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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 Garden (1990)

6.8/10
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Johnny Miles, Kevin Collins

Controversial director Derek Jarman's stunning examination of organized religion and its role in the oppression of homosexuals depicts the arrest and... Read more

Longtime Companion (1990)

7.5/10
Director: Norman Rene
Starring: Stephen Caffrey, Patric Cassidy, Brian Cousins

An absorbing, revealing account detailing the effects of Aids on the American gay community in the 80's as seen through the eyes of two friends. Campb... Read more

Paris Is Burning (1990)

8.1/10
Director: Jennie Livingston
Starring: Dorian Corey, Pepper Labeija, Venus Xtravaganza

Equally outrageous, funny and touching, Jennie Livingston's acclaimed documentary looks at a very vocal segment of the gay community: the drag 'houses... Read more

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

8.1/10
Director: Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein

This powerful, Oscar-winning documentary brings the AIDS epidemic into sharp personal focus by telling the stories of five people memorialized on the... Read more

Torch Song Trilogy (1988)

7.7/10
Director: Paul Bogart
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein adapted his Broadway hit play about the trials and tribulations of being a sexually active, gay urban male in the 1970's for the big... Read more

Caravaggio (1987)

6.7/10
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton

Derek Jarman's elegant and extraordinary film on the life of Caravaggio, the notorious Renaissance painter whose personal life, artistic vision, and m... Read more

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)

6.9/10
Director: Patricia Rozema
Starring: Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, John Evans

A wonderfully whimsical little comedy about imagination and the rude intrusion of reality in the life of an awkward temp worker with a penchant for ph... 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

Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

7.4/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters, Wallace Shawn

The sexual life and personal relationships of English playwright Joe Orton are unflinchingly presented in this no-holds-barred dramatic account. Gary... Read more

Withnail and I ( Blu-ray ) (1986)

Director: Bruce Robinson
Starring: Paul McGann, Richard E Grant, Richard Griffiths

London. The 1960s. Two unemployed actors - acerbic, elegantly wasted Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and the anxiety-ridden "I" (Paul McGann) - drown thei... Read more