LGBT Related Movies you should watch
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1.
Three
(2010)
A Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man. (119 mins.)
Director: Tom Tykwer
2.
Death in Venice
(1971)
In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based... (130 mins.)
Director: Luchino Visconti
3.
Close to Leo
(2002 TV Movie)
When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested... (90 mins.)
Director: Christophe Honoré
4.
Wilde
(1997)
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of... (118 mins.)
Director: Brian Gilbert
5.
Queer as Folk
(2000 TV Series)
The lives and loves of a group of gay friends living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Director: Michael DeCarlo, John Fawcett
6.
Undertow
(2009)
An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions. (100 mins.)
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
7.
Blue Gate Crossing
(2002)
An is-she-or-isn't-she gay comedy focused on a Taiwanese teen, the boy she might like, and the girl she may love. (85 mins.)
Director: Chih-yen Yee
8.
Save Me
(2007)
A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit. (96 mins.)
Director: Robert Cary
9.
My Own Private Idaho
(1991)
Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way. (104 mins.)
Director: Gus Van Sant
10.
To Faro
(2008)
Melanie meets Jenny and falls in love. But Jenny thinks she's met Miguel. (90 mins.)
Director: Nana Neul
11.
Mala Noche
(1986)
A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. "I wanna show this Mexican kid that I'm gay for him"... (78 mins.)
Director: Gus Van Sant
12.
Edge of Seventeen
(1998)
A teenager copes with his sexuality on the last day of school in 1984. It shows him coping with being gay and being with friends. (99 mins.)
Director: David Moreton
13.
Happy Together
(1997)
Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift... (96 mins.)
Director: Kar Wai Wong
14.
Get Real
(1998)
A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love. (108 mins.)
Director: Simon Shore
15.
Maurice
(1987)
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality. (140 mins.)
Director: James Ivory
17.
Monster
(2003)
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer. (109 mins.)
Director: Patty Jenkins
18.
Lost and Delirious
(2001)
A newcomer to a posh girls boarding school discovers that her two senior roommates are lovers. (103 mins.)
Director: Léa Pool
19.
Imagine Me & You
(2005)
A newlywed bride becomes infatuated with another woman, who questions her sexual orientation, promoting a stir among the bride's family and friends. (94 mins.)
Director: Ol Parker
20.
Plutôt d'accord
(2004 Short Film)
Jérémie has a job recruiting subjects for testing. He'd rather recruit Rodrigue for something else entirely. (14 mins.)
Director: Christophe Botti, Stephane Botti
21.
Oz
(1997 TV Series)
A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.
Director: Gregory Dark
22.
Breakfast on Pluto
(2005)
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding. (128 mins.)
Director: Neil Jordan
23.
Brokeback Mountain
(2005)
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years. (134 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
24.
Heartbeats
(2010)
The story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle.
Director: Xavier Dolan
25.
Y Tu Mamá También
(2001)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other. (106 mins.)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
26.
Leo's Room
(2009)
Leo, a young man coming to terms with his own sexuality, runs into Caro, a primary school friend he fancied when they were kids... (95 mins.)
Director: Enrique Buchichio
27.
Plan B
(2009)
After girlfriend Laura dumps him for another man, Bruno plots to come between the new lovers. But his plan takes an unexpected turn, causing Bruno to question his own sexuality. (103 mins.)
Director: Marco Berger
28.
I Killed My Mother
(2009)
A semi-autobiographical story about Dolan as a young homosexual at odds with his mother. (96 mins.)
Director: Xavier Dolan
29.
Bad Education
(2004)
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends. (106 mins.)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
30.
Fleeing by Night
(2000)
Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Ing'er... (119 mins.)
Director: Li-Kong Hsu, Chi Yin
31.
Rainbow Eyes
(2007)
Officers Kyung-yoon CHO and Eun-joo PARK are on the hunt a killer following duo of ghastly murders. The victims carry a common military past, and the secret of their past must be unraveled to find the killer. (99 mins.)
Director: Yun-ho Yang
32.
Bungee Jumping of Their Own
(2001)
Two soulmates find eachother only to be torn apart by tragedy. However, not even death can keep them apart...but can destiny? (107 mins.)
Director: Dae-seung Kim
33.
Farewell My Concubine
(1993)
The story of two men, who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera, and stayed friends for over 50 years. (171 mins.)
Director: Kaige Chen
34.
Spider Lilies
(2007)
When Jade, a web-cam girl visits Takeko's tattoo studio she becomes entranced with the image of the spider lily and with Takeko as well... (94 mins.)
Director: Zero Chou
35.
Antique
(2008)
Jin-hyeok opens a cake shop in an old antique shop, hiring Seun-woo, Korea's best pastry chef, who fell in love with him in high school. Also there, are Soo-young, crushing on Seun-woo, ex-boxer Gi-beom, and Seun-woo's French ex-boyfriend.
Director: Kyu-Dong Min
36.
Love in Thoughts
(2004)
A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex. (89 mins.)
Director: Achim von Borries
37.
You I Love
(2004)
On their first anniversary, Vera comes home to discover her boyfriend Tim in bed with another man. (86 mins.)
Director: Olga Stolpovskaja, Dmitriy Troitskiy
38.
Mysterious Skin
(2004)
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth. (105 mins.)
Director: Gregg Araki
40.
Love Songs
(2007)
A musical interpretation of three lovers living in Paris. (100 mins.)
Director: Christophe Honoré
41.
XXY
(2007)
This is the dramatic story of a intersexed 15-year-old. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition. (86 mins.)
Director: Lucía Puenzo
43.
You Are Not Alone
(1978)
Two precocious boys explore their sexuality at boarding school. (90 mins.)
Director: Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen
44.
Velvet Goldmine
(1998)
In 1984, British newspaper reporter Arthur Stuart is investigating the career of 1970s glam rock star Brian Slade... (124 mins.)
Director: Todd Haynes
45.
Together
(2000)
Elisabeth tires of her husband Rolf, so she packs her bags, takes the kids and goes to her brother Göran... (106 mins.)
Director: Lukas Moodysson
46.
Beautiful People
(2008 TV Series)
The story of the flamboyant and ambitious 14-year-old Simon Doonan, who has dreams that stretch beyond his hometown of Reading.
47.
Brotherhood
(2009)
Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving... (90 mins.)
Director: Nicolo Donato
48.
Boys Don't Cry
(1999)
The story of the life of Brandon Teena, a transgendered teen who preferred life in a male identity until it was discovered he was born biologically female. (118 mins.)
Director: Kimberly Peirce
49.
A Single Man
(2009)
A story that centers on an English professor who, one year after the sudden death of his partner, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles. (99 mins.)
Director: Tom Ford
50.
Entre Nous
(1983)
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile... (110 mins.)
Director: Diane Kurys
51.
When Night Is Falling
(1995)
An uptight and conservative woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman whom works at a local carnival which comes to town. (94 mins.)
Director: Patricia Rozema
52.
Le voyage en douce
(1980)
Lucia and Elena are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the country. Their conversations are overtly intimate... (98 mins.)
Director: Michel Deville
53.
Romeos
(2011)
A drama centered on the relationship between a young man and a transsexual who is transitioning from female to male. (94 mins.)
Director: Sabine Bernardi
54.
North Sea Texas
(2011)
A teenage boy's search for love finds him fixated on the boy next door.
Director: Bavo Defurne
56.
Queer as Folk
(1999 TV Series)
Controversial Drama which chronicles the lives of Stuart and Vince, and also 15 year old Nathan who is in love with Stuart
Director: Sarah Harding, Charles McDougall
57.
The War Boys
(2009)
Three young vigilantes huddle on la linea ready to chase illegals back across the border into Mexico... but they soon learn that there are borderlines deep within each one of them that each of them has to cross.
Director: Ron Daniels
58.
Gia
(1998 TV Movie)
Movie based on the life of Gia Carangi, a top fashion model from the late 1970s. (120 mins.)
Director: Michael Cristofer
59.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(1989 Mini-Series)
Jessica's extraordinarily strong will and heart enables her to rebel against her fanatical, cult-like upbringing...
Director: Beeban Kidron
60.
Another Country
(1984)
Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies. (90 mins.)
Director: Marek Kanievska
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