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".
Rafiki (2018)
6.6/10
"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced... Read more
The Long Firm (2004)
7.8/10
Director: Bille Eltringham
Starring: Mark Strong, George Costigan, Geoff Bell, Derek Jacobi, Lena Headey, Phil Daniel...
The lives of characters who live, love, and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks. Read more
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
8.1/10
Director: Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
This powerful, Oscar-winning documentary brings the AIDS epidemic into sharp personal focus by telling the stories of five people memorialized on the... Read more
Vampire Diary (2007)
4.5/10
Director: Mark James, Phil O'Shea
Starring: Anna Walton, Morven Macbeth, Jamie Thomas King, Kate Sissons, Justin McDonald, K...
Whilst making a documentary about the so-called 'weekend vampire' phenomenon sweeping London clubs, filmmaker Holly meets the highly enigmatic and bea... Read more
Otto; or Up With Dead People (2008)
5.3/10
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Starring: Olivia Barth, Keith Boehm, Jey Crisfar, Nicholas Fox Ricciardi, Marcel Schlutt,...
Controversial Canadian director Bruce La Bruce wowed them at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival with Otto, a gay neo-Goth zombie who hooks up with... Read more
Not Angels But Angels (1994)
5.2/10
Director: Wiktor Grodecki
Interviews with a procurer and with nineteen boys and young men who are prostitutes in Prague. The youths range in age from 14 to 19. They hustle at t... Read more
The Blue Caftan (2022)
7.6/10
Starring: Ayoub Missioui, Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco's oldest medinas. To keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Y... Read more
The Vampire Lovers (Blu-ray) (1970)
6.5/10
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Starring: Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, Pippa Steele, Madeleine Smith, George Cole, Dawn Ada...
Lesbian vampires take centre stage in this erotic horror flick from England's legendary Hammer studios. Carmilla (Ingrid Pitt) is a bloodthirsty beaut... Read more
Ellie and Abbie (And Ellie's Dead Aunt) (2020)
Starring: Marta Dusseldorp, Rachel House
17 year old Ellie is struggling to find the courage to ask her classmate, Abbie, to the formal. Luckily her Aunt Tara, a lesbian who died in the 80's... Read more
Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean (1982)
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Cher , Sandy Dennis, Karen Black, Kathy Bates
Once again Robert Altman has assembled a superior cast for this story of a 20 year reunion of a James Dean fan club. Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black a... Read more