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Moonlight | 1 | 7.4 | 275031 | 8 | Moonlight is the tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality. Anchored by the singular vision of filmmaker Barry Jenkins, Moonlight is an exploration of male masculinity — a sensual, intoxicating piece of cinema that uncovers deep truths about the moments that define us, the people who shape us most, and the ache of love that can last a lifetime. The film is based on the play "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" by Tarell McCrane. | Details |
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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) | 2 | 8.1 | 64582 | On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. | Details | |
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Booksmart | 3 | 7.2 | 93931 | Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night. | Details | |
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? | 4 | 7.1 | 47013 | 7 | When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. | Details |
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Call Me By Your Name | 5 | 7.9 | 214856 | 7 | In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant. | Details |
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The Favorite | 6 | 7.5 | 173319 | 8 | England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite. | Details |
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Pain & Glory (Dolor y gloria) | 7 | 7.5 | 49529 | 8 | Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation. | Details |
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Carol | 8 | 7.2 | 116521 | In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman. | Details | |
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Rocketman | 9 | 7.3 | 139385 | The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin. | Details | |
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McQueen | 10 | 7.8 | 6394 | 8 | English fashion designer and couturier Alexander McQueen's rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an intimate revelation of McQueen's own world, both tortured and inspired, which celebrates a radical and mesmerizing genius of profound influence. | Details |
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A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica) | 11 | 7.2 | 22846 | 8 | Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy. | Details |
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120 Beats Per Minute (120 battements par minute, BPM) | 12 | 7.4 | 13511 | 9 | Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations. | Details |
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The Dallas Buyers Club | 13 | 8.0 | 443420 | 8 | Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live. | Details |
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The Handmaiden | 14 | 8.1 | 114829 | 8 | 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a young woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese count to help him seduce the heiress to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until the women discover some unexpected emotions. | Details |
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God's Own Country | 15 | 7.7 | 25411 | 8 | A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker. | Details |
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Victim | 16 | 7.7 | 5126 | In early 1960s London, barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr's career and personal life are nearly idyllic. However, when blackmailers link Farr to a young gay man, everything Farr has worked for is threatened. As it turns out, Farr is a closeted homosexual -- which is problematic, due to Britain's anti-sodomy laws. But instead of giving in, Farr decides to fight. | Details | |
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Portrait Of Jason | 17 | 7.2 | 1022 | Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked, pill-popped view of what it was like to be coloured and gay in 1960's America. | Details | |
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Milk | 18 | 7.5 | 164954 | The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans. | Details | |
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Paris Is Burning | 19 | 8.2 | 12818 | 5 | Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza — PARIS IS BURNING brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community. | Details |
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Mädchen In Uniform (Girls in Uniform) | 20 | 7.6 | 2576 | 7 | A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers. One of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray homosexuality. Based on "Gestern und Heute" by German playwright Christa Winsloe. | Details |
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All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre) | 21 | 7.8 | 89328 | 8 | A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had. | Details |
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Tangerine | 22 | 7.1 | 27601 | 8 | It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity. | Details |
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Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara No Soretsu) | 23 | 7.9 | 4790 | 9 | The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan. | Details |
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The Imitation Game | 24 | 8.0 | 687762 | 7 | Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. | Details |
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A Secret Love | 25 | 7.9 | 3410 | Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges. | Details | |
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Love, Simon | 26 | 7.6 | 98785 | 8 | Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online. | Details |
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Law of Desire (La Ley del Deseo) | 27 | 7.1 | 10937 | 8 | When porn director Pablo reluctantly breaks up with his boyfriend, Juan, he encourages him to stay in touch. Juan moves away to live in a lighthouse and eventually writes his ex, but in the interim Pablo has taken up a psychotic new lover, Antonio. Antonio intercepts their correspondence and flies into a towering rage, terrifying Pablo but inspiring him creatively as he works on a play about his transsexual sister. | Details |
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C.R.A.Z.Y. | 28 | 7.9 | 31504 | 8 | A story of two love affairs. A father's love for his five sons. And one son's love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on the 25th of December 1960, different from all his brothers, but desperate to fit in. During the next 20 years, life takes Zac on a surprising and unexpected journey that ultimately leads him to accept his true nature and, even more importantly, leads his father to love him for who he really is. | Details |
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I've Heard The Mermaids Singing | 29 | 6.7 | 1397 | Awkward, shy and delightfully funny, Polly Vandersma is an "organizationally impaired" temporary assistant who finally gets her first permanent job at the age of 31. While she works for the curator of an art gallery, Polly narrates her own story, sharing the comical and bittersweet pretensions of the art world. At the same time, she reveals a special part of her own private world, taking the viewer to enchanted places in this quiet assault on the notion of authority everywhere. | Details | |
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Gay Chorus Deep South | 30 | 6.9 | 161 | In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws and the divisive 2016 election, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus embarks on a tour of the American Deep South. | Details | |
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The Heiresses (Las Herederas) | 31 | 6.7 | 2719 | After her girlfriend is imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection. | Details | |
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Cabaret | 32 | 7.8 | 48470 | 9 | Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. | Details |
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Love Is Strange | 33 | 6.7 | 12169 | 8 | After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet. | Details |
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The Kids Are All Right | 34 | 7.0 | 125907 | Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other. | Details | |
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My Beautiful Laundrette | 35 | 6.8 | 14452 | 8 | A British-Pakistani man renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads. | Details |
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Circus Of Books | 36 | 7.1 | 3639 | 7 | For decades, a nice Jewish couple ran Circus of Books, a porn shop and epicenter for gay LA. Their director daughter documents their life and times. | Details |
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Dog Day Afternoon | 37 | 8.0 | 236365 | Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus. | Details | |
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Victor Victoria | 38 | 7.6 | 19480 | 8 | A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life. | Details |
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The Garden Left Behind | 39 | 5.9 | 439 | The Garden Left Behind traces the relationship between Tina, a young Mexican trans woman, and Eliana, her grandmother, as they navigate Tina's transition and struggle to build a life for themselves as undocumented immigrants in New York City. | Details | |
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The Crying Game | 40 | 7.2 | 51157 | 7 | Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil. | Details |
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Appropriate Behavior | 41 | 6.6 | 3966 | 6 | For Shirin, being part of a perfect Persian family isn't easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn't know she's bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine, can't understand why she doesn't tell them. Even the six-year-old boys in her moviemaking class are too ADD to focus on her for more than a second. Following a family announcement of her brother's betrothal to a parentally approved Iranian prize catch, Shirin embarks on a private rebellion involving a series of bisexual escapades, while trying to decipher what went wrong with Maxine. | Details |
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The Celluloid Closet | 42 | 7.8 | 8 | This 1995 documentary film surveys the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film. Largely based on Vito Russo's 1981 book "The Celluloid Closet, Homosexuality in the Movies." | Details | |
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Gods And Monsters | 43 | 7.3 | 29308 | 8 | It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper, Hannah, hires a handsome young gardener, the flamboyant director and simple yard man develop an unlikely friendship, which will change them forever. | Details |
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Battle Of The Sexes | 44 | 6.7 | 50303 | The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs. | Details | |
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Pariah | 45 | 7.2 | 6135 | 7 | A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression. | Details |
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The Queen | 46 | 7.3 | 727 | 7 | Jack is 24, sometimes he's a drag queen named Sabrina. In 1967, as Sabrina, he's the mistress of ceremonies at a national drag queen contest in New York City. The camera goes behind the scenes, recording the rehearsals leading up to the contest, the conversations in the dressing room (about draft boards, sexual identity and sex-change operations, and being a drag queen), and the jealousies that emerge before and after the competition. Jack introduces us to Richard, a young man who becomes Jack's protégé. As Miss Harlow, Richard enters the contest. One of his principal competitors is Miss Crystal, who's from Manhattan. Who will win the crown? | Details |
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The Wedding Banquet (Xi yan) | 47 | 7.6 | 14114 | 8 | A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding. | Details |
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The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert | 48 | 7.4 | 46639 | 7 | Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and finding new horizons. | Details |
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The Duke Of Burgundy | 49 | 6.5 | 12022 | Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further. | Details | |
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Grandma | 50 | 6.7 | 14679 | Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future. | Details |
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