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LGBTQ+ Stories

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  • 52 Tuesdays

    Directed by Sophie Hyde • Drama • 2013 • Australia • English
    Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Del Herbert-Jane

    16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for a gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday a...

  • A Bigger Splash

    Directed by Jack Hazan • Documentary •1974 • UK • English
    Featuring David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger

    In this intimate and innovative film about artist David Hockney, director Jack Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid. The result is at once a time capsule of hedonistic gay l...

  • Caravaggio

    Directed by Derek Jarman • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • UK • English
    Starring Nigel Terry, Garry Cooper, Tilda Swinton

    Derek Jarman's profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtati...

  • Framing Agnes

    Directed by Chase Joynt • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
    Featuring Zachary Drucker, Chase Joynt, Silas Howard

    Winner of the NEXT Innovator Award and Audience Award at the Sundance, "Framing Agnes" is the story of the pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender study co...

  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    Directed by Tsai Ming-liang • Arthouse • 2017 • Taiwan • Mandarin with English subtitles
    Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Mitamura Kiyonobu

    In Tsai Ming-liang’s minimalist film, the Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King Hu’s 1967 w...

  • I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    Directed by Patricia Rozema • Comedy • 1987 • Canada • English
    Starring Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald

    Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la...

  • Neptune Frost

    Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman • Sci-Fi • 2021 • US, Rwanda • English, Kinyarwanda with English subtitles
    Starring Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Diogene Ntarindwa

    In an otherworldly e-waste dump camp, an anti-colonialist hacking collective attempts a takeover of the authoritarian regime...

  • Poison

    Directed by Todd Haynes • Arthouse • 1991 • US • English
    Starring Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, John Leguizamo

    Winner of the Grand Jury Prizes at both the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, "Poison", directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes ("Carol"), is a groundbreaking American indie f...

  • The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future

    Directed by Francisca Alegría • Arthouse • 2023 • Chile • Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Leonor Varela, Mía Maestro, Alfredo Castro

    Singing cows, fish, and bees introduce a world of magical realism in this stunning Sundance hit. Long-dead Magdalena (Mia Maestro) surfaces in a polluted r...

  • The Man with the Answers

    Directed by Stelios Kammitsis • Drama • 2020 • Greece • English, Greek with English subtitles
    Starring Vasilis Magouliotis, Anton Weil, Stela Fyrogeni

    "The Man with the Answers" is a picture-postcard travelogue and tender story of self-discovery that follows a former Greek diving champion and an...

  • The Queen

    Directed by Frank Simon • Documentary • 1968 • US • English
    Featuring Jack Doroshow, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick

    More than 40 years before “RuPaul's Drag Race", this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive d...

  • Tom of Finland

    Directed by Dome Karukoski • Biopic • 2017 • Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany • Finnish with English subtitles
    Starring Pekka Strang, Seumas Sargent, Lauri Tilkanen

    The proudly erotic drawings of artist Touko Laaksonen, known to the world as Tom of Finland, shaped the fantasies of a generation ...

  • The Last of England

    Directed by Derek Jarman • Arthouse • 1987 • UK • English
    Starring Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, Nigel Terry

    An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's “The Last of England” stars Oscar winner Tilda Swinton in his lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. A kale...

  • Violette

    Directed by Martin Provost • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet

    "Violette" is a finely nuanced portrait of Violette Leduc, one of the foremost French writers of the 20th century. Superb performances by Emmanuelle D...

  • Skin Deep

    Directed by Alex Schaad • Arthouse • 2023 • Germany • German with English subtitles
    Starring Mala Emde, Jonas Dassler, Dimitrij Schaad

    Winner of the Queer Lion at the Venice Film Festival, "Skin Deep" subverts genre and gender as it flows between body swap thriller and intimate relationship dram...

  • Benjamin

    Directed by Simon Amstell • LGBTQ+ • 2018 • UK • English
    Starring Colin Morgan, Jack Rowan, Jessica Raine

    A charmingly offbeat gay romantic comedy about a mess-of-a-filmmaker juggling the anxieties and excitement of his upcoming film premiere with the fear and awkwardness of a burgeoning romance...

  • Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    Directed by Beth B • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
    Featuring Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore, Kembra Pfahler

    "Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over" by Beth B is the first career-spanning retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and electric artistry. As New York City’s preeminent No...

  • Colonel Redl

    Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1984 • Hungary, Germany, Austria • German with English subtitles
    Starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe

    Set in the lead up to WWI, István Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning and Academy Award nominated film charts the rise of Alfred ...

  • When the Beat Drops

    Directed by Jamal Sims • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Anthony Davis

    Drop into the electric and subversive underground dance scene known as bucking. As voguing exploded out of the ballroom scene of NYC, bucking was boldly pioneered in the clubs of the Deep South as a new form of se...

  • The Wound

    Directed by John Trengove • Drama • 2017 • South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France • Xhosa with English subtitles
    Starring Mallory Wanecque, Timéo Mahaut, Johan Heldenbergh

    Shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, "The Wound" is an exploration of tradition and sexuali...

  • Private Desert

    Directed by Aly Muritiba • Drama • 2021 • Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
    Starring Antonio Saboia, Pedro Fasanaro, Thomas Aquino

    When his gender-fluid internet girlfriend Sara goes missing, suspended police academy instructor Daniel drives 2,000 miles across Brazil to look for her. Wh...

  • The Maids

    Directed by Christopher Miles • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
    Starring Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant

    Glenda Jackson and Susannah York play Paris maids who tend to a cruel socialite's unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role...

  • The Conformist: Restored Edition

    Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci • Arthouse • 1970 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda

    Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's It...

  • The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    Directed by Marie Losier • Documentary • 2011 • US • English
    Featuring Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye

    This tender portrait of music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge and their partner, dominatrix Lady Jaye, was filmed over the course of seven years and completed following Lady Jaye’s sudden death in 2007....