Top queer movies/series where the LGBTQ+ story is mixed with adventure, road trips, survival, travel, mystery, or exploration, these are 10 strong picks:
Top 10 Queer Adventure Movies & Series You Need to Watch
1)The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) 🇦🇺
Three queer performers cross the Australian Outback in a tour bus. Funny, chaotic, emotional, and iconic.
2)Brokeback Mountain (2005) 🇺🇸
Two cowboys meet while working in the mountains, beginning a complicated relationship that stretches across years and places.
3)The Living End (1992) 🇺🇸
A rebellious, dangerous road trip involving two men who decide to escape society and live on their own terms. It is one of the landmark queer road movies.
4)My Own Private Idaho (1991) 🇺🇸
A surreal journey through America following two young men searching for identity, belonging, and each other.
5)Happy Together (1997) 🇭🇰
A turbulent queer relationship unfolds against the backdrop of Buenos Aires. Beautiful locations, intense emotions, and a relationship that constantly threatens to fall apart.
6)To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) 🇺🇸
Three drag queens embark on an unexpected road trip across America and end up changing an entire small town.
7)God's Own Country (2017) 🇬🇧
A lonely Yorkshire farmer's life changes after a Romanian migrant worker arrives. The countryside becomes the backdrop for an intense relationship and personal transformation.
8)The Adventures of Felix (1999) 🇫🇷
A young gay man travels across France searching for his biological father, meeting fascinating people along the way.
9)Sense8 (2015–2018) 📺
Probably the biggest adventure-heavy queer series on this list. Eight strangers around the world become mysteriously connected and are pulled into danger, conspiracy, romance, and survival.
10)The Last of Us (2023– ) 📺
A post-apocalyptic survival adventure with important queer characters and relationships woven into its larger story.