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Plot Summary:
Raf and Julie, a couple on the verge of breaking up, find themselves in an emergency ward bordering on collapse on the evening of a Parisian Yellow Vest protest. Their encounter with Yann, an angry and injured demonstrator, will shatter each person's certainties and prejudices. Outside, the tension escalates.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
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Tricky Old Dogs (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two septuagenarians go to Tuscany to prevent their old friend from killing the man who cuckolded him fifty years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Yannick (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy, metafiction
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Macho Macho Man (2019)
Plot Summary:
Carlão is a prejudiced man who works in a car dealership with Cadinho, Zeca and Antunes. In conversations between them, Carlão always boasts of being the greatest soccer and mechanics savvy, all amidst macho and homophobic jokes. When Evaristo is the target of such verbal assaults, he pursues him and locks him in a magic locker. From there comes Carlinhos, a homosexual alter ego that takes over Carlão's body when night comes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Exterior Night (1980)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get his work published. One evening, Léo strikes up an acquaintance with a woman taxi driver, Cora; in spite of her impulsive and moody temperament, he cannot help being attracted to her. On the spur of the moment, Cora invites Léo to make love to her. When Bony meets Cora, he too finds her irresistible, but he lacks Léo’s self-confidence to make his move. Cora is not a woman that any man can possess readily. She is like a wild animal, a creature that revels in its freedom. Will either Léo or Bony be able to tame her...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
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Ma saison super 8 (2005)
Plot Summary:
A cinematic homage to the Front Homosexual d'Action Révolutionnaire, the first gay rights movement in France, AllesandroAvellis' compassionate drama tells the tale of a young activist living in Paris when homosexuals had no place in society. The year is 1968; Marc is adrift in the city after failing in his efforts to gain national acceptance for gay rights. One day, during a park pick-up, he meets Andre, a small town factory worker still exploring his sexuality but convinced that he will one day marry and start a family. Over the course of the next three years, Marc and Andre continue their heated affair as Marc continues to advocate fiercely for gay rights while butting heads with his close-minded father, a Paris police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: period piece, queer cinema
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Everything Will Be Fine (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nabou, an Afro-German slacker, desperatly wants to win back her club kid ex-girlfriend Katja. Nabou becomes a housekeeper for Katja's neighbor, Kim, who is a workaholic that is striving to become a partner in an advertising agency. A refreshing romantic comedy with the ingredients of a classic lesbian feature: whimsical sexiness, mistaken identity, and general madness and mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Misandrists (2017)
Plot Summary:
In Ger(wo)many, when an army of radical females is preparing for a final revolution and a utopian world without men, a young male soldier arrives seeking refuge at the convent.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Like Crazy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s in intimacy with world leaders. Donatella is a young quiet tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery. They are both patients of a mental institution and subject to custodial measures.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, touching, social, melancholic, sincere, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, philosophical
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Bye Bye Blondie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Bye Bye Blondie tells the tale of Gloria and Frances, who first met when they were both patients in the same psychiatric hospital back in the 1980s, and decided to run away together. At the time their love affair was defined by youthful intensity. Later, when Francis disappeared without a trace, Gloria mourned the loss with a heavy heart. Over 20 years later, Francis (Emmanuelle Béart) and Gloria (Béatrice Dalle) have both turned 40. They've taken very different paths in life, with nomadic Gloria spending most of her time in a dive bar, and Frances enjoying success as a popular Parisian TV personality. The wife of a closeted and successful novelist, Francis is locked in a mutually-beneficial marriage of convenience when she once again crosses paths with Gloria, and finds her comfortable world turned upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, humorous, gloomy, queer cinema
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Macadam Stories (2015)
Plot Summary:
A drama about several lonely inhabitants of the same council estate, adapted by Benchetrit from his novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: social, humorous, absurd, enigmatic, melancholic, political, anthology, black comedy
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To Each, Her Own (2018)
Plot Summary:
Just as Simone works up the courage to tell her conservative Jewish family she's a lesbian, she finds herself attracted to a male Senegalese chef.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, uplifting, feel good, sweet, surprise ending, twist ending, queer cinema
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At the End of the Day (2018)
Plot Summary:
A conservative professor at a Christian college finds himself in a gay support group to stop their launch of an LGBT homeless youth shelter in their small town.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: social, independent film, queer cinema
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Floored by love (2005)
Plot Summary:
A lesbian couple contemplating marriage and a family with a gay teen son taking in an unexpected visitor from the past find their lives not so far apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Long Live Freedom (2013)
Plot Summary:
The elections are approaching and the largest opposition party in the country do not look good. Its leader, Enrico Oliveri can not stand the pressure and disappears. Fearing a scandal, the eminence grise of the party had brought into play the twin brother of the politician. Even if looks like two drops of water with his brother Giovanni may have a different personality. His ideas are innovative and direct approach to get the party in the polls.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, clever, semi serious, funny, art house, biting, suspense
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The Lady Banker (1980)
Plot Summary:
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: emotional
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The Summer House (2018)
Plot Summary:
A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with her daughter for a few days of vacation. Amidst her family, friends and the house staff, Anna has to handle her fresh break-up with her partner and the writing of her next film.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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The Intervention (2016)
Plot Summary:
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, sexy, humorous, suspenseful, light, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
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A Woman Like Eve (1979)
Plot Summary:
Eve lives with her husband Ad and two children somewhere in Amsterdam. Eve seems reasonably happy although she sometimes has the feeling that there's something missing in her life. Her husband – thinking Eve is depressed – sends her on a holiday to France with her girlfriend Sonja. In the south of France, on the beach, Eve meets Liliane, a young feminist and commune-dweller. Eve feels strangely drawn to Liliane.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Almost Adults (2016)
Plot Summary:
Follows two best friends in their final year of college while they transition into adulthood. One embraces her sexuality and tries to catch up on everything she has missed during her teenage years, while the other ends a long term relationship with her boyfriend and discovers her life isn't going as planned. Both struggle to keep their friendship together as they begin growing apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sweet, romantic, touching, independent film, queer cinema
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Do I Love You? (2002)
Plot Summary:
'Do I Love You?' is a romantic philosophical comedy about life and the questions it throws at you.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
Plot Summary:
Awkward, shy and delightfully funny, Polly Vandersma (Sheila McCarthy) is an "organizationally impaired" temporary assistant who finally gets her first permanent job at the age of 31. While she works for the curator of an art gallery, Polly narrates her own story, sharing the comical and bittersweet pretensions of the art world. At the same time, she reveals a special part of her own private world, taking the viewer to enchanted places in this quiet assault on the notion of authority everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surreal, postmodern, independent film, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema, eighties
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Goldfish Memory (2003)
Plot Summary:
A small group of friends experience relationships which grow and stumble, involving everything from straight, gay, lesbian, and bisexual relationships. The speed with which these relationships last leads to the Goldfish memory effect, the belief that a Goldfish only has a 3 second memory is a metaphor for the transient nature of the characters relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, erotic, clever, offbeat, realistic, talky, sexual
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Anaïs in Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Anaïs is thirty and broke. She has a lover, but she’s not sure she loves him anymore. She meets Daniel, who immediately falls for her. But Daniel lives with Émilie – whom Anaïs also falls for. This is the story of a restless young woman. And the story of a profound desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Lez Bomb (2018)
Plot Summary:
A still closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming out efforts thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her male roommate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, absurd, independent film, queer cinema, weird
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Angry Indian Goddesses (2015)
Plot Summary:
Frieda, a fashioncommercial photographer trying to find her own art, gathers her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel to Goa for a surprise announcement: she’s getting married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette celebration that lasts for a full week. A riotous roller-coaster ride of girl bonding; friendships, break ups, make ups, fuck ups, passion, devastation, hesitation, terrorization and self realization. Amidst the fun and frenzy, heartbreak and heartache, passion and obsession, youth and innocence, secrets tumble out, tensions emerge, bonds are formed and emotions run high. Soon events will take a more serious turn, but for the moment these women are determined to seize the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining, erotic, queer cinema
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Actresses (2007)
Plot Summary:
Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. Mais rien n'y fait. Rien n'empêche le temps de courir et de lui imposer ses quarante ans et toujours pas d'enfant.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, psychological, captivating, touching, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Plot Summary:
Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her relationship with their mother, who disapproves of Reena's sexual orientation. Reena has second thoughts when her girlfriend Lisa feels left out.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: multicultural, independent film, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema
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Change of Plans (2009)
Plot Summary:
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, biting, suspense
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Plot Summary:
1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, teen, captivating, sexy, intellectual, social, stylized
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Summertime (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, sexy, sweet, eros, cute, aesthetic, erotic, queer cinema, pink cinema, beautiful