List of feature films with bisexual characters
Appearance
The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual bisexual characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-linear network).
Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.
20th century
[edit]1900–1959
[edit]Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1924 | Michael | Michael | Walter Slezak | Michael falls in love with a painter named Claude. He later leaves Claude for a woman. | Germany | [1] |
1960–1969
[edit]Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1965 | My Hustler | Paul | Paul America | Paul is a young male hustler. | United States | [2] |
1968 | Lonesome Cowboys | Little Joe | Joe Dallesandro | The film is directed by gay artist Andy Warhol. | United States | [2] |
Eric | Eric Emerson | |||||
1968 | Teorema | The Visitor | Terence Stamp | This film, a parable, uses bisexuality as a symbol, with a beautiful man, unnamed and referred to as the "Visitor,"[2] appearing in the lives of a typical bourgeois Italian family, making love to the father (Paolo), the mother (Lucia), the son (Pietro), the daughter (Odetta), and the maid (Emilia). After a telegram arrives and the Visitor has to leave, all the family members change, having to confront what was previously concealed by the trappings of bourgeois life. | Italy | [2][3] |
1969 | Midnight Cowboy | Joe Buck | Jon Voight | Joe is a gigolo who has sex with men and women in an attempt to make money. The film is based on the 1965 novel of the same name. The character was later parodied in the "Brannigan, Begin Again" episode of Futurama, which also used the film's theme, "Everybody's Talkin'" by Harry Nilsson. | United States | [4] [5][6] |
1969 | Women in Love | Rupert Birkin | Alan Bates | Birkin is Gerald's best friend. | United Kingdom | [2] |
1970–1979
[edit]Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1970 | Bloody Mama | Fred | Robert Walden | Fred is one of the sons of 'Ma' Barker. | United States | [2] |
1970 | Where's Poppa? | Sidney Hocheiser | Ron Leibman | Sidney is Gordon's brother. | United States | [2] |
1971 | Doctors' Wives | Della Randolph | Rachel Roberts | Della has an affair with a woman while married to a doctor. | United States | [2] |
1971 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Bob Elkin | Murray Head | Daniel and a divorced woman Alex are both involved in an open love triangle with sculptor Bob Elkin. | United Kingdom | [2] |
1972 | Cabaret | Baron Maximilian Von Heune | Helmut Griem | Maximilian is a wealthy playboy who befriends Sally and takes her and Brian to his country estate where he courts both of them. Based on the musical Cabaret. | United States | [7][8][9][10] |
Brian Roberts | Michael York | |||||
1972 | Zee and Co. | Zee Blakeley | Elizabeth Taylor | Zee and Robert have an open marriage and they both end up sleeping with Stella. | United Kingdom | [2] |
Stella | Susannah York | |||||
1974 | Lenny | Honey Bruce | Valerie Perrine | Honey is the wife of Lenny Bruce. | United States | [2] |
1974 | Score | Eddie | Casey Donovan | The story involves a happily married bisexual swinging couple who make a bet that they can seduce a couple of naive young newlyweds during a weekend get-together at their luxury Riviera villa. This was based on the on 1971 off-Broadway stage play of the same name. | United States | [2] |
Betsy | Lynn Lowry | |||||
1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | Sonny Wortzik | Al Pacino | Leon is Sonny's partner. Sonny is a first-time crook who tries rob a bank to pay for Leon's sex reassignment surgery, but his plan goes awry. It is also mentioned that Sonny has children with his estranged wife, Angie (this led critic Tim Robey to call Sonny a "bisexual desperado"). | United States | [11][12] |
1975 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Brad Majors | Barry Bostwick | Brad cheats on his fiancée, Janet Weiss, with an alien transvestite man named Dr. Frank N Furter. | United Kingdom, United States | [13][14] |
Rocky | Peter Hinwood | |||||
1975 | Saturday Night at the Baths | Michael | Robert Aberdeen | Michael is a piano player at a bathhouse and falls in love with the manager, Scotti. | United States | [2] |
1976 | Fellini's Casanova | Giacomo Casanova | Donald Sutherland | Casanova is 18th-century Venetian adventurer and writer. | Italy | [2] |
1977 | Desperate Living | Peggy Gravel | Mink Stole | Gravel is Neurotic and delusional suburban housewife. | United States | [15][16] |
1977 | Valentino | Rudolph Valentino | Rudolf Nureyev | The film is loosely based on the life of silent film actor Rudolph Valentino. | United States | [2] |
1978 | Midnight Express | Billy | Brad Davis | Billy is a young American student, who is sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of the country. | United States | [2] |
1979 | Manhattan | Jill Davis | Meryl Streep | Jill is Isaac's ex-wife who left him for Connie. | United States | [17][18] |
1979 | The Rose | Mary Rose "The Rose" Foster | Bette Midler | Sarah is a former lover of Mary's. | United States | [2] |
1979 | The Tempest | Prospero | Heathcote Williams | Prospero is a magician. | United Kingdom | [19] |
Stephano | Christopher Biggins |
1980–1989
[edit]Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1980 | Richard's Things | Kate Morris | Liv Ullmann | After the death of Richard, Kate discovers that he had been having an affair with Josie. They meet and eventually fall in love. | United Kingdom | [20] |
Josie | Amanda Redman | |||||
1981 | Chanel Solitaire | Coco Chanel | Marie-France Pisier | Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. | United States, United Kingdom, France | [2] |
1982 | 48 Hrs. | Sally | Denise Crosby | Sally sleeps with Billy and Ganz, and is also implied to be sleeping with Casey, a fellow woman. | United States | [2] |
1982 | Querelle | Georges Querelle | Brad Davis | George is a thief and murderer who frequents a bar and brothel for sailors run by Madame Lysiane, who is in love with his brother. He becomes Lysiane's lover after he wins a game of dice against her husband. He also has sex with Mario and lets himself be sodomized by Lysiane's husband. | France, West Germany | [21][22][23][24] |
1982 | Victor/Victoria | Richard DiNardo | Malcolm Jamieson | Richard is a hustler with whom Toddy is romantically involved. | United Kingdom, United States | [2] |
1983 | The Fourth Man | Gerard Revé | Jeroen Krabbé | Gerard Revé is an alcoholic novelist. | Netherlands | [2] |
1983 | The Hunger | Miriam Blaylock | Catherine Deneuve | The film concerns a love triangle between a doctor who specializes in sleep and aging research (Sarandon) and a vampire couple (Deneuve and Bowie). | United States, United Kingdom | [2] |
Sarah Roberts | Susan Sarandon | |||||
1983 | The Lonely Lady | Jerilee Randall | Pia Zadora | Jerilee Randall is a high school student, living in the San Fernando Valley, dreams of becoming a famous writer. | United States | [2] |
1985 | The Color Purple | Celie Harris-Johnson | Whoopi Goldberg | Avery is a showgirl and Mister's long-time mistress who's in love with Celie. | United States | [2] |
Shug Avery | Margaret Avery | |||||
1986 | Blue Velvet | Frank Booth | Dennis Hopper | Booth is an aggressively psychopathic gangster and drug lord. | United States | [2] |
1986 | Tenue de soirée | Bob | Gérard Depardieu | Bob is an ebullient ex-convict. | France | [25] |
1987 | Beyond Therapy | Bruce | Jeff Goldblum | Bruce has a male live-in lover and female spouse. | United States | [26] |
1987 | Less than Zero | Julian Wells | Robert Downey Jr. | Wells is Clay's high school best friend. | United States | [27][28] |
1988 | Torch Song Trilogy | Ed | Brian Kerwin | Ed is a schoolteacher. | United States | [29] |
1988 | We Think the World of You | Johnny | Gary Oldman | Johnny is an aimless young married man living in post-war London. | United Kingdom | [30] |
1989 | The Rainbow | Ursula Brangwen | Sammi Davis | Ursula is the eldest child of a wealthy Derbyshire farmer. | United Kingdom, United States | [31] |
Winifred Inger | Amanda Donohoe |
1990–1999
[edit]Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1990 | Henry & June | June Miller | Uma Thurman | Henry's wife June has an affair with Anaïs Nin. | United States | [32] |
1991 | Fried Green Tomatoes | Ruth Jamison | Mary-Louise Parker | Idgie has always loved Ruth. Ruth had a previous relationship with Buddy Threadgoode, Idgie's brother, before she married and had a child with another man. After Idgie rescues Ruth from her abusive husband, the romantic relationship between the two women begins. Based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, where the relationship between Idgie and Ruth is not explicitly identified as a lesbian relationship, but every resident knows about them and accepts their relationship. | United States | [33][34] |
1991 | JFK | David Ferrie | Joe Pesci | Ferrie was depicted as a drug-addicted, paranoid bisexual who allegedly had ties to Lee Harvey Oswald in the movie. | United States | [35] |
1991 | Madonna: Truth or Dare | Herself | Sandra Bernhard | Bernhard is an actress. | United States | [36] |
1992 | Basic Instinct | Catherine Tramell | Sharon Stone | (Critics noted that Catherine had been straightwashed in the 2006 sequel, Basic Instinct 2.) | France, United States, United Kingdom | [37][38] |
Dr. Beth Garner | Jeanne Tripplehorn | |||||
1993 | Fight Back to School III | Judy Tong Wong | Anita Mui | Judy is the dead man's wife. She has a girlfriend on the side, Ching Man Ching. | Hong Kong | [39] |
1993 | Six Degrees of Separation | Rick | Eric Thal | Rick has a live-in girlfriend named Elizabeth, and has sex with Paul. | United States | [40][41] |
1993 | Three of Hearts | Ellen Armstrong | Sherilyn Fenn | Armstrong is Connie's former lover. | United States | [42] |
1994 | Interview with the Vampire | Louis de Pointe du Lac | Brad Pitt | Pointe du Lac and Lioncourt are vampires. | United States | [43][44] |
Lestat de Lioncourt | Tom Cruise | |||||
1995 | Bugis Street | Meng | Michael Lam | Lola is one of the prostitutes inhabiting the Sin Sin Hotel on Bugis Street. Meng, the boyfriend of Lola, seduces Lin (a young female chambermaid and desk clerk at the hotel). | British Hong Kong | [45][46][47] |
Singapore | ||||||
1995 | Carrington | Roger Senhouse | Sebastian Harcombe | Roger becomes Lytton's sadomasochistic lover. Lytton was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. His homosexuality, as depicted in the film, was well known. | France | [48][49] |
United Kingdom | ||||||
1995 | The Doom Generation | Xavier "X" Red | Johnathon Schaech | Xavier, a handsome drifter, is picked-up by teen lovers Jordan and Amy on their way back from a club. After Xavier accidentally kills a store owner, he has sex with Amy, while Jordan becomes sexually attracted to him as well. | United States | [50][51] |
Jordan White | James Duval | |||||
1995 | Showgirls | Cristal Connors | Gina Gershon | Cristal, who has a boyfriend, wants a relationship with Nomi so she can destroy her. (One reviewer wrote that bisexuality is "a weapon, a plot device and an arena for titillating spectacle" like in Basic Instinct.) | France | [53][54] |
Nomi Malone | Elizabeth Berkley | United States | ||||
1995 | Total Eclipse | Paul Verlaine | David Thewlis | The film presents a historical account of the passionate and violent relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, at a time of soaring creativity for both men. | United Kingdom | [55] |
France | ||||||
Belgium | ||||||
Italy | ||||||
United States | ||||||
1995 | Wild Side | Virginia | Joan Chen | Virginia is Bruno's wife. | United Kingdom, United States | [56] |
1996 | Bound | Violet | Jennifer Tilly | Violet, who longs to escape her relationship with her mafioso boyfriend Caesar, enters into a clandestine affair with alluring ex-con Corky, and the two women hatch a scheme to steal $2 million of Mafia money. | United States | [57] |
1996 | Female Perversions | Eve Stephens | Tilda Swinton | Stephens is a Los Angeles trial attorney. | United States, Germany | [58] |
1996 | Mongkok Story | Lui Lone | Anthony Wong | Lone forces Leung to perform oral sex on him as penance. | Hong Kong | [59][better source needed] |
1996 | The Pillow Book | Jerome | Ewan McGregor | Jerome is a British translator. | Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg | [60] |
1997 | L.A. Confidential | Matt Reynolds | Simon Baker Denny | Matt Reynolds is a struggling actor. | United States | [61] |
1997 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Billy Hansford | Jude Law | Billy is an American shooting victim who was killed by his employer, | United States | [62][63] |
1997 | Nowhere | Mel | Rachel True | Dark and Mel are a couple in an open relationship. | United States | [64] |
Dark | James Duval | |||||
1998 | Bedrooms and Hallways | Leo | Kevin McKidd | Throughout the movie, it's revealed that Leo has a complicated personal history with some of the guests and hides in his bedroom | United Kingdom | [65] |
1998 | Dark Harbor | David Weinberg | Alan Rickman | David and the young man are lovers. | United States | [66] |
1998 | High Art | Sydney "Syd" | Radha Mitchell | Syd, living with longtime boyfriend James, has desires and frustrations that seem typical and manageable but new events unfold, with Lucy Berliner opening the door to an uncharted world for Syd. Lucy, who lives with her heroin-addicted German girlfriend Greta, and becomes closer to Syd as the film moves forward. | United States | [67] |
1998 | Hold You Tight | Fung Wai | Sunny Chan | The story of a man living in Hong Kong who is initially drawn to a young woman, but soon finds he is more attracted to her boyfriend. | Hong Kong | [68] |
1998 | Velvet Goldmine | Brian Slade | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | At the beginning of his career, Slade is married to Mandy. But when he comes to the United States, he seeks out American rock star Curt Wild, and they become involved in each other's lives on a personal and creative level. | United Kingdom, United States | [69][70][71] |
Arthur Stuart | Christian Bale | |||||
Curt Wild | Ewan McGregor | |||||
Mandy Slade | Toni Collette | |||||
1999 | All About My Mother | Nina Cruz | Candela Peña | Nina is the lover of an actress named Huma, but later runs off. | Spain | [72] |
1999 | Being John Malkovich | Maxine Lund | Catherine Keener | At first Maxine is specifically attracted to Lotte in John's body, and becomes pregnant when she and Lotte (in John's body) have sex. | United States | [73] |
1999 | Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe | Angelina Jolie | Lisa share a kiss with Susanna while high on drugs. | United States | [74] |
1999 | The Haunting | Theodora | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Theodora mentions having both a boyfriend and a girlfriend. | United States | [75][76] |
1999 | Summer of Sam | Ritchie | Adrien Brody | Ritchie is volatile. He is Vinny's childhood friend who has embraced punk fashion and music, and begins a relationship with Ruby. | United States | [77] |
1999 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Tom Ripley | Matt Damon | Ripley is a career criminal, con artist, and serial killer. | United States | [78] |
21st century
[edit]2000–2004
[edit]Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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2000 | Beat | William S. Burroughs | Kiefer Sutherland | To his wife's chagrin, William carries on an affair with a male lover. | United States | [79][80] |
2000 | Before Night Falls | Pepe Malas | Andrea Di Stefano | Pepe is in a relationship with Reinaldo before leaving him to pursue a woman. | United States | [81][82][83] |
2000 | Wonder Boys | Terry "Crabs" Crabtree | Robert Downey Jr. | Crabs is Grady's editor. | United States | [84] |
United Kingdom | ||||||
Germany | ||||||
Japan | ||||||
2001 | Blow Dry | Shelley Allen | Natasha Richardson | Shelley Allen operates a hairdressing shop in Keighley with her lesbian domestic partner Sandra. | United States | [85] |
United Kingdom | ||||||
Germany | ||||||
2001 | Bungee Jumping of Their Own | Seo In-woo | Lee Byung-hun | Seo falls passionately in love with Tae-hee within moments of first meeting her. They begin dating but she is suddenly killed in a car crash. Almost 20 years later he is a high school teacher, married and with a daughter. One day he spots a male student, Im Hyun-bin, who looks almost identical to Tae-hee. He falls in love with Im, even though he feels uncomfortable doing so, and they are soon bullied and taunted by the school's students. Seo realises that Im is the reincarnation of Tae-hee. | South Korea | [86] |
2001 | Ichi the Killer | Kakihara | Tadanobu Asano | Kakihara is a sadomasochist with an unnatural passion. He prefers mostly males over females for engaging in S&M. He inflicts pain on himself for pleasure and has no interest in sexuality, but is willing to become lovers with anyone who satisfies his pleasure. (Based on Hideo Yamamoto's manga of the same name.) | Japan | [87] |
2001 | Iris | Iris Murdoch | Judi Dench (adult Iris) Kate Winslet (young Iris) |
Iris has love affairs with men and women. | United Kingdom, United States | [88] |
2001 | Julie Johnson | Julie Johnson | Lili Taylor | Julie is a housewife who leaves her abusive husband and meets Claire. They live together and begin a romantic relationship. | United States | [89] |
Claire | Courtney Love | |||||
2001 | Kissing Jessica Stein | Helen Cooper | Heather Juergensen | Cooper works at an art gallery. | United States | [90][91] |
2001 | Mulholland Drive | Camilla Rhodes | Laura Harring | Rhodes is a "bisexual vixen" and a driving force of the film. | United States | [92] |
2001 | Piñero | Miguel Piñero | Benjamin Bratt | In the film, Piñero's love life is displayed, ranging from his interactions with men and women. | United States | [93] |
2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Margot Tennenbaum | Gwyneth Paltrow | Margot, who had a previous relationship with a woman, follows three siblings who were talented when they were children but "grow up into disappointments." | United States | [94] |
2001 | Shake It All About | Jacob | Mads Mikkelsen | Jacob asks Jørgen to marry him, and he happily accepts. However, Jacob falls in love with another woman. | Denmark | [95] |
2001 | Y tu mamá también | Tenoch Iturbide | Diego Luna | Iturbide and Zapata are "two teenage best friends". | Mexico | [96] |
Julio Zapata | Gael García Bernal | |||||
2002 | The Hours | Clarissa Vaughan | Meryl Streep | Clarissa is in a long-term relationship with her lesbian partner Sally, which is seemingly threatened when she pines for "a long-lost romance with Richard." | United Kingdom | [97][98][99] |
Virginia Woolf | Nicole Kidman | United States | ||||
2002 | May | May Dove Canady | Angela Bettis | May is a veterinary assistant. | United States | [100] |
2002 | The Rules of Attraction | Paul Denton | Ian Somerhalder | Paul is the boyfriend of Laura and he's attracted to Sean. He tries to go out with him, but fails. | Germany | [101] |
United States | ||||||
2003 | Party Monster | Keoki | Wilmer Valderrama | Keoki is an electronic musician and DJ. | United States | [102] |
2003 | SpiderBabe | Patricia Porker | Erin Brown | Patricia is bitten by a spider, develops superhuman powers, and nymphomaniac urges. She has sex with several males and females. | United States | [103] |
2004 | The 24th Day | Tom | Scott Speedman | Tom has been diagnosed with HIV and believes he infected his late wife with the AIDS virus. He had only one sexual encounter with a man, Dan, and thinks that it was he who transmitted the disease to him. Tom kidnaps Dan with the intent to kill him. | United States | [104][105] |
2004 | Alexander | Alexander | Colin Farrell | Alexander has relationships with childhood friends Hephaistion and Bagoas; and later with his wife Roxana. Alexander has an ambiguous sexuality, with director Oliver Stone saying Alexander had "a polymorphous sensuality and was an explorer in the deepest sense of the world." | Germany | [106][107] |
France | ||||||
Italy | ||||||
Netherlands | ||||||
United Kingdom | ||||||
United States | ||||||
2004 | D.E.B.S | Amy Bradshaw | Sara Foster | Bradshaw dreams of attending art school despite being the academy's top recruit. | United States | [108] |
2004 | De-Lovely | Cole Porter | Kevin Kline | The film is about the life and career of Cole Porter. | United States | [109] |
2004 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | Kate Veatch | Christine Taylor | It is not until the film is ending that Kate mentions she has a girlfriend named Joyce, who has come to watch her play (Kate has not previously been shown as being attracted to women). One teammate then says to the other: "I told you she was a lesbian", to which Kate replies "Hey! I'm not a lesbian! No. I'm bisexual." Then she kisses one of the men. | United States | [110][111] |
2004 | Grande École | Paul | Gregori Baquet | Paul has a girlfriend but sleeps with one of his new male roommates. Mécir, a young Arab manual worker, becomes attracted to Paul. | France | [112][113] |
Mécir | Salim Kechiouche | |||||
2004 | Kinsey | Alfred Kinsey | Liam Neeson | Kinsey is a pioneer in the area of sexology, including sexual orientation. | United States | [114] |
2004 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Alistair Hennessey | Jeff Goldblum | Hennessey is Eleanor's ex-husband and Zissou's nemesis. | United States | [115] |
2004 | My Summer of Love | Mona | Natalie Press | The film explores the romantic relationship between two young women from different classes and backgrounds. | United Kingdom | [116] |
2004 | Stage Beauty | Ned Kynaston | Billy Crudup | Kynaston is one of the leading actors of his day, particularly famous for his portrayal of female characters. Having gone through a long and strenuous training to play female roles, he finds himself without a guise by which to keep the attention of his lover Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham | Germany | [117] |
United Kingdom | ||||||
United States | ||||||
2004 | Star Appeal | E.T. | Guifeng Wang | E.T., a young man from the planet Mars, arrives on Earth totally naked. He befriends Xiao Bo, who removes his own clothes to make E.T. feel more comfortable, and teaches him languages, science and a range of other subjects. The two become close and eventually fall in love. E.T. later falls in love with Xiao Bo's girlfriend, and they attempt to have a baby. | China | [118] |
Xiao Bo | Yu Bo |
2005–2009
[edit]Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar | Heath Ledger | Ennis and Jack are in love with each other, but they also have loving and sexual relations with their wives. | United States | [119][120][121] |
Jack Twist | Jake Gyllenhaal | |||||
2005 | Cold Showers | Mickael | Johan Libéreau | Teenagers Mickael and Clément are fellow students and teammates. They engage in a ménage à trois with Vanessa, Mickael's girlfriend, resulting in the boys becoming attracted to each other. | France | [122][123] |
Clément | Pierre Perrier | |||||
2005 | The Dying Gaul | Jeffrey Tishop | Campbell Scott | Tishop is a studio executive. | United States | [124] |
2005 | Imagine Me & You | Rachel | Piper Perabo | Rachel is Hector's fiancée who falls in love with flower shop owner Luce. | Germany | [125][126] |
United Kingdom | ||||||
2005 | Little Fish | Brad 'The Jockey' Thompson | Sam Neill | 'The Jockey', a local gangster on the point of retirement, is the former lover of rugby star Lionel. | Australia | [127] |
2005 | My Fair Son | Xiao Bo | Yu Bo | Bo is one of Ray's father's employees. | China | [128] |
2005 | Rent | Maureen Johnson | Idina Menzel | Johnson is Mark's ex-girlfriend. | United States | [129][130] |
2005 | Transamerica | Toby | Kevin Zegers | Toby is a 17-year-old jailed in New York City. | United States | [131] |
2005 | Where the Truth Lies | Vince Collins | Colin Firth | Collins, Morris and Maureen had engaged in a ménage à trois fueled by drugs and alcohol. At some point Collins tried to have sex with Morris, who resisted violently. | Canada | [132] |
United Kingdom | ||||||
2006 | The Black Dahlia | Madeleine Linscott | Hilary Swank | Madeleine is a coolly elegant heiress. | United States, France, Germany | [citation needed] |
2006 | The History Boys | Stuart Dakin | Dominic Cooper | Based on the play of the same name. | United Kingdom | [133] |
2007 | After Sex | Nikki | Mila Kunis | Nikki has oral sex with Kat because it feels better than when males do it. | United States | [134] |
2007 | Love Songs | Ismaël Benoliel | Louis Garrel | Ismaël, Julie, and Alice are in a ménage-à-trois. After a tragedy strikes and breaks them apart, the characters learn to deal with loss and mourning. Ismaël unexpectedly finds love again with a young man named Erwann. | France | [135] |
Julie Pommeraye | Ludivigne Sagnier | |||||
Alice | Clotilde Hesme | |||||
2007 | Planet Terror | Dakota Block | Marley Shelton | Dakota is William's anesthesiologist wife. | United States | [136] |
2007 | Pleasure Factory | Jonathan | Loo Zihan | The film is set in Singapore's red-light district. Jonathan has sexual relationships with both men and women. | Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand | [137] |
2007 | Shelter | Zach | Trevor Wright | Zach is an aspiring young artist living in San Pedro, California. | United States | [138] |
2007 | Steam | Niala | Reshma Shetty | Niala spends a night with her classmate Elizabeth. | United States | [139] |
2008 | City Without Baseball | Ronnie | Ron Heung | In a story set in the 1990s, Ronnie, a pitcher with Hong Kong's National Baseball Team, has a steady girlfriend and appears well settled-in. But over time, he becomes increasingly attracted to one of his colleagues, and summons up the courage to kiss him in the men's changing rooms. The actors, including the protagonist, were real-life members of the National Baseball Team at the time of filming. Based on a real story, the film is the first feature produced by the award-winning Chinese LGBT filmmaker known as 'Scud'. | Hong Kong | [140] |
2008 | The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | Cleveland Arning | Peter Sarsgaard | In the novel, Cleveland is entirely heterosexual, but in adapting the film, he became merged with the homosexual character Arthur Lecomte, one of the novel's key love interests. | United States | [141] |
2008 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | María Elena | Penélope Cruz | María is Juan's mentally and emotionally unstable ex-wife. | Spain | [142] |
United States | ||||||
2009 | Chloe | Chloe Sweeney | Amanda Seyfried | Sweeney is a call girl. | Canada, France, United States | [143][144] |
2009 | Everybody's Fine | Rosie Goode | Drew Barrymore | Rosie hides her sexuality from her father. | United States | [145] |
2009 | I Love You, Beth Cooper | Rich Munsch | Jack Carpenter | Munsch is Rich's best friend. | United States | [146] |
2009 | Jennifer's Body | Jennifer Check | Megan Fox | Since childhood, Needy has been best friends with Jennifer Check, a popular and beautiful high school color guard flag spinner, despite the two having little in common. Jennifer often mistreats and dominates Needy, who is too in awe of her to stand up for herself. | United States | [147][148] |
Anita "Needy" Lesnicki | Amanda Seyfried | |||||
2009 | Permanent Residence | Windson | Osman Hung | Ivan seeks a long-term relationship with a straight friend. Befriending another young man, Windson, at a public sports club, the two build up a friendly rapport. However, Windson becomes aware of his inclination, and while happy to remain his friend, is initially very reluctant to become emotionally involved with him. This is the first feature film directed by award-winning Chinese LGBT filmmaker known as 'Scud'. | Hong Kong | [149] |
2009 | Undertow | Miguel | Cristian Mercado | Miguel is married to Mariela, who is pregnant with their first son, but he also has a secret affair with a male painter called Santiago. | Peru | [150] |
Colombia | ||||||
France | ||||||
Germany |
2010–2014
[edit]Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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2010 | All About Love | Anita | Vivian Chow | Anita and Macy had been lovers in the past and meet again years later in a counseling session for expectant mothers. | Hong Kong | [151] |
Macy | Sandra Ng | |||||
2010 | Amphetamine | Kafka | Byron Pang | Daniel, an openly-gay wealthy Chinese-Australian investment banker working in Hong Kong meets and befriends Kafka, a young swimming instructor from a poor local family, who has strong religious beliefs. Kafka was sexually assaulted as a teenager by a male gang after successfully defending a young woman from being raped, and as a result, he has become impotent and a habitual user of recreational drugs. Although initially uncomfortable with Daniel's obvious sexual attraction to him, he soon sees Daniel as offering him new hope in life, and he falls deeply in love with him. But Kafka's life begins to fall apart again when his mother dies suddenly, and he attempts to end his life. | Hong Kong | [152] |
2010 | Black Swan | Nina Sayers / White Swan / Odette | Natalie Portman | Nina is a young committed dancer. | United States | [153][154] |
2010 | Howl | Neal Cassady | Jon Prescott | Cassady is a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s. | United States | [155] |
2010 | Kaboom | Hunter | Jason Olive | Smith visits a nude beach and meets a man named Hunter. They start having sex, but Smith is disappointed to hear Hunter is married. | United States | [156] |
Rex | Andy Fischer-Price | |||||
Smith | Thomas Dekker | |||||
2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Jules Allgood | Julianne Moore | Jules used the same sperm donor used by her lesbian spouse Nicole to conceive a child. Their teenage son wants to find out about his biological father and his older sister helps him find the contact information, which leads to an unexpected upheaval in their marriage when Jules meets the father. | United States | [157] |
2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Ramona Flowers | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Ramona describes her relationship with Richter as her being "bi-curious". Besides her lesbian ex-girlfriend, Ramona has six ex-boyfriends. Wallace hooked up with Stacey's boyfriend Jimmy. | United Kingdom | [158][94][159] |
Jimmy | Kjartan Hewitt | United States | ||||
Japan | ||||||
2011 | Butter | Brooke | Olivia Wilde | Brooke is a stripper. | United States | [160] |
2011 | Love Actually... Sucks! | Bridegroom | Jackie Chow | Inspired by real-life events, the film tells a series of interconnected stories, several with LGBT relationships. The opening wedding banquet reveals a sex affair between the bridegroom and a bridesman. Other stories include a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who becomes involved with his senior student, and a role-playing lesbian couple. | Hong Kong | [161][162] |
2011 | North Sea Texas | Gino | Mathias Vergels | Pim falls in love with his best friend, Gino. | Belgium | [163] |
2011 | Our Idiot Brother | Natalie "Nat" Rochlin | Zooey Deschanel | Natalie is a hipster living with her girlfriend Cindy. | United States | [164] |
2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Bill Haydon | Colin Firth | Bill is a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service. | United Kingdom | [165] |
2011 | Unforgivable | Judith | Carole Bouquet | Judith is in a relationship Francis. Her former female lover is beset by a disease. | France | [166] |
2012 | Cloud Atlas | Robert Frobisher | Ben Whishaw | Robert, living in 1930s Britain, is a budding composer, and apprentice of musical genius Vyvyan Ayrs. Rufus is Robert's lover. | Germany | [167] |
United States | ||||||
2012 | Love Is Not Perfect | Elena | Anna Foglietta | Elena has her first romantic relationship with a woman. | Italy | [168] |
2012 | Speechless | Han Dong | Jian Jiang | Luke had previously had a romantic affair with a young male university student Han Dong. | Hong Kong | [169] |
China | ||||||
2013 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Adèle | Adèle Exarchopoulos | Adèle meets Emma in a lesbian bar. They begin a romantic relationship and live together. After she cheats with Antoine, a male colleague, the relationship with Emma ends. Some reviewers said that bisexual erasure is "central to understanding Adele's particular sense that she does not belong as she comes of age." | France | [170] |
2013 | Free Fall | Marc Borgmann | Hanno Koffler | Borgmann is a young police officer, who's on a training course for the riot control unit. | Germany | [171] |
2013 | Kill Your Darlings | Allen Ginsberg | Daniel Radcliffe | Ginsberg is a poet. | United Kingdom | [172] |
2013 | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Magnus Bane | Godfrey Gao | Magnus, a bisexual warlock, first appears in "heavy guyliner, piercings and a disturbing blazer-and-boxers combo." | United States | [173] |
2013 | Side Effects | Emily Taylor | Rooney Mara | Taylor is a New York socialite who drives into a wall in an apparent suicide attempt. | United States | [174][175] |
2013 | Snowpiercer | Wilford | Ed Harris | Wilford is the creator and caretaker of the engine. | South Korea, Czech Republic | [176][better source needed] |
Tyler John Williams | ||||||
2013 | Tom at the Farm | Francis Longchamp | Pierre-Yves Cardinal | Tom travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother, Francis. | Canada | [177] |
2014 | Appropriate Behavior | Shirin | Desiree Akhavan | Shirin is the daughter of well-off Persian immigrants. | United Kingdom | [178] |
2014 | Coming In | Tom Herzner | Kostja Ullmann | Tom Herzner is a gay hairdresser who has a boyfriend named Robert, but falls in love with a beauty parlor owner named Heidi. | Germany | [179] |
2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Monsieur Gustave H. | Ralph Fiennes | Gustave admitted sleeping with all his friends and being straight up called bisexual by Dmitri. | United States | [180][181] |
Germany | ||||||
2014 | The Skeleton Twins | Rich Levitt | Ty Burrell | Milo reconnects with his high school English teacher Rich, with whom he had a sexual relationship when he was 15. Rich now has a sixteen-year-old son and is dating a woman. | United States | [182] |
2015–2019
[edit]Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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2015 | Legend | Lord Boothby | John Sessions | Boothby is a British politician. | France | [183] |
United Kingdom | ||||||
2015 | Utopians | Hins Gao | Adonis He Fei | Hins Gao is in a relationship with his female classmate Joy, but gradually becomes attracted to his professor, Ming. | Hong Kong | [184] |
2016 | Moonlight | Kevin Jones | André Holland | Kevin is Chiron's childhood friend. During their teenage years, they kiss and Kevin masturbates Chiron. After he breaks up with his girlfriend, he is visited by Chiron, who admits he has not been intimate with anybody since their encounter years ago. | United States | [185] |
Jharrel Jerome | ||||||
Jaden Piner | ||||||
2016 | Lovesong | Mindy | Jena Malone | Sarah is a stay-at-home mom married to a man who's always away on business. She then begins a relationship with her best friend Mindy. | United States | [186][187] |
Sarah | Riley Keough | |||||
2017 | Atomic Blonde | Lorraine Broughton | Charlize Theron | Lorraine, an MI6 secret agent, meets undercover French agent Delphine in a bar. They kiss passionately. Later they have sex, which evolves into a romantic relationship. The emotionally intimate post-sex scene between Lorraine and Delphine was deleted in the final cut but included in the DVD/Blu-ray bonus features under the title "Not Afraid of Love". | United States | [188][189][190][191][192] |
2017 | Call Me by Your Name | Oliver | Armie Hammer | The film chronicles the romantic relationship between 17-year-old Elio and 24-year-old Oliver, a graduate-student assistant to Elio's father. Elio had a girlfriend with whom he broke up later. In the end of the film, Oliver married a woman back in America. | Brazil | [193] |
Elio Perlman | Timothée Chalamet | France | ||||
Italy | ||||||
United States | ||||||
2017 | Disobedience | Ronit Krushka | Rachel Weisz | Ronit is the daughter of a rabbi and community authority; she had a forbidden romance with Esti when they were teenagers and was sent away by her father after he discovered their relationship. When she returns to London after the death of her father, the sexual attraction between her and Esti is reignited. | United States, Ireland, United Kingdom | [194] |
2017 | Princess Cyd | Cyd | Jessie Pinnick | Cyd visits her aunt in Chicago for a few weeks. While there, she develops a crush on another girl, Katie, and pursues a relationship with her. She also has a one-night stand with her aunt's friends' son. | United States | [195][196] |
2017 | Rough Night | Blair | Zoë Kravitz | Blair is a real estate agent and Frankie's ex-lover. | United States | [197][198] |
2017 | Song to Song | Faye | Rooney Mara | Faye has a relationship with Zoey, a lesbian French artist living in the US. | United States | [199][200] |
2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | Freddie Mercury | Rami Malek | The film tells the story of the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of British rock band Queen, from the formation of the band in 1970 up to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the original Wembley Stadium. | United Kingdom | [201][202] |
United States | ||||||
2018 | Colette | Gabrielle Colette | Keira Knightley | Biopic about the French novelist. Colette lived openly as a bisexual and had relationships with many prominent women. | United States | [203][204] |
United Kingdom | ||||||
Hungary | ||||||
2018 | Diamantino | Aisha Brito | Cleo Tavares | Aisha is a Secret Service agent working undercover as a refugee orphan teenage boy. She has a lesbian girlfriend, Aisha. | Portugal | [205][206] |
France | ||||||
Brazil | ||||||
2018 | The Favourite | Sarah Churchill | Rachel Weisz | The plot examines the relationship between Queen Anne and cousins Sarah Churchill and Abigail Masham, who are both vying to be the court favourite. | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | [207] |
2018 | In a Relationship | Hallie | Emma Roberts | Hallie reveals her relationship with Lindsay via text message to her boyfriend Owen. | United States | [208] |
2018 | Love, Simon | Cal Price | Miles Heizer | Based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. | United States | [209][210][211] |
2018 | Vita & Virginia | Vita Sackville-West | Gemma Arterton | The film tells the story of the love affair between Sackville-West and Woolf. | United Kingdom, Ireland | [212][213] |
Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Debicki | |||||
2019 | Anna | Anna Poliatova | Sasha Luss | A double agent assassin. She is in a relationship with fellow fashion model Maude as a cover. She has sex with Alexander Tchenkov, her KGB handler, and Leonard Miller, her CIA handler. | France | [214][215] |
United States | ||||||
2019 | Bombshell | Kayla Pospisil | Margot Robbie | Kayla has a sexual relationship with Jess Carr, but says she's not a lesbian. Later in the movie she goes on a date with a man. | United States | [216][217][218][219] |
Canada | ||||||
2019 | Matthias & Maxime | Maxime | Xavier Dolan | Matthias and Maxime are lifelong friends who discover they might have romantic feelings for each other. | Canada | [220] |
Matthias | Gabriel D'Almeida | |||||
2019 | Velvet Buzzsaw | Morf Vandewalt | Jake Gyllenhaal | Morf is an art critic who has his hands full juggling relationships with both male and female lovers. | United States | [221] |
2020–2024
[edit]Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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2020 | Ammonite | Charlotte Murchison | Saoirse Ronan | Charlotte is married to a geologist who hires paleontologist Mary Anning to care for her and keep her company while he's away on an expedition. While sharing time and days with Mary, Charlotte becomes romantically attracted to her. | United Kingdom | [222][223] |
Australia | ||||||
2020 | Bruised | Jackie "Pretty Bull" Justice | Halle Berry | Jackie moves out with her son Manny from her abusive boyfriend Desi. She then begins an intimate relationship with trainer Bobbi Berroa. | United States | [224][225] |
United Kingdom | ||||||
2020 | The Craft: Legacy | Timmy Andrews | Nicholas Galitzine | Andrews has sex with Isaiah, Jacob's elder brother. | United States | [226] |
2020 | Holly Slept Over | Audra | Britt Lower | Noel's wife Audra had a fling with her old college roomrate Holly. | United States | [227] |
2020 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey | Viola Davis | Rainey has a young girlfriend named Dussie Mae that all her bandmates know about. The story is based on the life of the famous blues singer. | United States | [228] |
2020 | Summer of 85 | David Gorman | Benjamin Voisin | The intense friendship and romance of teenagers Alexis and David during a summer in Normandy in 1985. | France | [229] |
2020 | Summer of Mesa | Molly Miles | Lily Peony | Molly reconciles her feelings for Mesa and a boy named John. | United States | [230] |
2020 | Tove | Tove Jansson | Alma Pöysti | During her lifetime, Tove Jansson had relationships with men named Sam Vanni, Tapio Tapiovaara & Atos Wirtanen and a woman named Vivica Bandler before meeting her life partner, Tuulikki Pietilä. | Finland | |
2021 | After Blue | Roxy | Paula Luna | Roxy is a teenage girl who lives in a community with her mother on the planet After Blue, a planet inhabited only by women in an undetermined future | France | [231][232][233] |
Sternberg | Vimala Pons | |||||
2021 | Anaïs in Love | Anaïs | Anaïs Demoustier | Anaïs is a spirited young woman who falls in love with Emilie, the novelist wife of the man with whom she's having an affair. | France | [234] |
Emilie | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | |||||
2021 | The Fallout | Vada Cavell | Jenna Ortega | Vada, who has a boyfriend, kisses and has sex with Mia during a night of drinking. | United States | [235] |
2021 | The First Girl I Loved | Sylvia Lee Sum Yuet | Renci Yeung | At the beginning of the film, Lee has a crush on her male teacher. She then starts a love affair with her best friend Sylvia. Years later, when Sylvia is preparing to marry her fiancé, she asks Lee to be her bridesmaid. | Hong Kong | [236] |
Lee Wing Nam | Hedwig Tam | |||||
2021 | The Green Knight | Lord | Joel Edgerton | Gawain encounters Lord in the forest, who gives him a kiss and has a lady. | United States | [237] |
Canada | ||||||
2021 | One Four Three | Genevieve | Ella McCready | Genevieve leaves her fiancé Paul to be in a relationship with Rebecca. On her way to meet with him, she is brutally attacked, leaving her with amnesia. | United Kingdom | [238][239][240] |
2021 | Parallel Mothers | Janis Martínez Moreno | Penélope Cruz | Janis has sexual relationships with renowned forensic archaeologist Arturo and Ana, a teen single mother. | Spain | [241][242] |
2021 | Ride or Die | Nanae Shinoda | Honami Sato | Nanae and her former classmate Rei turn to each other for love. | Japan | [243][244] |
2021 | Twist | Nancy "Red" Lee | Sophie Simnett | Nancy is the girlfriend of Sikes, a female friend of Fagin. | United Kingdom | [245][246] |
2021 | The United States vs. Billie Holiday | Billie Holiday | Andra Day | Billie is first married to Jimmy Monroe. She later begins a relationship with Joe Guy, and FBI agent Jimmy Fletcher. Later in her life, she enters into an abusive marriage with Louis McKay. Tallulah and Billie were involved romantically. Tallulah and Billie kiss in the film's trailer, but not in the film. | United States | [247][248] |
Tallulah Bankhead | Natasha Lyonne | |||||
2021 | Walk with Me | Amber Evans | Devin Dunne Cannon | Evans is a mother who leaves her husband, then unexpectedly falls in love with another woman. | United States | [249][250] |
2022 | The Batman | Selina Kyle / Catwoman | Zoë Kravitz | This role is based on the character of the same name from the comics, who is bisexual. (Kravitz confirmed Selina's sexuality in an interview.) | United States | [251][252] |
2022 | Bones and All | Lee | Timothée Chalamet | Lee is a cannibalistic teenager. | Italy | [253] |
United States | ||||||
United Kingdom | ||||||
2022 | Crush | AJ | Auli'i Cravalho | Openly bi throughout the whole movie, with Paige's friends saying that she's bi, and later in the movie AJ talks about her coming out as bisexual. | United States | [254][255][256] |
2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Evelyn Quan Wang | Michelle Yeoh | In an alternate universe, Evelyn is in a romantic relationship with Deirdre. | United States | [257][258] |
Deirdre Beaubeirdra | Jamie Lee Curtis | |||||
2022 | My Policeman | Tom Burgess | Harry Styles | Set in 1950s Brighton, Tom is married to Marion while also being involved with Patrick. | United States | [259][260] |
Linus Roache | ||||||
2022 | Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody | Whitney Houston | Naomi Ackie | This version of Houston has a girlfriend. | United States | [261] |
2023 | Anatomy of a Fall | Sandra Voyter | Sandra Hüller | Voyter is a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband's death | France | [262][263] |
2023 | Chestnut | Annie | Natalia Dyer | Annie was attracted to both her new friends Tyler and Danny. | United States | [264] |
2023 | The Color Purple | Shug Avery | Taraji P. Henson | Avery is Mister's longtime lover, who has a husband and sleeps with Celie. | United States | [265] |
2023 | Cora Bora | Cora | Megan Stalter | Cora is a musician who decided to pack up and leave Portland to move to Los Angeles to further her career, leaving behind her dog and her girlfriend. | United States | [266] |
2023 | Maestro | Leonard Bernstein | Bradley Cooper | Bernstein was a world-famous composer, who was married to Felicia Montealegre, yet he also has affairs with men over the years. | United States | [267] |
2023 | Passages | Tomas | Franz Rogowski | Tomas is married to Martin, but has an affair with Agathe. | France | [268] |
2023 | Poor Things | Bella Baxter | Emma Stone | Baxter is a young woman in Victorian London who has been brought back to life via brain transplant. | Ireland | [269] |
United Kingdom | ||||||
United States | ||||||
2023 | Red, White & Royal Blue | Alex Claremont-Diaz | Taylor Zakhar Perez | Alex is in a relationship with Prince Henry. He comes out to him as bisexual after their first hook up and later, he also comes out to his mother. | United States | [270] |
2023 | Shortcomings | Sasha | Debby Ryan | United States | [271] | |
2024 | Challengers | Patrick Zweig | Josh O'Connor | Patrick is romantically involved with Tashi and attracted to Art. He's also seen interacting with men and women in a dating app. | United States | [272] |
2024 | Gladiator II | Marcinus | Denzel Washington | Marcinus is a former slave who plans to control Rome. He keeps a stable of gladiators and mentors Lucius. | United Kingdom | [273] |
United States | ||||||
2024 | Love Lies Bleeding | Jackie | Katy O'Brian | Jackie is an aspiring bodybuilder. | United States | [274] |
2024 | Stress Positions | Karla | Theda Hammel | Karla is Terry's best friend. | United States | [275] |
See also
[edit]- List of film franchises with LGBT characters
- List of LGBT-related films
- List of LGBT-related films by year
- Films about intersex
Notes
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[edit]- Bryant, Wayne M. (1997). Bisexual Characters in Film: From Ana's to Zee (1st ed.). Binghamton, New York: Haworth Press. ISBN 078900142X. LCCN 96025868.
- Cook, Carson (May 2018). A content analysis of LGBT representation on broadcast and streaming television (Honors). University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Morris, Gary (2002). "Film Noir" (PDF). glbtq.com.