Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Lianna (1983)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries - A mother–of–two breaks out of her cold marriage by way of an affair with a senior lecturer in this defining lesbian film of the 1980s,…
Personal Best (1982)
- Dir. Robert Towne
Feat. Mariel Hemingway, Glenn Close - Excellent directorial debut for scriptwriter Towne (of CHINATOWN fame), that uses slow–motion photography to dynamise its story of two lesbian…
Bilitis (1977)- Dir. David Hamilton
Feat. Patti D'Arbanville - Tissue–thin sex drama from famed 1970s photographer Hamilton (he of those misty images of nude or lace–clad women), going into dreamy…
Julia (1977)- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards Jr.… - Dramatising the 1930s memories of playwright Lillian Hellman (THE LITTLE FOXES), this Oscar–winning classic centres on the relationship between…
American Film Theatre - The Maids (1974)- Dir. Christopher Miles
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant… - Atmospheric, though slightly muted version of Jean Genet's notorious play, itself based on a notorious French murder case, where two maids immersed…
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The (1972)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla - Lurid, feverish masterpiece from the incredibly prolific Fassbinder, chronicles a doomed lesbian relationship from the claustrophobic confines of…
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…
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…
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)- 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…
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