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Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time
The latest: With out latest update, weve added the most recent Certified Fresh films, including Backspot, Good One, Challengers, Bird, Love Lies Bleeding, Queer, Problemista, Fitting In, Housekeeping for Beginners, I Saw the TV Glow, In the Summers, The People’s Joker, National Anthem, Good Grief, Sebastian, FRIDA, Cuckoo, Fancy Dance, Femme, A Nice Indian Boy, and The Wedding Banquet! Watch them and more on Fandango at Home!
Our list of the Leading LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time stretches back 90 years to the pioneering German film, Mädchen in Uniform, which was subsequently banned by the Nazis, and crosses multiple continents, cultures, and genres. There are broad American comedies (The Birdcage), artful Korean crime dramas (The Handmaiden), groundbreaking indies (Tangerine), and landmark documentaries (Paris Is Burning). Over the last few years, we added titles like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about LGBTQ+ activists risking their lives for
Readers Poll: The 25 Most Important LGBT Films
June is Lgbtq+ fest Month, commemorating the Stonewall riots and asking all of us to retain how we got where we are today. So we thought it might be fun to start up an annual Pride Month poll here at /bent, asking our readers to announce us the films, television shows, songs and people (both fictional and real) that have been important to them in the past 45 years.
Check out all the results for every poll here.
Seventy-two people responded, and well be sharing the results over the next few weeks, with the first up today, and its a doozy: The most crucial LGBT films of the last 45 years. Now, before we get to the results: We do realize doing this kind of thing is highly subjective, which is why were going with most important and not best. We hoped that what resulted was eclectic mix of films that have helped shape the gender non-conforming cultural landscape. And we think it really is. But here are some interesting things to notice before you travel through the list:
- The top two choices were extre
55 of the Best LGBTQ Films of All Time
'Bottoms' ()
If ever there was a Superbad for queer 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 academy fight club to try and hook up with their cheerleader crushes (Kaia Gerber and Havana Rose Liu).
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'Bound' ()
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 chick Violet (Jennifer Tilly). As Corky and Violet strike up an affair, they hatch a intend 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' ()
Southern Californians will likely recognize Circus of Books as the famed porn shop and dirty bookstore that has presided over the gayborhood of West Hollywood since the e
The 50 Best LGBTQ Movies Ever Made
50Love, Simon ()
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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school unique, 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 watch in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen scrutinize his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you recognize what? The queer kids of the future desire their wholesome entertainment, too.
49Rocketman ()
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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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48Handsome Devil ()
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A charming Irish movie that answers the question: "What if John Hughes were Irish and gay?" Misfit Ned struggles at