Argentina has a unique way of telling queer stories—quiet but burning, slow but devastating. I still remember the first time I watched a Marco Berger film. It wasn’t loud, it wasn’t dramatic, but it left me with a lingering ache I couldn’t shake off.
In recent years, I’ve explored gay cinema from many places—like the emotionally restrained yet poetic style of Chinese gay movies, the bold youth-centric energy in Korean gay movies, or the complex, often literary narratives of British gay films. Even Japanese gay cinema and German gay movies have their own distinct rhythms.
But Argentine gay movies feel different to me. There’s a kind of silence in them—a pause before a glance, a breath before a touch—that makes everything feel more intimate. In this guide, I’ve gathered the films and shorts from Argentina that have stayed with me the longest. Some explore young love in small towns, others dive into surreal metaphors and tender queer longing. But all of them, in one way or another, speak to something deeply human.
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Top Argentine Gay Movies
Genre: Crime, Gay Romance
Country: Argentina
Year: 2000
Nene and Angel, two inseparable lovers known in the criminal world as “the twins,” form a violent duo involved in robberies across Argentina. They first met in a public restroom, where Nene offered the homeless Angel a place to stay. Living together, they shared both love and crime. But Angel suffers from auditory hallucinations, pushing him into emotional withdrawal and creating a rift between them. Hoping to restore their bond, they take on a major heist planned by a government insider. The robbery goes wrong—Angel is shot, Nene kills the police, and the two flee with the money in a desperate bid for freedom.
Few gay films blend raw masculinity and emotional desperation like Burnt Money. It’s erotic, haunting, and violently romantic. The chemistry is explosive and toxic, and the actors’ uncanny resemblance only intensifies their twisted intimacy. It’s not a story of survival—it’s a tale of mutually assured destruction. Heterosexual love rarely burns this bright and this doomed.
Genre: Summer Romance, Queer Drama
Country: Argentina
Year: 2013
Martín, struggling financially, reconnects with his childhood friend Eugenio while searching for work near his estate. Eugenio offers Martín a job as a summer worker, and their dynamic quietly shifts from friendship to something more intimate. Despite their differing social statuses, a soft power play unfolds between them as they tiptoe around their buried feelings.
Hawaii thrives in stillness. The heat, the silence, and the soft glances are loaded with tension. This is a film where two kisses feel monumental because the emotional build-up is so finely tuned. It’s not about overt declarations—it’s about the way desire lingers in the air. It’s slow, yes, but beautifully so.
Genre: Queer Romance, Sexual Tension
Country: Argentina
Year: 2024
Pedro, an openly gay man, unexpectedly becomes close friends with Maxi, a straight bachelor. To fool Maxi’s ex-girlfriend, they pretend to be a couple. But the charade slowly turns real as desire builds between them. What begins as playful deception spirals into true emotional entanglement, leaving them questioning whether what they share is fleeting passion or something deeper.
This film leans into that dangerous thrill of “fake it until it’s real.” It explores the line between acting and truth in both identity and emotion. The tension is palpable, especially as both men begin to lose control of the roles they’re playing. While some might find the premise slightly convenient, it works because the chemistry feels authentic.
Genre: Gay Romance, Domestic Drama
Country: Argentina
Year: 2019
Gabriel moves in with his co-worker Juan after splitting from his wife. At first, their cohabitation is quiet and uneventful, but slowly, subtle moments—shared dinners, late-night conversations, and quiet glances—begin to stir a mutual attraction. Gabriel, reserved and cautious, contrasts sharply with Juan’s confident and flirtatious energy, making their emotional push-and-pull all the more tender and painful.
This film is about silences and glances more than action. The pacing is slow and deliberate, and it never tries to dramatize what doesn’t need drama. The Blonde One is intimate in the truest sense—it invites you into a private world of restrained desire, where the intensity lies in the space between bodies, not just their closeness.
Genre: Coming-of-Age, Homoerotic Drama
Country: Argentina
Year: 2016
Fernando invites Germán, a fellow student from his taekwondo class, to join a summer retreat with his group of male friends. What looks like an ordinary all-boys vacation slowly evolves into something more intimate as Germán’s presence begins to shift the group’s dynamic. Hidden desires, playful teasing, and emotional ambiguity fuel a subtle yet powerful tension among the sun-soaked afternoons and late-night talks.
Taekwondo is not about dramatic twists—it’s about the beauty of waiting, watching, and feeling. The homoerotic undertone is ever-present, but never explicit. It explores masculinity, vulnerability, and friendship in a way that feels warm and nostalgic, with just the right touch of melancholy.
Genre: Time-Loop Romance, Queer Philosophy
Country: Argentina
Year: 2019
When Ocho, a poet from Argentina, meets Javi, a Spaniard from Berlin, while on holiday in Barcelona, their chance encounter blossoms into something seemingly fleeting. But as the two get to know each other, memories—or maybe fantasies—emerge, revealing that this may not be their first meeting after all. The film elegantly weaves past and present, reality and possibility, into a nonlinear meditation on love, destiny, and identity.
This film left me floating. It doesn’t ask big questions directly, but makes you feel them: What if love is a cycle? What if we always return to the same person in different timelines? End of the Century is soft, brainy, and bittersweet.
Genre: Gay Comedy, Emotional Romance
Country: Argentina
Year: 2009
Bruno can’t accept that his ex-girlfriend has moved on with another man, Pablo. In a fit of jealousy, Bruno devises a plan to seduce Pablo under the guise of friendship, hoping to break them apart. But the deeper Bruno falls into the charade, the more entangled he becomes in real feelings, and soon, his fake plan leads to a very real emotional crisis.
It starts as a quirky premise but unfolds with surprising emotional depth. The charm lies in its simplicity and how naturally the two men fall into unexpected intimacy. The final moments are genuinely heartwarming. It’s playful, sexy, and quietly sincere.
Genre: Crime, Biopic, Queer Undertones
Country: Argentina
Year: 2018
In 1970s Buenos Aires, a teenage boy named Carlitos—blessed with angelic looks and a devilish mind—embarks on a life of crime alongside his magnetic partner Ramón. What begins as petty theft soon escalates into a series of increasingly bold and dangerous acts. Based on a true story, The Angel paints a surreal portrait of beauty, danger, and seductive violence.
Though not explicitly a gay film, The Angel brims with homoeroticism and tension. The relationship between Carlitos and Ramón is fraught with ambiguity—brotherhood, rivalry, obsession, maybe love. It’s stylish, dangerous, and full of contradictions. You can’t look away.
Genre: Queer Reconnection, Youth & Memory
Country: Argentina
Year: 2016
Matías and Jerónimo were childhood best friends whose relationship turned romantic before being abruptly cut short when Matías moved away. A decade later, Matías returns to his hometown with a girlfriend in tow—and unexpectedly reunites with Jerónimo. Old feelings resurface, and they must confront the past and the versions of themselves they’ve tried to forget.
This is one of those rare films that understands the deep imprint of first love. Esteros is full of longing—for the past, for the self, for the boy you never stopped dreaming about. It’s soft and visually lush, tinged with sadness, but also healing.
Genre: Identity Drama, Exile & Alienation
Country: Argentina / USA
Year: 2017
Nico, a former soap opera actor from Argentina, tries to restart his life in New York. Alone, undocumented, and fading into obscurity, he takes on nanny jobs and struggles with isolation, rejection, and an aching need for recognition—both professionally and personally. His sexuality is part of the narrative, but so is his humanity, ambition, and fractured identity.
This is not a coming-out film—it’s a staying-afloat film. It quietly captures the emotional toll of migration, anonymity, and longing for connection. Subtle but deeply resonant. Watching Nico move through the city in quiet desperation hit harder than expected.
Genre: Queer Coming-of-Age, Emotional Drama
Country: Argentina
Year: 2018
Lorenzo lives a quiet life in a small Patagonian town until his parents take in Caito, the troubled son of a family friend. Though opposites in temperament, the two boys begin to bond through shared adventures and an unspoken emotional current. As Lorenzo begins to sense something more, the tension between friendship, admiration, and attraction starts to unfold.
The film resists labels, just like its characters. It captures the confusing beauty of adolescent closeness, especially when emotional intimacy is charged with unarticulated longing. It’s soft, sad, and sincere—a subtle ode to boys who don’t know how to say what they feel.
Best Argentine Short Gay Movies
I’ve always believed that short films can hit just as hard as full-length features—maybe even harder. These Argentine gay short movies stayed with me long after the credits. Some are tender, some are surreal, but all of them capture that raw, complicated feeling of queer youth, desire, and the moments we rarely talk about. If you’ve ever felt something you couldn’t quite name, you might find it here too.
Genre: Queer Fantasy, Body Politics, Coming-of-Age
Country: Argentina
Year: 2023
Mateo and Lucas are best friends enjoying a wild summer night when they attend a party. There, Mateo encounters Lucia, whose strange and surreal act triggers a series of bodily and emotional discoveries for both boys. As their physical reality is shaken—literally—their friendship is tested in intimate and bizarre ways.
Directed by renowned queer auteur Marco Berger, The Exchange is drenched in soft focus, simmering heat, and dreamlike ambiguity. It dives headfirst into taboo, surrealism, and metaphors around masculinity and sexual identity. The film’s central sci-fi metaphor—about the theft of Lucas’s genitals—may sound outrageous, but it cleverly becomes a way to examine male intimacy, fear of vulnerability, and the tension between friendship and hidden desire.
Genre: Coming-of-Age, Queer Adolescence
Country: Argentina
Year: 2008
Jeremías and Iván are two boys caught in the haze of a summer that smells like grass, sweat, and first love. As school ends and Iván prepares to graduate, the carefree days give way to a painful awareness that something unspoken is also about to end. Their days are full of wrestling in the fields and lying under the sky—but their glances linger too long, and their silence speaks louder than words.
This short film captures that aching in-between: more than friends, but not quite lovers. It’s a quiet heartbreak, the kind that grows over time and leaves a mark. For anyone who’s ever loved someone just a bit too much and a bit too late, Raw Love is both tender and cruel in its honesty.
Genre: Intimate Drama, Sleepover Romance
Country: Argentina
Year: 2012
It’s raining softly outside, and two boys lay out a mattress for a sleepover. What begins as an ordinary night soon turns into a quiet revelation—hesitant touches, lingering fingers, the sound of rain blending into the rhythm of breath and piano music. No words are spoken, but everything is said in the silence.
Nightfall is a short student film that beautifully evokes the nervousness, yearning, and tenderness of a first crush. It’s a story told through skin, space, and sound—a perfect storm of adolescent vulnerability and nocturnal desire.
Genre: Queer Allegory, Dark Romance
Country: Argentina
Year: 2008
A man stands before a firing squad. His final wish before death? A kiss. But in this execution ground, only men are present.
This minimalist short film condenses queerness, death, and longing into a single potent image. The request for a kiss isn’t just about affection—it’s a final act of defiance, vulnerability, and desire. Una Última Voluntad feels like a queer fever dream, mirroring the confused fantasies many gay men have experienced in silence—where danger, shame, and desire collapse into one fatal moment.
If you enjoy Argentinian gay movies, you might also love exploring Spanish-language cinema and series from other parts of the world. Check out our guide to Spanish BL Series for compelling dramas and romances, or explore our curated list of Spanish Gay Movies for unforgettable stories on the big screen.
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