Young Royals S1 Out on Netflix

[justen]

Young Royals is a Swedish coming-of-age drama about the fictional Prince Wilhelm (Edvin Ryding) of the Swedish royal family. He's your standard "spare" in the "heir and a spare" trope who starts the series being sent to a prestigious boarding school called Hillerska after his youngest-prince antics (i.e., getting into a fight at a club) get him in

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[phililen3]

I'll give this a shot when I have some data for downloading.

Does anyone have recs for LGBTQ+ movies or series that aren't all about our pain and suffering and casual usage of slurs and all that? I'm basically looking for a romance with a happy ending.

[justen]

Okay, so I'm definitely leaving out some amazing movies and TV series (coughcoughVenenocoughcough) because you want generally positive endings, but here are some recs:

• Dating Amber
• A Date for Mad Mary
• Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt)
• The Way He Looks
• Boys
• Gossamer Folds
• Pride
• Everybody's Talking About Jamie
• Beautiful Thing
• Visible - Out on Television (okay, technically not a movie with a happy ending but a fantastic documentary about LGBTQ+ representation on TV)

[tillychar]

one of my surprise faves of last year was summerland, a movie with gemma arterton and gugu mbatha-raw. it's set during wwii so it's def heavy in places, but there's no homophobia even explicitly shown in the movie iirc and it ends happily.

[cricket]

How in the hell have I never heard of this before? That sounds like my perfect movie.

[tillychar]

it really flew under the radar! i guess not surprisingly since it got the covid release treatment with little fanfare

[chungkingxpress]

God's Own Country, Saving Face, The Handmaiden, The Way He Looks, Desert Hearts, And Then We Danced, The Watermelon Woman.
If you like anime you can watch Yuri On Ice, Dou kyu sei (Classmates), Given, Stranger By The Shore (I don't think it's out yet).

[fluxy_2535]

If you want something with a happy ending and are okay with period typical attitudes, Charité at War on Netflix has that. It’s a German Language series about Charité hospital in Berlin during WWII and the plot is (more or less) split between two stories, one of which is about a Wehrmacht solider/student doctor named Otto, and his lover Martin, who lost his leg after being forced to fight in the Balkans and is working as a nurse since his return. It’s based off a true story, though, so you do have homophobia and shit ‘undesirable’ people went through, since the real Martin and Otto dealt with it.