Movies: Queer cinema

In the 1950s, a seemingly sensible newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law undertake parallel journeys of risk, romance, and self-discovery....

London, today. A refugee washes up naked in a suitcase on the bank of the Thames. The enigmatic, sexually fluid stranger introduces himself to a bourgeois, upper-class family. He is invited to stay on as an employee. The Visitor soon seduces each mem...

Sasha returns to Manchester to discover the city has been taken over by aliens in this apocalyptic queer Sci-Fi movie....

A poignant love story that follows the journey of two black gay men, Male 1 and Male 2, as they navigate the complexities of their relationship against the backdrop of a beautiful beach setting. Through a series of intimate moments and flashbacks, w...

A starving vampire seeks a new path forward after swearing off human blood. They are approached by another of their kind who hands them a map, pointing them in the direction of a witch in the woods who resides over a vampire brood. It is in her body,...

The year 2000. Maya, a young Londoner, goes to the small village of her Spanish girlfriend, Ruth, who has just died in an accident. She wants to say goodbye, but the shock and anxiety of presenting herself as the “foreign girlfriend” to family and fr...

A group of close friends take a trip to a snowy cabin for the winter. Drinks are spilled, lessons are learned, and memories are cultivated as the three day party comes unraveled....

Magdalena, or Lena for short, has a new class project to take care of a fake baby with her boyfriend, Paul. However, during the project, Lena starts to struggle with the relationships around her —like her boyfriend and her mom— because of this new pe...

Disgraced cop Aiden is thrust into Sydney’s neon-soaked gay district, where a chance encounter with Cody—a seductive bartender and sex worker—sparks a dangerous spiral. Blackmailed into working for Fat Frankie, a murderous drag queen mob boss, Aiden ...

Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murd...

Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot hou...

Infatuated with her crush Owen, Isabelle devises a plan with her best friend Jasmine to get his attention....

What do you get when you cross a retired dragon deity and a sailor? A disaster, a wrecked ship, and a hungry crew stranded on the shores of Singapura....

At an electronic carnival festival in Natal, the dance floor is where music becomes the thread that weaves community....

Beth, a young transgender woman, is taken to times and places afar. Run-ins with a powerful spirit and a growing bond with another lost girl will take our heroine on a journey to finding her place in this big strange world of ours....

When her girlfriend disappears mid-road trip, sardonic prop master Kasey is left stranded in a California backwater. Panicked, she hitches a ride with cash-strapped actor Alan on his trek to an audition in Canada. Together, the unlikely duo dodges Re...

A kid from the country gets lost in the big city looking for love, going on a series of increasingly bizarre dates while a serial killer is on the loose targeting boys his age....

Adi, a gay teenager, is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranqui...

Free-spirited university student Rafaela’s carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperate to get an abortion in a country where doing so could land her in jail and unable to fund one illegally, her situation shakes her world. But thankful...

Through personal stories, the documentary approaches the issues of gender identity and legal gender recognition in Greece. The three main characters explain how society has treated them, by narrating their experiences from the past and the present....