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Mejor que el chocolate
Anne Wheeler · 1999
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.
The Beguines
Guy Casaril · 1972
Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistress. Curious, she decides to go and meet this woman who is described as strange. At the first chance she has she goes to her house in the Ramparts of Béguines... from then on she goes back often, discovering a new world of artists and nightowls where she also experiences love in the arms of Tamara.
Honey Don't!
Ethan Coen · 2025
Uma comédia de humor ácido sobre Honey O'Donahue, uma investigadora particular de uma pequena cidade, que investiga uma série de mortes estranhas ligadas a uma igreja misteriosa.
The Kiss List
Sonia Sebastián · 2023
El secreto de las abejas
Annabel Jankel · 2019
Escocia, en los años 50. La Dra. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) regresa a la pequeña ciudad que abandonó cuando era adolescente para hacerse cargo de la consulta médica de su difunto padre. Cuando el pequeño Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) tiene una pelea en el patio del colegio y va a su consulta, ella le invita a visitar las colmenas de su jardín y le anima a contarle sus secretos a las abejas, como hacía ella de niña. La nueva amistad entre el niño y la doctora lleva a su madre Lydia (Holliday Grainger) al mundo de Jean. Inesperadamente las dos mujeres se sienten atraídas de una manera que nunca hubieran imaginado. Pero este secreto entre ambas no puede permanecer oculto para siempre.
La calumnia
William Wyler · 1961
Karen y Martha son dos buenas amigas y socias que dirigen una exclusiva escuela privada para niñas, la Escuela Dobie-Wright. Karen está prometida con el doctor Joe Cardin, con el que pretende casarse pronto, aunque Martha le insiste en retrasar la boda, para no acabar sola al frente de la escuela. Una alumna maliciosa y vengativa, despechada por un castigo que ha recibido, oye por casualidad un comentario y lo utiliza, distorsionándolo ante su abuela, para acusar a las profesoras de ser amantes.
La doncella
Park Chan-wook · 2016
Corea, década de 1930, durante la colonización japonesa. Una joven llamada Sookee es contratada como doncella de una rica mujer japonesa, Hideko, que vive recluida en una gran mansión bajo la influencia de un tirano. Sookee guarda un secreto y con la ayuda de un estafador que se hace pasar por un conde japonés, planea algo para Hideko.
El favor
Pablo Sofovich · 2004
Mora y Roberta son dos chicas que viven en pareja y quieren tener un hijo. Conciben un plan que no admite escrúpulos ni vacilaciones: Roberta debe acostarse con Felipe, el hermano de Mora. Y Felipe ni siquiera sabe que su hermana vive con una señora. Él trabaja en un campo del sur, como un ermitaño. Viene a cerrar un negocio a la localidad y se queda una sola noche. Mora y Roberta tienen que aprovechar esta ocasión. La tentación resulta perturbadora. Además, de un momento a otro va a llegar Faustina, la novia de Felipe. En el último año sólo se vieron una vez, hace dos meses. Ella además tiene que darle a Felipe una noticia: está embarazada. Felipe quiere salir huyendo. Entonces las chicas se confabulan contra él. Y ahora la lucha es desigual: nada puede detener a ese huracán implacable que son tres mujeres decididas.
Disobedience
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.
TÁR
Todd Field · 2022
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
Chloe
Atom Egoyan · 2010
A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
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Fantasies
Stéphane Foenkinos · 2021
Faced with their fantasies, six couples try to explore the hidden sides of their intimate life. Six questions on access to pleasure. From role play to abstinence, via exhibition, six separate stories with the same questioning of desire today in the center.
The Fallout
Megan Park · 2021
In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.
A League of Their Own
Abbi Jacobson · 2022
In 1943, Carson Shaw travels to Chicago to try out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. There, she meets other women who also dream of playing pro baseball and makes connections that open up her world. Rockford local Max Chapman also comes to the tryouts but is turned away. With the support of her best friend Clance, she must forge a new path to pursue her dream.
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.
Happiest Season
Clea DuVall · 2020
A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.
Stuff
Suzanne Guacci · 2015
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.
Cracks
Jordan Scott · 2009
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Everybody's Fine
Kirk Jones · 2009
Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.
A Perfect Ending
Nicole Conn · 2012
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.
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.
Secret Agents
Frédéric Schoendoerffer · 2004
From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Sarah Lambert · 2023
After losing her parents in a mysterious fire, nine-year-old Alice Hart is raised by her grandmother June on a flower farm where she learns there are secrets within secrets. But years on, an unearthed betrayal sees Alice forced to face her past.
Jennifer's Body
Karyn Kusama · 2009
Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she''s possessed by a sinister demon. Now it''s up to her best friend to stop Jennifer''s reign of terror before it''s too late.
Happy Ending
Joosje Duk · 2023
A young woman quietly unsatisfied in the bedroom by her boyfriend puts their relationship to the test when she proposes to open up their sex life to a third person.
Orange Is the New Black
Jenji Kohan · 2013
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
Daughter from Another Mother
Fernando Sariñana · 2021
After realizing their babies were exchanged at birth, two women develop a plan to adjust to their new lives: creating a single —and peculiar— family.
8 Women
François Ozon · 2002
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
Killing Eve
Phoebe Waller-Bridge · 2018
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
Mädchen in Uniform
Leontine Sagan · 1931
A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
Spin Me Round
Jeff Baena · 2022
When the manager of an Italian restaurant chain wins the opportunity to attend the franchise’s educational immersion program in Italy, what she thought would be a romantic getaway devolves into chaos and catastrophe.
Bound
Lana Wachowski · 1996
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
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.
One Day at a Time
Whitney Blake · 2017
In a reimagining of the TV classic, a newly single Latina mother raises her teen daughter and tween son with the "help" of her old-school mom.
Mrs. Fletcher
Tom Perrotta · 2019
A dual coming-of-age comedy exploring the impact of internet porn and social media, Mrs. Fletcher follows empty nest divorcée Eve Fletcher — as she reinvents her life to find the happiness and sexual fulfillment that’s eluded her, and her college freshman son Brendan.
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.
The World to Come
Mona Fastvold · 2021
In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
Am I OK?
Tig Notaro · 2024
Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she's moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos.
No Good Deed
Liz Feldman · 2024
The sale of Paul and Lydia's picture-perfect LA home forces them to face painful family secrets — and hide them from prying eyes and cutthroat buyers.
Dickinson
Alena Smith · 2019
Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world’s greatest poet.
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.
T11 Incomplete
Suzanne Guacci · 2020
A visiting home health aide and recovering alcoholic, strives to rebuild her broken life, only to have it fall apart once again when she falls in love with her young, paraplegic patient then betrays her trust.
Locked Up
Álex Pina · 2015
Manipulada pelo homem por quem se apaixonou, essa moça cometeu um crime. Condenada à prisão, ela agora deve aprender a viver num ambiente hostil e impiedoso.
Ratched
Evan Romansky · 2020
An origins story, beginning in 1947, which follows Ratched's journey and evolution from nurse to full-fledged monster tracking her murderous progression through the mental health care system.
Lost and Delirious
Léa Pool · 2001
After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.
Bloomington
Fernanda Cardoso · 2010
Sie ist jung, klug, neugierig und voller Erwartungen: Jackie beginnt ihr erstes Jahr am College und möchte es all jenen zeigen, die sie nur als Ex-Kinderstar einer TV-Serie kennen. Als sie die Gerüchte über ihre umwerfend gut aussehende Professorin Catherine Stark hört, wird sie hellhörig: eine Ladykillerin? Eine lesbische Verführerin? Sie kann gar nicht erwarten, sie kennen zu lernen. Als es passiert, ist es bei beiden Liebe auf den ersten Blick - und die verbotene Affäre nimmt ihren Lauf.
Side Effects
Steven Soderbergh · 2013
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Vita & Virginia
Chanya Button · 2019
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.
En Busca De Summerland
Jessica Swale · 2020
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
D.E.B.S.
Angela Robinson · 2005
The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.
Jenny's Wedding
Mary Agnes Donoghue · 2015
Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they thought was their daughter’s roommate is actually her fiancée? As the old-fashioned Farrells attempt to come to terms with the prospect of a surprise daughter-in-law, they face a difficult choice: either adapt with the times or risk being left behind.
I Care a Lot
J Blakeson · 2021
A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
Eileen
William Oldroyd · 2023
During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
The Hunger
Tony Scott · 1983
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
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.
Carol
Todd Haynes · 2015
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
