List of LGBT-related films of 2019

This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer-related films released in 2019. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.

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			[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]
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	[17]
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		[18]
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		[19]
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	[20]
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			[21]
Tremors (Temblores)	Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala France	Drama	Juan Pablo Olyslager, Diane Bathen, Mauricio Armas Zebadúa		[22]
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."	[23]
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]

References

1. Marc-André Lussier [fr], "FNC : La Presse a vu… L’acrobate". La Presse, October 17, 2019.
2. Julia Harumi Morita (25 October 2020). "Divertido e cheio de representatividade, Alice Júnior é o filme adolescente que você precisa assistir hoje". Rolling Stone (in Brazilian Portuguese).
3. "Films 2019". Teddy Awards, February 2019.
4. Inside Out Film and Video Festival program, 2019.
5. Carlos Aguilar, "Review: Artistically awkward, Brazilian gay teen romance ‘Cousins’ still charms". Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2019.
6. Peter Knegt, "Like Star Wars, but with giant penises: This Canadian film is awakening an uncut force at Sundance". CBC Arts, January 24, 2019.
7. "Hot Docs review: Drag Kids". Now, April 23, 2019.
8. Glenn Kenny, "‘End of the Century’ Review: A Vacation Veers Into Existential States". The New York Times, August 15, 2019.
9. "Eduardo Roy's Fuccbois, other LGBT films to screen at CCP for Pride month". Rappler. 4 Jun 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
10. "'Jim French: The Art of Masculinity". letterboxd.com. 28 April 2021.
11. "Documentary Killing Patient Zero seeks to restore reputation of Quebec man unfairly targeted in AIDS epidemic". Toronto Star, April 25, 2019.
12. Angela Morrison, "VQFF Review: 'Lingua Franca' Captures the Understated Nuance of Real Life". Exclaim!, August 20, 2020.
13. Drew Burnett Gregory, "Newfest 2021: 'Love, Spells and All That' is a Lesbian Romance Both Magical and Real". Autostraddle, 21 October 2021.
14. Widianto, Stanley (February 20, 2019). "'Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku', poetic ode to the human body". Jakarta Post. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
15. "'Moffie': First Trailer for Venice Buzz Title About Homosexuality in Apartheid South Africa, 'Ida' Producer Among Team". Deadline Hollywood. 4 September 2019.
16. Beandrea July, "'The Obituary of Tunde Johnson': Film Review | TIFF 2019". The Hollywood Reporter, September 8, 2019.
17. "New Documentary Examines 'Xena: Warrior Princess' As Lesbian Icon For The Ages". Huffington Post, May 27, 2019.
18. Tara Brady, "Sequin in a Blue Room: LGBTQ drama casts an otherworldly spell". The Irish Times, April 9, 2021.
19. "« Les Crevettes pailletées » opte pour un éloge convenu de la différence". Le Monde, May 8, 2019.
20. Nathan Caddell, "DOXA 2019 review: Standing on the Line". The Georgia Straight, May 6, 2019.
21. Oliver Skinner, "What does it mean to be queer at the prom? This new film explores seven decades of answers". CBC Arts, May 3, 2019.
22. Devika Girish, "‘Temblores’ Review: Torn Between His Faith and His Sexuality". The New York Times, November 28, 2019.
23. Knotts, Joey. "German, Queer, and Animated: Beijing's Film Festivals This Month". The Beijinger. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.