The Top 50 'Advocate's Top 175 Essential Films of All Time for LGBT Viewers' Movies

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The Top 50 'Advocate's Top 175 Essential Films of All Time for LGBT Viewers' Movies
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
Ranking
88 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder NR -
93 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
113 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
139 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
159 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming NR -
162 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
180 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet R -
250 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder PG13 -
352 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray PG13 -
379 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan NR -
417 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz NR -
434 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich NR -
514 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor NR -
527 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer PG13 -
661 Heathers 1988 Michael Lehmann R -
716 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse PG -
842 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch R -
869 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012 Stephen Chbosky PG13 -
938 Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest NR -
952 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson R -
1041 All About My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar R -
1069 Hedwig and The Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell R -
1158 Milk 2008 Gus Van Sant R -
1234 Mysterious Skin 2004 Gregg Araki NC17 -
1291 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman R -
1313 Mean Girls 2004 Mark Waters PG13 -
1319 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme PG13 -
1399 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 Abdellatif Kechiche NC17 -
1423 The Color Purple 1985 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
1425 Grey Gardens 1975 Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer NR -
1519 Beginners 2010 Mike Mills R -
1540 The Women 1939 George Cukor NR -
1547 Dallas Buyers Club 2013 Jean-Marc Vallée R -
1554 Bound 1996 The Wachowskis R -
1577 A Single Man 2009 Tom Ford R -
1612 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee R -
1613 Happy Together 1997 Wong Kar-Wai NR -
1665 The World According to Garp 1982 George Roy Hill R -
1707 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols R -
1730 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant R -
1760 Far from Heaven 2002 Todd Haynes PG13 -
1866 Victor/Victoria 1982 Blake Edwards PG -
1900 The Children's Hour 1961 William Wyler NR -
1909 Gods and Monsters 1998 Bill Condon R -
1997 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Anthony Minghella R -
2006 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994 Stephan Elliott R -
2030 Paris is Burning 1990 Jennie Livingston R -
2039 Boys Don't Cry 1999 Kimberly Peirce R -
2050 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott R -
2076 Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling PG13 -

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