Tsai Ming-liang’s ‘Days’ is one of the decade’s best and most underseen gay films

For decades, the great Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang has been directing exquisite examinations of alienation, isolation and the fleeting beauty of human connection – often in collaboration with his muse, actor Lee Kang-sheng.

His award-winning, critically acclaimed 2020 film, Days, undoubtedly stands as one of his best, sparest and most intimate works.

Lee once again stars as a variation on himself, wandering through a lonely urban landscape and seeking treatment in Hong Kong for a chronic illness. At the same time, a young Laotian immigrant working in Bangkok goes about his daily routine.

These two solitary men eventually come together in a moment of healing, tenderness and sexual release.

Among the most cathartic entries in Tsai’s filmography, Days is a work of longing, constructed with the director’s customary brilliance at visual composition and crafted with a profound dose of empathy.

Watch the trailer for Days below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

The sexy new gay rom-com ‘300 Letters’ takes a unique look at post-breakup introspection

A sexy and original romantic gay comedy from Argentina, 300 Letters follows Jero and Tom (Cristian Mariani and Gastón Frías), a handsome, successful and seemingly perfect couple.

Tom is a finance bro and CrossFit jock while Jero, the more sensitive of the two, is into poetry. Their love affair ends, rather abruptly, on their first anniversary. Tom abandons Jero and leaves him a breakup letter and an “anniversary gift” as the only explanation.

The “gift” is a box containing 299 letters, all written throughout the duration of their relationship. Completely blindsided, Jero reads through each of them in order. Each confession reveals a new version of Tom he never truly knew, turning their “love story” into something far more complicated, shocking and disturbing.

A darkly funny, unconventional breakup movie from Lucas Santa Ana, the director behind Bromance and Blue Lights, 300 Letters plays like a romantic comedy in reverse – a post-mortem on a failed relationship.

Watch the trailer for 300 Letters below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

Short Film Spotlight: Totems

During a wake for their close friend Bastien, who died before his time, a group of close-knit friends have a conversation with his mother. Learning that she intends to go to Bastien’s apartment that evening to pack up his things, they have a sudden revelation.

Quickly, the friends find themselves on an unusually altruistic mission to get to the apartment and remove Bastien’s impressively large selection of sex toys before his mother can discover them for herself.

Totems follows this group of friends during their trip, as each of them are confronted with their feelings of loss while realizing how much Bastien truly meant to them.

Darkly funny and deeply touching while never shying away from taboo topics, this intimate short film from French writer, director and co-star Arthur Cahn is a testament to the power of friendship, especially during times of grief.

Totems is now available on Dekkoo.

Get hooked up with the ten-episode gay comedy series ‘The Hosts’ – now available on Dekkoo!

The new gay series The Hosts explores the intimate and often complicated interactions that occur before and after sexual encounters with strangers.

After a painful breakup from a long-term, open relationship, Jason (Ben Odom) decides to use a popular hook-up app to reintegrate himself into the gay dating scene.

This ten-episode series documents his ten different hook-up experiences, capturing the vulnerabilities and fraught dynamics that exist in these encounters, told with a larger story through the individual perspectives of the “host” characters – meaning the different strangers whose apartments Jason visits.

Featuring a wide array of New York-based talent both behind and in front of the camera, creator, writer, executive producer and lead actor Ben Odom has fashioned a unique, funny, sexy and often alarmingly relatable look at how we modern gay men present ourselves in the bedroom.

Watch the trailer for The Hosts below. All ten episodes of the first season are available now on Dekkoo!

Watch the trailer for the new season of ‘Danny Will Die Alone’ – premiering February 12th!

Lead actor and creator Jack Tracy will soon be returning, alongside co-star Jordan Bell, for a brand-new season of the Dekkoo-original series Danny Will Die Alone!

Picking up after the cliffhanger ending of Season Two, the new season follows the newly estranged Danny and Matty as they each go about their own separate dating adventures in New York City.

While Danny continues his exhausting search for Mr. Right, Matty begins to realize that he may want something more substantial than what he had previously been looking for. Along the way, this third and final season tackles polyamory, sex work, divorce, therapy, vegans, Gen Z, speed dating, sex parties and so much more.

Lauded by critics for its shock-value comedy and sharp observations on the particulars of modern romance and the gay dating scene, Danny Will Die Alone has built a loving cult following.

The complete Seasons One and Two are available on Dekkoo now. With new episodes dropping weekly, Season Three debuts on February 12th, just in time for Valentines Day, and concludes with the Series Finale on March 19th – only on Dekkoo!

Watch the new trailer for Season Three of Danny Will Die Alone below!

‘M/M’ is a provocative, psychosexual drama about desire, identity and obsession

Matthew (Antoine Lahaie), a young Canadian, has just moved to Berlin. He’s arrived looking to make a fresh start, but feels the isolation of living in a strange, new city.

When he meets the alluring Matthias (Nicolas Maxim Endlicher), he finds himself completely entranced. Beautiful and charismatic, Matthias is everything Matthew wants to be.

Soon Matthew’s interest escalates, becoming a full-blown obsession. He begins to transform himself to embody the object of his desire. When Matthias gets into a motorcycle accident, the opportunity seems too perfect. Matthew does everything he can to literally become Matthias and usurp his life.

While in a coma in the hospital, Matthias’ waking life, his dreams and his memories all begin to blur. It becomes impossible to tell where reality ends and the artificial begins.

A surreal riff on Single White Female from provocative filmmaker Drew Lint, M/M employs striking visuals to tell an entrancing and unnerving story about loneliness, narcissism and queer psycho-sexual obsession.

Watch the trailer for M/M below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

The lead actors bare it all in the experimental, sexually-charged romantic drama ‘He Loves Me’

One young gay couple’s fragile relationship is put under a microscope in director Konstantinos Menelaou’s experimental, sexually explicit romantic drama He Loves Me.

Having navigated numerous ups-and-downs – from simple arguments to major infidelities – the unnamed couple travel to a remote Greek beach where they attempt to commune with nature and restore the heart and sexual spark of their relationship.

With exquisite cinematography and almost no dialog aside from dreamy, poetic voice-over, He Loves Me straddles a thin line between narrative drama and cinematic art piece.

Lead actors Hermes Pittakos and Sanuye Shoteka bare both their bodies and souls for this romantic, voyeuristic and sexually explicit rumination on modern gay love.

Watch the trailer for He Loves Me below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

Short Film Spotlight: My Name is Love

Love and Sebastian (Adam Lundgren and Jonas Rimeika) meet each other by chance during a romantic summer night in Sweden.

Though the two men share the same secret, their encounter is going to cause severe consequences for both of them as their innocent flirtation soon turns into a dangerous liaison.

From award-winning Swedish filmmaker David Färdmar, the director behind Are We Lost Forever and No More We, both of which are also currently available on Dekkoo, My Name is Love is an unsparing 20-minute short film explores the dark side of anonymous sex.

Originally released in 2008, the film screened at LGBTQ+ film festivals all around the globe and earned numerous awards. It also earned controversy over its hard-hitting subject matter. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

Watch a clip from My Name is Love below. The short film is now available on Dekkoo.

The rock n’ roll romance ‘Throuple,’ a Dekkoo-original film, is now available to stream!

Gay singer-songwriter Michael (Michael Doshier) is hopeless when it comes to expressing himself. When he meets Georgie and Connor (Tommy Heleringer and Stanton Plummer-Cambridge), a married couple, their nonchalant hook-up turns into a night of vulnerability that none of them expected.

As the couple challenges him to open up about his feelings, Michael ignites a new flicker of excitement in their marriage. His world is soon thrown into chaos, however, when everyone in his social circle begins making life-altering decisions that leave him feeling abandoned. He must decide whether to finally open up and go after what he wants or watch his dreams slip away.

From director Greyson Horst and screenwriter/star Michael Doshier, Throuple is a colorful and sexy new rock n’ roll romance about one man’s journey to live and love openly… while creating a few new songs along the way.

Watch the trailer for Throuple below. This brand-new exclusive is now available to stream on Dekkoo!

A budding young writer attempts to shake off the torment of lost love in the Canadian drama ‘Seek’

A homegrown feature film from Canadian first-time director Eric Henry, Seek centers around Evan (Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski), a shy young journalist with two dreams: to become a staff writer at a newspaper and to reconnect with the hunky model he can’t get out of his head.

Evan’s big break comes when the editor of Toronto’s leading newspaper hires him to write a feature story about the characters that populate the town’s nightlife. Enter Hunter (Ryan Fisher), the city’s top gay party promoter, who agrees to give Evan a behind-the-scenes look at the world of lights, music, sexy guys and talented drag performers.

But as Evan moves closer to his dreams, he is unable to see Hunter’s true motivation for helping Evan with his story.

Featuring an alluring local Toronto cast, Seek explores the diversity of desire and the mistake people make when they don’t see the beauty standing right in front of them.

Watch the trailer for Seek below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.