# List of LGBTQ-related films of 2012

This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer-related films released in 2012. 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 |
| The Adored | Carl Medland and Amarjeet Singh | United Kingdom | Drama, Mystery, Romance | Laura Martin-Simpson, Ione Butler, Caroline Burns Cook, Jake Maskall | psychological lesbian thriller |
| Amen | Judhajit Bagchi, Ranadeep Bhattacharyya | India | Drama, Biography | Karan Veer Mehra, Jitin Gulati | Based on activist Harish Iyer's life |
| Any Day Now | Travis Fine | United States | Drama | Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Gregg Henry, Jamie Anne Allman, Chris Mulkey, Don Franklin, Kelli Williams, Alan Rachins, Frances Fisher, Isaac Leyva, Mindy Sterling, Miracle Laurie, Michael Nouri, Jeffrey Pierce | |
| Ardhanaari | Santhosh Souparnika | India | Drama | Manoj K. Jayan, Maniyanpilla Raju, Thilakan, Sukumari | |
| Ballroom Rules | Nickolas Bird, Eleanor Sharpe | Australia | Documentary | Anny Salerni and Eleanor Sharpe | Same-sex ballroom dancers pursuing dreams of competing at the Gay Games in Germany |
| BearCity 2: The Proposal | Doug Langway | United States | Comedy | Gerald McCullouch, Stephen Guarino, Brian Keane, Gregory Gunter, James Martinez | |
| Beyond the Hills | Cristian Mungiu | Romania | Drama | Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur | |
| Beyond the Walls (Hors les murs) | David Lambert | Belgium Canada France | Drama | Guillaume Gouix, Matila Malliarakis, David Salles, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Flonja Kodheli, Carmela Locantore | |
| Blue and Not So Pink | Miguel Ferrari | Venezuela | Drama | Guillermo García, Ignacio Montes, Hilda Abrahamz, Carolina Torres, Alexander Da Silva, Sócrates Serrano, Elba Escobar, Beatriz Valdés | Won the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film at the 28th Goya Awards in 2014. |
| Call Me Kuchu | Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright | United States | Documentary | David Kato (Founder, Sexual Minorities Uganda), Gilles Muhame (Managing Editor, Rolling Stone), John "Longjones" Abdallah Wambere (Journalist), Naome Ruzindana (Founder, Coalition of African Lesbians), Pastor Solomon Male, David Bahati (Ugandan Politician), Pastor Martin Ssempa and Bishop Christopher Senyonjo | |
| Cloud Atlas | Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Tom Tykwer | United States Germany | Science fiction, drama | Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, James D'Arcy, Zhou Xun, Keith David, David Gyasi, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant | Based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell |
| Common Gender | Noman Robin | Bangladesh | Drama | Dolly Zahur, Chitralekha Guho, Dileep Chakraborty and Saju Khadem | |
| Do Not Disturb | Yvan Attal | France | Comedy | François Cluzet, Yvan Attal, Laetitia Casta, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Asia Argento, Joeystarr | |
| Farewell, My Queen (Les adieux à la reine) | Benoît Jacquot | France Spain | Drama | Léa Seydoux, Diane Kruger, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois, Grégory Gadebois | Based on the novel of the same name by Chantal Thomas |
| For Dorian | Rodrigo Barriuso | Canada | Short drama | Ron Lea, Dylan Harman | |
| Fourplay | Kyle Henry | United States | Comedy, drama, romance | Christeene, Gary Chason, Danielle Rene, Atticus Rowe, Sara Sevigny, Paul Soileau, Jose Villarreal | premiered at Outfest 2010 |
| Gayby | Jonathan Lisecki | United States | Comedy, drama | Jenn Harris, Matthew Wilkas, Mike Doyle, Jonathan Lisecki | Based on the 2010 short film of the same name |
| Girlfriend, Boyfriend | Ya-che Yang | Taiwan | Comedy, romance | Gwei Lun-mei, Joseph Chang, Rhydian Vaughan, Bryan Chang, Serena Fang | |
| The Guest House | Michael Baumgarten | United States | Romance | Ruth Reynolds, Madeline Merritt | |
| How to Survive a Plague | David France | United States | Documentary | Interviews with; Bill Bahlman, David Barr (HIV/AIDS activist) Gregg Bordowitz, Spencer Cox, Jim Eigo, Susan Ellenberg, Anthony S. Fauci, Mark Harrington, Garance Franke-Ruta, Larry Kramer, Mathilde Krim, Ed Koch, Iris Long, Ray Navarro, Ann Northrop, Bob Rafsky, Peter Staley and archive footage of George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jesse Helms | About the early years of the AIDS epidemic. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in the 85th Academy Awards. |
| I Do | Glenn Gaylord | United States | Drama | David W. Ross, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Alicia Witt, Grant Bowler, Maurice Compte, Mike C. Manning | Festival circuit; general release in 2013. |
| I Want Your Love | Travis Mathews | United States | Drama | Jesse Metzger, Brontez Purnell, Ben Jasper | Feature expansion of a short film made by Mathews in 2010 |
| The Invisibles (Les Invisibles) | Sébastien Lifshitz | France | Documentary | Bernard, Catherine, Christian, Thérèse Clerc, Elisabeth, Monique Isselé, Jacques, Pierre, Pierrot and Yann | |
| It's Not a Cowboy Movie (Ce n'est pas un film de cowboys) | Benjamin Parent | France | Short, comedy | Malivaï Yakou, Finnegan Oldfield, Leïla Choukri, Garance Marillier, Damien Gomes | Queer Palm winner for short film |
| Jack and Diane | Bradley Rust Gray | United States | Drama, horror, romance | Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Dane DeHaan, Haviland Morris, Cara Seymour, Kylie Minogue, Lou Taylor Pucci, Neal Huff, Michael Chernus | |
| Jaurès | Vincent Dieutre | France | Docudrama | Eva Truffaut and Vincent Dieutre | Named after the Parisian métro station Jaurès and won the Teddy Award Jury Prize in 2012. |
| Jobriath A.D. | Kieran Turner | United States | Documentary | Interviews with; agent Jerry Brandt, singer Jayne County, actor Dennis Christopher, singer Joe Elliott, singer Kristian Hoffman, singer Gloria Jones, artist Ann Magnuson, Miss Mercy (singer with The GTOs), singer Jake Shears, singer Will Sheff, singer Marc Almond, artist Joseph Arias, Michael Butler, record label boss Lisa Fancher and Jim Fouratt | Features Jobriath, first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, treated as the 'next' David Bowie, but was trashed |
| Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean | Matthew Mishory | United States | Drama | James Preston, Dan Glenn, Clare Grant, Erin Daniels, Rafael Morais, Edward Singletary, Darri Ingolfsson, Edgar Morais, Dalilah Rain | |
| K-11 | Jules Stewart | United States | Drama | Goran Višnjić, Kate del Castillo, D. B. Sweeney, Portia Doubleday, Jason Mewes, Tom Lister Jr. (credited as Tommy "Tiny" Lister), Sonya Eddy | |
| Keep the Lights On | Ira Sachs | United States | Drama | Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Julianne Nicholson, Souléymane Sy Savané, Paprika Steen | |
| Last Chance (Une derniere chance) | Paul-Émile d'Entremont | Canada | Documentary | Five LGBT people seeking the right of asylum in Canada in order to escape persecution or homophobic violence in their homelands including; a transgender woman who was institutionalized by her family in Lebanon, an LGBT person jailed in Egypt and as Trudi, a corrective raped Jamaican lesbian | |
| Laurence Anyways | Xavier Dolan | Canada France | Drama, romance | Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri | |
| Look at Me Again (Olhe pra mim de novo) | Kiko Goifman, Claudia Priscilla | Brazil | Documentary | (Sillvyo Lucio), born female, searching to find a doctor in Brazil who will perform gender re-assignment surgery. Also interviewed Lucio's mother and daughter | Screened at BAFICI, and Berlinale in 2012 |
| Love Free or Die: How the Bishop of New Hampshire is Changing the World | Macky Alston | United States | Documentary | About Gene Robinson, who is widely known for being the first priest in an openly gay relationship to be consecrated a bishop in a major Christian denomination believing in the historic episcopate | Shown at Sundance Film Festival |
| Love Is Not Perfect (L'amore è imperfetto) | Francesca Muci | Italy | Romance | Anna Foglietta, Giulio Berruti | |
| Mapa Para Conversar (A Map for a Talk) | Constanza Fernández | Chile | Drama | Moro Andrea, Francisca Bernardi, Romano Kottow, Francisco Pizarro Saenz de Urtury and Mariana Prat | Sometimes translated as 'A Map For Love' |
| Margarita | Laurie Colbert, Dominique Cardona | Canada | Comedy-drama | Nicola Correia-Damude, Patrick McKenna, Christine Horne, Maya Ritter | |
| The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States | Drama | Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Ambyr Childers, Rami Malek, Jesse Plemons, Kevin J. O'Connor, Christopher Evan Welch, Madisen Beaty, Lena Endre, Amy Ferguson, Patty McCormack, Jillian Bell, Joshua Close, Fiona Dourif, David Warshofsky, Steven Wiig, W. Earl Brown | Homoerotic subtext |
| Men to Kiss (Männer zum knutschen) | Robert Hasfogel | Germany | Comedy | Frank Christian Marx, Udo Lutz, Alexandra Starnitzky, Sascia Haj, Marcel Schlutt, Marcus Lachmann | Winner of FilmOut Audience Award San Diego, US |
| Mississippi I Am | Harriet Hirshorn, Katherine Linton | United States | Documentary | Lance Bass, Constance McMillen | |
| Mixed Kebab | Guy Lee Thys | Belgium Turkey | Drama | Cem Akkanat, Simon Van Buyten, Gamze Tazim, Karlijn Sileghem, Lukas De Wolf | |
| Mommy Is Coming | Cheryl Dunye | Germany | Comedy, romance | Lil Harlow, Papi Coxx, Maggie Tapert, Wieland Speck, Cheryl Dunye, Stefan Kuschner, Jiz Lee, Judy Minx | |
| Mosquita y Mari | Aurora Guerrero | United States | Drama | Fenessa Pineda, Venecia Troncoso | |
| My Brother the Devil | Sally El Hosaini | United Kingdom | Drama | James Floyd, Fady Elsayed, Saïd Taghmaoui | |
| The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche | Maya Gallus | Canada | Docudrama | Severn Thompson, Deborah Hay | |
| On the Road | Walter Salles | France United Kingdom Brazil United States Canada | Adventure, drama | Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart | Based on the novel by Jack Kerouac |
| Out in the Dark (Alata) | Michael Mayer | Israel | Drama | Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Jamil Khoury, Alon Pdut, Loai Nofi, Khawlah Hag-Debsy, Maysa Daw, Shimon Mimran | |
| ParaNorman | Sam Fell Chris Butler | United States | Animation | Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Bernard Hill, Jodelle Ferland | |
| A Perfect Ending | Nicole Conn | United States | Drama | Jessica Clark, Barbara Niven, John Heard, Morgan Fairchild | |
| Revealing Mr. Maugham | Michael House | United Kingdom United States | Documentary | Interviews with; Marnie Baxter (actress), Suanne Braun, Tianna Nicole Brown, Camilla Chandon (journalist), Richard Davenport-Hines, Alan Furst, Ronald Harwood, Selina Hastings, Pico Iyer, Armistead Maupin, Akio Namekata (journalist), Nicolas Paravicini (family member), Chris Rolls (journalist), Alexander McCall Smith | Life and work of author W. Somerset Maugham |
| Sassy Pants | Coley Sohn | United States | Comedy | Anna Gunn, Ashley Rickards, Haley Joel Osment, Diedrich Bader, Jenny O'Hara, Martin Spanjers, Shanna Collins | |
| Scenes from a Gay Marriage | Matt Riddlehoover | United States | Comedy, romance | Matt Riddlehoover, Jared Allman | |
| She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column | Kevin Hegge | Canada | Documentary | | Profile of the queer punk band Fifth Column |
| The Skinny | Patrik-Ian Polk | United States | Comedy, drama, romance | Jussie Smollett, Blake Young-Fountain, Anthony Burrell | |
| Sleepless Knights | Stefan Butzmühlen, Cristina Diz | Germany | Drama, romance | Raul Godoy, Jaime Pedruelo, David Ruiz Miranda, Pepa Duran Sanchez, Ángel Muñoz Ruiz | It was presented at the 62nd Berlin Festival (Berlinale) |
| Soongava: Dance of the Orchids | Subarna Thapa | Nepal | Drama | Saugat Malla, Deeya Maskey, Nisha Adhikari | First Nepalese lesbian film |
| Speechless | Simon Chung | Hong Kong China | Drama, mystery, romance | Pierre-Matthieu Vital, Qilun Gao, Yung Yung Yu, Jian Jiang, Yu Ting Si Tu, Shu Ling Lang, Shao Qiu Shen, Hua Li | Chinese/Western gay relationship |
| Struck by Lightning | Brian Dannelly | United States | Comedy, drama | Chris Colfer, Allison Janney, Christina Hendricks, Sarah Hyland, Carter Jenkins, Brad William Henke, Rebel Wilson, Angela Kinsey, Polly Bergen, Dermot Mulroney | |
| Stud Life | Campbell Ex | United Kingdom | Drama, romance | T'Nia Miller, Kyle Treslove, Robyn Kerr, Simon Savory, Doña Croll, Naechane Romeo, Manfredi Gelmetti, Mizz. Kimberley | Filmed in London |
| Swan Lake | Ross MacGibbon, Matthew Bourne | United States | Drama, musical | Richard Winsor, Dominic North, Nina Goldman, Madelaine Brennan, Steve Kirkham, Joseph Vaughan | A modern interpretation of Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake, with replacing the female corps de ballet with male dancers and filmed in 3D |
| Ta av mig (Undress Me) | Victor Lindgren | Sweden | Short, drama | Jana Bringlöv Ekspong, Björn Elgerd | |
| Tell No One | Ivan Silvestrini | Italy | Comedy | Josafat Vagni, Jose Dammert, Valeria Bilello, Francesco Montanari, Monica Guerritore, Ninni Bruschetta, Victoria Cabello | Screenplay by Roberto Proia, based on his novel of the same name |
| Tennessee Queer | Earl Goshorn | United States | Comedy, drama | Christian Walker, Billie Worley, Jim Eikner, Jerre Dye, Ann Marie Hall, Lindsey Roberts, Jamie Mann, Drew Smith, Drew Paslay, David Tankersley | filmed almost entirely in Memphis with a local cast and crew |
| This Is Not a Dream | Gavin Butt, Ben Walters | United Kingdom United States Germany | Documentary | Dickie Beau, Nao Bustamante, Dara Birnbaum, Glenn O’Brien, Vaginal Davis, Kalup Linzy, and other UK performance artists Scottee, David Hoyle, Alp Haydar and Holestar | Features contemporary art and performance |
| Unfit: Ward vs. Ward | Penny Edmiston | United States | Documentary | Jessica Acebo, Michelle Caldwell, Charlene Carres, Beatrice Dohrn, Carla Janes, Kate Kendell, Michael Kenny, Neena Malik, Leonard Pitts Jr., Gretl Plessinger, Ted Stokes, Susan Walch, Cassey Ward, Donna Welch and Douglas White | 1995 Florida case, who is more fit to raise a child: a convicted killer or a lesbian? |
| United in Anger: A History of ACT UP | Jim Hubbard | United States | Documentary | David Barr, Ken Bing, Gregg Bordowitz, Jim Eigo, Avram Finkelstein, Tom Kalin, Patrick Moore, Michael Nesline, Ann Northrop, Michael Petrelis, Michelangelo Signorile, Peter Staley and archive footage of Vito Russo and Larry Kramer (founder of ACT UP) | |
| Verde verde (Green green) | Enrique Pineda Barnet | Cuba Spain | Drama | Héctor Noas, Carlos Miguel Caballero, Farah Maria, Rocío García | |
| The Weight | Jeon Kyu-hwan | South Korea | Drama | Cho Jae-hyun, Park Ji-a | |
| Woman's Lake [fr] (Frauensee) | Zoltan Paul | Germany | Drama | Nele Rosetz, Therese Hämer, Lea Draeger, Constanze Wächter, Enrico Weidner and Thomas Thieme | |
| Young and Wild (Joven y alocada) | Marialy Rivas | Chile | Drama | Alicia Rodríguez (credited as Alicia Luz Rodríguez), Aline Küppenheim, María Graica Omegna | |
| Zenne Dancer | Caner Alper, Mehmet Binay | Turkey | Drama | Kerem Can, Giovanni Arvaneh | |