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Plot Summary:
A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium. Set in the 1870s.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Romania, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, historical drama, gothic, gothic horror, period piece, costume drama
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Mrs Dalloway (1997)
Plot Summary:
As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for another of her legendary parties, she finds herself haunted by figures and scenes from her passionate adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: talky, historical drama, psychological, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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Twice a Woman (1979)
Plot Summary:
Laura falls in love with Sylvia and they start an affair, until Sylvia runs off with Laura's ex-husband, Alfred.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Bostonians (1984)
Plot Summary:
Based on Henry James's novel of the same name. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive's in the feminist movement. The storyline concerns the struggle between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and affection, though the film also includes a wide panorama of political activists, newspaper people, and quirky eccentrics.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, realistic, talky, political, romantic drama, historical drama, clever, contemplative, independent film
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Plot Summary:
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, costume drama, scenic, stylized, atmospheric, clever, postmodern, erotic, retro
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Anna Karenina (1997)
Plot Summary:
Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: costume drama, romantic, psychological, atmospheric, emotional, romantic drama, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic
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Love Is Not Perfect (2012)
Plot Summary:
Elena is a beautiful, 35-year-old accomplished woman who has an unhealthy obsession with perfection. Elena's well-ordered life is thrown into chaos, however, when she meets Adriana, an 18-year-old seductive young woman who offers passion and excitement, and Hector, an older man who offers Elena stability and security. Elena quickly realizes though that Adriana is too immature and too young for her, so she tries to end their romance, but for Adriana the rejection is just another game to play.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, light, touching, lgbt cinema, contemplative, erotic, unusual plot structure
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Shelter Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, sexual, sexy, hot
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The Firefly (2013)
Plot Summary:
After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, erotic, queer cinema
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Spider Lilies (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Jade, a web-cam girl, visits Takeko's tattoo studio she becomes entranced with the image of the spider lily and with Takeko as well. In order to get closer to the object of her desire, Jade asks Takeko to give her the same lily tattoo, challenging Takeko's monastic existence and opening up memories which threaten to tear the two women apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, captivating, realistic, erotic, serious, sexual, crying, queer cinema
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The Secrets (2007)
Plot Summary:
In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safe.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, atmospheric, emotional, realistic, deep, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, erotic
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Fingersmith (2005)
Plot Summary:
The lives of two young women collide in Victorian England when a trio of 'fingersmiths' (pick-pockets) concoct an elaborate scam to defraud a young heiress of her inheritance. The story alternates between the twisting back alleyways of Dickensian London and the cloistered gloom of a Gothic mansion in 1862. The story is an adaptation of Sarah Waters' Man Booker Prize nominated novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, costume drama, captivating, disturbing, erotic, psychological thriller, romantic, gothic, period piece
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Tipping the Velvet (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1890s, Tipping the Velvet tells the lesbian love affair between male impersonator music hall star Kitty Butler and Nan Astley.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: costume drama, touching, sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, erotic, historical drama, romantic, emotional
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Running on Empty Dreams (2009)
Plot Summary:
Young and athletic Sydney Harris finds out that she has six months to live unless she and her husband can come up with the money for her medical treatment. Sounds simple enough; get the money, save her life. But her underpaid, working class husband can't afford the treatment. And time is ticking away. As Sydney begins to seek out a means to save her life, she begins to question her existence and does some soul searching, only to find herself falling in love with a single mom in the neighborhood that Sydney and her family have just moved into. Sydney is then forced to choose between her religious upbringing, her husband and son, and a love that she hides, all while fighting a losing battle to save her own life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, independent film
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The Summer of Sangaile (2015)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at the summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents' lakeside villa. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds in her teenage love, the only person that truly encourages her to fly.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, France, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, captivating, erotic, eros, sensual, touching, serious
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Claire of the Moon (1992)
Plot Summary:
Claire of the Moon is set in the 1990s in the Pacific Northwest. Claire Jabrowski, a famous heterosexual author, decides to attend a retreat for all-female writers. Claire's rommate at the retreat is Dr. Noel Benedict, author of a book called The Naked Truth. The movie culminates in a sexual encounter between the two authors.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexual, independent film, erotic, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, sexy, queer cinema
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Purple Sea (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in a 19th century Italian village.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, disturbing, historical drama, romantic, sad, period piece, deep, realistic
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The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent to which her money colors her relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, period piece, costume drama, talky, atmospheric, serious, romantic, stylized, historical drama
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My Days of Mercy (2017)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, serious, sad, psychological, deep, romantic drama, queer cinema
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
Plot Summary:
In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully unaware that she is a lesbian,recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe makes a marriage of convenience to rich old Charles Lawton,she feels betrayed and,although Mariana visits and has sex with her,the relationship is going nowhere. Helped by old flame Tib she makes a play for innocent Miss Browne but sees she is barking up the wrong tree and diverts herself by renovating the family hall. A drunken Tib almost exposes her secret and scornful mine-owner Christopher Rawson,whose marriage proposal she rejects,tells her that her sexuality is a subject of local gossip. Undeterred Anne meets Ann Walker who becomes her new 'wife' and they open a coal-mine ,living happily together. An end title tells us that Anne Lister died prematurely in 1840 on holiday in Russia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, emotional, stylized, lgbt cinema, period piece, costume drama, deep, historical drama, serious, realistic
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My Summer of Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychological, romantic, sexual, melancholic, sincere, teen, realistic, emotional
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Summer Lover (2008)
Plot Summary:
On honeymoon on the island of Lesbos, a woman falls for the daughter of a Russian archaeologist.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, realistic, melancholic, suspenseful, sexy, sexual, serious
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Elena Undone (2010)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, touching, sexual, sexy, erotic, romantic drama, steamy, independent film, serious
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The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (2006)
Plot Summary:
At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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I Can't Think Straight (2008)
Plot Summary:
I Can't Think Straight is a 2007 romance movie about a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian descent, Tala, who is preparing for an elaborate wedding. A turn of events causes her to have an affair and subsequently fall in love with another woman, Leyla, a British Indian. The movie is distributed by Enlightenment Productions. It was released in different theatres between 2008 and 2009. The DVD was released on 4 May 2009. The movie is directed by Shamim Sarif and stars Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth. The two actresses star in another movie with lesbian characters, namely The World Unseen, released in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative, romantic, erotic, sexy, eros, humorous
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The World Unseen (2007)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, erotic, romantic, deep, historical drama, independent film, bleak, queer cinema
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Eloïse's Lover (2009)
Plot Summary:
A sensuous and ethereal story of two young women falling in love for the first time. Young, beautiful Àsia lies in a coma, her mother and boyfriend keeping constant vigil by her side. In flashback we see what led up to her accident, her life studying architecture at university, the somewhat overbearing relationship she has with her mother and her passionless relationship with Nathaniel.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, romantic, sexy, erotic, crying, sexual, queer cinema
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Desert Hearts (1985)
Plot Summary:
The story of straight-edge literature professor Vivian who travels to Reno to get away from a relationship breakup when she falls in love with an attractive and unconventional girl named Cay.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, sentimental, realistic, sincere, captivating, erotic, independent film, lgbt cinema, romantic drama
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When Night Is Falling (1995)
Plot Summary:
A prudish woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman whom works at a local carnival which comes to town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, romantic, art house, sexual, heartbreaking, eros, romantic drama, steamy, sincere
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Below Her Mouth (2016)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, romantic, psychological, captivating, eros, erotic drama, queer cinema, hot
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Carol (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, emotional, heartbreaking, atmospheric, realistic, erotic, costume drama, romantic, intense