Best LGBTQ Films of the 2010-2019
There has been an explosion of queer content in the past decade or so. Although much of this burst has been seen on the television landscape, movies have also made great strides toward telling stories about the LGBTQ community.
Many have received mainstream attention during awards season. In 2016, Moonlight became the first gay film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
A Fantastic Woman, a Chilean production centering on a transgender woman and released the following year, won Best Foreign Film at the Oscars.
Not every fantastic LGBTQ movie garnered Oscar gold. Films like Tangerine, Weekend, and Rafiki moved the needle for greater representation of marginalized groups nationally and internationally. Some changed the world politically, and others changed how LGBTQ people saw themselves reflected in the
Stranger by the Lake
A thriller that features a gay serial killer stalking a cruising area may not seem terribly groundbreaking.
When William Friedkin did it with the 1980 Al Pacino starrer Cruising, it was met with outcry. But French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie delivers a taut, pristinely shot thriller in Stranger by the Lake, which follows the denizens of a lakeside cruising area where a serial killer walks among them. Pierre Deladonchamps plays Franck, a regular at the lake who becomes sexually involved with the sexy newcomer Michel (Christophe Paou). The sex in Stranger by the Lake is passionate, raw, and graphic, and it doesn’t shy away from full male nudity and erections. The scenes of Franck and Michel fucking, juxtaposed with the natural landscape, make for timeless tableaus that comment on the beauty of not only the male form but of desire between men.