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The 50 Best LGBTQ Movies Ever Made
Love, Simon (2018)
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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school special, that's no mistake: Teen-tv super-producer Greg Berlanti makes his feature-film directorial debut here. It's as chaste a love story as you're likely to see in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen question his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you know what? The queer kids of the future need their wholesome entertainment, too.
Rocketman (2019)
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A gay fantasia on Elton themes. An Elton John biopic was never going to be understated, but this glittering jukebox musical goes way over the top and then keeps going. It might be an overcorrection from the straight-washing of the previous year's Bohemian Rhapsody, but when it's this much fun, it's best not to overthink it.
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Handsome Devil (2016)
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A charming Irish film that answers the question: "What if John Hughes were Irish and gay?" Misfit Ned struggles at a rugby-obsessed boarding school until a mysterious recent kid moves in and an unlikely fri
The 30 Best LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time
In this first major critical survey of LGBTQIA+ films, over 100 movie experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, possess voted the Uppermost 30 LGBTQIA+ Films of All Day. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as successfully as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (1992), Pretty Thing (1996), Weekend (2011) and Navy Is the Warmest Colour (2013).
The winner is Todd Haynes’ award-winning Carol, closely followed by Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, and Hong Kong affectionate drama Happy Together, directed by Wong Kar-wai, in third place. While Carol is a surprisingly recent film to superior the poll, it’s a feature that has moved, delighted and enthralled audiences, and looks arrange to be a modern classic.
“The festival has long supported my work,” said Haynes, “from Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked in the ahead 1990s through to Carol which is screening on 35mm later this week in BFI Flare’s Best of Year programme. I’m so pr
161 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
The latest: With out latest update, we’ve added the most recent Certified Fresh films, including Backspot, Good One, Challengers, Bird, Love Lies Bleeding, Queer, Problemista, Fitting In, Housekeeping for Beginners, I Saw the TV Glow, In the Summers, The People’s Joker, National Anthem, Good Grief, Sebastian, FRIDA, Cuckoo, Fancy Dance, Femme, A Nice Indian Boy, and The Wedding Banquet! Watch them and more on Fandango at Home!
Our list of the 200 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time stretches advocate 90 years to the pioneering German film, Mädchen in Uniform, which was subsequently banned by the Nazis, and crosses multiple continents, cultures, and genres. There are broad American comedies (The Birdcage), artful Korean crime dramas (The Handmaiden), groundbreaking indies (Tangerine), and landmark documentaries (Paris Is Burning). Over the last few years, we added titles like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about LGBTQ+ activists risking their lives for the cause in Russia; Certified Fresh comedy Shiva, Baby; and Netflix’s The Vintage If ever there was a Superbad for queer girls, Bottoms is it. The second film from director Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) follows two uncool high school seniors (Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott) who start up a academy fight club to try and hook up with their cheerleader crushes (Kaia Gerber and Havana Rose Liu). WATCH NOW In the Wachowskis’ landmark erotic thriller predating the Matrix trilogy, butch ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) is the newly-hired handyperson at an apartment building when she meets her next-door neighbors: mobster Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) and kept girl Violet (Jennifer Tilly). As Corky and Violet strike up an affair, they hatch a schedule to flee Violet’s abusive relationship—and steal $2 million of Caesar’s mafia money along the way. WATCH NOW Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Southern Californians will likely recognize Circus of Books as the famed porn shop and dirty bookstore that has presided over the gayborhood of West Hollywood since the preliminary 1980s. For those who are not familiar—and even for those who are—this documentary,
55 of the Best LGBTQ Films of All Time
'Bottoms' (2023)
'Bound' (1996)
'Circus of Books' (2020)