Movies like Pride
If Pride's mix of wales, 1980s and activism stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Pride's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Billy Elliot
2000 · Directed by Stephen Daldry · 111 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: 1980s, miners strike, gay theme · Also drama and comedy
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 · Directed by Bryan Singer · 135 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: 1980s, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics.
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Hair
1979 · Directed by Miloš Forman · 121 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and comedy
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
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Call Me by Your Name
2017 · Directed by Luca Guadagnino · 132 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: 1980s, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture.
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Prayers for Bobby
2009 · Directed by Russell Mulcahy · 89 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay.
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The Imitation Game
2014 · Directed by Morten Tyldum · 113 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and…
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Milk
2008 · Directed by Gus Van Sant · 128 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for…
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Boy Erased
2018 · Directed by Joel Edgerton · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his…