Movies: Drag queen

Set in Berlin, 1933, We are Dancers is the story of real-life anti-Nazi drag artist Hansi Sturm and his circle of friends in the immediate aftermath of the Reichstag fire, an event that allowed Hitler to become absolute dictator of Germany. Confronte...

A series of erotic vignettes and sexual imagery (mostly of the gay variety) are presented courtesy of The Cockettes (a gay/drag performance art ensemble of late 60s/early 70s San Francisco)....

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An enchanted cemetery in Berlin. Next to the Grimm Brothers' grave, stillborn babies and gay people rest in peace. This is the Garden of Stars....

Gilda chose Gilda because of Hayworth and at 98 years old is the oldest active drag queen in the world. And lives in Barcelona. Two hours following Gilda's daily life, from morning to night, where you can see what the person behind the makeup, the fe...

Stance... drag queen boxing, drag queen endurance, drag is a non-contact sport, so it's a kind of parody, no pain, no glory... the courage to be yourself and to appropriate typically masculine spaces with cheerfulness and femininity....

Montreal artistic collective House of Pride takes you behind the scenes of innovative performances in drag, dance and the performing arts. A queer film that plays with gender in a provocative, avant-garde, innovative and legendary way while celebrati...

Pickup's Tricks is a beat documentary of Hibiscus and the Cockettes, who were pioneers of San Francisco’s underground queer theater in the early '70s. It is a multifarious blend of sexual anarchy; a raucous and unscripted mix of liberation and elatio...

Follow Ruby Chopstix, Canada’s first drag artist-in-residence, as they navigate the complexity of being an underrepresented drag performer while creating a special showcase to create space for other queer BIPOC performers....

A romantic and nocturnal encounter between Arthus, a "masculine" young man and Marin, a drag-queen. Their discussion around gender and sexuality slowly leads them to understand and tame each other....

Documentary about the musical artist and drag queen Pady Jeff produced by students of the Social Communication degree at the Catholic University of Uruguay....

In May 2016, Christopher Caldwell - better known as Bob The Drag Queen, won the incredibly popular TV show "RuPaul's Drag Race". This documentary covers both his life and career before, during and after the show as well as a comedy special he did in ...

This show was filmed in Manchester, England in 1983, just as Divine's recording career was taking off, and shows him at his tasteless and tacky best. From his appearance in 1966 in his first John Waters film until his death in 1988, Divine always cou...

A visit to the Vauxhall Tavern in London to see the drag acts....

A mockumentary about the life of the great Anastasha, a Peruvian actress who never was, following her fictional career in film and her eventual rise to stardom....

Fighting for visibility and solidarity, Lady Galore has become vital to the European drag community. For Sander den Baas, the man behind Lady Galore, this devotion is starting to take its toll. Although his size is what makes Lady Galore stand out an...

NYC Drag Queen Blackie O opens up about his own mental health and the wider drag community's....

A man plans a heist involving drag queens. [Production for this 1970 film was never finished due to a money laundering scheme, though it was released by Vinegar Syndrome as a bonus feature on their Dracula Sucks DVD in 2014, then again on their 4K UH...

Entertainer Nathan Kennedy, who speaks Gayle, the South African cant that flourished during the Apartheid era, meets Louis van Brakel, a much older user of the secret language, and interviews him on stage at the Showroom, Prince Albert....

Told in reverse chronological order, an aspiring drag queen creates a world out of desolated motel rooms with the guy he met online....