List of LGBTQ-related films of 2022

This is a list of lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender or queer -related filmsreleased in 2022. 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
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture	Sharon ‘Rocky’ Roggio	United States	Documentary			[1]
Alis	Clare Weiskopf	Colombia, Chile, Romania	Documentary			[2]
All Man: The International Male Story	Bryan Darling, Jesse Finley Reed	United States	Documentary			[3]
All Was Good (Sab changa si)	Teresa A. Braggs	India	Documentary			[2]
Am I Ok?	Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne	United States	Drama	Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler		[4]
Attachment	Gabriel Bier Gislason	Denmark	Comedy, thriller			[3]
Badhaai Do (Felicitations Due)	Harshavardhan Kulkarni	India	Comedy drama	Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar		[5]
Beautiful Beings (Berdreymi)	Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson	Iceland	Drama			[2]
The Bed	Thalia Kent-Egan	United Kingdom	Short drama			[6]
Before I Change My Mind	Trevor Anderson	Canada	Drama	Vaughn Murrae, Dominic Lippa, Lacey Oake		[7]
Blond Night (Nuit blonde)	Gabrielle Demers	Canada	Short drama	Patrick Dorneval, Dany Boudreault		[8]
Blue Jean	Georgia Oakley	United Kingdom	Drama	Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes
Bones and All	Luca Guadagnino	United States, Italy	Romantic horror	Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet		[9]
Boylesque	Bogna Kowalczyk	Poland, Czech Republic	Documentary	Andrzej "Lulla La Polaca" Szwan		[10]
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power	Nina Menkes	United States	Documentary			[2]
Breaking the Ice	Clara Stern	Austria	Sports, romantic drama			[3]
Breathe	Harm van der Sanden	Netherlands	Short drama			[6]
Bros	Nicholas Stoller	United States	Romantic comedy	Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, Jim Rash, Harvey Fierstein		[4]
Burning Days (Kurak Günler)	Emin Alper	Turkey, France	Drama	Selahattin Paşalı, Ekin Koç		[11]
Casa Susanna	Sébastien Lifshitz	France, United States	Documentary			[12]
Close	Lukas Dhont	Belgium, Netherlands, France	Drama			[13]
Compulsus	Tara Thorne	Canada	Thriller			[14]
Concerned Citizen	Idan Haguel	Israel	Drama			[2]
Continental Drift (South) (La dérive des continents au sud)	Lionel Baier	Switzerland, France	Comedy-drama	Isabelle Carré, Théodore Pellerin, Ursina Lardi		[15]
Crush	Sammi Cohen	United States	Coming of age	Rowan Blanchard, Auliʻi Cravalho, Isabella Ferreira
Dino at the Beach	Josh Cox	United States	Short romantic LGBT drama	Mateo Correa, Devon McDowell		[16]
Dipped in Black (Marungka tjalatjunu)	Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch	Australia	Short documentary	Derik Lynch		[17]
Do Revenge	Jennifer Kaytin Robinson	United States	Teen, black comedy	Camila Mendes, Maya Hawke
Dogfriend (Hundefreund)	Maissa Lihedheb	Germany	Short drama			[3]
Downton Abbey: A New Era	Julian Fellowes	United Kingdom	Drama	Nathalie Baye, Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West		[18]
Dreaming Walls	Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier	Belgium, France, United States, Netherlands, Sweden	Documentary			[2]
The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone	Maya Newell	Australia	Short documentary			[3]
Everything Everywhere All at Once	Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	United States	Sci-fi absurdist comedy-drama	Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis
Fire Island	Andrew Ahn	United States	Romantic comedy	Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, Margaret Cho		[4]
Fogaréu	Flávia Neves	Brazil	Drama			[2]
Framing Agnes	Chase Joynt	Canada	Documentary	Angelica Ross, Zackary Drucker, Jen Richards, Max Wolf Valerio, Silas Howard, Stephen Ira		[4]
Francheska: Prairie Queen	Laura O'Grady	Canada	Documentary	Francis Yutrago		[19]
Fraud	Zen Pace	United States	Short drama			[3]
F^¢k 'Em R!ght B@¢k	Harris Doran	United States	Short comedy			[3]
Girl Picture (Tytöt tytöt tytöt)	Alli Haapasalo	Finland	Coming of age	Aamu Milonoff, Eleonoora Kauhanen, Linnea Leino		[20]
God Save the Queens	Jordan Danger	United States	Comedy	Alaska Thunderfuck, Laganja Estranja, Kelly Mantle, Peter Facinelli, Michelle Visage		[3]
Golden Delicious	Jason Karman	Canada	Drama	Cardi Wong, Chris Carson		[21]
Hold Me Close Please	Max Roberts	United Kingdom	Short drama			[6]
The Holiday Sitter	Ali Liebert	Canada United States	Romantic comedy	Jonathan Bennett, George Krissa, Chelsea Hobbs		[22]
The House of LaBeija	Fredgy Noël	United States	Short documentary			[3]
Inner Wound Real	Carrie Hawks	United States	Short documentary			[3]
The Inspection	Elegance Bratton	United States	Drama			[23]
Into My Name (Nel mio nome)	Niccolo Bassetti	Italy	Documentary			[24]
Jet Lag	Xinyuan Zheng Lu	Switzerland, Austria	Documentary			[2]
Joyland	Saim Sadiq	Pakistan	Drama			[23]
Junior's Giant	Paula Brancati	Canada	Short drama	Eric Peterson, Kinley Mochrie, Debra McGrath		[25]
Ladies Only	Rebana Liz John	Germany, India	Documentary			[2]
Lay Me by the Shore	David Findlay	Canada	Short drama			[26]
Lightyear	Angus MacLane	United States	Animated
Lines of Escape (Lignes de fuite)	Catherine Chabot, Miryam Bouchard	Canada	Comedy-drama	Catherine Chabot, Léane Labrèche-Dor, Mariana Mazza, Mickaël Gouin	Centres on the growing apart of three childhood friends in adulthood, one of whom is in a relationship with another woman	[27]
Lonesome	Craig Boreham	Australia	Drama	Josh Lavery, Daniel Gabriel, Ian Roberts		[28]
A Love Song	Max Walker-Silverman	United States	Drama			[2]
Lucky	Loren Denis, Anthony Vibert	France	Documentary	Luc Bruyère  [ fr ]		[3]
Mars One (Marte um)	Gabriel Martins	Brazil	Drama			[3]
Master	Mariama Diallo	United States	Thriller	Regina Hall, Amber Gray		[29]
Manvee	Tanmay Nag	India	Drama	Peehu Biswas Sagar Kumar Jayanta Mondal
My Dear Boy	Leaf Lieber	United States	Short drama			[3]
My Policeman	Michael Grandage	United Kingdom	Drama	Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, David Dawson, Linus Roache, Gina Mckee, Rupert Everett		[4]
Nelly & Nadine	Magnus Gertten	Sweden, Belgium, Norway	Documentary			[2]
Nobody's Hero (Viens je t'emmène)	Alain Guiraudie	France	Drama			[30]
Of an Age	Goran Stolevski	Australia	Drama			[31]
Out in the Ring	Ry Levey	Canada	Documentary	Chyna, Lisa Marie Varon, Nyla Rose, Chris Kanyon, Pat Patterson, Valerie Wyndham, Dani Jordyn, Cassandro, Charlie Morgan, Sandy Parker, Pollo Del Mar, Wade Keller		[32]
Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles)	Albert Serra	Spain, France, Portugal, Germany	Drama	Benoît Magimel		[33]
The People's Joker	Vera Drew	United States	Science fiction, fantasy			[23]
Peter von Kant	François Ozon	France	Drama	Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla	Gender-flipped reinterpretation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's influential 1972 film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant	[34]
Please Baby Please	Amanda Kramer	United States	Drama	Andrea Riseborough, Harry Melling, Karl Glusman, Demi Moore
Petit Mal	Ruth Caudeli	Colombia	Drama			[3]
Queens of the Qing Dynasty	Ashley McKenzie	Canada	Drama	Sarah Walker, Ziyin Zheng		[35]
Queer Parivaar	Shiva Raichandani	United Kingdom	Short drama			[6]
Rodeo (Rodéo)	Lola Quivoron	Drama	Julie Ledru			[36]
Rosie	Gail Maurice	Canada	Comedy-drama			[37]
Scaring Women at Night	Karimah Zakia Issa	Canada	Short drama	Izaiah Dockery, Kavita Musty, Dashawn Lloyd Blackwood		[38]
Shall I Compare You to a Summer's Day? (Bastaalak sa'at)	Mohammad Shawky Hassan	Egypt, Germany, Lebanon	Musical			[2]
Sick	John Hyams	United States	Horror, thriller			[23]
Skin Deep (Aus meiner Haut)	Alex Schaad	Germany	Drama		Winner of the Queer Lion at the 79th Venice International Film Festival	[39]
Soft	Joseph Amenta	Canada	Drama			[23]
Something You Said Last Night	Luis De Filippis	Canada	Drama			[23]
Sublime	Mariano Biasin	Argentina	Drama			[2]
Summer with Hope (Tabestan Ba Omid)	Sadaf Foroughi	Canada, Iran	Drama	Mehdi Ghorbani, Leili Rashidi, Benyamin Peyrovani		[40]
Swing Ride (Calcinculo)	Chiara Bellosi	Italy	Drama	Gaia Di Pietro, Andrea Carpenzano		[2]
Tahara	Olivia Peace	United States	Drama
Tarneit	John Sheedy	Australia	Short drama			[6]
They/Them	John Logan	United States	Horror	Kevin Bacon, Theo Germaine, Anna Chlumsky, Carrie Preston, Austin Krute
This Place	V. T. Nayani	Canada	Drama			[23]
Thor: Love and Thunder	Taika Waititi	United Kingdom	Fantasy	Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Chris Pratt, Jaimie Alexander, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Jeff Goldblum, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper		[41]
Three Headed Beast	Fernando Andrés, Tyler Rugh	United States	Drama			[3]
Three Months	Jared Frieder	United States	Comedy drama	Troye Sivan, Viveik Kalra, Brianne Tju, Javier Muñoz, Judy Greer, Ellen Burstyn
Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (Três tigres tristes)	Gustavo Vinagre	Brazil	Drama			[42]
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!	Aude Harrison	United States	Animated comedy
Tommies	Karl Eccleston, Brian Fairbairn	United Kingdom	Short drama			[6]
Tramps!	Kevin Hegge	Canada	Documentary		Profiles the New Romantic scene of the 1980s	[43]
Valentine	Beck Kitsis, Chris McNabb	United States	Short drama			[3]
Want/Need	Niamh Buckland	United Kingdom	Short drama			[6]
We Will Never Belong	Amelia Eloisa	Mexico				[32]
When Time Got Louder	Connie Cocchia	Canada	Drama	Willow Shields, Lochlyn Munro, Elizabeth Mitchell		[44]
Will-o'-the-Wisp (Fogo-Fátuo)	João Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal, France				[23]
Winter Boy (Le Lycéen)	Christophe Honoré	France	Drama	Paul Kircher, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lacoste		[45]
Work	April Maxey	United States	Short drama			[3]
You Can Live Forever	Sarah Watts, Mark Slutsky	Canada	Drama	Anwen O'Driscoll, June Laporte, Liane Balaban, Hasani Freeman, Antoine Yared, Deragh Campbell		[46]
The Whale	Darren Aronofsky	United States of America	Drama	Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins, and Samantha Morton		[47]

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