List of LGBT-related films of 2019
This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films released in 2019. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.
LGBT films |
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By decade |
Films
Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1 Versus 100 | Bruno Kohfield-Galeano | United States | Drama | Anna McClean, Charla Cochran, Walter Mecham, Jill Adler, Whitney Palmer, Danny Royce | ||
The Acrobat (L'Acrobate) | Rodrigue Jean | Canada | Drama | Sébastien Ricard, Yury Paulau | [1] | |
Adam | Rhys Ernst | United States | Comedy | Nicholas Alexander, Bobbi Salvör Menuez (credited as India Menuez), Leo Sheng | Screenplay by Ariel Schrag, based on her novel of the same name | |
Alice Júnior | Gil Baroni | Brazil | Comedy | Anna Celestino Mota, Emmanuel Rosset, Surya Amitrano | [2] | |
And Then We Danced | Levan Akin | Sweden Georgia | Drama | Levan Gelbakhiani, Ana Javakishvili | ||
Before We Grow Old (Heute oder morgen) | Thomas Moritz Helm | Germany | Drama | [3] | ||
Before You Know It | Hannah Utt | United States | Comedy | Mandy Patinkin, Hannah Utt, Jen Tullock, Judith Light | [4] | |
Bit | Brad Michael Elmore | United States | Supernatural drama | [4] | ||
The Blonde One (Un rubio) | Marco Berger | Argentina | Drama | [4] | ||
The Blue Flower of Novalis (A rosa azul de Novalis) | Gustavo Vinagre, Rodrigo Carneiro | Brazil | Drama | [3] | ||
Blue Boy | Manuel Abramovich | Argentina | Short, Documentary | [3] | ||
Brief Story from the Green Planet (Breve historia del planeta verde) | Santiago Loza | Argentina Germany Brazil Spain | Drama | Romina Escobar, Paula Grinszpan, Luis Sodá | [3] | |
Booksmart | Olivia Wilde | United States | Comedy | Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein | Wilde's directorial debut | |
Circus of Books | Rachel Mason | United States | Documentary | [4] | ||
Cousins | Mauro Carvalho, Thiago Cazado | Brazil | Drama | Thiago Cazado, Paulo Sousa, Denis Camargo | [5] | |
A Dog Barking at the Moon | Xiang Zi | China | Drama | Naren Hua | [3] | |
Docking | Trevor Anderson | Canada | Experimental short | [6] | ||
Drag Kids | Megan Wennberg | Canada | Documentary | [7] | ||
Driveways | Andrew Ahn | United States | Drama | Hong Chau, Brian Dennehy | [3] | |
Easy Love | Tamer Jandali | Germany | Drama | [3] | ||
Elisa & Marcela | Isabel Coixet | Spain | Drama | Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández | Based on the first same-sex marriage in Spain | [3] |
End of the Century (Fin de siglo) | Lucio Castro | Argentina | Drama | Juan Barberini, Ramon Pujol, Mía Maestro | [8] | |
False Belief | Lene Berg | Norway | Documentary | [3] | ||
From Zero to I Love You | Doug Spearman | United States | Drama | Scott Bailey, Darryl Stephens | [4] | |
Gay Chorus Deep South | David Charles | United States | Documentary | [4] | ||
Greta | Armando Praça | Brazil | Drama | [3] | ||
The Ground Beneath My Feet (Der Boden unter den Füßen) | Marie Kreutzer | Austria | Drama | Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger | [3] | |
Halston | Frédéric Tcheng | United States | Documentary | [4] | ||
Hector | Victoria Giesen Carvajal | Chile | Short, Drama | [3] | ||
Holy Beasts | Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cárdenas | Argentina | Drama | [3] | ||
Killing Patient Zero | Laurie Lynd | Canada | Documentary | Gaëtan Dugas | [9] | |
Knives and Skin | Jennifer Reeder | United States | Drama | Raven Whitley, Ty Olwin, Marika Engelhardt | [3] | |
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga | Shelly Chopra Dhar | India | Romantic comedy, drama | Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Sonam Kapoor | ||
Last Ferry | Jaki Bradley | USA | Drama | Ramon O. Torres, Sheldon Best, Myles Clohessy, Gabriel Sloyer, Larry Owens | ||
Lemebel | Joanna Reposi Garibaldi | Chile | Documentary | [3] | ||
Lingua Franca | Isabel Sandoval | United States, Philippines | Drama | Isabel Sandoval, Eamon Farren, Lynn Cohen, Lev Gorn | [10] | |
Matthias & Maxime | Xavier Dolan | Canada | Drama | Xavier Dolan, Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas | ||
Memories of My Body (Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku) | Garin Nugroho | Indonesia | Drama | Muhammad Khan, Randy Pangalila | [11] | |
Moffie | Oliver Hermanus | South Africa | Drama | Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey | [12] | |
Nagarkirtan | Kaushik Ganguly | India | Drama | Riddhi Sen, Ritwick Chakraborty | [3] | |
A Night at Switch 'n Play | Cody Stickels | United States | Documentary | [4] | ||
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson | Ali LeRoi | United States | Drama | Steven Silver, Nicola Peltz, Spencer Neville, Sammi Rotibi, Tembi Locke | [13] | |
The Pit | Hristiana Raykova | Germany | Documentary | [3] | ||
Port Authority | Danielle Lessovitz | United States | Drama | Fionn Whitehead, Leyna Bloom, McCaul Lombardi | ||
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) | Céline Sciamma | France | Drama | Adèle Haenel, Noémie Merlant, Valeria Golino | ||
Queering the Script | Gabrielle Zilkha | Canada | Documentary | Documentary about LGBTQ representation in media | [14] | |
Rialto | Peter Mackie Burns | Ireland | Drama | Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Tom Glynn-Carney | ||
Riot Girls | Jovanka Vuckovic | Canada | Science fiction | Madison Iseman, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Munro Chambers | ||
Rocketman | Dexter Fletcher | United Kingdom | Drama | Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden | Based on the life and music of Elton John | [4] |
Saint Frances | Alex Thompson | United States | Drama | [4] | ||
Second Star on the Right | Ruth Caudeli | Colombia | Drama | [4] | ||
Shannon Amen | Chris Dainty | Canada | Animated short | |||
The Shiny Shrimps (Les crevettes pailletées) | Maxime Govare, Cédric Le Gallo | France | Comedy | Nicolas Gob, Alban Lenoir, Michaël Abiteboul, Geoffrey Couët | [15] | |
Spiral | Kurtis David Harder | Canada | Horror | Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen | ||
Standing on the Line | Paul-Émile d'Entremont | Canada | Documentary | David Testo, Anastasia Bucsis, Brock McGillis | Documentary about homophobia in sports | [16] |
The Strong Ones (Los fuertes) | Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo | Chile | Drama | Samuel González, Antonio Altamirano | Theatrical release in 2020. Based in the 2015 Teddy Award winner for Best Short Film, San Cristóbal. | |
Take Me to Prom | Andrew Moir | Canada | Documentary | [17] | ||
Tremors (Temblores) | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala France | Drama | Juan Pablo Olyslager, Diane Bathen, Mauricio Armas Zebadúa | [18] | |
The Two Lives of Li Ermao | Jia Yuchuan | China | Documentary | Released in 2019, it tells the story of a trans migrant worker named Li Ermao who "transitions from male to female, then back to male." | [19] | |
Velvet Buzzsaw | Dan Gilroy | United States | Horror | Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette | ||
Village of the Missing | Michael Del Monte | Canada | Documentary | |||
We Are the Radical Monarchs | Linda Goldstein Knowlton | United States | Documentary | [4] | ||
White Lie | Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas | Canada | Drama | Kacey Rohl, Amber Anderson, Martin Donovan | ||
Your Turn (Espero tua (re)volta) | Eliza Capai | Brazil | Documentary | [3] |
References
- Marc-André Lussier, "FNC : La Presse a vu… L’acrobate". La Presse, October 17, 2019.
- Julia Harumi Morita (25 October 2020). "Divertido e cheio de representatividade, Alice Júnior é o filme adolescente que você precisa assistir hoje". Rolling Stone (in Portuguese).
- "Films 2019". Teddy Awards, February 2019.
- Inside Out Film and Video Festival program, 2019.
- Carlos Aguilar, "Review: Artistically awkward, Brazilian gay teen romance ‘Cousins’ still charms". Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2019.
- Peter Knegt, "Like Star Wars, but with giant penises: This Canadian film is awakening an uncut force at Sundance". CBC Arts, January 24, 2019.
- "Hot Docs review: Drag Kids". Now, April 23, 2019.
- Glenn Kenny, "‘End of the Century’ Review: A Vacation Veers Into Existential States". The New York Times, August 15, 2019.
- "Documentary Killing Patient Zero seeks to restore reputation of Quebec man unfairly targeted in AIDS epidemic". Toronto Star, April 25, 2019.
- Angela Morrison, "VQFF Review: 'Lingua Franca' Captures the Understated Nuance of Real Life". Exclaim!, August 20, 2020.
- Widianto, Stanley (February 20, 2019). "'Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku', poetic ode to the human body". Jakarta Post. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
- "'Moffie': First Trailer for Venice Buzz Title About Homosexuality in Apartheid South Africa, 'Ida' Producer Among Team". Deadline Hollywood. 4 September 2019.
- Beandrea July, "'The Obituary of Tunde Johnson': Film Review | TIFF 2019". The Hollywood Reporter, September 8, 2019.
- "New Documentary Examines 'Xena: Warrior Princess' As Lesbian Icon For The Ages". Huffington Post, May 27, 2019.
- "« Les Crevettes pailletées » opte pour un éloge convenu de la différence". Le Monde, May 8, 2019.
- Nathan Caddell, "DOXA 2019 review: Standing on the Line". The Georgia Straight, May 6, 2019.
- Oliver Skinner, "What does it mean to be queer at the prom? This new film explores seven decades of answers". CBC Arts, May 3, 2019.
- Devika Girish, "‘Temblores’ Review: Torn Between His Faith and His Sexuality". The New York Times, November 28, 2019.
- Knotts, Joey. "German, Queer, and Animated: Beijing's Film Festivals This Month". The Beijinger. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
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