The Iron Giant (1999)

A Black woman centered in a box office rom-com with a happy ending and no struggle love.

“Candyman ain't a 'he.’ Candyman is the whole damn hive." Candyman represents all Black victims of white supremacy, and this art form narratively conveys it in a succinct, adulatory way, the history of which is rare to find.

Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.

There's no hiding the horrors of war in this inspiring story of survival

Of the 28 total films I watched, just six of them were queer or featured queer characters in some way.