Really Great Drag Movies
These are some of my favorite movies that are in some way related to drag. Whether a cast of queens, or just a memorable character or scene featuring a drag queen, these are among some of the most entertaining.
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- DirectorBeeban KidronStarsWesley SnipesPatrick SwayzeJohn LeguizamoThree drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
- DirectorStephan ElliottStarsHugo WeavingGuy PearceTerence StampTwo drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
- DirectorRichard DayStarsJack PlotnickClinton LeuppJeffery RobersonThree actresses at various places on the Hollywood food chain navigate the minefield of love, aging, and ambition. Oh, and they're all played by men!The thing I love about Girls Will Be Girls is that the lead roles are played by drag queens, but they are not playing drag queens. They are playing women. But with all the ferocity of drag queens.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsRobin WilliamsNathan LaneGene HackmanA gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.While technically not drag queens, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis play two musicians who, after noticeably witnessing a mob hit, escape their own demise by posing as Geraldine and Daphne, two female musicians in a touring all girl stage band.
- DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsUgo TognazziMichel SerraultClaire MaurierThe manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsWendy CrewsonKaryn DwyerChristina CoxMaggie, 19, works at a lesbian/LGBT bookstore. Her mom's getting divorced and has invited herself to stay with Maggie. Maggie hasn't told her, she's lesbian. Her new girlfriend moves in as well.Though the central focus is not on drag, there is one lovable transvestite, and some memorable performances by talented queens scattered through the film.
- DirectorJim FallStarsChristian CampbellJohn Paul PitocTori SpellingThe misadventures of two young gay men, trying to find a place to be alone, one night in Manhattan.Again, not centrally focused as a drag movie, there is memorable presence by the great Miss Coco Peru.
- DirectorJim SharmanStarsTim CurrySusan SarandonBarry BostwickA newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
- DirectorKeenen Ivory WayansStarsMarlon WayansShawn WayansBusy PhilippsTwo disgraced FBI agents go way undercover in an effort to protect hotel heiresses the Wilson sisters from a kidnapping plot.Well OK, so there is a reason this is at the bottom of the list. White Chicks is the furthest thing from a "drag movie" on this list. It has technically nothing to do with drag, nothing to do with gay men or the community, and nothing at all to do with tolerance, diversity or stage performance. It is just a hilarious movie. And it doesn't mock or ridicule queens so much as it does bubble headed socialites.