Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Queer as Art

If you loved Queer as Art, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Celluloid Closet

The Celluloid Closet

1996★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Queer as Art for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 1...

#2
Disclosure

Disclosure

2020★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Queer as Art for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about the...

#3
Howard

Howard

2018★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Queer as Art for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage ...

#4
Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya

2020★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Queer as Art for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian repub...

#5
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

2016★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Queer as Art for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most contro...

#6
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Queer as Art for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars....

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