Beginners
Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.
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2009★ 6.2
The holidays get overly festive as Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson, an out-and-proud gay college student, crawls back into the closet to survive the holidays with his parents. But when his boyfriend, Nathan, shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret. With pressure mounting from all sides, will Gunn come out before the truth does?
Elena Undone
2010★ 6.9
The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
Dad
1989★ 6.4
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
The Bachelors
2017★ 7.0
After the early death of his wife, a mourning father moves with his teenage son across the country for a private school teaching job. Their lives begin to transform due to two unique women, who help them embrace life and love again
We Live in Time
2024★ 7.2
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
Spoiler Alert
2022★ 7.0
Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Prayers for Bobby
2009★ 8.1
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.
Nothing in Common
1986★ 5.9
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
Mambo Italiano
2003★ 5.9
When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.
Babyteeth
2020★ 6.9
A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.
Hope Springs
2012★ 6.3
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Departure
2016★ 6.3
An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.
Chéri
2009★ 6.1
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
One True Thing
1998★ 6.5
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Normal
2003★ 6.7
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
Love, Simon
2018★ 8.0
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
Something's Gotta Give
2003★ 6.6
When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry's sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Ordinary Love
2019★ 6.8
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
In & Out
1997★ 6.5
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
Albatross
2011★ 6.0
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.