Pride at the Movies
In celebration of International Pride Day and Pride in London, Film Review is highlighting 28 stories that amplify diversity and unite community. Each recommended entry is culled from our highest-rated LGBTQ+ focused titles from the last decade, from ★★★ (Good) to ★★★★★ (Exceptional).
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(2017)
All of Us Strangers
(2023)
Are You Proud?
(2019)
Beach Rats
(2017)
Benediction
(2021)
Blue Jean
(2023)
Bros
(2022)
Call Me By Your Name
(2017)
Circus of Books
(2019)
Flee
(2021)
Great Freedom
(2021)
Hard Paint
(2018)
In from the Side
(2022)
Little Girl
(2020)
Love, Simon
(2018)
Moffie
(2020)
Moonlight
(2016)
On Swift Horses
(2025)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(2019)
Queer
(2024)
Sequin in a Blue Room
(2019)
Steelers: the World's First Gay Rugby Club
(2020)
The Favourite
(2018)
The Ice King
(2018)
The Shiny Shrimps
(2018)
The Wedding Banquet
(2025)
Théo and Hugo
(2016)
Unicorns
(2024)
Film critic Mansel Stimpson’s memoir No Drum to Beat describes his late, but positive and totally unexpected realisation that he was gay. Written nearly forty years ago, the story gains from the fact that so much of it was recorded as it was happening. Although a personal tale, this is also a portrait of an era, sharing what it meant to be gay in the late 1970s and early 1980s when attitudes to homosexuality were gradually beginning to change.
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