Homoerotic Chemistry

Richard Arlen and Buddy Rogers in Wings hands down no contest. They think they're in love with Clara Bow but then discover what they mean to each other. One of the all time great screen kisses at the end.

Don't look at us

Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant have such strong sexual chemistry even though they do nothing sexual in Il Sorpasso.

I find it one of the most intensely homoerotic films, purely because of the two of them.

Debra Winger and Theresa Russell in "Black Widow"

Di Caprio and Pitt in OUATIH.

R3 Greta film but didn't feel that at all!

Gary Oldman and Kevin Bacon in "Criminal Law" (1988).

The fight to the death scene in the bathroom between Jeff Daniels & Ray Liotta in Something Wild.

Never seen it, OP, but I'm dying to now! I love homoeroticism.

Jean-Marc Barr and Jean Reno in "The Big Blue"

I got slight vibes from Kevin Bacon and Matt Dillon in Wild Things and have been told there was originally supposed to be a twist where they were fucking, too.

Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin in "Paint Your Wagon."

Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy in hannibal

All those school girls in Picnic at Hanging Rock - talk about a hot bed of lesbianism.

Alain Delon as Tom Ripley and Maurice Ronet as Philippe Greenleaf in 1960 Purple Noon (original film adaption of the novel 'The Talented Mr. Ripley').

Charlton Heston & Stephen Boyd in Ben-Hur

To be far Stephen Boyd was told to play it that way with Charlton Heston who was totally oblivious.

Laurence Olivier & John Gavin in Spartacus.

And of course Laurence Olivier and Tony Curtis in Spartacus.

Delish R17

Veruca Salt's dad was definitely flirting with Willy Wonka.

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse

Richard Gere is a bad actor and with few exceptions his movies are all awful. "Pretty Woman" being the worst POS ever. Except for "An Officer and a Gentleman" which was almost forty years ago, his movies and performances are all lousy.

This one. Delicious scene.

R21 Richard Gere does have a lot of dud work but he has an impressive list of good to very good work that surpasses lots of actors: Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Days of Heaven, American Gigolo, Internal Affairs, Chicago, An Officer and a Gentlemen, Time Out of Mind, Arbitrage, Unfaithful, The Cotton Club, Hachi: A Dog's Tale ......

Chicago? Uhm no.

R5 AFAIAC AYSOS ICYDK OUATIH is a POS OMG ROFLMAO FOAD

Point Break, Tango & Cash, Day of the Jackal, The Jackal, etc

R25 Chill out, homie.

Paul Valentine and Kirk Douglas in OUT OF THE PAST......did Kirk get a nose job? It looked awfully pointy in the movie.

Rob Lowe and Doug Savant in MASQUERADE.

Threaded closed.

Thanks, OP, for reminding me of Internal Affairs. Loved this film when it came out. Loved it when Richard Gere had the salt and pepper hair. He was so sexy.

The cast of Red River.

Rob Lowe and James Spader in Bad Influence

Apartment Zero. Bochner and Firth.

Glenn Ford and George Macready in "Gilda."

James Spader and Robert Downey Jr. in Less than Zero. RDJ and Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

A screen test, not a finished film, but definitely homoerotic

Errol Flynn and Ross Alexander in Captain Blood

Loki and Thor in THOR

Iron Man and Spiderman in THE AVENGERS

Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel in "Eastern Promises" (although to be fair, it was clearly on the Cassel character's side).

Doris Day (as Calamity) and Gail Robbins (as Adelaide Adams) in "Calamity Jane".

I mean, dear God, come ON!

Elliot Page & Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception

Do TV bros count?

Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential

Definitely Starsky & Hutch had a homo-esque bond.

Also the 2 guys in Scrubs, Zach Braff and the other guy, practically spent the whole series in each other's arms.

Martin Freeman and Richard Armitage in the Hobbit series.

Ralph Macchio and William Zabka in Cobra Kai.

Thanks OP. Haven’t thought about that movie in years, but I remember when I first saw it—young and still closeted—that the sexual chemistry between Gere and Baldwin was off the charts. I remember one scene where Gere is checking Baldwin for a wire. Very hot.

Sal Mineo and James Dean in Rebel without a Cause, dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman in Compulsion

good grief

Chris pine and Tom Hardy in “This Means War” (2012).

The story’s really about them.

Check out the Deleted Scene that the director says he “should” have included.

Tom and Brad in Interview with the Vampire

Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb in "Laura."

Bryan Fuller said he could make Hannibal Will romance into text from subtext thanks to the chemistry of Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy. Theirs is so intense.

I love this thread! Keep going!

Rolf and Captain von Trapp

Colin Farrell and Ezra Miller in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them".

R24, Chicago? Ummmm, YES.

Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in Heavenly Creatures.

Tango & Cash

Keanu and River, ofc

Frank Lovejoy and Lloyd Bridges in the film noir Try and Get Me

Matt Damon and Jude Law in The Talented Mr Ripley

R31 my first thought, too.

An oldie but a goodie:

Oskar Werner and Henri Serre in a love triangle with Jeanne Moreau in Jules et Jim

Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel in Reservoir Dogs. The first time I saw the movie I thought Mr. Orange and Mr. White could’ve been fucking. White seemed to really care about Orange even though he hardly knew the guy. He was so invested in him he threatened to kill his long term friend/boss Cabot for Orange’s honor. It seemed super intense to me.

But Tim Roth was pretty fuckable in this movie so maybe it’s understandable.

Brad and Leo in a spit roast a Twink together kinda way in Once...Hollywood

r36 Thanks for posting that video was an enjoyable revelation!

r48 Cheers! Are there gay rumours about William Baldwin?

R65 Unfortunately no. By all accounts straight and an extremely nice guy.

r66 Well I dared to dream but alas he is what he is .

So he doesnt have a temper problem like brother Alec does.Sounds like all round he is the best of the baldwin brothers.

Carroll O'Connor and Martin Balsam in Archie Bunkers Place.

R66 one would think statistically and the fact that all brothers became actors that at least one might be gay leaning.

Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat in The Crimson Pirate.

Lancaster and Cravat again.

Matt Damon and Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting.

R39, i think you meant Doris Day (as Calamity Jane) and Allyn McLerie (as Katie Brown)...

De Niro and Depardieu in Novocento. Of course.

Lucille Ball and Bea Arthur in Mamed

Queen Latifah and CZJ in Chicago

Bob Redford and Bradford Dillman in The Way We Were

Fed Barry and Shirley in What’s Happening?

Could you please double check your spelling, etc, before posting

Helmut Griem and Michael York in CABARET.

Hannibal does cross over into text r52. They have Gillian Anderson's character straight up tell Will that Hannibal is in love with him.

Um, r78, they actually slept together, off screen

Gere ain't straight -- no idea about William Baldwin

Definitely Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in [italic]Point Break[/italic]. The scene where they jump out of the airplane and Reeves wraps his legs around Swayze’s back is almost orgasm-inducing.

R80, really? How did you come by that information?

R83, I assume R80 meant that the characters in the movie have an affair which only happens off-screen.

2 soap actors, Jacob Young and Stephen Martines (known then by the pornish name of Coltin Scott).

They were onscreen brothers at this particular show, but there were several scenes where it looked like they were going to have scorching hot sex the second the cameras were shut off.

R84 thanks. I always did find helmut very attractive, I wonder what he was like in real life

Brian: Screw Maximilian!

Sally: I do.

Brian: So do I.

There are people who swear they heard this scene on Cabaret's initial release and the word used was "Fuck," not "Screw." But no one has ever found a release print using "Fuck." Michael York partially cleared this up in an interview on the film's 40th anniversary release, saying he and Liza were forced to film the scene both ways (they thought the "Fuck" version played perfectly and didn't want to do another take). They were told it was needed for a TV version.

At any rate, the producers insisted the "Fuck" version was never released commercially, leading to the suggestion the film was previewed in that version, since people remembered hearing it.

^ I am a fount of useless information.

r81 I'd love to have hot gay sex with Billy Baldwin!😍🥰

Anthony Edwards and Tammy Cruise in Top Gun

Val Kilmer and Tammy Cruise on Top Gun

Sandy and Cate in that Ocean’s shit. There was nothing ‘2 straight women’ about it!

Anthony Edward’s was hot AF for many years and I’m sure I’d still do him and he has all kinds of chemistry with Clooney and whatever other man comes along.

R92, I thought Cate's character was definitely gay with Sandy's being the bi one.

Jack Huston and Jim Cavezial in “Outlander” (movie unrelated to the tv series.). Cheesily entertaining fantasy film; good homeorectic tension.

Mulder and Krycek in “The X-files”

Make that homoerotic tension

I second Hart Bochner and Colin Firth in Apartment Zero.

Aren't the Firth and Bochner characters meant to have homoerotic tension since the Firth character is gay and the Bochner character is something of a cock tease?

River Phoenix and Keanu Rives in My Little Odaho

Billy and Alan in Jurassic Park III. Billy definitely had a lil crush on Dr. Grant. Here he is blowing his velociraptor resonating chamber at Alan:

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Hot Fuzz. They were like a married couple. Too bad neither was particularly attractive.

Funny movie, still.

Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

Alain Delon is damn gorgeous in it R102

Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo

Yes, definitely the interview with vampire movie. Anthonio banderas too.

R105 Yes and Lestat and Louis too. But Louis and Armand... are just fucking erotic

R102 good one, I was thinking of this movie too.

Chris Evans and Sébastien Stan; Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. in the Captain America and The Avengers movies.

Louis Garrel and Michael Pitt in the dreamers

Tom and Jerry

Bo and Luke Duke

Sissy Spacek and Betty Buckley

Nelson Eddy and William Tannen (left) who sizzled together on-screen in "New Moon" and carried it over into a lengthy, off-screen affair.

Stefano Dionisi and Enrico Lo Verso in "Farinelli".

Farley Granger and the other guy in “Strangers on a Train.” First time I saw that first scene, I thought, “Wow, is that guy gay?” Farley looked so attracted to the other guy. I looked him up, and sure enough, I discovered he was bi.

Boyd Holbrook and Sterling K. Brown in The Predator.

Robert Fuller and John Smith in "Laramie"

Chuck Connors and dear Johnny Crawford in "Rifleman"

R44, I read Bilbo and Thorin as more a case of hero-worship on Bilbo's part. I did think Bofur (James Nesbitt) had a homosexual crush on Bilbo, quickly seeing himself as the hobbit's protector and genuinely shaken when Bilbo attempted to abandon the quest in the Misty Mountains. It's not reciprocated and Bilbo appears to be unaware of it; it's largely dropped (along with all other subtlety) in the subsequent films.

[quote]Chuck Connors and dear Johnny Crawford in "Rifleman"

Some of those episodes are downright incestuous.

Alain delon and Maurice ronet

Cinema is all about fakery.

This "Homoerotic Chemistry" is all in our minds.

We might call it homoerotic chemistry but someone else might call it indigestion.

I’ve never heard of most of these actors/movies. Are there any mainstream movie men in the past 20-30 years who qualify?

In the movie "Scream, when it's revealed that Skeet Ulrich is the real killer, his murder partner comes up behind him and hangs over his shoulder as they menace Neve Campbell. Their posture and closeness always gave me the impression that they were more than friends.

Rob Lowe and James Spader in Bad Influence.

I'd say Spader and McCarthy in Pretty in Pink too R124. I got the impression the real reason Stef didn't like Molly was he wanted Blane for himself.

The TV show "Vikings" made the relationship between Ragnar and Athelstan very homoerotic, and depending on the viewers mindset, it could be perceived as a very strong bromance/deep friendship, but others saw them as lovers. I was in the latter group, watching Ragnar be tender and loving towards Athelstan and tell him "you can't leave me... I love you!" when Athelstan talked about leaving.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier -- Bucky and Sam have the perfect love/hate relationship. They have couples therapy and stare into each others eyes, Sam saves Bucky from some super-soldiers and end up rolling in a field and tangled together, among other things that make their relationship "special".

Thomas Jane and Antonio Banderas in the film "Original Sin". I saw this movie and the only two things I remember is that Angelina Jolie as in it and that Thomas ended up kissing Antonio out of the blue, no heterosexual explanation for it.

Joseph Fiennes plays every scene opposite Jude Law in Enemy at the Gates (2001) like he's desperately in love.

OP that movie sounds hot.

Strangely, I thought Willy Wonka and Veruca Salt’s dad were flirting with each other the entire movie. Anyone else notice that?

R85 Stephen Martinez is family right? Is Jacob Young?

Just recently seen "Rifleman" on MeTV and was struck by the adult themes/ content compared to other 50s TV fare.. and the relationship between Crawford/Connors is almost post modern... a whole subtext that isn't "sub" in 2021

Robert Walker and Farley Granger in "Strangers on a Train"

Walker is the experienced seducer and Granger is the closeted athletic bottom, playing hard to get.

At first.

Nothing matches Sal Mineo's authentic passion for James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause." I know it's already been mentioned, but it's the acme.

Hot r134

Fuck "Screw."

Me so stoopit. You fawlt. Mmm.

Mom! Bring me Diet Pepsi!

Has anyone ever noticed that all the actors of LOTR were hot for each other and heard how they all were having sex with each other in New Zealand?

[quote]Homoerotic Chemistry

Wouldn't this merely be a branch of organic chemistry?

Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillis in The Accused

I always thought the relationship between Neal Cafrey and agent Burke in White Collar was intensely hot

Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women In Love.

I know that the rumor is that the director told Steven Boyd to act like he was in love with Charleton Heston in "Ben Hur". True or not, Mr Boyd made it visceral.

I also got a vibe between James Fox and George Segal in "King Rat" . They came to have a stronger connection as James began to see George more than just a smarmy profiteer. They have a scene after James hurts his arm, where George tenderly cradles James face and begs for him to complete his latest transaction.

Clark Gable and Franchot Tone in Mutiny On The Bounty (1935).

Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy in The Following.

Laurel and Hardy in "Their First Mistake."

Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif in "Lawrence of Arabia". Omar really sold that he was in love with Lawrence. And don't even mention Jose Ferrer's character!!! Yeesh.

Oskar Werner and everyone. Even Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

R23 I'd like to add "Yanks" to your list if I may. A wonderful film, and he's excellent in it, as is all the cast.

R119, there was that episode in which a group of Indians knock out Lucas and they kidnap Mark; it was early on in the run so Johnny was still really a boy; the Indian Chief's son had been killed so he takes Mark as a replacement; they throw him over a horse and ride off with him; Mark starts crying at one point and pounds on the Indian Chief's chest ... Lucas comes and nearly kills the guy for taking his son; it ends with Mark and Lucas reunited; tears and hugs.

If I were Mark I would have asked to sleep with 'Paw' that night and he would have said yes. his arm around him, making him feel safe and loved.