History HoYay / Film

* Another Creator/JohnHughes one. In Film/PrettyInPink there's Steff and Blane, particular Steff ''towards'' Blane. Maybe it's because James Spader oozes sex whatever he does, but if you remove the convenient scene at the beginning of the movie when Steff is rejected by Andie, it looks like Steff is trying to get Blane away from Andie out of jealousy of him. Then there an interesting scene at Steff's house where both are talking and Steff is wearing an open shirt and sends Blane to take a shower at the end of their conversation, and even gives him an ultimatum: her or him (his friendship, but still). And finally the last scene together, where if you mute the whole thing, it looks like a breakup scene, with everything including Blane rejecting Steff's touch and Steff being all puppy-eyed at the end.
* ''Film/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil2022'': Lady Lesso and Professor Dovey come off to many like an old married couple, what with their playful teasing of each other. Lady Lesso once calls Dovey "princess" out of nowhere, which accidentally comes off as flirty. At the end of the movie, they even hug after agreeing to put aside their difference, before awkwardly separating from each other in what many saw as a NotWhatItLooksLike moment rather than them not actually liking each other.

** Newt and Hermann. Apparently the novelization even describes them as "bickering like an old married couple." And according to the bonus DVD content, before meeting in person they "exchanged passionate letters"...

** In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePrincessAndThePauper'', two identical woman, Anneliese and Erika, meet and form an instant connection. They both have male love interests but have a PseudoRomanticFriendship with one another. The film ends with them having a double marriage and it's implied they'll be friends forever.

* ''Film/OceansEleven''. Rusty and Danny take HeteroSexualLifePartners UpToEleven. The Oprah-watching scene in the third movie, oh my lord...

* ''Film/{{Ghost}}'', Les Yay. At the end, it's really [[spoiler:Oda Mae that Molly is kissing]], though the audience sees [[spoiler:the ghost of Sam]].

* A lot of bad movies have this because [[RelationshipWritingFumble badly written and acted friendship tends to come off as flirting]]. So same-sex friendships tend to turn into HoYay. And you see a lot of it on [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]. In particular, ''Girl In Lover's Lane'' comes to mind. The male protagonists seemed more genuinely into each other than into their respective "love interests".

* ''Film/RoadHouse'': Creator/PatrickSwayze[=/=]everyone. ''Everyone''. [[FoeRomanceSubtext See the quotes page.]]

** Pintel and Ragetti have an extremely close relationship and often support each other. Add this to the fact that pirates and sailors in general aren't known for their exclusive heterosexuality and the possibility of them being more then HeterosexualLifePartners is pretty clear. When interviewed, director Gore Verbinski described them as an 'old married couple', while their actors claim they are uncle and nephew. Since neither version is canon, either interpretation is possible... or both, [[IncestIsRelative if you're into that sort of thing]].

* ''Film/Carrie1976'': Betty Buckley, who played the SternTeacher Miss Collins, said that she played her as a LesbianJock, and it shows. Whether she's showing Carrie that she's BeautifulAllAlong by [[LettingHerHairDown fixing her hair]], or getting a bit ''too'' enthusiastic about playing the DrillSergeantNasty to the girls in her gym class going through her detention, one gets the sense that she took the job in order to be around a bunch of [[WorkoutFanservice sweaty teenage girls]] in [[WhoWearsShortShorts tiny gym shorts]].

** In An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder, Kevin kind of lampshades this. Talking about his wife's Playboy shoot, he at one point, totally an AssPull, suggests she dresses like Jay and he dresses like Silent Bob:

* The entire first half of 'The Visitor'. Every interaction between the Professor and Tarek, particularly when a semi-nude Tarek teaches the Prof how to beat the drum between his legs. mmmm, manlove.

* ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'' is brimming with subtext between the three angels. Creator/DemiMoore's character in the sequel spends most of her time being jealous of the ladies and their closeness. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ACTvENkyD8 One scene]] in particular between her and Creator/CameronDiaz's Natalie is positively overflowing, complete with guns as phallic metaphors and getting all up in Natalie's face.

* Jokingly mentioned in ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' by MK in regards to Nod and Ronin, but it's obvious she's not the only one who caught it.

* ''Center Stage'' has two straight male ballet dancers (!) who are competing romantically for the female lead, but they give each other an awful lot of lingering glares and do a lot of symbolic dick-measuring in rehearsal studio and onstage. Arguably FoeYay, although they don't outright fight.

** ''Film/MagicMike'' features the least of it (somewhat [[FemaleGaze ironically given the film's premise]]) but there are definitely some very touchy-feely moments between Mike and Dallas. [[spoiler: With the reveal that Dallas is a BadBoss it retroactively becomes FoeYay]].

* True, ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' had a lot of Joker-on-Batman FoeYay. But... jeez, Bruce, can't you stop staring at your ex's boyfriend for five seconds? We know Harvey Dent is good looking and all, but really. He's constantly trying to impress him, too.

* Dimitri Vassilovich Orlowsky and Max Lozoya have a little bit of this, mixed with some FoeYay, in ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek''. Lozoya shows attraction to Mary O'Donnell but ultimately both men are into each other. Orlowsky seems to get indulgent pleasure out of watching Lozoya suffer, notably when he forces Lozoya to drop his pants so he can look at the treasure hunt instructions tattooed on them. Lozoya, meanwhile, is very much a {{Tsundere}} towards Orlowsky and eventually opens up more to him. At the end, they ride off into the hills together.

** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', meanwhile, has Bond/Mathis. The scene where [[spoiler:Mathis dies]] is more or less ''completely identical'' to a similar scene between [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor and the Master]], who have the honor of needing their very own FoeYay [[FoeYay/DoctorWho subpage]].

** After a very 'special' run of a ''Jungle Book'' adaptation, Bagheera and Shere Khan had loads of this. Ooh, the FoeYay in ''spades'', and the ''taunting'' and Bagheera being all [[TheStoic stoic]]... Plus they had a fight-scene, and Shere Khan only half-mockingly reminiscing about [[InLoveWithYourCarnage what a terror Bagheera used to be]]. Honestly, it came off like they'd just gotten out of a ''really'' bad breakup. And to top it off? Shere Khan had an inexplicable (yet totally hot) Southern accent, and Bagheera had a growly voice ''a la'' [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Dinobot]]. It was disturbing, yet...

* ''Film/TheLegendOfFrenchieKing'' has the FoeYay of its protagonists Louise and Maria, most apparent in the scene where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsPHPykEPHg Maria sings "Prairie Girl"]]; Maria performs a tame striptease and acts vaguely flirty towards Louise, whose reaction to all this is highly ambiguous; you don't really need shipping goggles to interpret it as lustful.

** The entire plot is driven by Janis's FoeYay-tastic obsession with getting revenge on former BFF Regina.
* WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}} has a lot of FoeYay with his long-time nemesis Metroman; Megamind more or less based his life around those formative years acting as Metroboy's rival, and his hilarious but depressing lack of interest after Metroman's 'death' - and his eager enthusiasm to re-create that dynamic, to the point of creating ''Titan'' - also points to a reliance on and missing of Metroman's presence in his life.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': of all the citizens of HalloweenTown, the Mayor seems the most worried when Jack goes missing -- and it doesn't look like just as a professional or as a friend, either. Also, there's really no reason why, when he decided to show, Jack had to announce his presence to [[BigBad Oogie Boogie]] looking like [[FoeYay he's trying to seduce him]].

** Doson also tries to convince Prince Sawara to spend eternity with him, instead of with Sawara's girlfriend. He gets downright hysterical at the idea of the prince leaving. This guy is a big lump of FoeYay and HoYay.

* ''Film/ThePrestige''. Mostly FoeYay, with a side of fangirl squee.

** Hell, there's HoYay and/or FoeYay between Ives and ''all'' of the characters. Being a cannibal, he uses the many food double entendres to good use, one scene having Boyd asking Ives if he ate the only female member of settlers Ives traveled with and him responding with "well, now that you ''mention'' it..." and ''giggling''.

* ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' skirted the edge of both HoYay and FoeYay with Anakin and Obi-Wan; Senator Palpatine also showed somewhat disturbing levels of interest in young Anakin since he was nine years old (yeah, yeah, Dark Side potential, but many fans felt like Palpy was being played as if he were a pedophile, as if he weren't evil enough).

* ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940''. Medieval Persian FoeYay: The long, lingering eyefuck Jaffar gives to the half-naked, blinded Ahmad when he finds him in the marketplace [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0m1jww9lIM has to be seen to be believed.]] Yeah, about [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe that last line]]. It ''really'' doesn't help when you know Creator/ConradVeidt swung both ways.

** Flynn/CLU 2.0 from ''Betrayal'' and ''Legacy''. CLU's behavior is staked somewhere at the intersection of a KnightTemplar WellDoneSonGuy (as 'the son'), FoeYay, and a strange version of ClingyJealousGirl / TheUnfavourite (especially notable in the ''Betrayal'' comic, re: the [=ISOs=]).

* ''Film/WhipIt'', in keeping with UsefulNotes/RollerDerby's overtly LBT-friendly image, has a few cuddly moments between Eva Destruction of the Black Widows and Rosa Sparks of the Hurl Scouts. Actress Creator/AriGaynor said that she played Eva as a lesbian seductress and a number of moments of her character overtly hitting on other skaters didn't make it into the final film. The relationship between [[Creator/ElliotPage Bliss]] and [[Creator/AliaShawkat Pash]] could easily be romantic without either of them particularly trying, and Bliss' relationship with rival jammer and captain of the Holy Rollers [[Creator/JulietteLewis Iron Maven]] has a good deal of FoeYay to it as well.

* Creator/RupertGrint and Creator/RobertSheehan's characters in ''Film/Cherrybomb2010''. They are best friends, to the point where they get possessive of each other and jealous of people who threaten their friendship. They're also quite...''tactile'' with each other. There's a bit of fondling, and a couple of moments where they get right up in each others faces and seem about to kiss. And they wear matching lock and key necklaces, the symbolism of which is dubious. Plus one of them keeps suggesting that they engage in a threesome (albeit with a female as the third party, but still...)

* Creator/RupertGrint and Creator/RobertSheehan's characters in ''Film/{{Cherrybomb}}''. They are best friends, to the point where they get possessive of each other and jealous of people who threaten their friendship. They're also quite...''tactile'' with each other. There's a bit of fondling, and a couple of moments where they get right up in each others faces and seem about to kiss. And they wear matching lock and key necklaces, the symbolism of which is dubious. Plus one of them keeps suggesting that they engage in a threesome (albeit with a female as the third party, but still...)

** In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePrincessAndThePauper'', two identical woman, Anneliese and Erika, meet and form an instant connection. They both have male love interests but have a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with one another. The film ends with them having a double marriage and it's implied they'll be friends forever.

* The film ''Feds'' features two females who are training to become FBI agents. Dewitt and Zuckerman, the characters, develop a [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship very close friendship]] that borders on les yay. When clothes shopping, Zuckerman says Dewitt has "great legs" and Dewitt leaves a date pissed when he talks bad about Zuckerman. And there's the constant physical affection the two show towards each other (hugs, arms draped over each other's shoulders, amongst other things).

* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'':

** ''Film/ReAnimator'' is a goldmine of slightly awkward ho yay between West and Dan. It helps that West is CrazyAwesome, and he's dragging Dan along with him -- and there's a certain possessiveness about how he drapes a blanket over Dan's shoulders, holds him briefly, and tells him he's going into shock. And how they end up HeterosexualLifePartners...

* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** There's a lot of this between Batman and Superman. In ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', Batman feels as broken up about Superman's death as Lois does, and when [[spoiler:he resurrects, Batman is heartbroken when Superman sneers about his uselessness, and then when Superman saves the day against Steppenwolf, he stares at him with open-mouthed awe and delight. And when Superman snarks that Batman probably didn't bring him back because he liked him, Bruce pouts "I don't not like you". His buying off the bank that foreclosed Ma Kent's farm likewise has the air of a grand romantic gesture]]. ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' has Bruce pleading with Clark when the latter has gone berserk in a way that makes him sound positively broken-hearted.
** ''Film/WonderWoman1984'': Barbara's feelings towards Diana can range from simple adoration to implied attraction, referring to her as beautiful and inviting her to lunch in the awkward manner of a date. She all about gives a Squee! when Diana invites her to an early dinner, especially when the latter rescues her from a drunk. When Steve reappears, Barbara gives him a look that clearly screams Green-Eyed Monster and says, "Call me" to both of them. Even when [[spoiler:she kicks Wonder Woman's butt in the White House, Barbara leaves Diana alive if wounded and tells her that she doesn't want to destroy her but will to keep Maxwell as the Dreamstone. Barbara also looks sympathetic in the climax when she realizes Diana renounced her wish to regain her powers, not wanting her friend to be hurt]].

* ''Film/ColdMountain'': Ada Munroe and Ruby have a very close, intimate friendship, to the point where Ruby seems visibly upset by the main character Inman's return to Ada, fearing that Ada will drop all their plans for building a happy farm in exchange for a life with Inman. While ther fact that both Ada and Ruby have male sweethearts defuses this a little, it's still got plenty of fuel for subtext.

* Granted ''Film/{{Cocktail}}'' took place in TheEighties, but there's still a lot of HoYay between Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown. Perhaps it's the sensei-student relationship or the lingering looks Cruise shoots his costar.
* ''Film/ColdMountain'': Ada Munroe and Ruby have a very close, intimate friendship, to the point where Ruby seems visibly upset by the main character Inman's return to Ada, fearing that Ada will drop all their plans for building a happy farm in exchange for a life with Inman. While the fact that both Ada and Ruby have male sweethearts defuses this a little, it's still got plenty of fuel for subtext.

* Every [[GirlsBehindBars Women]] [[ExploitationFilm In Prison]] movie, of which a good example is ''Film/BlackMamaWhiteMama''. Hell, let's just say [[PrisonRape any violent movie set in]] ''[[PrisonRape any]]'' {{prison|Rape}}.

** There's a lot of this between Batman and Superman. In ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', Batman feels as broken up about Superman's death as Lois does, and when [[spoiler:he resurrects, Batman is heartbroken when Superman sneers about his uselessness, and then when Superman saves the day against Steppenwolf, he stares at him with open-mouthed awe and delight. And when Superman snarks that Batman probably didn't bring him back because he liked him, Bruce pouts "I don't not like you". His buying off the bank that foreclosed Ma Kent's farm likewise has the air of a grand romantic gesture]]. ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' has Bruce pleading with Clark when the latter has gone berserk makes him sound positively broken-hearted.
** ''Film/WonderWoman1984'': Barbara's feelings towards Diana can range from simple adoration to implied attraction, referring to her as beautiful and inviting her to lunch in the awkward manner of a date. She all about gives a Squee! when Diana invites her to an early dinner, especially when the latter rescues her from a drunk. When Steve reappears, Barbara gives him a look that clearly screams Green-Eyed Monster and says, "Call me" to both of them. Even when [[spoiler:she kicks Wonder Woman's butt in the White House, Barbara leaves Diana alive if wounded and tells her that she doesn't want to destroy her but will to keep Maxwell as the Dreamstone. Barbara also looks sympathetic in the climax when she realizes Diana renounced her wish to regain her powers, not wanting her friend to be hurt]]..

** ''Film/WonderWoman1984'': Barbara's feelings towards Diana can range from simple adoration to implied attraction, referring to her as beautiful and inviting her to lunch in the awkward manner of a date. She all about gives a Squee! when Diana invites her to an early dinner, especially when the latter rescues her from a drunk. When Steve reappears, Barbara gives him a look that clearly screams Green-Eyed Monster and says, "Call me" to both of them. Even when she kicks Wonder Woman's butt in the White House, Barbara leaves Diana alive if wounded and tells her that she doesn't want to destroy her but will to keep Maxwell as the Dreamstone. Barbara also looks sympathetic in the climax when she realizes Diana renounced her wish to regain her powers, not wanting her friend to be hurt.

* The Rorschach/Nite Owl bromance in ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' seemed to be given more emotional weight than the het romance. Yeah, this is Rorschach, but still.

* 1959's ''Literature/BenHur'', where it's intentional, at least in part. Creator/GoreVidal (who did script rewrites) and Creator/WilliamWyler (the director) told Creator/StephenBoyd to play Messala as if he and Hur had been lovers, but didn't tell Creator/CharltonHeston, fearing he'd refuse to play it. [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/trivia Seriously]].

* Ursula and Ariel from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid''. What with her calling Ariel things like "my child", "angelfish", "my dear sweet child", "sweet cakes", "poor little princess", and "my sweet". As well as telling her if she can't get Prince Eric to kiss her on the third day, then as a consequence, she'll "belong to me"/"will be mine". She also has a tendency to invade Ariel's personal space. Also at one point in the 'Poor Unfortunate Souls' song; she moves her tentacle across Ariel's chest, with Ariel having to push it off.