List of LGBTQ-related films of 2021

This is a list of lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender or queer -related filmsreleased in 2021. 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.

Films

Title	Director	Country	Genre	Cast	Notes	Ref
Acts of Love	Isidore Bethel, Francis Leplay	France, United States	Documentary			[1]
After America	Jake Yuzna	United States	Drama	Yvonne Freese, Theresa McConnon, Daniel Nies, Ahmed Yusuf, Dan Fox, Eli Anthony, Robert Dante		[2]
Ahead of the Curve	Jen Rainin, Rivkah Beth Medow	United States	Documentary	Franco Stevens, Kim Katrin, Denice Frohman, Amber Hikes, Andrea Pino-Silva, Melissa Etheridge, Jewelle Gomez, Lea DeLaria, Kate Kendell		[3]
Ailey	Jamila Wignot	United States	Documentary			[4]
All Eyes Off Me (Mishehu Yohav Mishehu)	Hadas Ben Aroya	Israel	Drama			[5]
Alone (Seuls)	Paul Tom	Canada	Documentary			[6]
Anaïs in Love (Les Amours d'Anaïs)	Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet	France				[7]
Ayuda Babes	Joven Tan	Philippines	Comedy	Gardo Versoza, Ate Gay, Joey Paras, Iyah Mina, Marlo Mortel, Marc Logan		[ citation needed ]
Benedetta	Paul Verhoeven	France, Netherlands	Drama	Virginie Efira, Lambert Wilson, Daphne Patakia, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Charlotte Rampling, Hervé Pierre		[8]
Between Them (Toutes les deux)	Noël Mitrani	Canada	Romantic comedy	Veronika Leclerc Strickland, Mélanie Elliott, Vitali Makarov, Daniel Murphy, Laurent Lucas		[9]
Billy Boy	Sacha Amaral	Argentina				[7]
Bliss (Glück)	Henrika Kull	Germany	Drama			[5]
Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer	Vincent Le Port	France				[7]
Brutalia, Days of Labour	Manolis Lavris	Greece, Belgium				[7]
Catching a Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur	James Buddy Day	Canada	Documentary			[10]
Celts (Kelti)	Milica Tomovic	Serbia	Drama			[11]
Cicada	Yoon Daewoen	South Korea				[7]
Cinderella	Kay Cannon	United States	Romantic comedy	Idina Menzel, Minnie Driver, Nicholas Galitzine, Billy Porter, Pierce Brosnan		[ citation needed ]
Compartment No. 6 (Hytti nro 6)	Juho Kuosmanen	Russia, Finland				[7]
Cruella	Craig Gillespie	United States, United Kingdom	Crime, comedy	Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, Mark Strong, John McCrea, Kirby Howell-Baptiste		[ citation needed ]
Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor	Shelley Thompson	Canada	Drama	Maya Henry, Robb Wells, Amy Groening, Reid Price		[12]
The Divide (La Fracture)	Catherine Corsini	France	Drama	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi,Marina Foïs, Pio Marmaï		[7]
Down in Paris	Antony Hickling	France	Drama	Antony Hickling, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Manuel Blanc, Dominique Frot		[13]
Esquí	Manque La Banca	Argentina, Brazil	Documentary			[ citation needed ]
Eternals	Chloé Zhao	United States	Superhero	Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Harish Patel, Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie		[ citation needed ]
Everybody's Talking About Jamie	Jonathan Butterell	United Kingdom	Musical Drama	Max Harwood, Richard E. Grant, Sarah Lancashire, Sharon Horgan, Lauren Patel, Ralph Ineson, Samuel Bottomley, Shobna Gulati, Adeel Akhtar		[14]
Everything Went Fine (Tout s'est bien passé)	François Ozon	France		Sophie Marceau, André Dussollier, Géraldine Pailhas, Charlotte Rampling, Hanna Schygulla, Éric Caravaca, Grégory Gadebois		[7]
The Fall of the Swift (La Caída del vencejo)	Gonzalo Quincoces	Spain				[7]
Fanny: The Right to Rock	Bobbi Jo Hart	Canada	Documentary	Fanny		[15]
Fear Street Part One: 1994	Leigh Janiak	United States	Slasher	Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Julia Rehwald, Fred Hechinger, Ashley Zukerman		[16]
Fear Street Part Three: 1666			Supernatural horror
Firebird	Peeter Rebane	United Kingdom, Estonia	Drama, romance, war	Tom Prior, Oleg Zagorodnii, Diana Pozharskaya		[17]
Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark	Documentary			[4]
Fresh Water	David Kalinauskas	Canada	Documentary	Antonio Lennert		[18]
Frida	Aleksandra Odić	Germany				[7]
Genderation	Monika Treut	Germany	Documentary			[5]
Ghost Song	Nicolas Peduzzi	France				[7]
The Girl and the Spider (Das Mädchen und die Spinne)	Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher	Switzerland	Drama	Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat		[5]
Great Freedom (Große Freiheit)	Sebastian Meise	Germany				[7]
The Hill Where Lionesses Roar (Luaneshat e kodrës)	Luàna Bajrami	France, Kosovo				[7]
How to Fix Radios	Emily Russell, Casper Leonard	Canada	Drama	James Rudden, Dimitri Watson, Willa Crowder, Hector Jenkins		[19]
Human Factors (Der menschliche Faktor)	Ronny Trocker	Germany	Drama	Mark Waschke, Hassan Akkouch, Marthe Schneider, Spencer Bogaert		[5]
If from Every Tongue It Drips	Sharlene Bamboat	Canada, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka	Documentary			[20]
Instructions for Survival	Yana Ugrekhelidze	Georgia	Documentary			[5]
International Dawn Chorus Day	John Greyson	Canada	Documentary	Shady Habash, Sarah Hegazi		[21]
Jungle Cruise	Jaume Collet-Serra	United States	Adventure	Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Jack Whitehall, Edgar Ramirez, Jesse Plemmons, Paul Giamatti		[ citation needed ]
King Max	Adèle Vincenti-Crasson	France				[7]
Language Lessons	Natalie Morales	United States	Drama	Natalie Morales, Mark Duplass, Desean Terry		[5]
The Last Chapter (La dernière séance)	Gianluca Matarrese	France, Italy	Documentary	Bernard Guyonnet	Winner of the Queer Lion at the 78th Venice International Film Festival	[22]
The Laureate	William Nunez	United Kingdom	Drama	Tom Hughes, Dianna Agron, Laura Haddock, Fra Fee		[ citation needed ]
Leo by Night (Léo la nuit)	Nans Laborde-Jourdàa	France	Short drama	Nans-Laborde-Jourdàa, Cyusa Ruzindana Rukundo Marcou, Marie-Sohna Condé		[23]
Leynilöggan	Hannes Þór Halldórsson	Iceland	Action, comedy	Auðunn Blöndal, Egill Einarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir		[ citation needed ]
Ma Belle, My Beauty	Marion Hill	France	Drama, romance			[24]
Madalena	Madiano Marcheti	Brazil	Drama	Natalia Mazarim, Rafael de Bona, Pamella Yule		[25]
The Man with the Answers	Stelios Kammitsis	Greece, Cyprus, Italy	Romantic drama, road movie	Vasilis Magouliotis, Anton Weil		[26]
Mayor Pete	Jesse Moss	United States	Documentary	Pete Buttigieg		[27]
La Mif	Fred Baillif	Switzerland	Drama			[ citation needed ]
Miguel's War	Eliane Raheb	Lebanon, Germany, Spain	Documentary			[28]
The Mitchells vs. the Machines	Mike Rianda	United States	Science fiction, comedy	Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Mike Rianda, Eric André, Olivia Colman		[29]
Moneyboys	C. B. Yi	Austria, Belgium, France, Taiwan		Kai Ko, Chloe Maayan, J.C. Lin, Bai Yufan, Sun Qiheng		[7]
Moon, 66 Questions (Selini, 66 erotiseis)	Jacqueline Lentzou	Greece, France	Drama	Sofia Kokkali, Lazaros Georgakopoulos		[30]
Mouth Congress	Paul Bellini, Scott Thompson	Canada	Documentary	Paul Bellini, Scott Thompson, Kevin McDonald		[31]
My Girlfriend Is the Revolution	Marcelino Islas Hernández	Mexico	Coming-of-age, Romance	Sofía Islas, Ana Valeria Becerril, Flor Edwarda		[32]
My Name Is Pauli Murray	Betsy West, Julie Cohen	United States	Documentary			[4]
Neptune Frost	Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman	Rwanda, United States		Elvis Ngabo, Cheryl Isheja, Kaya Free		[7]
No Fags (Tunten zwecklos)	Mirek Balonis, Jutta Riedel	Germany	Documentary			[ citation needed ]
North by Current	Angelo Madsen Minax	United States	Documentary			[5]
On Solid Ground (Über Wasser)	Jela Hasler	Switzerland				[7]
Operation Hyacinth (film)	Piotr Domalewski	Poland	Drama, Crime	Tomasz Ziętek, Hubert Miłkowski, Marek Kalita, Adrianna Chlebicka, Tomasz Schuchardt		[33] [34]
Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades)	Jacques Audiard	France		Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Jehnny Beth, Noémie Merlant		[7]
Pat Rocco Dared	Morris Chapdelaine, Bob Christie	Canada	Documentary	Pat Rocco		[35]
The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada	Drama	Benedict Cumberbatch,Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Genevieve Lemon, Keith Carradine, Frances Conroy		[ citation needed ]
The Retreat	Pat Mills	Canada	Horror	Tommie-Amber Pirie, Sarah Allen		[36]
Returning to Reims (Fragments)	Jean-Gabriel Périot	France				[7]
Ride or Die	Ryūichi Hiroki	Japan	Thriller	Kiko Mizuhara, Honami Sato, Yoko Maki, Shunsuke Tanaka, Anne Suzuki, Shinya Niiro, Tetsushi Tanaka, Setsuko Karasuma		[37]
The Right Words (Haut les cœurs)	Adrian Moyse Dullin	France				[7]
Scarborough	Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson	Canada	Drama	Liam Diaz, Essence Fox, Anna Claire Beitel		[38]
The Scary of Sixty-First	Dasha Nekrasova	United States	Horror, thriller	Betsey Brown, Madeline Quinn, Dasha Nekrasova		[5]
Simone Is Gone (Simone est partie)	Mathilde Chavanne	France				[7]
Softie (Petite Nature)	Samuel Theis	France				[7]
Some Women	Quen Wong	Singapore	Documentary			[39] [40]
Someone Like Me	Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor	Canada	Documentary			[41]
Stillwater	Tom McCarthy	United States	Drama	Matt Damon, Camille Cottin, Abigail Breslin		[ citation needed ]
Stop-Zemlia	Kateryna Gornostai	Ukraine	Drama	Maria Fedorchenko, Arsenii Markov, Yana Isaienko, Oleksandr Ivanov, Andrii Abalmazov		[ citation needed ]
The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night	Fawzia Mirza	Canada, United States	Short comedy	Kausar Mohammed, Vico Ortiz		[42]
Titane	Julia Ducournau	Belgium, France		Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh		[7]
Venus by Water	Lin Wang	China				[7]
We're All Going to the World's Fair	Jane Schoenbrun	United States	Horror	Anna Cobb, Michael J. Rogers		[4]
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Japan	Drama	Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori, Shouma Kai, Fusako Urabe, Aoba Kawai		[5]
Wildhood	Bretten Hannam	Canada	Drama	Phillip Lewitski, Joshua Odjick, Michael Greyeyes, Joel Thomas Hynes		[43]
Women Do Cry (Zhenite plachat)	Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva	Bulgaria	Drama	Maria Bakalova		[7]

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