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".
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
7.4/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, Simon O...
The provocative, imaginative true-life story of how the intense and passionate relationship of 1950s Christchurch teenagers Pauline Parker and Juliet... Read more
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
7.8/10
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: John Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Martin, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor, Alberta Watson
Stepping back into the high-heeled shoes of his acclaimed off-Broadway play's title character, director/co-writer John Cameron Mitchell stars as the b... Read more
Hex: Season 1 (2005)
4.7/10
Director: Brian Grant
Starring: Jemima Rooper, Christina Cole, Michael Fassbender, Colin Salmon, Geraldine James...
At a remote English school, Cassie, a shy socially awkward student, is about to discover some chilling links to her past and supernatural powers she n... Read more
High Art (1998)
6.7/10
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Ally Sheedy, Bill Sage, Gabriel Mann, Patricia Clarkson, Radha Mitchell
By chance, a disenchanted assistant editor at a prestigious New York photography magazine is drawn into the dysfunctional life of her once celebrated... Read more
History Lessons (2000)
6.6/10
Director: Barbara Hammer
In this wonderfully irreverent yet empowering film, Barbara Hammer traces lesbian history by presenting an extraordinary array of archival footage - a... Read more
Holding the Man (2015)
7.3/10
Director: Neil Armfield
Starring: Ryan Corr, Kerry Fox, Anthony LaPaglia, Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush, Sarah Snook,...
Timothy Conigrave's memoir, Holding the Man, is a love story for the ages, and Neil Armfeld's film honours it beautifully. Conigrave met John Caleo... Read more
Howl (2010)
6.8/10
Director: Jeffrey Friedman
Starring: Bob Balaban, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams, James Franco,...
James Franco stars as famed Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in this moving drama, centered on his iconic poem "Howl" and the 1957 obscenity trial that follow... Read more
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
7.8/10
Director: Raoul Peck
Starring: Samuel L Jackson
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, pe... Read more
I Killed My Mother (2009)
7.5/10
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Suzanne Clement, Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan
Sixteen year-old Hubert Minel doesn't love his mother. He haughtily regards her with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters, kitsch decorations an... Read more
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
6.9/10
Director: Patricia Rozema
Starring: Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, John Evans
A wonderfully whimsical little comedy about imagination and the rude intrusion of reality in the life of an awkward temp worker with a penchant for ph... Read more