By Tracy E. Gilchrist and Daniel Reynolds

There has been an explosion of queer content in the past 10 years. Although much of this burst has been seen on the television landscape, movies have also made great strides toward telling stories about the LGBTQ community. Many have received mainstream attention during awards season. Notably, 2016's Moonlight became the first gay film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. A Fantastic Woman, a Chilean production centering on a transgender woman and released the following year, won Best Foreign Film at the Oscars.

Not every fantastic LGBTQ movie garnered Oscar gold. Films like Tangerine, Weekend, and Rafiki moved the needle for greater representation of marginalized groups nationally and internationally. Some changed the world politically, and others changed how LGBTQ people saw themselves reflected in the culture. Below, see The Advocate's editors' picks of LGBTQ fiction films that defined the decade. Read more via Advocate

The atmospheric SPA NIGHT is a portrait of forbidden sexual awakening set in the nocturnal world of spas and karaoke bars in Los Angeles' Koreatown. David Cho (Joe Seo in a breakthrough performance), a timid 18-year-old living with his financially-struggling immigrant parents, chances upon a secret cruising spot when he takes a job at an all-male spa.

Xolani, a lonely factory worker, joins the men of his community in the mountains of the Eastern Cape to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.

From PARK Chan-wook, the celebrated director of OLDBOY, LADY VENGEANCE and STOKER, comes a ravishing new crime drama. PARK presents a gripping and sensual tale of two women - a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is hired to serve as her new handmaiden, but is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of a large inheritance.

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