Movies like Queer

“Queer (2024) is a 2020s Italian-American period drama that situates midcentury expatriate life as a site for private ethical conflict. It stages an aging expatriate's repressed longing against a restrained visual grammar of chiaroscuro, long takes, and close framing to prioritize interior discovery over plot exposition. Lupani's reading asserts that the film reframes midcentury repression to illuminate intimacy's psychological and cultural stakes.”