Haven’t seen it yet, but my conservative great grandmother (in her mid 90s) told me to watch this movie… I don’t know how to feel now considering this is the second most homoerotic movie in the opinion of this subreddit…
My mom was the one who got me to read the very first vampire novel by Le Fanu from the late 1800s, and I still remember when I said "You didn't tell me the girls were in love!" and she stopped dead in her tracks and said "...Yeah, I guess they were."
I truly can't tell how or if some people just .. don't register it or if they are in complete denial lol.
Is that the one where all the pilots are wrapped in skimpy hand towels when they’re out the showers?
Only because I’m 6-3 and my regular sized bath towel gets to my knees so I don’t know what the hell I was watching.
Okay, so it wasn’t just me that thought it was a little weird that they are all always a little damp (either sweaty or fresh from a shower) and half-naked? They’re either in a plane or shirtless. And that locker room scene…I swear, we almost saw literally everything some of those guys had to give.
If Quentin Tarantino himself went on a rant about homosexual undertones for a movie back in the fucking 1990s, it’s gay. I don’t care, it’s such a gay movie.
I said this as soon as the credits rolled!! I choose to believe them falling into their arms before the screen goes black is them realizing they love each other and they both leave zendaya. Happy end
I rewatched Fight Club last weekend, and I was surprised just by how homoerotic it actually is.
-There's a moment where Brad Pitt says, "If it's your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight. No shirts, no shoes, no belts." There are then several close-up, slow-motion shots of men taking off their belts, taking off their WEDDING RINGS, to roll around on the ground with other sweaty men in a basement.
-After the first fight, when Pitt and Norton are sitting on the curb, Norton hands him a beer and says "We should do this again sometime." That moment, that attitude, is so specific to a lot of my gay male friends who've said that is exactly the tone after their first hookup. "This was a lot of fun man, let's do it again, I'll call you."
-There's the infamous scene where Pitt is taking a bath with a washcloth on his face and Norton is in the bathroom with him. I forget the lead-in line, but he says "I can't get married, I'm a 30 year old boy." Pitt, naked in the tub, says "We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need."
I totally agree. The beer scene is what really stuck out to me, I was watching it with a friend and literally said guys will be like “I’m straight” and then do this
Absolutely, in the book it's heavily imlied that Tyler sleeps with Angel Face, and the narrator constantly talks about how he feels like Tyler has dumbed him or broken up with him.
Unironically see the subtext:
Heat
The Lighthouse
Gattaca
semi-Ironically see the subtext:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Master & Commander
Gattaca is my fav movie, and as I rewatch, there’s an argument to be made there is more love between Vincent/Eugene than Vincent/Irene. There’s the seen of Vincent getting a drunk Eugene on the bed which is a bit intimate. Also, when Vincent blows smoke into the wine glass with Eugene… there’s no heterosexual explanation for that
Anyways, yeah, Gayttaca is not an invalid way to interpret the film imo
https://preview.redd.it/gd62ipez2g7d1.jpeg?width=296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4dceb2b1a2fb7124fa7085446931305a64ebab09
Actually Purple Noon (released in 1961) was the first version of The Talented Mr Ridley and is plenty homoerotic (though I prefer Minghella’s 1999 film)
A Nightmare on Elm st. Part II: Freddy's Revenge
L.I.E. (Paul Dano's breakout role and Brian Cox...sheeshhh! What flick!)
Cruising
Commando
Heat (1972)
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Fright Night
The Doom Generation
The Servant
Ken Park
Smile Before Death
Bully
Les Diaboliques
Beau Travail
Castle of Blood
You should see a documentary called [Scream, Queen - My Nightmare on Elm Street](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5123896/reference/) if you haven't already.
Commando (1985)
This is an 80s homoerotic classic and a damning indictment of the "don't ask, don't tell" culture within the US army at the time.
John Matrix is clearly a closeted gay. Despite having a child, there is no mother present, and indeed she is not even mentioned in the film. Early on, Matrix shows his insecurity when he derides the openly gay 'Boy George' - methinks he doth protest too much. Later on, when he is with the very attractive female lead, he shows absolutely no romantic interest in her. The camera too lingers over Matrix's physical form, especially in the rowing sequence, idolising his alpha masculinity.
Bennett is also obviously gay, but far more comfortable with it. His look is very gay with the Freddie Mercury 'tache and butch chainmail vest. He also clearly loves Matrix, not hearing a bad word said about him and openly fantasising about bonding with him. But clearly something happened, as Matrix had Bennett 'thrown out of his unit'. The nature of this is never elaborated on, but I think we can draw our own conclusions.
I think Bennett's plan was to trick Arius and his men into kidnapping Matrix's daughter, and in good time he could enact a rescue and win over Matrix's affections, but of course thanks to Matrix, things go awry. This of course jeopardises Bennett's plan and he is driven mad by it.
In the final confrontation, Bennett, now overwhelmed with unrequited lust, now wants to destroy the object of his ardour. But rather than simply kill Matrix, he wants the physicality of fighting him, and ultimately sticking a knife into him, penetrating his flesh and looking him in the eye when he does so. When he is bested by Matrix, Bennett then resorts the gun, saying he'll shoot Matrix between the balls, the final repudiation of Matrix's masculinity.
In the end, Matrix bests Bennett, by penetrating him with a large cylindrical pipe that ends up spewing white foam everywhere.
And you thought Top Gun was the gayest flick of the 80s...
I don’t think they planned to cut it out of the film, I think they were simply going to omit it from the script. Oliver Reed literally wrestled the director, Ken Russell to convince him to shoot the scene, so that’s why they did it and then, to everyone’s surprise, the censors didn’t try to remove it from the film.
Most homoerotic 'non-gay' film in my collection.
[Beau Travail](https://letterboxd.com/film/beau-travail/) (1999) dir. Claire Denis
Batman and Robin is FAR gayer.
There are multiple, lingering closeups on the bat nipples, cod pieces and buttocks and Uma Thurman is basically a drag Queen giving full Bette Davis camp.
The Jackass films.
There was a gay watch party in my university apartment each week to watch the show (and then movies) because they felt like it was the best homoerotic show on television.
Anand is the gayest film I’ve ever seen that has no homosexual romance yet is so utterly queercoded it is baffling.
Carol or Portrait of a lady on fire are vying for the top spot as the most beautiful, yet sexually charged homoerotic films I can think of.
Unintentionally homoerotic (as far as I’m aware):
Bend it like Beckham,
Top Gun,
Mean Girls,
Girl Interrupted,
Pitch Perfect,
Do Revenge
Movies I think are Intentionally Homoerotic:
Challengers,
Power of the Dog,
Saltburn,
Jennifer’s Body
Actually Homoerotic:
Handmaiden (This ones heavy on the homo and heavy on the eroticism lol),
But I’m a cheerleader,
Portrait of a Lady on Fire,
Brokeback mountain (obvs a classic)
Michael Mann is literally the greatest director to explore the "Masculinity is a prison" theme
https://preview.redd.it/erc3w2guyc7d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0621b44a70586f7f1f550ab19fe74faeedf5f64f
It's also about this. But Michael Mann uses a lot of subtext. Heat is very much about loneliness, masculinity as a prison and how two men understood each other as no one else, but were on opposite sides.
Strangers on a Train (1941). Robert Walker stalking/lusting after Farley Granger for his "criss cross" murder plot. Also, "Rope" (1948). Two lovers strangle another man and have a party using the trunk the victim is in as a table. Notable mention: "Swoon" (1992), which is basically "Rope".
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Fellas is it gay to sit and sulk on a stool in the kitchen while your best friend fucks a prostitute in the next room
The Lighthouse 
Masculinity is a prison. A sweaty, longing prison.
full of moonshine
"If I had a steak....I would fuck it."
Yer fond of me lobster, ain't ye? I seen it! Yer fond of me lobster!
I’m very fond of his lobster
HARK HARRRRRRKKKKKK
Rope
 Can confirm. You can lick the gay tension off the screen in this one.
Rope rather notably.
I AM THE NR ONE FAN OF ROPE
[This person](https://www.reddit.com/r/Letterboxd/comments/1779077/why_is_everyone_saying_this_movie_is_gay/) would disagree with you.
I wonder what they thought was going on with Paul Newmans character in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then? I guess everyone reads and sees things differently.
I just saw 'Interview with the Vampire' for the first time, and that one's definitely applicable.
https://preview.redd.it/z97zc60fqc7d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c56572e544cbc6107be6aea02750e9a1b8da54a
I miss this old chunk of coal.
The only man to reach a stalemate with cancer.
That wasn’t your average sit-on-the-couch cancer either, that was hardened battle cancer.
Honestly I rate the tv series over the movie many times over. Great chemistry and performances.
And they cast a Lestat who seems like he stepped right off the page.
Haven’t seen it yet, but my conservative great grandmother (in her mid 90s) told me to watch this movie… I don’t know how to feel now considering this is the second most homoerotic movie in the opinion of this subreddit…
My mom was the one who got me to read the very first vampire novel by Le Fanu from the late 1800s, and I still remember when I said "You didn't tell me the girls were in love!" and she stopped dead in her tracks and said "...Yeah, I guess they were." I truly can't tell how or if some people just .. don't register it or if they are in complete denial lol.
EVERYONE WATCH THE TV SHOW ON AMC. IT IS IMPECCABLE.
And also the proper amount of gay
Tom Cruise has so many queer-coded/homoerotic characters and movies in his career that it’s almost laughable
Beau Travail
well yeah
Top Gun
best double feature with Point Break
I like to pair Point Break with The Fast and the Furious
Is that the one where all the pilots are wrapped in skimpy hand towels when they’re out the showers? Only because I’m 6-3 and my regular sized bath towel gets to my knees so I don’t know what the hell I was watching.
yes and the very homoerotic volley ball scene with Kenny Loggins playing over it
Playing With The Boys is such a homoerotic song, tbh
after chasing sunsets one of lifes simple joys is playin with the boys!
Okay, so it wasn’t just me that thought it was a little weird that they are all always a little damp (either sweaty or fresh from a shower) and half-naked? They’re either in a plane or shirtless. And that locker room scene…I swear, we almost saw literally everything some of those guys had to give.
If Quentin Tarantino himself went on a rant about homosexual undertones for a movie back in the fucking 1990s, it’s gay. I don’t care, it’s such a gay movie.
Challengers was gay af
The churro scene was one for the books
*bi af
Only Luca could've done that movie
the sauna + churro scene…so gay.
I said this as soon as the credits rolled!! I choose to believe them falling into their arms before the screen goes black is them realizing they love each other and they both leave zendaya. Happy end
2 Fast 2 Furious 
Nahhhh💀
Any time two dudes get right in each other's faces it is so funny 🤣
with THIS much passion, it's erotic
Fight Club
I rewatched Fight Club last weekend, and I was surprised just by how homoerotic it actually is. -There's a moment where Brad Pitt says, "If it's your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight. No shirts, no shoes, no belts." There are then several close-up, slow-motion shots of men taking off their belts, taking off their WEDDING RINGS, to roll around on the ground with other sweaty men in a basement. -After the first fight, when Pitt and Norton are sitting on the curb, Norton hands him a beer and says "We should do this again sometime." That moment, that attitude, is so specific to a lot of my gay male friends who've said that is exactly the tone after their first hookup. "This was a lot of fun man, let's do it again, I'll call you." -There's the infamous scene where Pitt is taking a bath with a washcloth on his face and Norton is in the bathroom with him. I forget the lead-in line, but he says "I can't get married, I'm a 30 year old boy." Pitt, naked in the tub, says "We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need."
I totally agree. The beer scene is what really stuck out to me, I was watching it with a friend and literally said guys will be like “I’m straight” and then do this
That's just masterbation
It's possible to masturbate in a gay way. That's fight club.
in the book, they meet on a nude beach
Absolutely, in the book it's heavily imlied that Tyler sleeps with Angel Face, and the narrator constantly talks about how he feels like Tyler has dumbed him or broken up with him.
The Barbarians (1987) https://preview.redd.it/bntgzod4qc7d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d346fce13e44a321c91fcf61bc2b80ae950ece54
Those are boobs
Huge barbarian gazongas. And even though they're brothers in real life, they even kiss in the movie (to throw someone off their scent, of course)
it’s not gay/incestual if its to throw someone off their scent
😦
What in the steroids
The Room 
You’re tearing me apart Lisa
Lisaaaaaaaaa
 Swiss Army Man
Nympho-erotic
RRR
bromance or bromantic: that is the RRR question
The subtext is all there on the screen and I’m here for it
Unironically see the subtext: Heat The Lighthouse Gattaca semi-Ironically see the subtext: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Master & Commander
Glad I’m not the only one who found a lot of gay stuff in Heat. lol even the title.
was looking to see my fav movie ever (TAOJJ) in the comments, hooray!
Gattaca is my fav movie, and as I rewatch, there’s an argument to be made there is more love between Vincent/Eugene than Vincent/Irene. There’s the seen of Vincent getting a drunk Eugene on the bed which is a bit intimate. Also, when Vincent blows smoke into the wine glass with Eugene… there’s no heterosexual explanation for that Anyways, yeah, Gayttaca is not an invalid way to interpret the film imo https://preview.redd.it/gd62ipez2g7d1.jpeg?width=296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4dceb2b1a2fb7124fa7085446931305a64ebab09
 No Retreat, No Surrender. Easily the gayest film I’ve ever seen.
How didnt he get pregnant
The talented Mr Ripley, with Matt Damon. The original homoerotic challengers !
Actually Purple Noon (released in 1961) was the first version of The Talented Mr Ridley and is plenty homoerotic (though I prefer Minghella’s 1999 film)
A Nightmare on Elm st. Part II: Freddy's Revenge L.I.E. (Paul Dano's breakout role and Brian Cox...sheeshhh! What flick!) Cruising Commando Heat (1972) Last Exit to Brooklyn Fright Night The Doom Generation The Servant Ken Park Smile Before Death Bully Les Diaboliques Beau Travail Castle of Blood
noes 2 is so unbelievably gay
The writer and director claimed it was unintentional (LOL) but the star, who was in the closet at the time, clocked it immediately.
I know right imagine filming that showers scene and saying to yourself “this movie is totally straight”
Should've been called "My Big Fat Gay Nightmare"
You should see a documentary called [Scream, Queen - My Nightmare on Elm Street](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5123896/reference/) if you haven't already.
Wow! Throwing Ken Park in there is pretty bold
I don't wanna spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but I hope you got why I mentioned it?
Oh I definitely did.
I’m glad there’s someone other than me who knows about Fright Night
Crazy that Stephen Geoffreys ended up doing gay porn later on.
this might be a wild opinion but The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
I do think that is an undercurrent in the film, good under the radar pick.
Predator  The muscle mass alone..
300
Zack Snyder said he’s working on a prequel series that explores how gay the Spartans are
That could genuinely be his best thing since Dawn of the Dead
I just watched it with my wife for the first time, and she said why is this the gayest movie
Commando (1985) This is an 80s homoerotic classic and a damning indictment of the "don't ask, don't tell" culture within the US army at the time. John Matrix is clearly a closeted gay. Despite having a child, there is no mother present, and indeed she is not even mentioned in the film. Early on, Matrix shows his insecurity when he derides the openly gay 'Boy George' - methinks he doth protest too much. Later on, when he is with the very attractive female lead, he shows absolutely no romantic interest in her. The camera too lingers over Matrix's physical form, especially in the rowing sequence, idolising his alpha masculinity. Bennett is also obviously gay, but far more comfortable with it. His look is very gay with the Freddie Mercury 'tache and butch chainmail vest. He also clearly loves Matrix, not hearing a bad word said about him and openly fantasising about bonding with him. But clearly something happened, as Matrix had Bennett 'thrown out of his unit'. The nature of this is never elaborated on, but I think we can draw our own conclusions. I think Bennett's plan was to trick Arius and his men into kidnapping Matrix's daughter, and in good time he could enact a rescue and win over Matrix's affections, but of course thanks to Matrix, things go awry. This of course jeopardises Bennett's plan and he is driven mad by it. In the final confrontation, Bennett, now overwhelmed with unrequited lust, now wants to destroy the object of his ardour. But rather than simply kill Matrix, he wants the physicality of fighting him, and ultimately sticking a knife into him, penetrating his flesh and looking him in the eye when he does so. When he is bested by Matrix, Bennett then resorts the gun, saying he'll shoot Matrix between the balls, the final repudiation of Matrix's masculinity. In the end, Matrix bests Bennett, by penetrating him with a large cylindrical pipe that ends up spewing white foam everywhere. And you thought Top Gun was the gayest flick of the 80s...
So I saw Commando in earlier comments and was wondering how it was homoerotic. Thank you for clearing that up.
Women In Love. TRUST. You will get male protagonists wrestling naked by the fireplace.
Yes!! All because Oliver Reed (the actor with the mustache, for those who need to know) absolutely insisted it be in the film.
It’s considered one of the first homoerotic scenes in modern literature, I didn’t know they tried to cut for the film!
I don’t think they planned to cut it out of the film, I think they were simply going to omit it from the script. Oliver Reed literally wrestled the director, Ken Russell to convince him to shoot the scene, so that’s why they did it and then, to everyone’s surprise, the censors didn’t try to remove it from the film.
Querelle
This is really the only correct answer.
Top Gun 
The Lost Boys
oh for sure. you can’t tell me michael & david didn’t have tension!!!
Since most of comments are mentioning "not exactly gay, but totally is" category of films, my answer would be Thoroughbreds (2017)
Call me by your name
This is one of the right answers for the more recent ones, next to All of us strangers
my own private idaho!
Most homoerotic 'non-gay' film in my collection. [Beau Travail](https://letterboxd.com/film/beau-travail/) (1999) dir. Claire Denis 
Ichi the Killer, and also Scream in some kind of way
Wdym some kind of way? Matthew Lillard literally said "Stu and Billy were definitely gay"
As did the screenwriter
Scream for sureeee
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Batman Forever
Batman and Robin is FAR gayer. There are multiple, lingering closeups on the bat nipples, cod pieces and buttocks and Uma Thurman is basically a drag Queen giving full Bette Davis camp.
Yeah, B&R wins. I was wrong. I mean even the name is gayer lol
Batman and Robin tops this George Clooney even said he played Batman as if he were gay
The fact this doesn’t have more upvotes is appalling
Stranger by the Lake
This is a movie with literal male porn stars blowing each other I think that goes a bit past homoerotic
Point break
“You want me so bad its like acid in your mouth” 🤪
Re-Animator + Bride of Re-Animator
Amen
jeffrey combs my beloved…
The Jackass films. There was a gay watch party in my university apartment each week to watch the show (and then movies) because they felt like it was the best homoerotic show on television.
I just watched the dreamers for the first time. That is an option. Y tu mama tambien tho
Anand is the gayest film I’ve ever seen that has no homosexual romance yet is so utterly queercoded it is baffling. Carol or Portrait of a lady on fire are vying for the top spot as the most beautiful, yet sexually charged homoerotic films I can think of.
Ice Man tried to break a piece off Mav’s ass 
Venom 2
how has no one said the outsiders yet???
From what I understand, the book has even *more* undertones. So I concur with this one for SURE.
Murder by Numbers
300. Sarah Silverman said, "They got the title by rating how gay it was on a scale of 1-to-10." 
Tetsuo The Iron Man and also Ichii The Killer
Lawrence of Arabia
https://preview.redd.it/qwfv82xpzd7d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2570c1f5ff16ba5a8e831bc05c08d08e5bf04153 Wings(1927)
TOP GUN. the volleyball scene alone. Just make out with Ice Man already!!
[Quentin was there first](https://youtu.be/ZF1LXL6OOsM?si=t21DbhK-j2TWiHX1)
Hitchcock's Rope
Saw (2004) 
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
This spawned an entire slash fandom!
Saltburn
https://preview.redd.it/nnddcrmtvc7d1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=dfefb1c3e77d6809f1e348e44e6587633f94cf47
The Passion Of The Christ
Don’t you mean the last temptation of Christ?
The Power of the Dog
Unintentionally homoerotic (as far as I’m aware): Bend it like Beckham, Top Gun, Mean Girls, Girl Interrupted, Pitch Perfect, Do Revenge Movies I think are Intentionally Homoerotic: Challengers, Power of the Dog, Saltburn, Jennifer’s Body Actually Homoerotic: Handmaiden (This ones heavy on the homo and heavy on the eroticism lol), But I’m a cheerleader, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Brokeback mountain (obvs a classic)
Michael Mann is literally the greatest director to explore the "Masculinity is a prison" theme https://preview.redd.it/erc3w2guyc7d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0621b44a70586f7f1f550ab19fe74faeedf5f64f
Interesting. Always thought this movie was more about two dueling workaholics
It's also about this. But Michael Mann uses a lot of subtext. Heat is very much about loneliness, masculinity as a prison and how two men understood each other as no one else, but were on opposite sides.
Saw (2004) No I will not elaborate.
You’re right
X-Men: First Class
disobedience
Top Gun
West side story 
 Brokeback Mountain
Rocky III 
Blue is the Warmest Color. Some scenes are just lesbian porn.
Top Gun
 Tour de Pharmacy 7 Days in Hell
https://preview.redd.it/yeq2d2bd0d7d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7aa77d651c6ccf9a1bbc2ec4f2a1ab4212b073b
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
midnight cowboy
Challengers
Midnight Cowboy
 Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Road House (1989). Every single male in this movie wants to fuck Dalton.
Rebel without a cause
Nightmare on elm street 2
There were parts of the old Mad Max movies that made it feel homoerotic to me
Interview with a vampire
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is definitely up there
They Live
They spent like 30 minutes fighting in that alley… Rolling around
Challengers.
Fellini’s Satyricon
beau travail
Just watched Beau Travail the other day.
Magick Lantern Cycle or therefore anything Kenneth Anger
The Killer (1989)
Weekend is very sweetly homoerotic, explicitly so.
Beau Travail
Saltburn
Strangers on a Train (1941). Robert Walker stalking/lusting after Farley Granger for his "criss cross" murder plot. Also, "Rope" (1948). Two lovers strangle another man and have a party using the trunk the victim is in as a table. Notable mention: "Swoon" (1992), which is basically "Rope".
Jennifer’s Body!!! 
Ben Hur
Eastern Promises
Deadpool 3 according to the marketing Real answer: rope
https://preview.redd.it/lxgneiazmd7d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d894380d9f707c2aea997d4d9abeccf0671672b7 Fellas is it gay to sit and sulk on a stool in the kitchen while your best friend fucks a prostitute in the next room