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1. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.
Director: Jamie Babbit | Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Michelle Williams, Brandt Wille
Votes: 41,522 | Gross: $2.21M
2. Ratched (2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History
In 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital. But beneath her stylish exterior lurks a growing darkness.
Stars: Sarah Paulson, Finn Wittrock, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Jon Briones
Votes: 70,884
3. Maurice (1987)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance
Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 23,672 | Gross: $3.13M
4. Boy Erased (2018)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama
The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.
Director: Joel Edgerton | Stars: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe
Votes: 42,218 | Gross: $6.79M
5. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.
Director: Desiree Akhavan | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Steven Hauck, Quinn Shephard, Kerry Butler
Votes: 25,686 | Gross: $0.90M
6. Saved! (2004)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
When a girl attending a Christian high school becomes pregnant, all of her former friends turn on her and she is ostracized and demonized.
Director: Brian Dannelly | Stars: Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit
Votes: 49,041 | Gross: $8.94M
7. 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: 49,374 | Gross: $15.85M
8. Latter Days (2003)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A promiscuous gay party animal falls for a young Mormon missionary, leading to crisis, cliché, and catastrophe.
Director: C. Jay Cox | Stars: Wes Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss, Mary Kay Place, Amber Benson
Votes: 18,615 | Gross: $0.82M
9. Fair Haven (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A young man returns to his family farm, after a long stay in ex-gay conversion therapy, and is torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father, and the memories of a past, loving relationship he has tried to bury.
Director: Kerstin Karlhuber | Stars: Michael Grant, Tom Wopat, Gregory Harrison, Susan Aser
Votes: 3,580
10. Lord of the Ants (2022)
134 min | Biography, Drama
Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming. The informant is his partner's father.
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Sara Serraiocco, Leonardo Maltese
Votes: 1,248
11. Toll (2023)
102 min | Crime, Drama
Suellen, a toll booth attendant, uses her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches so that she can afford to send her son to a gay conversion workshop.
Director: Carolina Markowicz | Stars: Maeve Jinkings, Thomas Aquino, Isac Graça, Erom Cordeiro
Votes: 387
12. You Should Meet My Son! (2010)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A fish-out-of-water comedy about a conservative Southern mom who discovers that her only son is gay. Determined that he won't go through life alone, she sets out to find him a husband.
Director: Keith Hartman | Stars: Joanne McGee, Carol Goans, Stewart Carrico, Ginger Pullman
Votes: 1,894
13. Pray Away (2021)
PG-13 | 101 min | Documentary
Former leaders of the "pray the gay away" movement contend with the aftermath unleashed by their actions, while a survivor seeks healing and acceptance from more than a decade of trauma.
Director: Kristine Stolakis | Stars: Yvette Cantu Schneider, Michael Bussee, John Paulk, Julie Rodgers
Votes: 3,583
14. Braking for Whales (2019)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
A dysfunctional brother and sister are forced to come to terms with each other and themselves over their recently deceased mother's final wish.
Director: Sean McEwen | Stars: Tom Felton, Tammin Sursok, Wendi McLendon-Covey, David Koechner
Votes: 545
15. Children of Sin (2022)
95 min | Horror
After being sent to a sinister religious retreat by their stepfather, two siblings fight to escape in order to save their mother from harm's way.
Director: Christopher Wesley Moore | Stars: Blake Wing, Keni Bounds, Jeff Buchwald, Lewis Hines
Votes: 328
16. Different from the Others (1919)
Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, History
Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh
Votes: 1,497
17. Moonlit Winter (2019)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Yoon-Hee lives with her teenage daughter Sae-Bom. On a winter day, Yoon-Hee receives a letter from Otaru, Japan. Sae-Bom accidentally reads the letter and learns about her mother's first love, which she never spoke about before.
Director: Dae Hyung Lim | Stars: Kim Hee-ae, Yûko Nakamura, Kim Sohye, Sung Yoo-bin
Votes: 1,151
18. Tremors (2019)
Unrated | 107 min | Drama
The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.
Director: Jayro Bustamante | Stars: Juan Pablo Olyslager, Diane Bathen, Mauricio Armas Zebadúa, Rui Frati
Votes: 1,519
19. The Falls: Testament of Love (2013)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, Romance
Chris and RJ reunite five years after coming out to their families and their church as gay men, where the factors that led to their separation are revealed as they mourn the death of their mutual friend Rodney.
Director: Jon Garcia | Stars: Nick Ferrucci, Benjamin Farmer, Hannah Barefoot, Bruce Jennings
Votes: 1,943
20. Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story (2019 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Biography, Drama
When a teenager reveals that she is gay to her devout Mormon parents, they decide to send her to a conversion therapy home in Utah.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt | Stars: Addison Holley, Nicolette Pearse, Ian Lake, Sarah Booth
Votes: 561
21. Born Beautiful (2019)
96 min | Comedy
After her best friend dies, Barbs starts a new life as a straight man named Bobby, which leads her to Trisha's ex-boyfriend Michaelangelo, to her own ex-boyfriend Greg and to a woman claiming she is pregnant with Barbs' child.
Director: Perci M. Intalan | Stars: Paolo Ballesteros, Martin Del Rosario, VJ Mendoza, Gio Gahol
Votes: 147
22. KaDeWe (2021– )
45 min | Drama
Series about the Kaufhaus des Westens department store and Eldorado nightclub in the 1920s in Berlin. In these places the lives of Hedi, Fritzi, Harry and Georg intersect. The takeover of ... See full summary »
Stars: Valerie Stoll, Lia von Blarer, Joel Basman, Damian Thüne
Votes: 464
23. Do It Like An Hombre (2017)
R | 109 min | Comedy
Raúl, Eduardo, and Santiago have led a happy, "straight" life since their childhood, until one day, Santiago tells the others that he is gay.
Director: Nicolás López | Stars: Mauricio Ochmann, Alfonso Dosal, Humberto Busto, Aislinn Derbez
Votes: 1,357 | Gross: $2.53M
24. It's in the Water (1997)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Residents of the fictional town of Azalea Springs, Texas go into a panic after a gay local says the town's water supply is what made him gay.
Director: Kelli Herd | Stars: Keri Jo Chapman, Teresa Garrett, Derrick Sanders, Timothy Vahle
Votes: 1,771
25. For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
Unrated | 95 min | Documentary, Romance
An exploration of the intersection between religion and homosexuality in the U.S. and how the religious right has used its interpretation of the Bible to stigmatize the gay community.
Director: Daniel G. Karslake | Stars: Imogene Robinson, Victor Robinson, Gene Robinson, Isabella 'Boo' McDaniel
Votes: 4,524 | Gross: $0.31M
26. Save Me (2007)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A sex and drug-addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction," where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.
Director: Robert Cary | Stars: Jeremy Glazer, Chad Allen, David Petruzzi, Arron Shiver
Votes: 2,144 | Gross: $0.08M
27. Consenting Adult (1985 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A young gay man tries to find acceptance from his shocked mother and disgusted father. Through this journey, he also learns to accept himself for who he is.
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Marlo Thomas, Martin Sheen, Barry Tubb, Talia Balsam
Votes: 446
28. Trevor (1994)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Upon hitting puberty, a high-school boy realizes he is homosexual and faces prejudice from his parents and friends.
Director: Peggy Rajski | Stars: Brett Barsky, Judy Kain, John Lizzi, Jonah Rooney
Votes: 1,630
29. Bewildered Youth (1957)
91 min | Drama
Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and ... See full summary »
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Paula Wessely, Paul Dahlke, Hans Nielsen, Ingrid Stenn
Votes: 255
30. Shock to the System (2006)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A gay detective tries to solve the murder of a college student.
Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Michael Woods, Daryl Shuttleworth
Votes: 1,094 | Gross: $0.00M
31. Cured (2020)
80 min | Documentary
"Cured" takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBT equality: the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove ... See full summary »
Directors: Patrick Sammon, Bennett Singer | Stars: Harry Adamson, Gary Alinder, Irving Bieber, Robert Campbell
Votes: 167
32. The Therapy (2021)
85 min | Documentary
A 54-year-old divorced Orthodox Jew, attends conversion therapy, to diminish his unwanted same-sex attractions, in order to marry to a woman. Ben, a social work student, sets out on a quest to discover the truth about conversion therapy.
Director: Zvi Landsman
Votes: 23
33. Trembling Before G-d (2001)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary
A cinematic portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.
Director: Sandi Simcha Dubowski | Stars: Shlomo Ashkinazy, Steve Greenberg, Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Naomi Mark
Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.62M
34. Conversion (2022)
Documentary
A psychologist practicing conversion therapy has a chance encounter with a young gay activist, resulting in his own epiphany concerning the very practice he was conducting.
Director: Gregory Caruso | Stars: Zachary Quinto, Charles Silverstein, Gerald Davison
Votes: 34
35. God's Law (2018)
80 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of homosexual teenagers are sent to a "Christian counselor", who believes that reparative therapy is the cure for their "disease". When that inevitably fails he turns to the Good ... See full summary »
Directors: Herb Cremer, Joe Cremer | Stars: Melissa Malone, Austin Green, Grace Soriano, Michael Giorgio
Votes: 8
36. Deviant (2018)
10 min | Short, Drama
In the early sixties, a sexually conflicted teenager finds faith and acceptance after escaping the tortures of electrotherapeutic conversion therapy.
Director: Benjamin Howard | Stars: Rudy Pankow, Mike Burnell, Bianca Alvarado, Dorothy Marie
Votes: 61
37. This Is What Love in Action Looks Like (2011)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary
In the summer of 2005 a 16yo Memphis, TN wrote on his MySpace blog about his parents sending him to a "Fundamentalist Christian" program that strives to turn gay teens straight. This ... See full summary »
Director: Morgan Jon Fox | Stars: Alice Buchanan, Lance Carroll, Chris Davis, Chris Davis
Votes: 254
38. Gabriel (II) (2014)
Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Gabriel, a 32-year-old Spanish man lives in Germany with his boyfriend Lars, far away from his conservative family. Time and again he remembers his childhood in daydreams.
Director: Benjamin Chimoy | Stars: Diego Caballero, Mercè Montllonch, Joan Aguila Cuevas, Blas Caballero Jerez
Votes: 108
39. Muna: Silk Chiffon (2021 Music Video)
Music, Romance
Director: Ally Pankiw | Stars: Ames Bessada, Phoebe Bridgers, Caleb Hearon, Taylor James
Votes: 19
40. Family Fundamentals (2002)
75 min | Documentary
What happens when religiously conservative Christian parents have children who "become homosexual?" FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS is filmmaker Arthur Dong's personal attempt to answer that explosive question.
Director: Arthur Dong | Stars: Brian Bennett, Kathleen Bremner, Paul Bremner, Guy Foti
Votes: 140
41. Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker (1992)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Directed by Oscar-winner Richard Schmiechen and narrated by Patrick Stewart, Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker portrays the life and work of the woman who undertook the ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Schmiechen | Stars: Evelyn Hooker, Chuck Rowland, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 66
42. And Then Came Summer (2000)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A reunion of family and friends becomes an unforgettable vacation when two teenage boys discover their feelings for each other, only to be found out by their families.
Director: Jeff London | Stars: Patrick Webber, Tim Madonna, Holly Waddell, Mathieu Smith
Votes: 486
43. 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)
R | 80 min | Documentary
A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.
Directors: Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet | Stars: Spencer Jones, Tyler Barrick, Dustin Lance Black, Linda Williams Stay
Votes: 1,273 | Gross: $0.10M
44. One Nation Under God (1993)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary
Focusing on the contemporary religious Right Wing proliferation of curative therapies for homosexuality, this riveting documentary offers historical context as well as a political analysis of this frighteningly large movement.
Directors: Teodoro Maniaci, Francine Rzeznik | Stars: Ralph Blair, Pat Buchanan, Michael Bussee, Robert Cabaj
Votes: 211
45. Happy Birthday (I) (2002)
95 min | Drama, Romance
As a common birthday approaches, five very different people are faced with very similar problems. Jim, a gay, overweight telemarketer (for a weight loss program) faces his self esteem ... See full summary »
Director: Yen Tan | Stars: Benjamin Patrick, Michelle E. Michael, John K. Frazier, Devashish Saxena
Votes: 118
46. Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood Like a House on Fire (2021– )
152 min | Documentary
'Dysphoric' is a four-part documentary series on the rise of Gender Identity Ideology, its effects on women and girls - especially in developing countries.
Stars: Sasha Ayad, David Bell, Michael Biggs, Jennifer Bilek
Votes: 118
47. Cure for Love (2008)
59 min | Documentary
There's a bride, a groom and the usual happy crowd of well-wishers. But this is no ordinary wedding. Ana and Brian are adherents to a controversial evangelical movement that purports to ... See full summary »
Directors: Francine Pelletier, Christina Willings | Stars: Ricky Chelette, Ana Fassell, Darren Freeman, Jonathan Holm
Votes: 25
48. Stray (II) (2015)
24 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Set in a parallel universe where the sexual bias favors homosexuals, Eric, a struggling heterosexual, admits himself into a straight conversion camp. What begins as a cure to his deviant lifestyle, becomes a journey of self acceptance.
Director: Tyler Glodt | Stars: Matthew Albrecht, B.E., Kate Bombin, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Votes: 39
49. A Love to Keep (2006 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama
2 teachers fall in love at a time when it is a crime to be homosexual. One teacher's mother has her committed to a psychiatric hospital. When the lovers reunite, they must deal with the after effects of years of electroshock therapy.
Director: Juan Carlos Claver | Stars: Carme Elias, Susi Sánchez, Julieta Serrano, Juli Mira
Votes: 114
50. The Things We Do When We're Alone (2021)
11 min | Short, Horror
With his wife and son gone for a weekend getaway, a closeted gay man copes with his demons of conversion therapy by murdering unsuspecting gay men.
Director: Matthew Lynn | Stars: Anthony Nanni, Leopold Paduano, Corey Page, Leanna Tallmeister
Votes: 38