Introduction: Methods, Moments, and Movements
100 Queer films
1) Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969, Japan)
2) The Boys in the Band (William Friedkin, 1970, USA)
3) Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970, USA)
4) Boys in the Sand (Wakefield Poole, 1971, USA)
5) Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, 1971, Italy/France)
6) It Is Not the Homosexual who is Perverse, but the Society in which He Lives (Rosa von Praunheim, 1971, West Germany)
7) Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger, 1971, UK)
8) The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972, West Germany)
9) A Very Natural Thing (Christopher Larkin, 1974, USA
10)Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974, USA)
11)Je Tu Il Elle (Chantal Akerman, 1974, France/Belgium)
12)The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975, USA/UK)
13)Superdyke (Barbara Hammer, 1975, USA)
14)Outrageous (Richard Benner, 1977, Canada)
15)Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (Mariposa Film Group, 1977, USA)
16)La Cage aux Folles (Eduard Molinaro, 1978, France)
17)Madame X: An Absolute Ruler (Ulrike Ottinger, 1978, Germany)
18)The Place Without Limits (Arturo Ripstein, 1978, Mexico)
19)Taxi Zum Klo (Frank Ripploh, 1981, W. Germany)
20)Personal Best (Robert Towne, 1982, USA)
21)Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983, USA)
22)Dona Herlinda and Her Son (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1985, Mexico)
23)Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco, 1985, Brazil/USA)
24)My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985, UK)
25)November Moon (Alexandra von Grote, 1985, W. Germany)
26)Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, 1986, USA)
27)Parting Glances (Bill Sherwood, 1986, USA)
28)Damned If You Don't (Su Friedrich, 1987, USA)
29)I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema, 1987, Canada)
30)The Last of England (Derek Jarman, 1987, UK)
31)Law of Desire (Pedro Almodovar, 1987, Spain)
32)Coming Out (Heiner Carow, 1989, E. Germany)
33)Looking for Langston (Isaac Julien, 1989, UK)
34)Target City Hall (DIVA TV, 1989, USA)
35)Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989, USA)
36)Longtime Companion (Norman Rene, 1990, USA)
37)Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990, USA)
38)My Father is Coming (Monika Treut, 1991, Germany)
39)My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991, USA)
40)Claire of the Moon (Nicole Conn, 1992, USA)
41)The Living End (Gregg Araki, 1992, USA)
42)The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992, UK)
43)Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992, UK/Russia)
44)Farewell my Concubine (Kaige Chen, 1993, China)
45)Zero Patience (John Greyson, 1993, Canada)
46)The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994, Australia)
47)Go Fish (Rose Troche, 1994, USA)
48)Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994, New Zealand/Germany)
49)The Birdcage (Mike Nichols, 1996, USA)
50)Bound (Lana and Lilly Wachowski, 1996, USA)
51)Fire (Deepa Mehta, 1996, India/Canada)
52)The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996, USA)
53)Dakan (Mohamed Camara, 1997, Guinea)
54)Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997, Hong Kong/Japan)
55)Ma Vie en Rose (My Life in Pink, Alain Berliner, Belgium/France/UK, 1997)
56)Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon, 1998, USA)
57)High Art (Lisa Cholodenko, 1998, USA)
58)Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden, 1998)
59)Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999, France)
60)Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999, USA)
61)Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999, USA)
62)But I'm a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit, 1999, USA)
63)Momento Mori (Tae-yong Kim, Kyu-dong Min, 1999, South Korea)
64)The Iron Ladies (Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, 2000, Thailand)
65)By Hook or By Crook (Harry Dodge and Silas Howard, 2001, USA)
66)Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001, USA)
67)Lan Yu (Stanley Kwan, 2001, China/Hong Kong)
68)Southern Comfort (Kate Davis, 2001, USA)
69)Yossi & Jagger (Eytan Fox, 2002, Israel)
70)Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, Taiwan)
71)Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette, 2003, USA)
72)Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004, Thailand/France)
73)The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Auraeus Solito, 2005, Philippines)
74)Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005, USA/Canada)
75)Another Gay Movie (Todd Stephens, 2006, USA)
76)Spider Lilies (Zero Chou, 2007, Taiwan)
77)Raging Sun, Raging Sky (Julian Hernandez, 2009, Mexico)
78)In the Family (Patrick Wang, 2011, USA)
79)Pariah (Dee Rees, 2011, USA)
80)Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011, UK)
81)Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan, 2012, Canada/France)
82)52 Tuesdays (Sophie Hyde, 2013, Australia)
83)Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013, France)
84)Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014, UK/Hungary)
85)Liz in September (Fina Torres, 2014, Venezuela)
86)Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015, USA/UK/Australia)
87)Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015, USA)
88)The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook, 2016, South Korea)
89)Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016, USA)
90)BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo, 2017, France)
91)A Fantastic Woman (Sebastian Lelio, 2017, Chile)
92)Love, Simon (Greg Berlanti, 2018, USA)
93)Rafiki (Wanuri Kahiu, 2018, Kenya/South Africa)
94)Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval, 2019, Philippines/USA)
95)Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma, 2019, France)
96)Twilight's Kiss (Ray Yeung, 2019, Hong Kong)
97)The Half of It (Alice Wu, 2020, USA)
98)Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021, Denmark et al)
99) Single All the Way (Michael Mayer, 2021, USA)
100)Badhaai Do (Harshavardhan Kulkarni, 2022, India)
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