Favourite LGBT+ films?

Films can tell stories of people that are often overlooked in history and that's what makes them so good in my opinion!

With pride month coming up, what are people's favourite LGBT+ films?

Mine are:

Carol - Adapted from the book The price of Salt, Carol is a story about a young women named Therese falling in love with an older woman called Carol (Played by Cate Blanchett!), who must chose between living her life as a lesbian openly, or giving up custody of her son. The soundtrack of this film is beautiful <3 It's a very quiet story that is so so devastating
I killed my mother - Directed by Xavier Dolan at aged 18(!!!) I killed my mother is a film that explores a teenager's journey with his sexuality and his tumultuous relationship with his mother. Xavier Dolan's style is one of my favourites; this film mirrors his immaturity as a director in its messiness, but it works!
Moonlight - This is my FAVOURITE film of all time! It follows Chiron through his childhood years, his adolescence and his adulthood. Not only is this film about his coming of age, it's also an amazing commentary on how being African American interacts with masculinity and sexuality in modern America
The Bisexual - This is a mini-series directed by Desiree Akhavan and is probably the lightest of the bunch if you are looking for more of a comedy. It is about an openly Lesbian woman learning she is bisexual, and a really good insight into workings of the early 2000s lesbian scene.

Created at 4:25pm, 29th April, 2024. Page last updated at 2:44pm, 16th May, 2024.

FirestormGamingTeam 4/29/2024, 5:17:06 PM

Mine I would say is the one where Leonardo Decaprio is a pacifist teenager in Paris, I can't remember the name of the film, but he starred along side a couple, he was a teenager at the time, I think at the time, the film was way ahead of its time, sorry I really can't remember the name of it.

CassStaff4/30/2024, 1:20:12 PM

FirestormGamingTeam

I think you're thinking of Total Eclipse 1995

Sturmer 4/29/2024, 5:39:00 PM

Victor/Victoria, quite progressive narrative for 1982. Comedy part and music did a fantastic job to bring attention to sexuality and identity of the individual.

Horror and Cats 4/29/2024, 8:19:28 PM

Whenever I talk about how representation SHOULD be done, I talk about Spiral (2019).

There are varying degrees of representation, but the BEST and most effective one is where the story cannot exist without it. Spiral is a perfect example of that.

P.S. it is NOT the Spiral in the Saw universe, but it is a horror film (it's me talking about it, after all).

Makster 4/30/2024, 12:43:34 PM

I've not watched a lot of LBTQ+ films. Admittedly representation for this group has been sidelined if not part of the C or D storylines if not only briefly mentioned or confirmed by the actors/ writers that their characters are LBQT.

I did enjoy Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy (1997) as a more serious Viewaskew universe film trying to tackle sexuality in a more serious manner rather than the stoner-boner comedies you'd normally see from Smith.