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50 of the Best Queer woman Films of All Time

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Circumstance ()

As teenagers living in post-revolutionary Iran, wealthy Atafeh (Nikohl Boosheri) and her orphaned best friend, Shireen (Sarah Kazemy), turn to illicit means to fetch their kicks. They join underground parties and experiment with illegal booze and drugs—but it’s when they fall in love with each other that their world begins to unravel. Homosexuality is strictly illegal in Iran, and as Atafeh’s increasingly religious brother develops an obsession with Shireen, the girls are forced to make a painful choice.

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Gia ()

Widely considered the world’s first supermodel, openly queer Gia Carangi rocketed to stardom in the late s, only for her experience to spiral out of control after she became addicted to heroin and later contracted HIV—which led to her death from AIDS in A petty over a decade later, this biopic about her life and love affairs helped catapult a fresh Angelina Jolie (herself openly queer) into the spotlight.

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Love Lies Bleeding ()


Here at Autostraddle we desire every lesbian, every homosexual woman, and every nonbinary person to know that movies should include us and do include us. We want you all to see our lives on screen, through the best lesbian movies, with the variety and quality we deserve.

It’s about more than representation. We have faith that the best sapphic movies rank among the very best movies, period. Our stories matter and have too long been ignored. This list, created based on ballots submitted by over 75 current and former Autostraddle writers, other critics and programmers, other queer writers, gay filmmakers, and queer performers, aims to create a canon of the very best lesbian movies of all time. Past lists, we&#;ve made rules about what constitutes a female homosexual film — but with this wide swath of voices, we let the numbers decide. From earnest art films to gross-out comedies, this list has it all.

There is a world of cinema and a world of gay cinema. There are films from the last hundred years waiting to be discovered and new films yet to be made. So grab some popcorn and join us. And if

Best LGBTQ+ Movies About Women, Ranked

The Queer community has struggled since the 18th Century and has come a distant way — from any queer deed previously being considered a crime globally to now having the freedom to express themselves in most places, including in the media. Over the past two decades, Gay representation in the media has skyrocketed, with plenty of categories and awards being birthed to cater to the blossoming genre of film. In proof, a recent GLAAD study showed a record-high number of LGBTQ+ characters on television.

Update September 4, This list has been updated by Soniya Hinduja to include even more great titles.

Most Homosexual films have a specific focus in mind. For example, Moonlight focuses on toxic masculinity within the Black people, while Tangerine examines the struggles that transgender people deal with, even by those with whom they share relationships. Homosexual communities tend to cater to every audience imaginable, and thanks to the same-sex relations examined within LGBTQ+ media, films about women are about more than just queerness, but

Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time

The latest: With out latest update, we&#;ve added the most recent Certified Fresh films, including Backspot, Good One, Challengers, Bird, Love Lies Bleeding, Queer, Problemista, Fitting In, Housekeeping for Beginners, I Saw the TV Glow, In the Summers, The People’s Joker, National Anthem, Good Grief, Sebastian, FRIDA, Cuckoo, Fancy Dance, Femme, A Nice Indian Boy, and The Wedding Banquet! Survey them and more on Fandango at Home!

Our list of the Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time stretches back 90 years to the pioneering German motion picture, Mädchen in Uniform, which was subsequently banned by the Nazis, and crosses multiple continents, cultures, and genres. There are broad American comedies (The Birdcage), artful Korean crime dramas (The Handmaiden), groundbreaking indies (Tangerine), and landmark documentaries (Paris Is Burning). Over the last few years, we added titles like the documentary Welcome to Chechnya, about Queer activists risking their lives for