Gay thriller movies

Like the best erotic thrillers, the film excels at showing the extent to which death and desire are often part of the same insatiable human drive. That was certainly helped by the fact that the two central actors, John Dall and Farley Granger, were reportedly queer themselvesthough not openly.

And — slight spoiler alert — unlike many other sapphic charactersthe lesbians actually make it out alive. The film opens with Jules Nathan Stewart-Jarretta Black gay drag queen, getting beaten up in a homophobic attack, and ends on a similarly queasy note, to say the absolute least.

Not so with Set It Off. Foxand T. After a series of harrowing but heartbreakingly realistic tragedies, the women are pushed to the point of desperation and commit a series of bank robberies. Here are the best LGBTQ+ thrillers, ranked. Queer thrillers might be so back.

If you're looking for the best LGBTQ+ thrillers, here's a good place to start, as these movies have lots of thrills while offering diverse characters. Inthe Hays Code was replaced with the current MPAA rating system, meaning that queerness in America cinema could exist not just as subtext, but as text.

Because director William Friedkin is straight, Cruising was incredibly controversial upon release, with gay advocacy groups protesting the film before it even premiered. And I do mean brutal. The breakneck pace barely gives the viewer any room to breathe until the brutal end.

Culture Expand. The trope of the morally gray antihero is typically relegated to straight white men.

12 LGBTQ erotic thrillers

South Korean director Park Chan-wook is arguably the king of the thriller genre, and Sarah Waters is the queen of lesbian historical fiction. Bound ran so that Love Lies Bleeding could… also run. The two begin meeting up regularly for sex, with Jules playing the long game of eventual revenge.

A lot. Femme is a difficult watch for many reasons. But the journey from point A to point B had me literally biting my nails the whole time. She learns by experience from fellow dancer Nina Mila Kuniswho draws her into a world of sex, drugs, hallucinations, and sometimes all three at once.

What more could you ask for? And yes, as you might imagine, it only gets wilder from there. Thrillers are a great genre for exploring queer themes and characters in new and exciting ways. The toxic bisexual pseudo-throuple vibes of this movie are potent from the jump, when Jordan White James Duval and Amy Blue Rose McGowan pick up Xavier Red Johnathon Schaech in their car after a night out, leading to immediate tension between the two men.

To seek public sex with strangers is to accept a certain degree of risk. This film directed by Alain Guiraudie might be the platonic ideal of a queer thriller. What could possibly go wrong? After Jules is beaten, he coincidentally runs into his attacker, a bro-y white guy named Preston George MacKayat a sauna, who seems not to recognize Jules out of drag.

But without spoiling the plot, Stranger by the Lake heightens the question of how much risk we are willing to accept in order to fulfill our desires, turning up the stakes to an almost unbearable level.