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Plot Summary:
Spain, the era of dictator Franco. Two female teachers are in love, but in those years and in that regime the love is not only forbidden but also a crime. To avoid their child been in prison, the parents of the one teacher, force her to be confined in a clinic for mental diseases, where she is heavily abused, the main treatment been electroshocks. After Franco's fall, and the change of things, she is free to return to her home, under the surveillance of her mother. Her father, more compassionate, helps her escape and find her lover. But the years of been under electroshocks have damaged her health, and make it impossible to live a normal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful, detective
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Change of Life (2006)
Plot Summary:
A gay-bashing evangelical minister gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change his hateful ways following a life-altering tragedy. Gary Catell is the intolerant host of a nationally syndicated radio program. He uses the airwaves to spread the message that all homosexuals are destined to burn in hell. But when Gary's lesbian daughter calls in and commits suicide on the air, he prays that God will give him a second chance to save her. And God grants Gary's wish, but with an unexpected twist. The following day, Gary awakens to discover that not only has he been transformed into a gay man, but time has also been turned back two weeks. His daughter is still alive, but saving her won't be easy. Only by redeeming himself and learning to love all of God's creatures will the man who once condemned homosexuals be able to save his own daughter from committing the ultimate sin, and suffering for all of eternity. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, independent film
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Caresses (1998)
Plot Summary:
The eroticism exudes in the eleven interconnected stories that recount difficult relationships and violent sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, experimental, surreal, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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White Lie (2019)
Plot Summary:
Katie Arneson is faking cancer. A university dance major, Katie's falsified diagnosis and counterfeit fundraising have transformed her into a campus celebrity surrounded by the supportive community she's always dreamed of: a close-knit group of friends, security in her academic pursuits, and a caring relationship with her girlfriend. Dependent upon a bursary for sick students to maintain her ruse, Katie learns the funding is in jeopardy unless she can provide copies of her medical records within the week.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, captivating, emotional, crying, independent film
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Chinese Chocolate (1995)
Plot Summary:
Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. They quickly learn that the paths of heart are rocky as the men in their lives reveal dark, unsettling secrets which change the lives of everyone forever. Intimately and honestly exploring for the first time the sexuality of Chinese women living in a foreign culture, this award-winning study of love and relationship makes for a unforgettable treat.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sunday's Illness (2018)
Plot Summary:
Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left over thirty years ago. Chiara was just eight years old at the time. She now approaches her mother with an unusual request: to spend ten days together with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, touching, captivating, suspenseful, beautiful
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Beyond Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
An Italian lesbian couple wants a child. A gay couple tries to help them. Four friends, hundreds of problems. One solution.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, independent film, entertaining, queer cinema
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Love My Life (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ichiko and Eri are two beautiful Japanese university students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian. Her best friend is gay too, though he has a female who is after him. Their liaison is very intense, but Eri suggests a temporary separation so she can concentrate on her law studies. The break from their affair is difficult for Ichiko to deal with. But Eri soon sorts out her priorities.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, psychological, sexy, captivating, queer cinema
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The Mountain (2011)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Nora and Solveig, a grief-stricken couple on a hike through the mountain range where they had a traumatic experience two years prior. Nora and Solveig are hiking through a snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of several days that will take the two young women to the top of a mountain. Solveig, three months pregnant, seems incapable of doing anything the way Nora wants her to. The further the women advance on their trip, the closer they come to the place where a tragic incident happened two years earlier; one that changed their lives completely.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, queer cinema
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What Makes a Family (2001)
Plot Summary:
Brooke Shields believes she has finally found happiness, now that she and her lesbian partner (Cherry Jones) have a child. But when Jones passes away five years later and her scheming parents apply for custody behind Shields' back, an affecting struggle ensues. Written by.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, uplifting, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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So Hard to Forget (2010)
Plot Summary:
Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke up, Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful process. Her life and her values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her life's measure seems reduced to out-of-focus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil and conflicts hamper a process now made necessary - that of readapting to her new life. It is impossible for her to disguise her pain when she attempts to narrate emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, deep, sincere, realistic, gloomy, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Die Konkurrentin (1997)
Plot Summary:
Katharina, a successful management consultant, has to face Maren as a new assistant. The young woman is very ambitious but has been employed by junior Boss Grosser to spoil Katharina's career. Despite all circumstances they work perfectly well as a team - and fall in love. Katharina, wife and mother to teenage twins, is shaken up by the new situation. Is she willing to live her life with Maren, an open lesbian?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Unveiled (2005)
Plot Summary:
Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. So what happens after a few month in which she has tried to come to terms with a situation which is actually an insufferable one for her? How does Fariba live not only in this external state of exile but also in an inner state of exile? The term "in orbit" is officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic, sensual, queer cinema
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Same-Sex Parents (2001)
Plot Summary:
A jealous classmate exposes the fact that Olympe has 2 gay parents. Feeling ostracized and humiliated, Olympe lashes out at her closeted mother. Life unravels so that the truth can set them free.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, tense, sexual, sexy
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Melting Away (2011)
Plot Summary:
Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His father, with the silent consent of his mother, locked the door. At present, 4 years later, Gallia turns to an investigation agency to help her find her son Assaf and bring him to Shlomo, his father who is dying of cancer. One night, at a night club in Tel Aviv, Assaf is seen performing as a beautiful transgender lady singer who goes by the name of Anna. After a few days a private nurse turns up at Shlomo's room at the hospital, sent as she claims by the insurance agency to assist Shlomo. The nurse is Anna (his son Assaf) and she manages to conquer Shlomo's heart by her charming personality and her special attitude toward life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, realistic, captivating, psychological, sincere, serious
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Starting From Now (2014)
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 5 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, anime, queer cinema
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Stuff (2015)
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Trish and Deb Murdoch are in a rut. After 14 years together and raising two daughters, they find themselves in a mid life crisis where grief and attraction threaten their domestic nucleus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film, queer cinema
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To the Stars (2019)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, melancholic, independent film, teen, tragic ending
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sexy, touching, melancholic, queer cinema, documentary filmmaking
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Woman's Lake (2012)
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What could be lovelier than Women's Lake - a magical summer setting near Berlin? Rosa, perhaps. She's the slightly melancholy guardian of the lake, spending her days in a boat, trapping fish and watching for poachers. Or her lover, the polished and prosperous Kirsten, with her perfect cottage on the shore of Frauensee. How does their relationship work, and what effect will the two young lesbians in the canoe have on it all? Thoughtful, complex and beautiful.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, queer cinema
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Circumstance (2011)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, USA, Iran
Duration: 107 min
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The Glass Room (2019)
Plot Summary:
Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky, erotic, period piece, deep, queer cinema
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Raven's Touch (2015)
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, deep, independent film, queer cinema
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Losing Chase (1996)
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An intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, emotional, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, sentimental, sexy, feel good
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Purple Sea (2009)
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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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Plot Summary:
In 1901, Marcela Gracia Ibeas took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Elisa Sanchez Loriga.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min
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Plot Summary:
A former child actress attends college in search of independence and ends up becoming romantically involved with a female professor. Their relationship thrives until an opportunity to return to acting forces her to make life-altering decisions.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, touching, erotic, serious, realistic, romantic drama, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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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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Plot Summary:
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden
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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
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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