This is a list of films with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related storylines. This list contains theatrically released cinema films that highlight the issues and experiences of the LGBTQ community through the inclusion of LGBTQ romance and relationships.
The films are organized by storyline, arranged alphabetically, by year, by country of filming, and by production.
Biographical films
Amen, India (2010) Amphetamine, Hong Kong (2010) Beautiful Boxer, Thailand (2003) Before Night Falls, United States (2000) Bohemian Rhapsody, United States (2018) Capote, Canada/United States (2005) Caravaggio, United Kingdom (1986) Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára, Brazil (2004) The Christine Jorgensen Story, United States (1970) City Without Baseball, Hong Kong (2008) Dahmer, United States (2002) Deathmaker, Germany (1995) De-Lovely, United States (2004) Gacy, United States (2003) The Girl King, Sweden (2015) Gods and Monsters, United Kingdom (1998) Halston (2019) I Am My Own Woman, Germany (1992) The Imitation Game, United States/United Kingdom (2014) Infamous, United States (2006) Love Actually... Sucks!, Hong Kong (2011) Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, United Kingdom (1998) Madame Satã, Brazil (2002) Milk, United States (2008) Monster, United States (2003) My Friend Dahmer, United States (2017) Permanent Residence, Hong Kong (2009) Soundless Wind Chime, Hong Kong/Switzerland/China (2009) Tarnation, United States (2003) Wilde, United Kingdom (1997)
Historical fiction and nonfiction
Fantasy Dorian Gray, Ireland (2009) Nimona, United States (2023)
Gay bars Last Call at Maud's, United States (1993) Small Town Gay Bar, United States (2006)
Historic events Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita, Philippines (2004) Dog Day Afternoon, United States (1975) Pride, United Kingdom (2014) Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria, United States (2005) Stonewall, United States (1995) Stonewall Uprising, United States (2010) Taking Woodstock, United States (2009)
HIV/AIDS Bohemian Rhapsody, United States (2018) BPM (Beats Per Minute), France (2017) Buddies, United States (1985) Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára, Brazil (2004) Dallas Buyers Club, United States (2013) The Living End, United States (1992) Longtime Companion, United States (1989) Parting Glances, United States (1986) Philadelphia, United States (1993) Red Ribbon Blues, United States (1996) Rent, United States (2005) Three Months, United States (2022) Zero Patience, Canada (1993)
In the media The Celluloid Closet, United States (1996) The Watermelon Woman, United States (1996)
Persecution Bent, United Kingdom/Japan (1997) Coming Out Under Fire, United States (1994) Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World, United States (2003) Out in the Dark, Israeli (2012) Paragraph 175, Germany (2000) Proteus, Canada/South Africa (2003) Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, United States (1995) Small Town Gay Bar, United States (2006) Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, United States (1977)
Study of sexuality Die andere Liebe (The Other Love), East Germany (1988) Der Einstein des Sex, Germany (1999) Kinsey, United States (2004) Paris Is Burning, United States (1990) Plata Quemada, Argentina (2000)
Relationships
Bisexual relationships
Allure, Canada (2017) Amphetamine, Hong Kong (2010) Another Way, Hungary (1982) Atomic Blonde, United States (2017) Bad Romance, China (2011) Borstal Boy, United Kingdom/Ireland (2000) Call Me by Your Name, Italy/United States (2017) Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára, Brazil (2004) Challengers, United States (2024) City Without Baseball, Hong Kong (2008) Cloud Atlas, United States (2012) Cold Showers, France (2005) Colette, United Kingdom/United States/Hungary (2018) The Dying Gaul, United States (2005) Fire Song, Canada (2015) Floating Skyscrapers, Poland (2013) Head On, Australia (1998) Kinsey, United States (2004) Kissing Jessica Stein, United States (2001) Love Actually... Sucks!, Hong Kong (2011) The Man Who Loved Yngve, Norway (2008) Nowhere, United States (1997) Nymphomaniac, Denmark (2013) Permanent Residence, Hong Kong (2009) The Pillow Book, France/United Kingdom/Netherlands/Luxembourg (1996) Pleasure Factory, Singapore/Thailand Puccini for Beginners, United States (2006) Red, White & Royal Blue, United States (2023) See You in Hell, My Darling, Greece (1999) Sex of Angels, Spain (2012) Shortbus, United States (2006) Singapore Sling, Greece (1990) Speechless, Hong Kong/China (2012) Three, Germany (2010) Vicky Cristina Barcelona, United States/Spain (2008)
With tragedy El diputado, Spain (1978)
Gay male relationships
Adam & Steve, United States (2005) Amen, India (2010) Amphetamine, Hong Kong (2010) And Then We Danced, Georgia/Sweden (2019) Ang Lihim ni Antonio, Philippines (2008) Another Gay Movie, United States (2006) Antique, South Korea (2008) Apart From Hugh, United States (1994) Bad Education, Spain (2004) Bad Romance, China (2011) Beautiful Thing, United Kingdom (1996) Being 17, France (2016) Berlin Drifters, Japan/Germany (2017) The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, Philippines (2005) Borstal Boy, United Kingdom/Ireland (2000) Boy, Philippines (2009) The Boy and the Wind, Brazil (1967) Boyfriends, United Kingdom (1996) The Boys in the Band, United States (1970) Boys Love, Japan (2006) Brokeback Mountain, United States (2005) Broken Sky, Mexico (2006) The Bubble, Israel (2006) Buddies, United States (1985) Bugis Street, Singapore/Hong Kong (1995) La Cage aux Folles, France (1978) Call Me by Your Name, Italy/United States (2017) Capital Games, United States (2013) Chaaya Chobi, India 2009 City Without Baseball, Hong Kong (2008) Clandestinos, Spain (2007) Clapham Junction, United Kingdom (2007) Coffee Date, United States (2006) Cold Showers, France (2005) Coming Out, East Germany (1989) C.R.A.Z.Y., Canada (2005) The Curiosity of Chance, United States (2006) Desire Street, Spain, China, United States (2011) Do Começo ao Fim, Brazil (2009) Eat With Me, United States (2014)Eat With Me Edge of Seventeen, United States (1998) Ernesto, Italy (1979) Eternal Summer, Taiwan (2006) Eyes Wide Open, Israel (2009) Fire Island, United States (2022) The Flavor of Corn, Italy (1986) For a Lost Soldier, Netherlands (1992) Formula 17, Taiwan (2004) Fox and His Friends, West Germany (1975) Freier Fall, Germany (2013) The Gemini, Myanmar (2016) Geography Club, United States (2013) Get Real, United Kingdom (1998) Goa, India (2010) God's Own Country, United Kingdom (2017) Gohatto (Taboo), Japan (1999) Gone But Not Forgotten, United States (2003) Grande École, France (2004) Hamam, Italy/Turkey/Spain (1997) Happy Together, Hong Kong (1997) Hawaii, Argentina (2013) Hidden Away, Spain (2014) Hold You Tight, Hong Kong (1998) Holding Trevor, United States (2007) I Love You Phillip Morris, United States (2009) I'm The Only One Who Love You, Malaysia (2012) Jeffrey, United States (1995) Jesús, Chile/France/Germany/Greece (2016) Jongens, The Netherlands (2014) Just a Question of Love, France (2000) Lan Yu, China (2001) Latter Days, United States (2003) Law of Desire, Spain (1987) Like It Is, United Kingdom (1998) Loose Cannons, Italy (2010) Lost, Vietnam (2014) Lost in Paradise, Vietnam (2011) Love Actually... Sucks!, Hong Kong (2011) Love of Siam, Thailand (2007) Love, Simon, United States (2018) Love Songs (Les Chansons d'amour), France (2007) Lucky Blue, Sweden (2007) Make the Yuletide Gay, United States (2009) Making Love, United States (1982) Mala Noche, United States (1986) Mambo Italiano, Canada (2003) Maurice, United Kingdom (1987) Memories in March, India (2010) Mentiras y Gordas, Spain (2009) Moonlight, United States (2016) The Most Desired Man, U.S. title: Maybe ... Maybe Not, Germany 1994 Mulligans, Canada (2008) My Beautiful Laundrette, United Kingdom (1985) My Fair Son, China (2005) Nimona, United States (2023) No Regret, South Korea (2006) North Sea Texas, Belgium (2011) Nuovo Olimpo, Italy (2023) La Otra Familia, Mexico (2011) Penis In The Bottle, Malaysia (2011) Permanent Residence, Hong Kong (2009) Petrang Kabayo, Philippines (2010) The Pillow Book, France/United Kingdom/Netherlands/Luxembourg (1996) Pit Stop, United States (2013) Pleasure Factory, Thailand/Singapore (2007) Presque Rien, France (2000) Prick Up Your Ears, United Kingdom (1987) Pride, United Kingdom (2014) Private Lessons, Belgium, France (2008) Private Romeo, United States (2011) Quick Change, Philippines (2013) Rainbow Without Colours (Cầu vồng không sắc), Vietnam (2015) Refugee's Welcome, Spain/Germany (2017) Red, White & Royal Blue, United States (2023) The River, Taiwan (1997) Road Movie, South Korea (2002) Romeos, Germany (2011) Running with Scissors, United States (2006) Shelter, United States (2007) Shortbus, United States (2006) Sibak: Midnight Dancers, Philippines (1994) Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Taiwan (2009) Soundless Wind Chime, Hong Kong/China/Switzerland (2009) Speechless, Hong Kong/China (2012) Star Appeal, China (2004) Summer Storm, Germany (2004) Sunday Bloody Sunday, United Kingdom (1971) Taxi zum Klo, Germany (1981) The Hours and Times, United States (1991) Summer of 85 , France (2020) Those People, United States (2015) Thưa mẹ con đi, Vietnam (2019) Toast, United Kingdom (2010) The Toilers and the Wayfarers, United States (1997) Torch Song Trilogy, United States (1988) Total Eclipse, United Kingdom/France/Belgium/Italy(1995) Touch of Pink, United Kingdom/Canada (2004) Trick, United States (1999) The Trip, United States (2002) Triple Crossed, United States (2013) Two Weddings and a Funeral, South Korea (2012) Under One Roof, United States (2002) The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin, Philippines (2011) Utopians, Hong Kong/Taiwan (2015) Voyage, Hong Kong (2013) The Way He Looks, Brazil (2014) Thirty Years of Adonis, Hong Kong/Taiwan (2017) The Wedding Banquet, Taiwan (1993) Were the World Mine, United States (2008) Yossi, Israel (2012) Yossi & Jagger, Israel (2002) You Are Not Alone, Denmark (1978)
Lesbian female relationships
All About E, Australia (2015) All About Love, Hong Kong (2010) Alto, United States (2015) Ammonite, United Kingdom/Australia (2020) Anatomy of a Love Seen, United States (2014) Another Way, Hungary (1982) Ashley, United States (2013) Ava's Impossible Things, United States (2016) Bad Romance, China (2011) Below Her Mouth, Canada (2016) Better Than Chocolate, Canada (1999) The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Germany (1972) Bloomington, United States (2010) Blue, Japan (2002) Blue Is the Warmest Colour, France (2013) Bound, United States (1996) The Carmilla Movie, Canada (2017) Carol, United Kingdom/United States (2015) Chloe, United States/France/Canada (2009) Circumstance, Iran (2011) Cloudburst, Canada (2011) D.E.B.S., United States (2003) D.E.B.S., United States (2004) Desert Hearts, United States (1985) Disobedience, United Kingdom/Ireland/United States (2017) Drifting Flowers, Taiwan (2008) Drive-Away Dolls, United States (2024) Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, India (2019) Elena Undone, United States (2010) The Favourite, United Kingdom/Ireland/United States (2018) Fingersmith, United Kingdom (2005) Fire, India/Canada (1996) First Girl I Loved, United States (2016) The Four-Faced Liar, United States (2010) Frauensee (Woman's Lake), Germany (2012) Fucking Åmål, Sweden (1998) The Girl, France/United States (2000) Go Fish, United States (1994) Gray Matters, United States (2006) The Guest House, United States (2012) The Handmaiden, South Korea (2016) Happiest Season, United States (2020) I Can't Think Straight, United States/United Kingdom (2008) If These Walls Could Talk 2, United States (2000) Imagine Me & You, United Kingdom (2005)