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Are you in the mood for a rom-com this weekend? Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein star in Office Romance, a new movie now streaming on Netflix.

Bluetooth is one of those convenient features we all use so much that we often take for granted. In recent years, Bluetooth quality, range, and reliability have greatly improved, but we still deal with frustrating disconnections at times. We've all been there, forgetting a device and trying to re-pair it, but there's one setting that should eliminate most of those problems.

Supports are a necessary but often frustrating part of 3D printing. These structures serve as a base for overhanging elements, so that your model doesn’t warp or sag in unexpected ways.

Building an Excel dashboard usually means spending an entire afternoon on layout design. So, I pitted ChatGPT against Gemini to see which tool automates the grunt work best—and only one came close to what I hoped for.

From swarms of lovebugs along the Gulf Coast to dust storms on the Southern Plains and pollen blanketing nearly the entire country, keeping your car clean this time of year is a real challenge. And that’s not even counting the daily barrage of rain, mud, and road grime.

Who’s up for a weekend full of thrilling, pulse-pounding entertainment on Amazon Prime Video? These types of shows thrive on tension, unexpected twists, and complex characters to pull audiences into worlds where danger lurks around every corner and nothing is ever quite what it seems, and that's where we're heading.

Buying an ESP32 development board can be a little confusing for a newcomer. These dev kits are available from a variety of different manufacturers at slightly different prices, and some even come embedded in other devices.

Hulu tends to fly under the radar next to its flashier rivals like Netflix and Prime Video (it also pumps out fewer titles each month), but tucked inside that Disney+ bundle is one of the best catalogs in streaming, including stunning FX shows like Alien: Earth and The Bear, a bottomless true-crime well, comedies, thrillers, and more.

Excel and other spreadsheets are ubiquituous in business because they let you create simple graphics. If you want to take your reports and presentations to the next level, you might want to consider learning Python to create powerful visualizations that will help you stand out from the crowd.

Windows on Arm is finally maturing to the point of being truly usable, and the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7X Gen 11 only helps its case. With a fantastic build quality, great performance, and a gorgeous screen, this is one of my favorite 14-inch Windows laptops I've ever used.

You've heard of AI vibe coding, one dictionary's phrase of the year for 2025. As of this week, 2026 is shaping up to be the year of the AI vibe shift.

You wouldn't know the shift existed from the tech world's top pronouncements of late; it is, after all, always sunny in Silicon Valley. Microsoft's Build conference, like Google I/O in May, featured tons of techies talking about tokens, the metric by which AI prompts and answers are measured (a token, weirdly, is about three-quarters of a word on average).

Both conferences also centered claims about frontier AI that are dubious to say the least. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis at Google I/O: "Artificial General Intelligence is just a few years away... we are standing in the foothills of the Singularity." Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: "scaling laws are holding... we are building towards what we call Humanist Superintelligence."

Investors, too, showed little sign of losing their AI optimism this week. Nvidia stock tumbled for a few days, but rallied after CEO Jensen Huang insisted AI agents will run everything, everywhere in the future (presumably once they've stopped deleting databases). Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX continue to chase trillion-dollar IPOs, the latter based in large part on the untested concept of AI data centers in space.

SEE ALSO: Elon Musk found the cheat code for capitalism. The SpaceX IPO proves it.

But outside the AI bubble, a backlash is brewing, and not only among students booing pro-AI commencement speakers.

Just 10 percent of Americans say they're thrilled about the future of AI, a Pew poll found in March; that same month, some 80 percent of registered U.S. voters in an NBC poll said neither Democrats nor Republicans are doing a good job on the AI front. That number also appears in an April survey of white-collar workers: 80 percent are straight-up refusing to use AI even when it's mandated. In the last 30 days, 54 percent of workers reported bypassing company AI tools and completing jobs themselves.

Those numbers suggest general strike-levels of discontent with AI across every industry, out there in the real America beyond Silicon Valley and Wall Street, if not an outright revolutionary mood.

Data center protests, fueled by the 70 percent of Americans who say they don't want data centers near them, are only likely to grow going forward — especially now that they are producing tangible results. At least 48 data center projects were blocked or delayed in 2025, according to Data Center Watch, and the fight is only getting more fierce.

Take the planned Stratos data center in Utah, where local opposition just forced VC and Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary to downsize his land usage by 75 percent. "We screwed up," O'Leary told local TV news Friday. "We pissed off a lot of people."

And the threat of electoral guillotines may explain why politicians are starting to propose serious action.

This week alone, Senator Bernie Sanders came out in favor of the U.S. public owning a 50 percent stake in AI companies, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang proposed an AI tax, and President Trump finally signed an executive order on AI regulation that his AI czar, Silicon Valley titan David Sacks, has long opposed. Finally, on Friday, New York State legislators sent a one-year data center moratorium to the governor's desk.

The White House's AI executive order was even announced while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was making rosy pronouncements on AI at Build, adding to the surreal sense that we're watching a tale of two worlds — the anti-AI people versus an out-of-touch AI regime that says, essentially, let them eat tokens.

But hold the revolution: Just below the surface (and the Microsoft Surface Ultra), the AI regime is showing signs of cracking all on its own — and it's all down to those tokens.

Silicon Valley's AI backlash begins

When it comes to AI true-believer companies, they don't get much truer than Uber. The rideshare giant says 90 percent of its engineers use AI tools, mostly Anthropic's Claude Code. As much as 10 percent of Uber's codebase is written by AI agents. Uber had leaderboards that encouraged as much usage of AI tokens as possible; in Silicon Valley, this is known as tokenmaxxing, and it was really hot in 2025.

Then the tokenmaxxing bill came due. "The budget I thought I would need [for 2026] is blown away already,” CTO Neppalli Naga told The Information on April 14 — less than four months into the year.

At the time, however, the information didn't make much of a dent in the AI news cycle — not until Uber's COO confirmed what it meant at the end of May. Naga's busted budget was a "head-exploding moment," Andrew MacDonald told the Rapid Response podcast. Such spending "becomes harder to justify because AI is not free...we're going to have to start talking about token consumption."

Just like that, we started talking about token consumption. Axios reported an unnamed company had burned through half a billion dollars of tokens in a single month "after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses." Next, we learned Amazon and Meta had shut down their own internal AI leaderboards; other companies like Walmart and Starbucks have scaled back their AI agent plans.

In a leaked email, one Amazon senior vice president told employees to "stop using AI just for the sake of using AI." You'd be forgiven for thinking this obliterates a large chunk of OpenAI and Anthropic's business model. Both companies have spent years building models that, for the most part, consume more tokens. Now they're promoting agents who can consume tokens on steroids — often as much as 24 times as a regular model.

As high-minded as their missions might be, both companies are in it to sell tokens.

Why tokenmaxxing died A scene from a data center protest in Tucson, Arizona. Credit: Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via Getty Images

Some AI leaders, sensing the shift in the wind, are starting to say that sort of thing openly. Ravi Kumar S., CEO of AI IT firm Cognizant, called tokenmaxxing "a vanity metric" at a Fortune conference on Monday. Kumar took aim at OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, accusing them of "fearmongering." Altman and Amodei have walked back previous predictions of an AI jobs apocalypse now that they have IPOs in the offing.

The two CEOs are also beneficiaries of user confusion over the complex cost of AI. Earlier this year, Anthropic quietly changed the price of Claude for many customers, charging them per token. OpenAI is looking at dropping its "unlimited" ChatGPT plans — quite a change from a year ago, when Altman promised "intelligence too cheap to meter."

The shift isn't just happening at the two AI giants. Microsoft started cutting token costs for itself and raising token prices for everyone else — even before those rosy pronouncements at Build.

SEE ALSO: Thank the AI industry for tech price increases: See the full list

Microsoft began revoking developers' access to Claude Code, pushing them to Microsoft Copilot instead, in May. On June 1, Github Copilot users were switched from a fixed subscription to a per-token subscription model. Reddit filled with angry users noting how expensive their AI prompts have suddenly become. In one extreme case, a Claude user blew 50 percent of his monthly credits on a single prompt.

"At the beginning of the year," Altman said in an OpenAI livestream this week, "people were totally happy with the amount they were spending... now, all of a sudden [it's] a huge issue." In a CNBC interview Monday, Altman admitted to a "ton of waste" in AI spending, and said companies were asking, "how long do I have to wait for [AI benefits] to show up in revenue?" This was, Altman said, a "fair issue."

And the closest Altman came to an answer to the fair issue? "The industry will figure that out pretty quickly... in another year or two."

Will the vibe shift burst the AI bubble?

How long OpenAI and Anthropic have to figure out this issue, however, depends largely on what happens in their IPOs.

"Nobody knows when this will all collapse, but 2026 will be remembered in hindsight as the year in which retail investors were left holding the bag," Gary Marcus, a professor and leading generative AI critic, predicted Monday.

Marcus, who has been increasingly proven right in the AI problems he's foreseen since 2022, may yet be off base here. But he does have a hunch, based on comments from Anthropic cofounder Daniela Amodei, that both companies had burned so much money they were "months from bankruptcy" and had "run out of options" other than to file for trillion-dollar IPOs.

In particular, OpenAI has long been losing more than a billion dollars a month — the cost of serving ChatGPT for free to hundreds of millions of people.

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Financial bubbles built around technologies invariably end with an Emperor's New Clothes moment. Eventually, enough people are pointing and laughing that courtiers can't carry off the hype any longer.

That's what happened to end the dotcom bubble in 2000. A business deal came along that was so ridiculous on its surface (the world's largest media empire, snapped up by the guys who gave away dial-up internet via CDs?!) that markets couldn't help but point and laugh. The vibe shifted. Overhyped, profitless dotcom companies began to look naked, and a stock collapse soon followed.

Human hiring and hallucinations

Times have changed, and the AI bubble is a hardier thing than its dotcom predecessor. It is built atop the one company currently making a fortune out of all this. NVIDIA has sold the picks and shovels to AI gold rush seekers for so many years now that they've started to seem invulnerable. Yet even Nvidia is learning lessons about the prohibitive growing cost of AI.

"The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees," one Nvidia executive told Axios in April. So even Nvidia is vulnerable to tokenmaxxing. And that's why the hottest thing in AI these days is hiring humans, because they're getting to be cheaper than AI — and are needed for quality control on AI's output anyway. Cognizant's Kumar boasted about his AI company hiring 20,000 graduates last year, and more this year — a vibe shift if ever we've seen one.

So the jobspocalypse vibe has shifted. The tokens vibe has shifted. And the AI data center-building vibe has shifted, too — not just in terms of public and environmental opposition, but in the fact that there aren't as many data centers under construction as we'd been led to expect. (Gadfly journalist Ed Zitron has done yeoman's work here, scouring satellite photos of data center sites for signs of construction).

What's left? Arguably, the only vibe that hasn't shifted is the hallucination vibe, in that users still aren't aware how often most AI models hallucinate. Google, for example, won't say how often Gemini 3.5 Flash hallucinates, but a December Google study found that Gemini may only be accurate 68.8 to 83.8 percent of the time.

SEE ALSO: How often does Gemini 3.5 Flash hallucinate or lie? Google isn't saying.

And hallucinations aren't hard to find these days. The hallucination that OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are genuine trillion-dollar AI giants that deserve to be listed in top index funds despite being unprofitable (breaking news: as I wrote this, the S&P 500 officially opted out of that hallucination).

The hallucination that Nvidia will always remain on top, even as companies making up a majority of its business are developing their own AI chips (which is exactly why Michael Burry, the Big Short guy, continues to short the stock).

The hallucination that customers want AI in everything, when survey after survey says the opposite. The hallucination that AI content will dominate the future, when the generation that will take us there points and laughs at AI slop.

If these hallucinations fade from the fevered brains of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, the great AI vibe shift of 2026 will be complete.

This article reflects the opinion of the author.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

Portable fans are a hot-weather staple. When I got married on a sweltering July day, one of my bridesmaids passed me a portable fan, which didn't leave my side all day. So it's no surprise that personal fans are coming back in even bigger ways this summer.

Personal fans can be found for under $20, but this year, some big names in appliances are joining the trend. Dyson dropped its $99 personal fan, but not before Shark launched the ChillPill this year. Shark's personal fan features the most unique and elaborate design of any personal fan. Even Justin Bieber collaborated with Shark on a special edition of the ChillPill just in time for Coachella.

So I put the Shark ChillPill to the test on the hottest day of the year, and spoiler, my cats might love this fan more than I do.

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  Shop Now at Shark Shop Now at Best Buy Shop Now at Amazon An innovative design, but is it practical? The Shark ChillPill fan looks like a a small pair of binoculars, but twists so you can hold one side while the other blows cool air. Credit: Samantha Mangino / Mashable

The design is unlike any fan I've encountered IRL. It's two cylinders stacked on top of each other. The piece with the actual fan can twist to work from different angles. Rather than a wand-like grip, it's bulkier, which makes it feel awkward to hold. That said, the design makes it exceptionally easy to set down on surfaces. Suddenly, I had a mini desktop fan. I liked it best when stationary and imagined that, if I had used it while walking, it might have felt too big to hold.

The ultimate test will be when I take it on my European honeymoon and see how it holds up in the peak summer heat, whether I'm walking through ruins or lounging in a cabana.

It comes with three swappable fan heads

The ChillPill comes with three different attachments. The basic fan head, a misting fan head, and a metal cooling plate — each of which felt particularly useful in my time testing it on a sweltering day.

The Shark ChillPill comes with three swappable heads, including a cooling plate. Credit: Samantha Mangino / Mashable

The standard head doesn't need explanation, while the other two have a little more flair. The attachment with a stainless steel surface is a cooling plate that claims to lower skin temperature by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit. While I can't confirm that exact amount, I can say that on a 90-degree day when I was sweating without air conditioning, it was an incredible relief when pressed to my wrists, neck, and temples.

For those in dry heat, the misting head is particularly attractive. I tried it out in the New England humidity, and I have to say, it was still so refreshing, especially in the hottest temperatures. For as much as I love it, my two water-loving cats love it more, eagerly running over whenever I turn it on.

The only downside to the misting head is that it has a mini tank and runs out fast, especially when you turn up the speed. You can shut off the misting to conserve water, and then it operates like a standard fan head.

10 speeds of cool that's most effective up close The screen displays what speed the fan is set to and as you can see, also displays the battery status, too. Credit: Samantha Mangino / Mashable

The Shark ChillPill is secretly pretty smart. It has slightly different controls based on which fan head you use, and it automatically registers when you swap them. On the side of the ChillPill is an on/off switch, but to start it, you need to press the digital screen, which turns on the cooling function.

There are 10 speeds to choose from, and on sweaty days, I found I never needed to go beyond level three for a nice breeze. But I also didn't necessarily want to, as the ChillPill gets loud fast. If you were to crank it up to 10 in a public space, it would be making a scene. However, you do need to turn up the fan strength if you have it positioned far away, as I didn't find it had a very long reach.

Battery life made for summer travels The Shark ChillPill's misting function in action. Credit: Samantha Mangino / Mashable

When fully charged, the fan lasts up to 11 hours. Using it intermittently over a few weeks, the battery held strong. The battery's strength is pretty impressive, and I'd feel confident bringing it on summer travels, knowing it will last all day and only need to be charged overnight. It recharges via USB-C, which most phones and tech use these days, meaning you won't need to pack an extra charger.

Let's talk about the price

Part of the appeal and widespread use of portable fans is their affordability. Most options on Amazon are under $20, and even Shein and Temu sell them alongside festival wear (though we're not sure we recommend them). So it's startling to see the Shark ChillPill's price of $149.99. It's more expensive than Dyson's portable fan ($99.99) and/or even a home fan like the super powerful Vornado 660 ($89.99). It's the same price as Shark's larger, more powerful FlexBreeze HydroGo Pro.

Even with its features and extra fan heads, and even though I love the fan, I still think it's way too expensive. If it were just $100, I'd say it was a good value, but for such a small, limited-use device, I don't think it's a great value, especially when you can get a much larger fan for much less than $150.

Is the Shark ChillPill worth it? Is the Shark ChillPill worth $149.99? We're undecided. Credit: Samantha Mangino / Mashable

The Shark ChillPill is the most unique take on the personal fan that I've ever encountered. With 10 speeds, it's effective at cooling you down, even on the hottest of days. With special attachment heads like the mister and cooling plate, it goes above and beyond most portable fans. Even with powerful settings and long battery life, it isn't without its downsides. Its innovative design may serve more as a hindrance, especially when you're on the go. But more importantly, is it worth its $149.99 price tag? I'm not so sure.

If you're eager to spend the money, the Shark ChillPill is an effective and useful way to stay cool, but I think you should wait to buy it until it's on sale.

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Paul Rudd (Anaconda, Friendship) Nick Jonas (The Jonas Brothers), and legendary filmmaker John Carney (Once, Sing Street) meet up with Mashable Executive Producer Mark Stetson and to discuss their new film Power Ballad.

Out of SXSW, Power Ballad got a lot of love from critics, who cheered its feel-good comedy vibe. Paul Rudd stars as Rick Power, a middle-aged American who came to Dublin 15 years ago on tour with his rock band. What might have been a path to fame and fortune was rerouted when Rick met the cool girl who'd become his wife (Marcella Plunkett), and they had a daughter (Beth Fallon) together. Nowadays, he still rocks, but as the lead of a wedding band called the Bride and Groove. As such, he mostly plays cover songs, though he still yearns to make music of his own. So, when one wedding gig throws him in the path of former boy bander Danny Wilson (Nick Jonas), his life has the potential to change forever. The two spend the night jamming, sharing songs, and connecting on all things songwriting. What starts as potential buddy film, quickly takes a turn towards the unexpected. Power Ballad becomes a cautionary tale of what happens when ambition overtakes the pure love of making music.

In the interview with Mashable, Rudd, Jonas, and Carney talk about the creative process and the songs they wish they had been lucky enough to write.

Power Ballad is now in theaters.

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The exciting and highly unpredictable 2026 French Open has reached the women's singles final. One on side of the court is the Russian world No. 8 Mirra Andreeva, on the other is Polish qualifier and world No. 114 Maja Chwalinska.

It's been a remarkable few weeks for Chwalinska, who had only won a single Grand Slam match before this tournament. She's battled through to the final with a series of impressive wins, helped along the way by the shock early exists of top seeds such as world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka. Could Chwalinska get that fairytale ending and lift the coveted Suzanne-Lenglen cup?

Andreeva, however, will prove immensely tough competition on the clay court. The 19-year-old decisively beat Marta Kostyuk in the semi-final and is sure to fancy her chances at winning a first Grand Slam title. Whatever happens, this will be an exciting conclusion to an unforgettable French Open.

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Motorola has effectively bricked its WiFi routers without warning, and the issue has been ongoing for nearly a month, according to a Mashable investigation and user complaints across the App Store, Amazon, and Reddit.

Sometime around mid-May, Motorola's MotoSync+ app for iOS and Android went down. On iOS, the MotoSync+ app opens to the login screen, and a loading wheel just spins and spins. On Android, the app also loads to the login screen but displays a "Server License Expired" message.

Because the Motorola MotoSync+ app is required to set up all new compatible WiFi routers released by Motorola, many users have been completely blocked from using their routers.

SEE ALSO: The confusing U.S. router ban, explained: Which routers are banned?

Some Motorola customers may also be completely unaware of the issue, as existing router setups may continue to work — for now. However, if that user ever needs to factory reset their router, which Motorola recommends when experiencing certain problems, they must use the app to do so, according to Motorola's support documentation. Likewise, users with new Motorola routers can only add devices, change settings, or perform troubleshooting within the MotoSync+ app.

Mashable reached out to Motorola repeatedly for this story, but the company hasn't provided any explanation for the problems.

A Mashable screenshot showing errors with the iOS MotoSync+ app. Credit: Mashable screenshot A Reddit user shared this screenshot from the Android app (personal info obscured). Credit: Screenshot courtesy of Reddit

Motorola's networking products and the MotoSync+ app are produced and operated by Premier LogiTech, LLC, which licenses the Motorola brand for WiFi products.

What's happening to Motorola routers?

Mashable first noticed the issue in May shortly after we began testing one of Motorola's latest networking devices, the Motorola Q15 WiFi 7 mesh router, which came out late last year and costs between $129.99 and $349.99, depending on the configuration.

Luckily, we set up the base router before the MotoSync+ app stopped working, so the router continues to work for now. However, we cannot set up the rest of the mesh network while the app is unavailable.

In comments on sites like Reddit and Amazon, angry users have left dozens of comments about the situation and the lack of customer support from Motorola.

Motorola has yet to publicly address the issue, and its routers are still being sold on Amazon and at retailers such as Best Buy. Motorola's main website continues to promote its routers on the Motorola Network ecommerce shop as well. 

However, Motorola recently removed all of its routers and modems from the Motorola Network online store, and product pages now return a 404 "Page not found" error or redirect to the home page. An archive of the site shows that Motorola was still selling routers up until at least May 18, roughly one week after the app stopped working.

SEE ALSO: Motorola phones are reportedly injecting affiliate codes into the Amazon app All of Motorola Network's products have suddenly been removed from sale. Credit: Mashable screenshot What are Motorola Network users saying?

A Reddit thread about the MotoSync+ app issue was originally posted on May 12 and has quickly been filled with negative comments from other unhappy customers.

"Tried without success to contact tech support again yesterday," said Reddit user u/Ok_Fortune_8672. "Unless you are contacting them about a cellphone, the lights are out and nobody's home."

Consumers have resorted to leaving negative comments across Motorola router product pages on sites like Amazon. 

"Phone based setup didn't work, returned. Motorola support was non-existent," reads one Amazon review posted on May 5, suggesting the MotoSync+ issue may have started earlier than previously reported.

The App Store and Google Play Store pages for the MotoSync+ app have also been filled with negative reviews. According to the MotoSync+ app profile on the App Store, the MotoSync+ app last received an update two months ago.

"The previous MotoSync app worked wonderfully with my MG8702 router, but ever since I was forced to switch to the MotoSync+ app, it’s been a pain," said one user, referencing how Motorola shut down its original legacy MotoSync app in April, pushing users to the new MotoSync+ app.

However, it seems that the original MotoSync app faced similar downtime issues a few years ago, too. Back in 2023, Reddit users reported that they were unable to use the legacy MotoSync app to set up and edit their devices for roughly a month before the app began working again.

What's even more frustrating for some users: The new MotoSync+ app offers an optional subscription service for premium features. Paying users can't access these features either while the app is down.

Motorola customers on platforms such as Reddit report contacting the company and receiving either a generic automated reply or no response at all. However, Reddit user u/SnooPoems7789, who started the main thread on Reddit about the issue, posted that they received a reply on May 14 from Motorola claiming it was an "issue with our networking vendor" and the company was "taking actions to address the problem."

Another Reddit user reported calling a customer support number listed on the MotoSync+ app and being connected with a router software company called Gryphon. The company currently sells the Motorola MQ20 router on its website. However, Gryphon reportedly told the customer that they "don't support MotoSync" and the user needed to speak to Motorola directly.

MotoSync+ app in the App Store Credit: Mashable screenshot

Interestingly, Gryphon has an app called Gryphon Connect on Apple's App Store that looks exactly like the MotoSync+ app. The user interface and even the App Store screenshots and marketing copy promoting the app are identical, with only the brand names for Gryphon and Motorola swapped out for each app.

Mashable also reached out to Gryphon to inquire about the company's relationship with Motorola.

"While the apps may look similar and are both associated with Gryphon technology, the Motorola MQ20 uses a different platform and management system from the Gryphon Tower, Guardian, and AX models," a Gryphon spokesperson said in a statement provided to Mashable. "The Motorola MQ20 has its own dedicated support environment and diagnostic tools, which are handled specifically by Motorola Support. They have access to the proper system needed to check the router status, settings, logs, and advanced diagnostics for the MQ20."

For now, however, many Motorola customers are left without answers or a working WiFi router — at least for the time being.

"Tbh if I was you I would go ahead and get rid of it and get a different router," wrote Reddit user u/SnooPoems7789 in the replies to other users on his Reddit thread. "They literally made it a paperweight now."

We know. You can't have a post-credits scene for a Broadway show, because they don't have credits — they have curtain calls. But what else are we to call it when, after the cast of the 12-time Tony–nominated The Lost Boys: A New Musical takes to the stage for their curtain call, the lights drop for one more scene? 

"We call it a tag," The Lost Boys director/co-lighting designer Michael Arden told Mashable in an interview over Zoom. "But it is a post-credit[s] scene." 

The two-time Tony–winning director is up for Best Director of a Musical and —alongside Jen Schriever — Best Lighting Design of a Musical this Sunday at the 79th Annual Tony Awards. So, as Mashable's Entertainment Editor, I sat down to delve into how Arden and company adapted Joel Schumacher's 1987 cult classic into a Broadway musical that has critics (this one included) raving. We talked about the changes from the movie, the expanded queer representation, and, of course, flying vampires.

Then, I had to ask about the scene that urges audiences to leave not on the high of a cheery curtain call, but on the dizzying surprise of what comes after. 

What happens in The Lost Boys: A New Musical's post-credits scene?  LJ Benet, Ali Louis Bourzgui, Brian Flores, Dean Maupin, and Sean Grandillo fly in "The Lost Boys: A New Musical." Credit: Matthew Murphy

The lights rise to reveal the old ironworks at Coronado Bluff, the abandoned factory that the vampire David and his lost boys call home. But with them all staked and gone, who could possibly be poking around this place of death and decay? 

It's Mrs. Vasquez, the unwittingly widowed wife of Officer Vasquez, the cop who bit it in the show's opening. Over the course of the play, Mrs. Vasquez entreats the people of Santa Clara to help her find her missing husband, offering flyers with his picture on them to billboards and passersby, including new-to-town mom Lucy Emerson. 

At the end of the show, it seems her amateur sleuthing has brought her to the last place her husband let out a breath. She finds his police cap on a table, and groans. Then, she sees a bottle. 

It's the bottle that contains David's blood, introduced when he tempted Michael to drink. As the orchestra music plays a dark theme, Mrs. Vasquez seems irresistibly drawn to the bottle, drawn to drink. As she lifts the bottle to her lips, the curtain falls, leaving her future and that of Santa Clara uncertain. 

Arden said of this scene, "Ashley Jenkins, who plays Mrs. Vasquez, is an actor I've worked with a bunch of times. So the fact that she gets to end the show, and that we get that the next Big Bad bad-ass vampire might be like a fierce Black woman? I'm obsessed with [it]." 

Why does The Lost Boys: A New Musical's have a post-credits scene? Ali Louis Bourzgui hovers over LJ Benet in "The Lost Boys: A New Musical." Credit: Matthew Murphy

For Arden, it's all about keeping true to the genre of the original film. Arden explained, "The cold open of our show is a character we never meet again that's killed. That is such a horror-specific trope. And I was like, 'Well, it feels like it wants that bookend, wouldn't it be crazy? Do you think we could ever?' And so I wrote a version of it, and put it on the last page of the script. And everyone was like, 'Ha, ha, ha! Wait, could we really do that?' And I was like, 'Why not? We make up the rules, baby!'" 

This reporter noted I couldn't think of any other theatrical production with a "tag," and Arden responded, "I don't think there are any. I think this might be the first." 

But what does it mean? 

Will The Lost Boys: A New Musical get a sequel?  Maria Wirries and LJ Benet play Star and Michael in "The Lost Boys: A New Musical." Credit: Matthew Murphy

Schumacher's The Lost Boys got two. Twenty-one years after the first film, Lost Boys: The Tribe was released, starring Kiefer Sutherland's half-brother Angus as the surfer-bro vampire Shane. Two years later, Lost Boys: The Thirst debuted, with Corey Feldman stepping up from supporting player to protagonist, reprising the role of Edgar Frog. 

So, could The Lost Boys: A New Musical be expanded into a sequel? Sure, it's rare for a musical to get a sequel. But so are post-credits scenes in theatre. And what is a post-credits scene if not a teaser for more? 

Asked about the possibility, Arden took a pregnant pause, and then said, "Not at the moment. We all need a good rest." 

The Lost Boys: A New Musical is now on Broadway. 

The 79th Annual Tony Awards are coming this Sunday, and we're absolutely giddy in anticipation.

As big fans of Broadway, Mashable's Entertainment team has been hitting the Great White Way to see the best (and worst) of Broadway. Last winter, we celebrated eventual Tony nominees like Oedipus, Liberation, and Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York City) as the best theater experiences of 2025.

Since then, we've reviewed new Broadway productions, like the Daniel Radcliffe-led revival of Every Brilliant Thing, the Jon Bernthal-led stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon, the disastrous musical — not based on the movie — Beaches, the joyous Céline Dion jukebox musical Titaníque, the ballroom-influenced Cats: The Jellicle Ball, and the astounding musical re-imagination of The Lost Boys. Yet there are even more shows we saw that we haven't had a chance to sing the praises of yet, including the biting revival of Becky Shaw and 12-time Tony nominee Schmigadoon!

So, before the 79th Annual Tony Awards announces its winners on June 7, we're sharing which shows we loved and why. Be sure to check out our critics' notes before you commit to your Tony predictions.

The Lost Boys: A New Musical

What's it about: Inspired by Joel Schumacher's 1987 horror movie about teen vampires menacing the beach city of Santa Carla, The Lost Boys: A New Musical reimagines the fanged biker gang as a local rock band, whose allure is sexual and supernatural. The Emerson family — Lucy (Shoshana Bean) and her two teen sons, Michael (LJ Benet) and Sam (Benjamin Pajak) — are new in town, but quick to find its dark and bloody underbelly. Specifically, Michael's attraction to a mysterious girl called Star (Maria Wirries) draws him into her circle, led by a charismatic and mulleted bad boy known as David (Ali Louis Bourzgui). Meanwhile, Lucy's flirting with the video shop owner, Max (Paul Alexander Nolan), and Sam has made new friends, self-proclaimed vampire slayers the Frog Brothers (Jennifer Duka and Miguel Gil). As one of the original songs by The Rescues goes, together, can they "make it through the night"?

SEE ALSO: 'The Lost Boys' musical's director Michael Arden on re-imagining a cult classic, queer representation, and making vampires fly

Why we love it: Look, real talk, Schumacher's movie is loved most for being beautiful and bonkers, not particularly good. Director Michael Arden smartly pulls the best bits from the movie — its dramatic lighting, blend of comedy and horror, intoxicatingly cool vampires, and, yes, the oiled up, muscle-bound saxophone player — and brought them to the stage with remarkable showmanship. The masterful use of blocking and light to draw the eye makes seeing The Lost Boys feel like a horror movie you get to experience, and when his vampires take flight — well, as I raved in my review, it's "breathtaking."

But Lost Boys is marvelous for far more than its effects, which you can see from its 12 Tony nominations. The original songs by The Rescues are moving, while ranging from charmingly silly but sweet ("Superpower") to wistful ("Wild") to heart-wrenching ("Belong to Someone") to sexy as hell ("Have to Have You"). While the cast is full of terrific performances, Tony nominee Ali Louis Bourzgui is absolutely outstanding as David. Far from imitating Kiefer Sutherland's snarling vamp, he seems to draw on the surly sultriness of Rocky Horror-era Tim Curry, with a side of Catholic idolatry in his gestures and rituals. Altogether, The Lost Boys is a marvel, making moody magic on Broadway. — Kristy Puchko, Entertainment Editor

Tony nominations: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score Written for the Theater, Best Scenic Design of a Musical, Best Costume Design of a Musical, Best Lighting Design of a Musical, Best Sound Design of a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical — Michael Arden, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical — Shoshana Bean, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical — Ali Louis Bourzgui

How to watch: The Lost Boys: A New Musical is now on Broadway.

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

What it's about: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) is just what it sounds like: a tale of two strangers, a wedding cake, and an odyssey across New York City. Our strangers? Polar opposites Robin (Christiani Pitts) and Dougal (Sam Tutty). She's a world-weary Brooklynite, and he's an Englishman overjoyed to be in New York for the first time. Robin's also on cake duty for her sister's wedding to Dougal's father, and he's all too happy to help her bring the dessert from Brooklyn to Manhattan. But what starts as a simple task soon morphs into something deeper: an unlikely friendship, and an examination of Robin and Dougal's strained relationships with their own family members.

Why we love it: Take a look down Broadway, and what do you see? Waves and waves of musicals based on pre-existing IP. Case in point: this year's Best Musical field, which features a film adaptation (The Lost Boys), a TV adaptation (Schmigadoon!), and an inspired riff on both Céline Dion and Titanic (Titaníque). While they're all heavy hitters, Two Strangers stands alone as the only original work among them, and that deserves to be celebrated. It's a charming two-hander that tempers its fizzy joy with a disarming darkness. Nowhere is this clearer than in its two leading performances: Tutty lights up the stage with his enthusiasm, while Pitts' cool façade hides a wounded interior. The pair are electric, and the show, like its titular cake, is one sweet treat. — Belen Edwards, Entertainment Reporter

Tony nominations: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score Written for the Theatre, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical — Sam Tutty, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical — Christiani Pitts, Best Scenic Design of a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical — Tim Jackson, Best Orchestrations

How to watch: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) is now on Broadway.

Schmigadoon!

What it's about: Based on Apple TV's comedy of the same name, Schmigadoon! is here to lovingly send up your favorite Golden Age musicals, from Oklahoma! to The Music Man. The show centers on couple Melissa (Sara Chase) and Josh (Alex Brightman), who find themselves in the magical town of Schmigadoon. Here, everything is a musical, and the only way to leave is by crossing the bridge out of town with your true love. Given that Melissa and Josh are going through a rough patch, that last bit might be tricky. Can they find love with any member of the town's chorus of musical archetypes, or even rekindle their own affection?

Why we love it: Schmigadoon! already works great on TV, but, man, it really high-kicks into a new gear on stage. Immaculate sets, costumes, and capital-D Dancing bring Golden Age Broadway roaring into 2026, with the show nicely balancing reverence and satire for its influences. Look no further than Cinco Paul's fiendishly clever songs for proof. Ported straight over from the show, they're a dense whirlwind of references, in-jokes, and pure, catchy fun. (Good luck getting "Corn Puddin'" out of your head.) Plus, they're performed by a killer cast whose delight is downright infectious. Now, is it too early to ask for a stage adaptation of Schmicago? Or of Schmigadoon!'s canceled third season, Into the Schmoods? Musical gods, if you're listening, I need them.

Tony nominations: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score Written for the Theatre, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical — Sara Chase, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical — Ana Gasteyer, Best Scenic Design of a Musical, Best Costume Design of a Musical, Best Sound Design of a Musical, Best Lighting Design of a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical — Christopher Gattelli, Best Choreography, Best Orchestrations

How to watch: Schmigadoon! is now on Broadway.

Cats: The Jellicle Ball

What it's about: As Andrew Lloyd Webber once said, "Hal, it's about cats." But in Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Cats becomes so much more. Directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch transpose the musical's Jellicle Ball — a parade of cats competing to be reborn through the Heaviside Layer — onto the ballroom scene, an underground haven of queer expression. It's still the music and storyline of Cats, just in a different context, and that context is what makes Cats: The Jellicle Ball truly great.

SEE ALSO: 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' review: Ballroom and 'Cats' are a match made in the Heaviside Layer

Why we love it: Cats: The Jellicle Ball is exactly what you'd want from a Broadway revival. Its ballroom focus breathes new, extraordinary life into an oft-maligned musical, lending it deeper meaning. At times, it's a raucous celebration of ballroom, full of clacking fans, gravity-defying vogueing, and showers of glitter. At others, it's a moving reflection on the history of the art form, complete with a tear-jerking ode to the Founding Mothers to kick off Act 2. Overall, it's a triumphant reinvention that, as I wrote in my review, "is the only way I'll accept Cats from now on." — B.E.

Tony nominations: Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical — André De Shields, Best Scenic Design of a Musical, Best Costume Design of a Musical, Best Lighting Design of a Musical, Best Sound Design of a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical — Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, Best Choreography, Best Orchestrations

How to watch: Cats: The Jellicle Ball is now on Broadway.

Chess

What it's about: Like most stagings of Chess before it, Broadway's 2025 revival examines the interplay between three chess players: American grandmaster Freddie (Aaron Tveit), Soviet grandmaster Anatoly (Nicholas Christopher), and Florence (Lea Michele), the brilliant woman caught between them. Unlike prior stagings, this revival turns up the Cold War allegory to DEFCON 1 levels, with Danny Strong's new book looping in real-life Cold War events. (Along with fourth wall-breaking Donald Trump and Joe Biden jokes, for some reason.) 

Why we love it: It's understandable that Chess missed out on a Best Revival nomination. It is, frankly, a bit of a mess. (Again, those fourth-wall jokes are a lot, and not in a good way.) But what isn't a mess are the performances, especially the three that picked up Tony nominations. Bryce Pinkham's Arbiter is a coy agent of chaos, so captivating he can make even the current-day political jokes seem funny and relevant. Hannah Cruz storms the stage as Svetlana, turning her 23 minutes of stage time into an emotional tour de force. And leading it all is Nicholas Christopher's spectacular turn as Anatoly. His lung-bursting "Endgame" makes even the hokiest of Chess's new jokes worth it. — B.E.

Tony nominations: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical — Nicholas Christopher, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical — Bryce Pinkham, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical — Hannah Cruz, Best Lighting Design of a Musical, Best Orchestrations

How to watch: Chess is on Broadway until June 21.

Every Brilliant Thing

What it's about: Ice cream. Things with stripes. People falling over. These are just three of the entries on the million-long list of things worth living for at the heart of Every Brilliant Thing. The one-man-play's unnamed narrator (Daniel Radcliffe) began the list at the age of seven, after his mother attempted to die by suicide. He continues it well into his adulthood, a story he recounts to us with copious amounts of audience participation.

SEE ALSO: 'Every Brilliant Thing' review: Daniel Radcliffe gives us one million reasons to love life. This play is one of them.

Why we love it: Every Brilliant Thing is a euphoric, life-affirming play bolstered by Radcliffe's ability to invite us in. Here, he must play two roles: that of the narrator, and that of facilitator, inviting audience members onstage to serve as key members of the story. Radcliffe's pure openness helps let participants' guards down, turning Every Brilliant Thing into the most communal theater experience I've ever been a part of. It's captivating, sob-worthy, and yes, brilliant. — B.E.

Tony nominations: Best Revival of a Play, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play — Daniel Radcliffe

How to watch: Every Brilliant Thing is now on Broadway, with Mariska Hargitay in the narrator/facilitator role until July 7, when Tracee Ellis Ross takes to the stage.

Liberation

What it's about: Feminism's past and present collide in Bess Wohl's Pulitzer Prize–winning play Liberation. Tony nominee Susannah Flood stars as Lizzie, the founder of a '70s women's group. She also plays Lizzie's daughter, who connects with the group's remaining members in the present day to understand what happened to the promise of the feminist movement, as well as her own mother's role in it.

Why we love it: Part reflection on second-wave feminism, part mother-daughter story, Liberation is a towering play that acknowledges that there are no easy answers to the questions it's posing. It doesn't try to wrap up its own conversations in a neat bow, nor is it afraid to acknowledge its own blind spots. Take, for example, its examination of how second-wave feminism failed to include Black women. In these moments, Wohl reckons with whether she, as a white playwright, even gets to tell this story. It's these moments of reflection, as well Liberation's many cathartic women's group discussions, that made it such a vital watch during its run. — B.E.

Tony Nominations: Best Play, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play — Susannah Flood, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play — Betsy Aidem, Best Costume Design of a Play, Best Direction of a Play — Whitney White

How to watch: Liberation has closed.

Titaníque 

What's it about? Created by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle, and Constantine Rousouli, Titaníque is a jukebox musical that uses Céline Dion's songs to retell the story of the Titanic. Sorry, I mean the story of Titanic. See, in this gleefully queer parody, Céline Dion (played by a pitch-perfect and wildly funny Mindelle) crashes a tour of the Titanic museum to recount the story of James Cameron's blockbuster movie as only she remembers it. Between songs and thumping her chest with her fist, Céline introduces her audience to the impoverished artist Jack (Rousouli) and poor little not-so-rich girl Rose (Melissa Barrera), as these star-crossed lovers swoon while avoiding her wretched mother (Jim Parsons in light drag), her cruel fiancé (John Riddle), an unforgiving iceberg (Layton Williams), and Victor Garber (Frankie Grande). 

Why we love it: We first fell for Titaníque during its Off-Broadway run, which began in 2024. There, a rotating cast — often peppered with celebrity guest stars — would weave in wacky bits specific to their fame. Like, when I saw RuPaul's Drag Race's Willam in the role of Victor Garber, he playfully recreated his messy exit from the runway. 

More fun still, this show had a light immersive element, with Céline going into the audience and getting them to interact with props and engage in silliness. We worried this inclusivity and irreverence of that production might get lost on a prestigious Broadway stage. But props to director/co-author Blue, Titaníque leveled up without losing its low-brow edge. 

As I cheered in my rave review, "This energy has been successfully transferred to Broadway, where the Heart of the Ocean shimmers high as a club mix welcomes the audience. The seats are cushier, but the vibes are still party." The bigger stage and flashier staging, "allows Mindelle to bloom, and her co-stars too. Together, they create a musical, magical epic, sure to please, but likely to make you want to shout, 'I'm alive!'" — K.P. 

Tony nominations: Best Musical, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical — Marla Mindelle,  Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical — Layton Williams, Best Book of a Musical

How to watch: Titaníque is now playing on Broadway until Sept. 20. 

Becky Shaw

What's it about? Simply put, this is a darkly funny play about a date so bad it has ripple effects across a deeply dysfunctional American family. When the patriarch of the Slater clan dies, his wife Susan (Linda Emond), daughter Suzanna (Lauren Patten), and adopted son Max (Alden Ehrenreich) are all desperate to fill the hole in their hearts, be it with sex, work, or an impulsive wedding to a guileless indie dude (Patrick Ball). But when Max goes on a blind date with the nervous Becky Shaw (Madeline Brewer), the family's wicked wit is not enough to extract them from her tangle of need and manipulation. 

Why we love it: Playwright Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw may have debuted Off-Broadway in 2009, but all these years later, her brand of politically incorrect humor is sharper and less apologetic than the barbs lobbed in rival Broadway shows like Giant, which is about Roald Dahl's antisemitism, and The Balusters, which explores the prejudice and hypocrisy in suburban HOAs. At the 2026 Tonys, Becky Shaw is not competing with these plays, however, as they're both new. Instead, it faces off against fellow revivals Every Brilliant Thing, Death of a Salesman, Fallen Angels, and Oedipus. 

Being the funniest of these shows won't guarantee it a win. But regardless of how Tony night goes, we urge you to see Becky Shaw while you still can, because Alden Ehrenreich is on fire as the morally gray Max. 

The wide-eyed actor who starred in Solo and stole scenes in Hail, Caesar! is ruthlessly intense as the Slater family's fixer. He says the tough thing without blinking. He makes the move others fear to. He's an absolute bastard, but mesmerizing as he drops devastating witticisms and hard truths. Incredibly, even as his actions urge us to loathe Max, Ehrenreich's flickering vulnerability won't let us. See him do this emotional tightrope walk before Becky Shaw closes. — K.P.

Tony nominations: Best Revival of a Play, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play — Alden Ehrenreich

How to watch: Becky Shaw is now playing on Broadway until June 14. 

Oedipus

What's it about? Playwright and director Robert Icke re-contextualizes Sophocles' Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex as a contemporary political thriller. Mark Strong stars as the eponymous tragic hero, who, in this version, is an idealistic politician under great strain on election night. One of his campaign promises is that he'd release his birth certificate and uncover the truth of how the old ruler, King Laius, died. However, his adviser Creon (John Carroll Lynch) and wife Jocasta (Lesley Manville) urge him to let sleeping dogs lie. After all, Jocasta was married to Laius back then. Revelations could get messy. Of course, a modern audience likely knows what the truth is going in. So watching Oedipus determinedly stomp toward his own destruction is a nerve-shredding experience, sharpened by a countdown clock that emphasizes the incoming moment that will change everything.

Why we love it: Staged in a simple office setting, Oedipus created a claustrophobic feel, where we're trapped with this family in the reality they've built. Strong and Manville are phenomenal together, sharing an electric sexual chemistry that is on full display as husband and wife find pleasure in each other's flesh. Of course, as the truth begins to come out, their world shatters. And Manville was, in particular, riveting. As I cheered in our Best of 2025 Theater experiences round-up, "She delivers monologues that radiate with rage and pain, and still rattle in my head days later. When she declares, 'Cowardice is sometimes the cost of survival,' I felt my heart crumble for her. And I could see by the counter, we still had a ways to go before the terrible, tragic end. A nail-biter, indeed." — K.P.

Tony nominations: Best Revival of a Play, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play — Mark Strong, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play — Lesley Manville, Best Direction of a Play, Best Scenic Design of a Play, Best Lighting Design of a Play, Best Sound Design of a Play

How to watch: Oedipus has closed.

The Tony Awards will air live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, June 7, 2026 (8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT) on CBS. The Tonys will be streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S., preceded by The Tony Awards: Act One on Pluto TV.

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Pride is a time in which everyone under the LGBTQ+ umbrella is encouraged to come out and wave their flag in spectacular parades. But for every wild night out, we might need a cozy night in, perhaps with a movie that keeps the party going?

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Whether you're in the mood for a thigh-slapping comedy, a heart-wrenching drama, a pulse-pounding romance, a mind-expanding documentary, or spine-tingling horror, we've got you covered.

Here is a sensational selection of LGBTQ+ movies to watch this Pride and beyond.

1. The People's Joker (2022) Credit: Altered Innocence

The most original comic book movie in years just so happens to be a trans coming-of-age story. In The People's Joker, director Vera Drew (who also co-wrote, edited, and stars in the film) plays a closeted trans woman who leaves her hometown of Smallville to pursue her dreams of becoming a comedian in Gotham City. In this wacky political parody of the DC universe, Batman is the villain and Gotham has become a fascist police state where comedy is outlawed, Bat Drones surveil the city, and doctors prescribe an antidepressant gas that forces people to smile. After Drew's aspiring comic starts an underground anti-comedy club that becomes a hangout for Batman villains, she falls for Mr. J, a transmasc Joker who helps her come out and transition — from Joker to Harlequin, as she says. 

A playful riff on the age-old trans-women-as-villains stereotype in media, Drew brilliantly creates her own fusion of Joker and Harley Quinn to tell a complex story of a woman finding herself amid systems of abuse and oppression. Warner Bros. could never dream of making something this inventive. — Oliver Whitney, Contributing Writer

How to watch: The People's Joker is streaming on MUBI, and is available to rent or purchase on Apple TV, Prime Video, and Google Play.

2. I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Credit: A24

Anyone who felt like an outsider as a kid and relied on fiction to escape their reality, and especially especially queer and trans folks, will find something relatable in I Saw the TV Glow. Jane Schoenbrun's film manages to beautifully and hauntingly capture the power of escaping and coping through fictional worlds, only with the added layer of gender dysphoria.

In I Saw the TV Glow, teenage friends Owen (Justice Smith) and Maddy (Jack Haven) are obsessed with a show about two psychic teen girls, blurring the line between their lives and what's on the screen. We follow Owen over the years as he goes from depressed teen to depressed adult, frozen into a shell of a person. While Schoenbrun's characters aren't explicitly trans, it's not hard to see the parallels to an experience of being an egg, dysphoria, and feeling trapped and afraid to transition to one's truer self. Emotional and devastating — in a Charlie Kaufman kinda way —  I Saw the TV Glow is a masterful meditation on nostalgia, escapism, and the painful journey of finding yourself. — O.W.

How to watch: I Saw the TV Glow is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

3. Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

A super gay, super steamy crime thriller cloaked in neon lights and splattered with blood and sweat — what more could you ask for? Set in the ‘80s, Love Lies Bleeding stars Kristen Stewart as Lou, a reserved gym manager in New Mexico. She sets her eyes on Jackie (Katy O'Brian), a jacked bodybuilder passing through town on her way to Vegas. In classic U-Haul style, the two immediately hit it off, fall in love, and move in together, but soon their blissful romance becomes interrupted by Lou's violent family. Oozing with moody visuals, a tense synth-heavy score, and plenty of sex appeal, Rose Glass' Love Lies Bleeding will scratch the itch for anyone craving a lesbian neo-noir that feels like “San Junipero” crossed with a Coen Brothers' thriller. — O.W.

How to watch: Love Lies Bleeding is available for rent or purchase on Fandango at Home and Prime Video. 

SEE ALSO: 'Love Lies Bleeding' Interview: Kristen Stewart on the female gaze vs. the male gaze. 4. L'immensità (2022)

With L'immensità, we get something incredibly rare and long overdue — a story about a young trans boy grappling with gender identity, told by an actual trans filmmaker. The semi-autobiographical film is based on Italian writer/director Emanuele Crialese's own childhood and his memories of growing up in 1970s Rome. 

Penélope Cruz plays Clara, a mother of three young kids and the wife of a distant, abusive husband. Clara's eldest introduces himself as Andrea, yet the rest of his family still call him by his female birth name, Adriana, and claim he's only pretending to be a boy. Refusing to hide himself, he confidently rocks a handsome short haircut, wears masculine jumpsuits, and tells his mother he feels like an alien from another galaxy. L'immensità is reminiscent of Céline Sciamma's Tomboy in how it captures the world through the eyes of a child struggling to understand his gender without the language or guidance. Yet it's also something wholly its own and personal, and carries the authenticity of being told from a trans experience. — O.W.

How to watch: L'immensità is streaming on Kanopy and Hoopla and available for rent or purchase on Prime Video.

5. Fire Island (2022) Credit: Jeong Park / Searchlight

Calling all queers who love Pride and Prejudice, Fire Island is the movie for you! This gay revamp of the Jane Austen classic swaps the 19th-century social decorums and hetero romance for slutty underwear parties, drag bars, and plenty of messy drama set in the titular Long Island gay vacation spot. In director Andrew Ahn's film, Joel Kim Booster (who also wrote the screenplay) plays Noah, a bookish nurse from Brooklyn, and our Elizabeth Bennet. Enter our Mr. Darcy: a standoffish lawyer named Will (Conrad Ricamora) whose judgy attitude and reserved nature immediately turn Noah off. Eventually Noah warms to Will's charms, and the two get their Pride and Prejudice love story, iconic rain scene and all. What's most impressive about Fire Island is how it uses the classic straight romance to bring elements of gay male culture to the screen, earnestly touching on racism and fatphobia in the gay community, as well as telling a story with a predominately BIPOC cast and multiple Asian leads. — O.W.

How to watch: Fire Island is streaming on Hulu.

SEE ALSO: Joe Wright reveals much-memed 'Pride and Prejudice' line came from Emma Thompson 6. Maggots and Men (2009)

Maggots and Men, a film you've likely never heard of, is a radical vision of gender utopia and revolution that happens to have the largest cast of trans actors — and even more groundbreaking, of transmasculine actors — in any film, ever. 

An experimental work of historical fiction, Maggots and Men reimagines the true story of the 1921 Kronstadt uprising in which a group of sailors launched a revolt against the Bolshevik Party in post-revolutionary Russia. The film jumps between a theater troupe performance narrating the story and scenes of sailors in leisure and revolt, told with filmmaking techniques that wink at Soviet cinema and the Czech New Wave. But you don't need to understand the revolutionary politics of the time or be a film nerd to appreciate the brilliant way filmmaker Cary Cronenwett uses his cast to envision an alternate world of liberated, self-made masculinity. Here, transmasc bodies openly frolic, swim, and work in the glistening sunshine. It's a film for anyone longing to spend some time in a world where trans bodies exist openly and freely, outside the constraints of cis-centric gender norms. — O.W.

How to watch: Maggots and Men is streaming on The Criterion Channel. 

7. Maurice (1987)

Before Call Me By Your Name, there was Maurice. In the gay period drama from beloved and recently out gay filmmaker James Ivory (who wrote the screenplay for Call Me by Your Name), we follow a young man's journey of sexual acceptance in 20th-century London. While studying at Cambridge, Maurice (James Wilby) and his closest friend Clive (Hugh Grant) soon discover that what they feel for each other is deeper than any mere friendship. As time passes and the two men must leave school to enter a society where being gay is highly criminalized, Clive must decide whether or not to embrace his sexuality. Told with tenderness and sensitivity, Maurice will make your heart ache and flutter in the best of ways. — O.W.

How to watch: Maurice is streaming on Kanopy, Philo, Cineverse, and Fandor, and is available for rent or purchase on Prime Video.

8. T-Blockers (2023)

Rarely do we get the treat of an ultra-low budget campy horror film these days, especially one about a trans vigilante hunting down hateful men. In T-Blockers, the young Australian filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay translates the current political attacks on trans existence into a pulpy sci-fi horror story where the types of men who listen to Jordan Peterson become injected with brain worms that turn them into seething, anti-trans, flesh-eating zombies. After Sophie (Lauren Last), a struggling trans filmmaker, discovers she has the power to sense these monsters, she recruits her friends to take justice into their own hands.

With campy B-movie aesthetics reminiscent of Ed Wood mixed with the queer, punk energy of Gregg Araki films, T-Blockers is stylized, gory, and has a very DIY feel — after all, Mackay made the film when she was 17 years old on a teeny budget of $10,000. It's the kinda movie you'd discover in an old video store as a teen and obsess over with your weirdo friends. — O.W.

How to watch: T-Blockers is streaming Shudder and Philo and available for rent or purchase on Prime Video. 

9. All of Us Strangers (2023) Credit: Searchlight Pictures

One of our favorite films from 2023, writer/director Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers tells a tale surreal and deeply personal. Adapted from Taichi Yamada's 1987 novel Strangers, this horror-laced drama was shot in part in Haigh's childhood home. There, a lonely screenwriter (Ripley's Andrew Scott) visits the ghosts of his long-dead parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy), allowing them to get to know him as the adult they did not in the intervening decades. This includes an unexpectedly cathartic coming-out arc. Yet as tender and sad as this drama is, it's also alive with love and lust — the latter thanks to Scott's onscreen romance with Aftersun's Paul Mescal, who plays a neighbor is desperate need of human connection. Altogether, this ensemble offers a movie that will make your spirit soar, your pulse race, and your heart shatter. — Kristy Puchko, Entertainment Editor

How to watch: All of Us Strangers is available to rent or buy on Apple TV and Prime Video.

10. The Queen (1968)

You may have seen Paris Is Burning, but have you seen The Queen? Frank Simon's seminal 1968 documentary details the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant, a competitive drag pageant put together by trans and drag icon Flawless Sabrina. Simon's recently restored doc is so many things at once: an archival treasure of early drag performances, an intimate look at the lives of queer men and trans women offstage, and, most famously, a record of one infamous incident that would later give way to the birth of house culture and the ballroom scene: Crystal LaBeija's scorching tirade to the camera after losing to a white queen. LaBeija later went on to found the seminal House of LaBeija, which led to the very inception of ball culture we see in Paris is Burning, and has been massively influential to Black queer culture today. As an artifact of lost and, to many, largely unknown queer history, The Queen is essential Pride viewing, and honestly, essential every damn day viewing. — O.W.

How to watch: The Queen is streaming on Kanopy and Tubi and available for rent or purchase on Prime Video.

11. Rope (1948) Credit: Snap / Shutterstock

Rope may be known to most as Hitchcock's experimental attempt to shoot an entire film in what appears to be a single shot, but it's also the filmmaker’s gayest. The classic psychological thriller is about a gay couple who murders a man, then throws a dinner party using the trunk the dead body is in as the buffet — quite literally "be gay, do crime," Hitchcock-style. Of course, this was 1948, and that queerness is all subtext, but it roars to the surface thanks to gay screenwriter Arthur Laurents' script and performances by its notably gay leads: Farley Granger, who plays Phillip Morgan with an anxious flamboyance, and John Dall, whose Brandon Shaw embodies a more reserved, posh queerness. That's not even to mention the oozing eroticism of the opening scene — a closed curtain, a roaring scream, a shot of man sandwiched between two others with a rope around his neck. Oh, the abhorrent perversions two (or more) men commit behind closed doors! — O.W.

How to watch: Rope is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

12. The Stroll (2023) Credit: HBO Documentary Films

There's nothing more powerful and more urgently needed than trans people telling their own stories. In The Stroll, filmmaker Kristen Lovell (making her directorial debut alongside co-director Zackary Drucker) does exactly that, gathering the trans folks she worked with in Manhattan's Meatpacking District to recount the history of The Stroll, an area that was a hub for trans sex workers from the 1970s through the early 2000s. The women and nonbinary interviewees recount not only the horrific police violence and neighborhood harassment they constantly faced, but, and perhaps most significantly, they speak to how The Stroll helped them find a resilient community that enabled them to survive. 

Through a mix of interviews, collage-style animation, and archival footage — including some possibly never-before-seen late footage of trans heroine Sylvia Rivera and an ultra-cringe clip from The RuPaul Show — Lovell and Drucker, who are both trans, achieve something beyond the reach of most cis filmmakers. In place of sorrowful trauma porn, the directing duo create a stunning ode to the power and resilience of trans sisterhood. The Stroll isn't only an essential document of trans history, it's a revitalizing reminder for trans folks that together we have the power to pave a path for a better trans future. — O.W.

How to watch: The Stroll is now streaming on HBO Max.

13. Bottoms (2023) Credit: Orion Pictures

Craving a raunchy teen comedy that'll have you howling with laughter? Bottoms delivers. The Bear's breakout It Girl Ayo Edebiri stars with Bodies Bodies Bodies' Rachel Sennott (who reunites with Shiva Baby's director Emma Seligman). Together, they craft a tale of an all-girls fight club created to help two "ugly and untalented" gays, Josie (Edebiri) and PJ (Sennott), hook up with their cheerleader crushes. One good lie leads to a violent after-school activity, homemade explosives, sloppy sexcapades, and the most bizarre scene involving pineapple juice you'll ever see. But that's not all. With a wicked wit, Bottoms not only roasts the supposed "glory days" of teendom but also takes shots at rape culture, pushes queer lust to awkward (and relatably so) places, and brings on the blood. This comedy went so hard it not only had critics raving, it had audiences cheering out of its SXSW premiere and ever since.* — K.P.

How to watch: Bottoms is now streaming on MGM+ and available for rent or purchase on Prime Video.

14. Dressed in Blue (1983)

Watching Dressed in Blue for the first time feels like discovering a long-lost treasure, one you almost can't believe exists and only wish you'd seen sooner. This docudrama from Antonio Giménez-Rico mixes docu-style interviews with narrative reenactments to tell the life stories of six Spanish trans women living in post-Franco Madrid. Josette, Loren, René, Eva, Nacha, and Tamara gather in the dazzling Palacio de Cristal in Madrid to trade stories, gossip, bicker, giggle, and gossip some more as Giménez-Rico jumps in and out of scripted moments of their pasts. The unique framing gives the film something of an ethereal quality, especially paired with Teo Escamilla's dreamy cinematography that imbues each woman with a glowy, almost goddess-like aspect. Depictions of trans life have long been victim to the gaze of cis creators, and though this film from a cis male director is no exception, Dressed in Blue does feel like something of an anomaly, especially for its time, by allowing these women more agency in recounting their most private memories. — O.W.

How to watch: Dressed in Blue is available for rent or purchase on Prime Video, Apple TV, and YouTube.

15. Born in Flames (1983) Credit: First Run Features / Kobal / Shutterstock

For anyone in need of some radical-as-hell queer dystopian fiction during these increasingly dark and fascistic political times, Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames will prove to be a most satisfying balm. Set in a futuristic New York City after a socialist revolution, the film imagines America living under democratic socialism, but where the promises of that society are proving unfulfilled. Droves of women are losing their jobs, sexism and racism run rampant, and a queer Black revolutionary has just been captured and murdered by the state. This kicks off a new fiery revolt where feminist groups led by two radical radio hosts team up to take action into their own hands, from plotting direct action in underground meetings to teaching squads of women how to shoot rifles. 

This searing anti-capitalist, anti-racist, pro-feminist treatise is as relevant as ever. Hearing one queer radio DJ shout, "We're being murdered out there in the streets. Wake up, it's time to fight!" you can’t help but feel the parallels to the current attacks on queer and trans life and bodily autonomy happening in this country today. — O.W.

How to watch: Born in Flames is streaming on Kanopy and The Criterion Channel, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV.

16. Bound (1996) Credit: Moviestore / Shutterstock

A lesbian neo-noir directed by two trans women — there has never been a better combination of words. Bound, the debut feature from Lilly and Lana Wachowski, is a cult favorite for a reason, or maybe 10. It features Gina Gershon playing a tough-as-nails butch lesbian named Corky (just a year after Showgirls' Cristal Connors, mind you), who falls for her sultry femme fatale neighbor, Violet (Jennifer Tilly). This is no mere queer romance though, but a razor-sharp crime thriller where two ordinary women decide to rip off the mob. Violet's abusive boyfriend (a perfect Joe Pantoliano) is about to come into a load of cash, so why not steal it, frame him, and make a getaway for it? Any casual Wachowskis fan can see the sisters' stylistic fingerprints all over Bound, but it's especially a pleasure to see the ways the two spice up classic noir genre conventions with queer sex, startling violence, and a whole lot of queer badassery. — O.W.

How to watch: Bound is streaming on MGM+ and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video. 

17. No Ordinary Man (2020)

There are myriad ways to make a documentary about historical figures, but in No Ordinary Man, Chase Joynt and Aisling Chin-Yee take a unique and even risky creative approach that lands beautifully. To tell the story of Billy Tipton, a jazz musician whose stealth trans status was outed after his death and grossly mistreated for years in the press, No Ordinary Man looks to today's trans community to search for the lost and ignored truths of his life. Joynt and Chin-Yee invite a collection of transmasculine actors to read scenes from a narrative script about Tipton's life. This manifests into something profound, with each actor wrestling with how to portray a man who lived at a time where his transness had to remain secret, and with close to no models to shape himself after. It's a fascinating and incredibly moving creative exercise that both attempts to repair the painful history attached to Tipton's legacy, and showcases the necessity for trans performers to embody the roles of trans characters. — O.W.

How to watch: No Ordinary Man is streaming on Kanopy, and is available for rent or purchase on Prime Video.

18. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Credit: HBO

One of the absolute best films of 2022, Laura Poitras' Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed manages to accomplish multiple things: documenting the activism of acclaimed photographer Nan Goldin in a tireless pursuit to takedown the wealthy family responsible for the opioid epidemic, commemorating the vast cultural significance of Goldin's art, and detailing the personal life of the woman behind the camera. A prominent name in the 1980s New York City art scene, Goldin, who identifies as queer, is most known for her visceral, probing photography that captured a community ignored not just by the art world but by the entire world — queer and trans folks, sex workers, and those living with and dying from HIV/AIDS. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed fuses past and present, the individual and the collective, to tell a story that's achingly human, full of urgency and rage yet still simmering with hope. — O.W.

How to watch: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is streaming on HBO Max and is available to rent or purchase on Prime Video.

19. Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses is an absolute trip, and it might be one of the most enthralling pieces of filmmaking about trans femininity. This 1969 Japanese New Wave film fuses avant-garde editing with meta-documentary style filmmaking and non-linear storytelling to follow Eddie (played by androgynous cis actor Peter), a trans woman who works as a hostess at a gay bar — the lines between trans and gay identity are messy at best, given when this was made. With jarring editing, we're torn between Eddie's love triangle with the bar's owner and his other mistress, fragmented memories of a traumatic childhood incident, and meta-interviews with the other trans bar hostesses. It's all quite disturbing and disorienting, both aesthetically and thematically, and that's kinda of the point — as critic Willow Maclay has written, Matsumoto's film "mirrors the breaking down of gendered perception through the destruction of cinematic form." It's the kinda thing you just need to watch to get, and maybe more than once. — O.W.

How to watch: Funeral Parade of Roses is streaming on Kanopy and NightFlight+.

20. God's Own Country (2017)

Sometimes gay romance dramas are tender, and sometimes they're just super hot. God's Own Country holds the honor of being both, leaving you crying one moment and indescribably turned on the next. Set on a farm in the Yorkshire countryside, Francis Lee's film traces the lonely and pained day-to-day life of Johnny (Josh O'Connor), a young gay man who buries his anger at his father with binge drinking and anonymous hookups. But when Gheorghe (Alec Secăreanu) arrives for a short stint to work at the farm, something shifts, and the newcomer's presence begins to melt Johnny’s hardened aggression. A sweet gentleness blossoms, along with one of the hottest (and muddiest) sex scenes in recent memory. If sexy emotional gay farmcore was a movie, this would be it. — O.W.

How to watch: God’s Own Country is streaming on Kanopy and Tubi, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

21. Shinjuku Boys (1995)

It’s the mid-'90s in Tokyo, and you walk into the New Marilyn nightclub. You're suddenly charmed by a flock of dapper studs in flashy suits with cool-as-ever haircuts. It's a paradise of transmasc cuties.

In Shinjuku Boys, a short documentary from Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, we meet three transmasculine folks who work at a nightclub that caters to doting female customers. Tatsu, Gaish, and Kazuki, who all use he/him pronouns, describe themselves as "onabe," a broad Japanese term that's been used to describe a variety of identities from trans man to butch lesbian. The doc captures a rarely seen slice of transmasc life (including some not-so-great toxic masc behavior), and offers a series of incredibly raw interviews that speak to things not often shown in film. From personal disclosures about sex and dysphoria to a T4T couple lovingly gushing over how seen they feel by one another, Shinjuku Boys is a snapshot of a unique and little-known piece of Japanese trans history. — O.W.

How to watch: Shinjuku Boys is streaming on Kanopy.

22. Sylvia Scarlett (1935) Credit: Rko / Kobal / Shutterstock

It's Katharine Hepburn in masc drag, what more could you need? How about her looking as dashing as ever in a fedora and popped collar, flirting with Cary Grant and Brian Aherne and confusing the hell out of them both? In this 1935 film that marks the first collaboration between Hollywood gay icons Hepburn, Grant, and director George Cukor, Hepburn plays Sylvia, the meek daughter of a bookkeeper who disguises herself as a boy to help her father flee gambling debts. Now going by the name Sylvester, Hepburn's character finds a swaggering confidence around other men while passing as one. Released during the start of the Hays Code, Sylvia Scarlett was a daring risk, and today remains a fascinating exploration of gender play, queer desire, and the inner empowerment one can discover in distorting gender expectations. — O.W.

How to watch: Sylvia Scarlett is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV, Prime Video, and VUDU.

23. Changing the Game (2021)

When Changing the Game was released in 2021, it felt like a dire time for trans athletes in America — at the time, 17 anti-LGBTQ+ bills had been passed. As of 2026, of the current proposed 793 anti-trans bills, 55 were passed. A large chunk of these bills have specifically targeted trans kids who just want to play sports, and more than ever, Changing the Game remains a crucial film that highlights the experiences of young trans athletes. 

The documentary from Michael Barnett follows Mack, a trans boy who's the Texas state wrestling champion...of girls' wrestling; Andraya, a Connecticut track star who, though able to compete on her school's girls team, is met with harassment from parents; and Sarah, an alpine skier who splits her free time between activism and a makeup vlog. While circumstances have only gotten horrifically worse for trans youth, Changing the Game is a reminder that the resilience and diehard activism of younger trans generations won't be dying down anytime soon. — O.W.

How to watch: Changing the Game is streaming on Hulu.

24. Desert Hearts (1985) Credit: Moviestore / Shutterstock

Set in 1959, Donna Deitch's indie classic Desert Hearts finds Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver), a straight-laced English professor dressed in pearls and a skirt suit, arriving in dusty Reno to file for a quick divorce. The first time she meets Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), an openly queer, free-wheeling local, Cay's riotously racing down the highway backwards, like a lesbian James Dean straight out of Rebel Without a Cause. It's a classic story of opposites attracting as Cay begins to pursue the hesitant and old-fashioned Vivian. Brimming with quiet passion and yearning, and lit stunningly by master cinematographer Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts is a must-watch for any lover of queer cinema. — O.W.

How to watch: Desert Hearts is streaming on The Criterion Channel and HBO Max.

25. Adam (2019)

Filmmaker Rhys Ernst's directorial debut does something unexpected and controversial: It portrays an authentic transmasculine experience, but without a trans character as the lead. In Adam, Nicholas Alexander (a cis male actor) plays Adam, a cis male character who, after stumbling into New York City's queer scene, winds up pretending to be a trans guy. It sounds terrible, I know! But hear me out — Adam uses this scenario to flip expectations and, in the process, center transness while putting cis perspectives on the sidelines. Ernst (a trans man) does this through the friendship between Adam and trans man Ethan (The L Word: Gen Q's Leo Sheng). Their relationship proposes an alternative to a world where trans men grow up learning about masculinity (very often toxic) and sexuality (also often toxic) from a cis-centric perspective. Here, Adam comes of age through the wisdom of a man who has deeply investigated his relationship to conventional masculinity. Though a divisive film, Adam's worth seeing for the complex conversations it'll give way to. — O.W.

How to watch: Adam is streaming on Kanopy, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

26. Colette (2018) Credit: Bleeker Street Media / Moviestore / Shutterstock

The only thing better than a Keira Knightley period piece? An unabashedly queer one. In Colette, Knightley portrays the titular famous French novelist best known for her 1944 work, Gigi, who for years was the ghostwriter of novels her husband took credit for. Wash Westmoreland's film isn't most interesting as a literary biopic, though, but for the way it spotlights how Colette was openly and radically queer, especially for the early 20th century. Knightley's Colette has affairs with women, including a long relationship with Mathilde De Morny, a French trans man and aristocrat referred to as Max and Missy throughout history (though played here by cis actress Denise Gough). Their onstage kiss at the Moulin Rouge in 1907 famously sparked a riot. — O.W.

How to watch: Colette is streaming on Kanopy and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

27. The Aggressives (2005)

In Daniel Peddle's documentary, there's one thing that each of his five subjects has in common: They all identify as "Aggressives," or "AG." That term can mean vastly different things from one person to the next. For Octavia, they're just a person who dresses like a dude with dude ways, while to Tiffany, it means carrying a femme-aggressive attitude and acting more like a gay guy. Rjai, on the other hand, is a ballroom champ with rows of trophies for walking in both masc and butch categories. And then there's Marquise Vilson, who binds his chest and describes himself as a trans lesbian; he's gone on to become a notable trans actor. Peddle's film is a rare document of Black and brown butch, transmasc, and gender nonconforming folks in early aughts New York City that remains a beautiful showcase of the expansiveness of gender identity and expression outside the binary. — O.W.

How to watch: The Aggressives is streaming on Kanopy and Tubi, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV.

28. Caravaggio (1986)

If you like your historical dramas ripe with unabashed queerness, look no further than the work of master British filmmaker Derek Jarman. In Caravaggio, Jarman queers the history of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio by taking the highly homoerotic subtext of his work (along with age-old suspicions about his sexuality) and injecting it right into the text, reimagining the artist in openly gay affairs. This dazzling and layered meditation, with a mise-en-scène that evokes the compositions of a Caravaggio painting, finds the artist (played by Nigel Terry) engaged in romances with a street fighter (Sean Bean) and his girlfriend (Tilda Swinton). Even with no knowledge of Caravaggio or art history, Jarman's film is quite a trip, and one bubbling with queer desire. — O.W.

How to watch: Caravaggio is streaming on Kanopy.

29. Anything's Possible (2022)

A sweet coming-of-age romantic comedy where a young trans girl gets to be charmed and loved and swept off her feet like every other woman of rom-coms' past? Yes, please! Anything's Possible is the directorial debut from Billy Porter, with a script by trans screenwriter Ximena García Lecuona. Eva Reign stars as Kelsa, a high school senior who starts crushing on Khal (Abubakr Ali). The two flirt, go on a cute first date, and romance begins to brew. But jealousy and backlash from Kelsa's friend group gets ignited, and for the first time, Kelsa's transness becomes a topic of fiery attention at her school — and in her relationship. Anything's Possible has all the charm of a teen rom-com like To All the Boys I've Loved Before, but centers the story on a trans girl without making her identity the sole focus of her character. — O.W.

How to watch: Anything's Possible is streaming on Prime Video.

30. Dicks: The Musical (2023) Credit: A24

Imagine The Parent Trap as a scorching satire of queer culture and homophobic fears, and you'll get some idea of what's in store with writers/stars Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson's outrageous musical comedy. But nothing can prepare you for Megan Thee Stallion's ode to putting alpha males in their place, or the madcap chaos of Megan Mullally's ad-libbing, or even national treasure Nathan Lane spitting ham at his beloved Sewer Boys. It's also got Bowen Yang as God, and a finale number that is as joyous as it is absolutely iconoclastic. Seeking something unapologetically outrageous? Nothing made us laugh as hard or loud or long as Dicks: The Musical.* — K.P.

How to watch: Dicks: The Musical is streaming on Pluto TV and available to rent or purchase on Prime Video.

31. Disclosure (2020)

Ask anyone over 20 to name the first time they saw a trans character portrayed on screen, and it'll likely fall into one of the following categories: a villainous monster, a mocked disgrace, or a sad tragedy ending in death. Sam Feder's documentary Disclosure charts the history of transness depicted across film and TV, showing that from cinema's silent origins to the modern series of today, trans people have always been present, but largely only to be derided, misrepresented, and gawked at. With a mix of archival footage and talking head interviews with dozens of trans actors, directors, and authors, Disclosure offers a rare glimpse of a trans perspective on the painful history of representation in media. It's vital educational viewing for cis audiences. For trans folks, it provides a cathartic look back on an ugly history, but with a hopeful promise of what visibility can look like. — O.W.

How to watch: Disclosure is streaming on Netflix.

32. The Matrix (1999) Credit: Moviestore / Shutterstock

What better way to celebrate Pride than by watching the most famous trans movie of all time, The Matrix? (It's canon, deal with it.) The sci-fi action epic may not be explicitly trans on the surface, but as trans critics and audiences over the years have observed, Neo's tale down the rabbit hole is littered with subtextual allusions to trans identity. There's the red/blue pill "splinter in your mind" metaphor for hormone therapy, the "waking up" and "unplugging" from the Matrix as a realization of one's gender when the egg shell cracks, the fact that Neo keeps getting deadnamed by Agent Smith, the whole essence of Trinity — you can go on and on. Read this sci-fi classic how you will, but once you start spotting all the trans symbolism, in the words of Morpheus, "There's no turning back." — O.W.

How to watch: The Matrix is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

33. Swan Song (2021) Credit: Chris Stephens / Magnolia Pictures

Inspired by the real-life "Liberace of Sandusky, [Ohio]," Swan Song stars heralded character actor Udo Kier as a Mr. Pat, a retired and unapologetically flamboyant hairdresser out to secure his legacy with one last hurrah of a hairdo. Striding back into his old haunts to reconcile with his past, this wickedly funny hero finds new friends, old foes, and the glory of a mint-green vintage suit. With a fine wit, bold style, and a big heart, writer/director Todd Stephens' film pays dazzling tribute to a generation of gay men who were decimated by AIDS and societal indifference. Swirling together rage and gratitude into an intoxicating cocktail, Kier gives the best performance of his long and storied career.* — K.P.

How to watch: Swan Song is streaming on Kanopy and available for rent or purchase on Prime Video.

34. Moonlight (2016) Credit: David Bornfriend / A24 / Kobal / Shutterstock

Director Barry Jenkins' Academy Award-winning Best Picture may use some of the formulaic components seen in other coming-of-age stories, but it imbues them with such immense inventiveness and originality that to compare Moonlight to anything else feels like an insult. This film has rightly been called some of the most impactful filmmaking in history, a perennial meditation on abuse, regret, pain, and acceptance. — Alison Foreman, Entertainment Reporter

How to watch: Moonlight is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

35. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is always best enjoyed on the stage. But when a visit to the theater isn't an option, director and star John Cameron Mitchell's screen adaptation more than does the trick. In this musical dramedy, Stephen Trask's spectacular songs once again come to life as the titular and iconic East German rock singer explores revenge, betrayal, and acceptance. — A.F.

How to watch: Hedwig and the Angry Inch is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

36-38. The Fear Street Trilogy (2021) Credit: Netflix

A stellar example of queer horror hit in three parts in 2021, when R.L. Stine's beloved YA book series inspired a slasher trilogy centered on a lesbian couple. Kiana Madeira and Olivia Scott Welch are suffering the standard torments of teendom when the local legend of a vicious witch upends their lives — and may end them! Director Leigh Janiak ushers audiences through three eras of terror, chasing her heroes through shopping malls, summer camps, and colonial forests to unearth the dark truth of Shadyside. — K.P.

How to watch: Fear Street: Part One: 1994 is streaming on Netflix.

How to watch: Fear Street: Part Two: 1978 is streaming on Netflix.

How to watch: Fear Street: Part Three: 1666 is streaming on Netflix.

SEE ALSO: Netflix kicks off R.L. Stine's 'Fear Street' saga with a splash 39. The Watermelon Woman (1996) Credit: Dancing Girl / Kobal / Shutterstock

Director Cheryl Dunye's cinematic debut brings utter fearlessness to righting wrongs. In this romantic comedy, Dunye plays a pseudo-autobiographical version of herself intent on giving credit to the Black actors and filmmakers that came before her but were too often left unnamed. Widely regarded as the first feature-length film directed by an openly lesbian Black woman, The Watermelon Woman remains a triumph almost 30 years later. — A.F.

How to watch: The Watermelon Woman is streaming on Kanopy and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV.

40. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

In this charming, sexy, and silly comedy from Stephen Frears, Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day-Lewis play childhood friends-turned-lovers struggling to make the most of their meager means. When the pair take over a laundromat together, they must face the normal pitfalls of operating a business as well as battle the political climate surrounding immigrants in '80s Great Britain. — A.F.

How to watch: My Beautiful Laundrette is available to rent or purchase on Apple TV and Fandango at Home.

41. Rift (2017)

Want something uniquely chilling? Then check out this 2017 Icelandic thriller set in a frigid and frightful landscape. Written and directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen, Rift follows a man (Björn Stefánsson) to a remote cabin, where he hopes to help his distraught ex-boyfriend (Sigurður Þór Óskarsson) and maybe find some closure over their breakup. However, their reunion is rattled by a series of strange events that suggest they aren't alone. Something is in the darkness, watching and waiting. This fantastic film lures you in with beautiful vistas and a slow-burn pace, then spirals into scares sure to linger like a cold shiver down your spine.* — K.P.

How to watch: Rift is streaming on Kanopy and is available to rent or purchase on Prime Video.

42. Carol (2016)

Based on Patricia Highsmith's groundbreaking 1952 novel, Todd Haynes' Carol brings the lives of Carol Aird and Therese Belivet to the screen through actors Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. This masterful rendition of a Christmas-set romance will pull at your heartstrings in all of the right ways, permanently nestling into a corner of your soul. — A.F.

How to watch: Carol is streaming on Hulu and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV.

SEE ALSO: 'The Babadook' filmmaker Jennifer Kent on how her character became an LGBTQ+ icon, and why we will never see a sequel 43. Benedetta (2021) Credit: IFC Films

When you hear that the director of Showgirls made a movie about lesbian nuns, you might suspect Benedetta to be outlandishly raunchy and ferociously campy, reveling in the trashy tropes. However, Paul Verhoeven brings exquisite artistry to this stranger-than-fiction tale, delivering a biopic full of outrageous moments with a sophisticated yet wicked wit. Virginie Efira stars as 17th-century Italian nun Benedetta Carlini, who drew raised eyebrows in her convent not only because of the miracles she seemed to perform but also because of her romance with a fellow sister (Daphne Patakia). — K.P.

How to watch: Benedetta is streaming on AMC+, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

SEE ALSO: 'Benedetta' is a sexy nun biopic with wicked wit 44. Weekend (2011)

Tom Cullen and Chris New redefine the chance encounter in director Andrew Haigh's Weekend. Told over the course of a 48-hour period, this stirring, passionate romance considers the impacts strangers can have on one another — even when their time together is cut all too short. — A.F.

How to watch: Weekend is streaming on The Criterion Channel and Kanopy, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

45. Tongues Untied (1989)

Artist Marlon Riggs' experimental film Tongues Untied addresses the onslaught of racist and homophobic prejudices Black gay men have been forced to endure and navigate for decades. Combining documentary footage with scripted personal accounts, this 55-minute film remains an impactful and relevant point of reference in intersectional LGBTQ+ activism. — A.F.

How to watch: Tongues Untied is streaming on Kanopy.

46. Love, Simon (2018)

Folks looking for a heartwarming, sweet, and goofy romp to accompany the perfect at-home Pride celebration can stop their search. Love, Simon, starring the always charming Nick Robinson, broke ground as the first major studio film to focus on a gay teen romance. Delightful as it is important, this movie combines the best of rom-coms and coming out stories to check every box on a movie lover's list. — A.F.

How to watch: Love, Simon is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV, Prime Video, YouTube, and Google Play.

SEE ALSO: 'Love, Simon' is a gotdamn delightful rom-com, and it's gay as hell 47. Shiva Baby (2021) Credit: Utopia

Here's a nightmare scenario: You're a young, bi Jewish woman (Rachel Sennott) who just finished hooking up with one of your sex-work clients — he's rich and cute and, hey, maybe you kinda like him. You show up at the shiva your parents dragged you to, and oh fuck, Sugar Daddy walks in…with a hot wife…holding a newborn baby. And he knows your parents. Oh, and your ex-girlfriend, who's been a total flake lately, is there too. Emma Seligman's debut feature is like the Jewish comedic version of Trey Edward Schults' Krisha, only it finds the humor (and the suffocating anxiety) in the chaos. And it does it all in only an hour and 17 minutes.* — O.W.

How to watch: Shiva Baby is streaming on Kanopy and Netflix, and is available to rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

SEE ALSO: 'The Film Library: A Kanopy Podcast' highlights the best movies you can stream with no fee 48. Happy Together (1997) Credit: Block 2 Pics / Kobal / Shutterstock

Directed by Wong Kar-wai, this nail-biting romantic saga depicts a tumultuous relationship on the brink of collapse. The film's leads, Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, explore passion and its limitations as Happy Together provides a unique, if not jarring, glimpse into affairs of the heart. — A.F.

How to watch: Happy Together is streaming on HBO Max.

49. But I'm a Cheerleader (2000)

Natasha Lyonne stars as a cheerleader forced to attend a conversion therapy camp in what may very well be the greatest lesbian fairytale of all time. Directed by Jamie Babbit, But I'm a Cheerleader was met with lukewarm reviews in 2000 but has since garnered a well-deserved cult following. Come for the promise of RuPaul trying to pretend he's straight; stay for a first kiss scene featuring Clea DuVall that will knock your pom-poms off. — A.F.

How to watch: But I'm a Cheerleader is streaming on Tubi and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

SEE ALSO: 21 years later, 'But I'm a Cheerleader' is still the perfect fairytale 50. Wig (2019)

One of the most iconic events of New York City Pride, Wigstock has taken many forms over the years. Watch as director Chris Moukarbel follows present-day queens as they attempt to revitalize the festival made popular by legends, like Lady Bunny, in 2018. — A.F.

How to watch: Wig is available to stream on HBO Max.

51. Velvet Goldmine (1998) Credit: Peter Mountain / Zenith / Killer / Kobal / Shutterstock

Another glittering gift from Todd Haynes, this '70s-set drama plays like fan fiction, penned about queer icons like David Bowie, Lou Reed, and Oscar Wilde. Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as a glam rock star who wins the heart of a headstrong American punk (Ewan McGregor), a glitzy party girl (Toni Collette), and the devotion of a young teen coming into his own (Christian Bale). Stuffed with incredible music, scintillating spectacle, and unapologetically queer lust, Velvet Goldmine is beautiful and bold even before you realize Haynes mopped its narrative structure from Citizen Kane. — K.P.

How to watch: Velvet Goldmine is now available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

52. Paris Is Burning (1990)

It's the film you knew had to be on this list. Director Jennie Livingston's unparalleled documentary Paris Is Burning captures the New York City drag ball culture of the late '80s with style, grace, and intelligence. It's a powerful reflection on wealth disparity, race discrimination, and stigma surrounding the LGBTQ+ community — a must-see if there's ever been one. — A.F.

How to watch: Paris Is Burning is streaming on The Criterion Channel and HBO Max, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV.

53. Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger shepherd a nuanced narrative of passion, fear, romance, and shame in director Ang Lee's tale of star-crossed lovers in rural Wyoming and Texas. A timeless reflection on what it takes to unite who you are expected to be with who you really are, Brokeback Mountain can be a little sappy — but its faultless message always lands. — A.F.

How to watch: Brokeback Mountain is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

54. How to Survive a Plague (2012)

Reporter David France looks back on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in this riveting, comprehensive documentary. Weaving hundreds of hours of archival footage into a cohesive narrative on the LGBTQ+ community's fight against biased healthcare practices, How to Survive a Plague bottles what it means to make societal change happen before it's too late. — A.F.

How to watch: How to Survive a Plague is streaming on Pluto TV, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

55. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Credit: Neon

Writer-director Céline Sciamma will blow you away with this historical French drama. Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel lead as a painter and her unwilling subject whose intimate time together begins a secret romance that threatens to unravel them both. Painful and poetic, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is the under-appreciated watch you need to make time for. — A.F.

How to watch: Portrait of a Lady on Fire is streaming on HBO Max and Kanopy, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

56. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, and Guy Pearce star as drag performers traveling the Australian outback in this heartfelt comedy packed with iconic one-liners and costume changes. (It should be noted that this film contains some outdated, racist portrayals of non-white characters. Many argue the film remains a historic text for the changes it brought about in mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ art.) — A.F.

How to watch: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is streaming on Tubi and available for rent or purchase on Prime Video.

57. Upstairs Inferno (2015)

Documentarian Robert L. Camina remembers the catastrophic fire that took the lives of 32 people at New Orleans gay bar UpStairs Lounge on June 24, 1973. Witnesses to the tragedy reflect on the lives lost, the expected arsonist behind the attack, and the city's lacking response to community devastation. This is a heartbreaking but essential chapter in any LGBTQ+ history book. — A.F.

How to watch: Upstairs Inferno is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

58. Kiki (2016)

There has never been a better time to revisit Sara Jordenö's breathtaking Kiki. Centered on the drag and ballroom scene of New York City and those communities' roles in rebuffing systemic intersectional bias, this documentary is an inspiring reminder that joy and love can bring about lasting change — but not without profound struggle. — A.F.

How to watch: Kiki is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

59. Pariah (2011) Credit: Chicken and Egg / MBK / Northstar / Kobal / Shutterstock

Adepero Oduye devastates in this coming-of-age story. A cinematic journey that leaps from the screen straight to your soul, Pariah follows a 17-year-old Black girl as she fights to accept her lesbian identity and reconcile her sexual orientation with her family's vision of the future. — A.F.

How to watch: Pariah is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

60. Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019)

Queer horror is a genre full of cringeworthy moves. But fans of the much-maligned A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge came to embrace its quirky dance number and its groundbreaking scream queen, Mark Patton. Teaming with documentarians Tyler Jensen and Roman Chimienti, this fascinating leading man steps back into the spotlight to share his story as a closeted gay actor who survived public mockery and the AIDS crisis to find a love and community that takes pride in him. — K.P.

How to watch: Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street is streaming on Tubi, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV.

61. The Favourite (2018)

Only star Olivia Colman walked away with an Oscar for her work on The Favourite, but the 2018 historical black comedy more than earned its fair share of praise. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, this Best Picture nominee tells the story of two courtiers, played by Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, vying for the favor of Queen Anne (Colman). An excellent argument against aristocracies — and owning too many rabbits — this darkly hilarious and queer romp is well worth a watch. — A.F.

How to watch: The Favourite is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV, Prime Video, YouTube, and Google Play.

62. We Were Here (2011)

Director David Weissman's documentary We Were Here transports viewers back to the San Francisco LGBTQ+ scene of the '80s and '90s as interview subjects relive their struggle to contend with the unfathomable HIV/AIDS crisis. A testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of community, this is a history lesson worth paying attention to. — A.F.

How to watch: We Were Here is streaming on Kanopy and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

63. Call Me by Your Name (2017)

Timothée Chalamet leads in director Luca Guadagnino's stunning coming-of-age romance. Winner of Best Adapted Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards, Call Me by Your Name approaches its starring couple with tenderness, understanding, and unshakable warmth. This is the perfect pick for a cozy-yet-ethereal night in. — A.F.

How to watch: Call Me by Your Name is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

SEE ALSO: 'Call Me By Your Name' is the rare case where you should watch the movie before reading the book 64. Tomboy (2011)

Another installment from writer-director Céline Sciamma. Tomboy paints a staggering portrait of a gender non-conforming child grappling with societal expectations in a new environment. Full of hope but grounded in its true-to-life performances, this film exists as a testament to becoming who you really are at any age. Then-10-year-old Zoé Héran positively dazzles with her lead role. — A.F.

How to watch: Tomboy is streaming on The Criterion Channel.

65. A Fantastic Woman (2017) Credit: Sony Classics / TIFF

Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, director Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman is a tragedy and triumph for the ages. Daniela Vega plays a woman who loses her partner unexpectedly. Amidst her grief, she must contend with her late partner's family and their transphobia. This film offers exquisite cognizance of the pain prejudice can add to existing loss. — A.F.

How to watch: A Fantastic Woman is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

SEE ALSO: Why 'A Fantastic Woman' star Daniela Vega should be the first trans performer nominated for Best Actress 66. My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Keanu Reeves and the late River Phoenix star in this 20th-century retelling of Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry V. Director Gus Van Sant guides his leads through a tense, melancholy exploration of intimacy, power, and uncertainty that never fails to deliver poignant reflection despite its adventure-fueled storyline. Oh, and the pair's chemistry is...searing. — A.F.

How to watch: My Own Private Idaho is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV, Prime Video, and Google Play.

67. The Half of It (2020) Credit: KC Bailey / Netflix

Since arriving on Netflix last year, The Half of It has quietly built a following of young queer people enchanted by its presentation of coming out. Starring Leah Lewis as Ellie Chu, an introverted Chinese-American high schooler, this romantic comedy is yet another retelling of the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, but with an intense honesty to its subject that makes it stand out. — A.F.

How to watch: The Half of It is streaming on Netflix.

SEE ALSO: Netflix's 'The Half of It' is a pretty good rom-com that could've been a great one 68. Milk (2008)

In director Gus Van Sant's astounding biopic, Sean Penn stars as activist and politician Harvey Milk. The first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, Milk progressed the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans by unprecedented leaps and bounds. Milk honors that legacy with its heartfelt imagining of an icon. Penn won Best Actor for his portrayal of Milk at the 81st Academy Awards. — A.F.

How to watch: Milk is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

69. Tangerine (2015) Credit: Augustas Quirk / Magnolia / Duplass Brothers Prods / Kobal / Shutterstock

Director Sean Baker's low-budget tour de force follows transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella (played by the effervescent Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) as she seeks to enact revenge on the man who cheated on her and the cisgender woman he cheated with. Bittersweet and hysterical, Tangerine is a one-of-a-kind viewing experience you'll cherish forever. — A.F.

How to watch: Tangerine is streaming on Kanopy and Hulu, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

70. The Birdcage (1996) Credit: Lorey Sebastian / United Artists / Kobal / Shutterstock

In the wake of an unexpected wedding, The Birdcage chronicles the chaotic blending of two very different families. Along the way, Nathan Lane dons full drag, Robin Williams dances his pleated pants off, and Gene Hackman brings remarkable depth to his straight-man role. This is the perfect pick if you want something light and fun to watch with your chosen family. — A.F.

How to watch: The Birdcage is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

SEE ALSO: 'The Birdcage's tale of queer love and drag queens is as timely as ever 71. Rafiki (2018)

Starring Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva as burgeoning lovers, Rafiki was banned in Kenya "due to its homosexual theme and clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law." As a result, of course, much of the rest of the queer world embraced it as a symbol against censorship. Director Wanuri Kahiu treats those viewers to a positively enchanting romance, one that only emphasizes the need for LGBTQ+ equality everywhere. — A.F.

How to watch: Rafiki is streaming on Kanopy, and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

72. Welcome to Chechnya (2020)

The third film from Academy Award-nominated documentarian David France, Welcome to Chechnya takes viewers on a guerilla-style investigation into the anti-gay purges that still plague the constituent republic of Russia. 

Not only does the explosive project detail the abhorrent policies created by Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov to criminalize homosexuality, it also delves into the insidious culture the government has instilled in its citizens to encourage hate crimes. It’s a painful watch that demands attention from viewers, focusing in large part on the courageous efforts of underground networks working to help LGBTQ+ people escape the region.*  — A.F.

How to watch: Welcome to Chechnya is streaming on HBO Max and is available to purchase on Apple TV.

73. The Living End (1992) Credit: Strand / Desperate / Kobal / Shutterstock

Often dubbed the gay Thelma & Louise, Gregg Araki's The Living End follows the reckless road trip of two HIV-positive, anti-establishment gay men who go on the run after killing a homophobic cop. There's Jon (Craig Gilmore), a slender, downbeat film critic who just found out his HIV status, and Luke (Mike Dytri), a hustler hunk who looks like he walked right out of Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising. The two become lovers and quickly set out on a fuck-everything crime spree across California. A fixture of New Queer Cinema that put Araki on the map, this low-budget punk queer road movie is sizzling with radical rage, and feels as fresh as ever today. — O.W.

How to watch: The Living End is streaming on Kanopy and is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

74. Imagine Me and You (2005)

There are two types of queers: those who saw beloved lesbian rom-com Imagine Me & You early in their queerness and were forever changed, and those who've never heard of the undersung British movie. If you're in the latter camp, I’m so thrilled to finally introduce you to this silly, charming romance. Rachel (Piper Perabo donning a British accent) is about to marry her best friend, Heck (Matthew Goode), but as she's walking down the aisle, her eyes catch a woman named Luce (Lena Headey), and something indescribable happens. It's love at first sight, as they say, and thus begins a sweet love story between Rachel, who's only ever dated men, and Luce, an openly gay florist in the most '00s lesbian wardrobe you've ever seen. It's delightfully cheery and has an ending that will, shockingly, leave you teary-eyed with joy. A queer rom-com classic through and through. — O.W.

How to watch: Imagine Me & You is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV, Prime Video, and YouTube.

75. Before Stonewall (1984)

Filmmakers Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg did a public service in their creation of the seminal documentary Before Stonewall. An educational yet humorous work that provides essential context to the LGBTQ+ community's long-fought campaign for civil rights, this is a great starting place for anyone eager to better appreciate just how far acceptance has come and how far it still has to go. — A.F.

How to watch: Before Stonewall is available for rent or purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.

Asterisks (*) indicate the write-up comes from a previous Mashable list.

UPDATE: Jun. 3, 2026, 2:57 p.m. EDT This list has been updated with active links and additional movie recommendations.