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".
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
The Incredibly True Adventures Of Two Girls In Love (1995)
Director: Maria Maggenti
Starring: Nicole Parker, Maggie Moore, Laurel Holloman
This romantic comedy deals with the blossoming love between two high school senior girls; Randy (Laurel Holloman) an underprivileged lesbian outcast a... Read more
Jeffrey (1995)
6.7/10
Director: Christopher Ashley
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Steven Weber, Michael T Weiss, Sigourney Weaver
A gay man gives up sex for fear of AIDS, then meets his HIV-positive Mr Right. Paul Rudnick's brilliantly witty off-Broadway hit gets a faithful scree... Read more
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
6.4/10
Director: Beeban Kidron
Starring: John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner,...
The tale of three drag queens headed for Hollywood whose car breaks down in a small rural town where they are befriended by the local female populatio... Read more
Total Eclipse (1995)
6.6/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer
Ambitious biopic tracing the stormy romance between poets Verlaine and Rimbaud. Critically disliked, but forgiving fans of the stars and those seeking... 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 Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( Blu-ray ) (1994)
7.5/10
Director: Stephan Elliott
Starring: Bill Hunter, Guy Pearce, Hugo Weaving, Terence Stamp
The outrageous tale of three drag queens who hit the road in a pink bus called Priscilla and head to Alice Springs to perform a cabaret show. Terence... Read more
The High Life: Series 1 (1994)
8.1/10
Director: Angela deChastelai Smith
Starring: Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond, Patrick Ryecart
Hilariously over-the-top and camp Scottish sit-com written by and starring Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson, friends from their days at the Royal Scotti... Read more
Dottie Gets Spanked (1994)
7.3/10
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Evan Bonifant, Robert Pall, Julie Halston, Barbara Garrick
Writer/director Todd Haynes made this stylish, tender-hearted short between his critically acclaimed features 'Poison' and 'Safe', and the deeply pers... 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