Queer cinema movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant queer cinema movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out queer cinema, gay cinema, lgbt cinema, realistic, independent film and erotic films and TV shows about / with lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, homosexuality, love, lgbtqi, male nudity, homosexual and gender plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Brazil and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as queer cinema: Call Me by Your Name (2017), Shortbus (2006), Stranger by the Lake (2013), You Are Not Alone (1978), Tangerine (2015), The Ornithologist (2016), And Then We Danced (2019), A Moment in the Reeds (2017), Before the Fall (2016), Brokeback Mountain (2005).

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Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, USA, Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style: touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, summer, love, gay love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, first love, homosexuality, gay couple, gay teenager ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, year 2017, 2010s, 2000s
Place: italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
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 6.4
 35K
Shortbus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of New Yorkers caught up in their milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn social/artistic/sexual salon "Shortbus", loosely ...
Style: sexual, erotic, art house, sex comedy, sensual ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: sex, gay, nudity, explicit sex, group sex, gays and lesbians, masturbation, male nudity, sexuality, homosexual, real sex, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Stranger by the Lake (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out his passion anyway.
Style: erotic, sexy, unusual plot structure, detective, talky ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: sex scene, gay, murder, gay erotica, male male relationship, outdoor sex, police detective, investigation, male nudity, police investigation, ejaculation, love ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place: france, nebraska
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You Are Not Alone (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young teenager Bo (Anders Agensø) is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth (an uncharacteristically grim Ove Sprogøe). Lonely and scared, he finds a soul mate in the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, youth, gays and lesbians, first love, teenage life, gay teenager, student, friendship, lgbt teen, friends, couples, boarding school ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: denmark, europe
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 7.1
 35K
Tangerine (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get ...
Style: harsh, disturbing, talky, dark comedy, grindhouse ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: lgbt, prostitute, christmas, transgender, friendship, transsexual, christmas eve, transsexuality, infidelity, unfaithful boyfriend, hollywood, taxi ...
Time: year 2015, near future, 2010s
Place: los angeles, california, indiana
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The Ornithologist (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal, France, Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, a hunky ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.
Style: suspense, avant garde, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, bondage, ornithologist, lgbt, forest, male nudity, public nudity, river, bare chested male, naked in public, gay erotica, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal
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And Then We Danced (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Georgia, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dancing, lgbt, gay, dancer, gay slur, gay interest, rivalry, obsession, audition, friendship, gay romance, ambition ...
Time: 2000s
Place: georgia, ethiopia, tbilisi, asia, caucasus ...
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A Moment in the Reeds (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexuality, immigration, gay relationship, gay romance, gay lead character, syrian refugee, gay sex, architect, male nudity ...
Place: finland
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Before the Fall (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It's a classic case of opposite attraction: Handsome Ben Bennet (Ethan Sharrett) is a gay, affluent, stylish attorney at the top of the genteel social set in southern Virginia, while Lee Darcy (Chase Conner) is a rough-hewn welder with a secret ...
Style: lgbt cinema, sexy, captivating, unusual plot structure, humorous ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, gay couple, gay lead character, gay romance, lgbtq, gay love, love, unrequited love, hiking, gay best friend ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: virginia, usa, appalachia
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style: emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, homosexuality, homosexual, gay romance, gay relationship, forbidden love, lgbt, love story, gays and lesbians, gay slur, gay interest, first gay sexual experience ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, year 2005, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: wyoming, usa, texas, idaho, indiana ...
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 7.5
 22K
Free Fall (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what ...
Style: emotional, sexual, atmospheric, disturbing, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexuality, gay relationship, gay interest, gays and lesbians, forbidden love, gay slur, male male relationship, infidelity, love affair ...
Time: 2000s
Place: germany
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 7.7
 34K
Happy Together (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.
Style: art house, emotional, visual, independent film, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay asian, loneliness, love, tango, lgbtq, heartache, lgbtqi, lgbt, melancholy, glbt, sexuality ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, year 1996
Place: buenos aires argentina, hong kong, china, asia, latin america ...
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All About My Mother (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
Style: sad, hispanic, art house, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: aids, transvestism, lgbt, lesbian, transgender, prostitute, grief, friendship, transsexual, single mother, women, gay ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, argentina ...
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Yossi & Jagger (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolete outpost is ...
Style: realistic, sincere, compassionate, epic, homoerotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay lead character, gay love, homosexuality, gay soldier, gay relationship, israeli, gay interest, gay sex, gay slur, gay romance, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, lebanon, palestine, israel
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But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and ...
Style: feel good, sexual, surreal, funny, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, lesbian love, sapphic, gays and lesbians, conversion therapy, cheerleading, lesbian relationship, cheerleader, lesbianism ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 28K
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person ...
Style: independent film, disturbing, underground film, controversial, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: nudity, obsession, perversion, lesbian, controversy, gender, animal abuse, dysfunctional family, arson, male nudity, dehumanization, absurd humor ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, baltimore, idaho, maryland
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 7.5
 117K
A Single Man (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, depression, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, loneliness, homosexual, lgbt, broken heart, grief, haunted by the past, gender, tragic love ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, year 2009, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, cuba, usa, madrid ...
Is relevant ?
 5.6
 2K
AWOL (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name.
Style: lgbt cinema, sincere, sexy, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian couple, older woman younger woman relationship, small town, bisexual, lesbian sex, class differences, working class, extramarital affair ...
Place: pennsylvania, indiana, afghanistan, canada
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Desire Will Set You Free (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye. Based on a true story, the plot follows the relationship of an American writer of Israeli/Palestinian descent and ...
Style: lgbt cinema, sexy, psychological, humorous, erotic ...
Plot: lgbt, transvestite, gay lead character, gay interest, gay, transgender, gay cruising, male prostitute, father son relationship, gay youth, bisexual, gay bar ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany
Is relevant ?
 5.4
 205
New Dubai (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 55 min.
Story: In a middle class neighborhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what ...
Style: avant garde, experimental, explicit, queer cinema, gay cinema
Plot: gay latino, male nudity, gay love, lgbt, male rape, gay sex, gay, erection, male masturbation, gay erotica, gay interest, fetishist ...
Place: brazil
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My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style: road movie, surreal, art house, lgbt cinema, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexual, friendship, homosexuality, friendship between men, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, alienation, unrequited love, love, road trip ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place: idaho, portland oregon, seattle, rome italy, indiana ...
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 142K
Carol (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Style: sexy, serious, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, forbidden love, lesbian love, women, age difference, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, lesbian romance, sapphic, older woman younger woman relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1952, 2010s, year 2015 ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, indiana, idaho, chicago ...
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hansel Schmidt, is a young East German boy, born and raised during the Cold War in communist East Berlin. In his 20s, he meets Luther Robinson, an older American soldier, who falls in love with Hansel and the two decide to marry, which will allow ...
Style: emotional, cult classic, enigmatic, lyrical, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: transsexual, gender, gay, transvestism, transgender, drag queen, berlin wall, self discovery, singer, rock and roll, musician's life, musician ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 80s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe, usa ...
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Mysterious Skin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychological, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: child abuse, coming of age, gay, sexual abuse, homosexuality, homosexual, pedophilia, male rape, child molestation, youth, homosexual rape, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place: kansas, new york, usa
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Imagine Me & You (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sentimental, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, wedding, lesbian couple, lesbian romance, love triangle, love affair, couple relations, lgbtq, sapphic ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: london, idaho, europe, tower bridge london
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman ...
Style: road movie, feel good, melancholic, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, gay, road trip, desert, on the road, transgender, drag queen, gay slur, transvestism, gender bending, homosexuality, bus ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: australia, sydney australia, south australia
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The Way He Looks (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, ...
Style: touching, cute, sweet, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, blindness, lgbt, homosexuality, coming of age, school, gay teenager, friendship, gay love, teenage life, homosexual, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sao paulo, brazil, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Several short films about troubled gay youngsters who attempt to resolve their psychological issues through bizarre fetish play or sinister self expression.
Style: sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, gay erotica, male nudity, lgbt, masturbation, sexuality, nudity, love, love and romance, youth, nude ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 977
In the Family (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: In the town of Martin, Tennessee, Chip Hines, a precocious six year old, has only known life with his two dads, Cody and Joey. And a good life it is. When Cody dies suddenly in a car accident, Joey and Chip struggle to find their footing again. Just ...
Style: lgbt cinema, sexy, sincere, independent film, freeze frame ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, gay parent, gay love, father son relationship, interracial relations, teacher, death of partner, family relations, gay rights, friendship, gay interest ...
Time: year 2011, year 2006, year 2002
Place: tennessee
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 103K
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
Style: bleak, disturbing, touching, independent film, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, gender, rape, transgender, transsexual, violence, prejudice, lgbt, tragic love, small town, gay slur, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: nebraska, texas, usa
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