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LGBTQ people have long been buried under tropes and unsubtle stereotypes in film and television. Still, from Sacha Baron Cohen’s fashion-obsessed Brüno to a Scream Queens character nicknamed Predatory Lez, we unfortunately continue to see it all. For marginalized groups, truthful representation in film is imperative, even lifesaving, and in today’s stormy political climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgender people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetically — and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like because they live it.
Luckily, hope is on the horizon: Although LGBTQ people used to be less visible than Sia’s face in a music video, more LGBTQ-identifying filmmakers, actors, producers, and directors than ever are being given the opportunity to tell their stories. So, ranging from a historic biopic about a gay rights activist to a cheesy 2000s rom-com that’ll turn even your worst mood around, here are 25 of the best LGBTQ movies you need to see — or see again.
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If you’ve ever asked a friend for a lesbian film recommendation, the answer was probably Blue Is the Warmest Color. The French film follows Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a teenager who falls in love with an older art-school student named Emma (Léa Seydoux). Just like most woman-loving-woman relationships, the film is quite the saga of ups, downs, heartbreak, and tortured passion.
Many grew up watching and loving classic '80s high school rom-coms such as Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, and Say Anything. If you have the same keenness for John Hughes films, then you won’t be disappointed by Love, Simon. Based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, the movie shows what it’s like to come out in high school during a post-Glee world. Sure, you may be a part of a liberal community in a family you realize will accept you, but that doesn’t necessarily make coming out any easier. Featuring a queer actor as one of the main love interests, and a gay director, Love, Simon is a movie that will likely have you crying and clapping through scenes as you watch.
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Desert Hearts is widely considered the first film with a lesbian story line where the women end up together. The critically acclaimed film is notable in woman-loving-woman history for its positive portrayal of a lesbian relationship. Directed by out filmmaker Donna Deitch, the story follows Vivian (Helen Shaver), a mid-30s professor who stays at a ranch in Reno, Nevada, that houses women waiting for their divorces to finalize. There she falls for Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), a young artist who works at one of the casinos, and a turbulent affair ensues.
Tangerine was released to much critical praise for its portrayal of transgender characters. Set in West Hollywood, the movie follows the friendship between a pair of sex workers played by Mya Taylor and Kitana Kiki Rodriguez. Tangerine is explosive, dark, dirty, and sharp. Finding a movie about transgender men or women is rare; finding one that’s good is even harder to come by — but finding one that’s authentic and has trans actors playing trans characters is, well, you’re catching on. Transgender people are vastly underrepresented in Hollywood, but thanks to films like Tangerine, that’s finally changing. And get this: Tangerine was shot entirely on an iPhone 5s.
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Gus Van Sant directed Milk, a film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk. The first openly gay man to get elected to public office in California, in 1977, Milk was, and is, a gay icon. The film follows the life, romantic relationships, political ascendancy, and his eventual assassination. Milk won two Academy Awards: one for Best Leading Actor (Sean Penn) and the other for Best Original Screenplay (written by Dustin Lance Black). It’s nothing short of an iconic American film.
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As far as good movies go — like critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning movies — Brokeback Mountain is a solid place to start. Although it falls short on LGBTQ cast and crew, the movie pushed conservative boundaries and broke barriers, thus crowning it an influential moment in LGBTQ filmmaking. The story follows Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), two cowboys who meet in the early 1960s and fall madly in love — and who would have been crucified by society if they’d made their love known. The shame these two characters feel for the love they share will put your heart through a shredder, empty it out, put it in a blender, dump it out, and then force you to pour it over your head.... But the film is beautifully written, performed, made, and scored.
Other People is an extremely dark comedy that follows David (Jesse Plemons), a struggling comedy writer who moves home to live with his terminally ill mother (Molly Shannon). Written and directed by Saturday Night Live’s Chris Kelly, this movie will make you ugly-cry and then laugh at yourself for doing so. Among the infinite reasons to love Other People is that it features a gay protagonist even though the movie isn’t about his sexuality. It’s always refreshing to see gay characters going about their daily lives as people who do things other than just date each other! Plus, 15-year-old J.J. Totah is the breakout star of this movie. He plays a hilarious, overwhelmingly flamboyant preteen who steals the show. Basically he’s you — no, he’s us.
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Julianne Moore and Annette Bening portray a lesbian couple, Jules and Nic, whose family is turned upside down when their children (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) seek to make a connection with their sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo). Things get even more twisted when Jules, who at the time identifies as a lesbian, enjoys some late-in-life sexual exploration at the expense of her family. Intricately written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko (one of the best lesbian filmmakers out there), the hilarious and heartwarming The Kids Are All Right features real-life struggles that so many modern couples endure. Warning: You might fall in love with Julianne Moore (if you haven’t already). Also, it’s worth a watch to see baby Josh Hutcherson with a bowl cut.
Set in the early 1990s, As You Are follows three best friends in a complicated adolescent triangle. Charlie Heaton, AKA Jonathan Byers in Stranger Things, plays Mark, one third of the group. The dynamic among the Kurt Cobain–loving, class-cutting, weed-smoking trio is compromised when Mark and Jack (Owen Campbell) kiss: What’s meant as a jest awakens a previously vacant desire. Amandla Stenberg plays the grounded and smart Sarah, the third and final ingredient in this honest coming-of-age tale.
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Starring and co-written by Jennifer Westfeldt, Kissing Jessica Stein examines the life of Jessica, a woman in her late 20s who is fed up with a monotonous desk job and dating life. On a whim she decides to answer a woman-seeking-woman personal ad in a newspaper. Kissing Jessica Stein offers an incredible portrayal of sexual fluidity, emotional self-discovery, and sexual exploration, but problems arise toward film’s end, when Jessica’s girl-loving side is threatened with becoming completely erased. While it seems that Jessica is probably bisexual, her partner tells her she’s not “gay enough” to be with a woman. Hopefully a remake will be able to get the nuances of sexual fluidity right.
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The Way He Looks (in Portuguese: Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho) is a Brazilian romance drama that portrays what it’s like to come into your sexuality while living with a disability. Leonardo (Ghilherme Lobo) is a blind high school student who becomes smitten with a new student in his class, Gabriel (Fabio Audi). The film is warm, tender, and will challenge many notions you might have about what it means to be gay and be living with a disability. If you don’t speak or understand Portuguese please do not be deterred from watching a film with subtitles, because this is a coming-of-age gay film that you do not want to miss.
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Imagine Me & You is arguably one of the best LGBTQ rom-coms out there. Piper Perabo plays Rachel, a bride who has a meet-cute with the woman of her dreams while walking down the aisle to marry her husband. If you’re a fan of happy-go-lucky romantic comedies like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, then this one’s for you. It’s cheesy and adorable, and the early-2000s vibes are strong: the music, the acting, the cast, the way it’s filmed (all the way down to the lens flares). Imagine Me & You is a period piece, really. And, oh yeah, the girl actually gets the girl. I repeat: The girl actually gets the girl!
Based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Moonlight debuted to high critical praise for cinematography, storytelling, and its portrayal of black gay male identity. The film, directed by Barry Jenkins, follows the youth, adolescence, and adulthood of Chiron in three definitive acts. Set in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood, the story weaves through Chiron’s heartbreaking relationships with parental figures and his navigation of complicated friendships. It won a number of awards during the 2017 red-carpet season, including Best Picture at the Oscars and Best Picture, Drama, at the Golden Globes.
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Bound is an exceptional film for so many reasons. Not only is it an LGBTQ fan favorite, but it was also written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, sisters who are both transgender. Jennifer Tilly stars as the high-femme Violet, who seduces Corky (Gina Gershon), an androgynous female plumber who works next door. Something bigger is at stake, however: Corky has to break Violet out of the mob.
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Do you use the word “shade” in your everyday language? Did you know Madonna didn’t, in fact, invent voguing? Both of these things plus many more phrases and cultural phenomenon can be traced back to the ball culture that was, and still is, popular with queer and trans communities of color. Paris Is Burning is a documentary that is extremely eye opening if you aren’t familiar with drag balls, and is essential viewing for anyone who uses “shade” or “reading” in their vocabulary.
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D.E.B.S. is what would happen if you gave Charlie’s Angels an LGBTQ story line. It’s a spoof on romantic comedies and espionage thrillers, but it might also be the most underrated spy movie in history. Starring a young Sara Foster and Jordana Brewster, D.E.B.S. traces the budding romance between one of the USA’s top intelligence operatives and the FBI’s most-wanted woman. Foster plays Amy, the teen queen of the D.E.B.S, a top-secret U.S. paramilitary academy. She’s about to graduate at the top of her class with a takedown of historic proportions when she comes face-to-face with the infamous criminal mastermind Lucy Diamond. Lucy immediately falls for Ms. Goody Two-Shoes and has her henchmen basically kidnap her…for a date!
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Set in Tehran, this 2011 film follows Atafeh (Nikohl Boosheri) and her orphaned best friend, Shireen (Sarah Kazemy), as they fall in love. But Atafeh's brother becomes increasingly religious and obsessed with Shireen, causing tension between him and his sister. The movie explores same-sex relationship in Iran, along with familial obligations and religion.
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Natasha Lyonne plays Megan, a bubbly, oblivious cheerleader whose family and friends decide that her interest in veganism and Melissa Etheridge is just too on-the-nose: She’s a lesbian who needs to be stopped! They hold an intervention with plans to send Megan to a conversion-therapy camp. Shocked by the allegations, Megan agrees to go to True Directions, a camp that promises to “cure” homosexuality. This movie obviously has disturbing undertones, but the ensemble of characters, from queer men and women to those questioning their gender identities, makes for one of the best LGBTQ parody movies of all time. But I’m a Cheerleader will leave you brimming with pride.
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John Cameron Mitchell directs and stars in this cult classic film based on John’s stage musical of the same name. It follows the titular Hedwig (played by John Cameron Mitchell), a transgender rock star from East Germany who survives a botched gender confirmation surgery and moves to Kansas with her husband Luther to pursue her musical dreams. Hedwig then falls in love with another man named Tommy, who eventually leaves and steals her music. The glam rock aesthetic of the film has led it to have a Rocky Horror-like following as it pulls at the heartstrings and eardrums of queer rockers looking to break free.
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Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, *Call Me by Your Name *is a movie that portrays an understated honesty that comes with discovering your sexuality at a young age. The film catapulted Timotheé Chalamet into stardom playing 17-year-old Elio who falls in love with Oliver (played by Armie Hammer), a graduate student staying with his family at their Italian villa for the summer. Call Me by Your Name is a heart-wrenching film that reckons with how summer romances can come and go so quickly, but can also be filled with life-long lessons about love and realizing how precious time with a loved one is. The film received an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and received nominations for Timotheé for Best Actor, Best Picture, as well as Best Original Song for singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.
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Written by, directed by, and starring filmmaker Clea DuVall, The Intervention is a dark comedy about a group of friends who conspire to break up a married couple in their circle. The pair’s fighting and misery have become too much to bear, so everyone joins in on a weekend getaway that is used as ruse to hold an intervention for Matt (Jason Ritter) and Ruby (Cobie Smulders). If you liked Megan (Natasha Lyonne) and Graham (Clea DuVall) in But I’m a Cheerleader, then you’ll be intrigued with The Intervention — it stars Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall as a couple once again, breathing new life into the meaning of OTP.
Films starring transgender actors are hard to come by, and films starring a transgender woman who gets a happy ending are even harder. Boy Meets Girl stars Michelle Hendley as Ricky Jones, a trans woman living in a small town in Kentucky who works as a barista and wants to move to New York City to study fashion design. Her plans change unexpectedly when a local woman, Francesca (Alexandra Turshen), comes into her life after meeting at the coffee shop she works at. Boy Meets Girl is funny, tender, and delicately explores the notions of how gender and sexuality are at play with each other.
Battle of the Sexes is about the real-life tennis match that happened between Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrell) to prove that women can be just as good as (if not better than) men at sports. In the film, you also get a look into the affair that Billie Jean has with her secretary Marilyn (Andrea Riseborough), her first same-sex relationship. The film might not center on their romance, but it shows the exceptional woman that Billie Jean was, and still is today, in her fight for gender and sexuality equality within the tennis profession.
Carol is a film that has amassed an intense fan base and once you watch the film you’ll understand why. The movie is based on a novel, The Price of Salt, which tells the story of an affair during the early 1950s between Therese (Rooney Mara), an aspiring photographer, and Carol (Cate Blanchett), an older woman going through a difficult divorce. Lesbian stories from major Hollywood studios are rare to come by, but Carol does the genre justice with a beautifully shot, written, and acted film that'll have you obsessed.
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Many of the films about the AIDS-crisis are set in New York City where a significant population was affected and began to protest. BPM is instead set in France during the 1990s and follows a group of AIDS activists in Paris's chapter of Act Up. BPM swept the 2017 Cannes Film Festial, winning four total awards, including Grand Prix and Queer Palm. It’s important to remember that the AIDS epidemic was a global one, and this film explores that in a stunning and heartbreaking way.
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