My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)Ĭast: Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Derrick Brancheīefore there was Call Me By Your Name, Moonlight and Brokeback Mountain, there was My Beautiful Laundrette. It perfectly captures the feeling of first love. It follows Leonardo (Ghilherme Lobo), a blind teenager struggling with independence, as his life turns upside down with the arrival of new student Gabriel (Fabio Audi). The Way He Looks is an award-winning Brazilian coming-of-age teen rom-com that originally started life as a short film, and was later adapted for the big screen. Enjoy! The Way He Looks (2014)Ĭast: Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim, Lúcia Romano We’ve rounded up 13 of our favourites below. They may be hard to find, but there are some LGBTQ films out there with happy endings. But what if we want to see a message of hope instead? That’s great, because it’s important to see realistic representation. Being queer can be tough, and that’s often reflected on screen when our stories are told through the medium of film.
