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".
Love is Strange (2014)
6.7/10
Director: Ira Sachs
Starring: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Cheyenne Jackson, Charlie Tahan, Mann...
After 28 years together, Ben and George take advantage of the new marriage laws and tie the knot in a garden wedding in the East Village. Returning fr... Read more
Life Partners (2014)
6.2/10
Director: Susanna Fogel
Starring: Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody, Gabourey Sidibe
At 29, the most long-term relationship Sasha (Leighton Meester), a lesbian, and Paige (Gillian Jacobs), her BFF, have ever been in is with each other,... Read more
The Imitation Game (2014)
8/10
Director: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Danc...
Academy Award-winning (Best Adapted Screenplay) historical drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turi... Read more
The Imitation Game ( Blu-ray ) (2014)
8/10
Director: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Danc...
Academy Award-winning (Best Adapted Screenplay) historical drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turi... Read more
Pride (2014)
7.8/10
Director: Matthew Warchus
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy, Dominic West
Based on the inspirational true story. Set in the summer of 1984 Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on... Read more
Looking: Season 1 (2014)
8.2/10
Starring: Scott Bakula, Russell Tovey, Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Alvarez, Murray Bartlett...
'Looking' offers up the unfiltered experiences of three close friends living -- and loving -- in modern-day San Francisco. Friendship may bind them, b... Read more
The Normal Heart (2014)
7.9/10
Director: Ryan Murphy
Starring: Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo, Jim Parsons, Taylor Kitsch, Matt Bomer
The story of a community, a city, and a nation confronted with an epidemic that few wanted to acknowledge. The Normal Heart follows a group of gay act... Read more
Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
6.2/10
Director: Jalil Lespert
Starring: Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Pierre Niney, Laura Smet, Marie de Villep...
A man who needs no introduction. And yet... Officially sanctioned by Pierre Bergé, Saint Laurents partner in love and business for almost fifty years... Read more
Eastern Boys (2013)
6.9/10
Director: Robin Campillo
Starring: Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov
They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Romania, Ukraine. They are Eastern boys. The oldest appear no more than 25; as for the youngest, there... Read more
Reaching for the Moon (2013)
7/10
Director: Bruno Barreto
Starring: Miranda Otto, Treat Williams, Tracy Middendorf, Gloria Pires, Marcello Airoldi,...
Luxuriating in its 50s Rio setting, Bruno Barreto's film tells the turbulent true story of American poet Elizabeth Bishop and her love affair with the... Read more