Directed by Ang Lee

2005 - Rated R

“I wish I knew how to quit you.”

If it’s a critically lauded, Oscar-smashing movie you’re after, Brokeback Mountain soared straight to the top of the LGBTQ+ film canon on its release and is credited with being the first major mainstream queer film. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal portray two cowboys who meet in the Sixties and develop a secret, forbidden love for each other.

As we follow the two men throughout their lives, the shame around being openly gay in America at that time is so poignantly and heart-wrenchingly clear, it’s no wonder the cast and crew won a veritable army of Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Academy Awards, among many other accolades.