has a love connection with a boy, Blue, by email, but the only problem is that Simon has no idea who he's talking to. Simon must discover who that boy is--who Blue is. Along the way, he tries to find himself as well.
Plot Keywords: teen, romance, comedy, lgbt, coming of age, high school, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With a promising police career and a baby on the way, Marc's life seems to be right on track - then he meets fellow policeman Kay. During their regular jogs, Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness - and what it means to fall in love with another man. Torn between his family and his new feelings for Kay, Marc sees his world careening more and more out of control. Suddenly, his life is in free fall and Marc realizes that, try as he may, he can't make everyone happy - least of all himself.
Plot Keywords: gay, police, germany, romance, coming out, self-discovery, social pressure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This tenderly romantic film tells the story of Steve, a young boy in a at secondary school, as he struggles with coming out and falling in love with John, the top athlete at school - who, amazingly, falls in love with him as well.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, lgbtq+, romance, british film, high school, self-discovery, first love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, family, cultural conflict, mother-daughter relationship, lgbt, coming out ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. Back in Big Eden, Henry must come to terms with his relationship to Dean Stewart, his best friend from high School, as well as the object of his unrequited love. All these years Henry has been pining for a dream image of Dean from back then. This is also the story of Pike Dexter, the shy, unassuming Native American owner of the town's general store, who is as surprised as anyone to find himself falling in love with Henry. The people of Big Eden conspire and attempt to bring Henry and Pike together.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: lgbtq+, romance, drama, small town, coming out, self-discovery, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in Sydney, Australia. A (heterosexual) father and his gay son are trying to find Ms/Mr Right respectively. The film shows their relationships with one another and the objects of their affection as tradgedy strikes. There is no overt 'message' in the film, just a very natural, entertaining story-telling.—Fred Curtis <fred@cs.su.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: homosexual, family, father-son relationship, australia, romance, comedy, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, romance, lgbt, homosexual, brotherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The youngest son (Riccardo Scamarcio) of an Italian pasta magnate plans to announce he's gay so that he won't have to take over the family business -- but his brother (Alessandro Preziosi) makes a startling announcement of his own.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, family, drama, italian, lgbt, cultural conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary presenting the realities of coming out in lesser developed countries.
Plot Keywords: documentary, lgbtq+, human rights, coming out, social issues, activism, homophobia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, lgbt, 1980s, usa, nostalgia, emotion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: François Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a rubber factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing to happen: he spreads the rumor that he's gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in François Pignon's life -and other people's too- is drastic !
Plot Keywords: comedy, french film, workplace, homosexuality, social prejudice, disguise, discrimination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young gay man comes out to his middle-class parents, which has repercussions for his father who has long since been trying to repress his own sexuality.
Plot Keywords: gay, family, father-son relationship, secrets, coming out, identity, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.
Plot Keywords: gay, religion, family, coming out, faith, conflict, self-identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rachel is a nice girl who is going to marry with Hector ('Heck'), her longtime boyfriend. While she is working in the wedding preparations she meets Luce, wedding's florist, unexpectedly falling in love to her and discovering what is having love feeling to another woman. Unable to stop her Rachel meets Luce a few times hiding it to her family, specially her mother Tessa because she contracted Luce. At the same time that Heck tries to win the affection of his parents-in-law, above all the eccentric father-in-law Ned, Rachel tries following with the daily life and marriage with her husband, but the love and passion she feels for Luce causes a secret affair between both women, and a doubt in Rachel about the life she wants for herself.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, love, lgbtq+, homosexuality, marriage, wedding, british film ...
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