wlw movies
based on my letterboxd recommendations
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Watched
Skins
Jamie Brittain, Bryan Elsley · 2007
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky · 2010
Nina, una brillante bailarina que forma parte de una compañía de ballet de Nueva York, vive completamente absorbida por la danza. La presión de su controladora madre, la rivalidad con su compañera Lily y las exigencias del severo director se irán incrementando a medida que se acerca el día del estreno. Esta tensión provoca en Nina un agotamiento nervioso y una confusión mental que la incapacitan para distinguir entre realidad y ficción.
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.
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.
Gia
Michael Cristofer · 1998
Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.
To Watch
Benedetta
Paul Verhoeven · 2021
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
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.
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.
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.
Show Me Love
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.
Elena Undone
Nicole Conn · 2010
The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
Cracks
Jordan Scott · 2009
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Carol
Todd Haynes · 2015
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
The Disobedience
2002
The Disobedience is a series starring Mahmoud Yassin and revolves around a rich and famous figure in the Gharbia, Hamed Al-Gharbawi. He wants to marry Salwa, who appeared recently and says that she is his grandson Al-Gharbawi and has not died, but his mother wants a marriage to Nahed, his cousin.
Heavenly Creatures
Peter Jackson · 1994
Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.
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.
