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Queer Cinema

If it's queer, it's here! Gay, Lesbian, Queer, Alternative... However you want to label it, this is the place for some of the most compassionate, honest, witty and memorable films at Alice in Videoland. The list below contains works that feature important gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters and issues; many using same-sex romance or relationships as an integral plot device. "Queer Documentaries" may be accessed within the "Documentary" feature, left. Right: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Querelle".

Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970)

6.7/10
Director: Douglas Hickox
Starring: Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery

Playwright Joe Orton's dark, very funny account of a handsome criminal who becomes the guest - and love interest - of a frowzy widow and her brother.... Read more

Erotique (1994)

5.2/10
Director: Clara Law, Lizzie Borden, Monika Treut, Ana Maria Magalhaes
Starring: Kamala Lopez-Dawson, Priscilla Barnes, Marianne Sagebrecht, Camilla Soeberg, Mic...

This erotic film compilation, told from the female perspective, features four separate vignettes by four award-winning international directors. Lizzie... Read more

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)

4.3/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix

Adapted from Tom Robbins' popular, counter-culture novel and starring Uma Thurman as the world's greatest hitchhiker, a passion she pursues when not h... Read more

Eyewitness (Øyevitne) (2014)

7.7/10
Starring: Tobias Santelmann

Two 15 year old boys secretly meet up in the forest, only to witness a blood bath. They are seen, but escape trying to keep this as a secret, both in... Read more

Fabulous: The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

5/10
Director: Lisa Ades, Lesli Klainberg
Starring: Heather Matarazzo, John Cameron Mitchell, Rose Troche, Christine Vachon, Gus Van...

The fascinating history of gay and lesbian cinema from its closeted beginnings to its celebrated present, the filmmakers talk to directors and actors... Read more

Fellini Satyricon (1969)

Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Capucine

A decade before 'Caligula', this director crafted a visually stunning look at the decadence and debauchery of ancient Rome. Complete with hermaphrodit... Read more

Female Trouble (1974)

7.3/10
Director: John Waters
Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey

Divine is Dawn Davenport, teenage delinquent, unwed mother, working girl and murderer. Follow her outrageous life of violence and learn why crime is b... Read more

Fingersmith (2005)

8/10
Director: Aisling Walsh
Starring: Elaine Cassidy, Rupert Evans, Sally Hawkins, Imelda Staunton, Charles Dance

This stunning BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters' ('Tipping the Velvet') novel tells the dark tale of an orphaned streetkid (Sally Hawkins), who is taken... Read more

Fire (1996)

7.3/10
Director: Deepa Mehta
Starring: Dilip Mehta, Alice Poon, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi

The subject of bans and protests throughout India, this taboo-breaking erotic tale focuses on the relationship of Sita, the wife of a grocery store ow... Read more

Five Moments of Infidelity (2006)

5.3/10
Director: Kate Gorman
Starring: Ben Anderson, Joshua Cameron, Jason Chong, Amanda Douge, Charmaine Gorman, Reg G...

A true to life Australian drama showing moments of infidelity across five different worlds in the same city. The carefree sexy young things, who think... Read more