Gay Comedy Films On Amazon Prime

There are a number of LGBT films in the Comedy genre available from Amazon Prime.

Emmy Award-winning drama starring Michael Douglas as the superstar pianist Liberace. Based on the autobiography by Liberace’s much younger lover and live-in partner Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), the film recounts the period between 1978 and 1982 when Liberace was at the absolute pinnacle of his fame.

Starring: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula
Runtime: 1 hour, 58 minutes
Release: 2013
IMDB: 7.10
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Birthday Cake

Released: 2014
Length: 1 Hour 25 Mins
Description: There’s a dead clown, a demanding diva, a cake that unfortunately looks like a lifeless baby, and a manhunt in the neighbourhood for a murderer! It’s not a party until the S.W.A.T. team shows up!
Amazon Prime User Rating: ★★★★★
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

Bollywood Beats

Raj is a down-on-his-luck dancer who is fighting to hold his life together. After starting up a dance class, he finds new hope with his students but soon must choose between them and a chance of a lifetime.
Starring: Sachin Bhatt, Lillete Dubey
Runtime:1 hour, 53 minutes
Release: 2009
IMDB: 5.9/10

Bowser Makes A Movie

Bowser is a young man who simply cannot hold down a job; he’s fired from everyone he starts. Following the loss of yet one more job Bowser announces his plan to make his own adult film much to the chagrin of his Father (a retired Military Special Forces Officer) and his loving & supportive Mother. From here on the story twists and turns in a highly amusing way.
Starring: Nick Lewis, Kevin Viol
Runtime: 1 hour, 29 minutes
Released: 2005
IMDB: 4.3/10

The Coffee Shop

The Cup coffee house, a gay hot spot, its workers, its regulars, and the drama it has to deal with every day. There’s the owner of the shop, the fabulous Bea Reasonable and the flamboyant boy-crazy gay waiter, Jamie. The drama unfolds when Helen meets her bisexual boyfriend at The Cup for a date. Hilarity ensues when their date goes awry and a water fight breaks out.
Released: 2014
Length: 1 hr 12 mins
Amazon User Rating: ★★

TheGayUK Rating:

Everybody Is Having Sex… But Ryan

When it comes to sex, Ryan (Jeremy Lucas) has the worst luck. Luckily, his best friend Dustin (Mark Strano) has a plan to end Ryan’s dry spell.
Released: 2009
Length: 13 mins
Amazon Prime Rating:
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

Fallen Jewel

Waxie Moon, a “burlesque performer for a new century” – NPR, searches for a perfect man between exuberant musical numbers and the unspeakable ordeals of motherhood. Addicted to romance and dressed to kill, Waxie is always ready to fall in love.
Released: 2016
Length: 1 hr 31 mins
Amazon Prime Rating:

Finding Mr Wright

When an ambitious, serious-minded talent manager is forced to attend a wilderness therapy retreat weekend to save his disastrous, Hollywood-starlet client’s career, he has no clue he is about to fall unexpectedly head over heels for her new, awkward, fun-loving life-coach. There is no tale here about coming out. Instead, it is simply a love story where the characters just happen to be gay.
Starring: Matthew Montgomery, Rebekah Kochan
Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Release: 2011
IMDB: 4.5/10

Fishnet

When burlesque dancers Trixie and Sulie witness a mob hit in LA, they cut and run to Texas. Staying with Sulie’s conservative parents posing as roommates, the couple starts a troupe and turn this small town upside down. Slapstick and silliness prevail as they fend off the mob, become more famous than ever, and try to keep their relationship secret. As the clothes come off the bullets fly.
Released: 2011
Length: 1 hr 23mins
Amazon Prime Rating:
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

Get A Life

“I want a straight lover who will be gay just for me!” boldly declares Jaime in front of his abusive shrink, propelling the plot of a disenfranchised gay guy simply looking for himself.
Runtime: 1 hour, 12 minutes
Release: 2006<
IMDB: 3.4/10

Group

Nine women meet every Wednesday afternoon for 21 weeks of group therapy in this entirely original, ultra modern probe into the American psyche.
Starring: Carrie Brownstein, Kari Fillipi
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
Release: 2002
IMDB: 6.4/10

Heels

When Kevin loses his third job in six months his girlfriend gives him one week to find another job. At his wit’s end, he enters a drag contest to try and win a cash prize
Starring: Ricky Reidling, Albertossy Espinoza, Jule Ann Nill
Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Release: 2010
IMDB: 5.2/10

Horror In The Wind

The President of the United States, a religious fanatic, catches wind of a secret formula that suppresses sexual desire and is determined to use it to win the “War on Sex.” He manages to steal the formula from the creators before they finish testing it, and no one is prepared for what happens next.
Released: 2016
Length: 1 hr 29 mins
Amazon Prime Rating: ★1/2
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

Karl Rove, I Love You

It’s Election Year during the Bush Administration. Dan Butler (“Bulldog” from TV’s Frasier) is co-starring on Broadway with Alec Baldwin in “Twentieth Century”. Butler reluctantly agrees to participate in a documentary on the “unknown supporting actor” when he becomes smitten with the role of a lifetime: Karl Rove (Bush’s notorious advisor).
Released: 2016
Length: 1 hr 37 mins
Amazon Prime Rating:
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

Kittens In A Cage

Ukelele-playing bad girl gone worse Junie Butler gets muscled into prison by her rat fink friends. Abandoned by all, she turns to the warm embrace of her pyromaniac cellmate as they plot their escape from the pressures of the power hungry prison Matron and an axe murdering beauty queen. This micro-budget indie feature with celebrity cameos was a darling of the festival circuit.
Starring: Rebecca Mozo, Erin Anderson, Gigi Bermingham
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes

Mob Queen

In an effort to gain favour, two low-level gangsters hire a prostitute (Candis Cayne) for their boss’s birthday. But all turns quickly negative when the two discover that the beautiful hooker is actually a transvestite.
Starring: Candis Cayne, Tony Sirico, David Proval
Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes
Release: 1998
IMDB: 7.5/10

More Scenes From A Gay Marriage

This sequel to 2012’s “Scenes from a Gay Marriage” picks up two years after the original left off, and it turns out things have gotten a little meta. Leigh, Darren’s ex, has made a gay-themed film about how Darren and Joe met and fell in love.
Released: 2016
Length: 1 hr 9 mins
Amazon Prime Rating: ★★★★
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

Paternity Leave

Four years into his first stable relationship, a man finds out that he is pregnant with his partner’s baby.
Released: 2016
Length: 1 hr 29 mins
Amazon Prime Rating: ★★★★★

Please Like Me

Based on the award-winning comedy of Josh Thomas, the six-part series PLEASE LIKE ME is about cavoodles, custard tarts, boyfriends and girlfriends. Mostly, though, it’s about growing up quickly and realising that your parents are not heroes, but big dopes with no idea what’s going on – just like you.
Released: 2013
Length: 25 mins
Netflix User Rating: ★★★★1/2
TheGayUK Rating: ★★★★★

Please Like Me Series 2

The award-winning Please Like Me, created by Josh Thomas, is back. In season two, Josh tries to get through the day without upsetting anyone. There is a new dog, a new rabbit and a new baby. There’s no big twist. It isn’t Lost.
Released: 2014
Length: 25 mins
Netflix User Rating: ★★★★★
TheGayUK Rating: ★★★★★

Please Like Me Series 3

The award-winning ‘dramedy’ series returns for its third season. Josh is an astute twentysomething trying to make sense of his friends, family, and cast of intriguing characters including John the cavoodle.
Released: 2015
Length: 25 mins
Netflix User Rating: ★★★★★
TheGayUK Rating: ★★★★★

Pooltime

David sets out to find true love and invites his ex-boyfriends to his pool to see if there really is a match.
Starring: Inge Jaklyn, Marcus Harwell
Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes
Release: 2010
IMDB: 3.3/10

Saturday Night At The Baths

Michael finds himself a job as a piano player at the Continental baths. Although he complains to his girlfriend about the advances of the club manager, Scotti, Michael is slowly discovering something new about himself.
Starring: Robert Aberdeen, Ellen Sheppard
Runtime: 1 hour, 21 minutes
Release: 1975
IMDB: 4.8/10

Scenes From A Gay Marriage

Darren spends his time watching old movies and listening in on his upstairs neighbours – a sexy gay couple who don’t realise that their voices are travelling downstairs through the air ducts. Their casual conversations and loud sexual escapades soon prove far more exciting than anything on television and Darren gets a little obsessed.
Released: 2016
Length: 1 hr 23 mins
Amazon Prime Rating: ★★1/2
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

Shy Of Normal

Author Vinnie Judith Rosenberg is battling a severe case of writer’s block. Her friend Jamie suggests combating it by observing complete strangers in public and, based on tiny details of their random conversations, creates three short, funny and whimsical stories about the new life experiences they are heading off to encounter.
Starring: Brinke Stevens, Felissa Rose
Runtime:1 hour, 16 minutes
Release: 2011
IMDB: 6.8/10

StudIebrity

A STUDlebrity is a guy who is famous for his looks.Today there seems to be a new Social Celebrity every time we go online. His handsome face and sculpted physique have helped pave the way to a charmed life – or at least that’s the only part he’ll ever reveal on his social network. He’s pretty. He knows it. And he wants to share every moment of his pretty life with you.
Released: 2016
Length: 40 mins
Amazon Prime Rating:
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

Sister Mary

Homophobic detective Mark Rima (James Vallo) must partner up with the very gay and flamboyant Detective Chris Riant (Shawn Quinlan) to stop a serial killing Nun (Judy Tenuta) from offing 5 band members otherwise known as “The Ex Choir Boys.”
Released: 2016
Length: 1 hr 39 mins
Amazon Prime Rating: ★★★1/2
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

SoulMaid

Moses suffers from seizures that manifest themselves as religious visions from a spurned goddess named Glintentica, who is planning her second coming to earth. When Moses meets David, the man of his dreams, Glintentica is intent on taking over David’s soul, forcing and compelling him to abandon David, and ultimately assuring the entire gay population becomes forever extinct.
Starring: Tom Bailey, Becca Connolly
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Release: 2008
IMDB: 4/10

Strange Fits Of Passion

“Strange Fits of Passion” is the hilarious tale of a sexually-curious, romantically-frustrated bookstore clerk on a mission to lose her virginity. In between encounters with other people, she returns to the one person she can trust and truly relate to, her gay friend Jimmy, whose faith in love is being shaken by the revelation that his boyfriend has been unfaithful.
Starring: Michela Noonan, Mitchell Butel
Runtime: 1 hour, 20 minutes

Successful People

Chet and Laura have spent ten years trying to make it as songwriters. After meeting a younger and highly successful songwriter at a networking event, pregnant Laura and socially-awkward Chet try new, last-ditch tactics to try to make it in an effort to become the one thing they’ve never been: Successful People.
Starring: Theresa Ryan, Artie O’Daly, Todd Sherry
Released: 2016

Such Good People

This screwball comedy follows a young couple who discover a secret room filled with cash while house-sitting for celebrity friends who die under mysterious circumstances while overseas…but can they make a clean get away with the money? Featuring an all-star cast of fan favourites.
Starring: Michael Urie, Randy Harrison
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Release: 2015
IMDB: 4.7/10

Transparent Season 1

An Amazon Originals Series – When the Pfefferman family patriarch makes a dramatic admission, the entire family’s secrets start to spill out, and each of them spins in a different direction as they begin to figure out who they are going to become. Starring Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light, Amy Landecker, Jay Duplass, and Gaby Hoffman.
Released: 2014
Length: 30 Mins
Netflix User Rating: ★★★★1/2
TheGayUK Rating: ★★★★★

Transparent Season 2

An Amazon Originals Series – Transparent returns with a big, white wedding – but is it really happily ever after for anyone? As their secrets surface, the Pfeffermans stumble but persevere, moving closer toward their authentic selves.
Released: 2015
Length: 30 mins
Netflix User Rating: ★★★★
TheGayUK Rating: ★★★★★

Transparent Series 3

[New Season 23/9/16] The Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning series TRANSPARENT returns for a third season. The Pfefferman family splinters into disparate journeys on their continued path of self-discovery. After a jarring reality check, Maura seeks to become the woman she envisions through gender confirmation surgery. All paths converge on a family cruise to Mexico, affirming that though their family history is murky, each Pfefferman is their truest self when they come together.
Released: 2016
Length: 30 mins
Netflix User Rating: ★★★★
TheGayUK Rating: ★★★★★

The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes

A funeral rockets John into the orbit of the flamboyant Solange, a B-movie actress best known in Europe for her roles in ’80s Italian horror movies. As John follows her into heady whirlwind romances with cute French pop stars and deadly (but hot!) Milanese model managers, he begins to realise that Solange’s world is far more complex and dangerous than he could possibly have imagined.
Starring: Tim Swain, Mahogany Reynolds
Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Release: 2009
IMDB: 3.8/10

Theft

A naive young man, Guy did not think that he would fall in love with a criminal nor that their passion would ignite the fire that burns down a local evangelical church in small town America.
Starring: Matthew Burnett, Patrick Henderson
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Release: 2007
IMDB: 4.3/10

Totally Confused

Johnny is a struggling rock & roller, living in Chicago where his best friend Wiley spends his time wrestling with his sexuality. Having problems with his girlfriend and fearing for his career, Johnny’s life gets even more complicated when Wiley makes the moves on him.
Starring: Greg Pritikin, Gary Rosen
Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes
Release: 1998
IMDB: 5.8/10

Town and Country

Manhattan architect Porter Stoddard (Warren Beatty) is a man in trouble. His wife Ellie (Diane Keaton) has found out about his affair with cellist Alex (Nastassja Kinski) and thrown him out of the house as a result. Porter wants to mend the rift, but wherever he goes he always seems to begin another affair. Eventually, after flings with Mona (Goldie Hawn), Eugenie (Andie MacDowell), and Auburn …
Released: 2001
Length: 1 hr 40 mins
Amazon Prime Rating: ★★★
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

Visions of Sugar Plums

Bruce’s off the wall religious parents announce an unexpected holiday visit and they don’t know about Bruce loving Joey.
Released: 2016
Length: 1 hr 3 mins
Amazon Prime Rating: ★★1/2
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

The Wish Makers

A newly out dancer entangled in the web of cyber dating, a wannabe star unable to get to the top, and a gender non-conformist performance artist working as a celebrity assistant are all recent arrivals to exotic Southern California. They all make a wish in a fountain to find the hardest and unlikeliest of things in LA…love.
Released: 2013
Length: 1 hr 27 mins
Amazon Prime Rating: ★1/2
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

West Hollywood Motel

Various lives intersect in and around a West Hollywood motel in this kaleidoscopic comedy about sex, love, and the meaning of life.
Released: 2016
Length: 1 hour, 18 minutes
Amazon Prime Rating:
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

What’s Up, Scarlet?

Starring Susan Priver, Musetta Vander, Sally Kirkland, and Jere Burns. Scarlet Zabrinski, (Susan Priver, star of Mafioso and My Brother Jack) a successful, hard-edged, L.A. matchmaker lives in the shadow of her overbearing mother, Ruth Zabrinski (Sally Kirkland, Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner for Anna) who relentlessly tries to find the perfect man for her daughter.
Released: 2009
Length: 1 hr 23 mins
Amazon Prime Rating:
TheGayUK Rating: (Not Rated)

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