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What to Watch: Pride Month

Check out our selection of the best LGBTQIA+ focused UK film and TV to watch to celebrate this year's Pride month.

Pride

This charming, BAFTA-winning drama joyously explores the power of solidarity across lines of class, gender and sexuality.

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Mr Loverman

Based on the novel by UK author Bernadine Evaristo, this BAFTA-winning series is a gripping exploration of love and regret.

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Flee

Directed and co-written by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, this moving animated documentary is a memoir of one refugee’s treacherous journey.

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Joyland

This astonishing debut from Pakistani writer-director Saim Sadiq looks at the repressed desires of a family in Lahore.

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Dead End: Paranormal Park

This heartwarming, funny and sometimes spooky animated series warmly explores diverse representations of race, neurodiversity and the LGBTQIA+ community.

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My Beautiful Laundrette

Stephen Frears’ breakthrough film intelligently explores both political and racial tensions in 1980s South London.

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Hot Milk

Based on the novel by Deborah Levy, a resentful daughter starts to shed her inhibitions in a Spanish seaside town.

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A Very English Scandal

A retelling of the 60s-era scandal that rocked the British establishment; as farcical as it is fascinating.

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Carol

Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are outstanding in this exhilarating and powerful story of forbidden love.

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Heartstopper

Sex Education meets Dating Amber in this wholesome coming-of-age romance.

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Heartstopper (Season 2)

This infectiously charming and twice BAFTA-nominated teen series returns with a second eight-episode season of sweet and refreshing LGBTQ+ representation.

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Heartstopper (Season 3)

The BAFTA-nominated TV adaptation of Alice Oseman’s iconic graphic novels returns for a sensitive third season.

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Femme

This exceptional feature debut presents outstanding and thrilling performances from British actors George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett.

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Summerland

Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw star in a sun-kissed WWII drama about friendship and forbidden love.

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Rialto

A closeted middle-aged man has his first romantic encounter with a younger man in this raw and impressive drama.

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Doctor Who (Season 14)

Scottish Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa plays Doctor Who in the show’s thrilling fourteenth season.

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Love Lies Bleeding

Lust blends with violence in this brilliantly acted drama starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian.

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Unicorns

Explore themes of desire, family responsibility and being truly seen in this moving and touching tale of an unlikely romance.

Vita & Virginia

Gemma Arterton stars as Vita Sackville-West, a celebrated writer and lover of Virginia Woolf.

Pretty Red Dress

Humour, tenderness and punchy Tina Turner numbers abound in Dionne Edwards fresh, distinctive and bold feature debut as writer-director.

The Favourite

The singular and mischievous period drama for which national treasure Olivia Colman won an Oscar.

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Gentleman Jack

The barnstorming series with one of TV’s boldest characters at its centre returns.

God's Own Country

Josh O’Connor put himself firmly on the map in this full-bodied, Yorkshire-set love story.

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It's a Sin

A powerful, politically-charged eulogy to a queer community and the deadly epidemic that tore through it.

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All of Us Strangers

Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott are exceptional in this deeply affecting examination of grief, love and loneliness.

Rebel Dykes

Honouring the anarchic spirit of queer and feminist activism, this is a heartfelt and consciousness-raising documentary.

Supernova

Oscar winner Colin Firth stars in this sobering sophomore feature from British filmmaker Harry Macqueen.

Colette

Keira Knightley portrays French novelist and trailblazer Colette in this playful and bracing biopic.

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Moffie

Oliver Hermanus skewers toxic masculinity and homophobia in a BAFTA-nominated military drama.

Blue

A blue screen becomes a canvas for joy in this 1993 film from artist-filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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Trigonometry

A young couple invite a third person into their relationship in this quietly radical British miniseries.

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The Bisexual

Maxine Peake, Naomi Ackie and Brian Gleeson star in Desiree Akhavan’s dramedy series about queer identity.

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The Critic

Based on the novel by Anthony Quinn, Oscar-nominated British actor Sir Ian McKellen gives a fantastic and witty central performance.

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Wreck (Season 2)

Over six thrilling episodes, follow this dark series as a group of young friends go in search of the truth.

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A Moment in the Reeds

The debut feature from London-based Finnish writer, director and co-producer Mikko Mäkelä offers confidently modest but assured filmmaking.

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Torchwood

With a healthy dose of characteristic British humour, explore a rift in the time-space continuum in this captivating series.

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Queer as Folk

Hitting television screens in 1999, this extraordinary breakthrough hit explores partying, heartache and unrequited love.

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Rotting in the Sun

Jordan Firstman, Catalina Saavedra and Sebastián Silva are outstanding in this darkly funny exploration of a self-obsessed culture.

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Brilliant Minds

Heroes star Zachary Quinto returns to the screen in a lead role after fourteen years in this compelling medical drama.

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Sebastian

A struggling writer is caught between two lives in this intriguing drama about desire, shame and liberation.

Close to You

Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page co-writes, co-produces and stars in this touching and authentic glimpse into a transgender man’s life.

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I Saw the TV Glow

Teenagers become obsessed with a Buffy-esque TV show in this haunting story of identity, fandom and infatuation.

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Sex Education

A joyously raunchy series about the sexual misadventures of a group of teens, starring Gillian Anderson.

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Bohemian Rhapsody

Rami Malek taps into Freddy Mercury’s untamed and charismatic energy in this spirited Queen biopic.