Directed by Sophie Dupuis • Drama • With Théodore Pellerin, Félix Maritaud • 2024 • 101 minutes

Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is a rising star in Montreal’s drag scene performing lively disco pop numbers weekly at his local club. Friendly with his fellow drag queens and supported by his sister, who ...

Directed by Jerry Aronson • Documentary • With Joan Baez, William F. Buckley, William S. Burroughs • 2005 • 84 minutes

This documentary chronicles the life of American beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Born and raised in New Jersey, Ginsberg attends Columbia University alongside fellow beats Jack Keroua...

Directed by Caroline Berler • Documentary • 2019 • 61 minutes

Lesbians didn't always get to see themselves on screen. But between Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, they built visibility and transformed the social imagination about queerness. Filmmakers B...

Directed by Michael Seligman & Jennifer Tiexiera • Documentary • With Michael Alogna, Henry Arango • 2022 • 101 minutes

A demi-monde that would have been lost to time were it not for the chance find of a treasure trove of letters in a storage bin in LA. Written by drag queens all using aliases t...

Directed by Jennifer Abod • Documentary • With Angela Bowen • 2016 • 73 minutes

An inspiring film by award winning documentary filmmaker Jennifer Abod, PhD (THE EDGE OF EACH OTHER’S BATTLES: THE VISION OF AUDRE LORDE). THE PASSIONATE PURSUITS provides a window into the life of Angela Bowen who g...

Directed by Lizzie Borden • Drama • With Honey, Adele Bertaei, Jeanne Satterfield, Flo Kennedy, Ron Vawter, Eric Bogosian • 1983 • 80 minutes

The movie that rocked the foundations of the early indie film world, this provocative, thrilling classic is a fantasy of female rebellion set in America t...

Directed by Mark Rappaport • Documentary • With Eric Farr • 1992 • 63 minutes

Rock Hudson’s Home Movies is a provocatively entertaining and hugely influential film essay from Mark Rappaport (From the Journals of Jean Seberg). It uses a collage of film clips from throughout Hudson’s career, and a...

Directed by John Cameron Mitchell • Drama • With Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Justin Vivian Bond • 2006 • 101 minutes

NSFW. Contains nudity and graphic depictions of sex.

John Cameron Mitchell’s SHORTBUS explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic an...

Directed by Carlos Aparicio, Susana Aikin • Documentary • 1995 • 58 minutes

Carlos Aparicio and Susana Aikin’s The Transformation follows one person’s journey to reconcile their identity, religion, class, and sexual orientation following harrowing news. In the groundbreaking 1990 documentary The...

Directed by Carlos Aparicio, Susana Aikin • Documentary • 1990 • 47 minutes

The Salt Mines explores the lives of Sara, Gigi, and Giovanna, three Latinx transwomen who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through sex work. They made their temporary hom...

Directed by Chet Pancake • Documentary • 2019 • 115 minutes

Queer Genius explores the remarkable lives and work of five queer female artists: Barbara Hammer, Eileen Myles, Black Quantum Futurism, Moor Mother, and Dynasty Handbag / Jibz Cameron. Deep, affectionate and intimate portraits resonate ...

Directed by Sheona McDonald • Documentary • With Samantha Allen, Elle Chase, Candida Royalle • 2015 • 69 minutes

While we live in a highly sexualized society, the messaging around female sexuality is distorted and rife with shame. What women should look like, who women should want, what women sh...

Directed by Sam Feder • Documentary • 2014 • 72 minutes

Kate Bornstein Is a Queer & Pleasant Danger is a portrait of trans icon Kate Bornstein, the charming, ebullient self-described “transdyke” taking the viewer on a journey into the inner and outer life of the tattooed and pierced septuagenari...

Directed by Sam Feder, Julie Hollar • Documentary • 2006 • 72 minutes

Sam Feder’s first feature Boy I Am, co-directed with Julie Hollar, explores issues rarely touched upon in films portraying trans male subjects. Tackling the extreme feminist view of transitioning as an anti-feminist act that t...

Directed by Nicolas Maury • Drama • With Nicolas Maury, Nathalie Baye • 2020 • 112 minutes

Nicolas Maury (Netflix's "Call My Agent!", Knife+Heart) stars in this Cannes Official Competition coming-of-age dramedy as Jérémie, a hypersensitive struggling actor with an uncontrollable green-eyed monst...

Welcome to OVID’s “Author Selects” series, where we invite an author to select a film on OVID and explain why they think you should watch it.

In our fifth installment, we welcome Kyle Turner to discuss Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.'s Gay USA. Turner is a queer writer based in Brooklyn, NY. His writing...

Directed by Stewart Thorndike • Drama • With Gaby Hoffmann, Ingrid Jungermann • 2014 • 62 minutes

Leah's grief over her toddler's death turns into paranoia when she begins to suspect her neighbors are part of a satanic cult. 

Directed by Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli • Drama • With Edem Dela-Seshie, Thomas Love, Rachika Samarth • 2019 • 83 minutes

A visiting German artist, an American academic, a millennial polyamorous enclave in New York City; director-actor Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli’s So Pretty is an excursion ...

Directed by Theodore Collatos • Documentary • With Luana Muniz • 2021 • 73 minutes

Larger-than-life actress, cabaret performer, activist, and proud sex professional since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz - arguably one of Brazil's most famous transgender personalities - shaped a new reality in her...

Directed by Adrián Silvestre • Documentary • 2021 • 81 minutes

Six trans women travel to a small town in León where they will explore unusual landscapes, as well as the ins and outs of their own personalities. Looking for answers about what connects them as a group, they will learn to deal with...

Directed by Kata Oláh • Documentary • 2023 • 83 minutes

Gergő and Lénárd are a young gay male couple living in a remote Roma settlement in the poorest part of Hungary. They live in a community where being gay is considered an unforgivable sin, yet they dream of making a musical film about their ...

Directed by David Buckley • Drama • 1975 • 82 minutes

Newly restored in 4K, David Buckley's landmark excursion into bisexuality, 70s relationship politics, and the historical importance of gay bathhouse culture is celebrated in his 1975 film Saturday Night at the Baths. When struggling pianist M...

Directed by Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. • Documentary • 1977 • 72 minutes

Beautifully restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Frameline and Outfest, Gay USA is the first American feature-length documentary by and about LGBTQ+ people. Director Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. (best ...

Directed by Bertrand Mandico • Drama • With Elina Löwensohn, Paula Luna • 2021 • 129 minutes

In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called After Blue, a lonely teenager named Roxy (Paula Luna) unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous, and sensual assassin from her p...