Belle Epoque (1992), Suddenly (2002), Bound (1996), Off and Running (2009), The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002), The Handmaiden (2016), Ballot Measure 9 (1994), Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Lesbian movies.
Storyline: New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: allen ginsberg, activist, professor, gay man, lesbian, spirited, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Åmål is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she is inexperienced in that matter. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her but is too shy to do anything about it. For a number of reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes' birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl's night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own feelings toward Agnes.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: popular girl, loner, sister, teen boy, lesbian, teen girl, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuals during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several gay WWII veterans.—Travis <mtharris@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: senator, colonel, soldier, gay man, veteran, lesbian, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, grandfather, lesbian, love interest, emotional, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Plot Keywords: lesbian, sister, mother, colleague, police detective, english teacher, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, mother, lesbian, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A pair of comic book authors named Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards, who live in New Jersey, have been best friends for 20 years. They spend their time working in their studio, and in the evenings they are going out. But their friendship is about to be disputed for the first time in their life, when a beautiful young lesbian woman named Alyssa Jones enters their life and Holden falls in love with her. Now Holden has to deal with Banky's jealousy, and with his new girlfriend's very rich past.
Plot Keywords: comic book artist, best friend, lesbian, love interest, amusing, engaging, new jersey ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frank Goode lives by himself in Elmira, NY, a recent widower with heart trouble, retired from a factory job, proud of having pushed his adult children toward success. In the summer, all four kids bail on a reunion, so, against doctor's orders, Frank decides to surprise each with a visit. He sets out to see his artist son in New York City, his daughter the ad exec in Chicago, his son the conductor on tour and presently in Denver, and his daughter who's a performer in Vegas. None are as he imagines or hopes. Will they let him see themselves as they are, and can this dad adapt?
Plot Keywords: widower, son, daughter, lesbian, endearing, engaging, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful district nurse in a BBC soap opera. However, her character is to be killed off, and George realises that the only other job she can get is the voice of a cow in a children's tv programme. Her life begins to fall apart as Childie has an affair with a predatory tv producer.—Paul Baker <bakerjp@unix.lancs.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: actress, older woman, television producer, executive, lesbian, lover, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect same-sex relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. During their relationship, Jules has floundered in her "nine to five" life, sometimes trying to start a business - always unsuccessfully - or being the stay-at-home mom. She is currently trying to start a landscape design business. They have two teen-aged children, Joni (conceived by Nic) and Laser (by Jules). Although not exact replicas, each offspring does more closely resemble his/her biological mother in temperament. Joni and Laser are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father. Shortly after Joni's eighteenth birthday and shortly before she plans to leave the house and head off to college, Laser, only fifteen and underage to do so, pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. Somewhat reluctantly, she does. He is late ...
Plot Keywords: lesbian, father, mother, teenager, daughter, son, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a quickie divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranchowner's daughter. The emotions released by their developing intimacy, and Vivian's insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs.—Neil Lewis <njl@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: professor, ranch hand, young woman, lesbian, ranch owner, emotional, casino ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.
Plot Keywords: gay man, drag queen, bar owner, lesbian, mayor, preacher, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Explores Austen's adage that general incivility is at love's essence. Sylvia's husband dumps her for another woman, so Bernadette and Jocelyn organize a book club to distract her. They recruit Sylvia's daughter Allegra; Prudie, a young teacher whose marriage may be on the rocks; and Grigg, a sci-fi fan who joins out of attraction to Jocelyn. The six read and discuss one Austen novel per month. Jocelyn tries to interest Grigg in Sylvia; Allegra falls in love with a woman she meets skydiving; Prudie contemplates an affair with a student; Sylvia's ex keeps popping up. In the discussions, characters reveal themselves in their comments. By the end, are truths universally acknowledged?
Plot Keywords: friend, cheater, teacher, mother, lesbian, husband, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rachel is a nice girl who is going to marry with Hector ('Heck'), her longtime boyfriend. While she is working in the wedding preparations she meets Luce, wedding's florist, unexpectedly falling in love to her and discovering what is having love feeling to another woman. Unable to stop her Rachel meets Luce a few times hiding it to her family, specially her mother Tessa because she contracted Luce. At the same time that Heck tries to win the affection of his parents-in-law, above all the eccentric father-in-law Ned, Rachel tries following with the daily life and marriage with her husband, but the love and passion she feels for Luce causes a secret affair between both women, and a doubt in Rachel about the life she wants for herself.
Plot Keywords: newlywed, florist, friend, husband, father, lesbian, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.—kwedgwood@hotmail.com/Peter Brandt Nielsen
Plot Keywords: slacker, girlfriend, mother, dance instructor, lesbian, son, lighthearted ...
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