The 30 Best LGBT Films of All Time

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To mark the 30th anniversary of BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, we are delighted to announce the Top 30 LGBT Films of All Time in the first major critical survey of LGBT films.

Over 100 film experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, have voted the Top 30 LGBT Films of All Time. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as well as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (1992), Beautiful Thing (1996), Weekend (2011) and Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013).

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  1. 1 new

    Carol

    2015, in 8 top lists Check
  2. 2 new

    Weekend

    2011, in 6 top lists Check
  3. 3 new

    Chun gwong ja sit

    1997 — a.k.a. Happy Together, in 13 top lists Check
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    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
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    Paris Is Burning

    1990, in 12 top lists Check
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    Sud pralad

    2004 — a.k.a. Tropical Malady, in 10 top lists Check
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    My Beautiful Laundrette

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
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    Todo sobre mi madre

    1999 — a.k.a. All About My Mother, in 18 top lists Check
  9. 9 new

    Un chant d'amour

    1950 — a.k.a. A Song of Love, in 7 top lists Check
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    My Own Private Idaho

    1991, in 10 top lists Check
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    Tangerine

    2015, in 5 top lists Check
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    Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant

    1972 — a.k.a. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, in 8 top lists Check
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    La vie d'Adèle

    2013 — a.k.a. Blue Is the Warmest Colour, in 13 top lists Check
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    Mädchen in Uniform

    1931, in 5 top lists Check
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    Fucking Åmål

    1998 — a.k.a. Show Me Love, in 7 top lists Check
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    Orlando

    1992, in 7 top lists Check
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    Victim

    1961, in 7 top lists Check
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    Je tu il elle

    1974 — a.k.a. Je Tu Il Elle, in 5 top lists Check
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    Looking for Langston

    1989, in 4 top lists Check
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    Beau travail

    1999, in 15 top lists Check
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    Beautiful Thing

    1996, in 1 top list Check
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    L'inconnu du lac

    2013 — a.k.a. Stranger by the Lake, in 6 top lists Check
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    Teorema

    1968, in 8 top lists Check
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    The Watermelon Woman

    1996, in 7 top lists Check
  25. 25 new

    Pariah

    2011, in 7 top lists Check
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    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
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    Portrait of Jason

    1967, in 11 top lists Check
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    Dog Day Afternoon

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  29. 29 new

    Morte a Venezia

    1971 — a.k.a. Death in Venice, in 13 top lists Check
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    Pink Narcissus

    1971, in 2 top lists Check
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    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    1971, in 9 top lists Check
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    Tomboy

    2011, in 4 top lists Check
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    Bara no sôretsu

    1969 — a.k.a. Funeral Parade of Roses, in 6 top lists Check
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Last updated on Mar 15, 2016; source