The best RuPaul’s documentary movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best RuPaul’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about RuPaul.
The Out List
7.3/10
Through the voices of Americans from all walks of life, The Out List explores the identities of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in America. In this series of intimate interviews, a diverse group of LGBTQ personalities bring color and depth to their experiences of gender and sexuality. With wit and wisdom, this set of trailblazing individuals weaves universal themes of love, loss, trial, and triumph into the determined struggle for full equality.
Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts
7.3/10
Trixie charmed audiences and judges as winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. But the grind of performing and the pressure of the title proves that heavy is the head that wears the tiara.
Workhorse Queen
7.1/10
After an unlikely casting onto a reality television show, 47-year old suburban telemarketer Ed Popil leaves his job to pursue a full-time entertainment industry career as his drag queen alter ego, 1960’s era housewife Mrs. Kasha Davis.
Catwalk
7/10
A documentary following Christy Turlington and other models during spring fashion week in Milan, Paris and New York.
Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?
7.7/10
In her new YouTube Red Original Movie, the colorful pop icon puts her life on camera 24/7 for four whole days, in her most intimate reveal yet. Join Katy as she does behind-the-scenes in the creation and aftermath of this unprecedented live-streaming event with friends, artists and celebrity guests.
Drag Becomes Him
7/10
An intimate glimpse inside the life of internationally acclaimed drag performer Jinkx Monsoon.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
7.2/10
A documentary look, mostly through the eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, at her rise and fall as a popular televangelist with husband Jim Bakker.
Stonewall Outloud
7.3/10
Contemporary voices in the LGBTQ community discuss "Remembering Stonewall," the first documentary to chronicle the historic 1969 event that sparked the gay liberation movement.
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
2.2/10
Documentary exploring The Advocate's role at the forefront of the LGBT movement in the U.S.
The Queens
7/10
This documentary chronicles over two years in the heels of four of the world’s most famous drag queens including former RuPaul’s Drag Race winners Jinkx Monsoon and Sharon Needles, former All Stars champion Alaska Thunderf*ck and season 7 and All Stars 2 contestant Katya Zamolodchikova. From performing across world stages to winning (and losing) Drag Race or dealing with major tragedies, The Queens lifts the lace front, giving an insight into one of the most fascinating and quickly ascending entertainment artforms.
Wigstock: The Movie
6.9/10
The three-decade-old annual Manhattan gathering of drag queens and their fans is portrayed in this colorful documentary. The film concentrates on the spectacle of the event, providing abundant examples of the elaborate costumes, flamboyant wigs, and campy musical performances that characterize the event.
Nelson Sullivan
Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and nights with drag queens and other NYC outcasts of the time. His style takes on a "home movie quality" that captures a lost - and now romanticized - American era in all of its mundane glory.
Susanne Bartsch: On Top
6.9/10
Dubbed New York's "Queen of the Night," proto–club kid Susanne Bartsch has been throwing unforgettable parties for over 30 years and is still going strong.
BEAT. Contour. Snatched. How Drag Queens Shaped the Biggest Makeup Trends
How drag queens sharing tips and tricks in dressing rooms shaped the face of today’s mainstream makeup industry.
RuPaul’s Drag Race: Corona Can’t Keep a Good Queen Down
Discover how the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 defied the odds and made herstory, as one of the first productions to be filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring exclusive cast interviews and never-before-seen footage
