My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Drama, Romance
The most hotly anticipated dance BL film powowwow and it was hot! I would have liked a lot more of the actual 10dance, but watching the Latin dancer get launched into subspace was an experience.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2023
Genres: Drama
I'm always here for a young trans film. Saw this in Germany with German subtitles (so I think I understood the same amount as my then-partner who was Brazilian). You don't really need to understand the words for this one though, I'm not sure there's much nuance.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2024
Genres: Romance, Comedy
I waited years for this GL, after watching Milk and Love in Bad Buddy (my first BL) be the lesbian side couple that we were all gaslighting ourselves over. This was back in the day when we didn't get lesbians, you see. And they delivered this sweet show, with an awkward disaster teen who accidentally catfishes her crush. And there's an autistic alien who also gets the girl. Was it worth the wait? Well, I certainly had fun!
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2019
Genres: Romance, Action, Thriller
Every so often I sigh and thank the gods at GMMTV that they allowed P'Jojo to make this show. Polyamory. Strippers. Gangs. Guns. Nerdy virgin Tay who ends up with the hottest partners to grace our screens. 3 Will be Free is a wild ride from start to finish and I enjoyed every damn second of it.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2025
Genres: Drama
I love love loved this movie. Those at the edges of society have to look out for eachother, and in this case it's a dragqueen (trans?) looking after her mother with dementia. In and out of moments of lucidity, this woman loves her child, and I loved the other queens pulling her into the family. I need to rewatch actually. Maybe right now.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2022
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Forever devastated that this didn't get a second season. I will have to just rewatch it again. We are all fruits! Roberta Colindrez is so unbelievably hot as Lupe. I guess there's baseball or something.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2021
Genres: Romance, Drama
Up in the northern provinces of Thailand, a young man who received a heart transplant journeys up to a remote village to be a volunteer teacher, following his donor's wish to make a wish upon a thousand stars. He finds a community, and falls in love with a Chief Forest Officer. Is there a mystic elements? Who can tell with this fairytale of a drama. It good, okay?
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Romance, Youth
I rewatch this show at least once a year. More probably. On my birthday. When I watched something emotionally devastating and I need a cleanse. When I feel like kicking my feet over the cutest pair of pink cons. The theme song has been my most listened to song for 4 years in a row. About Youth is it for me. It's a ball of love. The cutest lil nerd muso has been crushing on the lovely and lonely popular boy for years after a moment of kindness, and when he gets to repay the favour they fall into each other's orbit. We're talking slice of life in the best kind. Everyone say thankyou Taiwan.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2023
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
It's always about grief with these gays. Okay that's rude of me, I loved this movie. It's sad, let's all self-medicate through (internatlised) homophobia! Yay! No one mention the ghost.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Romance, Drama
I feel very comfortable calling movies like this BL, which is not a detractor, I just get pissed about the way that ppl denigrate east asian BL. I love the book, and the movie is a good lil gay romance.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Drama
Found family is also the people you meet for the first time, because they are the ones who actually understand. Screw those ciswhite friends, they were jerks.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2021
Genres: Romance, Comedy
Bad Buddy is the show that got me into BLs. Romeo and Juliet but make it set in a Thai university, and I am forever on that rooftop. It starts off so silly, and thoroughly situated in Thai Drama Land (aka, get ready for many sound effects and one(1) singular lip bruise), but by the end you are devastated, and know just how hard these boys have fought for the right to love each other, and themselves.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2024
Genres: Romance, Comedy
Short and sweet. Love the daydreaming.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2022
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Therapy speak is the real killer of this movie, and it's got all my favourite things; Lee Pace, stupid misunderstandings, blood... this is a sleepover movie!
My rating: ★★★⯪
Year: 2019
Genres: Comedy
The barbie drug hallucination scene is perhaps the funniest scene in this movie. I love a pair of chaotic besties, and although I do feel seen by the booksmart nerds who never did anything in highschool, the humour of this movie doesn't pull me in. I do think teen girls deserve this kind of movie though. Spiritual successor to Bottoms methinks.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2023
Genres: Comedy
I do find calling Ayo Edebiri ugly incredibly offensive, but it's okay because this movie is hilarious. Get me in the fight club!! Also, Chekov's explosives of all time.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 1996
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Crime
My older sister made me watch this movie with her while she quoted along the whole time and thirsted over Gina Gershon. She's not wrong. This is a sultry and thirsty movie and the Wachowski sisters can do no wrong.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 1999
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance
When the conversion camp is Camp you are in for a ride! This campy comedy from the year I was born is an absolute gem, and I adore every second of it, from the insinuation that only lesbians eat tofu, to the over the top inuendos, to the longing glances in a bar (a queer classic). It's funny but not mean. Go. Watch. Now.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2025
Genres: Drama, Romance
This is a festival darling, and I did think it was very good. This is also the type of movie that westerners would call supernatural, but is just accepting that spirituality exists in the world. That's my favourite form of exploration of religion, grief, family, and love.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2023
Genres: Drama
I long for the wider world that this short lives in. Two Iranian school girls pull off a heist to delete incriminating footage - the stakes are high, I was on the edge of my seat, and I need to know what happens next.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Romance, Comedy
The cutest lil orgy meet cute. The scene with the glasses almost made me piss myself.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2007
Genres: Romance, Drama, Comedy
I think some people would quibble with this being a queer media rec, since it's ostensibly a het couple, however I disagree. The non gender conforming protag disguises herself as a guy for a job, and her boss falls in love with her as a guy, realising his own bisexuality. The amount of gender feels in this show are insane, and realisation that you have feeling for another dude is deep and welling, and not taken lightly. This show is a bit silly sometimes, but the beach sunrise scene plays regularly through my mind, and while I may hate the glowupTM at the very end, I still find this show on my rewatch cycle. Even just for the iconic T-shirt (you will know it when you see it).
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2026
Genres: Romance, Drama
It's always about the rooftops with Japan. They are this liminal space, where how the rest of the world sees you can't reach, where you can be yourself, and vulnerable. This show is no different. I'm here for the sharing of pain, music, the hidden fears, mismatch of lives, and of seeking to know and care for someone anyway.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Romance, Comedy
The sapphics deserve cheesy teenage romcoms too! Do people say both twins being gay is unrealistic? I would like them to say hello to my siblings (4/8 gays).
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Comedy, Life, Family
Another one brought to me by the lovely Tumblr subber, Don't Care for an Old Man's Underwear is a show that gives you a prejudiced middle-aged man who nobody really likes, even his family whom he adores, and says - you can grow at any age. For Okita, the impetus is running into the gay son of a family friend, who offers to help him be a better person. This is a lovely and silly show about their friendship that truly believes the best in people, and says that sometimes you just need to have a reason to update yourself.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2026
Genres: Romance, Comedy
Duang! This autistic4autistic show had me flapping my hands every week, and for good reason. For all this could be set up as a pushy stalker trying to get with the guy he just met, this is really a show about letting someone in past your walls, of wanting to love someone but only as far as they will let you, of kind characters who support each other, and finding someone that truly does know and understand you, who is willing to wait for you. This show doesn't punish you with convoluted miscommunication, or unearned trust. It works for every step, and does it well. Duang!
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Drama
Sometimes the beach at dusk is the only place you can actually be alone together. On the other hand - SAND.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2020
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Supernatural
Australian Queer History for the win! Hilarious fail lesbian being haunted by her dead lesbian aunt, who is trying very hard to help her get a girlfriend. Another film recommended by my older sister, and I was not disappointed
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Mystery, Romance, Supernatural
After I finished this, I immediately sent it to my best friend while sobbing. THIS WILL MAKE YOU CRY. THAT'S OKAY. Imagine your boyfriend dies one morning, but his corpse gets up and follows you to school. Everyone can see him, until they don't. And you are left to deal with the carrying the grief of your lost love. Don't expect a happy ending from this one folks, but do expect to be moved and decide to keep stepping closer to the end.
My rating: ★★★⯪
Year: 2023
Genres: Drama
I do feel very seen by a gay trans fanfic writer.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2021
Genres: Horror, Mystery
The final girls are gay and that's what matters. Also it does matter that the protag is gay, because this is a series of movies about a woman who was murdered and is haunting this town, and I always think that witches who were murdered are lesbians.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2021
Genres: Romance, Drama
Second chances are something different for us gays, especially when what forced you away from each other in the first place was not a lack of love, but the circumstances. This is no different, and Yi Ming and Ting Ting keep getting chances. This show can feel melancholic at times, and exciting, and nerve wracking, as Yi Ming battles internalised homophobia, fear of her queerness, duty to her marriage and caring for her son, and the beauty and freedom of reigniting love. Watch both seasons.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Romance, Drama, Family
Sometimes, your son brings home a girlfriend who looks and smells exactly like the girl you were in love with at university. And it's because she's wearing her mother's perfume. This isn't the story of a woman who has been pining for 16 years for the one who got away, but it is the story of what happens when you cross paths again, making space for rekindled friendships and changing familial relationships, and maybe the closure you didn't realise you needed.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2022
Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy
The first true Thai GL, Gap is what proved that there is actually money in girls kissing. The kissing in this one starts with lip biting, which is always fun. Should you ever meet your idols? What about work for them? Try Mon's tried and true method to getting that sunset beach wedding, the journey of which has everyone yelling "please for the love of God, cut those talons!"
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2026
Genres: Romance, Drama
P'Jojo and messy toxic lesbians, thank you very much. I do wish that the girls could kiss outside of their CPs, but we live in a post Only Friends world, so we can only be messy within the pairs. Sigh. That does detract somewhat, but I still dig it. I personally would do anything to get Namtam back in my life, so I can't blame anyone.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2019
Genres: Drama, Romance
Music my beloved. I always wished that Kids on the Slope was gay, so here is my musical anime gays.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2023
Genres: Historical, Romance, Fantasy, Drama
Another one in my constant rewatch cycle, IFYLITA is just beautiful. I will never fault an architect protag, or dreamy cinematography that will have you aching whenever someone is trapped behind a curtain, plumerias you can almost smell, and the melancholy of an eventual separation you know is coming, but you are kidding yourself won't happen anyway. An isekai historical drama, with hidden gay bars, sensitive characters, a shoutout to an actual historical lesbian couple... my only fault is that the second season has been unconfirmed for 3 years.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2024
Genres: Drama, Horror
This one is on everyone's list for egg-cracking. I love buffy, so the homages in this movie were right up my alley, and there truly is always time. I think they're lesbians.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Supernatural, Romance, Mystery, Horror
Lets get spooky! Khemjira is cursed to die before the age of 21, but his shaman apprentice best friend won't let that happen, so they go and annoy the hell out of the hot shaman to try to reverse his karma. Ghosts, past lives, shaman's who wear sunnies to protect everyone from his good looks - this one will make you scared and horny. (or maybe that was just me.)
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2026
Genres: Horror, Romance
I watched this movie alone in the theatre which could have been a lot scarier if I wasn't absolutely thrilled the whole time. As an aussie queer christian this movie was made for me. There's nothing quite like seeing the footy singlet and knowing the type of homophobic masculity that soaks the background, the small town religious community, the fear that pervades every moment when these boys are not alone together - I will love you despite the fear, they can not make me afraid of you, or us.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Romance, Family
A little dialouge-less film about a mother and daughter coming to terms with the other's relationship.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Romance, Drama
I watched this show as part of a watch party, where we also read along with the book each week. It was really fun - and a little shelter from the storm that was the national reception of this show. When you live in the QL bubble, sometimes you forget that the wider population (especially in conservative countries like Korea), uh... hate us? That being so, LitBC is a journey through the young adulthood of our protag Ko Yeong, his relationships, dramas, and societal pressures, and is semi-autobiographical. He's messy, and struggling, and charming, and makes mistakes, and you root for him to find peace. In the end, there will always be frozen blueberries in the freezer.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2021
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
This is a show that requires you to A. be familiar with the BL industry of the early 2020's, and B. be inoculated to the most obtrusive sound effects to ever grace a screen. That being so, I adore it. When a show gets meta, that is where I am at. Poking fun at the BL genre, while still being firmly seated within in? Have the literal author of the Y-novel cameo at the end? A younger seme who is chasing after the man he's been crushing on for years? Authors, actors, being forced to write steamier NC scenes in order to get a novel published, it's all here.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Comedy, Romance
One of my favourite queer ensemble shows, this lovely little show features a city gay being sent to live with his mother and grandmother in a highly traditional town, and the journey to starting a LGBTQIA+ group on campus. We hit almost every letter of the acronym, in a way that does not feel preachy but loving, with that fiery bent of righteous anger. This show has grace for its conservative characters, beautiful colours, and the best third-wall breaking I have experienced.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2015
Genres: Drama
I love the agency this movie allows its disabled protagonist. Let's dwell on whether the exploration of disability and comphet is enough of an excuse for cheating bisexual trope...
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2023
Genres: Romance, Life
Moonlight Chicken, home to the infamous quote "You can't be poor and gay", said by poor, gay, uncle to his poor, gay, nephew. Uncle in question is a Chicken Rice diner owner, looking after his nephew and anyone else who apparently needs it. It is a story of someone weaseling their way into your life, of building community and family, of youths learning each other's languages, and how the lack of same-sex marriage can have your life upturned when your lover dies. This is always a run, don't walk, recc from me.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Food, Life, Romance
This one is for those that love good food and an age-gap. Yeah that's it. Go watch.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2025
Genres: Comedy, Supernatural
This is one installment of a wider anthology series, but is stand alone. Kathoey comedy - a genre of Thai cinema that I haven't watched enough of, with four girls diva-ing it out. I need an entire season of these messes, and not just because I need to see Fluke boxing again. What happens if you push a girl down, feat possession by a goddess. It's chaotic in the funnest way.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2022
Genres: Romance, Comedy
My School President, aka the first GemFourth outing, is a masterclass of youthful romance, with scrabble pieces that they keep trying to call crosswords. A boy becomes the school president so that he can support the music club (and the lead singer) behind the scenes, while harbouring the biggest crush known to mankind. It's funny, sweet, and manages to have you examining mourning, friendships, and how far you will go to be allowed to date.
My rating: ★★★
Year: 2015
Genres: Drama, Romance
2015 does indeed feel like over a decade ago now. An afternoon/evening with some black Muslim boys in Brooklyn; sometimes being closeted and trying to earn money for college ends up with you being tailed by the FBI. The intersections of race, religion, and sexuality play out slowly over this movie as these devout muslim boys go about their lives. I enjoyed hanging out for these 80 something minutes, but feel like it either pulled its punches or missed a sharper ending.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Romance, Action
Did someone say Bodyguard romance with a side of familial pressure? Okay okay, this was my first PondPhuwin outing, and it certainly was a fun lil action romp.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2021
Genres: Fantasy, Action, Family, Animation
Who doesn't love two dads and their ancient magical shark/otter/teenager? This is such a fun little animation. I watched it the day that it dropped on Netflix because of course I did. I do wish I was a magical shapeshifter. Not a girl.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Action, Thriller, Politics, Romance, Mystery
Gays. Gangs. Anarchy. Artists. Magical Twin Nonsense. It's all happening in Not Me. Please please please go watch a lil political student who just arrived back in Thailand after 10 years in Russia end up impersonating his brother in an anarchist gang to try and figure out who put him in a coma, fall in love (with some literal trust falls), and end up trying to start a revolution, and as a bonus get fucked hard enough your brother wakes up from a coma like "that bastard Sean is screwing my little brother, isn't he" and IMMEDIATELY chooses violence. Plus, some of the coolest political graffiti, and the most beautiful First Kanaphan that you will ever see.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Romance, Drama
This show appreciates a three-piece suit. And sweet treats. I adore it. Nozue is an almost 40yo office worker who is just sleepwalking through life, until his 29yo subordinate challenges him to a de-aging process, mainly by going out and eating desserts together. A masterful seduction by Togawa, who wants that old man. Go off king.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2025
Genres: Drama
Everyone needs to crash out over an late teens too close female friendship. The extent of this crashout is intense, but I think there are multiple factors at play (and supposedly auto-biographical? I hope there was an intimacy coordinator on set). Incredibly pretty movie.
My rating: ★★★⯪
Year: 2023
Genres: Romance, Drama
In the ThaiBL land, you have set CPs aka couple pairings. GMMTV, the company behind this show (and many many others) is well known for keeping a tight grip on these pairings. Luckily for us, in 2023 there was still a little fluidity allowed, which is how we got Only Friends! The second season does not hold up to its somewhat (for the ThaiBL land) controversial predecessor because of the backlash from toxic fans. Boooo. Toxic gays are toxic as they battle jealousy, addiction, and running a hotel. Will they graduate? Will they betray their friends? Did they throw it all away for some dick? Maybe! But that's how you know you're having fun!
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Animation, Sci-Fi, Comedy
I was cackling the entire time through this. A wild little space romp of a bunch of queers in space who talk like they are right out of a gay youtube series. If you can find it please do yourself the favour and watch it.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2024
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Another movie that highlights just how vulnerable you can be without legal rights, this time with the ever lovely Jeff Satur playing Thongkam, who loses his house and durian orchard to his late husband's family. How far will they all go to lay claim to the property? Unbeknownst to me, this was my first exposure to Keng Harit, whom I absolutely adore in Khemjira. I know some people found this one overdramatic and derivative, but I enjoyed it for all the shots of the durian orchard, and even the climactic ending. Give me more monk Jeff, actually.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2011
Genres: Drama
This is one of those older moody lesbian flicks, intersections of gender, class, race, religion, and who can pass.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2025
Genres: Drama
"A subtle and poignant exploration of Pasifika masculinity and its queer-tinged boundaries."
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Romance, Drama, Mystery
I personally wouldn't ask my identical twin to break up with my hot blind lawyer girlfriend the day I'm getting married to some sketchy pilot man, but that's just me. I also wouldn't pretend to be my comatose twin to start dating her hot blind lawyer ex girlfriend, but that's more understandable.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2024
Genres: Crime, Thriller
Is it copoganda if it's not set in the US? This movie did introduce me to the existance of Madhesi people, and their struggle in Nepal, and raises the question of whether minorities are stronger together, and what duty we have to supporting eachother.
My rating: ★★★⯪
Year: 2019
Genres: Drama, Romance
This one is one of the darlings I know I know, look I enjoyed it! Period lesbians, oh the drama. The veils scene was indeed peak cinema.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Documentary
Go and listen to Shh... Diam! now. Okay now that you're back, this is an exceptional doco that follows some of the band members of a Malaysian queer punk band, exploring the fact that when you put yourself and your art out there you become explicitly political, if you're identity is politicised and criminalised. It is fun, and educational, and full of music, and the struggle, and queer joy.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2018
Genres: Romance, Drama
COLOUR. Black lesbians look beautiful in neon. This film was hard to make for reasons of being gay is illegal in Kenya, but with that backdrop, this was such a sweet film.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2023
Genres: Romance, Comedy
I of course read the book many years ago, and I did enjoy the movie. DOWN WITH THE MONARCHY.
My rating: ★★★⯪
Year: 2024
Genres: Horror, Drama
I do think that drugs as the supernatural is a bit of a cop out, but I might let this one pass, because I did have to look up what everyone was huffing. I love a reclamation of maligned biblical women. The typography is divine.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Romance, Drama, Thriller
Taiwan loves an organised crime subplot, and I can't blame them. That being so, it's always amusing how they fit that into what could be an incongruous love story. See your love features one of my favourite deaf love interests, a rich boy protag who has a heart of gold, and whatever the daddydom business partner?bodyguard? is getting up to on the side. It's so good guys.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2015
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Sense8 is a show that when I started as a deeply closeted 16yo I couldn't finish the first episode. When I came back to it years later I was sad for my younger self to not get to experience this show that screams the whole time "we belong to exist, and we are beautiful". If I had money I would throw it all at the Wachowski sisters to make this show forever.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Romance, Life
As we all know, a woman who loves to cook is perfect as a wife and mother! Except some of us chafe up against those roles, especially when we don't want to be in any relationship with a man. She loves to cook and she loves to eat is 2 seasons of two women becoming closer over food, and deciding that theirs is a life they can share together. It's coming of age in adulthood, realising who you are and that you can be valued aside from the expectations of your gender, with plenty of thriving adult women surrounding you. I love this show.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2022
Genres: Romance, Comedy
Lesbians and bars, and similar struggles across generations. This is another short but sweet one from Korea. I love the chaos gremlin of a main character, and her relationship with her elder lesbian aunt.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2020
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Rachel Sennott is always at the scene of the dramatically comedian lesbian crime. I am not Jewish, but I have been to many a family gathering where you are hiding the fact that you are gay, although I have not run into a sugar daddy there. I would say this is a thriller because the amount of time I also spent on the edge of my seat full of anxiety rivals a Jordan Peele movie.
My rating: ★★★
Year: 1983
Genres: Horror
This is a trans narrative to me and you can't take it from me.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Romance, Drama, Comedy
It's all about the rooftop. This one has some giggly girls sharing lipstick and talking about the daddy bear gym teacher. Bully romance is second to meeting someone who gets it, that you can be yourself with for some snatched moments, before you need to go back to boymode. This is a period piece, although rural 90's Japan doesn't look a lot different from today, and accordingly, this isn't a happily ever after. When the screen fades to black, you hope that some of the decisions or sacrifices made are overturned as the characters age, but maybe not. In any case, the moment was there. TW for some intense bullying.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2024
Genres: Drama
I saw this movie at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, mainly because I wanted to see how it fits in with the conversation between BL and Queer media as a whole - and I was riveted. Also I walked in late and was immediately met by my best friend Tommy Alejandrino. Always so happy to see Tommy on my screen! This is the expansion of director Petersen Vargas' short film 'How to Die Young in Manila', and follows a group of gay sex workers as they bring the body of their friend back to his hometown, over one night. It is a story of agency, of the price of being young and gay in the Philippines, of whether your body belongs to yourself, of found family and brotherhood.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Drama
I love exploring diaspora, and this short film did not dissapoint. Family is hard, especially when you're gay.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2026
Genres: Horror, Comedy
This is definetly a film for horror movie letterboxd reviewers, the kind of tongue in cheek that has producers talk over the wunderkind director and the 'queer assistant' silent the whole zoom call, questioning what the point of their presence is - and it's also about getting over mental blocks around sex by sexualising yourself through the eyes of a disenfranchised murderer - something I'm sure many queers can relate with. I think I was the only one laughing in the pre-release screening I went to on a Monday evening, but that's okay because this was a movie for me.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2026
Genres: Drama, Romance, Life
How important is societal acceptance to you? Some of us gays can't hide and don't want to hide; the central conflict in this drama that sneaks up on you.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Horror
A shortfilm that packs a punch. Never allow yourself to be seen as anything other than a woman by your drongo boyfriend.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Romance, Drama, Politics, Mystery
The first Thai trans MP directed this show. The school as a microcosm of authoritarian rule, of citizen dissent, of internalised homophobia and generational trauma; the length that people go to not lose control, to enforce the rules even at your own detriment, and what it takes to pull someone out. This show has lived in my heart since it aired, got me interested and invested in Thai politics, in the graffiti scene (check out my fanfics for that), and is the first show I point to when people call the genre of BL vapid and fetishizing. Here's one for my closeted gays and the pain we can inflict.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2023
Genres: Romance, Drama
"Why did you kiss me?" "To cure your trauma / Why did you kiss me?" "To give you trauma." I love this show so much. I have rewatched it countless times. Surfing is for the gays, and so is having trauma. When a show starts in a psychologist appointment, you know what you're in for. A small town gay who can't swim joins a surfing club because the older guy he vibed with while waiting tables at work is in it, and it goes better and worse than you'd think. Dramatic sensibilities and stunning cinematography will have you frothing, and the emotional core is so resonant. And my main girl Ae Ri is the fag hag of the decade, a dying breed.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2020
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Drama
The biggest tragedy of my life is that I am yet to watch Saving Face. But I have watched this gem. I got angry at some reviews today because they wanted more gay or w/e, and I'm like, okay you didn't appreciate the movie for what it was BUT I DID. Getting mad at the hiding? Have you been a closeted teen in a conservative town? The most realistic thing about this film was the longing to leave, and maybe you can finish your coming of age somewhere else. These are the snatches that some of us get when we're young. Also golden retriever bestie my beloved. I would eat that food.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2016
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama
I was an extremely late late-comer to this movie, and expected something a bit more melodramtic (see: Portrait), and then was thrown for a loop when the second act started. Somehow I had missed... everything about this movie. If you haven't watched it, you have to. Lesbians sit within a world that sexualises them, and are excluded from their own sexulaity. Criticisms on taste are w/e, but to call this move fetishistic undermines the central narrative. More period lesbians doing crime, thank you very much.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2000
Genres: Comedy
A true story about a Kathoey (gay/trans/GNC) volleyball team taking on the national title, and such a fun romp. It is a bit of a by/for straight people film (see the queer media analysis lens of by/for/about), but nonetheless has colour and style, especially for the time.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2007
Genres: Romance, Drama
This is the OG gay thai movie. This is the bedrock of Thai BL, and everything that has been built in the subsequent 2 decades. Love of Siam is the bittersweet to all of the insufferably sweet, and is well worth the watch if you want to learn gay cinema history, but also get in your feels about broken families, childhood and growing up, and realising your sexuality in a disapproving culture and time.
My rating: ★★★⯪
Year: 2025
Genres: Drama
I wonder if people think trans girls only exist during summer? Or maybe it's the liminal space that allows them to just be themselves? Not forced in misgendering uniforms and such. Anyway, I do think that fat girls and trans girls are the most disrespected girls. They deserve all the respect and love. This movie is about death?
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 1975
Genres: Horror, Comedy, Sci-Fi
I watched this movie for the first time in the movie room at my uni hall of residence with a bunch of my friends - and it was only the other queer in the room and I who enjoyed it. The general buzz after the movie was a 'wasn't that... problematic?'. Is the character of Dr. Frank-N-Furter transphobic? Is it rapey? Oh Lord oh Lord, save me from the pearl clutching. Palatable to today's audience it may not always be, this is a movie about celebrating the queerness and agency, and one of the greats of queer cinema.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Romance, Horror
The buffy vampface appearance at the end made this. I disliked the love interest, she is the exact type of Sydneysider that rubs me the wrong way, and I never knew if part of the horror was that relationship, but I have a feeling it was not. That being so, I love a good spooky sapphic story. Very avant garde trans cinematography. I was sitting next to the director while watching this one, lol.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Supernatural, Thriller
The exploration of your sexuality through the repulsive, as the acceptable and palatable... When you feel like a monster, you find kindred with the monsters.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2025
Genres: Romance, Drama
Traumatised black cat meets ray of sunshine veterinarian student. Kudos for the glorious staff at the bay bar.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Mystery, Comedy, Romance, Queer
A 17yo breaks a promise to his mother to stay a virgin until the right time, and after one chaotic house party, ends up in his 27yo body, a gynecologist and sex-expert. Can he solve the mystery of how everything went wrong? An ensemble piece that hits many of the alphabet soup, with a funny and #ally protag, this show is a blast from start to finish, insanely sex positive, with some PSA's in there - get a pap smear! An asexual jock gay? An enbie actor? Petplay kinks? The most beautiful feminist badass you've ever seen waving around a dildo? It's all here! Go and have some fun!
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 1996
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
This movie is so meta. Cheryl Dunye plays herself as she journeys through making a documentary of a 1930s black actress, while starting a relationship with a White Ally. I don't know if I'm convinced by the love story, but I do love the craft.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2014
Genres: Drama, Romance
I watched the original short many many years ago, and was delighted to discover there was a whole movie (maybe early uni?) some time later. As it goes, this is a sweet and careful portrayal of young love, and agency (although blind people don't actually touch ppls faces - maybe one day we'll be past that trope!).
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
This is a gay remake, and I know that some prefer the OG, but as someone who hasn't watched the og, I enjoyed this. I love love Lily Gladstone, and I saw Han Gi-chan many years ago in Where Your Eyes Linger (go watch that too) and really enjoyed his performance here, as an expat commitment-phobe artist. I love that this movie feels like a queer found family, and with the craziness and heartbreak that comes with that family. They should have eaten more food though.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2022
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Troy Sivan my beloved. That twink can ride a bike. HIV is not spoken of enough with the levity that comes from a constant cloud over the head of the gay community, and I do like confronting the wider idea that HIV positive people shouldn't be allowed to be in relationships.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2026
Genres: Romance, Drama
I knew I was gonna be in my feels about this show the moment the pilot trailer dropped at GMMTV25, and I was not wrong. Every week I was wrecked for a different reason, primarily as a queer Christian who is still in the church. This one is for all those who are not God's favourite sons.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 1995
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Why are you crying little latin boy? Wesley Snipes as a drag queen is glorious, and Patrick Swayze portrays the most sympathetic trans woman character I have seen in a block buster. This is the type of movie that would be unthinkable in this political climate, and I'm so glad it exists. It sits alongside my national pride of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert as a drag queen road trip. These queens are everything, and the joke about cops checking flower shops and boutiques for the gays is *chef's kiss*.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Drama
Yes queens!!!! You put on that show. I am always thankful for the gay kids that find eachother when they're young.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2021
Genres: Comedy
Punk Band Punk Band Punk Band. These glorious badarses are what I aspire to be. Women supporting women. A second "I have never felt so seen" is the Muslim lesbian who holds both her faith and her sexuality at the same time, and also doesn't want to come out to the wider faith community. It is hard sometimes being a religious queer, especially when you know your faith community won't accept you. But at least she's got music and her band!
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2023
Genres: Romance, Life
A group of women's lives intersect in and out of a lesbian bar in this little anthology. Short, but satisfying.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2019
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Life, Food
I learnt one of my favourite dishes from this show (Katsudon, my beloved). IDK what I have to say about this show other than I adore it and everyone should watch both seasons. Are you half-assing the gay lifestyle? Okay but seriously, working professionals are always in a tricky place re. coming out, and that journey should not be trivialised. Here we have a closeted lawyer and his out partner, who is a hairdresser, traverse those lines as it affects the internal dynamics of their relationship, while making lots of delicious food.
My rating: ★★★★⯪
Year: 2023
Genres: Romance, Drama
Adding this one as the movie rather than series, because Korea's early BLs are short enough they cut them as films for a wider release. Catch the director's cut for this one. Whipping boys never fail.
My rating: ★★★★★
Year: 2025
Genres: Mystery, Drama, Procedural
I had access to this through the lovely subs of a Tumblr mutual, and I am so glad that they brought it to the table. This is a show about a gay divorce lawyer who works with his private investigator partner to get people justice in a country with no no-fault divorce. It is no coincidence that Japan also does not have same-sex marriage. This show asks the question of how far you should go to get justice for your suffering clients, who has the right to make such a commitment, and does the legal system protect the vulnerable? Well worth the watch if you can find good subs.
My rating: ★★★★
Year: 2016
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Drama
I watched this may years ago, when it first aired, which is insane for me because I think I had only watched one other anime? I distinctly remember telling my cousin about it and him going "isn't that gay?" and I was like "noooo no it's not!" I was a weeny. Iconic piece of queer cinema. And like everyone else on BBC's Blue Planet, I did get interested in figure skating because of it.