List of LGBT-related films of 2023

This is a list of lesbian , gay , bisexual or transgender -related filmsreleased in 2023. 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.

Films

Title	Director	Country	Genre	Cast	Synopsis	Notes	Ref
20,000 Species of Bees (20.000 especies de abejas)	Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren	Spain	Drama	Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz			[1]
About Thirty (Arturo a los 30)	Martin Shanly	Argentina	Drama		“It follows Arturo, whose penchant for indiscretions is impossible to overlook”. - IMD.com		[2]
After	Anthony Lapia	France	Drama				[2]
Afire	Christian Petzold	Germany	Drama	Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer			[3]
All of Us Strangers	Andrew Haigh	United Kingdom	Drama	Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, Claire Foy	“A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with his downstairs neighbor while discovering a mysterious new way to heal from losing his parents 30 years ago". - IMDB.com	Second film adaptation of the 1987 novel, Strangers by Taichi Yamada.	[4]
All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White	Babatunde Apalowo	Nigeria	Drama				[2]
Almamula	Juan Sebastian Torales	France, Argentina, Italy	Drama				[2]
Along Came Love (Le Temps d'aimer)	Katell Quillévéré	France, Belgium	Drama	Anaïs Demoustier, Vincent Lacoste			[5]
Altona	Heath Affolter, Jon Affolter, Nathan Affolter, Thomas Affolter	Canada	Documentary	Tyler Pelke			[6]
Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute)	Justine Triet	France	Thriller	Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud			[7]
Asog	Seán Devlin	Canada	Drama	Rey Aclao, Arnel Pablo, Ricky Gacho Jr.			[8]
Backspot	D. W. Waterson	Canada	Drama	Devery Jacobs, Kudakwashe Rutendo, Evan Rachel Wood, Thomas Anthony Olajide			[9]
The Beast in the Jungle	Patric Chiha	France, Belgium, Austria	Drama				[2]
Big Boys	Corey Sherman	United States	Drama	Isaac Krasner, Dora Madison, David Johnson III, Taj Cross, Marion Van Cuyck, Emma Broz, Jack De Sanz	"A teenage boy's unexpected crush turns a camping trip into a weekend of self-discovery in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy". - IMDB.com		[10]
Bolero	Nans Laborde-Jourdàa	France	Short drama	François Chaignaud		Winner of the Queer Palm for Best Short Film	[11]
Bones and Names (Knochen und namen)	Fabian Stumm	Germany	Drama				[2]
Bottoms	Emma Seligman	United States	Comedy	Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber	"Two unpopular queer high-school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation." - IMDB.com		[12]
Broken Hearts Trip	Lemuel Lorca	Philippines	Comedy	Christian Bables, Teejay Marquez, Marvin Yap, Petite, Iyah Mina, Andoy Ranay			[13] [14]
Calls from Moscow (Llamadas desde Moscú)	Luís Alejandro Yero	Cuba, Germany, Norway	Documentary				[15]
Cassandro	Roger Ross Williams	United States	Drama	Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez	"Follows the true story of Cassandro, the ''exotico'' character created by Saúl Armendáriz, gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rose to international stardom". - IMDB.com		[16]
The Castle (El Castillo)	Martin Benchimol	Argentina, France	Drama				[2]
Chestnut	Jac Cron	United States	Drama	Natalia Dyer, Rachel Keller, Danny Ramirez, Chella Man			[17]
Chuck Chuck Baby	Janis Pugh	United Kingdom	Comedy-drama				[18]
Close to You	Dominic Savage	Canada, United Kingdom	Drama	Elliot Page			[19]
The Color Purple	Blitz Bazawule	United States	Musical	Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo	"A woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood". - IMDB.com		[20]
Commitment to Life	Jeffrey Schwarz	United States	Documentary				[21]
Cora Bora	Hannah Pearl Utt	United States	Comedy-drama	Megan Stalter, Jojo T. Gibbs, Manny Jacinto			[22]
The Critic	Anand Tucker	United Kingdom	Thriller drama
Days of Happiness (Les Jours heureux)	Chloé Robichaud	Canada	Drama	Sophie Desmarais, Sylvain Marcel, Nour Belkhiria, Vincent Leclerc			[23]
Dicks: The Musical	Larry Charles	United States	Musical comedy		"A pair of business rivals discover that they're identical twins and decide to swap places in an attempt to trick their divorced parents to get back together." - IMDB.com		[24]
Down Low	Rightor Doyle	United States	Comedy	Lukas Gage, Zachary Quinto, Simon Rex	"A deeply repressed man, the uninhibited young man that gives him a happy ending, and all the lives they ruin along the way." - IMDB.com		[25]
Drifter	Hannes Hirsch	Germany	Drama				[26]
Eileen	William Oldroyd	United States	Thriller	Anne Hathaway, Thomasin McKenzie			[16]
Ek Jagah Apni	Ektara Collective	India	Drama			SXSW Audience Choice award
El Sabor de la Navidad	Alejandro Lozano	Mexico	Drama				[27]
Enter the Drag Dragon	Lee Demarbre	Canada	Action comedy				[28]
Fancy Dance	Erica Tremblay	United States	Drama	Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson			[16]
Femme	Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping	United Kingdom	Drama	George MacKay, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett	"Follows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after that event he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge." - IMDB.com		[2]
For Better and for Worse	Tristan Séguéla	France	Comedy	Fabrice Luchini, Catherine Frot	A trans man announces to his spouse, a conservative mayor, his intentions to transition.		[29]
Frybread Face and Me	Billy Luther	United States	Drama				[30]
Gamodi	Felix Kalmenson	Canada, Georgia	Science fiction	Matt Shally, Maqzime Rauch, Luka Chachxiani			[31]
Glitter & Doom	Tom Gustafson	United States	Musical	Alex Diaz, Alan Cammish, Missi Pyle, Lea DeLaria, Tig Notaro			[32]
Good Grief	Dan Levy	United States	Comedy-drama	Dan Levy, Ruth Negga, Himesh Patel, Luke Evans, Celia Imrie, Arnaud Valois, David Bradley, Jamael Westman	"When his husband unexpectedly dies, Marc's world shatters, sending him and his two best friends on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some hard truths they each needed to face." - IMDB.com		[33]
Green Night	Shuai Han	Hong Kong, China	Drama				[2]
Haddi	Akshat Ajay Sharma	India	Drama	Nawazuddin Siddiqui		Revenge drama and history of Indian transgender people.	[34]
Hailey Rose	Sandi Somers	Canada	Comedy-drama	Em Haine, Caitlynne Medrek, Kari Matchett			[35]
Hell of a Summer	Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk	Canada, United States	Horror comedy
Homecoming (Le Retour)	Catherine Corsini	France	Drama				[36]
How to Have Sex	Molly Manning Walker	United Kingdom	Drama	Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Samuel Bottomley			[37]
The Human Surge 3 (El Auge del Humano 3)	Eduardo Williams	United Kingdom	Argentina, Portugal, Brazil, Netherlands, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Peru
Hummingbirds	Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía "Beba" Contreras	United States	Documentary				[15]
Hunt	Mahesh Surapaneni	India	Action thriller				[38]
I Am Sirat	Deepa Mehta, Sirat Taneja	Canada	Documentary	Sirat Taneja			[39]
I Don't Know Who You Are	M. H. Murray	Canada	Drama	Mark Clennon			[40]
I Used to Be Funny	Ally Pankiw	Canada	Comedy, drama	Rachel Sennott, Sabrina Jalees, Caleb Hearon			[21]
In the Company of Women (Las buenas compañías)	Sílvia Munt	Spain, France	Drama
Între revoluții	Vlad Petri	Romania, Croatia, Qatar, Iran	Drama				[2]
It's Only Life After All	Alexandra Bombach	United States	Documentary	Emily Saliers, Amy Ray			[16]
Jagged Mind	Kelley Kali	United States	Horror
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise	Karen O'Connor, Miri Navasky, Maeve O'Boyle	United States	Documentary				[15]
Kill Boksoon	Byun Sung-hyun	South Korea	Drama				[2]
Knock at the Cabin	M. Night Shyamalan	United States	Apocalyptic psychological horror	Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Dave Bautista	A married gay couple and their daughter are held hostage by four strangers.		[41]
Kokomo City	D. Smith	United States	Documentary			Exploration of the lives and identities of four Black transgender sex workers	[42]
Kubi	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	Action drama				[43]
Leilani's Fortune	Loveleen Kaur	Canada	Documentary	Witch Prophet			[32]
Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero	Carlos López Estrada, Zac Manuel	United States	Documentary	Lil Nas X	"Long Live Montero follows trailblazing rapper, singer and songwriter, Lil Nas X, as he embarks on his first ever tour. This diaristic film is an intimate portrait of an artist navigating identity, family, expectations and acceptance." - IMDB.com		[44]
Little Richard: I Am Everything	Lisa Cortés	United States	Documentary	Little Richard			[16]
Living Bad (Viver mal)	João Canijo	France, Portugal	Drama				[2]
Long Long Kiss (Langer Langer Kuss)	Lukas Röder	Germany	Drama				[2]
The Lost Boys (Le Paradis)	Zeno Graton	France, Belgium	Drama				[2]
Love & Revolution	Alejandro Marín	Spain	Drama	Ana Wagener, Omar Banana, Alba Flores, Jesús Carroza			[45]
Love to Love You, Donna Summer	Brooklyn Sudano, Roger Ross Williams	United States	Documentary				[15]
Mammalia	Sebastian Mihăilescu	Romania, Poland, Germany	Drama				[2]
Manodrome	John Trengove	United States, United Kingdom	Drama	Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, Odessa Young			[2]
Marry My Dead Body	Cheng Wei-hao	Taiwan	Supernatural comedy mystery	Greg Hsu, Austin Lin, Gingle Wang	An unlikely couple transcends the boundaries of life, death, love and gender through a ghost marriage.		[46]
The Mattachine Family	Andy Vallentine	United States	Comedy-drama	Nico Tortorella, Juan Pablo Di Pace, Emily Hampshire, Heather Matarazzo, Jake Choi, Garrett Clayton, Carl Clemons-Hopkins	"While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find that they have different ideas about what making a family actually means." - IMDB.com		[47]
Meat	Roger Conners	United States	Horror	KateLynn E. Newberry, Roger Conners, Anthony Dain	After the fatal overdose of an underage gay man, an innocent bystander is left to take the blame.		[48]
Monster	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan	Drama	Sakura Andō, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa		Winner of the Queer Palm	[49]
Mother Saigon (Má Sài Gòn)	Khoa Lê	Canada	Documentary				[50]
Mutt	Vuk Lungulov-Klotz	United States	Drama	Lío Mehiel, Cole Doman, MiMi Ryder, Alejandro Goic, Jari Jones	"Within the space of 24 hours, Feña is swept through the extremes of human emotion when people who seemed to disappear when he transitioned are suddenly back in his life." - IMDB.com	Trans man protagonist.	[42]
My Animal	Jacqueline Castel	Canada	Horror	Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Amandla Stenberg	Heather is in a struggle for her life against the constrictive forces. When Jonny, an intriguing figure skater enters the rink, Heather's life, sexuality, and personhood is pried open.		[42]
National Anthem	Luke Gilford	United States	Drama	Charlie Plummer, Eve Lindley, Mason Alexander Park, Rene Rosado, Robyn Lively	A 21-year-old construction worker in New Mexico joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.		[51]
Narrow Path to Happiness (Keskeny út a boldogság felé)	Kata Oláh	Hungary	Documentary				[52]
Next Goal Wins	Taika Waititi	United Kingdom, United States	Comedy-drama				[53]
Nimona	Nick Bruno, Troy Quane	United States, United Kingdom	Animation, science fantasy, adventure comedy	Chloë Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed, Eugene Lee Yang		Depiction of queerness and gay love	[54]
No Stranger at All	Priya Sen	India	Documentary				[15]
Norwegian Dream	Leiv Igor Devold	Norway	Drama				[21]
Nuovo Olimpo	Ferzan Özpetek	Italy	Romantic drama	Damiano Gavino, Andrea Di Luigi			[55]
Nyad	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin	United States	Drama	Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans			[56]
Opponent (Motståndaren)	Milad Alami	Sweden	Drama				[2]
Orlando, My Political Biography (Orlando, ma biographie politique)	Paul B. Preciado	France	Documentary				[15]
Our Body (Notre corps)	Claire Simon	France	Documentary				[15]
Passages	Ira Sachs	France	Romance drama	Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos	“A gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman.” - IMDB.com	Love triangle between two men in couple and a woman.	[57]
Perpetrator	Jennifer Reeder	United States	Horror				[2]
The Persian Version	Maryam Keshavarz	United States	Drama	Layla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Bijan Daneshmand		An honest portrayal of a queer woman who remains unapologetically herself, blended into a heartfelt story about family, belonging, and the influence of pop music.	[42]
A Place of Our Own (Ek Jagah Apni)	Ektara Collective	India	Drama
Polarized	Shamim Sarif	Canada	Drama	Holly Deveaux, Maxine Denis			[58]
Power Alley (Levante)	Lillah Halla	Brazil, France, Uruguay	Drama				[59]
A Prince (Un prince)	Pierre Creton	France	Drama	Pierre Barray, Vincent Barré, Pierre Creton, Antoine Pirotte			[60]
The Queen of My Dreams	Fawzia Mirza	Canada	Drama	Amrit Kaur, Nimra Bucha, Hamza Haq			[61]
Queen Tut	Reem Morsi	Canada	Drama	Ryan Ali, Dani Jazzar, Alexandra Billings, Thom Allison			[62]
Queendom	Agniia Galdanova	United States, France	Documentary	Gena Marvin			[63]
A Queer's Guide to Spiritual Living	Ari Conrad Birch, Michael Heuston	Canada	Documentary				[21]
Red, White & Royal Blue	Matthew Lopez	United States	Comedy	Taylor Zakhar Perez, Nicholas Galitzine, Uma Thurman	“When the feud between the son of the American President and Britain's prince threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations, the two are forced into a staged truce that sparks something deeper.” - IMDB.com		[64]
Rotting in the Sun	Sebastián Silva	United States	Drama				[16]
Runs in the Family	Ian Gabriel	South Africa	Comedy				[21]
Rustin	George C. Wolfe	United States	Drama	Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Audra McDonald, Aml Ameen		Based on the life of late gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.	[65]
Saltburn	Emerald Fennell	United States, United Kingdom	Drama, Thriller	Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike	“A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.” - IMDB.com		[66]
Sara	Ismail Basbeth	Indonesia	Drama	Asha Smara Darra, Christine Hakim, Mian Tiara, Jajang C. Noer, Landung Simatupang			[67] [68]
Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation	Shinji Ishihira	Japan	Anime, romance				[69]
Satan Wants You	Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor	Canada	Documentary				[70]
Shazam! Fury of the Gods	David F. Sandberg	United States	Fantasy				[71]
She Is Conann	Bertrand Mandico	Belgium, France, Luxembourg	Fantasy	Claire Duburcq, Elina Löwensohn		Gender-flipped interpretation of Conan the Barbarian	[72]
Silver Haze	Sacha Polak	Netherlands, Great Britain	Drama				[2]
Sisi & I (Sisi & Ich)	Frauke Finsterwalder	Germany, Switzerland, Austria	Drama				[2]
Solo	Sophie Dupuis	Canada	Drama	Théodore Pellerin, Félix Maritaud, Anne-Marie Cadieux			[73]
A Song Sung Blue	Geng Zihan	China	Drama				[74]
Strange Way of Life	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain	Drama, Short, Western	Pedro Pascal, Ethan Hawke		A gay western.	[75]
Summer Qamp	Jen Markowitz	Canada	Documentary				[76]
Supporting Our Selves	Lulu Wei	Canada	Documentary				[32]
The Stroll	Kristen Lovell, Zackary Drucker	United States	Documentary			The story of New York City's Meatpacking District where trans women of color, turned to for a means of survival.	[42]
Riley	Benjamin Howard	United States	Drama	Jake Holley, Colin McCalla, Riley Quinn Scott, Connor Storrie, Rib Hillis		Based on Howard's own experience coming out.	[77]
T	Jitesh Kumar Parida	India	Drama				[78]
T Blockers	Alice Maio Mackay	Australia	Horror	Lauren Last, Lewi Dawson, Etcetera Etcetera	A young trans filmmaker struggling to transition in increasingly hostile times for LGBTQ+ people, finds herself the only one who can sense the possessed, and rally the resistance before the horror escapes and spreads.		[79]
Thank You for Coming	Karan Boolani	India	Comedy
Theater Camp	Molly Gordon	United States	Comedy				[16]
This Is the End	Vincent Dieutre	France	Documentary				[15]
Thriving: A Dissociated Reverie	Nicole Bazuin	Canada	Short documentary	Kitoko Mai			[80]
Till the End of the Night	Christoph Hochhäusler	German	Thriller	Timocin Ziegler, Thea Ehrlich and Michael Sideris			[81]
Toll (Pedágio)	Carolina Markowicz	Brazil, Portugal	Drama	Maeve Jinkings			[82]
Transfariana	Joris Lachaise	France, Colombia	Documentary				[15]
Turtles (Les Tortues)	David Lambert	Belgium, Canada	Drama	Dave Johns, Olivier Gourmet, Brigitte Poupart			[83]
Unicorns	Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd	United Kingdom, United States, Sweden	Drama	Ben Hardy, Jason Patel			[84]
Unwoman	Gunjan Goel	India	Drama				[85]
Who I Am Not	Tunde Skovran	Romania, Canada, South Africa, Germany, United States	Documentary				[86]
Without Air (Elfogy a levegő)	Katalin Moldovai	Hungary	Drama				[87]
You People	Kenya Barris	United States	Comedy	Jonah Hill, Lauren London, David Duchovny, Nia Long, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Eddie Murphy, Sam Jay, Travis Bennett, Molly Gordon	"Follows a new couple and their families, who find themselves examining modern love and family dynamics amidst clashing cultures, societal expectations and generational differences." - IMDB.com		[88]
Your Mother's Son (Anak Ka Ng Ina Mo)	Jun Lana	Philippines	Drama

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