# List of LGBTQ-related films of 2013

This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer-related films released in 2013. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.

## Films

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| 52 Tuesdays | Sophie Hyde | Australia | Drama | Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Del Herbert-Jane | Coming of age story about a teenage girl dealing with a transgender mother who is transitioning to become a man. |
| Adult World | Scott Coffey | United States | Comedy | Emma Roberts, John Cusack, Evan Peters, Armando Riesco, Shannon Woodward, Chris Riggi, Scott Coffey | |
| Age 17 (17 anni) | Filippo Demarchi | Switzerland | Short, drama | Fabio Foiada, Ignazio Oliva, Laura Minazzi, Kevin Martinetti | |
| Aleksandr's Price | Pau Masó | United States | Drama | Pau Masó, Josh Berresford, Anatoli Grek | |
| American Vagabond | Susanna Helke | Finland | Documentary | James Temple, Tyler Johnson | |
| Ashley | Dean Ronalds | United States | Drama | Nicole Fox, Nicole Buehrer, Jennifer Taylor, Michael Madsen, Tom Malloy | |
| Bambi | Sébastien Lifshitz | France | Documentary | Marie-Pierre Pruvot | Winner of the 2013 Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film |
| Before You Know It | PJ Raval | United States | Documentary | Dennis Creamer, Ty Martin, Robert Mainor, Dixie Monroe, Carly Davin Nation | Follows 3 Gay American senior citizens |
| Behind the Candelabra | Steven Soderbergh | United States | Drama | Matt Damon, Michael Douglas | Aired as a television film in the United States, but was screened theatrically in Europe. |
| Black Box | Stephen Cone | United States | Drama | Josephine Decker, Austin Pendleton | |
| Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2) | Abdellatif Kechiche | France Belgium Spain | Drama | Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing, Catherine Salée, Benjamin Siksou | Won the Palme d'Or at Cannes |
| Boygame | Anna Nolskog | Sweden | Short, comedy, drama, romance | Charlie Gustafsson, Joakim Lang, Sophie Adolfsson, Palmira Koukkari Mbenga, Felicia Löwerdahl | 15 mins long and was on the Iris Prize Shortlist in 2014 |
| Breaking the Girls | Jamie Babbit | United States | Crime, thriller | Agnes Bruckner, Madeline Zima, Shawn Ashmore, Kate Levering, Shanna Collins | |
| Bridegroom | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason | United States | Documentary | Shane Bitney Crone, Tom Bridegroom | Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival |
| Burger | Magnus Mork | United Kingdom Norway | Short, drama | Zaman Ahmadi, Akram Akbari, Matthew Ashford | 11 mins long |
| Cal | Christian Martin | United Kingdom | Drama | Wayne Virgo, Tom Payne, Emily Corcoran, Lucy Russell, Simon Cook | |
| Caged (Uitgesproken) | Dylan Tonk, Lazlo Tonk | Netherlands | Short, drama | Joël Mellenberg, Josha Stradowski, Yldau de Boer, Leendert de Ridder | 13 mins long |
| Coming Out | Dénes Orosz | Hungary | Comedy | Sándor Csányi, Kátya Tompos | |
| Concussion | Stacie Passon | United States | Drama | Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff | Winner of the 2013 Teddy Award Jury Prize. |
| Continental | Malcolm Ingram | United States | Documentary | Jaye P. Morgan, Holly Woodlawn, Michael Musto, Frankie Knuckles, Sarah Dash | |
| Contracted | Eric England | United States | Horror | Najarra Townsend, Caroline Williams, Alice Macdonald | |
| Cruise Patrol | Bobby de Groot, Arjan van Meerten | Netherlands | Animation, short, action, fantasy, sci-fi | | 8 mins long, Won awards at Sydney Film Festival 2015, New Media Film Festival 2014, ShortCutz Amsterdam 2015 |
| Dallas Buyers Club | Jean-Marc Vallée | United States | Drama | Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Denis O'Hare, Steve Zahn, Michael O'Neill, Dallas Roberts, Griffin Dunne, Kevin Rankin, Bradford Cox, Scott Takeda | Based on the life of Ron Woodroof |
| The Dog | Allison Berg, Frank Keraudren | United States | Documentary | John Wojtowicz, Carmen Bifulco, Jeremy Bowker | Documentary about John Wojtowicz, whose story inspired the fiction film Dog Day Afternoon |
| Eastern Boys | Robin Campillo | France | Drama | Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Danil Vorobyev | |
| Exposed | Beth B | United States | Documentary | Julie Atlas Muz, Mat Fraser, Bunny Love, Dirty Martini, James Habacker, Bambi the Mermaid and Rose Wood | eight women and men (including disabled, transgender) using their naked bodies for burlesque |
| Facing Fear | Jason Cohen | United States | Short Documentary | Matthew Boger, Tim Zaal | former neo-Nazi and his gay victim meet 25 years later, was a nominee for the 86th Academy Awards |
| The Firefly (La Luciérnaga) | Ana Maria Hermida | Colombia United States | Drama, romance, fantasy | Olga Segura, Carolina Guerra, Manuel José Chávez, Andrés Aranburo | After the sudden death of her estranged brother, Lucia accidentally meets his fiancée and falls in love with her. |
| Floating Skyscrapers | Tomasz Wasilewski | Poland | Drama | Mateusz Banasiuk, Bartosz Gelner | |
| Free Fall | Stephan Lacant | Germany | Drama | Hanno Koffler, Max Riemelt, Katharina Schüttler | a.k.a. Freier Fall |
| Fuoristrada | Elisa Amoruso | Italy | Documentary | Marioara Dadiloveanu Giuseppe Della Pelle | Italian documentary, also known as "Off Road", about the transgender mechanic and a rally rides champion Beatrice, her relationship with Marianna and their common life. |
| Five Dances | Alan Brown | United States | Drama | Ryan Steele, Reed Luplau, Catherine Miller | |
| G.B.F. | Darren Stein | United States | Comedy | Sasha Pieterse, Natasha Lyonne. Evanna Lynch, Megan Mullally, Andrea Bowen, Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, Xosha Roquemore, Horatio Sanz, Paul Iacono, and Michael J. Willett | |
| Geography Club | Gary Entin | United States | Comedy | Cameron Deane Stewart, Justin Deeley, Meaghan Martin, Allie Gonino, Nikki Blonsky, Andrew Caldwell, Marin Hinkle, Ana Gasteyer, Scott Bakula | Based on the young adult novel of the same name by Brent Hartinger |
| Gerontophilia | Bruce LaBruce | Canada | Drama | Walter Borden, Pier-Gabriel Lajoie, Marie-Hélène Thibault, Katie Boland | |
| Girl, Boy, Bakla, Tomboy | Wenn V. Deramas | Philippines | Comedy | Vice Ganda, Maricel Soriano | |
| The Happy Sad | Rodney Evans | United States | Drama | Leroy McClain, Sorel Carradine, Charlie Bennett | Screenplay by Ken Urban, based on his stage play of the same name |
| Harmonica's Howl | Bruno Safadi | Brazil | Drama | Leandra Leal, Jiddú Pinheiro, Mariana Ximenes | |
| Hawaii | Marco Berger | Argentina | Romance | Manuel Vignau, Mateo Chiarino | |
| Human Warmth (Chaleur humaine) | Christophe Predari | Belgium | Short, drama, romance | Thomas Coumans, Adrien Desbons | 11 mins long |
| I Do | Glenn Gaylord | United States | Drama | David W. Ross, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Grant Bowler, Alicia Witt, Maurice Compte | General release; premiered on festival circuit in 2012. |
| I Love Hooligans | Jan-Dirk Bouw | Netherlands Belgium | Animation, short, biography | | 13 min long, later added to Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide (2016) |
| I'm So Excited | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | Comedy | Javier Cámara, Antonio de la Torra, Raúl Arévalo, Carlos Areces, Hugo Silva, Lola Dueñas, Cecilia Roth, Guillermo Toledo, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Laya Marti, José María Yazpik | |
| In Bloom | Chris Michael Birkmeier | United States | Drama | Kyle Wigent, Tanner Rittenhouse, Adam Fane | |
| In the Name of | Małgorzata Szumowska | Poland | Drama | Andrzej Chyra, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Maria Maj, Maja Ostaszewska, Tomasz Schuchardt, Łukasz Simlat | Winner of the 2013 Teddy Award for Best Feature Film. |
| Interior. Leather Bar. | James Franco, Travis Mathews | United States | Docudrama | Val Lauren, Christian Patrick, James Franco, Travis Mathews | Reimagining of the 40 minutes of deleted footage from the 1980 film Cruising |
| Kill Your Darlings | John Krokidas | United States | Drama | Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Olsen, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, Jack Huston, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Cullum, David Rasche, Kyra Sedgwick, Zach Appelman | Fictionalized account of the killing in Riverside Park |
| Kissing Darkness | James Townsend | United States | Horror, thriller | Ronnie Kroell, Sean Paul Lockhart | |
| Kissing Drew | Philip J. Connell | Canada | Short, drama | Eden Ocean Sanders, Ben Hargreaves, Chris Handfield | 9 mins long |
| A Last Farewell (Ett sista farväl) | Casper Andreas | Sweden | Short, drama, family | Tomas von Brömssen, Iwar Wiklander, Liv Mjönes | 13 mins long |
| Little Gay Boy | Antony Hickling | France | Drama | Gaëtan Vettier, Manuel Blanc, Amanda Dawson | |
| Love U Man | B.B Phuyal | Nepal | Drama, horror | Raz Aryan, Sures Chaudhary and Pranisha Silwal | Also called 'Love You Man', first Nepalese gay film |
| Me, Myself and Mum | Guillaume Gallienne | France | Comedy | Guillaume Gallienne, André Marcon, Françoise Fabian | Based on Gallienne's autobiographical stage show Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table ! |
| Monster Pies | Lee Galea | Australia | Romantic drama | Tristan Barr, Lucas Linehan | |
| My Child | Can Candan | Turkey | Family, drama, documentary | LİSTAG players (Istanbul group of Families of LGBT) | |
| My Prairie Home | Chelsea McMullan | Canada | Documentary | Rae Spoon | |
| Nordland | Ingo J. Biermann | Germany | Drama | Odine Johne, Maren Hoff, John Sigurd Kristensen, Burri-Taka Bolalima, Ingrid Lode, Nora G. Svalheim, Olena Tretyak-Godinaud | |
| Nymphomaniac | Lars von Trier | United Kingdom Denmark Belgium France Germany | Drama | Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Connie Nielsen, Michaël Pas, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier | |
| Open Up to Me | Simo Halinen | Finland | Drama | Leea Klemola, Peter Franzén, Ria Kataja | |
| Out | Jeremy LaLonde | Canada | Short comedy-drama | David Tompa, David Huband, Rosemary Doyle, Paula Brancati, Tommie-Amber Pirie | |
| The Package (O Pacote) | Rafael Aidar | Brazil | Short, drama, romance | Jefferson Brito, Victor Monteiro, Thaís Oliveira | 18 min long |
| Philomena | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom | Drama | Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Michelle Fairley, Barbara Jefford, Anna Maxwell Martin, Mare Winningham | Based on the book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith |
| Pit Stop | Yen Tan | United States | Drama | Bill Heck, Marcus DeAnda, Amy Seimetz, Alfredo Maduro | |
| Quick Change | Eduardo Roy Jr. | Philippines | Drama | Mimi Juareza, Jun-Jun Quintana, Miggs Quaderno | |
| Reaching for the Moon | Bruno Barreto | Brazil | Drama, romance | Glória Pires, Miranda Otto, Tracy Middendorf | Based on the book Flores Raras e Banalíssimas (Rare and Commonplace Flowers) by Carmem Lucia de Oliveira |
| Side Effects | Steven Soderbergh | United States | Drama, thriller | Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vinessa Shaw, Ann Dowd, Polly Draper, David Costabile, Mamie Gummer, Scott Shepherd, Marin Ireland, Elizabeth Rodriguez | |
| Spooners | Bryan Horch | United States | Short, comedy, romance, sci-fi | Walter Replogle, Ben Lerman, Richard Ballon, Nathan Tetreault | 14 min long, it was part funded on kickstarter.com |
| Stranger by the Lake | Alain Guiraudie | France | Drama | Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d'Assumçao | Won the Queer Palm at Cannes |
| Tattoo (Tatuagem) | Hilton Lacerda | Brazil | Comedy, drama | Jesuíta Barbosa, Irandhir Santos, Rodrigo García, Sylvia Prado | Best Picture at the 2013 Festival de Gramado |
| Test | Chris Mason Johnson | United States | Drama | Kevin Clarke, Kristoffer Cusick | |
| Together | James Cook | United Kingdom | Short, horror | Lucas Hansen, Ben Owora, Stuart Evans | 22 mins long, later added to Boys on Film 9: Youth in Trouble compilation |
| Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) | Xavier Dolan | Canada | Drama | Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Evelyne Brochu, Manuel Tadros, Lise Roy | Adaptation of a play by Michel Marc Bouchard |
| Tru Love | Shauna MacDonald, Kate Johnston | Canada | Drama | Shauna MacDonald, Kate Trotter, Christine Horne, Anna Cyzon, Peter MacNeill | |
| Truth | Rob Moretti | United States | Psychological thriller | Sean Paul Lockhart, Rob Moretti, Blanche Baker | |
| Vic and Flo Saw a Bear (Vic et Flo ont vu un ours) | Denis Côté | Canada | Drama | Marc-André Grondin, Romane Bohringer, Pierrette Robitaille | |
| The Violation | Christopher Bradley | United States | Short, drama | Slade Pearce, Elaine Hendrix, Shayne Topp | 13 mins long, later added to Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide compilation |
| VIS-à-VIS | Dan Connolly | Australia United Kingdom | Short, comedy | Belinda Misevski, Dan Connolly, David Harrison, Amy Lehpamer | 17 mins long, later added to Boys on Film 13: trick or Treat compilation |
| Voyage | Scud | Hong Kong Taiwan | Drama | Adrian 'Ron' Heung, Sebastian Castro, Byron Pang | An English-language drama about a young psychiatrist from Hong Kong who travels on a luxury boat to meet with his former clients. It contains frequent full-frontal male nudity. |
| We Are Animals | Dominic Haxton | United States | Short, sci-fi | Daniel Landroche, Clint Napier, Drew Droege | 13 mins long, later added to Boys on Film 11: We Are Animals compilation |
| What Now? Remind Me | Joaquim Pinto | Portugal | Documentary | Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel | |
| Winter Journey (Зимний путь) | Lubov Lvova, Sergey Taramaev | Russia | Drama | Aleksey Frandetti, Evgeniy Tkachuk | |
| Yeah Kowalski! | Evan Roberts | United States | Short, comedy, romance | Cameron Wofford, Conor Donnelly, Chris Doubek | 10 mins long |