Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
Rating: 3
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1992
Broomfield delves into the Lee Wuornos case. She's a lesbian prostitute convicted of murdering 6 men. He looks at the largely American inclination to turn everything into a money-making venture. Arlene Pralle adopted Lee right before her first trial and settled on book deals. Steven Glazer, Lee's lawyer, arranged for payments, and negotiated Pralle's money deals. Even Lee's lover Tyria Moore, was found to be talking about a picture deal with the cops. Before Lee was arrested! Truly an unsettling look at something only real-life could come up with.
Director: Nick Broomfield
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Actresses: Aileen Wuornos
Length: 87 min.
Genre: Documentary
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American Mullet
Rating: 3
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2001
Originally designed as short internet video clips, Arnold (who directed Maid of Honor) delves deeply into the hairstyle called the Mullet. Known also as hockey hair and the mudflap, this strange documentary goes from butch men with muscle cars, to butch women with muscles.
Director: Jennifer Arnold
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Length: 52 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Barb Wire
Rating: 3
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1996
This futuristic tale of a leather-bound bounty hunter/bar owner’s fight for freedom includes a few small Lesbian references: a couple of women dancing together in a bar, a leather chick checking out Barb, and a reference to a “menage” to try to distract the authorities from realizing who they are looking at.
Director: David Hogan
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Actresses: Pamela Anderson Lee
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Action
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Barbarella
Rating: 3
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1967
This campy sci-fi flick is a cult favourite. Barbarella is a 40th century space traveller, who seduces an angel, fights off the lesbian advances of an evil woman, and breaks the orgasmatron built by Duran Duran (the evil guy, not the band).
Director: Roger Vadim
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Actresses: Jane Fonda, Anita Pallenberg
Length: 98 min.
Genre: Camp
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Being John Malkovich
Rating: 3
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1999
Where do you start with this film? Is it a horror story or a love story? A psychological thriller or a piece of trash art? I dunno. A puppeteer finds out that he (and anyone else) can enter the doorway into the mind of actor John Malkovich. He likes the control. His wife likes having a dick. They both fall in love with the same woman, and use poor old John's body to have her.
Director: Spike Jonze
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Actresses: Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Mary Kay Place
Length: 112 min.
Genre: Drama
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Best In Show
Rating: 3
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2000
This comedy traces the trials and tribulations of a dog show. Includes a trophy wife going after the dyke dog handler. But for dog lovers, this film is a must. It takes you behind the scenes and is done in the typically-excellent send-up style of director Guest.
Director: Christopher Guest
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Actresses: Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Lynch
Length: 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Between Seven and One
Rating: 3
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1997
A woman muses to the camera about her crush, and waiting for the gas repair man. Funny, short film.
Director: Christina Petropoulos
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Length: 10 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Born In Flames
Rating: 3
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1983
Futuristic feminist, cult classic. This shows the aftermath of a social revolution, where the radical feminists band together to gain control of the state-owned radio. Although the main character, Adele, is a Lesbian, her sexuality isn't as dominant in the story line as her politics. It took Borden 5 years to make this film.
Director: Lizzie Borden
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Actresses: Kathryn Bigelow, Honey, Flo Kennedy, Jean Satterfield
Length: 78 min.
Genre: Fantasy
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Bound and Gagged
Rating: 3
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1993
Leslie and her Lesbian lover plot to kill her husband. When the murder bid fails, Elizabeth has to convince Leslie to run. She doesn't want to, so Elizabeth kidnaps Leslie and takes her to a de-programmer. Include a comedic, pathetic guy as a sidekick, and it's a strangely entertaining film.
Director: Daniel Appleby
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Actresses: Ginger Lynn Allen, Elizabeth Saltarrelli, Andrea Scarpa, Karen Black, Sarah Todd.
Length: 96 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Box of Laughter - Converted to Tickling
Rating: 3
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1998
Converted to Tickling" is part two of a three part series "Box of Laughter" exploring the often overlooked fetish of tickling. Some say originality is a sin, a deviance to be corrected. What could be a more original form of correction, or deviance for that matter, than tickling? What could be a more sinful scenario than the nun meets the schoolgirl? Could it get any more sacrilegious? Come on though. It's laughter we're talking about as punishment. That's not so bad. Or is it? Perhaps it is... If you are caught on the receiving end. It seemed innocent enough. A school girl. A nun. The Act of Confession. A typical morning at parochial school, on the surface. Look a little deeper. Imagine our mother superior pierced in places God might never suspect. Imagine our schoolgirl as not so innocent. Our mother superior discovers our schoolgirl has been admiring other students at this fine girl's school and must pay for her sins. Now imagine how we punish naughty little girls in our tale of conversion. Tickling. What else? Buy from TLA Video 35 min. Erotica
Director: Maria Beatty
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Actresses: Ginger Lynn Allen, Elizabeth Saltarrelli, Andrea Scarpa, Karen Black, Sarah Todd.
Length: 96 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Brady Bunch Movie
Rating: 3
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1995
In true sitcom fashion, this week's episode finds the Bradys on the verge of losing their groovy pad unless they can raise the $20,000 they owe in back taxes. And to add to the stew, Jan's sibling rivalry with "Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!" reaches fever pitch; and Marcia's best friend at school has a lesbian crush on her. Director Betty Thomas appeared on the very old comedy LP Out Of The Closet.
Director: Betty Thomas
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Actresses: Shelley Long, Christine Taylor, Jennifer Elise Cox, Jean Smart
Length: 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete 1st Season
Rating: 3
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1998
Television series about a teenager who is the "Chosen One", destined to fight the evil forces of Sunnydale, the Hellmouth from whence evil rises. With the help of her teenage friends, she fights the foes and yes, slays vampires.

Season one has no discernable lesbian content.
Director: Joss Whedon
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Actresses: Alyson Hannigan, Sarah Michelle Gellar
Length: 600 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete 2nd Season
Rating: 3
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1999
Buffy and her friends battle vampires, demons and the general unwashed undead. Fairly heterosexual, but still a good thriller. Look for the growth of the character Willow, who eventually becomes a lesbian.

Season two has no discernable lesbian content, so the rating is for the show, not content.
Director: Joss Whedon, James A. Contner, David Greenwalt
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Actresses: Alyson Hannigan, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter
Length: 960 min.
Genre: Thriller
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But I'm a Cheerleader
Rating: 3
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2000
A young woman's family and friends all think she's a dyke, so they send her away to a correctional camp, to turn her straight again. It's billed as a comedy, but unless you think women-with-moustaches-must-be-dykes is funny, you won't be laughing too hard.
Director: Jamie Babbit
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Actresses: Natasha Lyonne, Clea Duvall
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Butterfly Kiss (Killers on the Road)
Rating: 3
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1995
Killer Lesbians run amok. Amanda Plummer plays Eunice (Eu), who travels the highways of Northern England seeking Judith, the only woman who ever really loved her. Stopping at a roadside service station, she meets Saskia Reeves, who plays Miriam (Mi). Mi begins as a solitary, mousy woman who becomes infatuated by Eu. Through murder, love and mayhem, Mi finds herself and Eu finds peace.
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Actresses: Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves
Length: 88 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
Rating: 3
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1990
A B-movie with a bunch of tough biker chicks taking on the undead. The local mortician is bringing his clients back to life, to work in a mine. Problem is, they are hungry for human flesh. Biker-chick stereotypes include the mom-who-couldn't-handle-it, the cycle-slut, the poor-mute-girl and the dyke-leader-who-never-has-sex.
Director: Dan Hoskins
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Length: 86 min.
Genre: Camp
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Citizen Ruth
Rating: 3
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1996
This film about a self-centred woman who plays both the pro-choice and pro-life sides of the abortion debate for her own interests. Includes a lesbian couple.
Director: Alexander Payne
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Actresses: Laura Dern, Tippi Hedren, Swoosie Kurts
Length: 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Claire of the Moon
Rating: 3
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1992
A straight woman shares a room with a Lesbian at a writers' retreat. Opposites attract, and eventually they end up together. It takes FOREVER to get there. Either you will love the film, or you'll hate it, but either way, it's become a classic.
Director: Nicole Conn
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Actresses: Trisha Todd, Karen Trumbo
Length: 106 min.
Genre: Drama
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Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Rating: 3
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1975
Blaxploitation film with an American kung-fu cop in Hong Kong fighting the vaguely Lesbian dragon lady drug dealer.
Director: Chuck Bail
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Actresses: Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens
Length: 94 min.
Genre: Action
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Costa Brava
Rating: 3
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1994
Anna is a Barcelona tour guide who dreams of touring with a San Francisco theatre group. She meets Montserrat, a Jewish engineer who is straight, for a while anyway. This comedic love story suffers from absolutely zero onscreen chemistry between the stars, but it does have its good moments.
Director: Marta Balletbo-Coll
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Actresses: Marta Balletbo-Coll, Desi del Valle
Length: 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Dinner Party
Rating: 3
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1996
Short flick about a woman who shows up at her ex's, only to find that there is company. She assumes they are dating, and can't figure out why the dinner guest is more interested in her, than her self-absorbed ex.

Note: There is an adult film of the same name.
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
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Actresses: Sarita Choudhury, Erin McMurtry, Roni Givigliano
Length: 10 min.
Genre: Drama
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Ellen: The Complete Season One
Rating: 3
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1994
The debut season of "Ellen" on DVD. The current host of her own daytime talk show, "Ellen" featured Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan, a neurotic bookseller who frequently got lost in the world of hetero dating. Imagine the mystery of a dyke who can't figure out why she doesn't like to date men!
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Actresses: Ellen Degeneres, Joely Fisher
Length: 300 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Embrace of the Vampire
Rating: 3
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1994
A vampire tries to seduce a young virgin over the course of three days. Includes a Lesbian scene between a bisexual photographer and our heroine. If you're a Jennifer Tilly fan, you might be a little disappointed. She appears only for about 10 minutes, and she was on the set for one day. But see if you can count the similarities between her character in this film, and the one in Bound.
Director: Anne Goursaud
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Actresses: Alyssa Milano, Jennifer Tilly
Length: 92 min.
Genre: Lesbian Vampire
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Entre Nous (Between Us, Copu de Fourde)
Rating: 3
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1983
Two women develop a relationship. Even the director, who based this story on her mother’s life, isn’t sure if they were Lesbians.
Director: Diane Kurys
Language: French
Actresses: Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert
Length: 110 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Erotique
Rating: 3
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1993
Short films from each director are compiled into this single themed film. Borden's "Let's talk About Sex" covers an aspiring actress who works on phone sex lines and gets the help of a Lesbian cop to find the male customer she has become obsessed with. Treut's "Taboo Parlour" has two lesbians spice up their sex lives by seducing a man. Law fares the best with her story of young love and cultural differences in a strictly het film called "Wonton Soup".
Director: Lizzie Borden, Monika Treut, Clara Law
Language:
Actresses:
Length: 120 min.
Genre: Compilation
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Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Rating: 3
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1993
A naive young woman uses her unusually large thumbs to control her destiny by hitchhiking. She ends up at a dude ranch sponsored by a douche company. Produced by Mary Ann Marino and Laurie Parker. Uma Thurman was nominated for a “Worst” Razzie Award in 1995 for this film. After bombing in 1993, the film was recalled, heavily re-edited and re-released in 1994.
Director: Gus Van Sant
Language:
Actresses: Uma Thurman, Rain Phoenix, Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson
Length: 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Extramuros (Beyond the Walls)
Rating: 3
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1985
Spanish film in which two Sisters, who are very much in love, plot a fake religious miracle so they can save their Mexican convent and stay together. Unfortunately for them, it's during the Inquisition. Note: Another film, with the same translated name, exists.
Director: Miguel Picazo
Language: Spanish
Actresses: Carmen Maura
Length: 118 min.
Genre: Lesbian Nuns
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Femme Fontaine Killer Babe for the CIA
Rating: 3
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1995
A female assassin hunts down Lesbian Nazis, among others, to avenge the death of her father. Billed as an action comedy, but it's B-Grade camp. And if you like that stuff, this isn't a bad choice.
Director: Margot Hope
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Actresses: Margot Hope, Catherine Dao
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Action
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Rating: 3
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1991
The lesbianism is arguable. Lots of folks say that the subtext between Mary Stuart Masterson (playing the young Jessica Tandy) and Lois Smith was lesbian, which is based on one mumbled half-sentence somewhere in the middle of the film. But this movie, which is the story of friendship among women, is touching, empowering and entertaining. A charmer, for sure.
Director: John Avent
Language:
Actresses: Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kathy Bates
Length: 130 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Gauzon Maudit (French Twist)
Rating: 3
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1994
A surprisingly accessible, almost mainstream, comedic look at love, jealousy and sex. A butch dyke, Marijo, arrives on the doorstep of a married woman's home when her car breaks down. She starts sleeping with Loli, much to her philandering husband's chagrin, and even gives him a good head butt. But in the strangest of twists, he ends up getting both Marijo and Loli pregnant, and then they all live together in one big old happy family.
Director: Josaine Balasko
Language: French with English subtitles.
Actresses: Josaine Balasko, Victoria Abril
Length: 100 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Girl Play
Rating: 3
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2005
Based on the play “Real Girls,” this romantic comedy begins as Robin, who is essentially married to her girlfriend of six years, and Lacie, who has never had a relationship lasting past sunrise, are cast to play lesbian lovers in a stage play. Enter the flamboyant director who takes them through rehearsals to bring more intimacy to their performances, bringing Robin and Lacie closer together—on stage and off. As the two women grapple with their confusing new emotions, they tell the stories of their lives—hilarious and tender both, as well as scintillating and sexy—to find out if they are truly a match made in heaven.

And shame on Goff-Kellman productions for failing to respond to our inquiry emails. It's presumptuous to assume you don't need publicity, and arrogant not to respond. And no, our rating for the movie wasn't influenced by this inaction.
Director: Lee Friedlander
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Actresses: Robin Greenspan, Lacie Harmon, Mink Stole
Length: 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Girl Talk
Rating: 3
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1997
A woman calls a lesbian phone sex service for a little release, but things don't turn out quite the way she intended.

Note: there is a lesbian erotica movie of the same name, by Mistique.
Director: Judith Cobb
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Length: 5 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Girlfriends: An Anthology of Lesbian Short Films
Rating: 3
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1995
Four shorts make up this anthology of dyke-friendly video. Watching Her Sleep, Little Women in Transit, Playing the Part, and Carmelita Tropicana. Each is individually reviewed.
Director: Various
Language:
Actresses:
Length: 80 min.
Genre: Compilation
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Goldfish Memory
Rating: 3
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2003
This import from Ireland shows us the dangers of mixing heterosexual and lesbian love stories together in a film: the dykes don't get the screen time. It's a light-hearted look at the dangers and delights of dating in contemporary Dublin. Relationships — gay, straight, and everything in between — come together and fall apart. Successful journalist Angie pursues Clara, a young student environmentalist. Clara is fooling around with her English professor, Tom. Red begins a relationship with cute, straight waiter David. And so on.
Director: Liz Gill
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Actresses: Flora Montgomery, Fiona Glascott
Length: 85 min.
Genre: Romance
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Goodbye Emma Jo
Rating: 3
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1997
Alex throws herself on the grave of Emma Jo and thinks of little else but sex. She then meets up with Hailey, and gets over Emma Jo through sex. It's got the same burningly realistic plot as most soft-core porn films, so don't expect too much.
Director: Cheryl Newbrough
Language:
Actresses:
Length: 40 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Hard Love & How To Fuck In High Heels
Rating: 3
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2000
Won Best All-Girl Scene at 2001 AVN Awards. Two short erotica/porn features. Hard Love follows the exploits of a butch dyke and both her current and past girlfriend as she offers to help her ex move. How to Fuck in High Heels is a quasi-documentary that shows ultra--femme Shar giving out her sex tips and tricks. .
Director: Shar Rednour, Jackie Strano
Language:
Actresses:
Length: 96 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Heavenly Creatures
Rating: 3
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1994
New Zealand docudrama about 2 young women who become so immersed in their own fantasy world, they act out against the real world. Based on a true murder story. Marks the first film appearance of Kate Winslet.
Director: Peter Jackson
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Actresses: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse
Length: 99 min.
Genre: Action
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Hey Sailor, Hey Sister
Rating: 3
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An erotic video, courtesy of Wolfe Video. And typical of Wolfe Video's erotic videos. Mediocre plot with some unexplainable actions (like who the hell would spend all that money on a dildo just to use it once or twice and throw it away?), cheap visual quality and no acting to speak of (then again, there's hardly any plot, so I can't blame the actors!) The story of a naval officer who meets up with a "tart". And they have sex. In an alleyway, and the hotel room. In black and white. The "other" stuff happens in colour. Nice little plot twist at the end, though.
Director: MTV/TCH
Language:
Actresses:
Length: 23 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Homo Promo
Rating: 3
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1993
Twenty years of trailers for Hollywood movies that include gay and Lesbian characters.
Director: Jenni Olson
Language:
Actresses:
Length: 62 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Horsey
Rating: 3
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1997
A young bisexual woman gets involved with a drug-addicted singer and tries to find refuge in her friends and in one-night stands with women. She eventually finds herself with the help of a kind neighbour.
Director: Kristen Clarke
Language:
Actresses: Holly Ferguson, Victoria Deschanel, Madeleine Kipling
Length: 89 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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I Became a Lesbian
Rating: 3
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1995
Send-up of an infomercial allows you too to become a lesbian! Send your money in today for this great kit that helps you discover your inner dyke.
Director: Lizzie Donahue
Language:
Actresses: Lizzie Donahue, Suzanne La Grande
Length:
Genre: Comedy
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I Became a Lesbian And Others Too!
Rating: 3
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1994
An anthology of films individually reviewed. Films are: Just a Little Crush, Cat Nip, Le Poisson D'Amour, I Became A Lesbian.
Director: Various
Language:
Actresses:
Length: 52 min.
Genre: Compilation
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I Shot Andy Warhol
Rating: 3
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1996
Film about Valerie Solanas, the woman whose hatred for men expressed itself in her shooting of artist Andy Warhol, and in writing the S.C.U.M. Manifesto. Here's a small excerpt from the Manifesto: Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
Director: Mary Harron
Language:
Actresses: Lili Taylor, Martha Plimpton
Length: 104 min.
Genre: Drama
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Internal Affairs
Rating: 3
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1990
A corrupt cop does everything he can to screw everyone and everything. With Laurie Metcalf as a Lesbian cop.
Director: Mike Fadges
Language:
Actresses: Laurie Metcalf
Length:
Genre: Thriller
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It's In The Water
Rating: 3
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1996
Alex Stratton is unhappy and unfulfilled with her husband and her wealthy lifestyle. When she falls for her old college friend, rumours about the drinking water start up.
Director: Kelli Herd
Language:
Actresses: Kerri Jo Chapman, Teresa Garrett
Length: 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Just a Little Crush
Rating: 3
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1994
A woman develops a crush while out crushing snails in the garden, and the pet store clerk is transformed into a swashbuckler. She is rejected and feels, well, crushed.
Director: Louise Wadly
Language:
Actresses: Carmel Morrisey
Length: 10 min.
Genre: Drama
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kd lang: Live by Request
Rating: 3
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2001
The extraordinary kd lang delivered an emotional and truly magical concert recorded for the A & E series "Live by Request", spanning lang's career, from her gripping rendition of Roy Orbison's "Crying" to "Constant Craving" to songs from 2000's Invincible Summer album. Contains the Songs: Summerfling, Big Boned Gal, Black Coffee, Trail of Broken Hearts, Crying, Don't Smoke in Bed, The Consequences of Falling, Miss Chatelaine, MacArthur Park, Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray, Fever, Barefoot, Constant Craving, Wash Me Clean, Pullin' Back the Reins, Simple.
Director:
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Actresses: kd lang
Length: 67 min.
Genre: Music
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Kissing Jessica Stein
Rating: 3
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2001
Hating her experience with dating men, mostly because they behave like men, Jessica responds to a woman-seeking-woman ad that quotes an author she likes. Problem is, Jessica is straight. And despite her involvement with Helen, Jessica remains straight. She prefers being best friends over being lovers, and being conservative over being out. Don't look for anything beyond the straight-girl-experimenting storyline, and you'll enjoy the film.
Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Language:
Actresses: Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen
Length: 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Leaving Normal
Rating: 3
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1992
Two uncertain women are coming to terms with themselves through a series of misadventures. Darly, the quick-witted cocktail waitress and Marianne, a waifish divorcee, cross paths and decide to set out together on the road to Alaska.
Director: Edward Zwick
Language:
Actresses: Meg Tilly, Christine Lahti
Length: 110 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Les Biches
Rating: 3
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1968
A twisted bisexual drama of sexual domination, obsession, despair and revenge Frederique, a glamorous woman of lesbian leaning who, on a trip to Paris, meets then seduces a poor, enigmatic young woman named Why. She soon whisks her new love off to her home in St. Tropez to continue their affair, but the balance is changed when a man enters the picture and, after a brief attraction to Why, takes up permanently with Frederique. The centerpiece of this explosive love triangle is Audran's wanton sexual appeal, a power that eventually leads to bitter consequences. Also called Bad Girls, The Does, Girlfriends and The Heterosexuals
Director: Claude Chabrol
Language: French with subtitles
Actresses: Jacqueline Sassard, Nane Germon, Dominique Zardi
Length: 104 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Lilith
Rating: 3
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1964
A young woman is institutionalized because she's a nymphomaniac. She even has sex with another female patient. That helps drive Warren Beatty crazy too.
Director: Robert Rossen
Language:
Actresses: Jean Seaberg, Kim Hunter
Length: 114 min.
Genre: Classic
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Little Women In Transit
Rating: 3
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1994
B/W short film about a young girl who is taunted by her older sister, who insists that the author of "Little Women" is a Lesbian.
Director: Barbara Heller
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Length:
Genre: Coming of Age
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Live Nude Girls Unite!
Rating: 3
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2000
A stripper/comedian tries to unionize the Lusty Lady show in San Francisco, to deal with racial and economic inequities in the workplace.
Director: Vicky Funari, Julia Query
Language:
Actresses:
Length: 70 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Losing Chase
Rating: 3
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1996
A woman, Chase Phillips, has a breakdown and returns to her family after being away, so her husband hires a "mother's helper" for her. Elisabeth brings meaning and purpose, and love, to Chase's life. Each woman has to struggle with her own emotional demons, and the film does an excellent job at visually echoing their growth, moving from tight, claustrophobic, angry scenes to stunning, lush vistas. This could have been a 5-star film if its ending was more to our liking.
Director: Kevin Bacon
Language:
Actresses: Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick
Length: 93 min.
Genre: Drama
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Maya
Rating: 3
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1993
A woman finds freedom through dance and long looks at another woman.
Director: Catherine Benedek
Language:
Actresses: Melora Griffis
Length:
Genre: Drama
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My Femme Divine
Rating: 3
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1999
Winner of the1999 Director's Award at the San Diego Gay And Lesbian Film & Video Festival, My Femme Divine takes us into the romantic world of butch and femme relationships. Part personal memoir and part documentary, the films draws from poetry, photography, discussion groups, and Jungian psychology to explore the butch/femme mystique. Or, it's a crock of bullshit, with each woman looking for her 15 minutes of fame by playing up stereotypical, outdated roles. Your choice.

We meet a butch lesbian who falls in love with a woman who is her sexual and psychological opposite. We're also privy to two lively groups talking butch-to-butch and femme-to-femme and about yin/yang chemistry and a love that borders on worship. My Femme Divine is a delightful and universal tale of falling in love, losing control and finding a divine wholeness in oneself.
Director: Karen Everett
Language:
Actresses: Pat Califia, Jewell Gomez
Length:
Genre: Documentary
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Never Met Picasso
Rating: 3
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1995
A strange and engaging look into the life of a young gay artist, his longtime lesbian artist companion, his pill popping mother and his gay artistic uncle. Here's your chance to meet a painter who channels dead women artists' voices, a stage actress doing fringe theatre, and lots of other unusual, compelling and sometimes unsettling characters.
Director: Stephen Kijack
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Actresses: Margot Kidder, Georgia Ragsdale
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Genre: Drama
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Night Of The Iguana
Rating: 3
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1964
In this expertly acted film version of Tennessee Williams' steamy Broadway play, the stars give stellar performances as participants in a love triangle in a small Mexican resort town. A defrocked priest-turned-bus tour guide who becomes involved with a young nymphet, a sexually repressed woman and a fiery hotel proprietor. Grayson Hall received an Oscar nomination for her stirring portrait of Lyon's lesbian guardian who engages the priest in a psychological battle for her soul.
Director: John Huston
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Actresses: Grayson Hall, Sue Lyon
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Genre: Classic
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Rating: 3
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1989
UK film semi-autobiographical film about Jeannette Winterson. As a young woman, she shows promise as a preacher, delighting her strict evangelical family. She faces trials and tribulations as she discovers her Lesbianism.
Director: Beeban Kidron
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Actresses: Geraldine McEwan, Charlotte Coleman
Length: 145 min.
Genre: Coming of Age
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Peach
Rating: 3
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1995
Australian film. Lucy Lawless (Xena Warrior Princess) stars in this short flick about desire. A woman begins to feel overwhelming desire, and it's a tow truck driver (Lawless) who tries to release that desire. Lucy is gorgeous if a little on the scrawny side. But I've got to be honest: they don't even kiss. A hand against a breast is the only lesbian content.
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Actresses: Lucy Lawless
Length: 20 min.
Genre: Drama
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Persona
Rating: 3
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1966
A young woman becomes mute, and is cared for by a nurse. They become so attached, they seem to meld into one. May also be interpreted as vampire-like, since it includes a blood drinking scene.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Language: Swedish
Actresses: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson
Length: 81 min.
Genre: Lesbian Vampire
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Poison Ivy
Rating: 3
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1992
Barrymore plays a femme fatale in this flick, killing the wife, sleeping with the father and toying with the "I might be a lesbian" daughter. Yes, they kiss, yes, right before Barrymore jumps out a window.

Note: There is another film with the same title, plus a few films now within the same series Poison Ivy 2 and Poison Ivy the New Seduction).
Director: Katt Shea Ruben
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Actresses: Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert
Length: 89 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Rating: 3
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1996
Three Australian drag queens head into the outback while looking for one's bisexual wife. Okay, it's actually way better than that. Entertaining, worth renting when you need a good queer laugh. And the costume designer deserved the Academy Award she won.
Director: Stephan Elliott
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Actresses: Sarah Chadwick
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Genre: Camp
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Queen Christina
Rating: 3
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1933
With Greta Garbo as a straight version of the real Queen Christina. She kisses the Countess Ebba and says she will die an bachelor. Embraced by many as a crypto-lesbian love story, this classic drama features a severely beautiful Greta Garbo as the reluctant queen who spends much of the film dressed as a male. In an early scene, a trouser-wearing Garbo hugs and plants a full kiss on her lady-in-waiting (Elizabeth Young). Later, Christina comes upon the woman pledging her love to a man; jealous and hurt, she impetuously runs away from the castle. Christina eventually falls in love with a Spanish emissary, and the drama quickly turns into a heterosexual love story. The final shot of Garbo posed sphinx-like at the bow of a ship is unforgettable.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
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Actresses: Greta Garbo
Length: 97 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Queer As Folk (Season 1)
Rating: 3
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2001
Queer As Folk is unquestionably the gay cultural phenomena of the new millennium. The American Queer as Folk is set in a mythical Pittsburgh - it's not West Hollywood or the West Village - it's a blue collar city where gay people co-exist with straight - just like where most of us live (actually, a lot of it was filmed in Toronto, where the OutTakes headquarters are located). Lindsay (Thea Gill, the blonde) is the mother of young son, who she had via artificial insemination with one of the other main characters, Brian. She's a house mom who is dedicated to her baby and sometimes to her lover Melanie (Michelle Clunie, the brunette). Melanie is a lawyer, she's Jewish, political, and not afraid of a fight. Although they aren't the primary characters, they've developed a lot over the course of the show. The baby, the break-up, the guy Lindsay was going to marry, the reunion... so much action in so little time! I was chatting with a gay friend about the show, and he remarked that he thought the sex scenes between the women were very different than those between the men. The lesbian sex scenes are (and I'm paraphrasing him here) gentle, loving, tender and erotic.

And of course there are the gay main characters! Brian is the gay man in the cast most despised and lusted after (although I think his doppelganger in the UK version is much cuter, if I was into that sort of thing ;). He's rich, arrogant, self-absorbed and into sex with any guy that moves. Michael is his best friend. He, like all the guys, lusts after Brian, but since they've been friends since they were kids, Brian just ignores that part of Michael (until he wants something, that is). Michael is a working-class department store manager, even-tempered and loved by all. Justin (Harrison) is 17, still in high school and totally adorable. Justin is also in love with Brian - but alas they are only "fuck buddies". Ted is an accountant who in search of love, whether its with a drug addict or a leather man. Emmett is his hyper queer best friend who tries to steer innocent Ted clear of trouble. The phrase that describes Emmett perfectly is: It's so hard to be a queen in a world of peasants. Debbie (Sharon Gless) is Michael's mother and the waitress at their favorite diner. Debbie is PFLAG personified, covered in buttons, with a totally accepting attitude (even if she is over the top in a series of over the top characters).
Director: John Greyson
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Actresses: Thea Gill, Michelle Clunie, Sharon Gless
Length:
Genre: Drama
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Queer as Folk (Season 2)
Rating: 3
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2002
Most of you fans know what happens, but here's a rundown of major plot points in America's favorite queer soap. After being gay bashed at the end of season one, Justin can't remember the fateful night and Brian can't forget it. Because of his injuries, Justin proceeds to quit art school and fall in love with another boy. Michael breaks it off with Doctor David (who turns out to be homophobic in real life and never reappears on the show). Boring Ted becomes unboring as he is fired from his accounting job for internet porn surfing and starts his own porn website - with Emmett as his star! Emmett becomes an heir as he falls in love with a super-wealthy older gay man who dies while they have sex in an airplane toilet. In a particularly campy episode, Brian, Michael, Justin, Emmett, Ted, Lindsay, Melanie and Debbie all show their pride in Pittsburgh's annual parade. Michael decides to quit the Big Q and risks all to buy a comic book store where he meets the new love of his life, the HIV positive Ben. Melanie and Lindsay have a less-than-successful threesome as an attempt to end lesbian bed-death. And Ted finally confesses his love for the newly wealthy Emmett.
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Actresses: Michelle Clunie, Thea Gill, Sharon Gless
Length: 900 min.
Genre: Drama
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Rebecca
Rating: 3
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1940
Anderson is the sinister Lesbian-ish housekeeper who likes to run her hands through the underwear drawer of the deceased Rebecca. Anderson said she was appalled at the thought that her character, Mrs. Danvers, was a Lesbian. There have been a number of remakes.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Actresses: Joan Fontaine, Dame Judith Anderson.
Length: 130 min.
Genre: Classic
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Red Rain
Rating: 3
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1999
An intimate portrait of the charismatic Gina "Boom Boom" Guidi, the Junior Middleweight Female Boxing Champion of the World. Gina talks about childhood, addiction, redemption and her open lesbianism. It took more than 2 years to film the documentary, but the work was worth it. Guidi transforms almost before our eyes.
Director: Laura Plotkin
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Actresses: Gina Guidi
Length: 55 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Replay (La Repetition)
Rating: 3
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2000
Childhood obsession lead to the break-up of two friends who, a decade later, find each other again. Louise follows Nathalie's theatre group, transfixed by acting, while Nathalie relies on Louise for support as her marriage breaks down. These mutual and unhealthy obsession leads them into a dangerous affair, but between the angst and the drama of it all, well, it ain't no pot-boiler.
Director: Catherine Corsini
Language: French w. English subtitles
Actresses: Emmanuel Béart, Pascale Bussières
Length: 96 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Serving In Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Rating: 3
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1995
Bold and absorbing. Glenn Close gives a performance full of fire and dignity. Serving in Silence is a milestone... an absorbing, subtle, extraordinarily acted, non-preachy film. Close stars as Margarethe Cammermeyer in the powerful and inspirational true story of a decorated Army Colonel who dared to challenge the U.S. military's anti-gay policy and take a stand for human rights. With Judy Davis as Cammermeyer's soul mate, Diane Divelbess. Produced by Glenn Close, Barbra Streisand et al. Brilliant and important film.
Director: Jeff Bleckner
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Actresses: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Wendy Makkena
Length: 100 min.
Genre: Drama
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She's Gotta Have It
Rating: 3
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1986
Lee's inspired and raucous comedy about Nola Darling and her three boyfriends: Mars -- "Please baby, please baby, baby, baby, please"; Jamie -- "Wherever you want to go, I'll go, whatever you want to do, I'll do"; Greer -- "Am I not beautiful darling?" This miraculous cinematic achievement was put together on a shoestring budget and shot over a period of 11 days in a two-square block area of Brooklyn, and yet it stands as one of the funniest and most poignant statements to date on a woman's sexual freedom and how it affects the men in her life. Includes a Lesbian making a pass at the main female character.
Director: Spike Lee
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Actresses: Opal Lee, Tracy Camilla Johns
Length: 100 min.
Genre: Women of Color
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Silkwood
Rating: 3
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1984
Meryl Streep is remarkable in the role of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear plant worker who died under mysterious circumstances after uncovering damaging information on the plant's hazardous working conditions. Cher plays Silkwood's lesbian roommate, a lonely but personable character that is quite refreshing, complex and affecting. She is seen in a tender but short-lived relationship with a lover, but is also seen suffering from an unrequited love for Silkwood. Based on a true story.
Director: Mike Nicols
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Actresses: Cher, Meryl Streep
Length: 165 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Siren
Rating: 3
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1996
Ella is captivated by Jodie, a writer of erotic fiction. Sent to her majestic country house to photograph her for a magazine. Ella discovers there is more to Jodie than meets the eye. Siren is an erotic lesbian drama made by women for women. Featuring a main cast of six beautiful women, Siren features exquisite visual imagery combined with a stunning soundtrack. It ain't half bad. It makes the rounds on some of the adult TV channels.
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Length: 51 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Sirens
Rating: 3
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1994
You might think the biggest draw to this film is to see Elle Macpherson nude. But she acts very well in this strange little comedy about a minister and his wife who try to bring some morality to a scandalous Australian artist. But it's him, and his three models, who manage to seduce Elle away from the straight and narrow. While there are some interesting water scenes (if you like to see beautiful women naked and wet, in slow motion, you'll love this film), including some potentially suggestive play between the women, the film is about seduction, not corruption.
Director: John Dunigan
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Actresses: Elle Macpherson, Portia de Rossi, Kate Fischer, Pamela Rabe
Length:
Genre: Drama
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Skin Deep
Rating: 3
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1996
Bisexual female director Alex Koyama wants insight into the pleasure/pain principle of tattooing. She hires Chris, a young person whose gender isn't easy to guess, but who has a serious self-mutilation habit, as her assistant/consultant. Chris soon thinks he's found a soul mate, and Alex is in no hurry to disabuse him of the notion. Against the warnings of her current lover, Montana, Alex invites Chris to involve himself in every aspect of Alex's professional and personal life, with unsettling consequences.

Note: There is another film of the same name.
Director: Midi Onodera
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Actresses: Natasuko Ohama, Melanie Nicholls-King
Length: 85 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Tea with Mussolini
Rating: 3
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1999
Touching story of an unwanted child who grows up during WWII in Italy. He's raised by an eccentric group of British and American women. Lily Tomlin is great as the lesbian archaeologist. Not a lot of lesbian content, but worthwhile.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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Actresses: Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Cher, Lily Tomlin
Length: 117 min.
Genre: Drama
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Teresa's Tattoo
Rating: 3
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1992
Although the notoriety of this film comes from the fact that it was directed by the ex-lover of Melissa Etheridge, one will be pleasantly surprised by her directorial abilities. A wacky, not-to-be-taken-seriously comedy about a band of bungling kidnappers that features a rousing soundtrack from Etheridge, as well as a funny cameo by kd lang. Includes a Lesbian hooker party. So, are they hookers for lesbians, or are they hookers who are lesbians?
Director: Julie Cypher
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Actresses: Nancy McKeon, Adrienne Shelly, Melissa Etheridge, kd lang.
Length: 95 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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The Color Purple
Rating: 3
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1985
Great film, but not much lesbianism. The romantic scene between two women involves one reaching to touch the other, who is giggling. Then we see the wind blowing.
Director: Steve Speilberg
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Actresses: Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey
Length: 130 min.
Genre: Women of Color
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The Group
Rating: 3
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1965
Seven women from Vassar meet years later. One of them kills herself. Candace Bergan is Lakey the lesbian in a suit.
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Actresses: Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Jessica Walter
Length: 150 min
Genre: Drama
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The Hunger
Rating: 3
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1983
Catherine Deneuve stars as Miriam, an icy, elegant vampires, hundreds of years old, who goes on the prowl for a new mate after her 200-year lover (David Bowie) quickly ages. Her affections find their way to Sara (Susan Sarandon), a doctor who has written on the subject of accelerated ageing. Dripping with cinematic style and chic sexual intrigue, The Hunger is both a chilling vampire tale and a sensuous drama of lesbian attraction and desire. The two romp, fall into each other's arms and make love -- and, of course, share blood. The two stars create unprecedented sensual sizzle.
Director: Tony Scott
Language:
Actresses: Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon
Length: 100 min.
Genre: Lesbian Vampire
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The Killing of Sister George
Rating: 3
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1968
The life of a Lesbian whose acting job on a soap opera, and her relationship, is about over. The film is overly long and far too stereotyped for its own good. Reid portrays an actress whose long-standing soap opera character, Sister George, is about to be killed off. She is offered the role of a cow, if she really wants to continue acting. George, as she is nicknamed, is brutal to her younger lover. George forces her lover to eat a cigar, from which she obtains sexual pleasure, until Alice (York) pretends to enjoy it. George cries out "Now you've ruined it for me!" George is presented as butch, brutal, unrepentant and even predatory (Alice: "Not all girls are bloody raving lesbians"......George: "That is a misfortune that I am perfectly well aware of.") However, the character is also something that most Lesbians in films were not: resilient. She never gives up, and never gives in.
Director: Robert Aldrich
Language:
Actresses: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Brown
Length: 140 min.
Genre: Camp
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The Moderns
Rating: 3
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1988
A cartoonist meets the likes of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and a woman who wears men's clothing.
Director: Alan Rudolph
Language:
Actresses: Linda Fiorentino, Genevieve Bujold
Length:
Genre: Drama
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The Vagina Monologues
Rating: 3
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2001
If you liked the stage presentation, you'll love the video. Eve interviewed hundreds of women about vaginas, sex and the whole darn thing, and Eve performs some of the highlights. Includes a dominatrix who loves to please women. Get used to the "C" word
Director: Eve Ensler
Language:
Actresses: Eve Ensler
Length: 76 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Thelma and Louise
Rating: 3
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1991
Sarandon and Davis star as two women on the run from the law. Their crime was fighting back, and they take it too far. It's listed here only because it's such a popular film with lesbians: there is no lesbian content in the film. But it's absolutely worth renting.
Director: Ridley Scott
Language:
Actresses: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis
Length: 120 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Therese and Isabelle
Rating: 3
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1968
A woman reminisces about a love affair she had with a girl in boarding school. Soft core porn/art film based on the novel by Violet Leduc.
Director: Radley Metzger
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Actresses: Essy Persson, Anna Gael, Barbara Laage, Anne Vernon
Length: 102 min.
Genre: Coming of Age
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Thieves
Rating: 3
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1996
A luminous and impossibly youthful Deneuve and a gruffly Auteuil are lovers of Côte, a young student in over her head in a scheme that comes to involve murder. Deneuve, a professor of philosophy, and Auteuil, a police inspector, are drawn together in their concern for the young woman, who begins to unravel under the pressure of her destructive associations. The film is at once hyperventilating and elegantly structured, seasoned with staccato dialogue that propels the convoluted plot with wit, awareness and just the right touch of Gaulic pretence. Concisely drawn characters add depth of understanding to the rapidly developed story line; director Téchiné's command of the film is complete and admirable. An intelligent, adult mystery-thriller that makes optimum use of all its components.

Note: There are other films by this title.
Director: Andre Téchiné
Language: French with English subtitles
Actresses: Catherine Deneuve, Laurence Côte
Length:
Genre: Thriller
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Three of Hearts
Rating: 3
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1992
A woman loses her bisexual lover, and hires a man to break the woman's heart. It's a heterosexual love story. The film uses Lesbianism more as a plot device than anything else, and as long as you're prepared for that, the film isn't too bad. Still lots of old stereotypes -- not all Lesbians are either butch (suits and ties) or femme (lacy dresses)-- but the main female characters, Connie and Ellen, are well-written.
Director: Yurek Bogayevicz
Language:
Actresses: Kelly Lynch, Sherilyn Fenn
Length: 93 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Tipping The Velvet
Rating: 3
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2002
A campy and somewhat erotic lesbian romp through the 1890s Victorian England underworld, with prostitution, cross-dressing, music halls, and rich society women who kept love slaves. Look for lines like "You exquisite tart!", seriously! Nancy works in her father's restaurant, and is smitten when new-male-impersonator-in-town Kitty arrives and leads her into sensuality, not sensibility.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Language:
Actresses: Rachael Stirling, Anna Chancellor, Keeley Hawes, Jodhi May
Length: 180 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Traveling Companion
Rating: 3
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1997
Helen, a travel writer with a broken heart, dips her toe into the dating pool by placing an ad for a travelling companion.
Director: Paula Goldberg
Language:
Actresses: Marga Gomez, Kristin Davis
Length: 16 min.
Genre: Drama
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Vampyros/Lesbos (Die Erbin Des Dracula)
Rating: 3
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1971
Erotic horror tale involves vixen vampires seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood. Cult favourite for its hot lesbian sex scenes and killer, psychedelic soundtrack.
Director: Jess Franco
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Actresses: Soledad Miranda, Ewa Stroemberg
Length: 92 min.
Genre: Lesbian Vampire
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Watching Her Sleep
Rating: 3
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1994
Funny short flick about a woman who fantasizes an entire relationship with a woman she sees in a store line-up.
Director: Barbara Rose Micheles
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Actresses: Wendy Dorr, Alex Lombard
Length:
Genre: Comedy
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We're Funny That Way
Rating: 3
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1998
Filmed at Canada’s first gay and lesbian comedy festival held in Toronto, this comic documentary features eleven of the best known and funniest queer comedians in North America:. Intercut between clips from each comedian’s routine are behind-the-scenes interviews. The culturally diverse comedians talk about the motivations, obstacles, struggles, pleasures, and success of being an openly out performer. They also tell of their struggles against homophobia in the entertainment industry, their family life growing up gay/lesbian and how their sexual orientation has become an integral part of their approach to comedy and their craft. In this irreverent and quite funny film, producer/director David Adlon (Jim Loves Jack) deftly blends information and humor to prove that the power of laughter can overcome social barriers.
Director: David Adlon
Language:
Actresses: Lea Delaria, Kate Clinton, Maggie Cassella, Karen Williams, Elvira Kirt
Length: 86 min.
Genre: Stand Up Comedy
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Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael
Rating: 3
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1990
A charming tale of an orphaned misfit who gets a new lease on life when she discovers that her mother may be a Hollywood star returning home for the first time in 15 years. Ryder's penchant for eccentric characterizations serves her well in her portrayal of Dinky Bossetti, a misanthropic teen whose only friends are the stray animals she keeps on a makeshift ark by the lake. Daniels is Denton Webb, the ex-lover who never got over losing Roxy. The overall warmth and sentimentality of the production make this an unqualified sleeper. Includes a couple of minor Lesbian characters. Includes a song by Melissa Etheridge.
Director: Jim Abraham
Language:
Actresses: Winona Ryder, Laila Robbins, Dinah Manoff, Karen Lee Hopkins
Length:
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Well Sexy Women
Rating: 3
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1993
A frank, informative and quite sexy video made by and for lesbians, about safer, sexier sex in the '90's.In a sensitive and passionate fashion, six beautiful women demonstrate safer sex techniques presented in a manner that eroticises safer sex techniques and clearly points out what is not considered safe.
Director: The Unconscious Collective
Language:
Actresses:
Length: 55 min.
Genre: Erotica
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What's Cooking?
Rating: 3
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2000
A great little "holiday" flick that intercuts the lives of 4 families on American Thanksgiving. The film has lots of laughs, especially at the expense of the uptight parents of the lesbian who brings her lover home. Again. Definitely a good film to rent right before taking the girlfriend home for the holidays.
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Language:
Actresses: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard
Length: 109 min.
Genre: Drama
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Wild Things
Rating: 3
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1997
Two sexy young women accuse their high school counsellor of rape. A hardened detective tries to investigate the crime. Lots of twists and turns, double-dealing and murder, and it's kind of cool for a movie with little lesbian content.
Director: John McNaughton
Language:
Actresses: Neve Campbell, Denise Richards
Length:
Genre: Action
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Women Of Brewster Place
Rating: 3
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1989
Marvelous made-for-TV movie about Black women sharing a tenement and endless problems. Includes minor Lesbian content.
Director: Donna Deitch
Language:
Actresses: Oprah Winfrey, Jackee, Robin Givens, Cicely Tyson
Length: 1989
Genre: Women of Color
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Xena (Season 1)
Rating: 3
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Xena kicked ass for the length of her TV series. The leather-clad warrior princess fought evil in human and god form, had her young sidekick (who turned into a hottie during the series!) and had fun while doing it! Xena Rocks!
Director: Various
Language:
Actresses: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor
Length:
Genre: Action
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Yentl
Rating: 3
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1983
Streisand disguises herself as a man in order to pursue an education. Includes typical "mistaken identity" girl/girl humour (since they get married!).
Director: Barbra Streisand
Language:
Actresses: Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving
Length: 120 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Yo, La Peor de Todas (I Worst of All)
Rating: 3
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1990
Sister Juana's love poems to the 17th Century Spanish Vicerine are only the beginning of the Sister's problems. Misogyny, political intrigue, despair and spiritual salvation follow her. Based on the poet's life.
Director: Maria Luisa Bemberg
Language:
Actresses: Assumpta Serta, Dominique Sanda
Length: 100 min.
Genre: Lesbian Nuns
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You've Got Mail
Rating: 3
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1999
This email love story includes an extremely minor subplot wherein Gillian leaves her soon-to-be-husband for the nanny, Maureen.
Director: Nora Ephron
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Actresses: Meg Ryan
Length:
Genre: Romance
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