This meeting sparks a journey of self-discovery and difficult choices for Rachel as she grapples with her newfound attraction towards Luce. —WC
1 Last Chance at Paradise
2014
2 In the Bush: A Love Story
2018
4 Days in France
2016 | French
4 Moons
2014 | Spanish
About Us
2017 | Portuguese
Aimée & Jaguar
1999 | German
All Our Fears
2022 | Polish
An Almost Ordinary Summer
2019 | Italian
Altered Innocence Vol.
1
2021
The Ambiguous Focus
2017 | Chinese
Amphetamine
2010 | Chinese
Anatomy of a Love Seen
2014
And Then We Danced
2019 | Georgian
Another Coffee House Chronicles Movie
2022
Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!
—AF
“The Long Walk”
“The Long Walk” earned its place among the year’s most essential LGBTQ releases not through political spectacle, but by depicting queer intimacy with brilliance under pressure.
That attention crystallizes in Peter McVries (David Jonsson), a gay character delivered with exceptional warmth and clarity.
Her latest isn’t just nodding to girlhood cult classics but claiming that place for itself for a new generation of queer and trans film fans. These films have become instrumental in shaping public perception and understanding of the LGBTQ+ community, breaking down barriers and stereotypes through their portrayal of complex characters.
Erotically and supernaturally charged, Trương Minh Quý’s war-torn romance is elusive to the touch, but with breathtaking cinematography that’s plain as day in front of our eyes. In a year with great animated TV shows, it’s no surprise that the queer and weird “Women Wearing Shoulder Pads” went slightly under the radar, but it’s a work that can delight those who can get on its specific wavelength.
The documentary arrived last winter amid renewed national attacks on LGBTQ rights and countered the vitriol of that moment with a deeply empathetic portrait of genderqueer poet Andrea Gibson. In 2025, identity is treated as a declaration and silence is regarded as assumed erasure.
The landscape of LGBTQ+ movies has evolved significantly, offering a spectrum of gay rom-coms that move beyond clichés to present diversity-rich stories.
But the real hook is its bait-and-switch premise, revealed only as mainstream conservative scandal gives way to a lesbian network operating in plain sight.
As he mulls over his change in fortune at the bar, he spends a lot of time talking shit and attempting to pony up to a young crush, Elizabeth (Margaret Qualley), by playing the role of her gay best friend.
In a sea of shows that are afraid of “bad representation,” “Pluribus” isn’t afraid to make its lesbian lead messy, strange, and fully, unmistakably human. It's a witty, insightful, and unapologetically gay romantic comedy that explores the nuances of modern gay relationships and dating.
—AF
“Lurker”
There’ve been a lot of homoerotic thrillers in recent memory about men ingratiating themselves into the life of someone more beautiful and fortunate than they are: see the recent “Saltburn” for the most famous example. But the brilliant casting of Mae Whitman as rookie cop Alex Dempsey, whose wife Laura (Sarah Gordon) gets them tangled up in the sordid underbelly of a small town and its strict reformatory school, asserts the series as an especially smart example of LGBTQ world-building.
In a year filled with movies where queer people were acting horribly, none were quite as detestable, and also scarily recognizable, as the gays in “Twinless.” —WC
“Viet and Nam”
It’s reductive and even unhelpful to compare the work of one contemporary South Asian filmmaker to another, but Vietnamese auteur on the rise Trương Minh Quý brings to mind Thai queer director Apichatpong Weerasethakul in the best possible ways with his gorgeously composed third feature, “Viet and Nam.” Locating gay desire in the only furtive corners where it can bloom in a hegemonic civilization, “Viet and Nam” is in part the story of two male coal miners who fall in love among the soot and ruins (and with eroticism boiling over in those scenes despite the movie’s hushed, at times statically arranged shots).
In a breakout performance Magnus Juhl Andersen plays Copenhagen-living, out gay man Johan who, as any out gay man does, engages in casual anonymous sex at the local sauna, where he also works as a receptionist.