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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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Maggie and Annie (2002)
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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Regarding Billy (2005)
Plot Summary:
After Billy's parents are killed he moves home to care for his little brother Johnny, who is mentally challenged. Together the two struggle through the loss of their parents. Meanwhile, Billy's best friend from childhood, Dean, has moved back to town having been injured from the war in Iraq. Over time, Billy's childhood feelings toward Dean resurface, feelings that he fears may end their friendship if discovered. Both men discover hidden secrets that will change their lives forever. These three people must come together to rebuild friendships and family in a time where everything in their world seems unsure. Written by Jeff London.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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And Then Came Lola (2009)
Plot Summary:
A talented, but distracted photographer, Lola, on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn't make it to a crucial meeting on time. But, as usual, Lola is late. With her job and girlfriend on the line, she has three chances to make it right. In a desperate race through the streets and back rooms of San Francisco, time grows short-will Lola make it? Will she come at all? With a pop sensibility that mixes live action, animation and still photography, And Then Came Lola explores love's age old question in a fresh new way, "If you try, try again, will you finally get it right?" (Written by M. Siler and E. Seidler).
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, eros, sensual, offbeat, realistic, independent film, sexual
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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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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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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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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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Inescapable (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jessie and Susan, and Chloe and Beth, who spend the weekend together and realize they are with the wrong partner. Susan and Beth were college roommates who are having a reunion at their former school. Susan travels up to Oregon with her current partner Jessie. Jessie is jealous of Susan's relationship with Beth. However, when Jessie meets Beth's partner Chloe, she is overwhelmed by her instant attraction to her. For Chloe, the feeling is mutual. It's a drama that doesn't take itself too seriously. When Jesse and Chloe are left alone together, their physical attraction overwhelms their better judgment and makes for some entertaining viewing.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, erotic, realistic, sexual, crying
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Go Fish (1994)
Plot Summary:
Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, black and white, sexual, clever, witty, lgbt cinema, mumblecore, touching, feel good, humorous
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The Four-Faced Liar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Four Faced Liar is a story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City... A story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City. A pair of best friends and a seemingly perfect couple meet at a local Irish pub tucked in the winding streets of the West Village. Through their chance meeting, the four bond and over time all of their relationships with one another morph into love, betrayal and heartbreak for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sensual, clever, offbeat, independent film
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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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Swimming (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, in 2000, Kal and Fran try to have a baby with the help of sperm donor.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, sexual, psychological, disturbing, erotic, lgbt cinema, multicultural, sensual, sentimental, sincere
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Bloomington (2010)
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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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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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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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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Better Than Chocolate (1999)
Plot Summary:
Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young brother. The timing is especially bad, considering Maggie has fallen hard for an attractive woman, Kim, only hours before they move in. What could be a nonissue becomes increasingly complicated -- since Maggie's family is unaware of her sexual orientation, and Maggie is not open to sharing that information.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sex comedy, romantic drama, offbeat
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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