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".
Gods and Monsters (1998)
7.5/10
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave
Focusing on James Whale (Ian McKellen), the homosexual director of "Show Boat", "The Invisible Man", "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein", who h... Read more
Maurice (1987)
7.7/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott
James Ivory directs this sensitive film about the love relationship between two men who meet studying at Cambridge in 1910. Based on the novel by E.M.... Read more
Tales of the City (1993)
8.8/10
Director: Alastair Reid
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Donald Moffat, Laura Linney, Chloe Webb
Take a trip back to the 'disco inferno' of San Francisco in the mid 70's, and follow the romantic and personal crises of the residents of 28 Barbary L... Read more
Tomboy (2011)
7.4/10
Director: Celine Sciamma
Starring: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana
Critically acclaimed French drama about a 10-year-old girl who assumes a male identity to fit in when her family move to a small village. The film has... Read more
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
7.6/10
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Starring: Matt McGrath, John Hart, Jeanetta Arnette, Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny
The powerful true story of the terrible and devastating life and times of Teena Brandon (Hilary Swank in an Academy Award-winning performance), a youn... Read more
French Twist (1995)
6.4/10
Director: Josiane Balasko
Starring: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat
A wonderful farce about a dancer-turned-housewife who decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson by inviting her new lover, a lesbian disc joc... Read more
Trick (1999)
7.2/10
Director: Jim Fall
Starring: John Paul Pitoc, Tori Spelling, Brad Beyer, Christian Campbell
Manhattan office worker/would-be musical comedy writer Christian Campbell's hunt for "Mr. Right" picks up when he catches the eye of handsome go-go da... Read more
Erotique (1994)
5.2/10
Director: Clara Law, Lizzie Borden, Monika Treut, Ana Maria Magalhaes
Starring: Kamala Lopez-Dawson, Priscilla Barnes, Marianne Sagebrecht, Camilla Soeberg, Mic...
This erotic film compilation, told from the female perspective, features four separate vignettes by four award-winning international directors. Lizzie... Read more
Wonder Boys (2000)
7.4/10
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr, Rip Torn, K...
Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block. Sharing equal time with that predicame... 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