Subgenre Sampler
      Lesbian: 161 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
 Vampyros Lesbos (1970) Vampyros Lesbos (1970)
- Dir. Jess Franco
- Notorious sexploitation–er from German bad boy dir. Jess Franco, peddles the softcore tale of a real estate agent trapped on an island ruled by…
 Killing of Sister George (1968) Killing of Sister George (1968)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
 Feat. Beryl Reid
- While lesbian soap–opera actress Beryl Reid attempts to stop her character being 'killed–off', a tangled game of sexual politics is…
 Les Biches (Bad Girls) (1968) Les Biches (Bad Girls) (1968)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
 Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stephane Audran
- A love–triangle between an heiress, an architect and a young woman, is tested to unsettling effect in this psychological drama. Chabrol…
 Theorem (Teorema) (1968) Theorem (Teorema) (1968)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
 Feat. Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti…
- A mysterious stranger seduces and corrupts each member of a bourgeois family. Pasolini stitches religious, social and political metaphors into his…
 Therese and Isabelle (1968) Therese and Isabelle (1968) 
- Dir. Radley Metzger
 Feat. Essy Persson, Anna Gael, Barbara Laage…
- Erotic elegy from cult director Metzger with two young girls experience awakening sexuality at a Swiss boarding school. 
It might be lacking the…
 Chained Girls / Daughters of Lesbos (1965-1968) Chained Girls / Daughters of Lesbos (1965-1968)
- Dir. Joseph P. Mawra, Peter Woodcock
- A scarcely–digestible two course meal of B–grade lesbian sexploitation.
Chained Girls (1965) – Dir. Joseph P. Mawra. A…
 Silence, The (1963) Silence, The (1963)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
 Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom
- Final part of Bergman's Faith Trilogy (begun with THROUGH THE GLASS DARKLY and WINTER LIGHT) is set in an anonymous war–torn country where…
 Children's Hour, The (1961) Children's Hour, The (1961) 
- Dir. William Wyler
 Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Shirley Maclaine, James Garner…
- Good performances from the two leads as lesbian school–teachers who are involved in smalltown scandal when a trouble–making student…
 Olivia (1951) Olivia (1951)
- Dir. Jacqueline Audry
 Feat. Simone Simon, Edwige Feuillere
- One of the first French films to portray lesbian relationships, Olivia is set in a girls' school in the late 1900s, where a newly arrived British…
 Madchen in Uniform (1931) Madchen in Uniform (1931) 
- Dir. Leontine Sagan
 Feat. Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck
- Influential early German sound–film notorious (and censored) for the sensual lesbian overtones that colour its tale of Hertha Thiele's…