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".
Flawless (1999)
6.4/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Wanda De Jesus, Barry Miller
After a stroke (suffered while trying to halt a robbery) leaves him partially paralysed, New York security guard Robert De Niro gets speech therapy th... Read more
Flesh (1968)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Morrissey
Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, Morris Bradell
Andy Warhol's underground classic stars Joe Dallesandro as Joe who takes to the streets and meets an assortment of grotesque, hilarious, poignant and... Read more
For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
7.9/10
Director: Daniel Karslake
Does the desire to be a 'good Christian' require the condemnation of homosexuality? This compassionate and insightful documentary profiles five Americ... Read more
Fox and His Friends (1975)
7.8/10
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Harry Bar
A down-and-out, down on his luck homosexual carnival worker wins the lottery and along with it, some new friends. Unfortunately, a charming, scheming... Read more
Freeheld (2015)
6.5/10
Director: Peter Sollett
Starring: Julianne Moore, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell, Ellen Page
The true love story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree and their fight for justice. A decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with... Read more
French Twist (1995)
6.4/10
Director: Josiane Balasko
Starring: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat
A wonderful farce about a dancer-turned-housewife who decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson by inviting her new lover, a lesbian disc joc... Read more
Friends and Family (2001)
6.4/10
Director: Kristen Coury
Starring: Tony Lo Bianco, Greg Lauren, Christopher Gartin, Tovah Feldshuh, Anna Maria Albe...
Farcical mob comedy with a twist stars Greg Lauren and Christopher Gartin as a gay couple employed as hit men for Tony Lo Bianco, a mob boss who wishe... Read more
Further Tales of the City (2001)
7.9/10
Director: Pierre Gang
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Paul Hopkins, Jackie Burroughs, Mary Kay Place
With their flirtatiously overlapping stories, Dickensian plotting, Wildean wit and beautifully flawed human beings fuelled by blind hope, 'Tales of th... Read more
G.B.F. ( Gay Best Friend ) (2013)
6/10
Director: Darren Stein
Starring: Jonathan Silverman, Natasha Lyonne, Rebecca Gayheart, Megan Mullally, Michael J...
The first teen to come out of the closet at North Gateway High struggles to balance his newfound popularity with his longtime friendships as the three... Read more
Gay Sex in the 70s (2005)
6.9/10
Director: Joseph F Lovett
Trace the history of 'innocent' pre-AIDS public sex through Stonewall, to the rise of gay culture as we know it today in this documentary consisting o... Read more