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i can't think straight
Shamim Sarif · 2008
Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. But Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made for her and escapes back to Jordan, while Leyla tries to move on with her new-found life, to the shock of her tradition-loving parents. As Tala's wedding day approaches, simmering tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself.
the children's hour
William Wyler · 1961
Uma escola particular para meninas se escandaliza quando uma estudante problemática e rancorosa, Mary Tilford, acusa as duas jovens que dirigem a escola de ter um relacionamento lésbico.
billie & emma
Samantha Lee · 2019
rookie
Samantha Lee · 2023
An awkward 6-footer teen is forced to learn and play volleyball half-heartedly when the Catholic school she transferred to did not have a basketball team. Everything changes when she meets their star player.
tell it to the bees
Annabel Jankel · 2018
En 1950, en un pequeño pueblo británico, la doctora Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) inicia una relación íntima con Lydia (Holliday Grainger), madre soltera de uno de sus pacientes.
shiva baby
Emma Seligman · 2021
A universitária Danielle se depara com uma série de encontros constrangedores em uma shivá, um período de luto no judaísmo. Na presença de parentes autoritários, ela fica amedrontada pelo aparecimento de uma ex-namorada e de seu sugar daddy secreto, que chega inesperadamente com sua esposa e bebê.
but i'm a cheerleader
Jamie Babbit · 2000
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn''t like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she''s pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
unpregnant
Rachel Lee Goldenberg · 2020
A 17-year old Missouri teen discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
novitiate
Margaret Betts · 2017
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
the incredibly true adventure of two girls in love
Maria Maggenti · 1995
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
the world unseen
Shamim Sarif · 2007
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
blue my mind
Lisa Brühlmann · 2017
15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than she is.
mujer saliendo del mar
Pablo Rojas · 2018
Valparaíso, Chile, 1933. Years of psychiatric treatment and a seemingly happy marriage will not take away Elisa's memory of that youthful love. So, when some years later, Rebecca becomes a beautiful feminist, Elisa's fragile world will collapse in front of her eyes.
princess cyd
Stephen Cone · 2017
High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at the opportunity. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.
light light light
Inari Niemi · 2023
Mariia visits her childhood home and reminisces about the summer of 1986, when a girl named Mimi arrived in the small village and filled the life of the then 15-year-old Mariia with light.
fucking åmål
Lukas Moodysson · 1998
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
la belle saison
Catherine Corsini · 2015
In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.
my summer of love
Paweł Pawlikowski · 2005
In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.
loving annabelle
Katherine Brooks · 2007
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.
saving face
Alice Wu · 2004
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
imagine me & you
Ol Parker · 2006
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.
lovesong
So Yong Kim · 2017
Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy’s wedding.
with every heartbeat
Alexandra-Therese Keining · 2011
After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.
water lilies
Céline Sciamma · 2007
Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.
sem coração
Tião · 2024
Summer 1996, north-east coast of Brazil. Tamara is enjoying her last weeks at the fishing village she lives in before departing to Brasilia for her studies. One day, she hears about a teenager nicknamed Heartless after a scar she has on her chest. Over the course of the summer, Tamara feels a growing attraction for this mysterious girl.
booksmart
Olivia Wilde · 2019
Dos excelentes estudiantes y grandes amigas, en la víspera de su graduación de su instituto, de repente se dan cuenta de que podrían haberse esforzado algo menos en clase y haberse divertido más. Así que deciden hacer algo al respecto para compensar tanto estudio y tan poca diversión: recuperar los años perdidos en una noche loca.
crush
Sammi Cohen · 2022
Una joven artista muy prometedora se ve obligada a unirse al equipo de atletismo de su instituto y aprovecha la ocasión para acercarse a la chica que le lleva gustando mucho tiempo. Sin embargo, termina enamorándose de una compañera del equipo que no esperaba y descubre cómo es el amor de verdad.
lizzie
Craig William Macneill · 2018
Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.
ride or die
Ryuichi Hiroki · 2021
my days of mercy
Tali Shalom-Ezer · 2018
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
my fiona
Kelly Walker · 2021
Best friends for life, Jane and Fiona have done everything together since kindergarten – Jane following wherever Fiona will lead. Left devastated and adrift following Fiona’s sudden suicide, Jane’s only way to make sense of everything is by helping Fiona’s widow Gemma care for their young son Bailey. Polar-opposites, the two women have nothing in common save for their shared grief and love for Fiona.
the summer of sangaile
Alantė Kavaitė · 2015
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.
desobedience
Sebastián Lelio · 2018
A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.
ammonite
Francis Lee · 2020
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
below her mouth
April Mullen · 2017
An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
between summer and fall
Daniel Manns · 2018
17-year- old Lena falls in love with Eva, her older brother's new girlfriend. With a lot of witty dialogue "Between Summer and Fall" tells the story of how two people slowly grow close to each other even though they were not looking for love. The film paints a picture of two young women caught between their own insecurity and their desire for a connection and a place in the world.
the favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos · 2018
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.
the miseducation of cameron post
Desiree Akhavan · 2018
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.
girl picture
Alli Haapasalo · 2022
Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö support each other unconditionally. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma on the contrary has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the girls meet, life opens whole new paths, and they all rocket in new directions. While Mimmi and Emma experience the earth moving effects of first love, Rönkkö is on a quest to find pleasure. Three Fridays is all it takes to turn their worlds upside down.
girl, interrupted
James Mangold · 1999
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
bottoms
Emma Seligman · 2023
Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
elisa & marcela
Isabel Coixet · 2019
The film tells the true story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women in 1901 Spain who fell deeply in love. To overcome societal and legal barriers to their relationship, Elisa assumes a male identity, enabling the pair to marry in secret. Their daring act makes them the first recorded same-sex couple to marry in Spain, but their love is tested as they face relentless persecution and sacrifice.
müdchen in uniform
Géza von Radványi · 1958
In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
the half of it
Alice Wu · 2020
Ellie Chu acepta escribir una carta de amor para el cachas del insti, pero lo que no esperaba era hacerse su amiga ni enamorarse de la chica que le gusta.
you can live forever
Sarah Watts · 2023
Cuando la adolescente lesbiana Jaime es enviada a vivir a una comunidad de Testigos de Jehová, se enamora perdidamente de una chica testigo devota y las dos se embarcan en un intenso romance con consecuencias que reconfigurarán el resto de sus vidas.
portrait of a lady on fire
Céline Sciamma · 2019
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
my first summer
Katie Found · 2020
Isolated on a remote property, 16-year-old Claudia finds her world transformed when a spirited girl named Grace wanders into her garden.
anaïs in love
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet · 2021
A young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.
rafiki
Wanuri Kahiu · 2018
Kena e Ziki são grandes amigas e, embora suas famílias sejam rivais políticas, as duas continuaram juntas ao longo dos anos, apoiando uma a outra na batalha pela conquista de seus sonhos. A relação de amizade transforma-se em um romance que passa a afetar a rotina da comunidade conservadora em que vivem. As jovens terão que escolher entre experienciar o amor que partilham, ou se distanciar em função de uma vida segura.
vita & virginia
Chanya Button · 2019
A história não contada do fascinante envolvimento amoroso entre a lendária escritora Virginia Woolf e a socialite e autora popular Vita Sackville-West.
je tu il elle
Chantal Akerman · 1974
