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".
Boystown (2007)
6.1/10
Director: Juan Flahn
Starring: Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Puyol, Concha Velasco, Pepon Nieto
Victor has a goal; he wants to turn the Chueca neighbourhood into a real estate paradise for hot-blooded gay couples. He'll do anything to make that h... Read more
A Jihad For Love (2007)
6.6/10
Director: Parvez Sharma
The world's first feature documentary to explore the complex global intersections between Islam and homosexuality. Director Parvez Sharma enters the m... Read more
Rick and Steve - The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World: Season 1 (2007)
Director: Q Allan Brocka
Starring: Voices Of, Will Matthews, Peter Paige, Q Allan Brocka, Wilson Cruz, Alan Cumming...
Three gay couples - the titular Rick and Steve, Chuck and Evan, and Dana and Kirsten - live in the 'gay ghetto' of West Lahunga Beach, all working thr... Read more
Shelter (2007)
7.8/10
Director: Jonah Markowitz
Starring: Brad Rowe, Albert Reed, Tina Holmes, Katie Walder, Trevor Wright
In order to help support his needy sister and her son, Zach is forced to drop out of art school and take a dead-end job. In his free time, he surfs, d... Read more
For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
7.9/10
Director: Daniel Karslake
Does the desire to be a 'good Christian' require the condemnation of homosexuality? This compassionate and insightful documentary profiles five Americ... 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
The Walker (2007)
5.9/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Ned Beatty, Moritz Bleibtr...
Woody Harrelson is Carter Page, a popular and overtly gay socialite who mingles with the wives of America's most powerful men. When his good friend Ly... 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
Savage Grace (2007)
5.9/10
Director: Tom Kalin
Starring: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Dancy, Elena Anaya
The incredible true story of the murder of Barbara Daly. A social climber who married into the 'Bakelite' fortune just as it was beginning to wane, Ba... Read more
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007)
7.7/10
Director: Felix Enriquez Alcala
Starring: Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos, K...
On the eve of a devastating Cylon attack, officer Kendra Shaw reports for duty on the battlestar Pegasus. When mankind's future is forever changed on... Read more