Subgenre Sampler
Lesbian: 160 Films to Buy & Rent
Cuckoo (2024)
- Dir. Tilman Singer
Feat. Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Marton Csokas…
- A truly strange and unpredictable horror movie that sustains an off–kilter and discombobulating atmosphere throughout its runtime.
American…
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
- Dir. Rose Glass
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone…
- An audacious Stateside thriller from director Rose Glass that makes good on the promise of her outstanding British debut, Saint Maud (2019).
There…
Blue Jean (2022)
- Dir. Georgia Oakley
Feat. Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Stacy Abalogun…
- The story of a closeted lesbian P.E. teacher in Thatcher’s Britain that feels like it could have (and should have) been made in the early 1980's,…
Tár (Tar) (2022)
- Dir. Todd Field
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant…
- A striking and rigorously intelligent drama from the director of IN THE BEDROOM that interrogates the process, pressures and politics in the…
Benedetta (2021)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Virginie Efira, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin…
- Typically provocative yet playful psychodrama from Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, starring Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini, a novice nun in the…
Ammonite (2020)
- Dir. Francis Lee
Feat. Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones…
- A speculative lesbian period drama from the director of the acclaimed gay male romance, GOD'S OWN COUNTRY. Kate Winslet plays British palaeontologist…
Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt) (Ellie and Abbie) (2020)
- Dir. Monica Zanetti
Feat. Sophie Hawkshaw, Zoe Terakes, Marta Dusseldorp…
- Australian lesbian rom–com from writer–director Monica Zanetti, based on her own stage play about a teenager who is visited by the ghost…
Happiest Season (2020)
- Feat. Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie…
- A lesbian rom–com gets the Hollywood treatment with this instant Christmas classic from writer–director Clea DuVall.
Kristen Stewart…
Gentleman Jack (TV Mini-Series) (2019)
- Feat. Suranne Jones, Sophie Rundle
- Gorgeous historical drama created by Sally Wainwright (HAPPY VALLEY, LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX) set in 1832 against the lush backdrop of Halifax, West…
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
- Dir. Céline Sciamma
Feat. Noémie Merlant, Adele Haenel
- Céline Sciamma (GIRLHOOD) directs this devastatingly good, exquisitely executed lesbian period drama. Set in France in the 18th century, where a…