Unrated Lesbian Films Q to S
Queer as Folk (Season 3)
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2003
Oh the trials and tribulations… for the dykes on the show, Melanie and Lindsay want another baby, but Brian refuses to donate his sperm. So in steps Michael! Must be good stuff, because now a baby's on the way. Mix in murder, politics, and new characters and you've got the 3rd season of this popular TV show.
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Actresses: Michelle Clunie, Thea Gill, Sharon Gless
Length: 673 min.
Genre: Drama
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Queer as Folk (Season 4)
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2004
The ongoing saga of our beloved queer family, complete with a couple of lesbians. How will Melanie handle having a case taken from her? Will Lindsay be able to deal with her attraction to Sam? What about Melanie and the baby? Oh. My. God.
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Actresses: Michelle Clunie, Thea Gill, Sharon Gless
Length: 673 min.
Genre: Drama
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Radical Harmonies
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2002
From the director of All God's Children comes a women's music documentary. This film chronicles the Women's Music Cultural Movement and its evolution from a "girl with guitar" to a revolution in the roles of women in music and culture. The movement gave birth to an alternative industry that changed women and music forever. Through festival and performance footage, interviews, and archival material, the film delves into the rich and beautiful history of women creating a cultural life based in a commitment to diversity, personal integrity, feminism and women loving women. In its heyday, during the 1970s and 80s, women's music offered a different message than mainstream musical culture. It opened doors for women musicians, producers, sound and light technicians and for new women-owned recording companies and women-oriented shows. Pioneers like Cris Williamson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Margie Adam and Linda Tillery recall the frustrations and the triumphs of finding women sound engineers and other professionals in a completely male-dominated industry.
Director: Dee Mosbacher
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Actresses: Cris Williamson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Margie Adam, Linda Tillery, Meg Christian
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Music
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Razor Blade Smile
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1998
It's 1850 and a woman is accidentally shot while trying to stop a duel. Fortunately, there's a vampire nearby who thinks she's so hot, he's just got to make her one of the undead. Now, 150 years in the future, she's kicking ass as a contract killer, dancing the night away in clubs and sleeping with any man or woman she wants.
Director: Jake West
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Length: 101 min.
Genre: Lesbian Vampire
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Red Heat
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1985
Blair is captured by Communists after inadvertently witnessing the abduction of a political dissident. She is sent to a hell-hole women's prison where the lesbian warden is sexually kept in check by prisoner Sylvia Kristel. A campy Kristel is the power-hungry vixen who reigns over a bevy of tattooed beauties. The film's darker, anti-gay side makes this action drama of real social interest for its equating of lesbianism with Communism and repression -- only the "bad girls" are lesbian.
Note: There is another film by the same name.
Director: Robert Collector
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Actresses: Linda Blair, Sylvia Kriste
Length: 104 min.
Genre: Women in Prison
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Reflections, A Moment In Time
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1987
"Bright strong Scorpio looking for friendship," so begins Xavier's ad in a lesbian correspondence club magazine. She finds a friend in Megan. Together they overcome the pain of racism and the fear of trusting and loving.
Director: Janet Liss
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Actresses: Dawn Margaret, Xavier
Length: 37 min.
Genre: Romance
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Regarde-Moi
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1997
Remember that steamy hot and slightly tawdry fantasy you had about a mysterious and stunning French woman who could make you do as she wished? Well, this one is better.
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Genre: Erotica
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Religieuse, La (The Nun)
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1966
Adapted from Denis Diderot's famous 18th-century novel about Suzanne Simonin--an illegitimate teenager forced to enter a convent by her family--this is the most accessible by far of all of Rivette's features. It has a straightforward narrative that mainly concentrates on Suzanne's experiences at two convents--one severe and punitive, the other "progressive" and more worldly (though no less stifling for Suzanne when she finds herself pursued by the lesbian mother superior)--before she escapes to encounter a different kind of oppression in the world outside. Far from a nonbeliever, Suzanne is a devout character without a religious calling, and the film as a whole is a complex celebration of her continuous drive toward freedom. From France.
Director: Jacques Rivette
Language: French
Actresses: Anna Karina
Length: 140 min.
Genre: Lesbian Nuns
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Render: Spanning Time with Ani Difranco
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2002
Join bisexual singer Ani Difranco, her band, and members of the extended Righteous Babe family as they criss-cross the country in this long-awaited, one-of-a-kind portrait of Ani at work. Videographers spent years on Ani's trail, capturing her onstage, in the studio, and on the tour bus--footage which Ani herself shaped into a very personal self-portrait. The resulting movie, which draws on material from as far back as 1997, focuses on her 2000 and 2001 tours. This impressionistic collage takes you way behind the scenes; you'll watch a new song take shape and learn the stories behind some favorite older ones. Over two dozen songs are featured, including two brand new Ani songs and previously unreleased live versions of many of her classics. As dynamic, thought-provoking, and fun as one of her concerts, Render gives you a sneak peek into Ani's life and music in her own words, on her own terms. It's a visual live album, it's a road film, it's an art flick, it's a document of a movement in time.
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Actresses: Ani DiFranco
Length: 112 min.
Genre: Music
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Rendezvous D'Anna, Les
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1978
A feminist film-maker, on her travels through Europe, negotiates social associations and sexual encounters according to her own, independent terms. Grim, dark, minimalist film.
Director: Chantal Akerman
Language: French
Actresses: Aurore Clement, Lea Massari
Length: 127 min.
Genre: International
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Reno: Rebel without a Pause
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2002
Dyke comedian Reno hilariously recounts personal thoughts as well as the insane political aftermath of the 9/11 disaster in this barbed and insightful one-woman show.
Director: Nancy Savoca
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Actresses: Reno
Length: 75 min.
Genre: Stand Up Comedy
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Rent-A-Girl / Aroused / Help Wanted Female
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Eager for a career in modeling, naive-and-not-very-bright Karen Anderson signs with a creepy brother and sister team whose Rent-a-Girl agency actually procures women for a rich and kinky clientele. Starting with posing for pictures in the nude, Karen soon graduates to being The Guest of Honor at a Special Party thrown by wealthy Harriet Grant, "a disgusting lady who enjoys whipping little girls 18 to 22." Full of sick eccentrics, the party's highlight comes when two women beat the bejesus out of Harriet before Karen is blindfolded and branded on the leg with a red hot poker! Plus: A "Sex Killer" prowls the streets of Manhattan killing hookers: "This guy is a nut! He'll grab any woman he thinks is a whore!" But when the lesbian lover of working girl Ginny Smith is strangled by the Aroused maniac, Ginny turns vigilante and, together with some of her prostitute pals, invades the creepy mannequin-filled apartment of their number-one suspect whom they plan on turning into "a boy soprano." Also: LSD causes Sebastian Gregory to tell a hooker all about how he and a bad blonde named Barbara murdered a teenage hitchhiker before he in turn hacked up Barb. The hooker thinks the acid is making him hallucinate -- until she finds blood in his bathroom and a trunk full of bones. So live dangerously and let these three strange Nudie-Noirs bring out the Freak in you!
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Length: 215 min.
Genre: Camp
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Revolutionary Girl Utena DVD 8: Unveiling
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Anime. Nanami discovers a terrible secret about her brother and runs away from home. Separated from the one person she loves the most, she begins to discover the true nature of her friends. Confronted with the cold indifference of the outside world and the cruelty of her peers, Nanami must decide whether to return home and live a lie, or to strike out on her own and build a new life. (Episodes 31-33)
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Genre: International
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Revolutionary Girl Utena DVD 9: Revelation
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1997
The unthinkable has happened: Utena has fallen in love with her best friend’s older brother. Although he is engaged to another woman, he seems to return her affections. But to be his princess, Utena must give up her goal of becoming a prince. Will her budding romance destroy her lifelong dream…and her precious friendship with Anthy?
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Length: 75 min.
Genre: International
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Rock Star
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2001
The lead singer of a tribute band becomes lead singer of the real band he idolizes. But the fast lane is too fast for this guy. Check out his girlfriend Emily, who locks lips with Tania, a male-to-female transsexual. Minor content here.
Director: Stephen Herek
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Actresses: Jennifer Aniston, Deborah Leydig
Length: 105 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Rocked with Gina Gershon
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2004
Yep, that's Gina as in Bound and Showgirls Gina. The one that every dyke wants, but will never get. C'est la vie!
Like a madcap cross between "Making the Band" and "Project Greenlight," IFC's hip, new series offers a riveting glimpse into a world most of us only dream about, as Gershon and indie rockers Girls Against Boys go on an erratic, multi-city tour across the U.S. With only two weeks to rehearse, and music critics waiting to tear apart the latest actor-turned-musician, will the band succeed or get laughed out of their venues?
From breast-baring fans to concert bomb threats, pre-show tequila shots and leather parades, IFC offers a backstage pass to all the madness in these six exciting episodes, featuring appearances by friends
Director: David Roma
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Actresses: Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo
Length: 180 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Rocky Horror Lives On: A Regular Frankie Fan
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2001
A must-have for Rocky Horror Picture Show fans. A peek at the phenomena of the legions of Rocky Horror Picture Show fans who dress up and throw a party every night the film plays somewhere in America. For twenty-five years people have been dressing up as Dr. Frankenfurter, No-neck and the whole cast, throwing rice, burning candles and putting newspaper over their heads. This is the first documentary to explore the subject. And if you have no idea what this is all about, go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Director: Scott Mabutt
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Length: 75 min.
Genre: Documentary
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S
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1998
In a phenomenal film debut, Natali Broods portrays a beautiful, young Belgian woman known only as S. She has moved to New York with her abusive boyfriend, and leads a life filled with chaos, trauma, and loneliness. Her distant mother is an alcoholic prostitute; her father was executed for murder. S's relationships are full of violence and twisted love.
After her boyfriend sleeps with an ex girlfriend in her presence, S. is so disgusted, she shoots them both in a strangely calm fit of passion. She returns to Brussels, where she becomes involved with the beautiful Marie. However, love is not enough, and she descends further into a downward spiral of insanity, manifesting in promiscuous sex, violence, and murder.
Containing graphic violence, with both heterosexual and lesbian sex, this film is like a car wreck—you can't help but stare. Crossing the fine line between reality and surrealism, while juxtaposing stunning cinematography with raw imagery, this is a strangely disturbing portrait of a physically beautiful young woman, unable to cope with the demons that are gripping her soul. With an edgy musical soundtrack, and lush cinematography, dysfunction has never looked so good! Filled with feminist and religious metaphor, there is more than meets the eye to this haunting vision of a girl on the edge! Not for the faint of heart, this film will not easily be forgotten. From Belgium,
Director: Guido Henderickx
Language: French w subtitles
Actresses: Natali Broods
Length: 94 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Salome (1922) & Lot in Sodom
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Salome - Alla Nazimova directed (under her husband Charles Bryant's name) this extravagant version of the Oscar Wilde play, with sets and costumes by Valentino's wife (and Nazimova's lover) Natasha Rambova, who based her work on the erotic drawings of Aubrey Beardsley. Sensual and wildly stylized, the story of Herod's vixen stepdaughter who danced for the head of John the Baptist is delightfully outrageous. Reportedly, the film was made with an all-gay/lesbian cast and crew. (Color Tinted)
Lot in Sodom - This European-influenced, avante-garde interpretation of the Old Testament tale of the trials of Kit features homoerotic imagery, sensual dances and distorted multiple images in telling its tale of a good man and his family living amidst a sexually charged band of homosexual Sodomites. The handsome angel, sent down by God to find 50 good men in the city, finds only writhing, half-naked bodies and thus destroys the city. (Black & White)
Director: Alla Nazimova (Charles Bryant), James Watson, Melville Webber
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Actresses: Alla Nazimova, Rose Dione
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Genre: Classic
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Sandra Bernhard : I'm Still Here, Damn It!
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1999
Originally made for HBO, this incisively funny comedy/performance piece by "bad girl" actress and comedienne Sandra Bernhard is a delight from beginning to end. Filmed in Francisco and shot by famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler, both the video and DVD includes 30 minutes of bonus material not seen on the cable broadcast. From her acting debut as the crazed, yet vulnerable kidnapper of Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy her career has been successful ( if a bit notorious.) Who could forget her memorable screen performances, her deliciously scandalous and stormy relationship with Madonna, her Off-Broadway one-woman shows and her self-acknowledged bisexuality. Yes, Miss Bernhard is a force to be reckoned with! Dangerously witty, sarcastic and intelligent yet oddly romantic, this performance targets a wide range of topics from politics to pop culture to celebrities (Courtney Love, Rosie O’Donnell, Mariah Carey and Fleetwood Mac are just a few of her victims). Super-pregnant at the time of filming for her first Broadway show, the lady is armed and ready to take aim! If you're in the public eye (and just a wee bit pretentious), duck! DVD contains 30 minutes of bonus material. It's presented full-frame with stereo sound.
Director: Marty Callner
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Actresses: Sandra Bernhard
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Stand Up Comedy
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Sappho '68
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1968
From 70’s Swedish adult film director Jan Anders, comes a deep, penetrating piece of artful vintage erotica! A probing examination of woman-to-woman pleasures, Sappho ’68 was a groundbreaking adult film that balanced artful, tasteful filmmaking with the seductive innocence of the soft core nudie-cutie genre. Showcasing the ample charms of 70’s erotic/exploitation cinema legend Uschi Digard
Director: Jan Anders
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Length: 90 min.
Genre: Camp
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Scarlet Diva
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2002
A 24-year-old Italian-born International film actress engages on a hectic and self-destructive spree which takes her across Europe and to America as she tries to shed her "boy-toy" image and become an "artist" in order to make a semi-biographical movie of herself titled Scarlet Diva.
Director: Asia Argento
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Actresses: Asia Argento, Jean Shepard
Length: 91 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Score
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1973
"A campy romp among swinging couples, Radley Metzger's 1973 movie is an early example of bisexual erotic film. Score may remind you of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - but here, the games are less traumatic and far sexier. Elvira and Jack bet on which of them can seduce a young innocent first...to the delights of (surprise!) same-sex lovemaking. There's a dinner party, parlour games, and a session of dress-up playacting, all leading to the inevitable girl-girl, boy-boy sex scenes. All this is handled with the requisite style of soft-core maestro Metzger, whose first foray into elegant hard-core eroticism will be appreciated by today's lesbian, gay and - especially - bisexual audiences in a way he may not have expected. Bring a friend...or two...and take bets on who will score first."
There are a number of films with the word Score in the title, include The Score, Final Score, and Score (gay men's porn)
Director: Radley Metzger
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Actresses: Claire Wilbur, Lynn Lowry
Length: 89 min.
Genre: Exploitation
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Secret Things
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2004
The film chronicles the rapid social rise of Sandrine and Nathalie, two avowed non-lesbians who set out on a quest for power using sexuality as their principal weapon. They learn to arouse themselves, to control and simulate pleasure as needed, and to guard against love, the main obstacle for aspiring femmes fatales. It may be the product of naiveté, and it certainly leads to a bloody catastrophe, but their program of political resistance is directly related to the imaginary. Voyeurism with only one eye open.
If you are unfamiliar with Brisseau's work, find out more about him and his directorial style before you go to see the film, or be prepared for an atypical French film. From the opening strip-club scene, the tenuousness of the film's attachment to realism is apparent.
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Language: French w. English subtitles
Actresses: Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou
Length: 115 min.
Genre: International
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Seducers, The (Sensation: Top Sensation)
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1970
A sexually kinky L'Avventura, this weird tale of love, power and violence features a rich lesbian who rules over a group of sexually ravenous and/or psychotic characters. Campy fun for all in this tale that shows lesbianism as normal, sensuous and epidemic!
Director: Ottavio Alessi
Language: Italian or dubbed English
Actresses: Maude de Balerouche
Length: 86 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Seduction of Inga
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1967
A lustful young woman (hey, this is the sixties, okay?) breaks up with her boyfriend, and finds another one. Then breaks up with him and gets another one. And then breaks up with him and… hey, is that another girl over there? Inga and Greta make some interesting self-discoveries in this late sixties erotic classic.
Director: Joseph W. Sarno
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Actresses: Marie Liljedahl
Length: 300 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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See the Sea (Regarde le mer)
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1998
This taut, menacing tale innocently begins at an isolated seaside resort where Sasha tends to her infant baby while waiting for her husband. Disturbing sexual tensions begin when Tatiana, female backpacker set up her tent nearby. The sullen, pale-faced Tatiana ingratiates herself into the pretty but lonely woman’s life with increasingly ominous tension tinged with lesbian attraction. An unsettling mood piece.
Director: Francois Ozon
Language: French with English subtitles
Actresses: Sasha Hails, Marina de Van
Length: 67 min
Genre: Bisexual
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Sex Monster
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1999
Mariel Hemingway is Marty's quietly contented wife Laura whose libido is set afire after she reluctantly agrees to allow another women in bed with her and her husband. Before one can spell out Sapphic, the blonde Laura is seducing just about every woman she meets -- and the gals aren't complaining! Laura's long pent-up lesbian desires explode into a frenzy of kisses, grinding and other oral pleasuring. And all of this action leaves Marty the odd man out. A pleasant and quite funny sex romp suitable for both leering heterosexual men and Hemingway-loving lesbians.
Director: Mike Binder
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Actresses: Mariel Hemingway, Renée Humphrey, Missy Crider
Length: 97 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Sex, Dykes, and Rock n Roll
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The title says it all in this collection of bawdy lesbian short films, intertwined with a documentary on the lesbian thrash metal band RASH - a very loud, provocative new band from Chicago - features their new music video "Ten Second Spot for the Lunatics." Shorts include: "Joystick Blues", "You Can Open Your Eyes Now", "Fingered" and "I Got this way from Kissin' Girls."
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Genre: Music
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Shades of Black
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1993
Kate is a young photographer being pursued by Lilly, an older woman from NYC. Kate thinks Lilly is cheating on her and the movie turns very dark.
Director: Mark Haverstick
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Actresses: Trisha McCormick, Jennifer MacDonald
Length: 115 min.
Genre: Drama
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Shades of Fear
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1997
Close quarters on ship becomes romance between mysterious older man and beautiful woman. Next cabin is occupied by two women who discover their love on this voyage.
Director: Beeban Kidron
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Actresses: Vanessa Redgrave, Dorothy Tutin
Length: 93 min.
Genre: Women of Color
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Shadows
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1985
The real-life couple are at it again, this time on a motorcycle, before heading to the basement full of whips, toys and leather.
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Director: Caerage, Teri
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Actresses: Caerage, Teri
Length: 30 min.
Genre: Erotica
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She Hate Me
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2004
The basic premise: Lesbian galore use the high-priced services of an attractive man as a sex partner/sperm donor. The controversy: Lots of lesbians paying to have sex with a guy, which is nothing more than a heterosexual male fantasy.
Well-known lesbian author and sex educator Tristan Taormino, hired as a consultant by Lee (just as the Warchowski Brothers hired Susie Sexpert for Bound), defends the film, saying lesbians face a variety of options for getting pregnant. “ I can appreciate when lesbians say that they feel like they don’t see themselves, their lives, or their realities represented in this film, but I don’t think it is meant to represent all lesbians of color, all upwardly-mobile dykes, all lesbian moms, etc.,” she said.
African-American author Rosalind Lloyd, who appreciated Lee’s vision of lesbianism and black female sexuality in “She’s Gotta Have It,” was disappointed. “Real, authentic lesbians will not sleep with men, for any reason at all,” she said. “Spike is obviously striving to achieve wider appeal by portraying this much in the same way we’ve been bombarded with heterosexual sex scenes during the first season of ‘The L Word.’”
Director: Spike Lee
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Actresses: Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Sarita Choudhury
Length: 138 min.
Genre: Drama
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She Mob
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1968
Start by making a cheap "nudie," throw in some Russ Meyer touches (see Faster Pussycat...Kill! Kill!); and top off with "Big Shin" (a tough talking' power-hungry dyke with a penchant for conical shaped bras and leather undies); and you've got yourself 79 minutes of cheesy, guilty-pleasure excitement. Ringleader Big Shin (Marni Castle) and four of her girls break out from a women's prison and hole up in a farmhouse. The women, all sexually starved, silicone-breasted beauties, are tired of masturbating (Big Shin watching and slobbering) and want a man (read dick). So to keep her girls in line, Shin kidnaps a rich businesswoman's paid stud, and while waiting for the ransom, lets her ravenous underwear-clad women at him. Things get out of hand when Baby, Shin's favourite, joins in the hetero fun. The businesswoman (also played by Castle) has balls herself and hires "girl detective" Sweetie (Monique Duvall) (read bimbo with a gun) to recapture her invaluable gigolo. Truly a '60s camp wonder with outrageous outfits and an unbelievably vicious lesbian villain who dies in a blaze of gunfire in a grand "Is this the end of Rico?" finale.
Director: Alfred Sack
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Actresses: Marnie Castle, Monique Duvall
Length: 79 min.
Genre: Camp
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She Must Be Seeing Things
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1987
Independent film about a relationship between two women: a Black lawyer and a white film maker. This interesting love story follows the rocky relationship of Agatha, a New York lawyer, and Jo, a filmmaker. While Jo is out of town, Agatha comes upon her diary and photos which suggest that she is developing an interest in men and may be unfaithful to her. Agatha's growing jealousy and her frantic attempts to keep her wavering lover interested result in her donning men's clothing and spying on her unsuspecting partner. The drama is a bit stilted and not entirely successful, but there are moments of great insight.
Director: Sheila McLaughlin
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Actresses: Sheila Dabney, Lois Weaver
Length: 85 min.
Genre: Women of Color
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Shelter Island
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2003
Lou Delemere, a former pro golfer turned motivational speaker has a picture-perfect life is shattered after she is assaulted near her Manhattan home. Retreating to her country cottage on Shelter Island with her female lover. Lou seeks peace and time to heal - but she gets neither when a massive storm cuts the women off from the world and leaves them in the company of an unwelcome stranger and a deranged sheriff.
Director: Geoffrey Schaaf
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Actresses: Ally Sheedy, Patsy Kennit
Length: 90 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
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1997
A tomboy orphan's life takes her to the Ohtori Academy, where the "Student Council" holds secret fights for The Rose Bride and the chance of revolutionizing the world. Utena wins the fight and becomes "engaged" to the young woman (Anthy). While being referred to as Utena sama is not Utena's particular cup o'tea, she views her new position as a chance to free Anthy from her past life as the Council member's servant and as an opportunity to become Anthy's friend and protector, her prince. Her naiveté and incomprehension of the Ohtori Academy's true ideals, though, lead Utena down a long, treacherous, delightfully nonsensical, and always entertaining path. This is an animated (anime) series.
Director: Ikuhara Kunihiko
Language: Japanese
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Genre: International
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Significant Others
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A delightful collection of short films about lesbian relationships. Features the shorts "Dike" by Lisa Hayes, "Potluck and the Passion" by Cheryl Dunye, "Cruel" by Desi del Valle, "Seth's Aunts" and more.
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Length: 65 min.
Genre: Compilation
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Silent Pioneers
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1984
Interviews and profiles of nine gay and Lesbian senior citizens.
Director: Lucy Winer
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Genre: Documentary
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Sin in the City
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1968
Three boarding school girls decide to venture to the Big City for a weekend of no-holds-barred thrills -- yes, trouble was what there were seeking and trouble is what they found! Their first stop is a seedy Greenwich Village strip bar where they meet some lowlifes who somehow coax the gals to jump on the bar, strip and dance! They then go to a swanky uptown party which turns into a sex and booze orgy. A beautiful blonde woman makes the moves on one of the starry-eyed students, only to be rudely rebuffed. Hurt, she rhetorically asks, " What do they (men) have that I don't have?" Campy fun for the whole family!
Director: Barry Mahorn
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Length: 81 min.
Genre: Exploitation
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Sin in the Suburbs
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1964
This early "nudie" exposes the teeming sexual corruption lurking behind the well-tended lawns of suburbia! With its depiction of extramarital group sex, a mysterious cloak-and-mask sex club and jailbait lesbianism, this was truly a film ahead of its time. After their husbands go to work, a group of sexually frustrated wives booze it up, have wanton sex and even dance the twist with their children's teenaged boyfriends. And you wondered what your mom did while you were at school! Absurdly funny and scandalous -- in a clean-cut American fashion!
Director: Joseph W. Sarno
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Length: 88 min.
Genre: Exploitation
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Since Stonewall
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1991
Independent gay and lesbian filmmakers are the focus in this entertaining ten-short compilation that deals, both seriously as well as humorously, with such topics as AIDS, female impersonation and coming out. Highlights include Gus Van Sant's Discipline of DE -- (DE, or Do Easy, refers to an at-peace approach to life and inanimate objects inspired by William Burroughs); Bust, in which Holly Brown becomes a multiple-personalities Bette Davis-type mother-in-law from hell; and Queerdom, an animated tale of a muscle man who wakes up one morning suddenly "feeling a little queer." Other shorts include Final Solution by Jerry Tartaglia, Anton by Robert Dunlap and 976- by David Weissman.
Director: David Weissman, Jeey Tartaglia, Gus Van Sant
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Length: 80 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Sinful Nuns of St Valentine (Le communicate di S Valentino)
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1974
An Italian nunsploitation film in which a demented mother superior and a collection of sex-crazed sisters lose their habits and morals with equal gusto!
Director: Sergio Grieco
Language: Italian
Actresses: Jenny Tamburi
Length: 93 min.
Genre: Lesbian Nuns
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Single White Female
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1992
A pseudo-lesbian Fatal Attraction that falters in the sexual orientation despite amble room for a great lesbian-roommate-from-hell flick.
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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Actresses: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Length: 107 min.
Genre: Thriller
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Sink or Swim
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1990
Su Friedrich's film explores the highly charged relationship between child and parent. Travelling backwards from the letter z, a young girl narrates twenty-six short stories which recount the memories about a father she both fears and admires. Images from family vacations, the circus and Death Valley, interlaced with her voiceover suggest an unbreachable distance, culminating in her father's betrayal. A startling beautiful and fearless account of the profound connection between father and daughter.
Director: Su Friedrich
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Length: 48 min.
Genre: Drama
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Sister My Sister
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1994
Inspired by Jean Genet's "The Maids," this provocative and polished drama is set in 1930s France and stars Joely Richardson and Jodhi May as two repressed sisters who work as servants to an obsessively demanding madam (Julie Walters) who rules her house, and the life of her daughter, with a velvet-gloved iron fist. Held virtual prisoners in the claustrophobic house, the two young women soon become incestuously involved with each other and their hot passions soon unravel their facade of orderliness. A highly sensual, intense, at times funny but ultimately unsettling tale.
Director: Nancy Mekler
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Actresses: Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Julie Walters
Length: 89 min.
Genre: Drama
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Slaves to the Underground
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1998
Set in the alternative subculture thriving in the clubs and coffee houses of Seattle, the story centres on the romantic triangle between Suzy, the brash rebellious lead singer of an all girl band, Jimmy the writer, and Shelly the intensely emotional musician who is torn between them.
Director: Kristine Peterson
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Actresses: Molly Gross, Marisa Ryan
Length: 92 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Sleep Come Free Me
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1998
A young woman's unbearably dull life is being infiltrated by her rich and sexy fantasy life.
Director: Laurie Schmidt
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Length: 19 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Some Prefer Cake
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1997
Director Heidi Arnesen puts a twist on romantic comedy convention with Some Prefer Cake, her San Francisco-set first feature about a pair of best friends, one gay and one straight, united by their lack of judgment in matters of the heart. Kira, an aspiring comedian by night who fills orders in a comic book warehouse by day, spends her free time hunting new sexual conquests. Her friend Sydney's stuck in a rut fixing other people's copy at the local paper, dreaming of writing restaurant reviews and sublimating her sexual insecurities with food. When the friends feud, their rift gives each a chance to lurch a half-step forward.
Director: Heidi Arnesen, Jeannie Kahaney
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Actresses: Kathleen Fontaine, Tara Howley, Desi del Valle
Length: 94 min.
Genre: Romance
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Something to Sing About
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1995
This inspiring, award-winning documentary follows the 100-strong Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir as they travel across the continent to compete in the National Championships. Decked in purple waistcoats with the odd touch of chain and leather, the choir is the pride and joy of Australia's vibrant gay and lesbian community. From Gershwin to spirituals to Abba, the singing is joyful, the competition intense, and the backstage tension very real. Something to Sing About gives a rare insight into the workings of a large and celebrated choir and takes audiences on a rich, emotional musical journey.
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Director: Marin Daley
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Length: 55 min.
Genre: Music
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Sonia Johnson: Going Farther Out of Our Minds
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1988
Essentially a videotaped yet exhilarating speech, Sonia Johnson lectures on a variety of issues: the enslavement of women through the patriarchal society; the weaknesses of current feminist movements; and offering a vision of a new world order. Not lesbian-themed, the tape offers a fascinating insight of what possibilities exist for women, especially those willing to be radical in the fight for these rights.
Director: Sonia Johnson
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Actresses: Sonia Johnson
Length: 100 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Sophie Hawkins: The Cream Will Rise
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1997
Far from your ordinary “behind-the-scenes” documentary, The Cream Will Rise is an often time uncomfortably intimate but revelatory portrait of singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins. A self-acknowledged ominsexual , Hawkins became a heroine in queer politics when she successfully opposed her record company’s insistence that she delete the “her” in her hit song, “Damn, I Wish I Were Your Lover.” Filmed by her ex-lover Gaston, the film follows Hawkins as she prepares for her 1996 cross-country tour and the release of her third album. Part diva, part free spirit and part emotionally traumatized woman-child, Hawkins allows a peek into her life that few stars would ever consent. For, in addition to scenes from her rehearsals and clips from her often-frenzied musical performances, events much more personal are uncovered. The camera is in tow as Hawkins returns to her childhood home in New York’s Upper West Side to both meet her mother and confront some long repressed childhood traumas. Those incredibly honest scenes with her family and especially her mother are quite astonishing. Through Hawkins’ moments of desperation and exhilaration and moments of self-discovery, we are witnesses to a complex and honest portrayal of a fascinating woman and artist.
Director: Gigi Gaston
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Actresses: Sophie B. Hawkins
Length: 87 min.
Genre: Music
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Sordid Lives
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2000
A soap star goes back to his white trash roots as three generations of Texans gather for a funeral. Look for Olivia Newton-John's cameo as a mysterious country crooner and lesbian ex-con.
Director: Del Shores
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Actresses: Bonnie Bedelia, Delta Burke, Olivia Newton-John
Length: 111 min.
Genre: Camp
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Southern Comfort
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2001
Kate Davis' heart-wrenching, gender-bending love story swept 20 major film festivals worldwide in awards including Sundance - Grand Jury prize, Berlin Film Festival - Special Audience Award, Provincetown Film Festival - Best Documentary. Southern Comfort follows 52-year-old Robert ads, a wise-cracking cowboy who was born female, in the last year of his life as he falls into a passionate romance with Lola, a vivacious and magnetic woman who was born male. An illuminating and deeply moving film, Southern Comfort has a rare blend of humor, tragedy and romance.
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Director: Kate Davis
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Length: 90 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Space Thing
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1968
A sci-fi buff dreams himself into a universe of intergalactic space-age sex and satellites, complete with an insatiable bisexual queen mother and her voluptuous female crew. The low-budget special F/X, set designs and acting, clearly inspired by the Ed Wood, Jr. school of filmmaking, and spiced with healthy doses of humor, will send you into orbit.
Director: B. Ron Elliott
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Actresses: April Playmate
Length: 70 min.
Genre: Fantasy
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Spun
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2002
This roller coaster ride depicting four days in the life of a group of speed freaks has a real gay feel to it. Blondie diva Deborah Harry plays a nosy man-hating, butch-dyke neighbor who steals the girl, Eric Roberts dives right into the role an over-the-top totally queenie drug dealer adorned on both sides by hunky Abercrombie and Fitch-type models. Openly gay Alexis Arquette butches it up as a drug-addicted cop with some wild sunglasses. A heavily tattooed ex-Judas Priest front man Rob Halford (who it is rumored was booted out of the band for coming out) makes an appearance as the manager of an adult video arcade. And sexy John Leguizamo spends most of the film either half dressed or undressed as he performs a hilarious extended masturbation scene wearing only a sock over his dick. All this, a great story and a terrific soundtrack. We advise you not to rent the R-rated version of this racy movie, there's lot of annoyingly foggy body parts and bleeping.
Director: Jonas Akerlund
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Actresses: Mena Suvari, Brittany Murphy, Deborah Harry
Length: 101 min.
Genre: Drama
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Stardom
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2000
The story is told entirely through the lens of VH1 reporters, commercials, a paparazzi documentarian and news reports. Everything told in the film has a slant or an angle. We never learn who our characters actually are, only what we see through the eyes of manipulative news reporters. Tina Menzhal (Pare) is a woman's hockey player who is "discovered" by a sports photographer who shows her image to a modelling agency. Tina's presence impresses the agency and she is hired to do some minor modelling work. Tina goes to Paris, fails, and returns home disgusted. Her journey takes her back to New York and she achieves success and "stardom". Along the way she falls for a sexy photographer and a sad middle aged restaurateur, Barry Levine (Aykroyd). Dan Akroyd turns in an excellent performance, breaking the mold in much the way his Saturday Night Live compatriot, Bill Murray, did two years ago in the brilliant Rushmore. Lots of gay and lesbian characters everywhere in the script keep it interesting.
Director: Denys Arcand
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Actresses: Jessica Paré
Length: 103 min.
Genre: Drama
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Starring: Rosa Furr...and Other Queer Tales
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2003
A collection of gay/lesbian shorts featuring the festival favorite "Starring: Rosa Furr", a B&W silent film about a waitress who witnesses a mob murder. She flees to San Francisco where she finds a job with a struggling theater company and falls in love with the leading star, Rosa Furr. The collection also includes "Angel in the Attic", "D.W." and interviews with the filmmakers on the history of African-American gay and lesbian presence in cinema.
Director: Durand Williams, Lara Williams
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Length: 86 min.
Genre: Short Film
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Straight From the Heart
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1994
Documentary for parents on how to coming to terms with a child who is gay or Lesbian. Includes a Black woman whose 2 lesbian daughters have been accused of catching lesbianism from white people. Nominated for an Academy Award.
Director: Frances Reid
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Length: 25 min.
Genre: Documentary
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Strange Fits of Passion
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1999
Our unnamed heroine, "She", works in a bookshop in an unnamed Australian city and spouts the line that romance is a patriarchal plot, yet she's desperate to find a boyfriend. After a string of disastrous encounters with men, she begins to suspect she might be gay. But is she really? Or does she have a subconscious fear of sex? Or maybe she just really wants to lose her virginity to some guy.
Director: Elise McCredie
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Actresses: Michela Noonan
Length: 84 min.
Genre: Almost Lesbian
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Strange Love
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1997
Animated film (anime). Busty and beautiful Yoshida is the sexiest co-ed in her class, and her professor wants her for some very special extracurricular activities. How will he react to being dumped for another woman? Hilarity ensues!
Director: Dajii Suzuki
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Length: 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Strangers With Candy
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1999
From TV's Comedy Central to your home. Jerri Blank, a 46 year old bisexual high school freshman who has returned to school after being a teenage runaway prostitute and drug addict. She tries to reform and act like the other kids, but her streetwise ways get her into nasty trouble. These first ten episodes chronicle her tragic adventures and are a comic treat. With buck teeth, nasty wrinkles, bad hair and bad dress, Jerri grabs her biology books and forges her way into a foreign world. Supporting characters play upon various politically incorrect stereotypes, like the African-American principal named "Onyx Blackman" or the very butch, innuendo-heavy gym coach Cherri Wolf. Hideous, trashy, and hilariously pushing the boundaries of sex and raunchiness as Comedy Central has oft been known to do, Strangers With Candy is not to be missed.
Director: Danny Leiner, Peter Lauer, Adam Bernstein
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Length: 246 min.
Genre: Comedy
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Such A Crime
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1998
Skip, the top agent of a band of lesbian eco-terrorists, puts her organization in jeopardy with her indiscreet sexual behaviour. Wounded and at risk, she must hide out at a safe house where she is tended to by the beautiful Jenn. Jenn wants a normal life and one other thing -Skip.
Director: Cheryl Newbrough
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Actresses: Heather King, Michelle Maloy, Mary-Kate Stoeves, Michelle Beyda, Aerin Harris
Length: 48 min.
Genre: Romance
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Sugar Cookies
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1973
A porn filmmaker convinces his lead actress to kill herself. Her lesbian lover sets out for vengeance by seducing another woman, convincing her to set up the porn maker. From "Troma" video, well-known for its quirky and sometimes fun Grade B movies.
Director: Theodore Gershuny
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Actresses: Mary Woronov, Monique Van Vooren and Lynn Lowry
Length: 82 min.
Genre: Exploitation
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Sugar Sweet
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2001
Naomi is having a hard time directing her first porn picture and a reality-TV-type lesbian love story at the same time. All the while, Naomi spends her nights online, confessing her fears and dreams to a gentle, supportive soul known only by her screen name Sugar. It's as campy and sex-filled as it sounds, a rambunctious trip through Japanese urban dyke culture. Includes strap-ons, leather, plastic wrap and vibrating tit-clamps.
Director: Dez Lim
Language: Japanese with English
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Length: 67 min.
Genre: Erotica
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Summer Lovers
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1982
This menage-a-trois flick set in Greece combines luscious Mediterranean beach scenery, a cheesy soundtrack, and sexy bodies into a flick that's entertaining and undemanding.
Director: Randal Kleiser
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Actresses: Daryl Hannah, Valerie Quennessen
Length: 98 min.
Genre: Bisexual
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Suzanne Westenhoefer: Live from the Village
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2004
Suzanne, as always, is entertaining and enlightening. Recently appeared as the first-ever out lesbian or gay comedian to perform on Late Show with David Letterman! Her CDs Nothing in My Closet but My Clothes and I'm Not Cindy Brady have both won the Gay and Lesbian American Music Award (GLAMA) for Best Comedy CD.
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Actresses: Suzanne Westenhoefer
Length: 60 min.
Genre: Stand Up Comedy
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Swimming
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2000
The easy life of summertime in Myrtle Beach is turned upside down for one local girl when two strangers come to town: a beautiful temptress and a charming drifter. Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose experiences a little sexual confusion in this charmer.
Director: Robert J. Siegel
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Actresses: Lauren Ambrose
Length: 98 min.
Genre: Coming of Age
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Switchblade Sisters (The Jezebels)
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1975
Teenage girls end up in juvenile detention, under the care of a predatory Lesbian warden.
Director: Jack Hill
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Actresses: Joanne Nail, Robbie Lee, Chase Newhart, Kitty Bruce, Monica Gayle
Length: 91 min.
Genre: Women in Prison
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Sword for Truth
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1998
Manga (animated). The main character is a swordsman who screws and kills almost anything that moves. Includes a minor lesbian scene.
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Genre: Action
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