The Best French Films to Stream Now for Pride Month

Last Updated on 1 June 2025 by frenchflicks

June is Pride Month — the perfect time to celebrate queer voices, stories, and cinema from around the world. If you’re looking to stream powerful LGBTQ+ films with a French twist, TV5MONDEplus offers a wide selection of titles that are touching, bold, funny, and deeply human.

From heartfelt dramas to vibrant dramedies, these films explore identity, love, and freedom in all their forms. Here are 10 must-see French-language LGBTQ+ films to stream now — plus a few other gems worth discovering along the way.

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1. Lola Pater

Now streaming on TV5MONDEplus
After his mother’s death, Zino decides to go looking for his father, Farid, who disappeared 25 years earlier. When he arrives by motorbike at a house in the south of France, instead of finding Farid he finds Lola. He doesn’t know yet that his father has become a woman.

Director: Nadir Moknèche (France, 2016) 
Cast: Fanny Ardant, Tewfik Jallab, Nadia Kaci, Bruno Sanches, Lubna Azabal
Genre: Drama

2. L’attente

Now streaming on TV5MONDEplus
Jeanne and Céline are at the maternity clinic for the arrival of their first child. It’s Jeanne who is going to give birth. During the night, in the hospital entrance hall, Céline meets two men who, like her… are waiting.

Director: Alice Douard (France, 2022) 
Cast: Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, Émilie Brisavoine
Genre: Dramedy, short film
Awards: Best short fiction at the César Awards (France, 2024), Special Jury Prize and Be TV Prize at the Unifrance Short Film Awards (France, 2022), Best Direction and Best Actor Mention (Julien Gaspar-Oliveri) at the Namur FIFF (Belgium, 2022)

3. La Théorie du Y 

Now streaming on TV5MONDEplus
Created by Caroline Taillet and Martin Landmeters, a series that questions our taboos on the subject of sexuality by exploring bisexuality and the clichés that surround it.

Director: Caroline Taillet (Belgium, 2016)
Cast: Léone François, Colin Javaux, Salim Talbi, Ophélie Honoré
Genre: Dramedy

4. Trois nuits par semaine

Live on TV5MONDE June 2 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT

Photographer Baptiste plunges into the world of Parisian nightlife. He meets Cookie Kunty, a drag queen with whom he launches an art project. Baptiste gradually discovers this unfamiliar world and gets to know Quentin, the young man behind the character, who doesn’t leave him indifferent.

Director: Florent Gouëlou (France, 2022)
Cast: Pablo Pauly, Romain Eck, Hafsia Herzi, Harald Marlot
Genre: Dramedy
Awards: Selected at the FIFF in Namur (Belgium, 2022), Critics’ Week in Venice (Italy, 2022), Rendez-vous d’Unifrance in Paris (2023), Rendez-vous with French Cinema in New York (United States, 2023) and Greek French Language Film Festival (2025)

5. Les invisibles

Now streaming on TV5MONDEplus

Born between the two wars, these men and women chose to accept their homosexuality at a period when society rejected them for it. Today, they give their accounts of a life torn between the desire to live like everybody else and the need to assert their freedom to seek fulfilment.

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz (France, 2012)
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Best documentary (César, 2013), Special screenings (Cannes, 2012)

6. Coperni, le couple qui révolutionne la mode

Streaming on TV5MONDEplus from June 4
On October 1, 2024, Disneyland Paris hosted its first-ever fashion show, featuring the brand Coperni, founded in 2013 by Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant. Partners in both life and fashion, the duo are a perfect match: Meyer leads the creative vision, while Vaillant runs the business.

Director: Loïc Prigent (France, 2024)
Genre: Documentary

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La reine soleil

Live on TV5MONDE June 10 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT

Ancient Egypt, 18th dynasty. The fiery Princess Akhesa, 14, rebels against her father, Pharaoh Akhenaten. She refuses to live confined within the walls of the royal palace and runs away with the help of Prince Tut to find her mother, Queen Nefertiti, who has been exiled on Elephantine Island…

Director: Philippe Leclerc (France, Belgium, Hungary, 2005)
Genre: Animation

La sirène

Live on TV5MONDE June 15 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT

1980, in southern Iran. The people of Abadan are resisting the Iraqi siege. Fourteen-year-old Omid is thinking with his grandfather about how to help people escape if the enemy seizes the town. They find an abandoned sailing boat in the harbour, which they now need to repair.

Director: Sepideh Farsi (France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, 2022) 
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Spiesser
Genre: Animation
Awards: Best Original Score at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (France, 2023); Jury Prize at the BIAF (South Korea, 2023)

Voyage au pôle sud

Available on TV5MONDE Cinema from June 8

“March of the Penguins” director Luc Jacquet embarks on his latest adventure, exploring the few thousand kilometers that separate Patagonia from the South Pole.

Director: Luc Jacquet (2023)
Genre: Documentary

Tirailleurs

Available on TV5MONDE Cinema beginning June 20

During World War I, a father enlists in the French army to stay close to his 17-year-old son, who is forced to serve. Together, they are sent to the front in the French colony of Senegal.

Director: Mathieu Vadepied (2023)
Cast: Omar Sy, Alassane Diong, Jonas Bloquet
Genre: Drama, War
Awards: 2022 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Award

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