These are the ten best queer films of 2024!
The ten best LGBTQ+ films of 2024Netflix; HBO Max; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer PicturesWhat a wonderful year for queer film!
At Out.com, we love queer films, and this year has been an embarrassment of riches for us! We've had queer films starring A-listers, indie breakthroughs, queer horror, musicals, thrillers, erotic dramas and comedies that all made our top ten list this year.
2024 will go down in history as one of the best years ever for queer film, with all the movies in this year's top five being instant classics that we here at Out.com believe will stand the test of time and be seen as some of the best queer movies of the century. Any other year, each movie in the top five would challenge for the top spot on a list like this.
Now, in descending order, counting down to our top movie, here are the 10 best queer movies of 2024.
10. Stress Positions
Theda Hammel's deeply Millennial comedy makes a bold statement getting right in your face at the start and never backing up. Starring comedian John Early as Terry Goon, this quarantine comedy follows a group of queer friends, lovers, and exes trying to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Read our Stress Positions review!
9. Queer
Releasing both Queer and Challengers in the same year? Luca Guadagnino, you madman! Queer stars the inimitable Daniel Craig as a boozy and horny washed up American expat living in Mexico City in 1950. When he meets a younger man (Drew Starkey), the two begin a passionate affair and discover new truths about each other.
Read our Queer review!
8. Mean Girls
A remake of Mean Girls based on the Broadway musical shouldn't have worked, but thanks to queer stars Auliʻi Cravalho as Janis, and Reneé Rapp, it did! By making Janis canonically queer and upping Regina George's unspoken queerness by a few notches, this new version of the story remains fresh and will win some new queer fans. Plus, the soundtrack is great!
Read our Mean Girls review and check out our interview with the cast!
7. Problemista
Julio Torres' feature film directorial debut is a masterful new take on the American Dream, making it relevant to queer immigrants in 2024. We already knew Torres was one of the most talented writers and comedians in Hollywood, now we know he's one of the most talented filmmakers as well.
Read our Problemista review!
6. The People's Joker
This comic book movie parody is better than anything Marvel or DC have put out in years, and is one of the best trans movies ever. Mixing together the origin stories of famous supervillain The Joker and trans filmmaker Vera Drew into one hilarious and depraved coming-of-age story, The People's Joker is a unique film experience that confronts audiences with a trans story they might not find comfortable.
Read our review of The People's Joker!
5. Will & Harper
The best documentary of the year is this touching tribute to friendship and America starring longtime close friends and comedy colleagues Will Ferrell and Harper Steele. Shortly after Harper came out to Will, Will suggested the two go on a cross country road trip together – something Harper had loved to do solo before transitioning – so they can get reacquainted with each other and so Harper can get reacquainted with the country. If you haven't seen it yet, see Will & Harper now.
Check out our review of Will & Harper, as well as an interview with the stars, and our Advocate cover story on the film.
4. Love Lies Bleeding
Thank god for toxic lesbian romance! Rose Glass's sweltering followup to Saint Maud is darker, sexier, more obsessive, more violent, and more brilliant. Starring Kristen Stewart as one of the grubbiest lesbians in any movie and introducing the immensely talented and incredibly buff Katy O'Brian, Love Lies Bleeding is one of the best lesbian movies in a long, long time.
Read our review, and check out this interview with the stars!
3. I Saw the TV Glow
No movie has ever explored the feelings of being trans better than I Saw the TV Glow. Trans writer/director Jane Schoenbrun's haunting exploration of nostalgia, memory, being closeted, and dissociation takes the form of a horror movie about two friends (Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine) who realize that their favorite childhood TV show holds some dark secrets about their reality.
Check out our review and read an interview with the filmmaker and cast!
2. Emilia Pérez
This utterly unique and brilliant film is unlike any we've seen before, but we hope it inspires filmmakers to take more chances on queer stories like filmmaker Jacques Audilard did in this sprawling musical crime comedy about a Mexican cartel leader who transitions. Stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and especially the luminous Karla Sofía Gascón (as Emilia) elevate the film to new levels and make Emilia Pérez a one-of-a-kind masterpiece about finding your true self, redemption, love, and jealousy.
Read our review and check out these interviews with the stars!
1. Challengers
Luca Guadagningo's masterpiece. It's a celebration of competition, men's bodies, athleticism, sex, and drama held down by three of the best performances of the year. Josh O'Connor, Mike Faist, and Zendaya make up one of the sexiest love triangles ever on film in this movie that asks if there's a difference between competition, sex, and brotherhood. Challengers is that bitch.
Check out our review of the film, as well as this interview with the stars!
