Thriller movies about gays

List of the best gay thriller movies selected by visitors to our site: Tom at the Farm, The Gift, In the Name of..., The 24th Day, Kill Your Darlings, Catch Hell, Shank, Solo, Eyewitness, Stranger by the Lake.

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Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Canada
Duration01:43

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Australia, China
Duration02:34

A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama
CountryPoland
Duration01:36

The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

Tom and Dan's one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

    A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Former Hollywood star Reagan Pearce is kidnapped by two men connected to his past while on location in Louisiana. When he wakes up bound and chained in a rundown shack, he soon discovers the real motives of his captors and finds himself in the middle of a twisted scheme with little chance to survive. With no rescue in sight, Reagan must use every ounce of strength he has left to break free and get his revenge.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:34

    Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths. Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang, a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money. After Chazers gang member, Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling), witnesses his brother, murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code... In this superbly paced and artistic film, present-day social issues, and murky city streets, provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller
    CountryArgentina
    Duration01:16

    A sexy, romantic and uncomfortably chilling tale of love and deception from first time director Marcelo Briem Stamm. Handsome middle class Manuel (Patrico Ramos), hurt by his previous relationship and bored being alone, meets Julio (Mario Veron), a rugged, lonely, unemployed young man in a chat room. The two eventually meet up in person and the sexual spark is quickly ignited. And while sex is satisfying and frequent, it is their collective problems with intimacy, trust and the fear of being hurt that make them hesitant to commit fully. As their relationship develops, both reveal secrets from their past but these revelations might be real, imagined or outright lies. Who is being truthful, who is real, and who truly loves the other? All is revealed in this romantic, passionate drama/thriller that offers a shocking, strangely satisfying conclusion.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    Two teenage boys secretly meet up in a cabin, bear witness to a shooting and barely escape with their lives. Desperate to keep their relationship a secret and in fear of being found by the perpetrator, they remain silent but soon learn that what has been seen cannot be unseen -- and when you witness a horrible event, it changes everything.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:36

    Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out his passion anyway.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:16

    Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA

    The outrageous life of Reagan Collins, a model high school student with a "killer" after-school job that involves arranging “accidents” for his classmates' parents. When seasoned police detective Cliff Dawkins starts putting the pieces together, it's a battle of wits to see if Reagan can keep business booming.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:45

    Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    Major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:41

    Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic “tool” to facilitate his patients’ group sessions — an all-too-familiar “Good Guy” doll with an innocently smiling face — a string of grisly deaths begins to plague the asylum, and Nica starts to wonder if maybe she isn’t crazy after all. Meanwhile, Andy Barclay, Chucky’s now all-grown-up nemesis from the first three Child’s Plays, races to Nica’s aid. But to save her he’ll have to get past Tiffany, Chucky’s long-ago bride, who will do anything, no matter how deadly or depraved, to help her beloved evil devilish doll.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, Mexico, Luxembourg
    Duration02:12

    In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration00:59

    Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all-night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, detective
    CountryJapan
    Duration02:00

    A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative director who comes up with one unworkably inane idea after another; a British hitman who only wants to know everyone's function in life; and an unfortunate office worker and father whose brain is left scrambled after a stage hypnotist is murdered in mid-performance.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryArgentina
    Duration01:31

    Sebastiano teaches high school gym classes and coaches swimming. He’s got a job, a girlfriend, and a pretty normal life. But as young Martin starts to infiltrate Sebastiano’s life, his world will get turned upside down. Eerie from the first frame, this Hitchcockian thriller portrays sexual obsession with terrifying realism.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter written by the CIA that promises American assistance to Russia if China gets the atomic bomb.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryIsrael, Sweden

    Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country during which, Axel challenges Eyal's values.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryArgentina
    Duration01:30

    Buenos Aires in the 1980s. Detective Chavez, a family man and a tough cop, once again must solve a mysterious crime. To reveal the identity of the murderer, Chavez must clarify the enigma waiting in ambush to capture his own heart. Passion surprises even the most astute detective. What will triumph: law or desire?

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Romania, Luxembourg, USA

    The line between fantasy and reality blurs when an actress begins behaving like the 19th-century murderer she is playing.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:45

    Lose Your Head is a psycho thriller about a Spanish party tourist who gets lost in Berlin. The film is inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared some years ago after a night at Berghain.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    An idealistic attractive young couple acquires a stunning, life-like robot for guilt free help, but as the three grow closer, their perception of humanity will be altered forever.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
    Duration01:52

    Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, West Germany

    A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S/M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society.

    Markimdb: 3.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA

    A comedic blend of murder, mystery and marijuana. Trying to escape the infamy of a serial killer father, Trent Modine and his goof-ball stepbrother Joey, both seeking a new start, find refuge in the small town of Mooseheart.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryPoland
    Duration01:52

    Dominik is an ordinary boy. He's got loads of friends, the hottest girl in school, rich parents and money to spend on brand-name clothes. But one innocent kiss with a mate changes everything. He begins to isolate himself from the outside world, spending all his time on his computer. He meets an anonymous girl who introduces him to the "suicide room", a place from which there is no escape. Caught in a trap woven of his own emotions, Dominik becomes entangled in a web of intrigue and gradually loses what he cherishes most.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:22

    Bored with their own town, three gay men decide to take a trip into the countryside. A blind date with a local turns out to be a bad decision as the man reveals himself to be a perverse psychopath that intends to do them great harm.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA

    A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryJapan

    Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

    A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, USA

    After the mysterious demise of a client, private detective Donald Strachey infiltrates a therapy group for gay people who want to become straight. He takes on the group's founder to prove that his client's death was not a suicide.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA

    Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Netherlands
    Duration01:38

      The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top... and there was no place to go but down.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA

      A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture shop for a graduation party. When one of them talks her boyfriend into a game of hide-and-seek, a psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reacquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Husband and wife doctors Paul and Kim Jordan need a drastic change. Distraught by the inexplicable death of their baby, Paul (C. Thomas Howell) convinces Kim to abandon their American lives and join a medical mission in Thailand. It seems to be just the distraction they need, until the day Paul is kidnapped by human traffickers who need a surgeon to operate on their wounded leader. Kim is left alone in a strange country, trying desperately to find her husband with no proof of what happened. While captive on the gangs' secluded island, Paul is caged with Malcolm Andrews (John Rhys-Davies), an Englishman being held for ransom. With nothing to do but talk, the two men quickly clash over philosophy, as Malcolm relies on a bold faith in God and Paul believes no god would allow these evils to happen in the world. Paul takes another hit when he finds his patient's condition much worse than he can handle on his own in such primitive conditions... Written by Anonymous (IMDB.com).

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:12

      Colombian drug kingpin Jesús Morales secretly pays for the services of a sniper nicknamed "The Devil," capable of killing one-by-one the enemies of anyone who hires him. With no adversaries left alive, Morales grows stronger and gains control of more smuggling routes into the United States. The DEA, alarmed by this threat to the country, sends agent Kate Estrada, who has been following Morales for years, and Marine sniper Brandon Beckett to Colombia. Their mission: Kill "The Devil" and bring Morales back to the US to be tried for his crimes. The agents think they have everything under control, but Morales and "The Devil" have prepared plenty of surprises to keep the mission from succeeding.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:32

      After his girlfriend, Julie and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his memories. However, his time-traveling attempts to alter the past and save his one true love have unexpected and dire consequences.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      A man forced to confront his past when he and his girlfriend end up entangled in a web of lies.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:46

      A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.




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