LGBTQ+ Stories
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Aimée & Jaguar
Movie
Directed by Max Färberböck • Drama • 1999 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Maria Schrader, Juliane KöhlerIn 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 ...
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Coming Out Under Fire
Movie
Directed by Arthur Dong • Documentary • 1994 • US • English
Featuring Salome Jens, Phillis Abry, David BarrettArthur 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...
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Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Movie
Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Jim Parsons, Zachary QuintoThe 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...
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Sebastian
Movie
Directed by Mikko Mäkelä • Drama • 2024 • UK • English • Mature Content
Starring Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Jonathan HydeMax 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...
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Don't Call Me Son
Movie
Directed by Anna Muylaert • Drama • 2016 • Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
Starring Naomi Nero, Dani Nefussi, Daniel BotelhoWhen 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...
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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Movie
Directed by Sasha Waters • Documentary • 2026 • US • English
Featuring John Waters, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen ColbertIf 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...
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Prey for Rock & Roll
Movie
Directed by Alex Steyermark • Drama • 2003 • US • English • Mature Content
Starring Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo, Lori PettyThis 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...
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52 Tuesdays
Movie
Directed by Sophie Hyde • Drama • 2013 • Australia • English
Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Del Herbert-Jane16-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...
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Loving Highsmith
Movie
Directed by Eva Vitija • Documentary • 2022 • Switzerland, Germany • English, German, French with English subtitles
Featuring Gwendoline Christie, Annina ButterworthThis unique look at celebrated author Patricia Highsmith is based on her diaries, notebooks, and reflections of her lovers, friend...
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A Bigger Splash
Movie
Directed by Jack Hazan • Documentary •1974 • UK • English
Featuring David HockneyIn 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...
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Caravaggio
Movie
Directed by Derek Jarman • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • UK • English
Starring Nigel Terry, Garry Cooper, Tilda SwintonDerek 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...
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Victor and Victoria
Movie
Directed by Reinhold Schünzel • LGBTQ • 1933 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig, Friedel PisettaIn 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...
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Mädchen in Uniform
Movie
Directed by Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich • LGBTQ • 1931 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia UndaAs a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings...
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Movie
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang • Arthouse • 2017 • Taiwan • Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Mitamura KiyonobuIn 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...
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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 JulienTom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on gay ide...
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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 UmuhireIn an otherworldly e-waste dump camp, an anti-colonialist hacking collective attempts a takeover of the authoritarian regime expl...
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Poison
Movie
Directed by Todd Haynes • Arthouse • 1991 • US • English
Starring Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, John LeguizamoWinner 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...
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Tom of Finland
Movie
Directed by Dome Karukoski • Biopic • 2017 • Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany • Finnish with English subtitles
Starring Pekka Strang, Seumas Sargent, Lauri TilkanenThe proudly erotic drawings of artist Touko Laaksonen, known to the world as Tom of Finland, shaped the fantasies of a generation ...
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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 CastroSinging 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...
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Colonel Redl
Movie
Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1984 • Hungary, Germany, Austria • German with English subtitles
Starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun LandgrebeSet in the lead up to WWI, István Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning and Academy Award nominated film charts the rise of Alfred ...
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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...
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When the Beat Drops
Movie
Directed by Jamal Sims • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Anthony DavisDrop 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...
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Love, Cecil
Movie
Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Rupert Everett, David Hockney, Isaac MizrahiOscar-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...
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The Wound
Movie
Directed by John Trengove • Drama • 2017 • South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France • Xhosa with English subtitles
Starring Mallory Wanecque, Timéo Mahaut, Johan HeldenberghShortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, "The Wound" is an exploration of tradition and sexuali...