Joey Arias Movies

Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Stoltz

Creative documentary on the drag queen movement and its origins in Paris, New York and Madrid.

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Cast: Pedro Almodóvar

Focuses on the collaboration between cabaret and drag artist Joey Arias and master puppeteer Basil Twist, whose 2008 show brought them some of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Basil Twist

The Zanctuary is a decadent bar in Lower Manhattan owned by a former prostitute, Dora Ramona del Pilar. An undercover police detective follows an...

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Cast: Joey Arias

The three-decade-old annual Manhattan gathering of drag queens and their fans is portrayed in this colorful documentary. The film concentrates on the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: RuPaul

This fascinating reality program exposes the ups and downs of a group of Cirque du Soleil performers as they put together "Zumanity," a new, highly...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joey Arias

Called "The American Bowie," "The True Fairy of Rock & Roll" and "Hype of the Year," Jobriath's reign as the first openly gay rock star was brief...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jobriath

An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert De Niro

A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football player, are brought together on an island owned...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michael Beck

A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joey Arias

Looks like an alien, sings like a diva - Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s' most profoundly bizarre characters to emerge through rock music: a counter...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ann Magnuson

Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cassandra Peterson

A film that revels in the sheer delightful fabulousness of drag! A joyful look into the lives of some of the most famous drag queens of today: Varla...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Billy B.

Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Reubens

"Mermaids on Heroin" is a 1985 13-minute video written and staring New York performer Joey Arias. Features Fred Schneider from the B-52s.

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Cast: Joey Arias

As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of too many friends and lovers. Battlewounded and struggling...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Alan Cumming

Spotlighting the art of drag, and centered on the New York staple Wigstock, this documentary showcases the personalities and performances that inform...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joey Arias

Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David McDermott

Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patrick Swayze

At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Lewis

Ann Magnuson is launched off the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle while doing a bong rip, and into a strange fantasy world airbrushed on the side...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ann Magnuson