Funeral Parade is proud to present Female Trouble, John Waters’ sleazy and sickening midnight movie classic – just in time for Christmas!

Dawn Davenport (Divine) was like any other delinquent high schooler until Christmas morning, 1960. Her parents didn’t buy her the cha-cha heels she asked for, so she decides to become a teenage runaway, but not before she smashes her presents and leaves her mother pinned under the Christmas tree. Thus begins Dawn’s life of mayhem, madness, and make-up, as she and her beautician benefactors Donald and Donna Dasher (David Lochary and Mary Vivien Pearce) set out to prove that “crime and beauty are the same.” But how will Dawn find the time to be a good mother to her dearest daughter Taffy (Mink Stole)? Hilarious and horrifying in equal measure, Waters’ follow-up to Pink Flamingos is bad taste at its best.

Funeral Parade Queer Film Society is proud to present Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Nagisa Ōshima’s powerful meditation on violence and desire.
 
Set in a POW camp in Japanese-occupied Java circa 1942, the film explores the relationship between British prisoners and their captors. Lt. Col. John Lawrence (Tom Conti), the lone Japanese speaker among the interned British, tries to negotiate an uneasy equilibrium within the camp, which is overseen by the vicious Capt. Yanoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). An ardent follower of the Bushido moral code, his eye is unexpectedly caught by the arrival Maj. Jack “Strafer” Celliers (David Bowie), an insolent and rabble-rousing new prisoner. Could Yanoi’s fascination with Celliers change everything? Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence has endured as a deeply moving anti-war statement, as well as a thoughtful exploration of national and sexual identity.

Aspiring photographer Therese spots the beautiful, elegant Carol perusing the doll displays in a 1950s Manhattan department store. The two women develop a fast bond that becomes a love with complicated consequences.

Funeral Parade is proud to present Caravaggio, Derek Jarman’s highly stylised biography of one of Renaissance art’s most enduring figures. 

The year is 1610 and renaissance painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Nigel Terry) is wanted for murder. Having been on the run for four years, he finds himself on his deathbed, where he tended to by his young apprentice, John Jerusaleme (Spencer Leigh). As he slips away into death, Caravaggio recalls his life: his rise to prominence with the help of the Vatican; his unorthodox use of sex workers and homeless people as models for religious paintings; and his tempestuous love affairs with Ranuccio (Sean Bean) and Lena (Tilda Swinton). A biopic that’s unconventional as it is stunningly beautiful, Jarman’s Caravaggio remains a powerful portrait of the interplay between art and life from one of queer cinema’s most essential filmmakers.

In late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.

A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.

After meeting in a twin bereavement support group, Roman (Dylan O'Brien) and Dennis (James Sweeney) develop an unlikely bromance as they both search for solace and an identity without their better halves. They soon become inseparable, but old wounds reopen that will have permanent consequences for their friendship. Lauren Graham and Aisling Franciosi also star in this stirring, whip smart, wholly original dark comedy from breakout multi hyphenate director James Sweeney.