Category
page 1LGBTQ-related films based on actual events
Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 film directed by Bryan Singer
Milk
2008 film directed by Gus Van Sant
The Hours
2002 film directed by Stephen Daldry
Dog Day Afternoon
1975 film directed by Sidney Lumet
Dallas Buyers Club
2013 film by Jean-Marc Vallée
The Favourite
2018 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Monster
2003 film directed by Patty Jenkins
J. Edgar
2011 film by Clint Eastwood
Boys Don't Cry
1999 film by Kimberly Peirce
Caligula
1979 film by Tinto Brass
Rocketman
2019 film directed by Dexter Fletcher
Philomena
2013 film by Stephen Frears
Heavenly Creatures
1994 film directed by Peter Jackson
Allied
2016 film by Robert Zemeckis
Bombshell
2019 film directed by Jay Roach
Prayers for Bobby
2009 television film directed by Russell Mulcahy
Beginners
Beginners is a 2010 American romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Mike Mills. Based on the coming out of Mills' father at the age 75, five years before his death, it tells the story of a man reflecting on the life and death of his father, while trying to forge a new romantic relationship with a woman dealing with father-issues of her own.
Europa Europa
1991 film by Agnieszka Holland
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2018 film directed by Marielle Heller
Battle of the Sexes
2017 film directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton
Thirteen
2003 film by Catherine Hardwicke
Boy Erased
2018 film directed by Joel Edgerton
The Prom
2020 film directed by Ryan Murphy
Pride
2014 film directed by Matthew Warchus
Queer
2024 film directed by Luca Guadagnino
Bully
2001 film directed by Larry Clark
The Edge of Love
2008 film directed by John Maybury
Basquiat
1996 film by Julian Schnabel
And the Band Played On
1993 film directed by Roger Spottiswoode
The Runaways
2010 film directed by Floria Sigismondi
Bad Education
2019 film by Cory Finley
Freeheld
Freeheld is a 2015 American drama film directed by Peter Sollett from a screenplay by Ron Nyswaner. The film stars Julianne Moore, Elliot Page, Michael Shannon, and Steve Carell. It is based on the 2007 documentary short film of the same name about police officer Laurel Hester's fight against the Ocean County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders to allow her pension benefits to be transferred to her domestic partner after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Running with Scissors
2006 film by Ryan Murphy
Bent
1997 film by Sean Mathias
The Happy Prince
2018 film by Rupert Everett
Aimée & Jaguar
1998 film by Max Färberböck
The Angel
2018 Argentine film directed by Luis Ortega
My Friend Dahmer
2017 film directed by Marc Meyers
Dahmer
2002 film by David Jacobson
De-Lovely
De-Lovely is a 2004 American musical biopic directed by Irwin Winkler and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Jay Cocks is based on the life and career of Cole Porter, from his first meeting with his wife, Linda Lee Thomas, until his death. It is the second biopic about the composer, following 1946's Night and Day.
Kinky Boots
2005 film by Julian Jarrold
I Am Michael
2015 film directed by Justin Kelly
Lizzie
2018 film directed by Craig Macneill
Gacy
2003 film
The Lady Banker
1980 French film directed by Francis Girod
It's My Party
1996 film by Randal Kleiser
The Laramie Project
2002 drama film directed by Moisés Kaufman
Torch Song Trilogy
1988 film by Paul Bogart
The Night Listener
2006 film by Patrick Stettner
Stonewall
1995 film by Nigel Finch
Christopher and His Kind
2011 television film directed by Geoffrey Sax
The Inspection
2022 film directed by Elegance Bratton
My Brother… Nikhil
2005 film directed by Onir
Dance of the 41
2020 film directed by David Pablos
The Iron Ladies
2000 film by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon
The Circle
2014 Swiss docudrama directed by Stefan Haupt
What Makes a Family
2001 television film directed by Maggie Greenwald
I Am
2010 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Onir
Fireworks
2023 film directed by Giuseppe Fiorello
Aligarh
2015 film by Hansal Mehta