Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "new-queer-cinema"

1. Mysterious Skin (2004)

Unrated | 105 min | Drama

Two pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Chase Ellison

Votes: 76,346 | Gross: $0.70M

2. Velvet Goldmine (1998)

R | 118 min | Drama, Music

In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.

Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette

Votes: 38,317 | Gross: $1.05M

3. Nowhere (1997)

R | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Follows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles high school students and the strange lives they lead.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Chiara Mastroianni

Votes: 10,256 | Gross: $0.03M

4. The Doom Generation (1995)

R | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex-and-violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickie marts.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech, Cress Williams

Votes: 17,890 | Gross: $0.26M

5. Safe (1995)

R | 119 min | Drama

An affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity.

Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris, Julie Burgess

Votes: 17,248 | Gross: $0.51M

6. Paris Is Burning (1990)

R | 78 min | Documentary

A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.

Director: Jennie Livingston | Stars: Brooke Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey, Paris Duprée

Votes: 17,621 | Gross: $3.78M

7. Edward II (1991)

R | 87 min | Drama, History, Romance

In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by ... See full summary »

Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch

Votes: 3,037 | Gross: $0.69M

8. The Watermelon Woman (1996)

Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

Director: Cheryl Dunye | Stars: Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson

Votes: 3,671

9. Totally F***ed Up (1993)

TV-MA | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Six queer teenagers struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of varying obstacles.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: James Duval, Roko Belic, Susan Behshid, Jenee Gill

Votes: 3,940 | Gross: $0.10M

10. The Living End (1992)

Unrated | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Luke is a gay hustler. Jon is a movie critic. Both are HIV positive. They go on a hedonistic, dangerous journey, their motto "Fuck the world".

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore, Mark Finch, Mary Woronov

Votes: 3,720 | Gross: $0.69M

11. Poison (1991)

R | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.

Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman, Millie White

Votes: 5,035 | Gross: $0.61M

12. Go Fish (1994)

R | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A romantic tale about finding a soulmate. The only difference here is that both partners are women...in Chicago's lesbian community.

Director: Rose Troche | Stars: V.S. Brodie, Guinevere Turner, T. Wendy McMillan, Migdalia Melendez

Votes: 2,331 | Gross: $2.41M

13. Hustler White (1996)

Unrated | 79 min | Drama, Romance

Reminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, Hustler White transposes the action from the silver screen's old movie backlots to contemporary male prostitution and the porn industry. Said to be an homage to classic Hollywood cinema.

Directors: Rick Castro, Bruce La Bruce | Stars: Tony Ward, Bruce La Bruce, Kevin P. Scott, Ivar Johnson

Votes: 1,441 | Gross: $0.13M

14. Sitcom (1998)

Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and how much do you ... See full summary »

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Évelyne Dandry, François Marthouret, Marina de Van, Adrien de Van

Votes: 5,584

15. Frisk (1995)

Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Thriller

A first person narrative of the exploits of a gay serial killer in deeply disturbing, controversial drama about violence, sexuality, and the imagination. Dennis, the main character, whose ... See full summary »

Director: Todd Verow | Stars: Michael Gunther, Craig Chester, Michael Stock, Raoul O'Connell

Votes: 736

16. Swoon (1992)

Unrated | 93 min | Crime, Drama

The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men.

Director: Tom Kalin | Stars: Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby

Votes: 1,920 | Gross: $0.34M

17. Young Soul Rebels (1991)

R | 105 min | Drama, Music

Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

Director: Isaac Julien | Stars: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber

Votes: 626

18. The Delta (1996)

Unrated | 85 min | Drama

In Memphis, a middle-class white teenager and a black Vietnamese immigrant meet in a gay cruising spot and discover what they don't have in common.

Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Shayne Gray, Thang Chan, Rachel Zan Huss, Colonious David

Votes: 863 | Gross: $0.02M

19. Fucking Different (2005)

88 min | Drama

A collection of 6 short movies made to break stereotypical opinions, and celebrate differences as well as create a little stir.

Directors: Jörg Andreas, Michael Brynntrup, Eva Bröckerhoff, Jürgen Brüning, Martina Minette Dreier, Juana Dubiel, Undine Frömming, Anna Gollwitzer, Isabella Gresser, Ebo Hill, Annette Hollywood, Heidi Kull, Marcus Ludwig, Peter Oehl, Nathalie Percillier, Kristian Petersen, Michael Stock, Waltraud Weiland, Ades Zabel | Stars: Bridge Markland, Susanne Sachße, Joe, Shannon

Votes: 124

20. Little Death (1995)

Not Rated | 26 min | Short, Drama

Family ties. Paul is an artist, his current project is to take photos of the faces of men during orgasm. He lives with Martial, his lover. His sister Camille, who's running the family ... See full summary »

Director: François Ozon | Stars: François Delaive, Camille Japy, Martial Jacques, Michel Beaujard

Votes: 765

21. Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

81 min | Documentary

A chronological look at films by, for, or about (or 'by, for, and about') gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, from Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to Ang Lee's "Brokeback... See full summary »

Directors: Lisa Ades, Lesli Klainberg | Stars: Randy Barbato, Dan Bucatinsky, Jonathan Caouette, Ash Christian

Votes: 840

22. Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema (1993 Video)

119 min | Comedy, Drama

In these sexy, fun and darkly entertaining boys shorts, we see the hilarious terrors of gay childhood, an Internet hook-up with unexpected motivation and what happens when you hate musicals... See full summary »

Directors: Mark Christopher, Stephen Cummins, Laurie Lynd, Michael Mayson, Chris Newby, Marlon Riggs

Votes: 81

23. RSVP (1992)

23 min | Short

Music's healing power. The week his lover Andrew has died of AIDS, Sid comes home to an empty apartment and turns on the radio to CBC's classical music program, RSVP. Jessye Norman sings Le... See full summary »

Director: Laurie Lynd | Stars: Stewart Arnott, Ferne Downey, Gordon Jocelyn, London Juno

Votes: 36

24. Light on a Path, Follow (2019)

15 min | Short

Joaquín, a transgender person living in rural 1990s New England, is 8-months pregnant. After encountering a mysterious spirit in the forest, Joaquín goes into labor early. Is this spirit ... See full summary »

Director: Elliot Montague | Stars: Lucia Leandro Gimeno, Janeline Hayes, Vick Quezada

25. Fandor (2014– )
Episode: The New Canon: 'Carol' (2018)

5 min | Documentary

Todd Haynes' Carol might not be the first movie to do moderate business but later inspire enormous devotion

Director: Leigh Singer | Star: Leigh Singer