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".
God's Own Country (2017)
7.7/10
Director: Francis Lee
Starring: Gemma Jones, Ian Hart, Josh O'Connor, Harry Lister Smith, Alec Secareanu
Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant... Read more
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
7.8/10
Director: Raoul Peck
Starring: Samuel L Jackson
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, pe... Read more
A Date for Mad Mary (2016)
7.1/10
Director: Darren Thornton
Starring: Seana Kerslake, Tara Lee, Charleigh Bailey
"Mad" Mary McArdle (Seána Kerslake) returns to her hometown after a brief stint in prison and is immediately labeled as undatable, but she is determin... Read more
Handsome Devil (2016)
7.1/10
Director: John Butler
Starring: Fionn O'Shea, Nicholas Galitzine, Andrew Scott
Ned (Fionn OShea) is a red-headed, bright and learned teenager who is forced by his dad (Ardal OHanlon) to stay at an all-boys boarding school where... Read more
Moonlight ( Blu-ray ) (2016)
7.4/10
Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: Mahershala Ali, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders,...
This drama charts the life of a black gay youth named Chiron as he grows up in a rough neighborhood in Miami. In the first segment, Chiron is a ten-ye... Read more
Moonlight (2016)
7.4/10
Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: Mahershala Ali, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders,...
This drama charts the life of a black gay youth named Chiron as he grows up in a rough neighborhood in Miami. In the first segment, Chiron is a ten-ye... Read more
Chemsex (2015)
5.3/10
In hidden basements, bedrooms and bars across London, "Chemsex" is a documentary that exposes frankly and intimately a dark side to modern gay life. T... Read more
La Belle Saison ( Summertime ) (2015)
7.4/10
Director: Catherine Corsini
Starring: Cecile De France, Kevin Azais, Izia Higelin, Noemie Lvovsky
Catherine Corsini casts a delicate glance over womens liberation and female sexuality in the seventies set French drama, Summertime (La belle saison... Read more
The Girl King (2015)
5.9/10
Director: Mika Kaurismaki
Starring: Hippolyte Girardot, Patrick Bauchau, Michael Nyqvist, Martina Gedeck, Peter Lohm...
The Girl King paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are agai... Read more
The Danish Girl (2015)
7.1/10
Director: Tom Hooper
Starring: Sebastian Koch, Ben Whishaw, Eddie Redmayne, Amber Heard, Alicia Vikander, Matth...
Tom Hooper directs this biographical drama starring Eddie Redmayne as Danish artist, and one of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery, E... Read more