Directed by Arthur Dong • Documentary • 1994 • US • English
Featuring Salome Jens, Phillis Abry, David Barrett

Arthur Dong’s award-winning films masterfully explore the LGBTQ experience and powerfully illustrate the many faces of the gay rights struggle in America. He dramatically reveals the...

Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto

The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative documentary fea...

Directed by Mikko Mäkelä • Drama • 2024 • UK • English • Mature Content
Starring Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Jonathan Hyde

Max is a young writer living in London and paying his dues working at a literary magazine. On the cusp of finding success, by night he moonlights as a sex worker in order...

Directed by Anna Muylaert • Drama • 2016 • Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
Starring Naomi Nero, Dani Nefussi, Daniel Botelho

When a Brazilian teenager learns he was stolen at birth, he's forced to leave his working-class home for his wealthy biological family. But his gender expres...

Directed by Alex Steyermark • Drama • 2003 • US • English • Mature Content
Starring Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo, Lori Petty

This fist-pumping LGBTQ+ touchstone and rock and roll cult classic stars the electrifying Gina Gershon as Jacki, a rocker who worries she may never make it big. Along with...

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...

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

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 life in the 1970s an...

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...

Directed by Reinhold Schünzel • LGBTQ • 1933 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig, Friedel Pisetta

In this dazzling musical romance, a young woman, unable to find work as a music hall singer, partners with a down-and-out thespian to revamp her act. Pre...

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...

Directed by Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich • LGBTQ • 1931 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda

As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings...

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...

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...

Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman • Sci-Fi • 2021 • US, Rwanda • English, Kinyarwanda with English subtitles
Starring Cheryl Isheja, Kaya Free, Eliane Umuhire

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

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...

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 ...

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 (Mía Maestro) surfaces in a polluted r...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Rupert Everett, David Hockney, Isaac Mizrahi

Oscar-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but an arbiter of his time. From the Bright You...

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...

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...