Highest-Rated Movies about 'Lesbian Romance'

Saving Face (2004), Fire (1996), Carol (2015), Lost and Delirious (2001), Summerland (2020), Imagine Me & You (2005), Snapshots (2018), Lianna (1983) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Lesbian Romance movies.

#1. Saving Face (2004)

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: lesbian love, mother daughter relationship, sex, bare breasts, lesbian romance, honor, fear ...

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#3. Carol (2015)

Storyline: In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal novel The Price of Salt, CAROL follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and their connection deepens. While Carol breaks free from the confines of marriage, her husband (Kyle Chandler) begins to question her competence as a mother as her involvement with Therese and close relationship with her best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) come to light.

Plot Keywords: lesbian, lesbian romance, road trip, child custody, photographer, lesbian sex, female protagonist ...

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#4. Lost and Delirious (2001)

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: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, teenage sexuality, panties, female female kiss, outdoor sex ...

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#5. Summerland (2020)

Storyline: Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee named Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed. Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Tom Courtenay star in this intensely emotional story of love's endurance in trying times.—IFC Films

Plot Keywords: love, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbianism, world war two, lesbian, lesbian couple ...

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#6. Imagine Me & You (2005)

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: lesbian, lesbian romance, love triangle, love at first sight, lesbian kiss, birthday, crying ...

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#7. Snapshots (2018)

Storyline: Love lost, love found, love betrayed. When Rose's secret past collides with her granddaughter's secret future and her daughter Patty's angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit. What happens that summer of 1960 when Louise and Zee enter the lives of Rose and Joe Muller. Fifty years at a lake home, one camera. With the discovery of a simple roll of film it begins.—Jan Miller Corran

Plot Keywords: lake, based on true story, lesbian sex, lesbian kiss, 1960s, lesbian romance, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...

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#8. Lianna (1983)

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: lesbian, lesbian sex, divorce, lesbian couple, looking at oneself in a mirror, mirror, mother daughter relationship ...

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#9. Higher Learning (1995)

Storyline: Youngsters from different countries, races, and social background are forced to integrate when they all enroll in Columbus University. They all have their own problems, such as finance, harrassment, personal safety, and self doubt. Additionally, campus life seems to be causing a problem for everyone: racism. Students, already under pressure to perform in the classroom, on the track, or in front of their friends, are strained to the breaking point by prejudice, inexperience, and misunderstanding.

Plot Keywords: racism, lesbian, middle class, sniper, anti semitism, bisexual, homosexual ...

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#10. Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)

Storyline: Jessica Stein is a single, straight, successful, journalist, part of a bonded Jewish family living in New York City, who finds herself not as straight as she thought when Jessica meets and begins an intense friendship with career woman Helen Cooper which ultimately leads to romance.

Plot Keywords: lesbian, sexual awakening, based on play, character name in title, computer, e mail, extramarital affair ...

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#11. Looking for Cheyenne (2005)

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: hope, female frontal nudity, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, face slap, eyeglasses, eye patch ...

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#12. Loving Annabelle (2006)

Storyline: Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly between her and her teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues Simone relentlessly until Simone must make a choice between following her heart and doing what's right.

Plot Keywords: aunt niece relationship, schoolgirl, older woman younger woman relationship, two word title, embarrassment, forbidden love, lesbian kiss ...

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#13. Becks (2017)

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: lesbian romance, independent film, one word title, singer, female singer, lesbian, new york city ...

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#14. Julie Johnson (2001)

Storyline: A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Julie discovers her abilities and finds the courage to make dramatic life changes. This is a story of realizing one's potential and being willing to turn one's life upside down to take a chance on finding happiness. Claire, Julie's best friend, goes along with Julie's secret quest and eventually moves in with her. Both women are on a search to realize their dreams and come to terms with their love for each other.—Sujit R. Varma

Plot Keywords: marital separation, eavesdropping, depression, infidelity, unfaithfulness, extramarital affair, kiss ...

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#15. Jenny's Wedding (2015)

Storyline: Jenny Farrell has led an openly gay life - except with her conventional family. When she finally decides to start a family and marry the woman they thought was just her roommate, the small, safe world the Farrells inhabited changes forever. They are left with a simple and difficult choice - either change with it or drown.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: lesbian love, coming out, lesbian kiss, montage, intercom, listening to music, toy ...

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