11 LGBTQ+ Movies to Watch During Pride Month
June is Pride Month and in honor, we are counting down the best LGBTQ+ movies of all-time!
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June is Pride Month, and in honor of that, Moviefone is counting down the best LGBTQ+ themed movies of all-time!
So, sit down, relax, and find a good movie to watch during Pride Month.
Let's begin!
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Two women, Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids (Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska) go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor (Mark Ruffalo). Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other.
The Kids Are All Right
Other People (2016)
David (Jesse Plemons), a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. (Molly Shannon) Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”
Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)
Jessica (Jennifer Westfeldt), a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen Cooper (Heather Juergensen), a thirtysomething art gallerist.
Kissing Jessica Stein
Call Me by Your Name (2018)
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and the older adult man (Armie Hammer) hired as his father's research assistant.
Call Me by Your Name
The Intervention (2016)
A weekend getaway for four couples (Cobie Smulders and Vincent Piazza, Clea DuVall and Natasha Lyonne, Melanie Lynskey and Jason Ritter, and Alia Shawkat and Ben Schwartz) takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
The Intervention
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell).
Battle of the Sexes
Brokeback Mountain (2006)
Two modern-day cowboys (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal ) meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflict
Brokeback Mountain
Carol (2016)
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk (Rooney Mara) who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman (Cate Blanchett).
Carol
The Birdcage (1996)
A gay cabaret owner (Robin Williams) and his drag queen companion (Nathan Lane) agree to put up a false straight front so that their son (Dan Futterman) can introduce them to his fiancé's conservative moralistic parents (Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest).
The Birdcage
Milk (2009)
The true story of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.
Milk
Moonlight (2016)
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s (Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Trevante Rhodes) 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 grappling with his own sexuality.
Moonlight
