Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Lesbian: 100 Films to Rent
- Show Me Love (Fucking Amal) (1998)
- Dir. Lukas Moodysson
Feat. Rebecka Liljeberg, Alexandra Dahlstrom
- Vivid depiction of teenage angst and restlessness that became a cause celebre (and box–office hit) in its native Sweden for frank, passionate…
- All Over Me (1997)
- Dir. Alex Sichel
Feat. Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Cole Hauser…
- A lesbian festival hit that has 'crossover' hit written all over it, as it persuasively pinpoints some of the universal, intense emotions of…
- Investigator, The (1997)
- Dir. Chris Oxley
Feat. Helen Baxendale, Christopher Fulford, Sean Gilder…
- Drama based on the true story of Caroline Meagher, a military police woman who is tasked with the rooting out of suspected lesbians from the army…
- Fire (1996)
- Dir. Deepa Mehta
Feat. Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das
- Blazing melodrama defiantly targets Indian sexual hypocrisy and tradition, not to mention trangressing 'Bollywood' taboo, in portraying two women…
- Jaded (1996)
- Dir. Caryn Krooth
Feat. Carla Gugino, Rya Kihlstedt, Christopher McDonald…
- Putting a hefty, controversial twist on the subject of rape, this psychodrama has smalltown loner Carla Gugino sexually abused, not by a man, but by…
- Late Bloomers (1996)
- Dir. Gretchen Dyer, Julia Dyer
Feat. Connie Nelson, Dee Hennigan
- A lonely, ageing geometry teacher has a blossoming affair with the principal’s married secretary, setting off a chorus of disapproval among the…
- Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love (1995)
- Dir. Maria Maggenti
Feat. Laurel Holloman, Nicole Parker
- A giddy celebration of first love, that just happens to be between a lesbian outcast and a affluent African–American beauty. Low–budget…
- When Night Is Falling (1995)
- Dir. Patricia Rozema
Feat. Pascale Bussieres, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny
- The director of I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING returns with one of the most beautiful and erotic films of recent times. Though embroided with a…
- Claire of the Moon (1994)
- Dir. Nicole Conn
Feat. Trisha Todd, Karen Trumbo, Faith McDevitt
- An awkward sexual initiation plays out between an odd couple of women at a writing retreat. Lo–fi production lends the intimate affair an…
- Love and Human Remains (1994)
- Dir. Denys Arcand
Feat. Thomas Gibson, Ruth Marshall, Cameron Bancroft…
- A fascinating hybrid of twentysomething romantic comedy, cynical social satire and mystery thriller, adapted from an accomplished stageplay by the…