List of LGBTQ-related films of 2019
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Films
| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Versus 100 | Bruno Kohfield-Galeano | United States | Drama | Anna McClean, Charla Cochran, Walter Mecham, Jill Adler, Whitney Palmer, Danny Royce | ||
| The Acrobat (L'Acrobate) | Rodrigue Jean | Canada | Drama | Sébastien Ricard, Yury Paulau | [1] | |
| Adam | Rhys Ernst | United States | Comedy | Nicholas Alexander, Bobbi Salvör Menuez (credited as India Menuez), Leo Sheng | Screenplay by Ariel Schrag, based on her novel of the same name | |
| Alice Júnior | Gil Baroni | Brazil | Comedy | Anna Celestino Mota, Emmanuel Rosset, Surya Amitrano | [2] | |
| And Then We Danced | Levan Akin | Sweden Georgia | Drama | Levan Gelbakhiani, Ana Javakishvili | ||
| Before We Grow Old (Heute oder morgen) | Thomas Moritz Helm | Germany | Drama | Tala Gouveia, Paula Knüpling, Maximilian Hildebrandt | [3] | |
| Before You Know It | Hannah Utt | United States | Comedy | Mandy Patinkin, Hannah Utt, Jen Tullock, Judith Light | [4] | |
| Bit | Brad Michael Elmore | United States | Supernatural drama | [4] | ||
| The Blonde One (Un rubio) | Marco Berger | Argentina | Drama | [4] | ||
| The Blue Flower of Novalis (A rosa azul de Novalis) | Gustavo Vinagre, Rodrigo Carneiro | Brazil | Drama | [3] | ||
| Blue Boy | Manuel Abramovich | Argentina | Short, Documentary | [3] | ||
| Brief Story from the Green Planet (Breve historia del planeta verde) | Santiago Loza | Argentina Germany Brazil Spain | Drama | Romina Escobar, Paula Grinszpan, Luis Sodá | [3] | |
| Booksmart | Olivia Wilde | United States | Comedy | Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein | Wilde's directorial debut | |
| Circus of Books | Rachel Mason | United States | Documentary | [4] | ||
| Cousins | Mauro Carvalho, Thiago Cazado | Brazil | Drama | Thiago Cazado, Paulo Sousa, Denis Camargo | [5] | |
| A Dog Barking at the Moon | Xiang Zi | China | Drama | Naren Hua | [3] | |
| Docking | Trevor Anderson | Canada | Experimental short | [6] | ||
| Downton Abbey | Michael Engler | United Kingdom, United States | Drama | Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Penelope Wilton | A historical drama film which continues the storyline from the series of the same name. | |
| Drag Kids | Megan Wennberg | Canada | Documentary | [7] | ||
| Driveways | Andrew Ahn | United States | Drama | Hong Chau, Brian Dennehy | [3] | |
| Easy Love | Tamer Jandali | Germany | Drama | [3] | ||
| Elisa & Marcela | Isabel Coixet | Spain | Drama | Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández | Based on the first same-sex marriage in Spain | [3] |
| End of the Century (Fin de siglo) | Lucio Castro | Argentina | Drama | Juan Barberini, Ramon Pujol, Mía Maestro | [8] | |
| False Belief | Lene Berg | Norway | Documentary | [3] | ||
| From Zero to I Love You | Doug Spearman | United States | Drama | Scott Bailey, Darryl Stephens | [4] | |
| Fuccbois | Eduardo Roy Jr. | Philippines | [9] | |||
| Gay Chorus Deep South | David Charles | United States | Documentary | [4] | ||
| Greta | Armando Praça | Brazil | Drama | [3] | ||
| The Ground Beneath My Feet (Der Boden unter den Füßen) | Marie Kreutzer | Austria | Drama | Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger | [3] | |
| Halston | Frédéric Tcheng | United States | Documentary | [4] | ||
| Hector | Victoria Giesen Carvajal | Chile | Short, Drama | [3] | ||
| Holy Beasts | Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cárdenas | Argentina | Drama | [3] | ||
| Jim French: The Art of Masculinity | Sean Boyle | United States | Documentary | A positive look at the photographic career of Jim French, the creator and photographer behind Colt Studios | [10] | |
| Killing Patient Zero | Laurie Lynd | Canada | Documentary | Gaëtan Dugas | [11] | |
| Knives and Skin | Jennifer Reeder | United States | Drama | Raven Whitley, Ty Olwin, Marika Engelhardt | [3] | |
| Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga | Shelly Chopra Dhar | India | Romantic comedy, drama | Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Sonam Kapoor | ||
| Last Ferry | Jaki Bradley | USA | Drama | Ramon O. Torres, Sheldon Best, Myles Clohessy, Gabriel Sloyer, Larry Owens | ||
| Lemebel | Joanna Reposi Garibaldi | Chile | Documentary | [3] | ||
| Lingua Franca | Isabel Sandoval | United States, Philippines | Drama | Isabel Sandoval, Eamon Farren, Lynn Cohen, Lev Gorn | [12] | |
| Love, Spells and All That (Aşk, Büyü vs.) | Ümit Ünal | Turkey | Drama | Selen Uçer, Ece Dizdar, Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu | [13] | |
| Marco | Saleem Haddad | United Kingdom, Lebanon, Syria | Short, Drama | Zed Josef, Marwan Kaabour, Amal Haddad | ||
| Matthias & Maxime | Xavier Dolan | Canada | Drama | Xavier Dolan, Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas | ||
| Memories of My Body (Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku) | Garin Nugroho | Indonesia | Drama | Muhammad Khan, Randy Pangalila | [14] | |
| Moffie | Oliver Hermanus | South Africa | Drama | Kai Luke Brümmer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey | [15] | |
| Nagarkirtan | Kaushik Ganguly | India | Drama | Riddhi Sen, Ritwick Chakraborty | [3] | |
| A Night at Switch n' Play | Cody Stickels | United States | Documentary | [4] | ||
| The Obituary of Tunde Johnson | Ali LeRoi | United States | Drama | Steven Silver, Nicola Peltz, Spencer Neville, Sammi Rotibi, Tembi Locke | [16] | |
| Our Dance of Revolution | Phillip Pike | Canada | Documentary | Angela Robertson, Rinaldo Walcott | [17] | |
| The Pit | Hristiana Raykova | Germany | Documentary | [3] | ||
| Port Authority | Danielle Lessovitz | United States | Drama | Fionn Whitehead, Leyna Bloom, McCaul Lombardi | ||
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) | Céline Sciamma | France | Drama | Adèle Haenel, Noémie Merlant, Valeria Golino | ||
| Queering the Script | Gabrielle Zilkha | Canada | Documentary | Documentary about LGBTQ representation in media | [18] | |
| Rialto | Peter Mackie Burns | Ireland | Drama | Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Tom Glynn-Carney | ||
| Riot Girls | Jovanka Vuckovic | Canada | Science fiction | Madison Iseman, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Munro Chambers | ||
| Rocketman | Dexter Fletcher | United Kingdom | Drama | Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard | Based on the life and music of Elton John | [4] |
| Saint Frances | Alex Thompson | United States | Drama | [4] | ||
| Second Star on the Right | Ruth Caudeli | Colombia | Drama | [4] | ||
| Sequin in a Blue Room | Samuel Van Grinsven | Australia | Thriller, drama, coming-of-age story | Conor Leach, Simon Croker, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Anthony Brandon Wong | [19] | |
| Shannon Amen | Chris Dainty | Canada | Animated short | |||
| The Shiny Shrimps (Les crevettes pailletées) | Maxime Govare, Cédric Le Gallo | France | Comedy | Nicolas Gob, Alban Lenoir, Michaël Abiteboul, Geoffrey Couët | [20] | |
| Spiral | Kurtis David Harder | Canada | Horror | Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen | ||
| Standing on the Line | Paul-Émile d'Entremont | Canada | Documentary | David Testo, Anastasia Bucsis, Brock McGillis | Documentary about homophobia in sports | [21] |
| The Strong Ones (Los fuertes) | Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo | Chile | Drama | Samuel González, Antonio Altamirano | Theatrical release in 2020. Based in the 2015 Teddy Award winner for Best Short Film, San Cristóbal. | |
| Take Me to Prom | Andrew Moir | Canada | Documentary | [22] | ||
| Tremors (Temblores) | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala France | Drama | Juan Pablo Olyslager, Diane Bathen, Mauricio Armas Zebadúa | [23] | |
| The Two Lives of Li Ermao | Jia Yuchuan | China | Documentary | Released in 2019, it tells the story of a trans migrant worker named Li Ermao who "transitions from male to female, then back to male." | [24] | |
| Variações | João Maia | Portugal | Drama, Biography | Sérgio Praia, Victória Guerra, Filipe Duarte | ||
| Velvet Buzzsaw | Dan Gilroy | United States | Horror | Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Daveed Diggs, Nitya Vidyasagar, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer, Billy Magnussen, Mig Macario, John Malkovich | ||
| Village of the Missing | Michael Del Monte | Canada | Documentary | |||
| We Are the Radical Monarchs | Linda Goldstein Knowlton | United States | Documentary | [4] | ||
| White Lie | Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas | Canada | Drama | Kacey Rohl, Amber Anderson, Martin Donovan | ||
| Your Turn (Espero tua (re)volta) | Eliza Capai | Brazil | Documentary | [3] |