Critically acclaimed LGBTQ movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Ian McKellen, Lolita Davidovich,
Directors : Bill Condon,

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) Director James Whale are explored.

Actors : Joel Grey, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Robin Williams, Dianne Wiest, Nathan Lane,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.

Actors : Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

Actors : Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Tom Selleck, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Frank Oz,

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Raul Julia, José Lewgoy, William Hurt,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.

Actors : Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell,
Directors : Stephan Elliott,

Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.

Actors : Lyle Lovett, Christina Ricci, Lisa Kudrow, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Don Roos,

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, James Wilby, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : James Ivory,

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

Actors : Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean,
Directors : Alan Parker,

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Actors : Taron Egerton, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden,
Directors : Dexter Fletcher,

A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.

Actors : Charles Grodin, Audra Lindley, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin,
Directors : Elaine May,

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...

Actors : Kate Winslet, Diana Kent, Sarah Peirse, Melanie Lynskey,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

Actors : Richard Burton, Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wed headmaster of an Episcopal boarding school in California.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Alan Alda,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Actors : Peter White, Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.

Actors : Beryl Reid, Ronald Fraser, Susannah York, Coral Browne,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful district nurse in a BBC soap opera. However, her character is to be killed off, and George realises that the only other job she can...

Actors : Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Kaye Ballard, Jerry Stiller,
Directors : Richard Lester,

On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay ...

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, Miriam Hopkins, James Garner,
Directors : William Wyler,

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.