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This June, as we celebrate Pride Month, let’s take a look at the top 10 greatest films that celebrate LBGT life, love, and social progress. From hidden love affairs to openly gay political figures, these movies surpass all expectations and more importantly, portray the world of LGBT in a remarkable yet poignant reflection of humanity.
Let’s take a look!
Call Me By Your Name (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9AYPxH5NTM
Official Synopsis:
It’s the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who’s working as an intern for Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
God’s Own Country (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk4Ysb0J0O4
Official Synopsis:
A young farmer numbs his frustrations with drinking and casual sex until a Romanian migrant worker sets him on a new path.
Moonlight (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NJj12tJzqc
Official Synopsis:
A look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young black man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to manhood is guided by the kindness, support and love of the community that helps raise him.
Carol (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4z7Px68ywk
Official Synopsis:
Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) spots the beautiful, elegant Carol (Cate Blanchett) perusing the doll displays in a 1950s Manhattan department store. The two women develop a fast bond that becomes a love with complicated consequences.
The Imitation Game (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5CjKEFb-sM
Official Synopsis:
In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to crack Nazi codes, including Enigma — which cryptanalysts had thought unbreakable. Turing’s team, including Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), analyze Enigma messages while he builds a machine to decipher them. Turing and team finally succeed and become heroes, but in 1952, the quiet genius encounters disgrace when authorities reveal he is gay and send him to prison.
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs1kpGNSRVk
Official Synopsis:
In mid-1980s Texas, electrician Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is stunned to learn that he has AIDS. Though told that he has just 30 days left to live, Woodroof refuses to give in to despair. He seeks out alternative therapies and smuggles unapproved drugs into the U.S. from wherever he can find them. Woodroof joins forces with a fellow AIDS patient (Jared Leto) and begins selling the treatments to the growing number of people who can’t wait for the medical establishment to save them.
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RixlpHKfb6M
Official Synopsis:
Lesbian couple Nic and Jules have been together for twenty years, bringing up two children thanks to the contributions of a anonymous sperm donor. As 18-year-old daughter Joni prepares to leave for college, she and younger brother Laser get curious about their heritage. Making contact with Paul, the laid-back restaurateur whose sperm bank deposit helped bring them into the world, the two set off a chain reaction.
Milk (2008)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF05_CB81c0
Official Synopsis:
In 1972, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) and his then-lover Scott Smith leave New York for San Francisco, with Milk determined to accomplish something meaningful in his life. Settling in the Castro District, he opens a camera shop and helps transform the area into a mecca for gays and lesbians. In 1977 he becomes the nation’s first openly gay man elected to a notable public office when he wins a seat on the Board of Supervisors. The following year, Dan White (Josh Brolin) kills Milk in cold blood.
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5D1iU5KnqQ
Official Synopsis:
In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid) as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart, Alma (Michelle Williams), and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider (Anne Hathaway), the two men keep up their tortured and sporadic affair over the course of 20 years
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgx1QZFNMz8
Official Synopsis:
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”
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