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".
Gray Matters (2006)
5.8/10
Director: Sue Kramer
Starring: Heather Graham, Bridget Moynahan, Molly Shannon, Sissy Spacek, Alan Cumming, Tho...
Sibling dance partners Gray (Heather Graham) and Sam (Tom Cavanagh) spend so much time together that they decide to enliven their social lives by seek... Read more
Gypo (2005)
6.9/10
Director: Jan Dunn
Starring: Pauline McLynn, Paul McGann, Rula Lenska, Chloe Sirene, Freddie Connor
This intensely realistic drama weaves together the story of a Czech refugee in England from three radically different perspectives. Paul (Paul McGann... Read more
Hamam - The Turkish Bath (1998)
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Starring: Carlo Cecchi, Alessandro Gassman
Francesco, an unhappily married Italian architect, inherits a steam bath in Istanbul from his recently deceased aunt and decides to leave his wife in... 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
Happy Endings (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Don Roos
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Laura Dern, Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Tom Arnold, Jason Ritter,...
A melee of dysfunctional relationships provide the impetus for three loosely interwoven darkly comic stories covering topics from sexual ambiguity to... Read more
Happy Together (1997)
7.8/10
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Chang Chen
This mesmeric story of love lost and endured focuses on two gay lovers who go to Buenos Aires to start over, but find themselves in a familiar vicious... Read more
Happy, Texas (1999)
6.3/10
Director: Mark Illsley
Starring: William H Macy, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Northam, Illeana Douglas, Ally Walker
Wanting the waning "Little Miss Fresh Squeezed" beauty contest to be an extravaganza Happy's town officials decide to bring in a pair of famous pagean... Read more
Hard Pill (2008)
6.7/10
Director: John Baumgartner
Starring: Jonathan Slavin
Lonely, cynical, and desperate for his life to change, gay bachelor Tim (Jonathan Slavin) agrees to be a test subject for a controversial pill designe... Read more
Heartbeats (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Monica Chokri, Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan
Francis (Xavier Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri) are best friends and seemingly have it all youth, good looks and style in abundance. One night they... Read more
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
7.4/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, Simon O...
The provocative, imaginative true-life story of how the intense and passionate relationship of 1950s Christchurch teenagers Pauline Parker and Juliet... Read more