Gay films coming of age

Well, you can imagine what happens with Marc, and once again, we get a lovely, pastoral tale about the trials and tribulations of first queer love, as gentle as a summer's breeze. Balmy and sweet as you like. A list of coming-of-age films that depict LGBTQ relationships.

The premise, for one, is remarkably similar, if a touch more tragic as a sign of the times: a gay outsider in secondary school, Steven, falls in love with one of the big-name rugby boys, John. Cole Doman's understated central performance ranks among the best of the genre.

Stream on Netflix. Rent on BFI Player. An emotionally-charged drama taking place over the course of a birthday party in the home of an affluent, well-respected church leader, prolific filmmaker Stephen Cone's seventh feature takes on the tension between queerness and religiosity — and the hypocrisies of the pious.

It's the usual set-up: Sieger Gijs Blom is a precocious year-old selected to represent his local athletics team at the nationals, along with his best mate and two other boys, one of whom being Marc Ko Zandvliet. Here are 24 LGBTQ+ coming-of-age films to enjoy, reminisce about, and share.

On the subject of balmy and saccharine coming-of-age stories, enter Jongens Boysa little-known gay love story from the Netherlands set in a remote bit of the Dutch countryside. A melodrama factory-made to make everyone in the country sob into their pillows, Russell T.

Olly Alexander's first major screen foray isn't half bad, either. Simon Shore's romantic coming-of-ager is essential viewing for Heartstopper fans. Note: we deliberately didn't include Call Me by Your Name or Moonlight as the preeminent examples of the genre in American cinema, but if you haven't seen them, do so as immediately as possible.

Related: 15 Gay Romantic Films That Will Make You Believe in Happily Ever After (Images courtesy of their respective. A glorious relic of the mid-nineties — just check out those shirt and jean combos — which concludes with a genuinely forceful political statement, as Glen and Ste defiantly slow dance in front of their neighbours.

This one begins in striking fashion: the camera follows a group of teens on the outskirts of a rough Argentinian province as they chase each other in the dark, pairing off to shag in the shadows. Stream on Prime Video.

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Our editors work with affiliates when we select some or all of the products featured. HeartstopperNetflix's coming-of-age series about a gay schoolboy falling in love with one of the BNOC rugby lads, has resonated far and wide for its cutesy vision of young queer romance.

It might not end in such an optimistic light, but Get Real remains a heartwarming take on young queer love. Nowadays digital distribution tends to be decent enough that you can find almost anything on a streamer, so the days of smuggling DVDs of Edge of Seventeen or Get Real out of the local library are largely a thing of the past and, if you need to keep clandestine, incognito windows helpfully exist.

Let's dive into the journey of self-discovery and acceptance, gay coming-of-age films that offer poignant storytelling and rich character development. Some have gone so far to suggest that it's a pioneering work by dint of its unashamed queerness and purity of heart, and it's nice that such a show has benefitted from a massive platform — but there are quite a few examples of similar coming-of-age movies and shows like it, albeit often a little more niche or less easily accessible.

With that in mind, these are some great titles old and new that'll help you get over your post- Heartstopper cravings. Brazillian indie The Way He Looks grabbed international eyeballs after it was syndicated by Netflix in Aside from the will-they won't-they love story at its core, The Way He Looks is an oft ravishingly shot ode to independence.

Here is a list of some of the best. Please feel free to suggest films to add to this list or offer critical commentary on specific movies. What begins as a prim and proper affair speedily unravels, with gossip flowing in tandem with the abundant wine, secrets and lies unfurling in gripping fashion.

Rent on Prime Video.