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Kanopy
89
8.0
/125118/
81
/4725/
81
/2844/
4.4
/1006806/
97
/338/
92
/98/
95
/48/
cc age 15+

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
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Amazon Prime Video
88
8.1
/198953/
82
/7889/
82
/4171/
4.4
/726306/
96
/226/
91
/449/
85
/40/

The Handmaiden (2016)
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.
poster
Kanopy
87
8.1
/36490/
82
/765/
79
/654/
4.4
/62486/
90
/52/
93
/726/
84
/28/

Farewell My Concubine (1993)
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
poster
Kanopy
87
8.1
/530866/
79
/18275/
78
/8615/
4.1
/573704/
97
/378/
93
/2949/
93
/45/
cc age 15+

Spotlight (2015)
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
poster
86
7.6
/124425/
76
/4633/
77
/1723/
4.2
/1428304/
96
/246/
81
/312/
95
/46/
cc age 14+

Aftersun (2022)
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
86
7.8
/353723/
78
/12378/
80
/12559/
3.9
/2697889/
95
/365/
86
/1861/
94
/53/
cc age 16+

Call Me by Your Name (2017)
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
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Criterion Channel
86
7.9
/10538/
79
/308/
79
/228/
4.2
/48777/
94
/17/
93
/134/

Pixote (1980)
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
poster
85
7.8
/108871/
77
/2027/
76
/2013/
4.2
/257520/
98
/99/
93
/2326/
87
/34/
cc age 17+

All About My Mother (1999)
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
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Fandango at Home Free
85
7.4
/349219/
73
/16100/
73
/7401/
4.2
/1342346/
98
/402/
79
/2202/
99
/53/
cc age 15+

Moonlight (2016)
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
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MUBI
84
7.8
/39927/
79
/1993/
79
/813/
4.3
/390089/
97
/173/
90
/88/
79
/40/

Monster (2023)
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.
poster
Netflix
84
8.1
/6437/
79
/472/
78
/143/
4.1
/29468/
98
/59/
85
/24/
79
/10/
cc age 16+

Disclosure (2020)
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.7
/7980/
74
/166/
74
/154/
4.0
/11677/
100
/31/
87
/108/
85
/10/

Victim (1961)
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
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Criterion Channel
84
8.2
/7097/
79
/167/
72
/115/
4.1
/11583/
96
/28/
94
/283/
cc age 14+

The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.
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Kanopy
84
7.9
/16340/
79
/487/
78
/334/
4.4
/103049/
79
/72/
90
/267/
84
/15/

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
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Criterion Channel
84
8.2
/20724/
83
/1077/
80
/522/
4.5
/214978/
98
/65/
88
/215/
82
/22/

Paris Is Burning (1991)
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.
poster
84
7.7
/412942/
76
/9392/
77
/7398/
4.2
/1397054/
88
/263/
82
/27146/
87
/41/
cc age 15+

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
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Hulu
83
7.6
/77225/
74
/2985/
74
/960/
3.9
/666118/
96
/275/
91
/67/
90
/53/
cc age 15+

All of Us Strangers (2023)
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
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Hulu
83
7.6
/204856/
75
/8166/
75
/3109/
4.1
/1398525/
96
/287/
91
/63/
86
/44/
cc age 14+

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
poster
83
7.5
/66683/
74
/2418/
73
/1868/
4.0
/160674/
96
/306/
91
/78/
87
/43/
cc age 17+

Pain and Glory (2019)
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
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Amazon Prime Video
83
7.8
/35059/
77
/641/
74
/492/
4.0
/26172/
100
/32/
93
/1200/
81
/5/

C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
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Kanopy
83
7.8
/64661/
78
/2558/
76
/1383/
4.2
/133341/
93
/155/
89
/688/
79
/36/
cc age 13+

Pride (2014)
In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
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Kanopy
82
7.9
/8068/
83
/358/
83
/216/
4.0
/91255/
92
/24/
97
/59/
69
/4/

Young Hearts (2024)
14-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.
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MUBI
82
7.5
/8641/
73
/283/
73
/190/
4.0
/34116/
97
/62/
90
/10/
89
/18/

Great Freedom (2021)
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.
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Fandango at Home Free
82
7.4
/108363/
72
/3951/
70
/1464/
3.9
/604654/
91
/361/
74
/222/
93
/60/
cc age 15+

TÁR (2022)
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
poster
The Roku Channel
82
7.8
/7942/
79
/188/
71
/109/
3.9
/15467/
96
/92/
89
/174/

The Celluloid Closet (1996)
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.
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Hoopla
82
7.8
/63937/
76
/1389/
74
/941/
4.2
/157173/
92
/48/
87
/1755/
80
/8/
cc age 15+

Cabaret (1972)
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
poster
82
7.7
/619820/
79
/31300/
77
/7600/
4.2
/3631311/
93
/407/
79
/5711/
81
/55/
cc age 15+

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.6
/40230/
78
/1714/
78
/963/
4.0
/138397/
98
/131/
88
/211/
85
/22/
cc age 16+

God's Own Country (2017)
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
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Kanopy
82
7.6
/1643/
77
/78/
71
/40/
3.8
/1662/
100
/30/
86
/18/
75
/10/
cc age 16+

Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine (2014)
An intimate portrait of Matthew Shepard, the gay young man murdered in one of the most notorious hate crimes in U.S. history. Framed through a personal lens, it's the story of loss, love, and courage in the face of unspeakable tragedy.
poster
MUBI
82
7.6
/4515/
78
/196/
68
/78/
4.0
/7309/
98
/80/
83
/160/
86
/23/
cc age 16+

How to Survive a Plague (2012)
A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.
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fuboTV
82
7.4
/17591/
75
/827/
77
/1371/
4.0
/58606/
99
/138/
84
/54/
84
/26/

BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
poster
HBO Max
82
7.9
/39498/
79
/1544/
77
/903/
3.8
/27034/
94
/49/
88
/380/
cc age 17+

The Normal Heart (2014)
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
poster
82
7.5
/185284/
74
/3415/
72
/2341/
3.8
/109990/
93
/241/
89
/11620/
83
/39/
cc age 16+

Milk (2008)
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.
poster
Hoopla
82
8.0
/871223/
80
/35333/
79
/17777/
3.8
/1049980/
90
/285/
91
/4680/
71
/49/
cc age 13+

The Imitation Game (2014)
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
poster
Hulu
81
7.4
/9944/
74
/552/
72
/78/
3.8
/117222/
97
/134/
94
/53/
80
/25/
cc age 15+

Twinless (2025)
Two men who lost their respective twin brothers develop a growing friendship after meeting in a support group. However, both harbor long-hidden secrets that threaten to tear them apart.
poster
Netflix
83
81
7.8
/5546/
79
/360/
81
/130/
4.1
/162886/
95

Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso (2025)
From a repressive childhood to artistic revolution, Ney Matogrosso transforms Brazil's stages — and himself — through music, creativity and inner fire.
poster
Hulu
81
7.3
/7040/
73
/349/
73
/57/
3.6
/40424/
95
/76/
96
/45/
85
/7/

A Nice Indian Boy (2025)
When Naveen brings his fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.5
/9133/
72
/391/
71
/157/
4.2
/61823/
95
/145/
64
/18/
91
/34/

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
poster
MUBI
81
7.4
/6296/
73
/196/
74
/88/
4.0
/43214/
97
/66/
84
/9/
83
/17/

Crossing (2024)
Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.
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Kanopy
81
7.5
/6190/
76
/179/
73
/147/
4.0
/36226/
100
/34/
77
/32/
82
/10/

Rebels of the Neon God (1994)
Within the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
poster
81
7.7
/38958/
77
/1031/
74
/412/
4.1
/68845/
92
/117/
93
/3140/
85
/29/
cc age 15+

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
poster
Netflix
81
7.3
/9565/
77
/549/
78
/280/
4.0
/104663/
89
/9/
92
/51/
cc age 16+

Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)
In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
poster
83
81
8.2
/8100/
82
/301/
77
/235/
3.9
/14606/
93
/42/
90
/157/

I Don't Want to Go Back Alone (2011)
The arrival of a new student in school changes Leonardo's life. This 15 year-old blind teenager has to deal with the jealousy of his friend Giovana while figuring out the new feelings he's having towards his new friend, Gabriel.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
7.3
/152625/
73
/5770/
74
/3900/
4.0
/618410/
94
/323/
75
/1156/
94
/45/
cc age 16+

Carol (2015)
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.9
/3353/
75
/158/
68
/49/
4.0
/6454/
100
/74/
75
/10/
86
/17/

Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
poster
81
7.4
/6286/
68
/59/
67
/78/
3.6
/3337/
100
/15/
86
/87/
cc age 12+

The Dresser (1983)
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
poster
81
7.6
/83865/
76
/2072/
77
/1216/
4.2
/521724/
86
/116/
89
/2801/
74
/32/

Mysterious Skin (2005)
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
poster
81
7.9
/544547/
79
/14981/
79
/8888/
4.0
/600600/
92
/264/
91
/4158/
77
/47/
cc age 17+

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.


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