Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "gay-rights", "prejudice"

1. Pride (I) (2014)

R | 119 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

Director: Matthew Warchus | Stars: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine

Votes: 61,726

2. Philadelphia (1993)

PG-13 | 125 min | Drama

When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic-small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman

Votes: 258,415 | Gross: $77.32M

3. Milk (I) (2008)

R | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of American gay activist Harvey Milk, who fought for gay rights and was elected as California's first openly gay official.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna

Votes: 179,954 | Gross: $31.84M

4. Holding the Man (2015)

Unrated | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History

The warm, funny and achingly sad story of the 15-year-long love affair between Timothy Conigrave and the boy he fell in love with at high school, John Caleo.

Director: Neil Armfield | Stars: Ryan Corr, Sarah Snook, Francesco Ferdinandi, Craig Stott

Votes: 13,393

5. Prayers for Bobby (2009 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley, Austin Nichols

Votes: 17,970

6. The Laramie Project (2002 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 97 min | Crime, Drama, History

The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.

Director: Moisés Kaufman | Stars: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Chalfant, Laura Linney

Votes: 6,960

7. The Red Pill (2016)

TV-14 | 108 min | Documentary

The Red Pill chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the mysterious and polarizing Men's Rights Movement. The Red Pill explores today's gender war and asks the question "what is the future of gender equality?"

Director: Cassie Jaye | Stars: Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, Attila Vinczer, Dean Esmay

Votes: 12,055

8. Any Day Now (I) (2012)

R | 98 min | Drama

In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.

Director: Travis Fine | Stars: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher

Votes: 6,575 | Gross: $0.20M

9. You Are My Sunshine (2021)

Unrated | 114 min | Drama, History, Romance

The affectionate story of the lifelong romance between Tom and Joe, from their first humble meeting in the 1970s, a world only just waking up to homosexuality, through to their heartbreaking final days, decades later.

Director: David Hastings | Stars: Steve Salt, Jack Knight, Charles O'Neill, Ernest Vernon

Votes: 202

10. Mariposas Verdes (2017)

101 min | Drama

Mateo an intelligent and popular school-boy falls in love with Daniel, but when that relationship is made public, Mateo is at a crossroads, and will have to decide between fighting his adversaries, or giving up everything.

Director: Gustavo Nieto Roa | Stars: Deivi Duarte, Kevin Bury, Cecilia Suárez, Maria Helena Doering

Votes: 714

11. Children of God (2010)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama

The story of two young Bahamian men who fall in love with each other and portrays the homophobia of the Bahamian society.

Director: Kareem Mortimer | Stars: Johnny Ferro, Stephen Tyrone Williams, Margaret Laurena Kemp, Mark Ford

Votes: 1,405

12. Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II (1991)

Unrated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Ron Peck talks about his experiences of growing up as a gay man, the attitudes to homosexuality in Britain, and his journey towards making his film Nighthawks (1978).

Director: Ron Peck | Stars: Ron Peck, John Brown, John Daimon, Nick Bolton

Votes: 127

13. Before Stonewall (1984)

Unrated | 87 min | Documentary, History

The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.

Directors: Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg | Stars: Rita Mae Brown, Bruce Nugent, Henry Otis, Donna Smith

Votes: 1,190 | Gross: $0.02M

14. God Loves Uganda (2013)

TV-14 | 83 min | Documentary

An account of the American Evangelicals' attempts to indoctrinate their Christian Right beliefs in Uganda.

Director: Roger Ross Williams

Votes: 1,256 | Gross: $0.05M

15. 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)

R | 80 min | Documentary

A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.

Directors: Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet | Stars: Spencer Jones, Tyler Barrick, Dustin Lance Black, Linda Williams Stay

Votes: 1,273 | Gross: $0.10M

16. A Jihad for Love (2007)

Unrated | 81 min | Documentary

A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.

Director: Parvez Sharma | Stars: Muhsin Hendricks, A.K. Hoosen, Mazen, Abdellah Taïa

Votes: 714 | Gross: $0.11M

17. Outrage (I) (2009)

R | 90 min | Documentary

An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the U.S.

Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Barney Frank, James McGreevey, Kevin Naff, Dan Popkey

Votes: 1,754 | Gross: $0.04M

18. Trembling Before G-d (2001)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary

A cinematic portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.

Director: Sandi Simcha Dubowski | Stars: Shlomo Ashkinazy, Steve Greenberg, Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Naomi Mark

Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.62M

19. Making the Boys (2011)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Gay Rights Movement, the film explores the drama, struggle and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to ... See full summary »

Director: Crayton Robey | Stars: Edward Albee, Joe Allen, Matt Baney, David Carter

Votes: 712 | Gross: $0.03M

20. Word Is Out (1977)

124 min | Documentary, Biography, History

26 diverse lesbian and gay people are interviewed about their lives and the challenges they experience in a homophobic culture. A groundbreaking documentary is now an artefact of a different time.

Directors: Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein | Stars: Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow

Votes: 541

21. Anotherworld (2008 Video)

Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An experimental drama entirely composed by monologues. A personal journey through male homosexuality - from darkness to light, from total denial to complete acceptance - as told in ... See full summary »

Director: Fabiomassimo Lozzi | Stars: Francesco Apolloni, Domenico Balsamo, Mirko Batoni, Massimiliano Benvenuto

Votes: 104

22. Out in the Silence (2009)

Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary, Comedy, Family

The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson's wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy in his small hometown and a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school.

Directors: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson | Stars: C.J. Bills, Diane Granley, Linda Henderson, Roxanne Hitchcock

Votes: 545

23. Call Me Kuchu (2012)

Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the ... See full summary »

Directors: Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall | Stars: David Bahati, Lou Engle, Long John, David Kato

Votes: 830 | Gross: $0.01M

24. Next Year in Jerusalem (1997)

Unrated | 104 min | Drama, Romance

Manny, devout to his upbringing, is set to marry Rivka, the Rabbi's daughter. But Manny has a secret only Charlie, an openly gay man in an Orthodox Jewish family can understand.

Director: David Nahmod | Stars: Peter J. Byrnes, LinDel Sandlin, Colleen O'Neil, Daniel Nardicio

Votes: 132

25. Cured (2020)

80 min | Documentary

"Cured" takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBT equality: the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove ... See full summary »

Directors: Patrick Sammon, Bennett Singer | Stars: Harry Adamson, Gary Alinder, Irving Bieber, Robert Campbell

Votes: 167

26. Fish Out of Water (I) (2009)

Unrated | 60 min | Documentary, Animation, History

A documentary that faces down the controversies between homosexuality and religion, examining Bible verses quoted as condemnatory, and discussing alternative meanings.

Director: Ky Dickens | Stars: Terri Abbott, James Bankston, Ryan Barrett, Trish Bendix

Votes: 286

27. Maple Palm (2006)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A lesbian couple of fifteen years lives with the secret that one is an illegal immigrant. With no legal way to protect their relationship, the couple lives in fear of deportation. After an ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Torjan | Stars: Deborah Stewart, Taymour Ghazi, Andrea Carvajal, Robert J. Feldman

Votes: 409

28. After Stonewall (1999)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Documentary/Historical retrospective of the Gay Rights movement from the 1969 Stonewall riots to the present.

Director: John Scagliotti | Stars: Craig Rodwell, Melissa Etheridge, Mike Carney, Barney Frank

Votes: 675

29. One Nation Under God (1993)

Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary

Focusing on the contemporary religious Right Wing proliferation of curative therapies for homosexuality, this riveting documentary offers historical context as well as a political analysis of this frighteningly large movement.

Directors: Teodoro Maniaci, Francine Rzeznik | Stars: Ralph Blair, Pat Buchanan, Michael Bussee, Robert Cabaj

Votes: 211

30. Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda (2014)

Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, News

As most of the world moves forward toward gay equality, Russia is seemingly heading backward. Antigay sentiment and legislation are spreading rapidly throughout the country. In 2013, the ... See full summary »

Directors: Michael Lucas, Scott Stern | Star: Michael Lucas

Votes: 116

31. Pride Divide (1997)

Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, History

An exploration of how gay men and women have united against global homophobia, and at the same time have been divided over issues of sexism.

Director: Paris Poirier | Stars: Leslie Addison, Dorie Barron, Marce Barton, Cathy Bergquitz

Votes: 53

32. Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World (2003)

Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary

Documentary presenting the realities of coming out in lesser developed countries.

Director: John Scagliotti | Stars: Janeane Garofalo, Maher Sabry

Votes: 164

33. U People (2009)

76 min | Documentary, Music

What do you get when over the course of 2 days in an unassuming brownstone in Brooklyn with 30 women across sexualities and transfolk of color? History.

Directors: Olive Demetrius, Hanifah Walidah | Stars: DJ Ayden, Nakita Bermudez, Tara Bethea, Gloria Bigelow

Votes: 14

34. I Am Gay and Muslim (2012)

59 min | Documentary, Biography

This intimate documentary I AM GAY AND MUSLIM follows a number of young Moroccan gay men in their exploration of their religious and sexual identity. The men portrayed in the film openly ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Belloni | Star: Rayan Rayan

Votes: 41

35. Improvvisamente l'inverno scorso (2008)

85 min | Documentary

A couple engage in discussions with people on the street, politicians and religious leaders about the discrimination against gays and lesbians in Italy.

Directors: Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi | Stars: Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi, Frank Dabell, Veronica Pivetti

Votes: 224

36. Citizen Autistic (2013)

58 min | Documentary, News

This film explores the controversy surrounding autism advocacy from the perspectives of members of the autism communities.

Director: William Davenport

Votes: 19

37. I Exist (2003)

60 min | Documentary

Gay people exist in Armenia, Syria, Iran, Egypt and Sudan too. They are Christians, Muslims and Jews, belonging to and rejected by their own cultures. In this series of interview we learn a... See full summary »

Directors: Peter Barbosa, Garrett Lenoir | Star: Maher Sabry

Votes: 26

38. One Day in May (2009)

16 min | Documentary, Short, News

Crowds gathered outside the California Supreme Court await the decision regarding validity of Proposition 8. Emotions run high on both sides, with the LGBT community taking to the streets to protest the decision.

Director: Amir Jaffer | Stars: Anna Conda, Stuart Gaffney, Mark Leno

Votes: 17

39. Gay Power (1979 TV Movie)

25 min | Documentary

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Director: Bud Wendling | Stars: John Briggs, Jay Casselberry, Gwen Craig, Roma Guy

40. Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride (2009)

PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Before the 30th anniversary, Vancouver's Gay Pride Parade director examines relevance of Pride celebrations internationally. He travels to places where Pride is steeped in protest to ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Christie | Star: Ken Coolen

Votes: 142

41. Win or Lose (2012)

16 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

When a discriminatory amendment threatens the legitimacy of unconventional families in North Carolina, a photographer takes up his camera to fight for equality.

Director: Daniel Koehler

42. Shades of Gray (2001)

73 min | Documentary

A look at five ordinary people leading normal lives in Lawrence, Kansas who just happen to be gay and lesbian. This look at gay life in America's heartland is complicated a bit when the ... See full summary »

Director: Tim De Paepe | Stars: Leo Barbie, Fred Phelps

Votes: 20

43. CBS Reports (1959– )
Episode: The Homosexuals (1967)

59 min | Documentary, News

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Stars: Mike Wallace, William Baer, Irving Bieber, James Braxton Craven

Votes: 29

44. In Search of the Constitution (1987)
Episode: Mr. Justice Blackmun (1987)

Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary, History

Associate Justice Harold A. Blackmun discusses the Constitution's relevance to every American's daily life in issues ranging from baseball to abortion.

Director: Vern Diamond | Stars: Harry A. Blackmun, Mike Bowers, Michael Hardwick, Ed Meese

45. The Joe Rogan Experience (2009– )
James Damore (2017 Podcast Episode)

TV-MA | 159 min | Comedy, Talk-Show

James Damore is a former Google Senior software engineer, who was recently fired by Google after an internal memo he wrote about its diversity policies was leaked online.

Stars: Joe Rogan, James Damore

Votes: 16

46. Proud (2018)
Episode: 1981 (2018)

Unrated | 49 min | Drama

With the election of Socialist Francois Mitterrand, the main character in the series, Victor, decides to come out of the closet.Even though this is still a time when the World Health ... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Faucon | Stars: Frédéric Pierrot, Stanislas Nordey, Benjamin Voisin, Lou Roy-Lecollinet

Votes: 53