30+ Movies That Everyone Agrees Are Perfect

Published on 07/04/2023
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Fire Island

This queer love comedy, written by and starring Joel Kim Booster, is based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The movie’s Mr. Darcy, Will (Conrad Ricamora), transforms Booster’s character Noah, a proudly single nurse, at the LGBTQ+ vacation spot of Fire Island. Howie (Bowen Yang), who is beginning a relationship with Charlie (James Scully), is going through a similar metamorphosis. His pals Keegan (Tomás Matos), Luke (Matt Rogers), and Max (Torian Miller) have differing opinions about how his courting with Charlie is going. “We created something incredibly unique, special, and gay,”

Fire Island

Fire Island

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Before Sunrise

Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke play a couple of travelers—she French, he American—who meet by chance in Vienna and decide to spend the evening together conversing and exploring the city before his aircraft takes off in this swoon-worthy romance film from director Richard Linklater. The plot is continued in the 2005 sequel Before Sunset, and the trilogy is completed in 2015 with Before Midnight. They are all worth again watching.

Before Sunrise

Before Sunrise

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