Puppies, ghosts and euphoric snogging: the 25 best queer films of the century so far

‘A rallying cry for queer solidarity’ … a still from Campbell X’s debut feature Stud Life. Photograph: Peccadillo Pictures

25. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

One detractor called it “a Shawshank Redemption for progressive millennials”. But the force of Céline Sciamma’s lesbian love story about an artist and her unwitting sitter on a remote island in 18th-century Brittany is undeniable. As is the integrity of its central dynamic, stripped of power imbalances, hierarchies – and men.