Best LGBTQ movies of 1980s

Actors : Victoria Abril, Hilda Vera, Lautaro Murúa, Perla Vonasek,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

Luis, an aging Falangist author with guilty conscious, is writing fake memoirs. Two reporters, his niece Mariana and her lesbian friend Elmyr, arrive to do a piece on him. While fact-checking his memoirs Mariana becomes attracted to him.

Actors : Yvonne Fisher, Jeanne Smith, Martin Goldin, Nickolas B. Nagourney,
Directors : Roger Stigliano,

Fun Down There follows a week in the life of Buddy, a naif who arrives in Manhattan ready to fall in love. The film's dry lends itself to a refreshingly casual quality about the sex scenes-plus there's a happy ending.

Actors : Paul Bettis, Pauline Carey, Keltie Creed, Lance Eng,
Directors : John Greyson,

A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists have seven days in which to report on the ...

Actors : Dionysis Xanthos, Agni Vlahou, Artemis Charmy, Grigoris Vafias,
Directors : Giorgos Lazaridis,

Stefos is the top hired lover in the city of Athens. Rich ladies pay him high amounts to satisfy their sexual needs. One day he is accused of murdering a wealthy gay man. A female reporter ...

Actors : Hilda Koronel, Vilma Santos, Dindo Fernando, Suzanne Gonzales,
Directors : Danny L. Zialcita,

They are two women in love with one man. One is the wife, the other is the mistress. And between them, the man whose love and time they share. But even the most discreet of affairs can be ...

Actors : Onno Boelee, Guy Boyce, Willy de Wit, Gilbert Goldie,
Directors : Garth Maxwell,

This autobiographical story about a love affair between two men was filmed on location in inner-city Auckland. It adroitly avoids stereotypes, and despite its focus on the gay male ...

Actors : Ken Letner, Thom Jones, Ulli Lommel, Cliff Brisbois,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Mesmerist Jonathan Sage escapes Nazi Germany via a cryogenic tube. In the 1980s, a group of Fascist Americans thaw him out, hoping to use him as a way to rid their community of homosexuals,...

Actors : Linda Jones, Alessandro Freyberger, Rita Silva, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Gianni Siragusa,

A woman murders her boyfriends and steals some diamonds he has smuggled. She gets found out though, and locked in a prison with an evil sadistic lesbian warden. She immediately sets about ...

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Amanda Sandrelli, Ben Cross, Arnoldo Foà,
Directors : Giovanni Soldati,

This is a story of love and lust shaded with overtones of incest and lesbianism. Livia is a woman trying to regain the affections of her husband Alberto, whose journalism career takes him ...

Actors : Suborna Mustafa, Zafar Iqbal, Kajori, Prabir Mitra,
Directors : Belal Ahmed,

A love triangle between a singer and two young women.

Actors : Ingrid Bourgoin, Martine Simonet, Michel Delahaye, Sonia Saviange,
Directors : Marie-Claude Treilhou,

Simone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and pass the time. At midnight Simone departs to a lesbian nightclub.

Actors : Carolyn Beauchamp, Daniel Chapman, Brian Catton, John Bethune,
Directors : Temístocles López,

Attractive young cowboy, new to the city meets a gay casting agent.

Actors : Rana Cabbar, Sibel Isil, Tuncay Akça, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Serif Gören,

Munir goes on a vacation in a holiday resort with his two bodyguards. Munis is famous for his affairs with women. There he meets Can, a very emancipated young girl. They fall in love but ...

Actors : Mara Carmem, Carmem Angélica, Juca de Oliveira, Lígia de Paula,
Directors : Bentinho,

As condition to inherit some assets, three women must turn three gay men into their lovers. Fighting for the money are also a charitable nun, a gay lawyer and a dissolute woman.

Actors : Nurul Arifin, Soendjoto Adibroto, Joice Erna, Tonny Hidayat,
Directors : Wahyu Sihombing,

Niko, a gay man, is forced by rumours about his sexuality to marrie the pregnant Lita who was deserted by a mutual friend. The couple's sexlife doesn't amount to much and their relationship...

Actors : Pasquale Zacco, Paolo Bassi, Vinicio Diamanti, Matteo D'Ambra,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

In Rome's notorious gay club, the Alibi, men date, love and quarrel. Meanwhile, on stage, the classic drama of Salomé is played but with surprising variations, In the end, a clown goes out ...

Actors : Patrice Chéron, Brigitte Robert, Patricia Benson, Jacky Arnal,
Directors : Lorenzo Onorati,

Agatha and Martha are lesbian lovers. However, Martha starts a love affair with Christian, an unemployed sailor.

Actors : Mario Scarpetta, Luisa De Santis, Enrico Montesano, Veronica Lario,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

While walking in a garden of statues of women, Ester and her friend Adele see two women kissing. Ester then dreams of kissing Adele and later imagines making love to her while she is in the...

Actors : Marie-Thonon, Copi, Didier Hercend, Luc Bernard,
Directors : Lionel Soukaz,

Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.