It’s an LGBTQ+ world and these are my other LGBTQ+ lists on Letterboxd:

➡️Minor Interest Films: In the Closet: A List of Minor Interest LGBTQ+ Films
➡️Short Films: Size Doesn’t Always Matter: A Collection of Fine LGBTQ+ Shorts for Boys and Girls All Over the World
➡️Berlin: Teddy Award – Berlin Film Festival (1987-2023)
➡️Cannes: Queer Palm – Festival de Cannes (2010-2023)
➡️Venice: Queer Lion – Venice Film Festival (2007-2022)
➡️Top 200: MundoF’s Top 200 LGBTQ+ Films of All Time

ABOUT THIS LIST

The purpose of this list is to offer a chronological look at the multiple films that have had significant lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer content over the years.

Now, there are legions of reasons why a movie might be considered essential to the LGBTQ+ community. As such, this broad and comprehensive list includes films that deal with or feature significant LGBTQ+ characters or issues, and may have same-sex romance or relationships as an important plot device. The films on the list come from all over the world and they cover the whole spectrum of the LGBTQ+ experience.

FAQ

▻ How did this list come about?
Like everyone else here, I love watching movies in general and, like a few others, LGBTQ+ movies in particular. As it happens, I couldn’t find a comprehensive list of LGBTQ+ films that truly satisfied me anywhere I looked, so I decided to create one right here, on Letterboxd, in February 2018. Since countless LGBTQ+ entries happened to be missing from the TMDB database at the time, it took me a couple of months to build the list, and I’m quite happy with the result as it stands today, although it’s still a work in progress since I’m constantly adding new titles; not only new releases but smaller films that might have been overlooked along the way.

▻ What kind of films are included on your list?
Generally speaking, films that will likely appeal and speak to LGBTQ+ audiences. Therefore, movies with overtly – or sometimes subtle - gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer content or characters made by LGBTQ+ - or sometimes non LGBTQ+ - filmmakers. Films in different languages from different parts of the world that express general LGBTQ+ experiences, issues, needs, and concerns. The list is meant to be comprehensive, so I didn’t want to impose any sort of restrictions when creating it. For that reason, the list also includes films that deal with bullying and homophobia. Movies on this list can be flamboyantly gay or, in some cases, barely out of the closet.

▻ How did you build your list?
This list is compilation of entries that I gathered from several sources, namely:

• Vito Russo’s The Celluloid Closet. Published in 1981, before the Internet ever existed, The Celluloid Closet was a groundbreaking book about the portrayal of homosexuality in film. You can check Alex’s The Celluloid Closet (Revised Edition) page for a complete list of entries featured in that particular book.

• Screenings at notable LGBTQ+ film festivals from around the world.

• Books I personally own, like Raymond Murray’s Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video & Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film: The World's Most Comprehensive Guide to Recent Gay and Lesbian Movies or Internet catalogues Fabrices Pradas’s Cinéma gay: un siècle d'homosexualité sur grand écran, and others.

• Wikipedia lists and relevant IMDB keywords such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and more.

• Amazon Prime, notably the ''Customers who watched this item also watched'' feature, which - surpringsingly enough - features a ton of smaller LGBTQ+ films.

• CGiii’s database. The folks at CGiii like to boast themselves as ‘’the most comprehensive LGBT film site in the entire Universe’’, and I have to admit that they have a solid and thorough database that includes films in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Minor Interest categories.