Movies and TV series about LGBT themes

The 60 best titles about LGBT themes, ranked by the iRank Score — our composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb. Every page includes cast, where to watch and similar recommendations.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
iRank88
2019 · Céline Sciamma
MovieDramaRomance
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.
Spotlight
iRank87
2015 · Tom McCarthy
MovieDramaHistory
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
The Owl House
iRank87
2020
SeriesAction & AdventureAnimationComedy
Luz, a self-assured teenage human girl, accidentally stumbles upon a portal to a magical new world where she befriends a rebellious witch, Eda, and an adorably tiny warrior, King.
Call Me by Your Name
iRank86
2017 · Luca Guadagnino
MovieDramaRomance
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon,
Hazbin Hotel
iRank86
2024 · Brett Coker
SeriesAnimationComedyDrama
In attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption.
Love, Victor
iRank86
2020 · Adam Fishbach
SeriesComedyDrama
Victor is a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems
The Handmaiden
iRank86
2016 · Park Chan-wook
MovieDramaRomanceThriller
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domine
Heartstopper
iRank86
2022
SeriesDrama
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.
Moonlight
iRank85
2016 · Barry Jenkins
MovieDrama
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 gra
Aftersun
iRank85
2022 · Charlotte Wells
MovieDrama
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the fat
Young Royals
iRank85
2021
SeriesDrama
Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
iRank85
2018 · ND Stevenson
SeriesAction & AdventureAnimationFamily
Soldier Adora finds a magic sword -- and her identity as legendary hero She-Ra. She joins the Rebellion, but her best friend stays with the evil Horde.
Only Murders in the Building
iRank85
2021 · Ben Smith
SeriesComedyCrimeMystery
Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.
Riverdale
iRank84
2017 · Jon Goldwater
SeriesCrimeDramaMystery
Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riv
Steven Universe
iRank84
2013 · Brian A. Miller
SeriesAction & AdventureAnimationComedy
A young boy takes his mother's place in a group of gemstone-based beings, and must learn to control his powers.
Farewell My Concubine
iRank84
1993 · Chen Kaige
MovieDrama
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
Monster
iRank83
2023 · Hirokazu Kore-eda
MovieDramaMysteryThriller
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.
Carol
iRank83
2015 · Todd Haynes
MovieDramaRomance
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
The Favourite
iRank83
2018 · Yorgos Lanthimos
MovieComedyDramaHistory
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two c
Hannibal
iRank83
2013 · Bryan Fuller
SeriesCrimeDrama
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic mu
Queer as Folk
iRank83
2000 · Daniel Lipman
SeriesDrama
Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this original series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contempor
POSE
iRank83
2018 · Janet Mock
SeriesDrama
A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and
Everything Everywhere All at Once
iRank82
2022 · Daniel Scheinert
MovieActionAdventureScience Fiction
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Brokeback Mountain
iRank82
2005 · Ang Lee
MovieDramaRomance
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
Dallas Buyers Club
iRank82
2013 · Jean-Marc Vallée
MovieDramaHistory
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Sex Education
iRank82
2019 · Clare Couchman
SeriesComedyDrama
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Close
iRank82
2022 · Lukas Dhont
MovieDrama
Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.
Blue Is the Warmest Color
iRank81
2013 · Abdellatif Kechiche
MovieDramaRomance
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 h
American Horror Story
iRank81
2011 · Halley Feiffer
SeriesDramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cu
XO, Kitty
iRank81
2023
SeriesComedyDrama
Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she'll soon realise t
Never Have I Ever
iRank81
2020 · Mindy Kaling
SeriesComedyDrama
After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.
The Imitation Game
iRank81
2014 · Morten Tyldum
MovieDramaHistoryThriller
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Govern
Midnight Cowboy
iRank81
1969 · John Schlesinger
MovieDrama
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy
Bridgerton
iRank81
2020 · Jess Brownell
SeriesDrama
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
Atypical
iRank81
2017 · Robia Rashid
SeriesComedyDrama
Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, takes a funny, yet painful, journey of self-discovery for love and independence and upends his family.
Good Omens
iRank80
2019 · Rachel Talalay
SeriesComedyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Aziraphale and Crowley, of Heaven and Hell respectively, have grown rather fond of the Earth. So it's terrible news that it's about to end. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing. The Four Horsemen
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
iRank80
2020 · Steven Spielberg
SeriesAction & AdventureAnimationFamily
Six teens attending an adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar must band together to survive when dinosaurs wreak havoc on the island.
Nimona
iRank80
2023 · Troy Quane
MovieActionAnimationFamily
A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.
Booksmart
iRank80
2019 · Olivia Wilde
MovieComedy
Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out
Elite
iRank80
2018 · Ruben Goldfarb
SeriesCrimeDramaMystery
When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
iRank80
2022 · Ryan Murphy
SeriesCrimeDrama
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in pl
Love, Simon
iRank80
2018 · Greg Berlanti
MovieComedyDramaRomance
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anony
Killing Eve
iRank79
2018 · Laura Neal
SeriesCrimeDrama
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
iRank79
1994 · Stephan Elliott
MovieComedyDrama
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Wynonna Earp
iRank79
2016 · Brett Burlock
SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyWestern
Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.
Mysterious Skin
iRank78
2005 · Gregg Araki
MovieDrama
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Chucky
iRank78
2021 · Jeff Renfroe
SeriesComedyCrimeMystery
After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwh
Green Book
iRank78
2018 · Peter Farrelly
MovieComedyDramaHistory
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segr
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
iRank78
2012 · Stephen Chbosky
MovieDrama
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, h
The L Word
iRank77
2004
SeriesDramaSoap
A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.
Sense8
iRank77
2015
SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ord
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
iRank77
1999 · Trey Parker
MovieAnimationComedy
In this feature film based on the hit animated series, the third graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance and Phillip, and emerge wit
In the House
iRank77
2012 · François Ozon
MovieComedyDramaMystery
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, t
Philadelphia
iRank76
1993 · Jonathan Demme
MovieDrama
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful a
Love Lies Bleeding
iRank76
2024 · Rose Glass
MovieCrimeRomanceThriller
Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of L
The Birdcage
iRank75
1996 · Mike Nichols
MovieComedyRomance
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.
Bottoms
iRank75
2023 · Emma Seligman
MovieComedy
Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start bea
Agatha All Along
iRank75
2024 · Jac Schaeffer
SeriesMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Agatha Harkness gathers a coven of witches and sets off down, down, down The Witches' Road.
Fried Green Tomatoes
iRank74
1991 · Jon Avnet
MovieComedyDrama
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in
Benedetta
iRank73
2021 · Paul Verhoeven
MovieDramaHistoryRomance
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.