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This is a list of lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender or queer -related filmsreleased in 2010. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.
Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
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2 Frogs in the West | Dany Papineau | Canada | Comedy, drama | Mirianne Brule, Dany Papineau, Jessica Malka | [ citation needed ] |
8: The Mormon Proposition | Redd Cowan, Steven Greenstreet | United States | Documentary | Dustin Lance Black (Narrator), interviews with; Spencer Jones, Tyler Barrick, Linda Williams Stay, Kate Kendell, David Melson, Dennis Herrera, Fred Karger, Carol Lynn Pearson, Gavin Newsom, Mike Nelson, Chip White, George Cole and Rocky Anderson | About the Mormon Church's support of Proposition 8 [1] |
The Affair (Muli) | Adolfo Alix Jr. | Philippines | Drama, romance | Cogie Domingo, Sid Lucero | [ citation needed ] |
All About Love | Ann Hui | Hong Kong | Drama | Sandra Ng, Vivian Chow, Cheung Siu-fai, William Chan, Joey Meng, Queenie Chu, Fan Yik-Man, Fung Bo Bo, Raven Hanson, Serina Ha, Jo Kuk, Abe Kwong, Eman Lam, Rick Lau, Tina Lau, Jayson Li | |
Amphetamine | Scud | Hong Kong | Drama | Byron Pang, Tom Price, Linda So and Winnie Leung | [ citation needed ] |
L'amour fou | Pierre Thoretton | France | Documentary | About Yves Saint-Laurent and his lover Pierre Bergé, features interviews; Betty Catroux, Loulou de la Falaise and archive footage of Frédéric Chambre, Boujemaa Lahbali, Catherine Deneuve, Laetitia Casta, François de Ricqlès, François Curiel and Lionel Gosset | [2] |
Anderson's Cross | Jerome Elston Scott | United States | Comedy, drama | Michael Warren, Joanna Cassidy, Joyce Guy, Jerome Elston Scott, Nicholas Downs, Heather Bergdahl, Bill Moseley, Micah Stuart, Art Evans, Ryan Carnes, Taran Killam, Alan Blumenfeld, Mary Jo Catlett, James Snyder, Jack Donner, Kimmy Robertson, Rocky Marquette, Brad Yoder | [ citation needed ] |
Arekti Premer Golpo | Kaushik Ganguly | India | Drama | Rituparno Ghosh, Indraneil Sengupta, Jisshu Sengupta, Churni Ganguly, Raima Sen, Chapal Bhaduri | First film on homosexuality to be shot after the decriminalization of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code [ citation needed ] |
Bashment | Rikki Beadle-Blair | United Kingdom | Drama | Joel Dommett, Ludvig Bonin, Nathan Clough, Marcus Kai, Jennifer Daley, Arnie Hewitt, Michael Lindall | [3] |
Beautiful Darling | James Rasin | United States | Documentary | Chloë Sevigny (narrator), John Waters, Fran Lebowitz, Holly Woodlawn, Paul Morrissey | About actress Candy Darling [ citation needed ] |
BearCity | Doug Langway | United States | Comedy | Joe Conti, Stephen Guarino, Brian Keane, Gregory Gunter, Sebastian La Cause, Alex Di Dio, James Martinez, Gerald McCullouch and Ashlie Atkinson | [ citation needed ] |
Beginners | Mike Mills | United States | Drama | Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Višnjić, Mary Page Keller, Kai Lennox, China Shavers | Based on the true story of writer/director Mills' father, who came out at age 75. [4] |
The Best Things in the World (As Melhores Coisas do Mundo) | Laís Bodansky | Brazil | Drama, comedy | Francisco Miguez, Gsbriela Rocha, Caio Blat | Based on the book series Mano by Gilberto Dimenstein and Heloisa Prieto [ citation needed ] |
Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky | United States | Thriller | Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, Benjamin Millepied, Ksenia Solo, Kristina Anapau, Janet Montgomery, Sebastian Stan, Toby Hemingway | [ citation needed ] |
Black Bread | Agustí Villaronga | Spain | Drama | Francesc Colomer, Marina Comas, Nora Navas, Roger Casamajor, Laia Marull, Eduard Fernández, Sergi López | a.k.a. Pa negre; based on Emili Teixidor's novel of the same name, also containing elements of two other works written by him, Retrat d'un assassí d'ocells and Sic transit Gloria Swanson[ citation needed ] |
Bloomington | Fernanda Cardoso | United States | Drama | Allison McAtee, Sarah Stouffer | [ citation needed ] |
Burlesque | Steven Antin | United States | Musical, romance, drama | Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Cam Gigandet, Julianne Hough, Alan Cumming, Peter Gallagher, Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci, Dianna Agron | [ citation needed ] |
Cake and Sand (Torten im Sand) | Christoph Scheermann | Germany | Short, comedy, drama, romance | Jan Andreesen and Bartholomew Sammut | 16 minutes long, [5] |
Cappuccino | Tamer Ruggli | Switzerland | Short, comedy, drama | Benjamin Décosterd, Manuela Biedermann and Anton Ciurlia | 16 minutes long, short listed as part of the 5th edition of the IRIS Prize International Film Festival 2011, [6] |
Children of God | Kareem Mortimer | Bahamas | Drama | Johnny Ferro, Margaret Laurena Kemp, Stephen Tyrone Williams, Van Brown, Mark Richard Ford, Craig Pinder | [ citation needed ] |
Communication | Christopher Banks | New Zealand | Short, drama | Rudi Vodanovich, Alexander Campbell, Richard Lambeth and Rita Lefau Ryan | 20 minutes long, [7] |
Como Esquecer | Malu de Martino | Brazil | Drama | Ana Paula Arósio, Murilo Rosa, Natália Lage, Arieta Corrêa, Bianca Comparato | [ citation needed ] |
Curious Thing | Alain Hain | United States | Short, drama, romance | Danny Bernardy, Matthew Wilkas, Rebecca Pappa | 8 minutes long, [8] |
Dirty Girl | Abe Sylvia | United States | Comedy | Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam, Jeremy Dozier, Maeve Quinlan, Tim McGraw, Nicholas D'Agosto, Elsie Fisher, Brian Baumgartner, Nate Hartley, Reiley McClendon, Jonathan Slavin, Brent Briscoe, Jack Kehler, Gary Grubbs | [ citation needed ] |
Dog Pound | Kim Chapiron | Canada | Thriller | Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel, Mateo Morales, Slim Twig, Taylor Poulin, Dewshane Williams, Lawrence Bayne | Remake of the British borstal film Scum [ citation needed ] |
Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyon | Sanjay Sharma | India | Drama | Zeenat Aman, Kapil Sharma, Kabir Bedi, Hazel Crowney (credited as Hazel), Helen, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Yuvraaj Parashar, Asha Sachdev, Parikshit Sahni (credited as Parikshat Sahni), Rituparna Sengupta, Aryan Vaid | Features first gay kiss in Indian cinema between Parashar and Sharma[ citation needed ] |
Easy A | Will Gluck | United States | Comedy | Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes | Partially inspired by the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne [ citation needed ] |
Easy Money (Dinero fácil) | Carlos Montero | Spain | Short, drama, thriller | Mario Casas, Ales Furundarena and Christian Mulas | 15 minutes long, [9] |
Elena Undone | Nicole Conn | United States | Drama | Necar Zadegan, Traci Dinwiddie, Gary Weeks, Sam Harris | Loosely based on Conn's relationship with Marina Rice Bader [ citation needed ] |
Elvis e Madona | Marcello Laffitte | Brazil | Romance, comedy | Simone Spoladore, Igor Cotrim, Sérgio Bezerra | aka Elvis & Madonna, [10] |
Family Tree (L'Arbre et la forêt) | Olivier Ducastel , Jacques Martineau | France | Drama | Guy Marchand, Françoise Fabian, Sabrina Seyvecou, Yannick Renier, François Negret, Catherine Mouchet, Sandrine Dumas, Pierre-Loup Rajot | [ citation needed ] |
Fathers & Sons | Carl Bessai | Canada | Comedy, drama | Benjamin Ratner, Jay Brazeau, Stephen Lobo | Bessai's unofficial sequel to Mothers & Daughters |
A Few Days of Respite (Quelques jours de répit) | Amor Hakkar | France | Drama | Marina Vlady, Amor Hakkar, Samir Guesmi, Shimon Ben Lulu, Yves Grenard, Stéphanie Saliège, Sarah Hakkar, Kim-Kim Nezzar (credited as Kim Nezzar) | [ citation needed ] |
The Four-Faced Liar | Jacob Chase | United States | Comedy, drama, romance | Marja-Lewis Ryan, Emily Peck, Todd Kubrak, Daniel Carlisle, Liz Osborn | |
Fyra år till | Tova Magnusson-Norling | Sweden | Comedy | Björn Kjellman, Eric Ericson, Tova Magnusson, André Wickström, Sten Ljunggren, Inger Hayman, Iwar Wiklander, Jacob Nordenson, Richard Ulfsäter | aka Four More Years [11] |
Gigola | Laure Charpentier | France | Drama | Lou Doillon, Eduardo Noriega, Marie Kremer, Rossy de Palma, Ana Padrão, Virginie Pradal, Arly Jover, Marisa Berenson, Marisa Paredes, Thierry Lhermitte | [12] [13] |
Go Go Reject | Michael J. Saul | United States | Short, comedy | Heath Daniels, Iva Turner, Korken Alexander, Josh Babich, Jonathan Bierner, Matthew Bridges, Steve Callahan, Jimmy Clabots, Travis Dixon, | 20 minutes long, [14] Winner of 'short film' San Diego FilmOut Audience Awards [15] |
Grown Up Movie Star | Adriana Maggs | Canada | Drama | Shawn Doyle, Tatiana Maslany, Jonny Harris | [ citation needed ] |
Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires) | Xavier Dolan | Canada | Drama | Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval | |
Howl | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | United States | Animation, biography, drama | James Franco, Aaron Tveit, Jon Hamm, David Strathairn, Alessandro Nivola, Mary-Louise Parker, Bob Balaban, Jeff Daniels, Jon Prescott, Treat Williams, Todd Rotondi | Depicts the trial of the poem of the same name by Allen Ginsberg while he talks about his life[ citation needed ] |
I Don't Care | Harry Wootliff | United Kingdom | Short, drama | Mark Benton, Di Botcher, Paloma Faith, Helen Grady, David Leon and Iwan Rheon | Coming Up , Season 8 episode 4. As a short film included in the DVD Boys On Film 8 – Cruel Britannia from the series DVD Boys On Film [16] |
I Don't Want to Go Back Alone (Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho) | Daniel Ribeiro | Brazil | Short | Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi and Tess Amorim | 17 minutes long, later expanded into the 2014 feature-length film The Way He Looks , also written and directed by Ribeiro[ citation needed ] |
I Want Your Love | Travis Mathews | United States | Short | Jesse Metzger and Brenden Gregory | 14 minutes long, later made into a full-length feature film of the same name by the same director[ citation needed ] |
In the Future (En el futuro) | Mauro Andrizzi | Argentina | Documentary | Winner of the Queer Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival [17] | |
Is It Just Me? | JC Calciano | United States | Romance | Nicholas Downs, Adam Huss, David Loren, Bruce Gray, Michelle Laurent, Bob Rumnock | Winner of the 2010 Rainbow Award, in the Narrative Feature Film category, for the 2010 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival.[ citation needed ] |
Just Friends? (친구사이?) | Kim Jho Kwang-soo | South Korea | Short, romance, drama | Yeon Woo-jin, Lee Je-hoon | [ citation needed ] |
Kaboom | Gregg Araki | United States | Drama | Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett, Roxane Mesquida, Brennan Mejia, James Duval | [ citation needed ] |
The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko | United States | Drama | Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson | One of the first mainstream films to depict a same-sex couple raising two teenagers[ citation needed ] |
L.A. Zombie | Bruce LaBruce | United States Germany | Adult, horror | François Sagat, Rocco Giovanni, Wolf Hudson, Eddie Diaz, Andrew James, Matthew Rush, Erik Rhodes, Francesco D'Macho, Adam Killian | [ citation needed ] |
Leading Ladies | Daniel Beahm, Erika Randall Beahm | United States | Drama | Benji Schwimmer, Melanie LaPatin | [ citation needed ] |
Lengua materna | Liliana Paolinelli | Argentina | Comedy | Nancy Anka, Claudia Cantero, Virginia Innocenti, Ana Katz, Claudia Lapacó | aka Mother Tongue, [18] |
Little White Lies (Les petits mouchoirs) | Guillaume Canet | France | Comedy, drama | François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Jean Dujardin, Laurent Lafitte, Valérie Bonneton, Pascale Arbillot, Louise Monot, Anne Marivin, Joël Dupuch | [ citation needed ] |
Loose Cannons | Ferzan Özpetek | Italy | Comedy, drama, romance | Riccardo Scamarcio, Alessandro Preziosi, Nicole Grimaudo, Lunetta Savino, Ennio Fantastichini, Ilaria Occhini, Elena Sofia Ricci | [ citation needed ] |
LOVE, 100°C | Jho Kwang-soo Kim | South Korea | Short, drama, romance | Do-jin Kim, Jae-won Kwak and Se-Hyun Yun | 22 minutes long, [19] |
Madame X | Lucky Kuswandi | Indonesia | Action, comedy | Amink, Marcell Siahaan, Titi DJ, Sarah Sechan, Joko Anwar, Vincent Rompies, Fitri Tropica, Robby Tumewu, Ria Irawan | Featured at 2011 Chicago International Film Festival [20] |
Mais ou Menos | Alexander Siqueira | Brazil | Short, drama | Jholl Bauer, Kyel Lima, Luiza Rossi and Gringo Starr | 14 minutes long, aka More or Less [21] |
Man and Boy | David Leon , Marcus McSweeney | United Kingdom | Short, drama | Eddie Marsan, Geoff Bell, Calum MacNab and Eddie Webber | 20 minutes long, [22] |
Man at Bath | Christophe Honoré | France | Drama | François Sagat, Chiara Mastroianni, Rabah Zahi, Omar Ben Sellam | [ citation needed ] |
A Marine Story | Ned Farr | United States | Drama | Dreya Weber, Paris P. Pickard, Christine Mourad, Anthony Michael Jones, Jason Williams | |
Mein Leben im Off | Oliver Haffner | Germany | Drama | Thomas Schmauser, Katharina M. Schubert, Rainer Furch, Eva Löbau, Sophie Basse, Matthias Bundschuh, Maik Solbach | aka My Life Off [23] |
A Montreal Girl (La Fille de Montréal) | Jeanne Crépeau | Canada | Drama | Amélie Grenier, Réal Bossé, Marie-Hélène Montpetit, Jean Turcotte | [ citation needed ] |
Nightswimming | Dominic Leclerc | United States | Short, romance | Linzey Cocker, Tim Dantay and Harry Eden | 14 minutes long, [24] |
Orchids, My Intersex Adventure | Phoebe Hart | Australia | Documentary | About director Phoebe Hart's understanding of her own intersex condition and others | Won the ATOM Award for Best Documentary General [25] |
Órói | Baldvin Zophoníasson | Iceland | Drama | Atli Oskar Fjalarsson, Ilva Holmes, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Birna Rún Eiríksdóttir, Lilja Guðrún Þorvaldsdóttir, Elías Helgi Kofoed-Hansen, Haraldur Stefansson, Þorsteinn Bachmann | aka Jitters, [26] [27] won the Children's Film Award at the Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival. |
Other Angels | Emre Yalgın | Turkey | Drama | Kanbolat Görkem Aslan, Özay Fecht, Ayta Sözeri, Buse Kılıçkaya, Seyhan Arman, Zeynep özcan, Didem Soylu, Müfit Aytekin | [ citation needed ] |
Periods of Rain | J. Christopher Blackwell, Jason Blackwell | United States | Drama | Raymond Jacquet, Erika Alice, Justin Landry, Brandon Galatz, Joanna Jacobs, Mark Walsh, Jim Alexander | [28] |
Potiche | François Ozon | France | Comedy | Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche, Jérémie Renier | Screen story by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, based on their play of the same name[ citation needed ] |
Role/play | Rob Williams | United States | Drama | Steve Callahan, Matthew Montgomery, David Pevsner, Brian Nolan, Matthew Stephen Herrick | Montgomery accepted the Philadelphia QFest 2010 Artistic Achievement Award for Acting [29] |
Room in Rome | Julio Médem | Spain | Romance, drama | Elena Anaya, Natasha Yarovenko, Enrico Lo Verso | a.k.a. Habitación en Roma; loosely based on another film, In Bed [ citation needed ] |
The Runaways | Floria Sigismondi | United States | Drama, music | Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart, Michael Shannon | Based on the book Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway by Cherie Currie, who was lead vocalist of the rock group of the same name[ citation needed ] |
Sasha | Dennis Todorović | Germany | Comedy, crime, drama | Saša Kekez , Predrag Bjelac, Ljubisa Gruicic, Zeljka Preksavec, Gosia Konieczna, Tim Bergmann, Jasin Mjumjunov, Yvonne Yung Hee Bormann | [30] |
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Edgar Wright | United States United Kingdom Japan | Comedy | Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Alison Pill, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman, Brie Larson, Mark Webber, Mae Whitman, Ellen Wong | Based on the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley |
The Sons of Tennessee Williams | Tim Wolff | United States | Documentary | King Armeinius the 40th, Queen Armeinius the 40th, Queen Celeste the 9th, Queen Armeinius the 2nd, Queen Petronius XV, Queen Armeinius VI | Follows gay civil-rights movement in New Orleans in 1950s, with Mardi Gras celebrations and 'drag balls' [31] [32] |
Stonewall Uprising | Kate Davis, David Heilbroner | United States | Documentary | Examines the events surrounding the Stonewall riots [ citation needed ] | |
Struggle | Bruce Locke | Canada | Drama | Jamie Potts, Matt Sims, Terri Stevens, Arthur Vilner | [33] |
Three | Tom Tykwer | Germany | Drama, romance, comedy | Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow, Angela Winkler | [ citation needed ] |
Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives | Israel Luna | United States | Comedy, thriller | Krystal Summers, Kelexis Davenport, Willam Belli, Erica Andrews, Jenna Skyy, Tom Zembrod | [ citation needed ] |
Vapor | Kaveh Nabatian | Canada | Short drama | Marco Ledezma, Evergon | [ citation needed ] |
Watch Over Me (Shmor Alai) | Michael Rozanov | Israel | Short, drama, horror | Guy Kapulnik, Davidi Hoffman, Raz Weiner, Omri Tessler and Zvika Fohrman | 14 minutes long [34] also collated on 'Boys on Film 7: Bad Romance [35] |
We Are the Night | Dennis Gansel | Germany | Drama, fantasy, horror | Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer, Max Riemelt | [ citation needed ] |
White Paper (Kaghaz-e Sefid) | Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib | Iran | Short, Animation | [ citation needed ] | |
Yes or No (Yak Rak Ko Rak Loei) | Sarasawadee Wongsompetch | Thailand | Comedy, romance | Sushar Manaying (credited as Aom Sucharat Manaying), Suppanad Jittaleela | [ citation needed ] |
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