Bound (1996), Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993), The Children's Hour (1961), Before Stonewall (1984), Bound (1996), The Killing of Sister George (1968), Desert Hearts (1985), Reaching for the Moon (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Lesbian movies.
Storyline: A mobster's (Joe Pantoliano) disgruntled girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly) steals $2 million from him with the help of her lesbian lover (Gina Gershon).
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, film noir, lesbian, romance, mystery, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary about lesbians in Canada alternates between fiction and non-fiction. Along with interviews of real women who discuss coming to terms with their sexuality during the '40s, '50s and '60s, there are dramatized scenes based on the "Beebo Brinker Chronicles," a series of hard-boiled lesbian pulp novels by Ann Bannon published during the '50s. Meanwhile, the interviewed women talk about Vancouver and Toronto's gay scenes of the time, which were their own pulp-worthy underworlds.
Plot Keywords: documentary, lesbian, history, canada, oral history, social movement, female director ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are best friends since college and they own the boarding school Wright and Dobie School for Girls with twenty students. They are working hard as headmistresses and teachers to grow the school and make it profitable. Karen is engaged with the local doctor Joe Cardin, who is the nephew of the powerful and influential Mrs. Amelia Tilford. While the spiteful and liar Mary, who is Amelia's granddaughter and a bad influence to the other girls, is punished by Karen after telling a lie, Martha has an argument with her snoopy aunt Lily Mortar in another room. Lily accuses Martha of being jealous and having an unnatural relationship with Karen. Mary's roommate Rosalie Wells overhears the shouting and tells Mary what Mrs. Mortar had said about her niece. The malicious Mary accuses Karen and Martha of being lesbians to her grandmother and Amelia spreads the gossip to the parents of the students that withdraw them from the school. Karen and Martha lose a lawsuit ...
Plot Keywords: drama, homosexuality, film noir, adaptation, stage play adaptation, lesbian, lies ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: documentary, historical, activism, civil rights, social justice, american history, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Corky, a lesbian ex con hired to work in an apartment as a plumber, meets neighbors Caesar, who launders money for the Mafia, and his girlfriend Violet. The two women have a love affair and decide to steal $2,000,000 that Caesar has in custody before he gives them back to Mafia boss Gino Marzone. Caesar is set up by the two scheming women as a scapegoat but things start to go wrong when he reacts in an unexpected way...
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, noir, lesbian, romance, mystery, violence ...
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: drama, thriller, crime, psychological, mystery, film noir, lesbian ...
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: romance, lesbian, drama, american, female director, independent film, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Grappling with writer's block, legendary American poet Elizabeth Bishop travels from New York City to Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s to visit her college friend, Mary. Hoping to find inspiration on her sprawling estate, but she winds up with much more - a tempestuous relationship with her bohemian partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares, that rocks the staid writer to her foundation. Alcoholism, geographical distance and a military coup come between the lovers, but their intimate connection spans decades and forever impacts the life and work of these two extraordinary artists.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, romance, drama, poet, usa, literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lost and Delirious is the story of three adolescent girls' first love, their discovery of sexual passion, and their search for identities. Set in a posh, private boarding school surrounded by luxuriant, green forest, Lost and Delirious moves swiftly from academic routine, homesickness, and girlish silliness to the darker region of lover's intrigue.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, lesbian, boarding school, coming of age, tragedy, emotional conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lianna and her husband Dick have been married for a few years but the marriage isn't a happy one, since Dick treats her with arrogance. One day Lianna falls in love - with Ruth, a teacher. The people who know them act different: her husband with feelings of sexual betrayal, her children with curiosity and Lianna's friends with ambivalence.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: women, lesbian, self-discovery, marital crisis, teacher-student relationship, sexual awakening, independence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A tale of obsession and deception, and the struggle for love and faith in a world where both seem impossible. The film charts the emotional and physical hothouse effects that bloom one summer for two young women: Mona, behind a spiky exterior, hides an untapped intelligence and a yearning for something beyond the emptiness of her daily life; Tamsin is well-educated, spoiled and cynical. Complete opposites, each is wary of the other's differences when they first meet, but this coolness soon melts into mutual fascination, amusement and attraction. Adding volatility is Mona's older brother Phil, who has renounced his criminal past for religious fervor - which he tries to impose upon his sister. Mona, however, is experiencing her own rapture. "We must never be parted," Tamsin intones to Mona but can Mona completely trust her?
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, youth, coming of age, female, lesbian, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lesbian lover.
Plot Keywords: erotic, lesbian, british film, art film, indie film, female director, psychological drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of two girls, Randy and Evie. Randy is a low economic class lesbian living with other lesbians including her aunt. Evie is a wealthy, popular girl with a boyfriend. When Evie befriends Randy, she begins to feel a passion for her she's never felt before. What follows is a sweet, tender romance between the two while Evie is cast away by her friends and Randy is chided by her family. The two don't care, though, because they are in love.—Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, youth, lgbt, coming of age, first love, high school, social class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter, a teacher who loves her job, refuses to give up everything -including her comfort- to follow her. Sonia makes all the efforts in the world to forget Cheyenne, whether in the arms of Pierre, a charming anarchist, or in those of Béatrice, a gay woman who soon proves perverse and dangerous, only to realize that her heart belongs to Cheyenne and nobody else. If Cheyenne does not come back, Sonia feels life is not worth living any longer...—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: lgbtq+, lesbian, french cinema, drama, romance, independent film, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After breaking up with her girlfriend, a Brooklyn musician moves back in with her mother. Playing for tip money in an old friend's bar, an unexpected relationship begins to take shape. Based on the life and times of Alyssa Robbins.
Plot Keywords: music, independent film, lesbian, romance, drama, american film, lgbtq+ ...
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