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".
Cruising (1980)
6.4/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox
New York City detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) receives orders from Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) to solve a series of brutal murders in the gay com... Read more
Cupcakes (2013)
6/10
Director: Eytan Fox
Starring: Anat Waxman, Yael Bar-Zohar, Ofer Shechter, Dana Ivgy, Efrat Dor, Keren Berger
A.k.a. "Bananot" ("Bananas"). When a group of best friends in Tel Aviv gather to watch Universong, they are less than impressed by the official Israel... Read more
D.E.B.S. (2004)
5.3/10
Director: Angela Robinson
Starring: Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Meagan Good, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie, Geoff Stul...
Sultry crime boss Lucy Diamond (Jordana Brewster) is back in the U.S. and the D.E.B.S. - an elite team of paramilitary college co-ed super spies - are... Read more
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
8/10
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
Starring: Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner
Matthew McConaughey gives an Oscar-winning (Best Actor) performance in this uplifting and powerful film inspired by true events. Texas cowboy Ron Wood... Read more
Dallas Buyers Club ( Blu-ray ) (2013)
8/10
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
Starring: Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner
Matthew McConaughey gives an Oscar-winning (Best Actor) performance in this uplifting and powerful film inspired by true events. Texas cowboy Ron Wood... Read more
Dark Habits (1984)
6.6/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Carmen Maura, Christina Pascual, Julieta Serrano
A blackly funny tale of a nightclub singer who flees when her lover dies of a drug overdose and takes refuge in a convent, only to find that the siste... Read more
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
6.7/10
Director: Harry Kumel
Starring: John Karlen, Delphine Seyrig, Andrea Rau, Daniele Quimet, Paul Esser
Delphine Seyrig (Stolen Kisses), is an Hungarian countess and present-day vampiress who, in order to continue her daily blood baths, must continually... Read more
Death in Venice (1971)
7.5/10
Director: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Silvana Mangano
Author Thomas Mann's classic is splendidly brought to the screen in this study of an artist, his loves, his homosexuality and continuous search for be... Read more
Derek Jarman: Life as Art (2004)
7.3/10
Director: Andy Kimpton-Nye
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Peter Tatchell, Tariq Ali, Simon Fisher-Turner
Derek Jarman was one of the most idiosyncratic, innovative and controversial film-makers in Britain throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s. On-screen and off... Read more
Desert Hearts (1985)
7/10
Director: Donna Deitch
Starring: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley
Wonderful love story between a repressed English professor who is waiting for a divorce at a dude ranch for women, and a beautiful casino worker in Re... Read more