Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Lesbian: 94 Films to Rent on DVD
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989)
- Dir. Beeban Kidron
Feat. Geraldine McEwan, Kenneth Cranham, Charlotte Coleman
- Landmark adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's novel about a young girl raised in the cult–like surrounds of a strict evangelist household in the…
- Virgin Machine (1988)
- Dir. Monika Treut
Feat. Ina Blum, Marcelo Uriona, Gad Klein
- A frustrated German journalist takes her work to San Fransisco in this lesbian odyssey that proudly parades its fringe philosophy and contemporary…
- I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
- Dir. Patricia Rozema
Feat. Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon
- A naive and self–conscious woman lands a job in an art gallery and grows to idolise the chic and sophisticated female curator. Quirky parable…
- Desert Hearts (1985)
- Dir. Donna Deitch
Feat. Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau
- '50s Nevada provides the backdrop for a freindship between two women that develops in a love affair. Provocative yet dignified drama is well served…
- 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…