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".
Newcastle (2008)
6.2/10
Director: Dan Castle
Starring: Lachlan Buchanan, Xavier Samuel, Reshad Strik, Kirk Jenkins, Anthony Hayes, Shan...
Newcastle, Australia, home to a grim industrial landscape that is offset by idyllic sun-drenched beaches where teenagers hit the surf. Jesse isn't int... Read more
Nights in the Gardens of Spain (2010)
6.2/10
Director: Katie Wolfe
Starring: Dean O'Gorman, Vicky Haughton, Nathalie Boltt, George Henare, Calvin Tuteao
"One's real life is often the life one does not lead". Adapted from Witi Ihimaera's novel of the same name and starring a bevy of great Kiwi talent (C... Read more
Normal (2003)
7.1/10
Director: Jane Anderson
Starring: Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson, Clancy Brown, Hayden Panettiere
Tom Wilkinson and Jessica Lange are a long-married couple who have a typical family life in a small Illinois town. That is, until father of two, manuf... Read more
Not Angels But Angels (1994)
5.2/10
Director: Wiktor Grodecki
Interviews with a procurer and with nineteen boys and young men who are prostitutes in Prague. The youths range in age from 14 to 19. They hustle at t... Read more
Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
6.5/10
Director: Max Baer
Starring: Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis, Robbie Benson
Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, h... Read more
On The Other Hand, Death (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Ron Oliver
Starring: Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Margot Kidder, Gabrielle Rose
Private Eye Donald Strachey is back on the job, investigating the origin of hate crimes perpetrated against an elderly lesbian couple after they refus... Read more
Only the Brave (1994)
6.3/10
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Starring: Dora Kaskanis, Elena Mandalis
A startling drama from Australia set in the seedy outskirts of Melbourne, where two teenage girls attempt to overcome the hardships of school and home... Read more
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1990)
7.7/10
Director: Beeban Kidron
Starring: Charlotte Coleman, Geraldine McEwan, Celia Imrie
With an upbringing spent learning the Bible and praying for 'heathens in hot countries', Jess unnerves both classmates and teachers when she begins sc... Read more
Otto; or Up With Dead People (2008)
5.3/10
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Starring: Olivia Barth, Keith Boehm, Jey Crisfar, Nicholas Fox Ricciardi, Marcel Schlutt,...
Controversial Canadian director Bruce La Bruce wowed them at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival with Otto, a gay neo-Goth zombie who hooks up with... Read more
Outing Riley (2004)
Director: Pete Jones
Starring: Jeff Garlin, Michael McDonald, Nathan Fillion, Pete Jones
Director Pete Jones wrote, directed and stars in this hilarious comedy about a gay Chicago-based architect from an Irish-Catholic family who decides t... Read more