7 Exceptional International Movies That You Can Stream Online To Celebrate Pride Month, 2021

It’s the month we celebrate love! Happy Pride, y’all. It’s not like we need an excuse to watch heart-melting and soul-stirring love stories, for we can watch them any time, any day, but we have still got just the right one. That’s right, pretty readers, today we have for you a list of some of the best contemporary international films on the LGBTQIA+ theme, which y’all should surely binge-watch this month and celebrate PRIDE! So dive right in and bookmark all these!

1. Call Me By Your Name

Obviously, we had to put Timothee Chalamet’s superhit, Call Me By Your Name as the first entry. We can never have watched this film too many times! Set amidst lush green trees, warm & sunny skies of Northern Italy, this film is a visual delight. That, added with the skilful and moving performances of the leads, gives us a heart-touching, sensual, and bittersweet story of first love and a coming-of-age drama where the 17-year-old Elio comes to terms with his sexuality! Watch this one for sure!

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2. The Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

A love story that was doomed from the start, yet more passionate and real than most, The Portrait Of A Lady On Fire captures the struggle of two young women in 1770s France. A tragic & brilliant story about Heloise, an unwilling bride, and Marianne, the artist who is recruited to paint her - the film is in all aspects as beautiful as the piece of art created in the film and you’re sure to get swayed with this masterpiece!

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3. Moonlight

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We all remember the moment Moonlight won the Oscar for best picture, against La La Land, but did you actually get around to see this amazing movie? The movie is about a young black man who grapples with his sexuality, racial identity, and deals with his drug-addled mother, and the various stages of his life as he grows up, and how he finds an unexpected mentor in Juan, a drug dealer. Poignant and intricate, the film leaves us with a profound impact.

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4. Carol

Set in 1950s New York, a time when homosexual love was outlawed and shamed, Carol is based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, titled The Price Of Salt. The film is about Therese and Carol, who is older, and on the verge of a divorce from her husband. Carol and Therese find themselves drawn magnetically to one another with the risk and forbiddance adding extra thrill and a huge dose of emotion and longing. Watch now for the emotions to hit you like a truck!

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5. Love, Simon

Love, Simon is a movie of our favourite kind. Light-hearted, funny, and set in high school! Simon, is just like us, drinking too much ice coffee and gobbling on too many carbs, only, he has a secret he is afraid to tell out loud. Love, Simon is a coming-of-age American rom-com from the producers of our fave The Fault In Our Stars. Join the exciting ride as Simon embarks on the journey to ‘come out,’ and the emotional twists and turns that he encounters on the way.

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6. The Kids Are All Right

The Kids Are All Right is a film about a lesbian couple, Jules and Nic, and their children. Their imperfect but stable life at home is stirred up when the kids want to meet their father AKA, the sperm donor. The father turns out to be Paul, played by the one and only Mark Ruffalo, and this meeting follows a lot of awkwardness and emotional peril. An emotional comedy about a family at heart, The Kids Are All Right is a must-watch! 

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7. The Half Of It 

This popular Netflix teen movie, The Half Of It is a story about a studious and shy Chinese-American immigrant who has developed a booming business of writing essays for quick cash. Things take a turn when an endearing football player Paul seeks Ellie’s help to write a letter to his crush. Unexpectedly & unlike most romcoms, instead of falling for the hunky jock, Ellie falls for his crush! What happens next, find out for yourself in this cute movie about friendships and love!

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So which one are you going to press play on first?