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1) Karmen Gei
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A retelling of the celebrated "Carmen" myth set in contemporary Senegal to African music and dance. Director Joseph Gaï Ramaka writes: "Carmen is a myth but what does Carmen represent today? Where do Carmen's love and freedom stand at the onset of the 21st Century? Therein lies my film's intent, a black Carmen, plunged in the magical and chaotic urbanity of an African city." Prosper Merimée's novella, adapted in Bizet's celebrated opera, has already...
2) Kiss me
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The stunning Ruth Vega Fernandez stars as Mia, a thirty-something well-to-do architect who finds her life turned upside down when she unexpectedly falls in love with the free-spirited Frida (beautiful blond Liv Mjones). The two women meet at an engagement party in the country - Frida's mother is about to marry Mia's father - and discover an instant attraction that immediately calls into question Mia's engagement to her longtime boyfriend Tim. Notable...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Based on the classic lesbian play, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, the gorgeous drama Liz in September stars Latina lesbian supermodel Patricia Velasquez as Liz, a hardcore party girl and womanizer. Liz (who is ill) and her friends are at a beach resort celebrating what they don't realize could be her last birthday. When an outsider joins the party, Liz's friends dare her to seduce the newcomer - and nothing turns out as expected.
4) Ammonite
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In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds...
5) Lez Bomb
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
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Description
From the executive producer of There's Something About Mary comes a holiday comedy about a woman (Writer-Director, Jenna Laurenzo) who comes home with life changing news. As it turns out, there is no good time to drop the LEZ BOMB.
6) Walk With Me
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
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As Amber braves life after divorce, the young mother must challenge herself to take some personal risks after finding love in an unexpected place. "Walk with Me" addresses the many aspects of what it means to be a woman - motherhood, marriage, family, career, sexuality - and deftly explores how to balance them.
7) Lyle
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
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Description
An expecting couple, Leah (Gaby Hoffmann - Emmy nominee: GIRLS & TRANSPARENT) and June (Ingrid Jungermann), move into a Brooklyn brownstone apartment with their toddler daughter, Lyle. Despite the strange baby-obsessed landlady downstairs and the group of female models who live above them, the two are happy with their new apartment until a bizarre accident leads to the death of Lyle. Months later, Leah is still grief-stricken, trying to make sense...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In order to pursue her love of writing, Juana enters the convent and gains international renown. When the Inquisition comes, the local Vicereine (Dominique Sanda) becomes Juana's protectress and erotic muse, and soon begins a thrilling romance of startling passion and intensity.
10) Princess Cyd
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Description
PRINCESS CYD follows 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin (Jessie Pinnick) while visiting her novelist aunt (Rebecca Spence) in Chicago over the summer. Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, Cyd falls for a girl in the neighborhood, while she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit. Official selection at the **BFI London Film Festival**.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
13) Summerland
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.
14) Aimée & Jaguar
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In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. One of them, Lilly Wust (NOWHERE IN AFRICA's Juliane Köhler), married and the mother of four sons, enjoys the privileges of her stature as an exemplar of Nazi motherhood. For her, this affair will be the most decisive experience of her life. For the other woman, Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader), a Jewess...
15) Drive-away dolls
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Formats
Description
Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit lamenting yet another breakup with a girlfriend, decides to tag along on vacation with her shy friend Marian, who desperately needs to loosen up. Things quickly go awry when they accidentally rent the car some incompetent criminals are using for a drop. Pursued across state lines by goons, and aided by Jamie's ex, who is a cop, the two are oblivious to the happenings around them, their own developing feelings, and...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2001
Description
This book collects Lisa Kron's two extraordinary solo performance works. Best known for her ongoing work as a member of The Five Lesbian Brothers, Kron's solo pieces are very personal examinations of both herself and her family history. This is singularly clear in 2.5 Minute Ride, where her writing deftly maneuvers between the tragic drama of the Holocaust and the wry comedy of her family's attempts to pursue pleasure at the local amusement park....
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
This character-driven film follows Abbie as she departs for college, leaving her parents Mark and Tish, and her brother Kayden who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her new found independence with her roommate Jen and falls in love with a girl named Karly, Abbie is torn between her new life and the guilt of leaving her brother as her family struggles to care for him in her absence.
19) The favourite
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Early eighteenth-century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health. When a new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become time-consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps in to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their growing friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her...
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