The Best Movies with LGBTQ+ Couples

Recent years, the growing of this subgenre of movies has yielded some impressive production, with quite a few on this list winning impressive awards such as the Oscars (number 5 on this list won 3 oscars!). Intrigued? These stories will speak for themselves. Scroll down for more!

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami
Céline Sciamma
2019

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.

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8.2 IMDB
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Call Me by Your Name

Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg
Luca Guadagnino
2017

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.

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7.9 IMDB
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The Way He Looks

Ghilherme Lobo, Fábio Audi, Tess Amorim
Daniel Ribeiro
2014

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

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7.9 IMDB
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Pride

Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West
Matthew Warchus
2014

Set in the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem. The Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

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7.8 IMDB
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Brokeback Mountain

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams
Ang Lee
2005

Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.

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7.7 IMDB
6

Blue Is the Warmest Color

Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche
Abdellatif Kechiche
2013

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

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7.7 IMDB
7

A Single Man

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult
Tom Ford
2009

The life of George Falconer, a British college professor, is reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will to live as he seeks the console of his close girl friend Charley, who is struggling with her own questions about life.

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7.6 IMDB
8

Love, Simon

Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Garner
Greg Berlanti
2018

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.

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7.6 IMDB
9

Milk

Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin
Gus Van Sant
2008

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.

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7.5 IMDB
10

Boys Don't Cry

Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard
Kimberly Peirce
1999

Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.

7.5 IMDB
11

Moonlight

Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe
Barry Jenkins
2016

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.

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7.4 IMDB
12

BPM (Beats per Minute)

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel
Robin Campillo
2017

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.

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7.4 IMDB
13

Transamerica

Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Elizabeth Peña
Duncan Tucker
2005

Bree is about to get a sex change operation that will finally allow her to actually be what she’s already been in her mind for a long time: a transitioned woman. Yet before this happens she suddenly runs into her son who ends up coming for the trip across the United States.

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7.4 IMDB
14

Blue Jasmine

Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins
Woody Allen
2013

Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ignored, she tries to recover in her present. Unfortunately, it all proves a losing battle as Jasmine’s narcissistic hangups and their consequences begin to overwhelm her. In doing so, her old pretensions and new deceits begin to foul up everyone’s lives, especially her own.

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7.3 IMDB
15

A Fantastic Woman

Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco
Sebastián Lelio
2017

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.

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7.2 IMDB
16

Pariah

Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis
Dee Rees
2011

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

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7.2 IMDB
17

Beginners

Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent
Mike Mills
2011

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.

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7.2 IMDB
18

Before Night Falls

Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Johnny Depp
Julian Schnabel
2000

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

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7.2 IMDB
19

Carol

Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler
Todd Haynes
2015

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

7.2 IMDB
20

The Danish Girl

Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts
Tom Hooper
2015

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

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7.1 IMDB
21

Boy Erased

Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe
Joel Edgerton
2018

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

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6.9 IMDB
22

With Every Heartbeat

Ruth Vega Fernandez, Liv Mjönes, Lena Endre
Alexandra-Therese Keining
2011

After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.

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6.9 IMDB
23

Imagine Me & You

Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode
Ol Parker
2005

During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.

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6.8 IMDB
24

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Chloë Grace Moretz, John Gallagher Jr., Sasha Lane
Desiree Akhavan
2018

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance…

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6.6 IMDB
25

Disobedience

Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola
Sebastián Lelio
2017

A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.

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6.6 IMDB