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".
Gentleman Jack (2019)
8.2/10
Starring: Suranne Jones, Sophie Rundle, Gemma Jones, Timothy West
A dramatization of the life of LGBTQ+ trailblazer, voracious learner and cryptic diarist Anne Lister, who returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832,... Read more
Geography Club (2013)
6.6/10
Director: Gary Entin
Starring: Scott Bakula, Ana Gasteyer, Nikki Blonsky, Marin Hinkle, Cameron Deane Stewart,...
"Geography Club" is a comedy about teenagers who are discovering their sexual identities. The high school students create a Geography Club which is... Read more
Get Real (1998)
7.6/10
Director: Simon Shore
Starring: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gordon, Charlotte Brittain, Stacy Hart
Focusing on 16 year old Steven (Ben Silverstone), who, struggling with his homosexuality and the need to keep it a secret, is surprised when, while wa... Read more
Gia (1997)
7/10
Director: Michael Cristofer
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Angelina Jolie, Mercedes Ruehl, Elizabeth Mitchell
She was called America's first supermodel, but while her face made her an international celebrity, her insatiable desires for fame, sex and drugs led... Read more
Girl (2018)
7.2/10
Director: Lukas Dhont
Starring: Victor Polster
Lara, a 15-year-old girl who was born in a boy's body, is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. Read more
Go Fish (1994)
5.6/10
Director: Rose Troche
Starring: Guinevere Turner, V S Brodie, T Wendy McMillan
Described as a 'fun and feisty lesbian romance' telling the tale of a young writer Max (co-writer and producer Guinevere Turner), searching for a suit... Read more
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
Gods and Monsters (1998)
7.5/10
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave
Focusing on James Whale (Ian McKellen), the homosexual director of "Show Boat", "The Invisible Man", "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein", who h... Read more
Gohatto (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tomoroh Taguchi...
Master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) returns to the screen with this fascinatingly ambiguous tale of homoerotic desire and jeal... Read more
Goldfish Memory (2003)
6.4/10
Director: Liz Gill
Starring: Flora Montgomery, Fiona Glascott, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Sean Campion
Written and directed by Liz Gill chronicling the ups and downs of several Irish singles who, like goldfish, seem to have a memory span that's simply t... Read more