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  • Aimée & Jaguar

    Movie

    Directed by Max Färberböck • Drama • 1999 • Germany • German with English subtitles
    Starring Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler

    In 1943, as the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women: Lilly, a privileged Nazi ...

  • Coming Out Under Fire

    Movie

    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...

  • Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

    Movie

    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...

  • Sebastian

    Movie

    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...

  • Don't Call Me Son

    Movie

    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...

  • Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

    Movie

    Directed by Sasha Waters • Documentary • 2026 • US • English
    Featuring John Waters, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Colbert

    If poetry had a pop icon, it would be Mary Oliver – celebrated bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and nature. This moving documentary portrait features interviews w...

  • Prey for Rock & Roll

    Movie

    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...

  • 52 Tuesdays

    Movie

    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...

  • Loving Highsmith

    Movie

    Directed by Eva Vitija • Documentary • 2022 • Switzerland, Germany • English, German, French with English subtitles
    Featuring Gwendoline Christie, Annina Butterworth

    This unique look at celebrated author Patricia Highsmith is based on her diaries, notebooks, and reflections of her lovers, friend...

  • A Bigger Splash

    Movie

    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...

  • Caravaggio

    Movie

    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...

  • Victor and Victoria

    Movie

    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...

  • Mädchen in Uniform

    Movie

    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...

  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    Movie

    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...

  • Daddy and the Muscle Academy

    Movie

    Directed by Ilppo Pohjola • LGBTQ • 1992 • Finland • English, Finnish with English subtitles • Mature Content
    Featuring Tom of Finland, Nayland Blake, Isaac Julien

    Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on gay ide...

  • Neptune Frost

    Movie

    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...

  • Poison

    Movie

    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...

  • Tom of Finland

    Movie

    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 Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future

    Movie

    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...

  • Colonel Redl

    Movie

    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 ...

  • Violette

    Movie

    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...

  • When the Beat Drops

    Movie

    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...

  • Love, Cecil

    Movie

    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...

  • The Wound

    Movie

    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...