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".
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
7.7/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein
Gay Taiwanese-American Winston Chao tries to fool his parents via a fake wedding, with unexpected complications. This grand comedy knowingly and poign... Read more
Zero Patience (1993)
5/10
Director: John Greyson
Starring: John Robinson, Normand Fauteux, Bernard Behrens
The surreal and supernatural join forces in this extremely unusualAIDS musica. The story features the ghost of the Canadian airline steward, who alleg... Read more
Poison Ivy (1992)
5.4/10
Director: Katt Shea Ruben
Starring: Cheryl Ladd, Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt
In this erotically-charged thriller, Drew Barrymore turns in a heated performance as a sly teenage seductress who befriends fellow troubled student Sa... Read more
The Crying Game (1992)
7.3/10
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson
Stephen Rea finds out that love is a strange game indeed when he flees to London, from a botched I.R.A. mission in Northern Ireland, and meets the dec... Read more
Edward II (1992)
7/10
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Kevin Collins, Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan
Derek Jarman uses Christopher Marlowe's classic play about the 14th century monarch for this daring cinematic treatise on gay love and its place in th... Read more
Salmonberries (1991)
6.3/10
Director: Percy Adlon
Starring: k d lang, Rosel Zech, Chuck Connors, Jane Lind
Singer k.d. lang stars as an androgynous foundling looking for her identity in an isolated Alaskan outpost, a quest which leads to a meeting with a be... Read more
Naked Lunch (1991)
7.1/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider
William S. Burroughs' 1959 free-form, underground classic is brought to the screen weaving elements of the author's life with the fictional material.... Read more
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
7.1/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Udo Kier, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo
A uniquely distinctive portrayal of male street-hustling in the American northwest, with River Phoenix as a narcoleptic sex-for-hiree and Keanu Reeves... Read more
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1990)
7.7/10
Director: Beeban Kidron
Starring: Charlotte Coleman, Geraldine McEwan, Celia Imrie
With an upbringing spent learning the Bible and praying for 'heathens in hot countries', Jess unnerves both classmates and teachers when she begins sc... Read more
Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
7.7/10
Director: Stephen Whittaker
Starring: Janet McTeer, David Haig, Cathryn Harrison, Diana Fairfax, Peter Birch
British aristocrat and writer Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson married in 1913, and their love endured and deepened over the course of... Read more