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".
Lesbian Vampire Killers (Blu-ray) (2009)
Director: Phil Claydon
Starring: James Corden, Mathew Horne, MyAnna Buring, Paul McGann, Vera Filatova, Silvia Co...
If the title doesn't make you want to watch this, then it's probably not for you. But if you're in the mood for a movie about two no-hoper guys who fi... Read more
Bruno (2009)
4.9/10
Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Banagale, Bono, Chris Martin, El...
Satirist and shapechanger Sacha Baron Cohen ('Borat') returns with another stinging socio-political offering, this time aimed squarely at the world of... Read more
Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (2009)
7.4/10
Director: Leanne Pooley
Starring: Jools Topp, Lynda Topp
A revealing and engaging look into the lives of the world's only yodelling, lesbian, country and western singing twins, Leanne Pooley's documentary is... Read more
Bacon's Arena (2009)
7.9/10
Director: Adam Low
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century and for the first time we have a film biogra... Read more
Little Ashes (2008)
6.6/10
Director: Paul Morrison
Starring: Javier Beltran, Arly Jover, Marina Gatell, Matthew McNulty, Esther Nubiola, Robe...
In 1922, Madrid wavers on the edge of social change as traditional values are challenged by the new influences of Jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. The... 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
True Blood: Season 1 (2008)
7.9/10
Director: Alan Ball, Michael Lehmann, John Dahl, Scott Winant, Daniel Minahan
Starring: Anna Paquin, Jim Parrack, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Stephen Moyer, Alexander...
Anna Paquin is a telepathic Louisiana barmaid in this gothically sexy and imaginatively peculiar show from Alan Ball ('Six Feet Under') and HBO. It is... Read more
Milk ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
7.6/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Victor Garber, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna
Sean Penn garnered a Best Actor Academy Award as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office, in dir... Read more
Milk (2008)
7.6/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Victor Garber, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna
Sean Penn garnered a Best Actor Academy Award as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office, in dir... Read more
Ice Blues (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Ron Oliver
Starring: Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Daryl Shuttleworth, Nelson Wong, Brittney Wilson
Everyone's favourite gay P.I., Donald Strachey, takes on the most complicated case of his career when his long-time partner, Tim, asks him to uncover... Read more