The 14 best movies featuring LGBTQ stories you can watch on Netflix right now

This movie is as stylish as you'd expect a Tom Ford movie to be. It's beautiful. It's also a stream-of-consciousness story starring an Oscar-nominated Colin Firth struggling to cope with the death of his boyfriend in 1960s LA.

This Netflix original tells the very relatable story (for a lot of young gay men) of a young boy struggling to come to terms with his sexuality as he realizes his attraction to men while still in a relationship with a girl. It's funnier than it sounds, so it's worth a watch if you're looking for something feel-good.

This is a steamy, erotic romance drama about two women who meet in Toronto and begin an intense and passionate love affair. That intensity and passion radiates off the screen.

"Blue Is the Warmest Colour" won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Lead actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos both won the best actress award at Cannes, too, for their searing performances in this now-iconic drama.

Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Oscar for this a year after his "The Theory of Everything" win. Just as excellent is Alicia Vikander, who won best supporting actress but really should have been placed in best actress.

The film, directed by "Les Miserables" and "Cats" director Tom Hooper, is loosely inspired by the life of Lili Elbe (Redmayne), one of the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery.

This Netflix original follows a teenage boy caught between his mother and the lover and insurance beneficiary of his father (who has passed away). It's as witty as it is poignant.

Constance Wu stars in this experimental movie — an improvised comedy following a Lesbian couple soon to be married. Things spiral, however, when one of them confesses to never having had an orgasm.

This Netflix original promises to be "a different kind of love story" in its promotional story, and it follows through. Lonely student Ellie Chu makes money writing papers for classmates in a remote town, and agrees to write a love letter for a school jock to his crush.

However, she soon begins to fall for said crush — leading to an honest and sweet story.

Netflix original "I Am Jonas" follows a man's journey as two separate moments of his life (one when he was a teenager in 1997 and one almost 20 years later) begin to echo each other.

A similar title to the previous entry, but a vastly different film. This is a hard-hitting true-life biopic starring James Franco as a gay rights activist who inexplicably stops becoming gay as he converts to Christianity. Zachary Quinto stars as the boyfriend who gets left behind.

The first-ever LGBTQ film to win best picture at the Academy Awards. That alone makes it required viewing. The fact that it also happens to be a gorgeous film with almost no faults means this really is one of those special films that you just must watch before you die.

One gripe that I with LGBTQ films is that most of them tend to be pretty hard-hitting dramas. So it's refreshing to see Netflix deliver a psychological horror starring Allison Williams. And it really isn't shy on the horror.

It's hard to believe that the director of "The Silence of the Lambs" made this movie, but Jonathan Demme clearly has a way with actors. Tom Hanks won best actor for this moving drama that also stars Denzel Washington and Antonio Banderas.

James Sweeney's directorial debut is a quirky movie full of witticisms. A rom-com more focused on the characters' intellect than their appearance, "Straight Up" follows a gay guy with OCD who enters a relationship with a girl after he falls for her intellect.