Discover powerful lesbian movies from Korea, Japan, Thailand, France, Italy & Sweden. Expert reviews of award-winning LGBTQ+ films with English subtitles. Find romantic Asian dramas, European art films & modern queer cinema. Updated 2024 recommendations with streaming links.
Review of The Duke of Burgundy (2014), an art-house lesbian drama by Peter Strickland starring Sidse Babett Knudsen and Chiara D’Anna. Plot summary, cast highlights, best scenes, and critical reception.
Full review of Monster (2003), Patty Jenkins’s true-crime drama starring Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos. Plot summary, reviews, cast highlights, best scenes, and awards. A haunting lesbian film about love, trauma, and tragedy.
Read our full review of Love Lies Bleeding (2024), a surreal lesbian crime thriller by Rose Glass starring Kristen Stewart and Katy M. O’Brian. Plot summary, cast highlights, best scenes, and why this bold lesbian movie is both bloody and beautiful.
My Days of Mercy (2017) pairs Elliot Page and Kate Mara in a lesbian romance across a death-penalty divide. Read the plot, detailed review, best scenes, themes, director, and cast highlights.
Explore Pariah (2011), Dee Rees’ groundbreaking American lesbian film. Plot summary, review, cast highlights, director profile, best scenes, and award recognition.
Explore Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), the Palme d’Or–winning French lesbian film starring Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux. Full plot, review, cast, best scenes, director, and differences from the original comic.
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 …