Best gay films of 2023

Our 23 Favorite LGBTQ+ Movies of From raunchy comedies to messy love triangles, this year’s queer films were big, bold, and outlandish. These are our picks for the 15 best queer movies ofin descending order, counting down to our favorite queer movie of the year!. And more optimistically, comedies like Bottoms and Red, White & Royal Blue offer a light-hearted take on the unique LGBTQ+ experience.

This is all to say that we’re spoiled for choice, so in this list, we try to narrow down your options to only the best the year has to offer so far. From Section 28 drama Blue Jean, to the frivolity of Red, White & Royal Blue, there’s lots to keep you entertained as you go on a digital detox for the rest of December. Find our top queer cinema picks below and get stuck in.

Here are the best queer movies offrom Passages and Blue Jean to Femme, Bottoms, Joyland and Red, White & Royal Blue.

Gay movies 2021

Gay A former baseball player keeps her lesbian relationship a secret from her family for seven decades. Synopsis: Eight-year-old Vicky has a mysterious gift: she can recreate any scent she comes across, even that of her beloved mother [More]. Critics Consensus: With stunning honesty that's achingly bittersweet, Joyland tackles gender and sexual fluidity in a repressed patriarchal society with wisps of hopefulness.

Critics Consensus: A quiet, moving rumination on loneliness and newfound intimacy, God's Own Country marks an outstanding directorial debut for Francis Lee. Critics Consensus: Keep 2023 Lights On is a mysterious, sexy film deep into the love affair of two men that always manages to stay true to life. Directed By: Gina Prince-Bythewood.

Critics Consensus: A solid first feature for writer-director Dan Levy, Good Grief offers a generally affecting look at love after death whose refreshing sincerity only occasionally veers into sentimentality. Directed By: Dee Rees. What exactly is queer cinema? Synopsis: Syd Radha Mitchella low-level editor at a photography magazine eager to establish herself, discovers her best is the once-celebrated [More].

Directed By: Andrea Arnold. 2023 Consensus: Outrage walks a difficult moral and ethical line -- and not always successfully -- but despite its flaws, it's a best, provocative look at homosexuality in American politics. An early sex scene, one of the most unvarnished in cinema history, proves that, sometimes, shit happens.

The camera is alert to each twitch and gay of the clientele who move from seat to seat like chess pieces in the sparsely populated auditorium. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts [More]. No Other Land dir. Critics Consensus: The Old Guard is occasionally restricted by genre conventions, but director Gina Prince-Bythewood brings a sophisticated vision to the superhero genre - and some knockout action sequences led by Charlize Theron.

Mati Diop 9. Directed By: Stephen Cone. Critics Consensus: In the Summers homes in on emotional insights even as its narrative wanders, suggesting a bright future for writer-director Alessandra Lacorazza. Synopsis: Critics Consensus: Gently devastating in its compassion, Monster is a masterpiece of shifting perspectives that surprises to the end. This is, after all, less a queer romance and more about the film that can arise within queer romance.

Synopsis: Legendary actor Udo Kier stars as retired hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, who escapes the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing [More]. Sign In. Directed By: Erica Tremblay. Synopsis: When his mother takes in a bully whose own mother is ill, the son of a soldier must learn to [More].

Synopsis: A German emigrant living in a trailer in Kansas is the victim of a botched sex-change operation. Directed By: Marija Kavtaradze.