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...

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...

Directed by Matt Tyrnauer • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Ian Schrager Steve Rubell, Norma Kamali

A haven of hedonism, glitz, and glamour, the infamous New York nightclub Studio 54 was the ultimate escapist fantasy until it imploded in financial scandal. With unprecedented access a...

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...

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...

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...

Directed by A. Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek, Ursula Puerrer • LGBTQ+ • 1992 • Austria • German with English subtitles
Starring Susanna Heilmayr, Ursula Pürrer, Angela Hans Scheirl

This pop sci-fi lesbian extravaganza set in the year 2700 in the fictional burned-out city of Asche follows the tan...

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt • Comedy • 2019 • Portugal, France, Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
Starring Carloto Cotta, Anabela Moreira, Margarida Moreira

Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, "Diamantino" follows a soccer hunk as he goe...

Directed by Kantemir Balagov • Arthouse • 2020 • Russia • Russian with English subtitles
Starring Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov

In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjus...

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...

Directed by Juliet Bashore • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • US • English • Mature Content
Featuring Tigr, Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin

Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunges into the 1980s porn industry and takes an unsparing look at issues...

Directed by Sue Williams • Documentary • 2020 • US • English and Cantonese with English subtitles
Featuring Denise Ho

"Denise Ho – Becoming the Song" profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented access, the film explores her remarkable jo...

Directed by Óskar Páll Sveinsson • Documentary • 2021 • Iceland • Icelandic with English subtitles
Featuring Veiga Grétarsdóttir

Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the first person in the world to attempt to kayak over 2,000 kilometers around Iceland, counter-clockwise and “against the current.” Veiga’s per...

Directed by Derek Jarman • Arthouse • 1990 • UK • English
Starring Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Peter Lee-Wilson

Directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton, this kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, featuring an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical nu...

Directed by Shirley Clarke • Documentary • 1967 • US • English
Featuring Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke

In 1966, director Shirley Clarke spent twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday where she confronted the iconic performer about his good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, on-an...

Directed by Pat Rocco • LGBTQ • 1974 • US • English • Mature Content
Starring Jon Adair, David Russell, Bambi Allen

Pat Rocco captured the essence of queer culture in the late 1960s and early ’70s, when it was still largely ignored by the popular media. “Drifter” observes the odyssey of an emoti...

Directed by Greta Schiller • Documentary • 1998 • UK, US, South Africa • English
Featuring Corin Redgrave, Joseph Bale, Adriaan Bassier

In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theater director was arrested with Nelson Mandela. His name was Cecil Williams. This...

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...

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....

Directed by Patricia Rozema • LGBTQ+ • 1995 • Canada • English
Starring Pascale Bussières, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny

In Patricia Rozema’s lesbian love story, Camille, a professor at a Protestant college meets Petra, a wry and flamboyant performer in a modern Felliniesque circus troupe, a...

Directed by Derek Jarman • LGBTQ+ • 1993 • UK • English
Starring Clancy Chassay, Karl Johnson, Tilda Swinton

A humorous portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers, Ludwig Wittgenstein. This self-tortured Viennese eccentric, who preferred detective fiction and the musical...