The Best LGBT Films of All Time

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- In honor of LGBT Pride Month, here is a list of the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender films of all time. This list includes award-winning and critically-acclaimed films that feature significant LGBT characters or themes.



Work in progress

And the Band Played On (1993)
Angels in America
Any Day Now (2012)
Appropriate Behaviour (2014)
Beau Travail (1999)
Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar (2010)
Before Night Falls (2000)
Before You Know It (2013)
Beginners (2010)
Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Bent (1997)
Bessie (2015)
Beyond the Hills (După dealuri, 2012)
Big Eden (2000)
Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)
Bridegroom: A Love Story, Unequaled (2013)
The Broken Hearts Club (2000)
By Hook or By Crook (2001)
Call Me Kuchu (2012)
Capote (2005)
The Case Against 8 (2014)
The Celluloid Closet (1995)
Chuck & Buck (2000)
The Circle (2014)
Claire of the Moon (1992)
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
Death in Venice (1971)
Do I Sound Gay? (2014)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
An Early Frost
Eastern Boys (2013)
Edward II (1991)
Farewell, My Queen (2012)
Fellini-Satyricon
Fireworks (1947)
Flesh (1968)
Four Moons (Cuatro lunas, 2014)
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Futuro Beach (2014)
Grandma (2015)
Guidance (2014)
Heartbeats (2011)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Hellbent (2004)
Henry and June (1990)
How To Survive a Plague (2012)
Howl (2010)
The Hunger (1983)
I Am Divine (2013)
I Am Michael (2015)
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère, 2009)
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
The Imitation Game (2014)
Je, tu, il, elle (1974)
Kill Your Darlings (2013)
The Last of Sheila (1973)
Lilies (1996)
Lilting (2014)
The Living End (1992)
Lonesome Cowboys (1968)
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
Making Love (1982)
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine (2015)
Michael (1924)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Milk (2008)
My Brother the Devil (2012)
Nasty Baby (2015)
The New Girlfriend (2014)
Nighthawks (1978)
Nightingale (2015)
Orlando (1992)
Out in the Dark (2012)
Paris Is Burning (1990)
Parting Glances (1986)
Pasolini (2014)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Pink Narcissus (1971)
Poison (1991)
Portrait of Jason (1967)
Pride (2014_
Priest (1994)
Querelle (1982)
Rent (2005)

Lesbian
Aimée and Jaguar (1999)
Better Than Chocolate (1999)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle, 2013)
Bound (1996)
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
Carol (2015)
The Children’s Hour (1961)
Circumstance (2011)
Concussion (2013)
Desert Hearts (1985)
The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Fire (1996)
The Fox (1967)
Gia (1998)
Go Fish (1994)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
High Art (1998)
The Hours (2002)
Imagine Me & You (2005)
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
The Killing of Sister George (1968)
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Lianna (1983)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Monster (2003)
Mosquita y Mari (2012)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Pariah (2011)
Personal Best (1982)
Sand Dollars (Dólares de Arena, 2014)
Show Me Love (F**king Åmål, 1998)
Silkwood (1983)

Gay
Another Country (1984)
Bad Education (2004)
Bear Cub (Cachorro, 2004)
Beautiful Thing (1996)
The Birdcage (1996)
The Boys in the Band (1970)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
La Cage aux Folles (1978)
De-Lovely (2004)
Edge of Seventeen (1998)
Get Real (1998)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Happy Together (1997)
A Home at The End of The World (2004)
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
In & Out (1997)
It’s My Party (1996)
Jeffrey (1995)
Keep the Lights On (2012)
Kiss of The Spider Woman (1985)
L.I.E. (2001)
The Laramie Project (2002)
Latter Days (2003)
Law of Desire (1987)
Longtime Companion (1989)
Looking for Langston (1989)
Love Is Strange (2014)
Mala Noche (1985)
Maurice (1987)
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
The Normal Heart (2014)
North Sea Texas (2011)
The Opposite of Sex (1998)
Patrik Age 1.5 (2010)
Philadelphia (1993)
Prayers for Bobby (2009)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Saved! (2004)
Scorpio Rising (1964)
Shelter (2008)
Shortbus (2006)
A Single Man (2009)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
The Skeleton Twins (2014)
The Terence Davies Trilogy

Bisexual
Cabaret (1972)
The Color Purple (1985)
Kaboom (2010)

Transgender
52 Tuesdays (2013)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
All About My Mother (1999)
Boy Meets Girl (2014)
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
The Crying Game (1992)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
The Danish Girl (2015)
Different for Girls (1996)
Laurence Anyways (2012)
Ma Vie en Rose (1997)
Mala Mala (2014)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
Normal (2003)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Skin I Live In (2011)*
Soldier's Girl (2004)

[Impossible]

The Sum of Us is missing.

[Impossible]

Jeffrey is missing.

[Batmon77]

Cruisin'

[AaronJ]

I'll probably get absolutely torn to shreds for this, but ...

Monster

You have to admit that their relationship at the center of the story was pretty damned important, no matter how awful one of the characters turned out to be?

[Impossible]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

I'll probably get absolutely torn to shreds for this, but ...

Monster

You have to admit that their relationship at the center of the story was pretty damned important, no matter how awful one of the characters turned out to be?

I agree. If Mulholland Drive is on there Monster should be.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Impossible

I agree. If Mulholland Drive is on there Monster should be.

Whew!

[The Debts]

Does Cloud Atlas count? I know the romance between Frobisher and Sixsmith is only one of many stories but it is still pretty prominent.

[Falaskan]

Prayers for Bobby

Sigourney Weaver!!

[Canada]

Midnight Cowboy.

[newginafets]

Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Bent
Shelter
Undertow

[Batmon77]

The Color Purple

[Falaskan]

ooh can't forget:

Out in the Dark

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Canada

Midnight Cowboy.

He already has that on the list.

[spanky87]

I don't think Wizard of Oz should be on this list. It's not a LGBT film regardless of some apparent gay metaphors that people choose to see. Or is it listed just because Judy Garland is a gay icon?

I'd recommend adding these to the list:

[Rockercub]

Originally Posted by AaronJ

I'll probably get absolutely torn to shreds for this, but ...

Monster

You have to admit that their relationship at the center of the story was pretty damned important, no matter how awful one of the characters turned out to be?

Definitely. And along those same lines, Dahmer and Swoon.

[WilsonBros]

George Romero's Knightriders. The subplot between three of the characters is superbly handled.

[levcore]

Pride

[Todd Tomorrow]

Love is Strange
In a Year With 13 Moons
Lianna
Personal Best

[blurayfriend]

Kiss of the Spider Woman! One of the all time best movies, period.