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Plot Summary:
Annie has it all in life. A wonderful husband and a darling little girl. All is going well until she goes to a softball practice and meets Maggie. Maggie -- cute, athletic, and openly gay -- touches feeling deep down inside Annie that she has no idea existed. Maggie also is attracted to Annie but vows to her friends that she will not make a move on her because of her wonderful family. As the friendship gets closer and as they struggle to stay apart, all hell breaks loose. A night of dancing and drinking puts Annie in the arms of Maggie. The love affair begins and reaches a point where there may be no way back.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, independent film
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Out of the Blue (2007)
Plot Summary:
Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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A Map for Talk (2012)
Plot Summary:
An independent project, an intimate play evolving around three main characters: an adult woman, her mother and her female lover. Two days in their lives occur in two opposing setting, everyday life in the demanding metropolis of Santiago and a sailboat trip cruising a beautiful bay. The three character remain trapped in a claustrophobic confrontation. The film dialogs with 'Knife in the water' from the side of women, an intense character drama with many involuntary humorous scenes. The eternal, never completed quest of seeing and recognizing the other as they are or, at least, as they want to be seen.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky, queer cinema
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Venice the Series (2009)
Plot Summary:
Venice: The Series is a web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the "Otalia" storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light. The series has been broadcast since 2009, and is currently in its fourth season. Venice is described by Chappell as "a show about families, and life, and all the simplicity of it, and the turmoil of it. We're going to be following a character named Gina who is a designer, and she is a gay woman.".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, soap opera
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Ashamed (2010)
Plot Summary:
Arts professor Jung Ji Woo is searching for a nude model for a video clip that will be played at her exhibition. When Hee-jin, one of her students, recommends Yoon Ji Woo for the job, the three woman head to the beach to shoot the video. As they spend time together, Yoon Ji Woo begins to share pieces of her past relationship with Kang Ji Woo. The film weaves the pasts and presents of the three Ji Woos and focuses on their intersecting relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, atmospheric, surreal, contemplative, sincere, serious, realistic, non-linear
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Out of Season (1998)
Plot Summary:
Hip lesbian Micki Silva (Carol Monda) leaves her fast-paced urban lifestyle for Cape May, New Jersey, to help her ailing uncle Charlie (Dennis Fecteau). At the local diner, run by Shelley (Nancy Daly), Micki meets Charlie's friend Roberta (Joy Kelly). Roberta likes her house, working at the diner, and numerous aspects of the small-town way of life that bore Micki, but opposites attract. Drawn together by the dying Charlie, the two women develop a complex relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, semi serious
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Out at the Wedding (2007)
Plot Summary:
After telling her fiancé, Dana, that her entire family is dead, Manhattanite Alex whisks off to her childhood home in South Carolina to serve as bridesmaid at her high-maintenance, estranged sister Jeannie's wedding. As she tries not to steal Jeannie's thunder by telling her family that a) she's engaged, and b) the man she's going to marry is a Jewish African American, things get a little mixed up.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, queer cinema
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Together (2013)
Plot Summary:
Comprised by two love stories: The first story features Donnie Yen as a traffic cop, “Mr. Cool” who never smiles due to a rare disease. He meets and falls in love with Michelle Chen, a patient with amnesia, and spends most of her time looking for her missing fiancé. The second story features Zhendong Ke as a Criminal Intelligence Bureau cop who falls in love with Angela Baby after a 7-day "game of romantic" with her. But when his bureau starts monitoring her, he begins to have doubt on her. Is she a criminal?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating, serious
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Treading Water (2001)
Plot Summary:
Casey (Angela Redman) has rejected her privileged upbringing and restores old boats for a living. She lives a cozy life with her beautiful social worker girlfriend Alex (super sexy Nina Landey) until her stuffy family demands that she come home for Christmas – without Alex.Casey is a longshorewoman who seems to have everything she wants; she and her girlfriend Alex are very much in love. But there’s nothing like the holidays to bring out the drama of the average family. Casey lives just across the bay from her upper crust New England family. The proximity seems no accident: Casey can’t quite let go, despite her family’s judgmental and inescapable hold on her otherwise independent and unconventional life. When the family reunites for Christmas, the unwrapping of presents takes a back seat to the unraveling of emotions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, biting, suspense, queer cinema
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Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy, sentimental, serious
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Between Two Women (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother unhappily married to Geoff and struggling with her feelings for another woman - her 10-year-old son's vivacious teacher, Kathy Thompson.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, touching, emotional, period piece, deep, independent film, realistic, gloomy, sexual
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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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The Bread, My Sweet (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dominic works round the clock: nights making biscotti for his family's bakery in a working-class Italian neighborhood in Pittsburgh, then days downtown where he's a specialist in firing people at a company that negotiates mergers. He's thrown for a loop with he learns that Bella, an elderly neighbor who's his family's closest friend, has but a few months to live. All her life, she's saved money in coffee cans for her daughter, Lucca's, wedding, but Lucca is off in foreign lands, initially as a Peace Corps volunteer, and doesn't need a man. Dominic vows to bring Lucca home and convince her to marry him to fulfill Bella's most fervent wish. What will Lucca say?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious, romantic drama, humorous
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The Ring Thing (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Sarah accidentally proposes to her girlfriend in Provincetown, the mixup turns their loving relationship into a minefield of marital exploration.
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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Ava's Impossible Things (2016)
Plot Summary:
When her mother makes a shocking request, sheltered Ava struggles with reality, escaping into a dream world where she summons up old friends and long forgotten desires.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, melancholic, unusual plot structure
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A New York Christmas Wedding (2020)
Plot Summary:
As her Christmas Eve wedding draws near, Jennifer is visited by an angel and shown what could have been if she hadn't denied her true feelings for her childhood best friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, touching, melancholic, contemplative, unusual plot structure, queer cinema
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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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Intentions (2003)
Plot Summary:
Renee leads a fulfilling life as a professor of theater, mother of two girls, and wife to a kind and successful husband. Her life of contentment is changed forever when she discovers an undeniable attraction between herself and a female graduate student. Now every element of her life is called into question -- a question only she can answer about what she wants and needs.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, independent film
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Hannah Free (2009)
Plot Summary:
A film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film, 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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Drifting Flowers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an unexpected bond and support each other in a time of crisis. Finally, we see Diego before she joined the band, when as a teenager she came to grips with her gender identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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An Unexpected Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
Kate Mayer seems to have it all: a nice suburban house, two loving children and a devoted husband. But Kate is anything but happy. She is disappointed not only with her marriage, but with her entire life. In her pursuit of happiness, this frustrated mother files for divorce and gets her first-ever job, working in a small real estate agency. To complicate matters, Kate finds herself strongly attracted to her kindhearted boss, Mac. The surprising twist? Mac happens to be a woman. Will Kate have the courage to risk following her heart? It's one woman's emotional journey of self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, emotional
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Finn's Girl (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's". The movie covers, teenage angst, death threats, abortion issues and love. All in all, interesting drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, queer cinema
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Daddy Issues (2018)
Plot Summary:
Maya, a 19 year old queer pixie, gets romantically involved with her sexually fluid insta-crush and unknowingly inserts herself into a twisted love triangle.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic, queer cinema
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The Gymnast (2006)
Plot Summary:
The stunning Dreya Weber stars as a former top gymnast who discovers love and a new life path when she teams up with a dancer (played by former L.A. Lakers cheerleader Addie Yungmee) for an ambitious Las Vegas aerial act show.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexual, entertaining, independent film, erotic, sexy, queer cinema
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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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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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Old Fashioned (2014)
Plot Summary:
A romantic-drama, OLD FASHIONED centers on Clay Walsh, a former frat boy who gives up his carousing and now runs an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. There, he has become notorious for his lofty and outdated theories on love and romance. When Amber Hewson, a free-spirited young woman with a restless soul, drifts into the area and rents the apartment above his shop, she finds herself surprisingly drawn to his noble ideas, which are new and intriguing to her. And Clay, though he tries to fight and deny it, simply cannot resist being attracted to her spontaneous and passionate embrace of life. Ultimately, Clay must step out from behind his relational theories, and Amber must overcome her own fears and deep wounds, as the two of them, together, attempt the impossible: an “old-fashioned” courtship in contemporary America.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, uplifting, semi serious, christian film, independent film, disgusting, emotional
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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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A Perfect Ending (2012)
Plot Summary:
This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, sexy, serious, realistic, sincere, erotic, deep, independent film, sexual, crying
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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