Movies/TV about gay boys lusting for straight ones

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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

Chuck and Buck

Summer Storm

Dare (short film)

Threesome.

Rebel Without a Cause

Big Eden

Gods and Monsters

Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party

8 mile (minor character has a crush on Eminem).

Last Exit to Brooklyn.

Mad Men.

Boogie nights. The Rules of Attraction. Threesome. Talented Mr Ripley.

Carrington.

Maurice

Less than Zero

My Own Private Idaho

Lawrence of Arabia (Peter O'Toole & Jose Ferrer)

Spartacus (Laurence Olivier & Tony Curtis)

Seven and a Match - movie with Adam Scott as a gay man with a crush on his lifelong friend Eion Bailey. They kiss; see clip

Top Gun

[quote]8 mile (minor character has a crush on Eminem).

Yeah, but the OP wanted movies where a gay guy has a crush on a straight guy. This doesn’t apply here.

:-P

Lolz

The Sergeant - 60's movie where Rod Steiger is hot for soldier John Philip Law

Reflections in a Golden Eye - Marlon Brando drools over Robert Forster

The history boys (schoolboy crush on a bicurious lad).

Australian film "Cut Snake" - basic premise: Criminal gets released from prison and seeks out old cellmate to do some jobs and stuff. Seems they had a "jailhouse relationship", but ex-cellmate is now married and wants to forget his past but dude #1 still has feelings for him.

Making Love

Glee (Kurt's crush on Finn in the first season)

American Horror Story - Hotel: If memory serves, the hotel front desk man, played by Denis O'Hare, was gay and put the moves on almost every male that passed through the place.

Downton Abbey- Thomas crushed on and was rejected by Jimmy.

Fourth Man Out

Smallville - Lex Luthor definitely had a crush on Clark and I don't remember Lex paired up with women when I watched that show. He seemed that he could have been on the downlow.

Yeah - Lex definitely had it bad for Clark Kent. He kissed him in the first episode (actually, it was CPR but still....) and he was permanently hot for the farm boy after that.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The 2005 Fox series "The War at Home" had Rami Malek as a gay teen who had a crush on his best friend.

The 80's movie "The Hitcher" had serial killer Rutger Hauer chasing twinky C. Thomas Howell through the desert with lust in his eyes and with no heterosexual explanation. He even brutally killed Jennifer Jason Leigh because she came between him and the object of his dreams. Gay or crazy - you decide.

Arguably the Eating Out series, but that's in a more comedic vein

TV movie from the 70's "The Glass House" - long-time prisoner Vic Morrow puts the moves on cute new fish Kristofer Tabori, offering him perks like angel dust(!) to be his special friend. Kristofer declines and Vic's anger turns to threats of rape.

Same theme in another 70's movie "Scarecrow". Hitchhiking buddy team of Al Pacino and Gene Hackman are thrown into jail for some infraction. A fellow prisoner gets young Al alone and tries to seduce him.

[quote]TV movie from the 70's "The Glass House" - long-time prisoner Vic Morrow puts the moves on cute new fish Kristofer Tabori, offering him perks like angel dust(!) to be his special friend. Kristofer declines and Vic's anger turns to threats of rape.

That POS sent me back into the closet for another couple of years.

Midnight Express

Kiss of the Spider-Woman

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss was about 2 gay men. The blond guy left Billy for a more handsome man, not a woman.

"Maurice" was not about a gay boy lusting for a straight one.

It was about a gay boy lusting after a suddenly re-closted gay boy.

(The book is a bit stupid about this, showing its time period, but the movie is not.)

Kiss Me Guido

Maybe... Maybe Not

Not so much *about,* but does feature such a crush: 'Billy Elliot'

[quote] "The Hitcher" had serial-killer Rutger Hauer chasing twinky C. Thomas Howell through the desert with lust in his eyes and with no heterosexual explanation.

Wait just a minute; Hauer was just stir-crazy in that movie, and to my recollection C.T. did not go within 5 feet of the guy much less what I had to in NAKED IN NEW YORK (the first and last time I ever agree to play a fanook). Thank God I didn't have to go all the way and touch the braggiol’ of 'Some Kind of Wonderful'.

But ya done good, Ponyboy. Stay Gold.

Stand By Me

You can rely on prison movies for this theme: the movies "Fortune and Men's Eyes" and "Short Eyes" had plots involving prisoners preying on the newer inmates. I guess it's up to the audience to say whether the predators are really gay or just "prison gay".

Rutger Hauer was still crazy as the object of desire in Blade Runner, when he seduces his creator into a rather vulnerable state.

No Way Out. Homophobic trash.

Such bullshit R29. Movies don't closet anyone.

This is (or, was, if IMDB is to be believed) the bread & butter of actor Jordan Brower.

His most notable credit was in SPEEDWAY JUNKY (an early Gus Van Sant piece) playing a beautiful orphaned teenaged hustler who falls in love at first sight with a runaway he is mentoring in tricking (played by one of DL's favorite closet cases, Jesse Bradford of SWIMFAN). The sweet and surprising twist in SPEEDWAY is that though it all ends in predictable tragedy, before hell breaks loose there is a tentative almost-confession of love and a chaste but sincere kiss from Bradford's 'straight' boy Johnny to Brower's gay boy Eric. The passion is not reciprocal but the care and devotion really is.

Brower switched roles a few years later when playing in period piece SHAKESPEARE'S SHORTS, opposite a coy & femmey Vincent Kartheiser.

Brower plays a heavily-closeted stoical preppy at a prestigious Ivy, set to marry a suitable girl and procreate per his family's wishes. Kartheiser plays his scholarly best-friend who swishes about fawning and desperately pines for the impossible. Kartheiser's character eventually coaxes Brower's into bed for a night but Brower seems conflicted about the situation and does not break off his engagement as far as we see (it's a very short short-film).

^^sorry, scratch that last one, it doesn't count and I got carried away.

Brower's character wasn't written as straight in it. You could read it that he was bisexual or questioning rather than gay, I suppose.

Would Keanu's character in My Own Private Idaho be considered straight?

Ben-Hur.

Really. Gore Vidal explicitly wrote it so that Messala was madly in love but unable to act upon his love for Ben-Hur (although none of this is explictily stated in the screenplay); he told Stephen Boyd (the gorgeous gay actor who played Messala) what he wanted to do, and Boyd agreed. Vidal told Charlton Heston what they had done only after most of the primary shooting had been filmed; Heston was furious, but there was nothing he could do at that point.

R32 is right, why on Earth would anyone mention MAURICE?

Clive Durham wasn't a straight man in the least. He confesses a very real love to a man (the titular Maurice) out loud in one scene of both the book and the film, and arguably remains in love with him through the entire tale. He only refuses to have sex with men and represses his feelings (hiding behind Platonic philosophy) because he is terrified of legal and spiritual retribution, not because he experiences any sort of conversion to heterosexuality. The first gay lust & love story depicted in MAURICE is quite reciprocal, even reciprocated; the only thing is that it is unfortunately denied.

The comedy "The D Train" with James Marsden and Jack Black: Jack is arranging his 20 year high school reunion and is desperate to get local-boy-who-made-good James to attend, in order to make himself look cool. We find that James is now a druggy drunk C-level movie star and before the end of the movie, he makes sexual advances on Jack and they wind up in bed.

Jack bottoms.

This episode of the cartoon, Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir.

The aspiring writer Marc clearly has a crush on aspiring illustrator Nathaniel.

Subtextual, but John/Pyro in the movie X-MEN 2 wanted Bobby/Iceman who was dating Rogue at the time.

The twist in the tale is Pyro &Iceman are now a gay characters in the canon of the books, and are fucking. 2003! Me knew what was up, though X2 was a Bryan Singer movie so really everyone should have seen that coming.

But thanks to Disney merging with Fox I betcha neither character is gay anymore by the time of that Kitty Pryde movie they're doing in a couple of years time (or these guys won't even appear in it).

'Heartbeats' ('Les Amours Imaginaires') (2010)

Xavier Dolan lusts after the twinky (but straight) Niels Schneider:

Hannibal

"Kaboom" (2010)

Thomas Dekker lusts after his straight college roommate Chris Zylka.

(Although I think Dekker's character identifies as sexually fluid).

In IMAGINARY HEROES (2004) poor old Ryan Donowho gets a drunken angsty New Year smooch out of teenaged Emile Hirsch, and not much else. And isn't that just hysterical?

Thanks for that clip from [italic]Seven & a Match[/italic], R11. I had never heard of it. Now I’ll make a point of seeking it out. It sounds interesting, and I always like looking at Eion Bailey.

The only thing that would make that scene better is if EB were shirtless, and Adam Scott buried his face in Eion’s furry chest.

I think quite a few of these are gay guys lusting about closeted/repressed/bi guys.

The Dukes of Hazzard

"Lost in the White City" (2014)

Thomas Dekker lusts after an Israeli guy (Bob Morley) in Tel Aviv:

“Bedrooms and Hallways” (1998) - Gay character Kevin McKidd reveals in mixed men’s group his feelings for straight James Purefoy. They eventually begin affair. But multiple other characters, including women, complicate things. To say the least...

The Mudge Boy

Hard Pill

James Marsden's gay player Dan in THE 24TH DAY for some reason wants Scott Speedman's creepy hetero character Tom...at least until Tom chains Dan up and tortures him. Even after Dan suffers 80 minutes of torture onscreen (a few days or a week in plot-time?) he shows glimpses of concern for Tom and even implies at one point that he'd still sleep with him in all his twistedness. It's a very fucked-up movie adapted from a fucked-up play.

They have a conversation while Dan is chained up in Tom's apartment (one of several long exchanges), and Dan ascertains from this that Tom considers himself straight and has had exactly one gay experience in his life (with Dan) that he believes was an out-of-character impulse for him.

DAN (Marsden): "Who else knows you're gay?"

TOM (Speedman): "I'm not gay."

DAN: "Oof, you're not gay....who else knows you're bi?"

TOM: "I'm not bi. I like women, I'm straight."

DAN: "You're straight."

TOM: "Yes."

DAN: "You like women. Ok, alright. You're a good-looking guy, who's probably screwed every Theresa, Maria & Gina you've ever met, right? So how many women have you screwed? Tell me."

TOM: "Not a lot. Whatever you consider a lot, less than that. Less than a lot."

(now talking over one another)

DAN: "Fuck you, you've had loads of women in the backseat of your car, movie theaters…you're not monogamous, I'm not the only one, there's others--"

TOM: "--intercourse is such an intimate thing. The most intimate two people can be. I can't just fuck anyone, I need a bond--"

DAN: "--admit it!"

TOM: "--I need a TRUST. That night [the night Tom fucked Dan] was a one-time deal for me. One night doesn't make me anything."

DAN: "You are absolutely right. Just like if I slept with a woman it wouldn't make me straight."

[quote]Gay character Kevin McKidd reveals in mixed men’s group his feelings for straight James Purefoy.

And they ended up together again in ROME.

Here's the scene where Purefoy is naked while McKidd watches: