Becoming Colette (Colette)
Rating: 2
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1992
The early adulthood of bisexual French writer Colette. The two times Colette gets into a Lesbian sex scene, her husband shows up to join in.
Director: Danny Huston
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Actresses: Mathilda May, Virginia Madsen
Length: 97 min.
Genre: Drama
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Belle de Jour
Rating: 2
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1967
A bored housewife fantasizes about being gang-raped, and becomes a prostitute to make her life more entertaining. Her madam makes a pass at her.
Director: Lius Bunuel
Language: French
Actresses: Genevieve Page, Catherine Deneuve, Macha Méril
Length: 100 min.
Genre: Classic
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Rating: 2
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1969
This bizarre hippie tale includes two women who fall in love and are murdered by a pre-operational transsexual. Their love wasn’t evil, but it brought evil upon them. Oh yeah, but the real plot is about a would-be girl group (who hook up with the evil transvestite producer who kills the lesbians).
Director: Russ Meyer
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Actresses: Pam Grier, Dolly Reid, Marcia McBroom
Length: 109 min.
Genre: Camp
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Beyond Vanilla
Rating: 2
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2002
Guaranteed to make almost anybody squirm with delight, disgust or disbelief, Beyond Vanilla takes you to exactly where it says on the tin. For the curious, the voyeur, or the enthusiast, this is a fascinating journey into the world of high performance sexual athletes, where the boundaries of gay, straight, bi or trans seem almost irrelevant. Lilja’s subjects are academics, doctors, lawyers, pornographers, porn stars, sex workers and fulfilled, freelance hedonists who offer an insider’s view of how to embrace extreme fantasies.
Director: Claes Lilja
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Length: 91 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Boys Don't Cry
Rating: 2
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1999
Lots of critics love this film. Hilary and Chloe were nominated for Oscars. Boys Don't Cry was a big disappointment. First, I should point out that I don't consider this a lesbian film: Brandon is portrayed as a woman who shouts "I'm not a lesbian!" and the entire story revolves around her unwillingness to accept her sexuality (she can't accept being female, never mind lesbian). The film stands as a cautionary tale against hating yourself, but that's it.

People in the audience were talking and yawning during the film. Do yourself a favour, watch the Brandon Teena story instead.

Chloe Seveigny said " I first met Kim (Pierce) when I went in to audition for Brandon and my agent set it up. It was pretty much by the book. I went in, met with her, talked about the story and I'd known about it since, like, '96 maybe and talked about Brandon and Lana and girls wanting to be boys and this and that. She said, "Have you ever wanted to be a boy? 'Cause the girl who plays this part had at least this desire." I said, "No," I couldn't lie to her and, "maybe I should come back," and then I never came back in. I just got the part after lots of campaigning. "
Director: Kimberly Pierce
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Actresses: Hilary Swank, Chloe Seveigny, Alison Folland
Length: 116 min.
Genre: Drama
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Breakfast With Gus
Rating: 2
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1997
Gus the kitty can't seem to get any respect, or breakfast, in a house of lesbians. All from a cat's eye point of view.
Director: Siobhan Devine
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Length: 5 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Cache
Rating: 2
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1998
These women are desperate enough to rob a bank, but in the process, accidentally knock off an old woman by giving her a heart attack. So they give the money back. And then there's the train. All done with poetic flashbacks.
Director: Carolyn Coal
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Actresses:
Length: 30 min.
Genre: Experimental
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Caligula
Rating: 2
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1980
Softcore porn goes mainstream... or so Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione hoped. This film was supposed to depict an "accurate" account of Caligula's life and times. It wasn't, and everyone on the picture just wish it would disappear forever. Includes lesbianism (and just about everything else).

Note: Don't buy the biography and think you'll get the same sexy nonsense!
Director: Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione
Language:
Actresses: Helen Mirren
Length: 156 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Celestial Clockwork (Mecanicas celestes)
Rating: 2
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1996
An eclectic, quirky film as only the French can create. Ana, A woman from Venezuela leaves the marriage altar and flees to Paris. She relies on a friend-of-a-friend to house her, and finds work as a waitress. She meets an Italian-hating Russian voice coach, a female therapist who resorts to voodoo to get Ana, a pretentious roommate who will also resort to voodoo to ruin Ana's life, an Italian opera director, a gay waiter and his fetishist boxing lover. With a cast of quirky characters like this, you know to expect a weird and oddly engaging movie.
Director: Fina Torres
Language: French with subtitles
Actresses: Ariadna Gil, Arielle Dombasale, Evelyne Didi
Length: 86 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Clara's Summer
Rating: 2
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2002
Here is a re-pew of Clara's Summer. It is a French and French-language film about a girl, her best friend and summer camp. Sounds good, but it was very pro-hetero and anti-homo. Clara's best friend declared her love for Clara, and Clara just blew her off, so the friend went looking for love with a boy (the only nice male in the film). The boys were absolute demons in this film, making fun of the lesbian (gouine, which means dyke) and trying to fuck the girls with no regard for them. They harassed the cool-bi-girl-from-the-big-city Sonia. Eventually Clara and Sonia get together (much to the joy of the strange straight couple sitting beside me, talking all the time every time the girls kissed, like they came to a gay and lesbian film festival expecting something else??). The best friend and the boy get together too (too bad, she was uber-hot). Overall, the film was poorly put together, it was a fairly dumb script, and not very pro-lgbtqqteieio. When I filled out the ballot, I gave it a 2 out of 5. I might have been generous, but nobody walked out, so I couldn't give it a one.
Director: Patrick Grandperret
Language: French w. English subtitles
Actresses: Selma Brook, Stéphanie Sokolinski, Salomé Stévenin
Length: 86 min.
Genre: Drama
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Cleopatra Jones
Rating: 2
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1976
Cleopatra Jones is the cop with a love of fashion and a hatred for drugs. When Cleo burns a Turkish poppy field, Mommy (Shelly Winters) gets ticked, and tries taking her revenge out on Cleo's rehab centre. Watch out Mommy! Cleo doesn't care which of your young women is the only one that understands you, she's gonna kick your ass!
Director: Jack Starrett
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Actresses: Tamara Dobson, Shelley Winters
Length: 89 min.
Genre: Action
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Color of Night
Rating: 2
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1994
A psychiatrist takes over the group therapy session for a dead colleague. One of the patients is a killer. A bit of kissing and touchy-feely stuff, but it goes nowhere. Director's cut has an extra few minutes of the Lesbian scene.
Director: Richard Rush
Language:
Actresses: Lesley Ann Warren, Jane March
Length: 140 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Coyote Ugly
Rating: 2
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1999
A straight woman leaves home to find her dreams and ends up working in bar, dancing and having fun. Includes a couple of references to lesbians and bisexual women. It's a fun "girl power" film, like an updated Flashdance or Cocktail (with women) if you don't go looking too deep for a message. But if you do go looking deep into this film's message, you may not like what you find.
Director: David McNally
Language:
Actresses: Piper Perabo, Tyra Banks, Maria Bello
Length: 111 min.
Genre: Drama
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Die Bitteren Tranen der Petra von Kant (Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The)
Rating: 2
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1972
A Lesbian fashion designer is betrayed when her female lover leaves her for a man. A lurid and highly stylized account of the mangled web of domination, sadomasochism and alternating jealousy among three lesbians. Set amidst the music of Verdi and the Platters, the power games revolve around a model (Hanna Schygulla), the mistress of the house and her obsessive maid. Considered by many lesbians as misogynist, it will never be the poster child for lesbian films, but nonetheless, it makes for sleazy fun. Now girls, play nice!
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Language: German
Actresses: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla
Length: 124 min.
Genre: Drama
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Dracula's Daughter
Rating: 2
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1936
A female vampire stalks a city. One of her victims is a woman. This is credited as the first female Lesbian vampire, but the Lesbianism is extremely subtle.
Director: Lambert Hillyer
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Actresses: Gloria Holden, Hedda Hopper
Length: 70 min.
Genre: Lesbian Vampire
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Emporte-moi (Set Me Free)
Rating: 2
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1998
Distraught 13-year-old Hanna takes refuge from her family's dysfunction by going to the movies: the problem is, she becomes infatuated with the lead actress. Then her schoolteacher, and then her female friends.
Director: Léa Pool
Language: French
Actresses: Karine Vanesse, Pascale Bussières, Miki Manojlovic
Length: 95 min.
Genre: Coming of Age
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Entre Tinieblas (Dark Habits)
Rating: 2
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1983
A Mother Superior falls in love with a showgirl. The showgirl eventually flees to the convent when her boyfriend dies. Things go great as the nuns drop acid to see God and shoot heroin and play the bongos while feeding the pet tiger. The nun and the showgirl never do get together. Typical strange trash from Almodovar.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Language: Spanish
Actresses: Lina Canalejas, Julieta Serrano, Cristina Sánchez Pascual
Length: 95 min.
Genre: Lesbian Nuns
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Five Easy Pieces
Rating: 2
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1970
This is Jack Nicholson's "career-making" film. Minor roles by Toni Basil and Helena Kallianiotes reputedly as Lesbian hitchhikers. However, unless I saw a heavily edited version, they are Lesbian only by implication: they are travelling together, they argue a lot, and one of them is a radical environmentalist. I'm keeping this on the list only because it is often on other lists. From what I saw, it doesn't deserve to be here.
Director: Bob Rafelson
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Actresses: Toni Basil, Helena Kallianiotes
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Drama
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Frida (1984)
Rating: 2
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1984
The life and times of Latin American painter Frida Kahlo. Her Lesbianism is reduced to a passionate kiss in a kitchen.
Director: Paul Leduc
Language: Spanish with subtitles
Actresses: Ofelia Medina
Length: 108 min.
Genre: International
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From Russia With Love
Rating: 2
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1963
Super spy James Bond must retrieve a top secret decoder machine and return it to England. The second, and many say the best, of the Bond adventures has Lesbian sinister spy determined to terminate Agent 007.
Director: Terence Young
Language:
Actresses: Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi
Length: 120 min.
Genre: Drama
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Fun
Rating: 2
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1994
Two young women meet and go bad, leading to murder. The only Lesbianism in this film comes from the "'adults" trying to find out if the teenagers are Lesbians (which, according to them, might explain why they murdered an innocent woman). Note: there is a film from 1983 with the same title.
Director: Rafal Zielinski
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Actresses: Alicia Witt, Renee Humphrey
Length: 105 min.
Genre: Action
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Girlfriends (1978)
Rating: 2
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1978
A photographer decides to move into her own place, after her best friend gets married. Includes a minor Lesbian character. Note: there is a lesbian compilation video, and another lesbian film, of the same name.
Director: Claudia Weill
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Actresses: Melanie Mayron, Amy Wright, Anita Skinner
Length: 88 min.
Genre: Drama
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Girls in Prison (1994)
Rating: 2
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1994
Trashy little women in prison flick rises only slightly above the rest because Anne Heche is nude. Ione Sky is accused of murder and sent to prison. Anne, the real murderer, goes after her, and almost takes over the prison. Note: There is at least 1 more film with the same title.
Director: John McNaughton
Language:
Actresses: Ione Sky, Anne Heche
Length: 82 min.
Genre: Women in Prison
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Go Dyke Go!
Rating: 2
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1998
A lesbian relationship as told from a children’s storybook. Do you like my hat? I do not.
Director: Maureen Bradley
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Length: 10 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Heart's Desire
Rating: 2
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1997
A single lesbian muses to herself about her life, her past loves and her current heartaches. A voiceover runs throughout the entire film, with minimal dialogue between the actors.

Note: There is another film with the same name.
Director: Betsy Mathieu
Language:
Actresses: Betsy Mathieu, Kim Weaver
Length: 40 min.
Genre: Romance
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Henry And June
Rating: 2
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1990
Based on Anais Nin's story about her affair with writer Henry Miller, and his wife June. Includes a Lesbian sex scene between two hookers, for the benefit of Anais and her husband.
Director: Philip Kaufman
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Actresses: Maria de Madeiros, Uma Thurman
Length: 140 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Hotel New Hampshire
Rating: 2
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1984
Strange film about a hotel manager/owner with an extremely odd family. Kinski wears a bear suit throughout most of the film. Minor Lesbian content as Foster and Kinski end up in bed together, showing nothing but a bunch of leering boys watching something we can't.
Director: Tony Richardson
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Actresses: Jodie Foste, Nastassja Kinski
Length: 110 min.
Genre: Drama
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Invasion of the Bee Girls
Rating: 2
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1974
A sexy scientist and her workers kill men by overexerting them during sex. She wears really big black sunglasses (so her eyes look like bee eyes, get it?) and really tight white medical outfits. She and her bee girls do a number on a woman, taking her into their hive, stripping her, slathering her with (what the hell was the gooey white stuff supposed to be? Liquid honey?), giving her a laser treatment, and then masturbating. No, I'm not making it up. But this is soft core stuff: lots of almost naked women wearing lace panties, and lots of focus on breasts. High sci-fi camp.
Director: Denis Sanders
Language:
Actresses: Victoria Vetri, Anita Ford
Length:
Genre: Camp
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Iris
Rating: 2
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2001
Docudrama on novelist Iris Murdoch. Her bisexuality is, sadly, only alluded to. Instead, we see the wild young woman she seems to have been, and the Alzheimer victim she became. I still don't really know anything about Iris Murdoch.
Director: Richard Eyre
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Actresses: Judi Dench, Kate Winslet
Length: 87 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Johnny Greyeyes
Rating: 2
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2000
A resilient and brave Native-American lesbian, Johnny, tells her fellow inmates of her childhood dream to be a storyteller, and what stories this rebellious woman has to share. After a troubled life in and out of prison since her father’s death, Johnny has formed a new family and found romantic love within the walls of a women’s prison. But her responsibilities the outside world weighs on her as she continues to hold together her fractured natural family. With a release date near, she valiantly strives to keep her two worlds together. As Johnny, Gail Maurice exudes grace and courage as a woman fighting to keep the world she created for herself.
Director: Jorge Manzano
Language:
Actresses: Columpa C. Bobb, Gail Maurice, Gloria May Eshkibok
Length: 76 min.
Genre: Women of Color
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Jubilee
Rating: 2
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1978
Surreal journey through Britain's punk mindset. With a homicidal bisexual lunatic and her lackey. The story sees Queen Elizabeth I transported by the angel Ariel to a bleak England of the future where chaos now reigns. Buckingham Palace has been purchased by a megalomaniac who has transformed it into a recording studio for punk musicians. A group of punk girls pass the time with acts of mindless violence, sex and the occasional murder. Anarchy rules in the UK. Jubilee is a unique experience; the essence of punk captured on film by one of cinema's greatest visionaries.
Director: Derek Jarman
Language:
Actresses: Jenny Runacre, Little Nell
Length: 105 min
Genre: Fantasy
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Julia
Rating: 2
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1977
The only Lesbian content is a comment about Fonda's character possibly being a Lesbian. She punches the man who dared to suggest it. Otherwise, it's about the strong friendship between two women.
Director: Fred Zinnermann
Language:
Actresses: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave
Length: 118 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Laurel Canyon
Rating: 2
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2002
Solid performances and beautiful cinematography combine to make this film memorable. Jane, a veteran music producer is trying to come up with a hit single for her much younger male lover. Things become complicated when Jane's son comes home with his fiancé, Alex. When Alex starts to prefer Jane and her boyfriend over her fiancé, things really heat up. It's a surprisingly tender story of a mother-son relationship, and what makes a good mother.
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Language:
Actresses: Kate Beckinsale, Frances McDormand, Natascha McElhone
Length: 103 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Legally Blonde
Rating: 2
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2001
A "dumb blonde" decides to go to law school to get back at her boyfriend. She eventually represents a Beverly Hills suspect charged with murder. One of the other students is a radical lesbian, but don't look for much lesbian content. This is pink fluff all the way.
Director: Robert Luketic
Language:
Actresses: Meredith Scott Lynn, Reese Witherspoon
Length: 96 min.
Genre: Camp
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Lenny
Rating: 2
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1974
Lenny Bruce convinces his wife to have sex with another woman so he can watch. Then he turns on her when he thinks she has liked it too much.
Director: Bob Fosse
Language:
Actresses: Valerie Perrin
Length: 112 min.
Genre: Drama
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Lickerish Quartet
Rating: 2
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1970
This lurid tale involves a mysterious woman who comes into a household and seduces all in sight. A bored bourgeois Italian family -- a husband, wife and teenage son -- meet a beautiful female motorcycle daredevil who is invited home. She is "seduced" by the husband, has a tender outdoor tryst with the son and then, pounces on mom, still quite an attractive and youthful woman. A humorously ridiculous soft-core European "art" exploitation film with some explicit but short lesbian lovemaking scenes.
Director: Radley Metzger
Language:
Actresses: Silvana Venturelli, Erika Remberg
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Live And Let Die
Rating: 2
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1973
James Bond flick with minor killer Lesbian character. Look for Bond to travel to Harlem, New York City and the Caribbean while trying to stymie Mr. Big and his heroin trade.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Language:
Actresses: Jane Seymour, Gloria Hendry
Length: 119 min.
Genre: Action
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Lost Highway
Rating: 2
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1997
A man may have murdered his wife, but then he shape-shifts and becomes someone else. Who may have murdered, but then shifts back, and kills someone else, and then… Hey, it's a David Lynch! Whaddya expect? Includes a few minutes of a porno flick, which includes a couple of women. And Marilyn Manson. If you want to impress a hot film student, rent the film. If you want to impress a hot film critic, buy the film.
Director: David Lynch
Language:
Actresses: Patricia Arquette
Length:
Genre: Experimental
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Madonna: Truth or Dare
Rating: 2
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1991
Behind-the-scenes documentary on pop phenomenon Madonna, who admits to having sex as a kid with another girl.
Director: Alek Keshishian
Language:
Actresses: Madonna, Sandra Bernhardt
Length: 118 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Maedchen In Uniform (1931)
Rating: 2
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1931
This landmark film dealing with a lesbian relationship between a sensitive student and her teacher still retains both its timeliness and power in dealing with this controversial subject. Written by lesbian poet Christa Winsloe and based on her play "Yesterday and Today," the story revolves around a young girl who is sent to a repressive Prussian boarding school where she develops an "unnatural" attachment to her female teacher. While the headmistress declares Manuela's affections to be scandalous, her classmates convey their support and understanding. And a darkly prophetic political film, to boot.
Director: Leontine Sagan
Language: German with subtitles
Actresses: Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Classic
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May Fools (Milou en Mai)
Rating: 2
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1989
Various family members arrive for a funeral while the French government is in flux. Includes Claire and her wandering lover, Marie-Laure. Perhaps out of desperation, Claire ties Marie-Laure to herbed at night. But it doesn't work: Claire flirts with a male truck driver and Marie-Laure leaves the funeral with a man.
Director: Louis Malle
Language: French
Actresses: Miou-Miou, Dominique Blanc, Rozenn Le Tallec
Length:
Genre: Drama
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Morocco
Rating: 2
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1930
Hollywood-style romance with acclaimed cinematography, stylish atmosphere. A must for Dietrich fans, who'll find her at her alluring, exotic, tuxedo-clad best. Classic film and old-fashioned romance lovers will be thrilled. Dietrich kisses a woman to tantalize Gary Cooper.
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Language:
Actresses: Marlene Dietrich
Length:
Genre: Classic
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Mrs. Dalloway
Rating: 2
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1998
From lesbian filmmaker Marleen Gorris comes this non-lesbian themed story of one woman's unexpected and melancholy reflection on her life. On a perfect day in 1923, memories of her youth course through the day's events as Mrs. Dalloway (Redgrave) prepares for another of her elaborate parties. In an ordered English garden, a young veteran makes his own peace with the ravages of shell shock; at a nearby bench, Mrs. Dalloway's rejected suitor of decades past indulges his own reminiscences. Director Gorris (Antonia's Line) has captured Virginia Woolf's novel of that society of manners, a complex social structure unaware of its impending demise; juxtaposing it against the oncoming realities of the modern age. A dreamlike quality imbues recalled regrets, passions, conviction; defining relationships that survive time and distance, describing lives moulded unrecognized, subconscious yearnings fleetingly glimpsed in chaste kisses and unexpected flares of emotion. An intricately crafted film sparkled with superb portrayals, Mrs. Dalloway unerringly evokes a time recently, irrevocably past.
Director: Marleen Gorris
Language:
Actresses: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone
Length: 97 min.
Genre: Drama
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Mulholland Drive
Rating: 2
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2001
Another wild film from Lynch which has a young aspiring actress getting involved with an amnesiac woman. Don't try to understand it: it's all a dream. Zoom in on the pillow, dream time. The Cowboy says to wake up, it's time to wake up. I can't believe I missed a Buffy rerun for this.

If you are discussing this film with a stuffy, arrogant know-it-all, call the film a Mobius Strip of the subconscious, performance art that, because it's on tape, it's on tape (add the emphasis, just like in the movie), transcends live performance art, life itself, because it must be repeated, without variance, every time. Although each time you watch it, it's different (raise your eyebrow here, smile knowingly and nod slightly as you reach for your drink). Wait for a response.

Note: do not confuse this with Mulholland Falls, which has a gay character.
Director: David Lynch
Language:
Actresses: Laura Harring, Naomi Watts, Ann Miller, Rebecca Del Rio, Kate Forster, Melissa George, Katharine Towne, Lee Grant
Length: 147 min.
Genre: Experimental
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My Father is Coming
Rating: 2
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1991
Comic complications when a young German Lesbian living in New York with a gay roommate is visited by her strict father, who thinks they are married.
Director: Monika Truet
Language:
Actresses: Shelley Kastner, Annie Sprinkle
Length: 82 min.
Genre: International
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My Pretty Little Girlfriend
Rating: 2
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A lesbian tries to convince her unsympathetic lover to share her gross looking hamburger, with murderous results. You decide who is really the angel and who is really the devil.
Director: Gentile
Language:
Actresses:
Length: 10 min.
Genre: Experimental
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Nitrate Kisses
Rating: 2
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1993
Experimental film. The narration is about Lesbian and gay culture. The images, which sometimes don't work with the narration, vary from old scrapbook photos to up close sex. Hammer's use of black and white film make some of the graphic sex scenes very disturbing.
Director: Barbara Hammer
Language:
Actresses:
Length:
Genre: Documentary
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Orlando
Rating: 2
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1992
The story of a woman who lives 400 years, and who switches from male to female. Entertaining tale about male and female rights, but included here only because of the transfer of gender.
Director: Sally Porter
Language:
Actresses: Tilda Swinton
Length:
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Peppermills
Rating: 2
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1997
A woman's collection of 257 peppermills is stolen. But the real question is, why does she have so many? Minor lesbian content. From USA/Switzerland.
Director: Isabel Hegner
Language:
Actresses: Kate Walsh
Length: 12 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Rachel, Rachel
Rating: 2
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1968
Rachel is a 35-year-old spinster teacher who lives with her mother above a funeral home. She is friends with Calla, a religious lesbian who didn't mean to kiss her. Rachel is sorry she can't be like that. Then she moves away.
Director: Paul Newman
Language:
Actresses: Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons, Geraldine Firzgerald
Length:
Genre: Classic
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Reform School Girls
Rating: 2
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1986
Definitely one of the campiest films of the women-in-prison flicks. Innocent Jenny finds herself sent to Pridemore, a hellish reformatory/prison supervised by lecherous female guards and ruled over by Head Matron Edna, a cartoonishly evil dyke bitch who takes malicious pleasure in tormenting the young girls. She also faces a dormitory filled with underwear-clad beauties headed by Charlie (Williams), a platinum blonde thug with a face only a near-sighted mother could love. Oh yes, they're bad! There is plenty of nudity, riots, cat fights and breakouts to keep any fan entranced, and if that doesn't do it, the sight of Danning as the militaristic warden will. The title song says it all, "So Young, So Bad, So What."
Director: Tom DeSimone
Language:
Actresses: Wendy O. Williams, Sybil Danning, Linda Carol, Pat Ast
Length: 94 min.
Genre: Women in Prison
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Roof
Rating: 2
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1997
Two women, one middle-aged suburbanite and one 20-something wanderer who thinks she is owed the world, have a chance encounter atop a suburban dwelling. Beautiful cinematography and an interesting script make it watchable.
Director: Betsy Kalin
Language:
Actresses:
Length:
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Secret Ceremony
Rating: 2
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1968
This campy psychological thriller stars Elizabeth Taylor as a middle-aged tart who becomes involved in a strange relationship with a mentally unbalanced rich orphan. Taylor's character, still in mourning over the loss of a young daughter, finds her emotional and financial needs answered with "poor little doe" Mia. They play mommy and daughter, yet with interesting lesbian undertones. As they become involved in mutually destructive emotional mind games, Farrow's sexually abusive stepfather returns unexpectedly, prompting a dramatic escalation of tensions. Look for bad editing, poor continuity and over the top acting.
Director: Joseph Losey
Language:
Actresses: Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Peggy Ashcroft, Pamela Brown
Length:
Genre: Thriller
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Seduction, The Cruel Woman
Rating: 2
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1985
West German film which has been called art cinema, and an S/M sexploitation film. It's typically dark and harsh, and I don't think it lives up to its own reputation for political brilliance and insight, or even for sexploitation.
Director: Elfi Mikesch, Monika Truet
Language: German
Actresses: Mechthild Grossmann, Sheila McLaughlin
Length: 84 min.
Genre: International
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Showgirls
Rating: 2
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1995
This film about high-class strippers is so bad, it can't even make it as a cult film. Includes a minor Lesbian subtext. The rags-to-nipple clamps tale (and raunchy update of All About Eve) centers around the tough-talking Nomi, a brain-dead bleached blonde Barbie doll who is lured to the bright lights, fast living and tacky lifestyle of Las Vegas. Blessed with spunk, a curvaceous body and piston-gyrating hips, Nomi - beginning at a sleazy lap dance dive - steadily claws up the greased pole of success, going from trailer trash tramp to glittery star. Along this road kill of broken dreams, Nomi finds herself the object of interest from Crystal, the coke-sniffing, leering star/slut of the Vegas strip who happily wallows in her own hedonism.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Language:
Actresses: Gina Gershon, Elizabeth Berkley
Length: 113 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Siesta
Rating: 2
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1987
Surreal, complex fantasy/thriller about beautiful amnesiac skydiver wandering across Spain. Though critics weren't kind, this may appeal to art-house fans willing to forego dramatic coherency for striking visuals, sensual atmosphere. Includes a scene where Jodie Foster and Ellen Barkin kiss.
Director: Mary Lambert
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Actresses: Jodie Foster, Ellen Barkin, Grace Jones
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Suburban Dykes
Rating: 2
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1990
Two women, bored with each other, decide to call a phone sex service. Ding-dong! And standing at their door is a butch gal bent on turning their sexual lives around. Look for vibes, dills, leather and big hair.
Director: Debi Sundahl
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Actresses: Sharon Mitchell, Nina Hartley, Pepper
Length: 30 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Sugar High Glitter City
Rating: 2
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2001
Sugar High Glitter City is a futuristic sexcapade that ushers the comeback of the (never existent) '70s dykesexploitation genre. Sugar is outlawed and cane-addicted dykes stop at nothing to get it, even selling their own glittery bodies. Glitter City's underworld is loaded with sugar pimps and candy 'hos. Accompanied by a pumping soundtrack, this sexy and diverse cast takes us on a belly crawl to an urban, glam and candy-coated fuck-fest.
Director: Shar Rednour, Jackie Strano
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Actresses: Shar Rednour, Jackie Strano, Simone
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Taboo Parlour
Rating: 2
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1993
A woman asks her lipstick lover to find her a man... with unexpected results.
Director: Monika Truet
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Genre: Drama
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Take Her Down! Lesbian Erotic Oil Wrestling Party
Rating: 2
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2002
The story of a wrestling party that turns into a totally lesbian orgy on the mat and beyond. Tall Lynx and her French maid host an oil wrestling party for a dozen of her dyke friends. With motorcycles revving, Raven and Butch arrive first and set the stage with a naked pool party. While their guests swim, Raven and Lynx prepare for the oil wrestling main event. The show begins with the wrestlers sitting around the mat in thongs and Raven enters through the red curtain. Lynx follows - where butch oilers gently bathe the femmes' feet in milk and rose petals.
Director: Sondra Goodwin
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Actresses: Raven, Lynx, Butch
Length: 80 min.
Genre: Erotica
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The New Women
Rating: 2
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2001
What happens when a director is so bad he can make even good actresses seem wooden and empty? And his special effects are so bad they are actually look better in black and white? And his screenplay is ridiculous it transcends camp? You get The New Women, a piece reminiscent of Ed Wood without the modesty.

Lisa LaStrada is a recovering alcoholic with a philandering husband and a spoiled brat for a sister. After a mysterious apocalyptic rainstorm puts all the men in the world into comas, society plunges into chaos. Acerbic Lisa and her friends seek out Elysium, a new society rumoured to be made for women by women. On the road, they find their path blocked by new-age hippy chicks and angry lady bikers. Will they make it to safety, or are they chasing a dream? Watch out - you are now entering no man's land…
Director: Todd Hughes
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Actresses: Mary Woronov, Sandra Kinder, Jane Ray, Roma Maffia, Jenny Shimizu, Cheryl Dunye
Length: 89 min.
Genre: Camp
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Touch Of Evil
Rating: 2
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1958
Strong Welles film about crime and corruption. Minor (and unaccredited) role for McCambridge, whose androgynous, butch looking character insists on watching a gang of boys sexually assault Janet Leigh. She also hangs out in a sleazy hotel room with a blonde addict. In the accompanying photo, Mercedes is on the far right.
Director: Orson Welles
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Actresses: Marlene Dietrich, Janet Leigh, Mercedes McCambridge
Length:
Genre: Thriller
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Twins Of Evil
Rating: 2
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1971
Twins arrive at the doorstep of their fanatically religious uncle. One succumbs to the charms of Count Karnstein, and becomes a vampire (the premise being that if you are an evil person, when you are bitten by a vampire you become a vampire. If you are a good person, you die). She is invited to join the Count to "play" with a female victim, and instead of biting her victim's neck, she bites her victim's breast. That's it for lesbian content. But it's a good vampire film. The last of a 3-part tale of the Karnstein vampires, with Vampire Lovers and Lust for a Vampire.
Director: John Hough
Language:
Actresses: Madeleine Collinson, Mary Collinson
Length: 85 min
Genre: Lesbian Vampire
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Virgin Machine, The (Die Jungfrauen-Maschine)
Rating: 2
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1988
A naive German journalist, Dorothee Muller, searches for romantic love in Hamburg and San Francisco's Lesbian community. This film turns from narrative drama, while Dorothee thinks she is strait, to an impersonal, almost technical documentary style when Dorothee meets up with Susie Sexpert and starts learning about Lesbianism. In fact, the film takes on a patronizing sex-education quality to it. Dorothee thinks she has found romantic love, but she is charged $500 for the date. By the end of the film, she rejects the idea of romantic love while accepting her Lesbianism (the film suggests that the two are mutually exclusive). The sex scenes and strip club scenes are unerotic and uninteresting, and the acting is awkward.
Director: Monika Treut
Language:
Actresses: Ina Blum, Dominique Gaspar, Shelly Mars, Susie Bright
Length: 91 min.
Genre: International
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Walk On The Wild Side
Rating: 2
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1962
Inventive casting punctuates this tawdry tale of a good-natured Texan who travels to New Orleans to rescue his lost love from life in a brothel, run by a lascivious lesbian. Fonda tags along in yet another "sexy bad girl" role. If ever a movie deserved the tag line "good trash," this is it.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Actresses: Capucine, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Fonda
Length: 114 min.
Genre: Camp
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Wild Side
Rating: 2
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1995
Poor performances by the male actors help to highlight the pathetic dialogue and bad script in this film. Still, the chance to see Anne and Joan kiss is worth renting this film. Be forewarned, there is graphic sexual violence.
Director: Franklin Brauner
Language:
Actresses: Joan Chen, Anne Heche
Length: 96 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Women in Revolt
Rating: 2
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1971
What an unusual film to view in the 1990s. Given the director's very conservative views about things like homosexuality, most likely it's meant to be a demeaning satire. But hey, what he directed and what I see can be two different things, right? Three drag queens play three women who are learning about women's liberation. They dabble with lesbianism and bisexuality along the way, but things go full circle and they end up right back in their miserable, heterosexual little lives. Lots of sex and male nudity, but with dialogue that's a fascinating look into the rhetoric and ideology that has created one of the most powerful (if misunderstood) political movements in the 20th century: feminism.
Director: Paul Morrissey
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Genre: Exploitation
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X, Y And Zee
Rating: 2
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1972
This film about sexual relationships includes Elizabeth Taylor seducing Susannah York to get her away from the man Taylor wants.
Director: Brian G Hutton
Language:
Actresses: Elizabeth Taylor, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton
Length: 110 min.
Genre: Camp
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Young Man With A Horn
Rating: 2
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1950
The three leads are all quite good in this romantic drama about trumpeter Douglas trying to make it in the jazz world, and torn between Bacall and Day. Based on the life of Bix Beiderbecke. Includes Bacall as a "sick" lesbian, Amy.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Language:
Actresses: Lauren Bacall, Doris Day
Length: 112 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Your Friends and Neighbors
Rating: 2
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1999
A film about the problems and issues of sex, from a mostly heterosexual point of view. Five friends (2 couples and 1 guy) start sleeping with each other, or themselves, or whomever they can find. Includes a wife who starts seeing a woman. Not a great film, although it has its moments. The one lone male is a disturbing portrait of a guy who sleeps with women but hates them, and admits that the best sex of his life was while raping a male high school student.
Director: Neil Labute
Language:
Actresses: Amy Brenneman, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski
Length: 99 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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