04/06/2026
It’s Pride Month, which means one thing is guaranteed: your feed is about to be flooded with the annual wave of LGBTQ+ movie recommendations.
You already know the usual suspects: Brokeback Mountain (2005), My Own Private Idaho (1991), the glorious filth of Pink Flamingos (1972) and all the other go-to titles that crowd the conversation. But separating “queer cinema” from the rest of film history is pointless anyway – it’s all just great cinema.
Koktail is skipping the obvious Hollywood blockbusters to bring you a list of criminally underrated, strictly international gems (with a Thai cinema deep-dive coming very soon). These films might not all fit neatly into a ready-made box; they inhabit a world of shifting identities and untamed desires that happily ignore the boundaries set by polite society.
Hit the link in the comments to discover the full list.