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".
Rick and Steve - The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World: Season 1 (2007)
Director: Q Allan Brocka
Starring: Voices Of, Will Matthews, Peter Paige, Q Allan Brocka, Wilson Cruz, Alan Cumming...
Three gay couples - the titular Rick and Steve, Chuck and Evan, and Dana and Kirsten - live in the 'gay ghetto' of West Lahunga Beach, all working thr... Read more
Room in Rome (2010)
6.2/10
Director: Julio Medem
Starring: Enrico Lo Verso, Elena Anaya, Natasha Yarovenko
A sensual two-handed drama from Spanish writer-director Julio Medem ('Sex and Lucia'), 'Room in Rome' charts a one night stand that develops into some... Read more
Salmonberries (1991)
6.3/10
Director: Percy Adlon
Starring: k d lang, Rosel Zech, Chuck Connors, Jane Lind
Singer k.d. lang stars as an androgynous foundling looking for her identity in an isolated Alaskan outpost, a quest which leads to a meeting with a be... Read more
Savage Grace (2007)
5.9/10
Director: Tom Kalin
Starring: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Dancy, Elena Anaya
The incredible true story of the murder of Barbara Daly. A social climber who married into the 'Bakelite' fortune just as it was beginning to wane, Ba... Read more
Saving Face (2004)
7.5/10
Director: Alice Wu
Starring: Lynn Chen, Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec
Wilhelmina Pang (Michelle Krusiec) is a surgeon living in Manhattan whose mother (Joan Chen) is eager for her to settle down with a nice man and get m... Read more
Sebastiane (1976)
5.9/10
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy
A homoerotic rendering of the St Sebastiane legend. When Sebastiane, the captain of the Palace Guard during the reign of Roman Emperor Diocletian, obj... Read more
Shelter (2007)
7.8/10
Director: Jonah Markowitz
Starring: Brad Rowe, Albert Reed, Tina Holmes, Katie Walder, Trevor Wright
In order to help support his needy sister and her son, Zach is forced to drop out of art school and take a dead-end job. In his free time, he surfs, d... Read more
Shock to the System (2006)
6.7/10
Director: Ron Oliver
Starring: Michael Woods, Morgan Fairchild, Sebastian Spence, Chad Allen
Suspecting a client's death may not be the suicide it is first labeled, gay detective Donald Strachey (Chad Allen) launches an investigation that lead... Read more
Shortbus (2006)
6.5/10
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy, Raphael Barker, Peter Stic...
From the writer and director of cult film 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch', this New York indie-style 'smart-porn' follows a group of largely non-actors, a... Read more
Show Me Love (1998)
7.6/10
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Starring: Rebecca Liljeberg, Erica Carlon, Alexandra Dahlstrom
Aka 'Fucking Amal'. Elin and Agnes are two teenage girls growing up in a small Swedish town. Elin is bored with her life in a community where things a... Read more