Movies and TvShows featuring "lgbt-plus-rights" theme.

Game Face shows the quest to self-realization of LGBT athletes and the acceptance in society. The film follows athletes during their coming out process, and sheds light on the obstacles LGBT sports players deal with throughout their career.

Leaving Vogue Moran is a touching film that follows the journey of a superhero-loving transgender woman as she comes out of the closet and navigates her relationships with her brother, mother, and father in the vibrant city of LA. Along the way, she encounters challenges and discrimination but ultimately finds acceptance and love.

Jean Wyllys is one of the MPs of Brazil's National Congress. The politician, who is also a journalist and teacher, fights for minorities, as well as being one of the greatest representatives of the LGBTQ+ cause. Now, he exposes a period of three years of his routine in the public sphere, which provokes a reflection on a time of polarization in Brazilian politics.

Stonewall Uprising is a documentary that explores the events of the historic Stonewall Riot in 1969, which marked a pivotal moment in the gay liberation movement and the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

They are in love. They are together. They are building their happiness. Not in ‘another way’. In the same way. Polish gays and lesbians living in permanent relationships do not confirm the stereotype of life filled with hundreds of sexual partners. Faithfulness and normality are the most important for them although the reality they live in does not make their every day existence easier. Homo.pl is a warm portrait without pity or a patronizing approach. ‘They’ are some of ‘us’.

Woman on Fire follows Brooke Guinan, the first openly transgender firefighter in New York City. A character-driven documentary, the film follows Brooke as she sets out to challenge perceptions of what it means to be transgender in America today.

This documentary film aims to highlight the current situation of LGBT people living in Pakistan.

On June 28th, 1969, the New York Police Department conducted a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. To the surprise of the policemen, the partying bar patrons decided to defend themselves and fought back. Today, this incident is celebrated in a series of colourful and flamboyant parties in cities all over the world. Everywhere, people are remembering the pioneers of the gay and lesbian movement 45 years ago. Five Days in New York takes viewers back to the origins of the gay pride movement in New York City.

In February, 1968, José Ferragut, the most important architect of Mallorca, was found dead in a field. The case was closed for lack of evidence. During the 50’s and 60’s the beginning of tourism changed the reality of the Mediterranean countries. Amazing landscapes were transformed for tourism exploitation Ferragut fought against the corruption and uncontrolled development of the coast and got enemies by politics and developers. But Ferragut had another problem. He was gay in a society who criminalized and goes after the homosexuals. Therefore he lived a double life until his dead making him an introverted and depressive man. 50 years later, Life and death of an architect wonders how and why this man was brutally kill in 1968 by two man prostitutes.

Gays and lesbians lived in silence and fear in Iceland for the better part of the 20th century. Local songwriter and actor Hordur Torfason was the first to come out publicly in an interview in 1975 which caused an uproar in Iceland. This interview marks the beginning of the struggle for civil rights for gays and lesbians. People Like That – first part chronicles this struggle, stories of people who took on the current system of oppression in the hope of creating a fair society in which they could flourish.

The most compelling patriotic act the narrator encountered after the 9/11/2001 attacks was undertaken by two close friends, a gay male couple. Ten years later, Osama bin Laden may be dead, but military operations continue abroad, and heterosexism and homophobia persist at home.

Roma, a humble soul from the rural country, embarks on a trip to the city where she has been living for the past year and a half. While starting her new life in the city she meets Lydia, a witty biochemistry student, who soon became her lover. On their last night together, Roma and Lydia stroll around the desolate city. Unable to hail a cab or catch a bus, they are forced to face the flaws of their love, discussing their opposing schools of thought and the reality of their withering relationship.