Lushly lit in deep reds, this tale of courting, and loving across barriers of gender has the shadow of tragedy following it, even as it charts the ecstasies of forbidden love. Cate Blanchette and Rooney Mara play characters who fall in love in 1950s New York. Carol (2015)īased on the 1952 romance novel The Prince Of Salt, republished in 1990 as Carol, the namesake film directed by Todd Haynes is a landmark moment in the queer mainstream cannon. Set before the AIDS crisis swept up NYC, this film instead focuses on the emotional momentum of the gay identity, before its association with disease and the American indifference to loss of lives. The narrator of the story Beth (Sophia Lillis) finds courage and communion in him as she is trying to navigate the tricky waters of teenage rebellion. The film shuttles between Frank’s (Paul Bettany) life in New York, loving and living with Wally (Peter Macdissi), an immigrant from Saudi Arabia, and his small-town where he is an outcast.
Set in the 1970s, Uncle Frank is a comedy-drama road movie about a closeted gay man who is forced to confront his past.
The two scenes on the beach - one of being propped up by a paternal figure on the salty afternoon waters, and the other sealing the indigo night with a tense kiss - have such visual and emotional potency, they refuse traditional labels of representation by being so specific in intention and articulation. Each phase, leavened by his mother’s addiction and the overt pressures of the racist, masculine system, is propped by a visual intimacy and immediacy the frames stay with you.
Winner of 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture, director Barry Jenkins crafts with his characteristic deft, tender framing the coming-of-age of Chiron in Miami at the height of the crack epidemic - from a child to an adolescent to an adult. Here is a list of films and shows that you can find on Amazon Prime Video. This is a great time to delve into the queer catalogue of films and shows that platform queer lives as they are lived.
When you’re done going through this list, check out the best LGBTQ movies on Netflix as well as the best LGBTQ films to stream right now on multiple services.The month of June is Pride Month, which celebrates the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City that put front-and-center the desire to be and love whomever, however. If you’re looking to engage with the LGBTQ+ experience, we’ve curated a list of the best LGBTQ movies on Amazon Prime, from marvelous musicals to essential documentaries. Amazon Prime has been building out a library of LGBTQ+ films for a few years and has bolstered that library with some entries from other studios - and it remains to be seen how the library will expand with the recently completed MGM merger. Fortunately, streaming services are making it easier to demonstrate this increased representation and provide opportunities for viewers to expand their horizons and practice some empathy. Hollywood has long resisted calls for more equitable, realistic representation in film, but after paying the piper over the past few years, content producers are finally beginning to catch up.