The LGBTQ+ community’s ties to Hollywood and cinema have been deeply intertwined from the early days of the medium. And yet, the fight for authentic representation of queer people in film continues to be a rarity (especially when it comes to high-profile movies). There’s been a few notable queer movies on the 2025 movie schedule so far we’re still talking about, from Kiss Of The Spiderwoman , to Blue Moon and The Wedding Banquet, but there are many more LGBTQ+ titles to look forward to. We’ve rounded them up, below.
Coming Soon
Wake Up Dead Man - November 26, 2025
Since the 2022 sequel to Knives Out, Glass Onion, confirms that Daniel Craig’s Beniot Blanc is a queer man along with being an incredible detective, the next movie in its series, Wake Up Dead Man, is an LGBTQ+ murder mystery.! While we’re not sure how much the upcoming movie will discuss his sexuality, there’s something really marvelous about having a gay man in the center of a big and beloved movie franchise without the center of his identity being about that. The film was recently screened, and people are raving about the “darker” movie.
Cactus Pears - November 28, 2025
The LGBTQ+ community of India is getting even more representation after Karan Soni’s and Jonathan Groff’s affecting movie, A Nice Indian Boy. The romantic drama is helmed by first-time filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, and is about a man named Anaud who returns to his hometown after a death in his family and sparks fly when he reconnects with a childhood friend, Balya. It already premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category.
The Chronology Of Water - December 5, 2025
Last summer, Kristen Stewart finally helmed her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, which is an adaptation of queer author Lida Yuknavitch’s memoir of the same name. Stewart has been talking about making the movie since 2021, but it took her some years to get the financing (and likely, time) to finally make the passion project. It premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in May and secured distribution rights, but we’ve yet to get an official release date.
100 Nights Of Hero - December 5, 2025
This December, there’s a star-studded LGBTQ+ retelling of the famed One Thousand And One Nights from Middle Eastern folklore. It centers on a noblewoman, Maika Monroe’s Cherry, who’s left alone for a hundred days by her husband (Amir El-Masry) to test her fidelity. While he’s away, Cherry gets entangled in a love triangle with her loyal maid (Emma Corrin) and her husband’s friend (Nicholas Galizine). So far, Mashable has called it a “magnificent queer feminist fairy tale,” and the movie has a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Scream 7 - February 27, 2026
While the Scream movies haven’t always explicitly been LGBTQ+ movies, they’ve pretty much always had a following from the community due to its queer subtext. The original writer of the movie Kevin Williamson is gay himself. While he’s said before was “very hesitant” to present this side of himself in the 1990s, audiences noticed a queer subtext regarding the original Ghostface killers, Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich’s Stu and Billy.
More explicit queer representation has been part of the new Scream movies with the addition of Jasmin Savoy-Brown’s Mindy Meeks-Martin being a LGBTQ+ character, who we’re excited to see return in the seventh movie alongside a mix of new and legacy actors including Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Scott Foley, Joel McHale, Mason Gooding, Anna Camp, Celeste O’Connor and Mckenna Grace. You can check out the first trailer now.
Completed Movies With TBD Release Dates
Pillion
There’s a romantic comedy on the way starring Alexander Skarsgard as a biker who starts a BDSM relationship with a timid gay man played by Harry Potter’s Harry Melling. The movie is the directorial debut of Harry Lighton (he also wrote the script), and is openly gay himself. Pillion had its premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival to high praise for its highlight performances and the unexpected sweetness of the material.
Jimpa
Another Sundance LGBTQ+ movie without a release date yet is Jimpa, starring Olivia Colman as the mother of nonbinary teen Frances, who travel to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather Jim (known as Jimpa and played by John Lithgow). When Frances asks her mom if she can live with Jimpa for a year, Colman’s character is faced with reexamining her relationship with her child.
Mother Mary
Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel are set to play lovers in A24’s Mother Mary, from The Green Knight filmmaker David Lowery. Hathaway will play a pop star, and Coel will play her iconic fashion designer. The movie will feature original tunes by Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff. We can’t wait to see these two leads mothering in what’s been called an “epic melodrama." You can check out the first dazzling look at the movie on Vanity Fair’s Instagram.
In Production
Heartstopper: Forever
After Heartstopper has had us in our feelings for three seasons on Netflix, it has been announced that Nick and Charlie’s romance will get a sendoff via a movie called Heartstopper: The Final Chapter. It’ll be about the couple’s struggles as they deal with the realities of being long-distance when they go to different universities. Joe Locke and Kit Connor will not only star, they are also executive producing. Filming concluded in July 2025, as author Alice Oseman shared on Instagram, and it’s expected to come out in 2026.
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
After director Jane Scheonbrun made one of the best LGBTQ+ movies of last year, that even got a shoutout from Martin Scorsese, I Saw The TV Glow, the trans filmmaker has another movie on the way, per Deadline. It’s called Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma, and it’s about a famed slasher franchise called Camp Miasma that’s getting rebooted again, but the director starts to become obsessed with the reclusive actress who originally played the franchise’s “final girl,” the project takes a turn. The movie is set to star Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, and was filmed this summer.
Forbidden Fruits
Based on a play called Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die by Lily Houghton, comes the upcoming movie Forbidden Fruits. Per Deadline, it’s about a woman aptly named Apple, who secretly runs a witchy cult in the basement of a mall. The sisterhood is challenged when a new recruit questions their dynamics. The movie is set to star a host of out queer actresses, too, like Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, along with Lola Tung and Emma Chamberlain.
In Development
A Long Winter
In addition to Kit Connor being in the upcoming Heartstopper movie, the actor is also attached to a movie called A Long Winter from queer director Andrew Haigh – who famously wrote and directed 2023’s All Of Us Strangers. In a report from Deadline in October 2025, the movie was announced along with word that D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Fred Hechinger will be his costars. Apparently, the movie’s events will revolve around the search for the missing alcoholic mother of Hechinger’s character that starts to involve the whole neighborhood.
De Noche
Openly gay filmmaker Todd Haynes is reportedly working on a gay romance called De Noche, with Pedro Pascal and Danny Ramirez as the leads after Joaquin Phoenix previously left the production, and the movie was expected to be dead, per Deadline. It’s about two male lovers who leave Los Angeles for Mexico in the 1930s.
Burning Rainbow Farm
Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall are expected to star as a real-life gay couple in rural Michigan who build a “pot-friendly utopia called Rainbow Farm”, per The Hollywood Reporter. However, when their young son is taken from them after local authorities catch wind of them, “one of the largest and most dramatic sieges involving police and the FBI” ensues. The events happened back in 2001 and the story was previously told through a book by Dean Kuipers.
Just By Looking At Him
The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons is attached to star in the book adaptation of the queer novel, Just By Looking At Him, by Ryan O’Connell, per Variety. The book follows Elliot, a gay television writer with cerebral palsy as he tries to “find love and connection in a world that wasn’t built for him”. Parsons will play Elliot’s boss, Ethan, and O’Connell is planning to direct.
The Light Fantastic
In October 2024, Variety reported that the true story of a 30-something gay firefighter who aspires to be a professional ballroom dancer is set to become a comedy movie starring Rupert Everett, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Jeremy Irvine. The movie is currently in pre-production, per Cornerstone Films, with choreography set to be provided by mother-son duo Shirley and Mark Ballas. The DWTS pro recently returned to the show to pair with Whitney Leavitt and is on the next season of Traitors, so perhaps that’s the hold up on more news since?
Red, White And Royal Blue Sequel
After Red, White And Royal Blue had us feeling all the feelings with an Amazon Prime subscription, it was announced in May 2024 that a sequel is on the way. From what we know about Red, White And Royal Blue 2, Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine will reprise their roles as Alex Claremont-Diaz and Prince Henry and the original novel’s author, Casey McQuiston, is co-writing the movie with Matthew López. We cannot wait to learn what’s to come next after the first movie was one of our favorite movies that could be added to the list of best rom-coms in recent years.
The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo
One of the best mainstream LGBTQ+ novels in recent years that’s among upcoming book adaptations is a movie version of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. The Taylor Jenkins Reed book is about an iconic movie star from Old Hollywood who recounts the truth of her love life across her career to a reporter. The screenplay is being written by Little Fires Everywhere’s Liz Tigelaar and will be directed by Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland.
Will any of these be regarded as some of the best LGBTQ+ movies once they are released? We’ll keep you updated here and look forward to supporting these queer films
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