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Plot Summary:
A terminally ill lesbian bonds with a woman who lost her son to cancer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, queer cinema
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Two of Us (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades. From everybody’s point of view, including Madeleine’s family, they are simply two neighbors living on the top floor of their building. They come and go between their two apartments, sharing the tender delights of everyday life together. Until the day their relationship is turned upside down by an unexpected event leading Madeleine’s daughter to slowly unveil the truth about them.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema, cult film
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Ma Belle, My Beauty (2021)
Plot Summary:
A surprise reunion in southern France reignites passions and jealousies between two women who were formerly polyamorous lovers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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Rafiki (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Kenya, South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France, Norway, Lebanon, UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, touching, social, disturbing, emotional, sensitive, queer cinema
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Bobbie´s Girl (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two middle-aged Lesbians (Peters and Ward) find their lives complicated when one of them (Ward) takes in her ten-year-old nephew (Sangster).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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Under the Christmas Tree (2021)
Plot Summary:
Marketing whiz Alma Beltran and Christmas tree whisperer Charlie Freemont cross paths when Charlie finds the perfect tree for the Maine Governor's Holiday Celebration — right in Alma's back yard. While they initially spar, romantic sparks soon begin to fly between the two women as the enchanting tree and some Christmas fairy dust from the town's pâtissière extraordinaire bring out the best in them and spark each other to take leaps of faith and fight for love and Christmas magic.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, thrilling, queer cinema
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The 'Other' Love Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two Indian teenage girls fall in love in the 1990's in Bangalore when there were no cell phones or internet - a pure, intense, passionate love story against all odds.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Bare (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's friendship with a drug-dealing drifter evolves into a lesbian romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic, sexy, independent film, weird, queer cinema
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Bonnie and Bonnie (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shattering the patriarchal concept that a true crime duo requires a man, Bonnie and Bonnie showcases the development of true friendship between two strong and independent women, determined to make their mark on the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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An Intimate Friendship (2000)
Plot Summary:
A family of friends is forever changed when two of the friends realize that their love for one another goes beyond the confines of their conventional relationship.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, independent film
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Love & Suicide (2006)
Plot Summary:
When pretty but troubled Kaye moves to New Orleans from Atlanta with her mother and little brother, she forges a special friendship with Emily, a rebellious high school senior with troubles of her own. They become instant best friends, and begin spending all their free time together. Emily even helps Kaye run away from home. The girls' mothers do not approve of their relationship, and Emily's mother accuses her of associating to closely with a corrupted and confused young girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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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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Happy End?! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lucca is in the middle of her A-level exams, heading for a career as a high-flying lawyer when she is mistakenly accused of criminal damage and sentenced to community service in a hospice. There she meets Valerie who is determined to carry out the last wishes of her friend Herma, despite Hermas son who is only interested in his inheritance. Lucca helps Valerie to kidnap Hermas ashes and they begin a journey which turns Luccas ideas and values upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, romantic, sexy, touching, melancholic, unusual plot structure, queer cinema
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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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City of Trees (2019)
Plot Summary:
A 20-something woman goes back to her hometown for the holidays for the first time in several years and is not only met with people from her past, but she's forced to deal with unresolved feelings too.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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You Can Live Forever (2022)
Plot Summary:
When Jaime, a gay teenager, is sent to live in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses in small-town Quebec, she falls madly in love with a devout Witness girl. The two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, crying
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Love, Classified (2022)
Plot Summary:
Romance novelist Emilia is a whirlwind who blows back into the lives of her adult children, Taylor and Zach, under the pretense of a book signing arranged by her hometown's local book shop. As Emilia tries to reconnect, Taylor and Zach explore new and past relationships through an app that boasts old-fashioned human connection by way of the classified ad. Zach is given a chance to heal old wounds while Taylor matches with a woman that changes the way she's always thought about love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, queer cinema
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Girl/Girl Scene (2019)
Plot Summary:
The lives and loves of a close-knit group of young gay ladies as they make their way in a not-so-modern world.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, captivating, twist ending, disturbing, teen sex comedy, lgbt cinema, parody
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Anatomy of a Love Seen (2014)
Plot Summary:
From Writer/Director Marina Rice Bader (Executive Producer Elena Undone, A Perfect Ending) comes this film within a film that explores love in all its painful and messy glory. Six months ago Zoe and Mal fell for each other while filming a love scene, which led to an intense, whirlwind affair, followed by a devastating breakup. Soon after their split, things get complicated when the two have to meet on set once more to re-shoot that fateful sequence.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, captivating, erotic, sexy, independent film, deep, humorous, realistic, sincere
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Feel Good (2020)
Plot Summary:
Recovering addict and comedian Mae tries to control the addictive behaviors and intense romanticism that permeate every facet of her life. Life is further complicated by a new and all-consuming relationship with her new girlfriend George.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: romantic, witty, thought provoking, touching, captivating, semi serious, erotic, emotional, sensual, comedy drama
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Loving Annabelle (2006)
Plot Summary:
Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: erotic, touching, emotional, semi serious, sexy, heartbreaking, lgbt cinema, romantic, romantic drama, steamy
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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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Our Love Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
A fine arts student meets an attractive bartender, and the two women begin an intimate relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, heartbreaking, melancholic, queer cinema
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Plot Summary:
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the 18th century, an artist is commissioned to paint a young woman's wedding portrait.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: touching, costume drama, scenic, disturbing, sexy, period piece, visual, erotic, cute, romantic
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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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Tell It to the Bees (2018)
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
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, sad, thought provoking, touching, romantic drama, captivating, period piece, romantic, queer cinema, beautiful
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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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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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Kiss Me (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mia (Ruth Vega Fernandez) and Frida (Liv Mjönes), both in their thirties, meet each other for the first time at their parents' engagement party. Mia's father, Lasse (Krister Henriksson), is about to get married to Frida's mother, Elizabeth (Lena Endre), which will make Mia and Frida stepsisters. Lasse's daughter, Mia, has not visited her father in years and arrives with her boyfriend, Tim (Joakim Nätterqvist), with whom she is about to get married. As Mia and Frida get to know one another, strong emotions begin to stir between them. Their relationship will turn everything upside down for everyone close to them with dramatic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, heartbreaking, lgbt cinema, eros, romantic drama, steamy, touching
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High Art (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, emotional, sincere, independent film, sensual, depressing, sexual, lgbt cinema, eros