Claire Denis’s first feature is a searing and eloquent work of semiautobiography that centers on a young white woman’s memories of growing up in 1950s Cameroon.

A sweeping historical epic, Farewell My Concubine turns history, politics, and queerness into intoxicating spectacle.  

Lynch’s bleary and bewitching vision of Tinsel Town is defined by his deep empathy for his two female leads, whose bond—with all its frustration, eroticism, chemistry, blending, bleeding, and explosive desire—spans the feeling of cinema itself, conjured as much out of a nightmare as a dream.  

For her wildly assured and wonderful 1996 feature, multihyphenate Dunye dives into a meta-cinematic world of cultural history, self-interrogation, cinematic dialectics, and sex and romance.

Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues dives deep into social and erotic alienation, and finds in queerness an embrace of our most feral human impulses.

Experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer spent her career charting unknown pathways by inventing a language of cinematic lesbianism, not least of all with this exceptional 1992 work of nonfiction.

Fassbinder's final completed film, an adaptation of Jean Genet’s novel Querelle de Brest, packs his sexual energy and ambivalence into a powder keg, with Brad Davis as a classic Genet character.

Body horror maestro Cronenberg’s fascination with the limits and possibilities of the flesh, the potentials of technology and science, and humans reaching for godlike power hit its watershed with this horror romance.

Featuring Diablo Cody’s signature droll and idiosyncratic dialogue and a performance from a scintillating Megan Fox that exudes sharpness and fiery charisma, this is the ultimate ode to toxic femininity.  

Contemporary critics may have all but ignored what was going on between Hitchcock's Leopold and Loeb–like killers in favor of fixating on its form—a movie told in real time through extended shots and invisible cuts—modern audiences can revel in the simmering erotic tension between Granger and Dall.

Dietrich’s nightclub entrance in Morocco as sultry performer Amy Jolly doubled as Dietrich’s indelible entrance into Hollywood. Introduced by critic Kyle Turner on 5/20.

To mark the release of The Queer Film Guide: 100 Films That Tell LGBTQIA+ Stories, author and critic Kyle Turner has guest programmed a selection of films that epitomize the complex, contradictory, and compelling ways queerness finds itself as code, language, or point of view.