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".
Paragraph 175 (2000)
7.9/10
Director: Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
Starring: Narrated by, Rupert Everett
The title refers to a 19th-century German anti-homosexuality statute that was rarely enforced until Hitler came to power and used the law to wage a ca... Read more
Paris Is Burning (1990)
8.1/10
Director: Jennie Livingston
Starring: Dorian Corey, Pepper Labeija, Venus Xtravaganza
Equally outrageous, funny and touching, Jennie Livingston's acclaimed documentary looks at a very vocal segment of the gay community: the drag 'houses... Read more
Parting Glances (1986)
7.8/10
Director: Bill Sherwood
Starring: Richard Ganoung, John Bolger, Steve Buscemi
Authentic gay film focusing on the final stages of a love affair, featuring fine performances by Richard Ganoung and John Bolger as the couple. Read more
Personal Best (1982)
6.3/10
Director: Robert Towne
Starring: Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly
'Chinatown' screenwriter Robert Towne's directorial debut explores the relationship between two young women (Mariel Hemingway and real-life athlete Pa... Read more
Philadelphia (1993)
7.7/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance as a hotshot gay lawyer fired from his firm for having AIDS. Denzel Washington is the legal ace hired to def... Read more
Poison Ivy (1992)
5.4/10
Director: Katt Shea Ruben
Starring: Cheryl Ladd, Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt
In this erotically-charged thriller, Drew Barrymore turns in a heated performance as a sly teenage seductress who befriends fellow troubled student Sa... Read more
Poltergay (2006)
5.4/10
Director: Eric Lavaine
Starring: Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu, Lionel Abelanski, Gilles Gaston Dreyfus, Jean...
An over-the-top horror spoof from France, with a young married couple thrilled to have bought a decrepit old mansion at a cheap price only to discover... Read more
Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
7.7/10
Director: Stephen Whittaker
Starring: Janet McTeer, David Haig, Cathryn Harrison, Diana Fairfax, Peter Birch
British aristocrat and writer Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson married in 1913, and their love endured and deepened over the course of... Read more
Postcards from America (1994)
5.8/10
Director: Steve McLean
Starring: James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe, Michael Imperioli, Michael Ringer, Maggi...
Inspired by the poetry and autobiographical work of David Wojnarowicz who died of AIDS in 1992, this stylized, unflinching drama looks at three period... Read more
Poster Boy (2004)
6.2/10
Director: Zak Tucker
Starring: Matt Newton, Jack Noseworthy, Karen Allen, Michael Lerner, Valerie Geffner
Henry is a sexually active gay man who has never come out to his parents. And perhaps for good reason as his father is fanatical right-wing senator J... Read more