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".
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
Love And Death On Long Island (1996)
7.1/10
Director: Richard Kwietniowski
Starring: John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Fiona Loewi
Stuffy author John Hurt wanders into the wrong movie theatre, encounters a teen exploitation flick and becomes obsessed with one of the movie's stars... Read more
Love and Human Remains (1993)
Director: Denys Arcand
Starring: Thomas Gibson, Ruth Marshall, Mia Kirshner
Quebec film-maker Denys Arcand's ('Jesus of Montreal') first English-language film is this dark comedy that follows a bunch of young urban adults in p... Read more
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
Love is the Devil (1998)
6.4/10
Director: John Maybury
Starring: Daniel Craig, Derek Jacobi, Karl Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Anne Lambton
This biography of painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer (Daniel Craig), a former small time crook. Amazingly r... Read more
Love, Simon (2018)
7.7/10
Director: Greg Berlanti
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel, Tony Hale
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's... Read more
Loving Annabelle (2006)
6.5/10
Director: Katherine Brooks
Starring: Erin Kelly, Diana Gaidry, Laura Breckenridge, Michelle Horn, Gustine Fudickar
Annabelle is the rebellious daughter of a high-powered senator, sent to a Catholic girls school for moral rehabilitation. She forges a friendship wit... Read more
Ma Vie En Rose (1997)
7.6/10
Director: Alain Berliner
Starring: Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Michele Laroque
AKA "My Life In Pink" Seven year old Ludovic enjoys playing dress-up with lipstick and high heels and plans to marry a male classmate... which would b... Read more
Mala Noche (1985)
6.7/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Ray Monge, Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate
Writer/director Gus van Sant's debut feature, adapted from Walt Curtis' autobiographical novel. Living an isolated life in Portland, Oregon, slacker s... Read more
Mambo Italiano (2003)
6.7/10
Director: Emile Gaudreault
Starring: Luke Kirby, Ginette Reno, Paul Sorvino
Light-hearted sex farce from Canada stars Luke Kirby as a young man who discovers he's gay and becomes involved with a policeman and old high school c... Read more