Queer is a 2024 period romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs. Set in 1950s Mexico City and Ecuador, the film follows an outcast American expatriate who becomes infatuated with a much younger man ; Jason Schwartzman, Henry Zaga, and Lesley Manville also star.