LGBTQ-related independent films

2010 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

2014 film directed by Morten Tyldum

2001 film by David Lynch

1999 film by Pedro Almodóvar

2013 film by Jean-Marc Vallée

1999 film by Spike Jonze

2008 film by Woody Allen

2017 film directed by Greta Gerwig

2013 film by Abdellatif Kechiche

2012 film directed by Stephen Chbosky

2003 film directed by Patty Jenkins

2015 film directed by Todd Haynes

2011 film by Steve McQueen

1999 film by Kimberly Peirce

1975 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

2024 film by Jacques Audiard

2019 film directed by Céline Sciamma

1991 film directed by Gus Van Sant

1979 film by Tinto Brass

2002 film by François Ozon

2010 film by Lisa Cholodenko

1996 film by Agnieszka Holland

2001 film by Alfonso Cuarón

2002 film by Gurinder Chadha

1992 film directed by Neil Jordan

1994 film directed by Stephan Elliott

1994 film directed by Peter Jackson

1997 film directed by Kevin Smith

2005 film directed by Duncan Tucker

1996 film directed by The Wachowskis

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.

2016 film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

2018 film directed by Marielle Heller

2020 film by George C. Wolfe

2002 film by Todd Haynes

1998 film directed by Bill Condon

Booksmart is a 2019 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Olivia Wilde (in her feature directorial debut) and written by Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, and Katie Silberman. It stars Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as two graduating high school girls who set out to finally break the rules and party on their last day of classes. Jessica Williams, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte, and Jason Sudeikis also star.

2002 film by Roger Avary

1994 film by Richard Rush

1985 film by Stephen Frears

2024 film directed by Rose Glass

1972 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shortbus is a 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. The plot revolves around a sexually diverse ensemble of colorful characters trying desperately to connect in an early 2000s New York City. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn artistic/sexual salon loosely inspired by various underground NYC gatherings that took place in the early 2000s. According to Mitchell, the film attempts to "employ sex in new cinematic ways because it's too interesting to leave to porn." Shortbus includes a variety of explicit scenes containing non-simulated sexua

1996 film by David Cronenberg

2000 film by Neil LaBute

1998 film directed by Todd Haynes

2006 film directed by William Friedkin

2001 film by R. D. Robb

1980 film by Pedro Almodóvar

1965 film by Russ Meyer

1999 film by Jamie Babbit

2024 film directed by Luca Guadagnino

Unsane is a 2018 American psychological thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer. The film stars Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Aimee Mullins, and Amy Irving. Matt Damon has a cameo appearance as a detective. The film follows a woman confined to a mental institution after she is pursued by a stalker. The film was shot entirely on the iPhone 7 Plus.

2001 film directed by Larry Clark

2020 film directed by Francis Lee

2017 film directed by Sebastián Lelio

1999 film by Jane Campion

V/H/S is a 2012 American found footage horror anthology film and the first installment in the V/H/S franchise created by Brad Miska and Bloody Disgusting, and produced by Miska and Roxanne Benjamin. It features a series of six found footage shorts written and directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and the filmmaking collective Radio Silence.

1996 film directed by Peter Greenaway

2015 film by Sean Baker