List of LGBTQ-related films of 2025

This is a list of lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender or queer -related filmsreleased in 2025. 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
April & Amanda	Zackary Drucker	United States	Documentary	April Ashley, Amanda Lear		[1]
Ari	Léonor Serraille	France, Belgium	Drama	Andranic Manet, Pascal Rénéric, Théo Delezenne, Ryad Ferrad, Eva Lallier Juan, Lomane de Dietrich, Mikaël-Don Giancarli, Clémence Coullon		[2]
Assembly	Rashaad Newsome, Johnny Symons	United States	Documentary
At the Place of Ghosts (Sk+te’kmujue’katik)	Bretten Hannam	Canada	Drama	Forrest Goodluck, Blake Alec Miranda, Glen Gould		[3]
Between Dreams and Hope	Farnoosh Samadi	Iran	Drama			[4]
Blood Lines	Gail Maurice	Canada	Drama	Dana Solomon, Derica Lafrance, Gail Maurice, Tamara Podemski		[3]
Blue Moon	Richard Linklater	United States	Drama	Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale		[2]
Bouchra	Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani	Italy, Morocco, United States	Animated			[4]
Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda)	Rohan Parashuram Kanawade	India, Canada, United Kingdom	Drama	Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman, Jayshri Jagtap		[1]
Close to September (Casi septiembre)	Lucía G. Romero	Spain	Drama	Ana Barja, Isabel Rico		[5]
Come See Me in the Good Light	Ryan White	United States	Documentary	Andrea Gibson, Megan Falley		[6]
Degrassi: Whatever It Takes	Lisa Rideout	Canada	Documentary			[3]
Departures	Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, Neil Ely	United Kingdom	Drama			[7]
Dinner with Friends	Sasha Leigh Henry	Canada	Drama	Tattiawna Jones, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell, Alex Spencer, Tymika Tafari, Rakhee Morzaria, Michael Ayres, Leighton Alexander Williams		[3]
Downton Abbey 3	Simon Curtis	United Kingdom, United States	Drama	Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Phyllis Logan, Robert James-Collier, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Imelda Staunton, Penelope Wilton, Paul Giamatti, Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale, Arty Froushan, Dominic West
Dreamers	Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor	United Kingdom	Drama	Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo		[8]
Drunken Noodles	Lucio Castro	Argentina, United States	Drama	Laith Khalifeh, Joél Isaac, Ezriel Kornel, Céline Clermontois, John Arthur Peetz, Guillermo García Arriaza, Matthew Risch		[9]
Enzo	Robin Campillo	France	Drama	Eloy Pohu, Maksym Slivinskyi, Pierfrancesco Favino, Élodie Bouchez		[10]
Erupcja	Pete Ohs	United States, Poland	Drama	Charli XCX, Lena Góra		[3]
Extra Life (And Decay)	Stéphanie Lagarde	Netherlands, France	Short documentary	Isabelle Lagarde, Stéphanie Lagarde, Suzanne van der Schaaf, Rachele Borghi, Teresa Castro		[2]
Fatherhood	August B Hanssen, Even G Benestad	Norway, Iceland, Germany	Documentary			[7]
A Few Feet Away (A metros de distancia)	Tadeo Pestaña Caro	Argentina	Comedy-drama	Max Suen, Jazmin Carballo		[7]
Heightened Scrutiny	Sam Feder	United States	Documentary	Chase Strangio		[1]
Homem com H	Esmir Filho	Brazil	Biographical musical drama	Jesuíta Barbosa, Caroline Abras, Hermila Guedes		[11]
Hot Milk	Rebecca Lenkiewicz	United Kingdom	Drama			[7]
Houses (Batim)	Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum	Israel, Germany	Drama	Yael Eisenberg		[12]
How to Live	Njoroge Muthoni	Kenya	Documentary			[7]
Howl	Domini Marshall	Australia	Short drama	Ingrid Torelli, Kristina Bogic, Safe Shahab, Liam Mollica		[2] [13]
I Only Rest in the Storm (O Riso e a Faca)	Pedro Pinho	Portugal	Drama	Sérgio Coragem, Cleo Diára, Jonathan Guilherme, Jorge Biague, João Lopes, Hermínio Amaro, Paulo Leal		[14]
If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile (Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst)	Marie Luise Lehner	Austria	Short drama	Siena Popović, Mariya Menner, Jessica Paar, Alessandro Scheibner, Alperen Köse, Kathrin Resetarits, Daniel Sea	Teddy Award jury prize winner at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival	[15]
Janine Moves to the Country (Janine zieht aufs Land)	Jan Eilhardt	Germany	Documentary	Janine Lear, Maximilian Brauer, Adrian Wenzel, Kathrin Angerer, Pierre Emö		[2]
Jimpa	Sophie Hyde	Australia, Finland, Netherlands	Drama	John Lithgow, Olivia Colman		[1]
Jone, Sometimes (Jone, batzuetan)	Sara Fantova	Spain	Coming-of-age	Olaia Aguayo, Josean Bengoetxea		[16]
Julian	Cato Kusters	Belgium, Netherlands	Drama	Nina Meurisse, Laurence Roothooft		[17]
Kiss of the Spider Woman	Bill Condon	United States	Musical	Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna		[1]
The Little Sister (La Petite Dernière)	Hafsia Herzi	France, Germany	Drama	Nadia Melliti, Park-ji Min, Louis Memmi, Mouna Soualem	Winner of the Queer Palm at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival	[18]
Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica)	Urška Djukić	Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia	Drama	Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabaković, Nataša Burger, Staša Popović		[2]
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished	Lesley Loksi Chan	Canada	Short documentary		Teddy Award winner for Best Short Film at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival	[2]
Love Letters (Des preuves d’amour)	Alice Douard	France	Drama	Ella Rumpf, Monia Chokri, Noémie Lvovsky, Emy Juretzko		[19]
Love Me Tender	Anna Cazenave Cambet	France	Drama	Vicky Krieps, Antoine Reinartz, Monia Chokri, Vigo Ferrera-Redier, Aurélia Petit, Féodor Atkine		[20]
Magic Farm	Amalia Ulman	United States, Argentina	Comedy	Chloë Sevigny, Alex Wolff, Joe Apollonio, Camila del Campo, Simon Rex		[2]
Manok	Yu-jin Lee	South Korea	Drama			[7]
Modern Whore	Nicole Bazuin	Canada	Documentary	Andrea Werhun		[3]
Monk in Pieces	Billy Shebar	United States, Germany, France	Documentary	Meredith Monk, Björk, David Byrne, Ping Chong, John Schaefer		[2]
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House	Elegance Bratton	United States	Documentary			[1]
The Mud Under My Window (Sous ma fenêtre, la boue)	Violette Delvoye	France, Belgium	Animated short	Gabriella Zola, Jasmina Douieb, Stéphanie Coerten		[2]
My Boyfriend, the Fascist (My Boyfriend, el fascista)	Matthias Lintner	Italy	Documentary			[21]
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La misteriosa mirada del flamenco)	Diego Céspedes	Chile, France, Belgium, Spain, Germany	Drama	Tamara Cortés, Matías Catalán, Paula Dinamarca, Claudia Cabezas, Luis Dubó		[22]
The Nature of Invisible Things (A natureza das coisas invisíveis)	Rafaela Camelo	Brazil, Chile	Drama	Laura Brandão, Serena, Larissa Mauro, Camila Márdila, Aline Marta Maia		[2]
A Night Like This	Liam Calvert	United Kingdom	Drama			[7]
Night Stage (Ato noturno)	Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher	Brazil	Erotic thriller	Gabriel Faryas, Cirillo Luna		[23]
Old Guys in Bed	Jean-Pierre Bergeron	Canada	Romantic comedy-drama	Paul James Saunders, Duff MacDonald, Joan Hart, Vlasta Vrana		[24]
Once Again... (Statues Never Die)	Isaac Julien	United Kingdom	Documentary			[2]
Outerlands	Elena Oxman	United States	Drama	Asia Kate Dillon, Ridley Asha Bateman, Louisa Krause, Daniel K. Isaac, Lea DeLaria		[25]
Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance	Noam Gonick	Canada	Documentary			[26]
Peter Hujar's Day	Ira Sachs	United States	Drama	Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall		[1]
Pillion	Harry Lighton	United Kingdom	Drama	Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgård, Douglas Hodge, Lesley Sharp, Jake Shears, Anthony Welsh		[27]
Plainclothes	Carmen Emmi	United States	Drama	Russell Tovey, Tom Blyth, Amy Forsyth, Christian Cooke		[1]
Queer As Punk	Yihwen Chen	Malaysia, Indonesia	Documentary			[2]
Queerpanorama	Jun Li	United States, Hong Kong	Drama	Jayden Cheung, Erfan Shekarriz, Sebastian Mahito Soukup, Arm Anatphikorn, Zenni Corbin		[2]
Rains Over Babel (Llueve sobre Babel)	Gala del Sol	Colombia, Spain, United States	Comedy-drama	Santiago Pineda, Celina Biurrun, Roman Escobar, Johan Zapata Saray Rebolledo		[28]
The Richest Woman in the World (La femme la plus riche du monde)	Thierry Klifa	France, Belgium	Drama	Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Marina Foïs, Raphaël Personnaz, André Marcon, Mathieu Demy, Joseph Olivennes, Micha Lescot, Paul Beaurepaire		[29]
Rumble (Pidikwe)	Caroline Monnet	Canada	Documentary	Joséphine Bacon, Catherine Boivin, Catherine Dagenais-Savard, Émilie Monnet, Aïcha Bastien N'Diaye		[2]
Sally	Cristina Costantini	United States	Documentary	Tam O'Shaughnessy, Sally Ride		[1]
Sandbag Dam (Zečji nasip)	Čejen Černić Čanak	Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania	Drama	Lav Novosel, Andrija Žunac, Leon Grgić, Franka Mikolaci, Tanja Smoje, Alma Prica, Filip Šovagović		[30]
Sauna	Mathias Broe	Denmark	Drama	Magnus Juhl Andersen, Nina Rask, Dilan Amin, Klaus Tange		[1]
Sirens Call	Miri Ian Gossing, Lina Sieckmann	Germany, Netherlands	Documentary	Gina Rønning, Moth Rønning-Bötel, Rei Spider Barnes, Jason Bötel, Mark Ginsberg		[2] [31]
Skin Side Up	Robert Ten Eyck	Australia	Horror			[32]
Stars	Stars Collective	United Kingdom, Germany	Animated short			[2]
Starwalker	Corey Payette	Canada	Musical drama	Dillan Chiblow, Jeffrey Michael Follis, Stewart Adam McKensy, Jason Sakaki, Jennifer Lines		[33]
That Summer in Paris (Le Rendez-vous d'été)	Valentine Cadic	France	Comedy-drama	Blandine Madec, India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Matthias Jacquin, Lou Deleuze		[2]
Summer's Camera	Divine Sung	South Korea	Drama			[7]
The Trio Hall	Su Hui-yu	Taiwan	Drama	Hsiao Kurt, Chen Ching, Lai Hao-zhe, Liao Yuan-ching, Yang Chia-en		[2]
Two Times João Liberada (Duas vezes João Liberada)	Paula Tomás Marques	Portugal	Drama	June João, André Tecedeiro, Jenny Larrue, Caio Amado, Eloísa d'Ascensão		[2]
Unlabelled	Colette Johnson-Vosberg	Canada	Documentary			[33]
A Useful Ghost	Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke	Thailand, Singapore, France, Germany	Black comedy	Davika Hoorne, Witsarut Himmarat, Apasiri Nitibhon, Wanlop Rungkumjud, Wisarut Homhuan		[34]
Wake Up Dead Man	Rian Johnson	United States	Mystery, comedy	Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner		[3]
We'll Find Happiness (On sera heureux)	Léa Pool	Canada	Drama	Mehdi Meskar, Alexandre Landry, Aron Archer, Céline Bonnier, Sascha Ley, Jérôme Varanfrain, Joël Delsaut		[35]
The Wedding Banquet	Andrew Ahn	United States	Drama	Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, Youn Yuh-jung		[1]
Where the Night Stands Still (Come la notte)	Liryc Dela Cruz	Italy, Philippines	Drama	Jenny Llanto Caringal, Tess Magallanes, Benjamin Vasquez Barcellano Jr.		[2]
Where You Find Me	Willi Andrick, Juan Bermúdez, Isis Rampf, Anna Schröder	Germany	Drama			[7]

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