38 LGBT-themed films to reflect on diversity
Thematic Lgbt (or LGBTQIA +, to be more exato) is gaining more space every time no cinematic universe.
An approach to these issues is important as art is essential for the transformation of society. Also, showing diverse affective and sexual bodies and orientations, or cinema contributed to a decrease in homophobia / transphobia and to an increase in representation.
For this reason, we compiled an extensive list of films that trace issues related to the LGBT world. Trust!
1. Tomboy (2012)
Tomboy é um a French drama of 2012 directed by Céline Sciamma that deals with the transsexuality of children.
Laurie is a 10-year-old garota who began to be seen as a boy. She seeks to insert herself in a crianças do bairro turma fazendo passing by Mickael and apaixona-se by her friend Lisa.
Or a film about the subject with delicacy and innocence, but also showing all a strong psychological charge than a heavy theme.
2. Priscilla, to rainha do deserto (1994)
This is a 1994 musical comedy produced in Austria and directed by Stephen Elliott.
Considered a classic LGBT, or traced film Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce interpreting duas drag queens and a transsexual. They traveled aboard a bus heading to Alice Springs, a non-desert Australian tourist destination.
OR road movie it portrays in an ironic way, and at the same subversive way, complex layers of the LGBT world and of performance artists, uniting eccentricity and fun with dramatic contents.
3. Tudo about minha mãe (1998)
Tudo about minha mãe é um longa-metragem by acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.
Launched in 1998, the plot revolves around Manuela, one who just suffered a trauma when her adolescent child was run over. Ravaged, the party to the pai do garoto, who had become a transvestite, to warn about the accident.
Almodóvar achieves this film to transport or public to a universe full of drama, surprises and authenticity to or deal with various themes that surround the life of the LGBT population and of women.
4. Blue é a cor mais quente (2013)
This is a 2013 French production directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. No drama, a personagem Adèle, 15 years old, lives the common turbulence of adolescence, when she meets a garota that awakens her to the first paixão by another woman.
A narrative shows the desires and frustrations of young people, who continue to seek to position themselves in adult life and discover themselves as a woman.
5. Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho (2014)
Or film is a long Brazilian metragem that was released in 2014.
Directed by Daniel Ribeiro, the story accompanies the life of Leonardo, a blind teenager who is in search of autonomy.
Gabriel, or novo garoto who enters without school, becomes his friend and, from here on, or protagonist barnacle more coisas about his sexuality and his affections.
6. I chame hair seu nome (2017)
This is a co-production between the USA, France, Italy and Brazil launched in 2017.
A history goes back to the 80's in a summer house in Italy, when as a teenager Elio enjoys the beautiful landscape in the company of his country, which is very cultured and intellectualized.
I attached that your country receives a young man who is calling to help him in his academic research. Elio then loves how this new presence and great opportunities of maturity and uncovered surgem.
To know more about this film, read: Me chame pelo seu nome de el: detailed analysis
7. Moonlight, sob a luz do luar (2016)
Or film, directed by Barry Jenkins, is a North American production of 2016. Foi a successso of criticism and recebeu indicação for oito oscars.
The plot is accompanied by the costume of Chiron, a black and homosexual raptor living on the outskirts of Miami. São shown three stages of his life, permeated by violence and criminality, tied to the oil of his sexuality.
8. Tangerine (2016)
Tangerine It is a North American film directed by Sean Baker and released in 2016.
A production, which mixes comedy and drama, exposes the history of the transsexual Sin-Dee, a prostitute who, in prison, fica knowing that her lover is involved as a cis-gender woman. She decides then, go for two.
A curiosity is that the film took place using some cell phone cameras and became a successor to the independent cinema dinner.
9. Transamerica (2005)
Direção desse North American film assassinated by Dunkan Tucker.
Or launching ocorreu in 2005 and history introduces personagem Bree Osbourne, a transsexual woman who, on the eve of of performing her sonhada sex change surgery, she discovers that she is filho, fruit of an adventure when she was homem.
Then, she finds herself as a raptor and convinces her to go back to her city.
10. Or segredo from Brokeback Mountain (2006)
O segredo de Brokeback Mountain is a 2006 North American production directed by Ang Lee.
History goes back to the 1960s, when two young people met on Brokeback Mountain, hired to take care of animals on a farm. They became friends and ended up initiating a romance.
11. Carol (2016)
This co-production between the USA and England was launched in 2016.
Com direção de Tood Haynes, or film tells the story of the love involvement between two women, Therese and Carol. That's how he found himself in a department room just by chance.
Set in the 1950s, the plot addresses the challenges of being a lesbian in a conservative society, as in this case, for the time being passed.
12. Com love, Simon (2018)
O film é uma produção dos USA directed by Greg Berlanti and released in 2018.
A story, which mixes elements of drama, comedy and romance, narrates the life of a gay teenager who was afraid of assuming himself. I told her that one day she began to exchange letters as another garoto da school in which she was studying, she was freaking out for him.
13. Madame satã (2002)
Or Brazilian film Madame satã It was directed by Karim Aïnouz and launched in 2002. Or biographical drama tells the real story of João Francisco dos Santos, played by Lázaro Ramos.
Nicknamed Madame Satã, João was a transformer who lived in Rio Janeiro for two years and 30. He is considered a controversial figure and representative of the marginal life of Rio de Janeiro of the first goal of the 20th century.
14. Philadelphia (1993)
This film, which can never be considered a classic, was produced in 1993 by the US director Jonathan Demme.
Either a drama plotted by Tom Hanks living or character Andrew Beckett, who advocated that he was demitted before chefs will know that he is a carrier of the HIV virus.
Assim, Andrew hires Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) to help him with his serious workers. Joe, black and homophobic, will have to rethink his position as this new client.
15. Milk, it doesn't matter (2009)
Nesse biographical film of 2009, directed by Gus Van Sant, we accompany the costume of Harvey Milk.
Milk was the first assuming gay home to exercise political office in the US. O fato happened in the 70's in São Francisco, in Califórnia, and the activist became an important symbol of the LGBT direct hairs.
16. Café da manhã in Plutão (2005)
Or film is a co-production between the United Kingdom and Ireland. Launched in 2005, it burned assina to direção é Neil Jordan.
A history is passed in an Irish city where transvestite Patrick "Pussy" Braden lives. She is the father of the place and was abandoned in childhood, being raised by a woman who did not oil. Assim, she decides to go looking for her origins with the help of her friends.
17. Pariah (2011)
Pariah It was directed by Dee Ress and launched in 2011.
The North American drama tells the life of Alike, a black teenager in a crisis of identity and self-esteem that does not know his or her homossexuality is assumed or is locked-we are flat that his family traçou for ela.
18. Rare Flowers (2013)
Rare flowers It is a 2013 film directed by Bruno Barreto and passes in Rio de Janeiro in the 50's and 60's.
O longa narrates or romance of Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares, played by Glória Pires, and American poet Elisabeth Bishop, starring Miranda Otto. It is worth noting that this is a history based on real events.
19. We are all here (2018)
ANDwe are all here It is a short Brazilian metragem for two directors Chico Santos and Rafael Mellim.
Launched in 2018, it was filmed on the outskirts of Guarujá and tells the story of Rosa, a transsexual garota who was expelled from home and resolved to make her own barracks.
A produção alia depoimentos real e ficção, and manage to address various relevant issues, apart from the LGBT questão.
20. Morango e chocolate (1994)
This is a co-production between the USA, Mexico, Cuba and Spain, dating from 1994 and directed by Juan Carlos Tabio and Tomas Gutierrez Alea.
I did not film, I told the story of David, a Cuban raptor who was devastated when his lover or left. Porém, when she meets a young homossexual Diego, her life undergoes a transformation. A film about tolerance and tolerance.
21. Bixa shemale (2019)
Or Brazilian document Bixa Travesty e of 2019 and the direction of Kiko Goifman and Claudia Priscilla.
Nesse film we are presented to singer and performer Linn da Quebrada, black transsexual who traces Many questions about the representation of two bodies, sexuality, race and social class in sua art.
22. Paris is burning (1991)
This is a North American document from 1991 that travels through the universe of drag queens in the periphery of New York.
Directed by Jennie Livingston, the film traces interviews and backstage dinners, two shows and competitions. A last record on the performative world of drags two years 90.
23. Tatuagem (2013)
Tatuagem is a Brazilian film from 2013 directed by Hilton Lacerda.
O drama, passed in the 70's in Pernambuco, shows us the Chão de Estrelas theater company and its trupe. Nele is exposed to the history of Paulete, Clécio and Fininha, LGBT people who live a love triangle.
24. You initiated (2018)
Essa co-production between France, Holland, Africa do Sul e Alemanha é from 2018 and directed by John Trengove.
Or drama traced as a background the rituals of masculinity of a community in South Africa. Nesse context, operário Xolani is responsible for the young Kwanda, who drew many questions about his sexuality.
25. Mãe só ha uma (2016)
This dramatic comedy by Ana Muylaert was released in 2006. Or film tells the story of Pierre, a young man who comes across as a surprisingly naked woman. The biological não e filho da mulher que o criou.
Or rapacious then he goes to seek his biological family, which is Felipe's chama, and thus he begins a journey in search of knowing what, not even that he says I respect his sexuality.
26. Electric body (2017)
Electric body it is a 2017 Brazilian drama directed by Marcelo Caetano.
Or protagonist of the film is Elias, a young gay man who works in a textile factory and looks immersed in his environment, he needs to do many extra hours. Dessa form, he ends up approaching his colleagues at a time when he was rethinking many things in his life.
27. Pride and hope (2014)
This 2014 drama comedy was produced in the UK and directed by Mathew Warchus.
The plot revolves around the union of two quite different groups, an active gay and lesbian organization at the União Nacional dos Mineiros, which is em greve. It was passed in 1984 and based on real data.
28. Dzi croquettes (2010)
This is a document from 2010, directed by Raphael Alvarez and Tatiana Issa.
The film tells the costumetória of the theater and performance group Dzi Croquettes, who trazia homens gays wearing feminine clothes and very irreverent to criticize the military leadership that prevails in the epoch.
29. Rafiki (2019)
Rafiki was launched in 2019 and is a production from Africa do Sul, Quênia e França.
Directed by Wanuri Kahiu, or drama featuring characters Kena and Ziki, friends who a few years became closer and closer and ended up living a great romance. They face many difficulties and need to choose between living that love or following the rules of their families and the current culture.
30. Praia do Futuro (2014)
This drama directed by Karim Aïnouz was launched in 2014 in a co-production between Brazil and Germany.
A plot Começa no Ceará showing the story of Donato, starring Wagner Moura, a life saver who has his transformed costume to try to save a German tourist from afogamento.
31. Beautiful boxer (2003)
This 2003 Thai film was directed by Ekachai Uekrongtha and traced to the costume of Parinya Charoenphol, a transsexual woman who before the sex move was Nong Toom, an acclaimed Lutador from kick boxing.
After surgery, he passes on to exercise the profession of actress and model.
32. More education (2004)
This Spanish production by the director Pedro Almodóvar was launched in 2004 and exhibits a profusion of surrounding histories, such as that common to us films by the director.
Here, the characters Enriq Goded and Ignacio Rodrigues, former lovers, meet again with the purpose of recording a film. O roteiro is based on two past histories, loaded with elements of drama and suspense.
33. Or funeral of roses (1969)
This is a 1969 film that was directed by Toshio Matsumoto and belongs to a Japanese chamada nouvelle vague.
Nele, we accompany the life of transvestites in Tóquio in the 60s, their conflicts and difficulties in a context little friendly to LGBT cause. There is still a version of the Greek tragedy Édipo Rei, by Sophocles.
34. Margarita com canudinho (2015)
This is an Indian production that was launched in 2015 and burned to the direction of Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar.
The film tells the story of Laila, a garota with cerebral palsy who, like any other young person, fears and fears. Assim, depois de sofrer a disappointment, he part with his mãe for New York to study. Lá, conhece a moça com quem he wraps himself lovingly.
35. Four luas (2016)
This 2016 Mexican production is directed by Sergio Tolar Velarde.
O film addresses four narratives where the central point is male homosexuality. There are diverse situations that draw people from different communities, but in all these stories there is a psychological drama about self-oil.
36. Meninos não choram (1999)
Meninos não choram It is a North American film by Kimberly Pierce released in 1999.
Or drama tells the life of Brandon Teena, a transsexual homem who lives in Nebraska, a rural city in the USA. A history is true and shows how a society can be cruel to LGBT people.
37. A morte e a vida by Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
Nesse documentary of 2017 directed by David France, we accompany the story of Marsha P. Johnson, a personality from the New York gay world.
Marsha was a public figure on TV and TV an important activist work for the LGBT cause, founding Transvestites Action Revolutionaries.
38. Danish garota (2016)
A Danish garota is a film in two USA, United Kingdom and Germany that was released in 2016. Or responsible for the direction of Tom Hooper.
A narrative based on the story of Lili Elbe, one of the first people to perform a sexual redesignation surgery, not final two years 20.
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