Explore Desert Hearts (1985), the first widely released lesbian romance film. Based on Jane Rule’s novel Desert of the Heart, this classic tells a tender love story between Vivian and Cay in 1950s Nevada.
Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams star in Disobedience, a lesbian drama based on Naomi Alderman’s first book. The movie takes place in an Orthodox Jewish community in London and looks at forbidden desire, religious tradition, and the price of freedom. Rachel Weisz bought the rights and made the movie herself. She was looking for a …
There’s a different kind of weight when a lesbian film is “based on a true story.” It’s not just characters acting out a script—it’s the echo of real women who lived, loved, and often paid the price for being themselves. When I first saw Elisa y Marcela, the black-and-white frames didn’t feel distant at all. …
Summertime (La Belle Saison) is a French lesbian romance drama set in 1971, at the crossroads of rural traditions and feminist awakening in Paris. The film follows the love story between Delphine, a farmer’s daughter who refuses to follow the life mapped out for her, and Carole, a married Parisian deeply involved in the women’s …
The Handmaiden (Agassi) is more than just a lesbian film — it is a labyrinth of love, deceit, and liberation. Adapted from Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith but transposed to 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, the film blends gothic suspense, erotic charge, and political undertones. Park Chan-wook delivers a story where a conman’s elaborate scheme collides with two …
Ammonite is a British lesbian period drama that reimagines the life of fossil hunter Mary Anning. Set on the stormy coastlines of 1840s England, the film blends historical detail, class critique, and a restrained yet magnetic romance between two women from vastly different worlds. With its windswept visuals and Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan at …
Reaching for the Moon (Flores Raras) is a Brazilian lesbian movie that is both beautiful and heartbreaking. It mixes poetry, architecture, and forbidden love. The movie is about the lives of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her passionate but troubled relationship with Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Set in the beautiful Rio de …
Looking for movies like The Half of It (2020)? Discover 9 queer coming-of-age and lesbian teen romance films that capture the same spirit of self-discovery, friendship, and first love—from Love, Simon to Blue Gate Crossing.
Kiss Me (Kyss Mig, 2011) is one of those rare lesbian films that feels both intimate and universal. On the surface, it’s about Mia—a woman who seems to have her life figured out, engaged to a man and ready to step into marriage. But then she meets Frida, her soon-to-be step-sister, and everything changes. Their …
Vita & Virginia is a 2018 Irish-British lesbian biographical drama directed by Chanya Button, adapted from Eileen Atkins’ 1992 stage play of the same name. The film explores the passionate and intellectually charged love affair between two literary icons of the early 20th century — novelist Virginia Woolf and poet Vita Sackville-West — set against …