“Magnolia” is many, many (many) things, but first and foremost it’s a movie about people that are fighting to live above their pain — a theme that not only runs through all nine parts of this story, but also bleeds through Paul Thomas Anderson’s career. There’s John C. Reilly as Officer Jim Kurring, who’s effectively cast himself because the hero and narrator of the non-existent cop show in order to give voice towards the things he can’t confess. There’s Jimmy Gator, the dying game show host who’s haunted by all the ways he’s failed his daughter (he’s played by the late Philip Baker Hall in on the list of most affectingly human performances you’ll ever see).

, one of several most beloved films in the ’80s and a Steven Spielberg drama, has a lot going for it: a stellar cast, including Oscar nominees Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, Pulitzer Prize-profitable supply material plus a timeless theme of love (in this situation, between two women) to be a haven from trauma.

star Christopher Plummer won an Oscar for his performance in this moving drama about a widowed father who finds love again after coming out in his 70s.

Its iconic line, “I wish I knew how to Stop you,” has because become on the list of most famous movie quotations of all time.

This stunning musical biopic of music and vogue icon Elton John is among our favorites. They don't shy away from showing gay intercourse like many other similar films, as well as the songs and performances are all top rated notch.

A married guy falling in love with another man was considered scandalous and potentially career-decimating movie fare in the early ’80s. This unconventional (on the time) love triangle featuring Charlie’s Angels

It’s easy to make high school and its inhabitants look silly or transitory, but Heckerling is keenly aware about the formative power of those teenage years. “Clueless” understands that while some of its characters’ concerns are small potatoes (Certainly, some people did eliminate all their athletic devices during the sexy women Pismo Beach disaster, and no, a biffed driver’s test isn't the conclusion of your world), these experiences are also going to add to the way in which they solution life forever.  

That’s not to state that “Fire Walk with Me” is interchangeable with the show. Functioning over two hours, the movie’s mood is much grimmer, scarier and — within an unsettling way — sexier than Lynch’s foray into broadcast television.

As authoritarian tendencies are seeping into politics on a world scale, “Starship Troopers” paints shiny, ugly insect-infused allegories of the dangers of blind adherence as well as the power in targeting an easy mom sex enemy.

this fantastical take on Elton John’s story doesn’t straight-clean its subject’s gaytube intercourse life. Pair it with 1998’s Velvet Goldmine

“Earth” uniquely examines the break up between India and Pakistan through the eyes of a baby who witnessed the previous India’s multiculturalism firsthand. Mehta writes and directs with deft control, distilling the films darker themes and intricate dynamics without a heavy hand (outstanding performances from Das, Khan, and Khanna all add into the unforced poignancy).

was praised by critics and received Oscar nominations for its leading ladies Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, so it’s not precisely underappreciated. Still, for all of the plaudits, this lush, lovely period lesbian romance doesn’t obtain the credit history it deserves for presenting such a dead-accurate depiction of the power balance inside a queer relationship between two women at wildly different stages in life, a theme revisited by Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in 2020’s Ammonite.

This underground cult classic tells the story of a high school cheerleader who’s sent to conversion therapy camp after free sex porn her family suspects she’s a lesbian.

The film features on the list of most enigmatic titles in the decade, the Weird, sonorous juxtaposition of those two words almost always presented in the original French. It could be examine as “beautiful work” in English — but the idea of describing work as “beautiful” is somehow dismissive, as In case the legionnaires’ highly choreographed routines and pandamovies domestic tasks are more of a performance than part of the advanced military strategy.