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".
Killer Condom (1997)
5.3/10
Director: Martin Walz
Starring: Udo Samel, Peter Lohmeyer, Iris Berben, Marc Richter, Leonard Lansink
Based on Ralph Konig's celebrated comic book, this over-the-top German import tells of a living, squirming, and worst of all, biting condom that grips... Read more
Kiss Me, Guido (1997)
6.1/10
Director: Tony Vitale
Starring: Nick Scotti, Anthony Barrile, Anthony Desando
Can a homophobic tough guy and an out-of-the-closet gay man find happiness splitting the rent in Midtown Manhattan? This and other crucial questions a... Read more
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
7.4/10
Director: Hector Babenco
Starring: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga
Two prisoners in a Latin American jail, one a Spartan revolutionary leader (Raul Julia), the other a movie-obsessed homosexual (Best Actor Academy Awa... Read more
Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)
6.6/10
Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Starring: Scott Cohen, Heather Juergensen, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jackie Hoffman, Tovah Felds...
When Jessica, a straight, twentysomething New York copy editor with a long string of bad dates, decides on a whim to answer a "woman seeks woman" pers... Read more
L'amour Fou (2010)
6.7/10
Director: Pierre Thoretton
After his departure from the House of Dior in 1960, designer Yves Saint Laurent founded his own incredibly successful company with partner Pierre Berg... Read more
La Belle Saison ( Summertime ) (2015)
7.4/10
Director: Catherine Corsini
Starring: Cecile De France, Kevin Azais, Izia Higelin, Noemie Lvovsky
Catherine Corsini casts a delicate glance over womens liberation and female sexuality in the seventies set French drama, Summertime (La belle saison... Read more
La Cage Aux Folles (1979)
7.3/10
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Starring: Michel Galabru, Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi
The greatest drag comedy since 'Some Like It Hot', and a phenomenal success. La Cage is a transvestite nightclub run by a pair of ageing homosexuals,... Read more
La Cage Aux Folles II (1981)
5.8/10
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Starring: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault
Renato and Albin find themselves innocent victims of an espionage ring and become involved with killers when several corpses begin to turn up. They ar... Read more
Latter Days (2003)
7.1/10
Director: Jay Cox
Starring: Steve Sandvoss, Wes Ramsey, Jacqueline Bisset, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Opposites attract when Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss), a sexually confused Mormon missionary meets his new neighbour West Hollywood party boy, Christian... Read more
Laurence Anyways (2012)
7.7/10
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Nathalie Baye, Suzanne Clement
In 1990s Montreal, Laurence (Melvil Poupaud) tells his girlfriend Fred (Suzanne Clement) that he wants to become a woman. In spite of the odds, in spi... Read more