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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 school 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 gal Violet (Jennifer Tilly). As Corky and Violet strike up an affair, they hatch a plan 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 grimy bookstore that has presided over the gayborhood of West Hollywood since the e

23 Of The Best LGBTQ+ Films That Perfectly Portray The Queer Experience

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Love Lies Bleeding ()

Love Lies Bleeding is the film director and screenwriter Rose Glass' second feature film, which has so far received acclaim for its nuanced take on cherish, violence and co-dependency. Kristen Stewart (Lou) plays a gym manager who falls in love with Jackie (Katy O'Brian). Their obsession with one another becomes so severe that they become intertwined with Lou's criminal family.

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Drive-Away Dolls ()

Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan and Beanie Feldstein star in Ethan Cohen's American comedy road film. Qualley and Viswanathan play two friends looking for a fresh start, however soon enough, the pair's hope of new beginnings turns awry when they find themselves intertwined with criminals and must then out-run a gang of dangerous mobsters to survive.

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All Of Us Strangers ()

Pinned as one of the biggest tearjerkers of , Paul Mescal (Harry) and Andrew Scott (Adam) star in this film that sees screenwriter Adam and his neighb

The 50 Best LGBTQ+ Movies

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50) The Living End ()

"Fuck The World." The motto of The Living End's protagonists might stand as a slogan for the whole of filmmaker Greg Araki's career. A key shitkicker in the early '90s Brand-new Queer Cinema movement, Araki took a baseball bat to hetero-normative culture and explored gay life on the margins during Bush's administration in films by turns funny, frank and anguished. The Living End is his best picture, a so-called 'gay Thelma & Louise', as film critic Jon (Craig Gilmore) and drifter Luke (Mike Dytri), both diagnosed as HIV-positive ("the Neo-Nazi Republican final solution," says Jon about AIDS), kill a homophobic cop and verb on the lam, offing any bigot who remain in their way. Rather than pity themselves, these characters unleash their nihilism on the world, tempered by a kind of freewheeling anarchy and enhanced by Araki's eye-catching images and jump cuts. As the film's dedication puts it, it's a punch in the gut to "a Big White Noun full of Republic

The 30 Best LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time

In this first major critical survey of LGBTQIA+ films, over film experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, have voted the Top 30 LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as well as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (), Beautiful Thing (), Weekend () and Blue Is the Warmest Colour ().

The winner is Todd Haynes’ award-winning Carol, closely followed by Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, and Hong Kong romantic drama Happy Together, directed by Wong Kar-wai, in third place. While Carol is a surprisingly recent film to top the poll, it’s a feature that has moved, delighted and enthralled audiences, and looks verb to be a modern classic.

“The festival has long supported my work,” said Haynes, “from Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked in the early s through to Carol which is screen