I reckon I’ve seen enough gay cinema to be making this list and while it’s probably hard to narrow it down to just ten, here’s a run down of of my all time favourite LGBTQ+ films. 10) The Way He Looks The Way He Looks is a Brazilian coming of age movie about blind teen …
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Ideal Home or Ideal Movie?
This is a film that I hadn’t heard of before, but whilst browsing the Netflix ‘Gay Movies’ genre with my mum (the biggest LGBT+ ally I know) on a visit home we came across the 2018 film ‘Ideal Home’. We quickly decided to watch it because, well, it stars Paul Rudd as a cowboy hat …
Pride, but it’s a movie.
Matthew Warchus’s 2014 film Pride is one of the best all round LGBTQ+ movies I’ve ever seen. The film centres around the true story of a group of young lesbian and gay activists who raise money for Welsh miners during the miners strikes in 1984-85. It’s heartwarming and uplifting and extremely well acted to round …
Mario: teammates to lovers
Marcel Gisler’s 2018 Swiss film Mario probably changed my life. I’m aware that seems dramatic but after watching it I spent weeks telling everybody I spoke to about how amazing it was, despite the headache I had from crying over it. The movie centres on two young, up and coming footballers falling in love and …
Call Me By Your Favourite Film
Okay so, Call Me by Your Name being the first film to feature on this blog is probably a cliche. The peach film; the one with Timothee Chalamet; the one with the twins from the Social Network; whatever you call it, there’s no doubting that it’s one of the best pieces of LGBTQ+ cinema to …
Queer as Film 