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".
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
Geography Club (2013)
6.6/10
Director: Gary Entin
Starring: Scott Bakula, Ana Gasteyer, Nikki Blonsky, Marin Hinkle, Cameron Deane Stewart,...
"Geography Club" is a comedy about teenagers who are discovering their sexual identities. The high school students create a Geography Club which is... Read more
Life Partners (2014)
6.2/10
Director: Susanna Fogel
Starring: Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody, Gabourey Sidibe
At 29, the most long-term relationship Sasha (Leighton Meester), a lesbian, and Paige (Gillian Jacobs), her BFF, have ever been in is with each other,... Read more
Happy Together (1997)
7.8/10
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Chang Chen
This mesmeric story of love lost and endured focuses on two gay lovers who go to Buenos Aires to start over, but find themselves in a familiar vicious... Read more
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
8.3/10
Director: Rob Epstein
Starring: Harvey Fierstein
More than a story of one man's life, this Academy Award-winning documentary traces the coming of age of the Gay Rights Movement in the late '70s. Harv... Read more
Cupcakes (2013)
6/10
Director: Eytan Fox
Starring: Anat Waxman, Yael Bar-Zohar, Ofer Shechter, Dana Ivgy, Efrat Dor, Keren Berger
A.k.a. "Bananot" ("Bananas"). When a group of best friends in Tel Aviv gather to watch Universong, they are less than impressed by the official Israel... Read more
Poster Boy (2004)
6.2/10
Director: Zak Tucker
Starring: Matt Newton, Jack Noseworthy, Karen Allen, Michael Lerner, Valerie Geffner
Henry is a sexually active gay man who has never come out to his parents. And perhaps for good reason as his father is fanatical right-wing senator J... Read more
Gray Matters (2006)
5.8/10
Director: Sue Kramer
Starring: Heather Graham, Bridget Moynahan, Molly Shannon, Sissy Spacek, Alan Cumming, Tho...
Sibling dance partners Gray (Heather Graham) and Sam (Tom Cavanagh) spend so much time together that they decide to enliven their social lives by seek... Read more
Hard Pill (2008)
6.7/10
Director: John Baumgartner
Starring: Jonathan Slavin
Lonely, cynical, and desperate for his life to change, gay bachelor Tim (Jonathan Slavin) agrees to be a test subject for a controversial pill designe... Read more
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