MY FAVOURITE QUEER FILMS I'VE SEEN SO FAR
by meister-trollech | created - 30 May 2012 | updated - 14 Jun 2012 | PublicFilms I've rather enjoyed with queer protagonists. Feel free to recommend me anything you haven't seen here that I might enjoy based on this list that would be amazing!
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1. Sugar (I) (2004)
R | 78 min | Drama, Romance
Troubled suburban teen Cliff hooks up with a hustler from the streets of Toronto's gay ghetto.
Director: John Palmer | Stars: Andre Noble, Marnie McPhail, Haylee Wanstall, Dorothy Gordon
Votes: 2,046
Deranged, hilarious, super raw and my heart was left kind of hurting after it was done. It's that rare gem that you find and show to your friends again and again and again.
2.
Brows Held High (2011– )
Episode:
Otto, or Up with Dead People
(2011)
23 min | Comedy
Director: Kyle Kallgren | Stars: Kyle Kallgren, Michael Kallgren
Votes: 15
I feel there is some sort of CONSPIRACY because I can't add any of Bruce LaBruce's films onto my watchlist no matter which way I try. Also check out: Hustler White, No Skin off my Ass and Super 8½.
3. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
R | 113 min | Drama
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver
Votes: 120,764 | Gross: $44.79M
4. Weekend (II) (2011)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Tom Cullen, Chris New, Jonathan Race, Laura Freeman
Votes: 32,842 | Gross: $0.46M
Slice-of-life drama. Really natural performances and dialogue. Complex and subtle.
5. Desperate Living (1977)
X | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
A neurotic society woman murders her husband with her maid's help; on the lam, they escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled by a fascist queen.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey
Votes: 5,898
UNDER RATED. But most of the films on my list are. A feral group of lesbians take down their corrupt fascist queen, it's a fairy tale!
6. Fögi Is a Bastard (1998)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Fifteen-year-old Beni falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, Beni is willing to follow him where ever he takes him. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into his addiction.
Director: Marcel Gisler | Stars: Frédéric Andrau, Vincent Branchet, Urs Peter Halter, Martin Schenkel
Votes: 2,544
Really powerful, sexy film. Instant favourites.
7. Female Trouble (1974)
NC-17 | 89 min | Comedy, Crime
A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole
Votes: 10,461
Divine's greatest preformance
8. Pink Flamingos (1972)
NC-17 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole
Votes: 27,899 | Gross: $0.18M
9. Before Night Falls (2000)
R | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia, Giovani Florido
Votes: 26,373 | Gross: $4.22M
10. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.
Director: Jamie Babbit | Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Michelle Williams, Brandt Wille
Votes: 41,212 | Gross: $2.21M
Super cute teen romantic comedy that is somehow awesome. I've showed it to many of a straighty-one-eighty and they all loved it, just because it's an incredibly good natured and entertaining film.
11. Totally F***ed Up (1993)
TV-MA | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Six queer teenagers struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of varying obstacles.
Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: James Duval, Roko Belic, Susan Behshid, Jenee Gill
Votes: 3,935 | Gross: $0.10M
A group of teenagers growing up in the early 90s, dealing with their sexuality, friendships e.t.c. Brutal and honest.
12. Querelle (1982)
R | 108 min | Drama
A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet
Votes: 7,419
This is a style of cinema that I don't think will ever come again. The set, narrative, music, lightning all read out as if it's set on stage. There's a complete disconnection from reality that gives it this fantastic dream quality throughout the whole film. It's a *beep* weird movie.
13. Rope (1948)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Dick Hogan
Votes: 153,607
Early Hitchcock film. Murder mystery with James Stewart. You'll need to look between the lines and history of the piece to see that it is queer as *beep*. But it is.
14. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar
Votes: 273,036 | Gross: $50.00M
15. Eyes Wide Open (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.
Director: Haim Tabakman | Stars: Zohar Strauss, Ran Khalil Danker, Tinkerbell, Tzahi Grad
Votes: 6,572 | Gross: $0.02M
16. You I Love (2004)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
On their first anniversary, Vera comes home to discover her boyfriend Tim in bed with another man.
Directors: Olga Stolpovskaja, Dmitriy Troitskiy | Stars: Damir Badmaev, Lyubov Tolkalina, Evgeniy Koryakovskiy, Nina Agapova
Votes: 949 | Gross: $0.06M
I usually loathe romantic comedies, but this Moscow film about an eccentric bisexual man and his two lovers is dark and weird enough to get away with it for me. A gay positive story in Russian is so amazing.
17. Killer Condom (1996)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
The plot takes place in New York, and in the present. In a Hotel called "Quicky" a professor blackmails a student of his into having sex with him. But when the professor puts on a condom, ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Walz | Stars: Udo Samel, Peter Lohmeyer, Iris Berben, Leonard Lansink
Votes: 3,387
18. Mulholland Drive (2001)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 383,784 | Gross: $7.22M
19. Yossi & Jagger (2002)
R | 65 min | Drama, History, Romance
Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border.
Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Assi Cohen, Aya Steinovitz
Votes: 7,613
20. Head On (1998)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A 19 year old Greek Australian youth struggles with his sexual identity and has one clumsy heterosexual and several homosexual encounters.
Director: Ana Kokkinos | Stars: Alex Dimitriades, Elle Mandalis, Damien Fotiou, Alex Papps
Votes: 4,626 | Gross: $0.38M
21. Liquid Sky (1982)
R | 112 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters' brains.
Director: Slava Tsukerman | Stars: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas, Otto von Wernherr
Votes: 6,858
22. Angels in America (2003)
TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Several disparate but connected individuals go through the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s.
Stars: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 29,786
23. Naked Lunch (1991)
R | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands
Votes: 56,646 | Gross: $2.54M
24. Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced (2000)
95 min | Comedy, Music
Norwegian mock-documentary following the trials and tribulations of boy-band Boyzvoice, their fans and management.
Directors: Espen Eckbo, Henrik Elvestad, Mathis Fürst | Stars: Espen Eckbo, Øyvind Thoen, Kaare Daniel Steen, Henrik Elvestad
Votes: 1,595
25. Parting Glances (1986)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa, Michael must face Robert's true motives for leaving while dealing ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Sherwood | Stars: John Bolger, Richard Ganoung, Steve Buscemi, Adam Nathan
Votes: 3,235 | Gross: $0.54M
26. My Own Private Idaho (1991)
R | 104 min | Drama
Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert
Votes: 61,736 | Gross: $6.40M
27. Mysterious Skin (2004)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
Two pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.
Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Chase Ellison
Votes: 76,310 | Gross: $0.70M
28. Boys Don't Cry (1999)
R | 118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.
Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III
Votes: 103,285 | Gross: $11.53M
29. Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson
Votes: 24,527 | Gross: $0.83M
30. Transamerica (2005)
R | 103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
Director: Duncan Tucker | Stars: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Andrea James
Votes: 42,343 | Gross: $9.02M
31. Patrik, Age 1.5 (2008)
Unrated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Swedish gay couple adopt what they think is an 18-month-old orphan, only to meet their new son, a 15-year-old homophobic delinquent.
Director: Ella Lemhagen | Stars: Gustaf Skarsgård, Torkel Petersson, Tom Ljungman, Amanda Davin
Votes: 10,393 | Gross: $0.06M
32. Beautiful Thing (1996)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jamie is a shy teenager, often bullied at school. His neighbour Ste has a rough time at home, being beaten by his father and brother. This issues bring them together and they find that what they feel for each other is more than friendship.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Glen Berry, Linda Henry, Scott Neal, Tameka Empson
Votes: 25,748 | Gross: $1.50M
33. Priest (1994)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson
Votes: 11,031 | Gross: $4.18M
34. The Mudge Boy (2003)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The film follows the story of Duncan, a fourteen-year-old misfit farm boy trying to fill the void and alleviate the numbness left by his mother's passing. Unable to let her go quite yet, ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Burke | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Richard Jenkins, Tom Guiry, Pablo Schreiber
Votes: 4,687
35. Better Than Chocolate (1999)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Maggie, 19, works at a lesbian/LGBT bookstore. Her mom's getting divorced and has invited herself to stay with Maggie. Maggie hasn't told her, she's lesbian. Her new girlfriend moves in as well.
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Wendy Crewson, Karyn Dwyer, Christina Cox, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Votes: 8,750 | Gross: $2.01M
36. Tipping the Velvet (2002)
59 min | Drama, Romance
The story of Nan Astley who falls in love with three different women on her journey to stardom and happiness in 1887 Victorian England.
Stars: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Jodhi May, Alexei Sayle
Votes: 8,603
37. Gia (1998 TV Movie)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of the life of Gia Carangi, a top fashion model from the late 1970s, from her meteoric rise to the forefront of the modeling industry, to her untimely death.
Director: Michael Cristofer | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mercedes Ruehl
Votes: 50,262
38. Monster (2003)
R | 109 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen
Votes: 161,793 | Gross: $34.47M
39. Shelter (II) (2007)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
When his college dreams are sidelined by family obligations, a young man finds comfort in surfing with his best friend's brother.
Director: Jonah Markowitz | Stars: Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe, Tina Holmes, Jackson Wurth
Votes: 24,032 | Gross: $0.14M
40. Milk (I) (2008)
R | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American gay activist Harvey Milk, who fought for gay rights and was elected as California's first openly gay official.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna
Votes: 179,848 | Gross: $31.84M
41. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Graham
Votes: 17,295 | Gross: $2.45M
42. Victor/Victoria (1982)
PG | 134 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren
Votes: 23,635 | Gross: $21.93M
43. Cabaret (1972)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey
Votes: 59,388 | Gross: $42.77M
44. Get Real (1998)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
Director: Simon Shore | Stars: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain, Stacy Hart
Votes: 14,678 | Gross: $1.20M
45.
The Comic Strip Presents (1982– )
Episode:
The Bullshitters: Roll out the Gunbarrel
(1984)
41 min | Comedy
Janie, daughter of Commander Jackson, the head of D15, has been kidnapped and there are only two men who can save her - former agents Bonehead and Foyle.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Keith Allen, Peter Richardson, Robbie Coltrane, Al Pillay
Votes: 145
46. I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
R | 98 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
A cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with.
Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa | Stars: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro
Votes: 99,772 | Gross: $2.04M
47. Wilde (1997)
R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.
Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 18,125 | Gross: $2.16M
48. Maurice (1987)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance
Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 23,573 | Gross: $3.13M
49. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Music
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Director: Stephan Elliott | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell
Votes: 55,049 | Gross: $11.22M
50. Dorian Blues (2004)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
High school senior Dorian begins a gay man's odyssey when he determines that he's gay and decides to come out. Chief among concerns is the reaction of his father, who has never liked him.
Director: Tennyson Bardwell | Stars: Michael McMillian, Lea Coco, Steve Fletcher, Mo Quigley
Votes: 2,480 | Gross: $0.07M
Cute but slightly DERP low-budget comedy.
51. Longhorns (2011)
Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Back in 1982, a Texas University student who was curious about the male sex fantasies he had been having, decides he needs to hook up with an out gay student on campus.
Director: David Lewis | Stars: Jacob Newton, Derek Efrain Villanueva, Dylan Vox, Kevin Held
Votes: 1,593
Wow, I super did not care about the main love story. The lead's love interest had the mentality of a 13-year-old girl and it was not cute. There is however gay-on-straight cowboy scenes which make up for everything.
52. Lilies (1996)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
When a bishop comes to a prison to hear the confession of an old friend he is forced to watch a play, performed by the inmates, about their youth together, love and betrayal.
Director: John Greyson | Stars: Ian D. Clark, Marcel Sabourin, Aubert Pallascio, Jason Cadieux
Votes: 2,843 | Gross: $0.22M
I don't know how I feel about this film, artistically I feel it kind of fell flat on what it was trying to do. It was still memorable enough to make it into this list though.
53. Show Me Love (1998)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, Erica Carlson, Mathias Rust
Votes: 55,398 | Gross: $0.17M
54. Come Undone (2000)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother's summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. A love-story begins between the two boys.
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz | Stars: Jérémie Elkaïm, Stéphane Rideau, Marie Matheron, Dominique Reymond
Votes: 5,346 | Gross: $0.01M
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