Beautiful gay movies

In this first major critical survey of LGBTQIA+ films, over 100 clip experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, contain voted the Uppermost 30 LGBTQIA+ Films of All Age. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as adv as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (1992), Lovely Thing (1996), Weekend (2011) and Sky Is the Warmest Colour (2013).

The winner is Todd Haynes’ award-winning Carol, closely followed by Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, and Hong Kong passionate drama Happy Together, directed by Wong Kar-wai, in third place. While Carol is a surprisingly recent film to foremost the poll, it’s a feature that has moved, delighted and enthralled audiences, and looks put to be a modern classic.

“The festival has long supported my work,” said Haynes, “from Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked in the initial 1990s through to Carol which is screening on 35mm later this week in BFI Flare’s Best of Year programme. I’m so pr

The 50 Best LGBTQ Movies Ever Made

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Love, Simon (2018)

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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school extraordinary , that's no mistake: Teen-tv super-producer Greg Berlanti makes his feature-film directorial debut here. It's as chaste a love story as you're likely to observe in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen doubt his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you perceive what? The queer kids of the future want their wholesome entertainment, too.

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Rocketman (2019)

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A gay fantasia on Elton themes. An Elton John biopic was never going to be understated, but this glittering jukebox musical goes way over the top and then keeps going. It might be an overcorrection from the straight-washing of the previous year's Bohemian Rhapsody, but when it's this much fun, it's best not to overthink it.

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Handsome Devil (2016)

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A charming Irish movie that answers the question: "What if John Hughes were Irish and gay?" Misfit Ned struggles at a rugby-obsessed boarding school until a mysterious new kid moves in and an unlikely friend

55 of the Best LGBTQ Films of All Time

'Bottoms' (2023)

If ever there was a Superbad for homosexual girls, Bottoms is it. The second film from director Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) follows two uncool high school seniors (Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott) who start up a school fight club to try and hook up with their cheerleader crushes (Kaia Gerber and Havana Rose Liu).

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'Bound' (1996)

In the Wachowskis’ landmark erotic thriller predating the Matrix trilogy, butch ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) is the newly-hired handyperson at an apartment building when she meets her next-door neighbors: mobster Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) and kept gal Violet (Jennifer Tilly). As Corky and Violet strike up an affair, they hatch a plan to flee Violet’s abusive relationship—and steal $2 million of Caesar’s mafia money along the way.

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'Circus of Books' (2020)

Southern Californians will likely recognize Circus of Books as the famed porn shop and stained bookstore that has presided over the gayborhood of West Hollywood since the early 1980s. For those who are not familiar—and even for those who are—this documentary, dir

Gay Movies with Delighted Endings: Adorable Characters, Lovable Stories, and a HAPPILY EVER AFTER

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Trying to find a feel-good "gay" production to watch is like playing a game of Russian Roulette with your soul, and I think that's shitty: There's a difference between a "gay drama", an "important gay movie", a "gay romance", and a "gay rom-com"... and I'm here to celebrate the latter two!

Every film in this list is, SPOILER Attentive, guaranteed to finish happily, with the two leads living happily-ever-after.

I like adoration movies, and I'm not apologizing for it! Because sometimes it's important to know, when you decide to monitor a movie, that the lovable couple you're giddy for isn't going to be shattered by horrible death or separated forever in lonely despair by the time the credits roll.

Alas, in gay cinema, our most-mainstream movie ends with our protagonist sniffing the jacket of a guy who was tire-ironed to death on the side of a freeway; our most critically-lauded flick ends with our star-crossed lovers hurtling themselves to their

The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time

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With the help of head directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential Homosexual films of all time

Like queer culture itself, homosexual cinema is not a monolith. For a extended time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if lgbtq+ lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of white, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their possess stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently include the gender non-conforming community and queer people of colour.

It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in culture at large, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as undertake the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to consent them. To that finish, we enlisted some Queer cultural pioneers, as adv as Time Out writers to assist in assembling a list of the greatest gay films ever made.

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