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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".

Worried About the Boy (2010)

7.1/10
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Freddie Fox, Mark Gatiss, Marc Warren, Douglas Booth, Mathew Horne

Inspired by the 1986 newspaper headline, which broke during boy george's heavily reported drug problem, worried about the boy is a compassionate biogr... Read more

XXY (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Lucia Puenzo
Starring: Ricardo Darin, Ines Efron, Valeria Bertuccelli, German Palacios, Carolina Peller...

A senstively-mounted drama about 15-year-old Alex, born 'intersex' - having both male and female characteristics - raised as a girl by her parents, an... Read more

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)

7.7/10
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna

Aka "And Your Mother Too". A raunchy, yet emotionally layered and keenly observed coming-of-age tale in which two Mexican teens - wealthy Tenoch and w... Read more

Y Tu Mama Tambien (Blu-Ray) (2001)

7.7/10
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna

The lives of Julio and Tenoch, like those of 17-year old boys everywhere, are ruled by raging hormones, intense friendships, and a headlong rush into... Read more

Yossi and Jagger (2002)

Director: Eytan Fox
Starring: Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi

This unusual gay-themed war drama from Israel tracks a squad of soldiers stationed along the Lebanese border and the romantic relationship that develo... Read more

Yves Saint Laurent (2014)

6.2/10
Director: Jalil Lespert
Starring: Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Pierre Niney, Laura Smet, Marie de Villep...

A man who needs no introduction. And yet... Officially sanctioned by Pierre Bergé, Saint Laurents partner in love and business for almost fifty years... Read more

Zero Patience (1993)

5/10
Director: John Greyson
Starring: John Robinson, Normand Fauteux, Bernard Behrens

The surreal and supernatural join forces in this extremely unusualAIDS musica. The story features the ghost of the Canadian airline steward, who alleg... Read more