Most Popular LGBTQIA+ 2025 Lust and laughter meet stories of defiance and discovery in a selection of films to quicken the heart Four Mothers Hilarious, uplifting tale of an Irish son juggling four very different mothers over one chaotic weekend in Dublin. Comedy Drama 2023 89 mins Darren Thornton Who We Love Bullied for her sexuality, Dublin schoolgirl Lily turns to her gay best friend for support in this vibrant coming-out, coming-of-age drama. Drama 2021 94 mins Graham Cantwell Sebastian A young London-based writer begins a double life as a sex worker to research his debut novel, in this gripping psychological drama. Drama 2024 110 mins Mikko Mäkelä Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma’s BAFTA-nominated film about the tentative love between a painter and her subject in 18th-century France. Romance 2019 121 mins Céline Sciamma Currently unavailable The Balconettes Co-written with Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant’s bold film follows three friends as they dispose of the body of an abuser they’ve accidentally killed. Comedy Fantasy 2024 104 mins Noémie Merlant Je tu il elle Akerman’s debut feature, with its 10-minute lesbian sex scene, revealed its maker to be a radical and uncompromising force in cinema. Drama 1974 86 mins Chantal Akerman Discover exceptional cinema Just £6.99 per month or £65 per year. Subscribe annually with voucher code SUMMER26 to save £15. Subscribe now Available on multiple devices Help support a UK cultural charity Unique and trusted film picks New movies added weekly God's Own Country £3.50 A troubled young sheep farmer falls for a hired hand in this stunning debut from Francis Lee. Drama 2017 105 mins Francis Lee Layla A British-Palestinian drag performer catches the eye of a strait-laced white man in Amrou Al-Kadhi’s stunning, semi-autobiographical debut. Drama 2024 100 mins Amrou Al-Kadhi Maurice Merchant Ivory’s landmark adaptation of E M Forster’s classic LGBTQ+ novel and a precursor to the James Ivory-scripted Call Me By Your Name. Drama 1987 140 mins James Ivory Currently unavailable Eat the Night Siblings find passion and peril online and in the real world, in this visually electric French drama. Thriller Drama 2024 107 mins Caroline Poggi and Johnathan Vinel Benediction Terence Davies’ devastatingly moving, lyrical portrait of the life of celebrated war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Drama 2021 137 mins Terence Davies Coming soon Power Alley Queer sisterhood and collective power lie at the heart of this arresting Brazilian debut, in which a promising volleyball player faces an unwanted pregnancy. Drama 2023 100 mins Lillah Halla Along Came Love Two lovers become entwined while both harbouring deep secrets and shame, in this epic postwar romance. Drama 2023 124 mins Katell Quillévéré Vampyros Lesbos Jesús Franco’s dreamily seductive, sun-kissed take on Dracula is one of his most famous works; famed for its hip, psychedelic-loungecore soundtrack. Horror 1971 89 mins Jesús Franco Silver Haze Sacha Polak and Vicky Knight reunite for this daring drama about love, family and forgiveness, loosely inspired by Knight’s life. Drama 2023 103 mins Sacha Polak Swallowed It’s drugs, bugs and unrequited hugs in this deliciously grotesque queer body horror from Carter Smith. Horror 2022 95 mins Carter Smith A Lizard in a Woman's Skin A woman accused of murder begins to lose grip on reality, in this psychedelic, Swinging London thriller from cult director Lucio Fulci (The Beyond). Horror Thriller 1971 103 mins Lucio Fulci Currently unavailable The New Girlfriend Ruth Rendell provides the source novel for this delicious tale of deception and identity, from the master of mischievous melodrama, François Ozon. Melodrama 2014 108 mins François Ozon The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Fassbinder's visual and verbal extravaganza about a successful but lonely fashion designer who falls in love with a beautiful younger woman. Drama 1972 124 mins Rainer Werner Fassbinder The Damned Don't Cry Fyzal Boulifa's (Lynn + Lucy) striking film about the perils of falling foul of community and social expectations. Drama 2022 111 mins Fyzal Boulifa
Four Mothers Hilarious, uplifting tale of an Irish son juggling four very different mothers over one chaotic weekend in Dublin. Comedy Drama 2023 89 mins Darren Thornton
Who We Love Bullied for her sexuality, Dublin schoolgirl Lily turns to her gay best friend for support in this vibrant coming-out, coming-of-age drama. Drama 2021 94 mins Graham Cantwell
Sebastian A young London-based writer begins a double life as a sex worker to research his debut novel, in this gripping psychological drama. Drama 2024 110 mins Mikko Mäkelä
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma’s BAFTA-nominated film about the tentative love between a painter and her subject in 18th-century France. Romance 2019 121 mins Céline Sciamma
Currently unavailable The Balconettes Co-written with Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant’s bold film follows three friends as they dispose of the body of an abuser they’ve accidentally killed. Comedy Fantasy 2024 104 mins Noémie Merlant
Je tu il elle Akerman’s debut feature, with its 10-minute lesbian sex scene, revealed its maker to be a radical and uncompromising force in cinema. Drama 1974 86 mins Chantal Akerman
God's Own Country £3.50 A troubled young sheep farmer falls for a hired hand in this stunning debut from Francis Lee. Drama 2017 105 mins Francis Lee
Layla A British-Palestinian drag performer catches the eye of a strait-laced white man in Amrou Al-Kadhi’s stunning, semi-autobiographical debut. Drama 2024 100 mins Amrou Al-Kadhi
Maurice Merchant Ivory’s landmark adaptation of E M Forster’s classic LGBTQ+ novel and a precursor to the James Ivory-scripted Call Me By Your Name. Drama 1987 140 mins James Ivory
Currently unavailable Eat the Night Siblings find passion and peril online and in the real world, in this visually electric French drama. Thriller Drama 2024 107 mins Caroline Poggi and Johnathan Vinel
Benediction Terence Davies’ devastatingly moving, lyrical portrait of the life of celebrated war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Drama 2021 137 mins Terence Davies
Coming soon Power Alley Queer sisterhood and collective power lie at the heart of this arresting Brazilian debut, in which a promising volleyball player faces an unwanted pregnancy. Drama 2023 100 mins Lillah Halla
Along Came Love Two lovers become entwined while both harbouring deep secrets and shame, in this epic postwar romance. Drama 2023 124 mins Katell Quillévéré
Vampyros Lesbos Jesús Franco’s dreamily seductive, sun-kissed take on Dracula is one of his most famous works; famed for its hip, psychedelic-loungecore soundtrack. Horror 1971 89 mins Jesús Franco
Silver Haze Sacha Polak and Vicky Knight reunite for this daring drama about love, family and forgiveness, loosely inspired by Knight’s life. Drama 2023 103 mins Sacha Polak
Swallowed It’s drugs, bugs and unrequited hugs in this deliciously grotesque queer body horror from Carter Smith. Horror 2022 95 mins Carter Smith
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin A woman accused of murder begins to lose grip on reality, in this psychedelic, Swinging London thriller from cult director Lucio Fulci (The Beyond). Horror Thriller 1971 103 mins Lucio Fulci
Currently unavailable The New Girlfriend Ruth Rendell provides the source novel for this delicious tale of deception and identity, from the master of mischievous melodrama, François Ozon. Melodrama 2014 108 mins François Ozon
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Fassbinder's visual and verbal extravaganza about a successful but lonely fashion designer who falls in love with a beautiful younger woman. Drama 1972 124 mins Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Damned Don't Cry Fyzal Boulifa's (Lynn + Lucy) striking film about the perils of falling foul of community and social expectations. Drama 2022 111 mins Fyzal Boulifa
