LGBTQ+ films and series (mostly sapphic)
LGBTQ+ main and side characters in film, series and animated films. Keywords: lgbt, gay, lesbian, sapphic, trans, transgender, queer, drag, bisexual.
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- StarsMarisol Agostina IrigoyenNatalia di CienzoMelissa RomeroSeries follows Juana, a 17-year-old girl in a wheelchair who's eager to explore her sexuality.
- CreatorCaroline DriesStarsCamrus JohnsonRachel SkarstenMeagan TandyBatwoman seeks justice for Gotham City.
- DirectorAnatol SchusterStarsAnna Brodskaja-BomkePeter CieslinskiJakob D'AprileLouk is deep as the sea. Manja is pure as the air. Her love means: No fear. No lie. No trace.
- DirectorPatty JenkinsStarsCharlize TheronChristina RicciBruce DernBased on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
- DirectorKeith BehrmanStarsJosh WigginsDarren MannTaylor HicksonTwo popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
- DirectorCatherine CorsiniStarsCécile de FranceIzïa HigelinNoémie LvovskyA young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader in this drama set in 1970s France.
- DirectorAlexandra-Therese KeiningStarsRuth Vega FernandezLiv MjönesKrister HenrikssonA young woman engaged to be married finds herself in an affair with her soon-to-be stepmother's lesbian daughter.
- CreatorJulie AndemStarsAxel AuriantLula Cotton-FrapierAssa SyllaFollowing the daily life of a band of high school students with their worries and scandals, but also the construction of their identity, their choices and their journey towards adulthood.
- StarsLea Zoë VossTouka El-FawwalLilly DreesenDruck follows a group of friends in their teen life in Berlin and deals with daily and current events, like friendship, love and the search for their own identity. Every season centers on a new character.
- StarsSuus de NiesZoë Love SmithBo van Borssum WaalkesThe story of a group teenagers on a secondary school in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- DirectorFloria SigismondiStarsKristen StewartDakota FanningMichael ShannonA coming-of-age biographical film about the 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. The relationship between band members Cherie Currie and Joan Jett is also explored.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsAlexandra DahlströmRebecka LiljebergErica CarlsonTwo teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
- DirectorOlga ChajdasStarsEliza RycembelJulia KijowskaAndrzej KonopkaNina, a teacher in her mid-30s struggling to have a child, looks for a surrogate mother. It would seem that with her husband, she has found an ideal candidate, yet Nina falls for the woman who could have given birth to her child.
- DirectorAngela RobinsonStarsLuke EvansRebecca HallBella HeathcoteThe story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
- DirectorTodd SolondzStarsHeather MatarazzoChristina BrucatoVictoria DavisAn awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
- DirectorFina TorresStarsPatricia VelasquezEloisa MaturenMimi LazoThis story follows Eva, a traveler who experiences some car trouble and ends up spending some time with a group of women in a hotel outside of town. These women gladly accept Eva into their home and help her to feel at home. Quickly Eva discovers the secret that unifies these seven interesting women she's met. As relationships are being formed, an even deeper relationship forms between Eva and Liz. As they go on different adventures, Liz's secret that she's kept from everyone is revealed and it takes a toll on everyone involved. . It is worthy to note that there are not many male characters in this film, which leaves room for these women to show their own strengths, capabilities and who they truly are as vibrant women living their lives.
- DirectorMadeleine OlnekStarsMolly ShannonSusan ZieglerAmy SeimetzDramatization of the little known side of the writer Emily Dickinson's life, in particular, her relationship with another woman.
- DirectorJulius SevcíkStarsCarice van HoutenHanna AlströmClaes BangLiesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s.
- DirectorKelli HerdStarsKeri Jo ChapmanTeresa GarrettDerrick SandersResidents of the fictional town of Azalea Springs, Texas go into a panic after a gay local says the town's water supply is what made him gay.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsFanny ArdantAnia BuksteinMichal ShtamlerTwo brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out.
- DirectorMaria MaggentiStarsLaurel HollomanNicole Ari ParkerMaggie MooreAn adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsWendy CrewsonKaryn DwyerChristina CoxMaggie, 19, works at a lesbian/LGBT bookstore. Her mom's getting divorced and has invited herself to stay with Maggie. Maggie hasn't told her, she's lesbian. Her new girlfriend moves in as well.
- DirectorLéa PoolStarsKarine VanassePascale BussièresPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicIn the year 1963, an awkward thirteen-year-old girl comes of age during her escapism into the world of cinema, with potentially dangerous results.
- DirectorDesiree AkhavanStarsDesiree AkhavanRebecca HendersonHalley FeifferShirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities. Being without a cliché to hold onto can be a lonely experience.
- CreatorDesiree AkhavanRowan RileyStarsDesiree AkhavanMaxine PeakeBrian GleesonDramedy series examining the life of a woman who breaks off with her long term girlfriend and tries having a relationship with a man for a change.
- DirectorMaria MaggentiStarsKen BarnettJulianne NicholsonBrian LetscherA recently-singled New York writer finds herself in two surprising and complicated relationships.
- DirectorLisa CholodenkoStarsAnnette BeningJulianne MooreMark RuffaloTwo children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.
- DirectorFrancis LeeStarsKate WinsletSaoirse RonanGemma Jones1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
- DirectorDae Hyung LimStarsKim Hee-aeYûko NakamuraKim SohyeYoon-Hee lives with her teenage daughter Sae-Bom. On a winter day, Yoon-Hee receives a letter from Otaru, Japan. Sae-Bom accidentally reads the letter and learns about her mother's first love, which she never spoke about before.
- DirectorShirel PelegStarsMoran RosenblattLuise WolframRivka MichaeliWhen two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, chaos follows. What happens with lovers who don't fit--but do belong together?
- DirectorKatie FoundStarsArthur AngelMarkella KavenaghSteve MouzakisIsolated Claudia hides away on a remote property after her mother's death. Shocked when spirited local teen Grace appears in her garden, the pair find support and love in each other.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsOlivia ColmanEmma StoneRachel WeiszIn early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.
- DirectorAnnabel JankelStarsBilly BoydGregor SelkirkAnna PaquinIn 1950s small town Britain, a doctor develops a relationship with her young patient's mother.
- DirectorLouise WadleyStarsMandahla RoseBrett RogersJulia BillingtonA beautiful sexy DJ is forced to run when she stumbles on a stash of cash. Can she keep the money, conquer her demons, AND get the girl?
- CreatorBrad IngelsbyStarsKate WinsletJulianne NicholsonJean SmartA detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
- DirectorPapu CurottoStarsIgnacio RogersEsteban MasturiniJoaquín ParadaTwo boyhood chums, separated soon after sexually awakening together, re-meet as young men with unspoken sexual tensions lying between them.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsFélix LefebvreBenjamin VoisinPhilippine VelgeWhen 16-year-old Alexis capsizes off the coast of Normandy, 18-year-old David heroically saves him. Alexis has just met the friend of his dreams, who opens his eyes to a new horizon of friendship, art and sexual bliss.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsGabriel D'Almeida FreitasXavier DolanPier-Luc FunkHidden feelings come to light and threaten the bond of a group of friends in their late 20s.
- CreatorRussell T. DaviesStarsOlly AlexanderNathaniel CurtisShaun DooleyThe lives of a group of friends living in 1980s London are irreparably changed by the AIDS crisis.
- CreatorDaniel BarnzZelda BarnzStarsNathanya AlexanderChloe EastNava MauHigh school students explore modern sexuality, testing deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community.
- DirectorJenna LaurenzoStarsJenna LaurenzoMeryl Jones WilliamsA young woman questions her sexuality after having a one night stand with another woman.
- DirectorJi StrangewayStarsBrianna Joy ChomerJessica LaurenAlexandra ScottA 15-year-old Nune creates a fantasy world to escape from the pain of social rejection and bullying. But her archenemy's girlfriend-a model cheerleader with a bleeding heart-keeps luring her near.
- DirectorChristin BakerJessica KingStarsNicole PacentShannan Leigh ReeveI hate Tommy Finch" is a 2 woman show that follows the friendship/relationship of best friends from the age of 8 to 35.
- DirectorJulia RitschelStarsElisa SchlottTabita JohannesEva NürnbergA forbidden relationship between a student and her french teacher shows how passionate and exciting but also how complicated and painful love can be.
- DirectorT.M. ScorzafavaStarsLauren BirrielMichelle C. BonillaWilson CruzSelena and Jane are tangled in a web of desire. One struggles to find perfect love, while the other chases gratification through artificial bliss. How far does one go before they simply Slip Away?
- StarsDede LovelaceKabrina AdamsNina MoranA diverse group of young women navigating their lives through the predominantly male oriented world of skateboarding.
- DirectorMischa KampStarsGijs BlomKo ZandvlietJonas SmuldersA sexually awakening gay teen athlete finds himself in a budding relationship with his mutually attracted relay race teammate.
- DirectorPeter PaigeStarsJake BorelliNiko TerhoBritt BaronTwo high school enemies are forced to drive together to a friend's engagement party on Valentine's Day.
- CreatorHarriet BraunStarsFiona ButtonHeather PeaceJames Anthony PearsonSex, lies and true love in modern Scotland. Following the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something lesbians living in Glasgow.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsJames WilbyRupert GravesHugh GrantTwo English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
- DirectorFrancis LeeStarsJosh O'ConnorAlec SecareanuGemma JonesSpring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
- DirectorGreta GerwigStarsSaoirse RonanLaurie MetcalfTracy LettsIn 2002, an artistically inclined 17-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
- CreatorMichaela CoelStarsMichaela CoelWeruche OpiaPaapa EssieduThe question of sexual consent in contemporary life and how, in the new landscape of dating and relationships, we make the distinction between liberation and exploitation.
- DirectorMona FastvoldStarsKatherine WaterstonVanessa KirbyCasey AffleckSomewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.
- StarsWilson CruzWanda SykesMichaela Jaé (MJ) RodriguezInvestigates the importance of TV as an intimate medium that has shaped the American conscience, and how the LGBTQ movement has shaped television.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSusan SarandonGeena DavisHarvey KeitelTwo best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.
- DirectorAlex SichelStarsAlison FollandTara SubkoffCole HauserClaude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of '90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is changed one night when a violent, meaningless death rocks their lives.
- DirectorDee ReesStarsAdepero OduyeKim WayansAasha DavisA Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
- DirectorHyun-ju LeeStarsLee Sang-heeRyu Sun-youngPark Keun-rokA fine arts student meets an attractive bartender, and the two women begin an intimate relationship.
- DirectorSijie DaiStarsMylène JampanoïXiaoran LiDong Fu LinAt the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsJulia HummerSabine TimoteoMarianne BaslerNina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the meantime, Francoise is picked up at a psychic department of a Berlin hospital by her husband, Pierre. After seeing Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but neither Toni nor Pierre believe her. Nina is unsure about what to think...
- StarsRosie LourdeSarah de PossesseLauren OrrellExplore the lives of four inner-Sydney women as they struggle to work out who they are, find a place where they belong, and maybe even find someone to love along the way.
- DirectorKôji KawanoStarsRei YoshiiAsami ImajukuNaomi AkimotoIchiko and Eri are two Japanese university students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian. Her best friend is gay too, though he has a female who is after him. Their liaison is very intense, but Eri suggests a temporary separation so she can concentrate on her law studies. The break from their affair is difficult for Ichiko to deal with. But Eri soon sorts out her priorities.
- DirectorFabien CavacasCamille MelvilStarsPierre PrieurMaxime TaffanelThéo PittalugaLucas is 22. He plays soccer with his local club, lives with his parents with his younger brother Théo, 17. Théo is attracted to boys, and has only confided in his brother. Théo's difference from others forces him to live a secret life. One evening, spurred on by his need for affection he decides to meet up with an older man at a local hotel.
- StarsHanna van VlietJade OliebergEline van GilsA twenty-something lesbian university graduate navigates life and love in Amsterdam.
- DirectorClaude GagnonStarsJunko WakashibaAkiko KitamuraTakuma IkéuchiFollows the daily life of Keiko, a lonely young woman seeking for love in a cafe she frequents.
- DirectorClaudia BoysenStarsSophie Charlotte ConradAlexander KhuonFelicia RufDrama about two good friends, who discover their love on a holiday together, which turns their old life upside down.
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsJadwiga Jankowska-CieslakGrazyna SzapolowskaJozef KronerPolitical and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia's husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
- DirectorRadley MetzgerStarsEssy PerssonAnna GaëlBarbara LaageTwo young girls experience awakening sexuality in the heated atmosphere of a Swiss girls' boarding school...
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsLinda GriffithsJane HallarenJon DeVriesA happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.
- DirectorYan-Yan MakStarsJosie HoEric KotYuan TianA married teacher/closeted lesbian meets a young, free spirited singer who will allow her to rediscover herself.
- DirectorJames KentStarsMaxine PeakeAnna MadeleySusan LynchA look at the life of 19th-century Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister (1791-1840), who lived openly as a lesbian and kept diaries chronicling the details of her daily life.
- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsShabana AzmiNandita DasKarishma JhalaniTwo women who are abandoned by their husbands find love and solace in each other.
- DirectorMarina Rice BaderStarsSharon HinnendaelJill EvynConstance BrennemanTwo young actresses fall in love with each other while filming a lesbian love scene, then break up months later, and then are forced to reunite in order to re-shoot the love scene for the movie's distribution.
- DirectorJessica SwaleStarsGemma ArtertonGugu Mbatha-RawPenelope WiltonDuring World War II, an Englishwoman opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him in this moving journey of womanhood, love and friendship.
- DirectorAngela RobinsonStarsAlexandra BreckenridgeShanti LowryTammy Lynn MichaelsA quartet of girls from a prep high school are recruited by a secret paramilitary academy to conduct cloak-and-dagger missions.
- CreatorTommy LynchStarsGabrielle ChristianMandy MusgraveMatt CohenA family moves from Ohio to Los Angeles, where they realize they are unprepared for the city's fast pace and the overcrowded public school that the three teenagers will attend.
- DirectorAlexandra KondrackeStarsLisa RieffelErin KellyMichelle LombardoThe story of five girls and one epic night. The girls will find love, lust, girl-fights, rock and roll, and a whole lot of stoned sorority girls.
- DirectorSarasawadee WongsompetchStarsSushar ManayingSupanart JittaleelaArisara ThongborisutPie is a sweet girl who moves into a new college dorm room where she finds out that her new roommate Kim, is a tomboy who looks and dress like a boy. As their friendship develops, Pie and Kim begin to wonder if the feeling they feel for one another is just an ordinary friendship or true love.
- DirectorDerek TsangStarsDongyu ZhouSichun MaToby LeeTwo women who have been close friends since adolescence must cope with the changes that maturity brings.
- DirectorShonali BoseNilesh ManiyarStarsKalki KoechlinRevathiSayani GuptaA rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves her home in India to study in New York, unexpectedly falls in love, and embarks on an exhilarating journey of self-discovery.
- DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsKim Min-heeHa Jung-wooCho Jin-woongA woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
- DirectorCraig William MacneillStarsChloë SevignyKristen StewartJeff PerryA psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of Lizzie Andrew Borden's family.
- DirectorCatherine CorsiniStarsEmmanuelle BéartPascale BussièresDani LevyLouise and Nathalie's childhood friendship gets tangled in jealousy, unrest, relationships and tragedy after college. After seeing each other after 10 years the obsession and attraction between them becomes stronger.
- DirectorSophie LaloyStarsJudith DavisMarc ChapiteauFabienne BabeMarie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of the family who has lived alone since the death of her father. The two young women develop a strange fascination for one another, which soon develops into an intense mutual need...
- DirectorIsold UggadottirStarsKristín Þóra HaraldsdóttirBabetida SadjoPatrik Nökkvi PéturssonTwo women's lives will intersect while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.
- DirectorValérie MinettoStarsMila DekkerAurélia PetitMalik ZidiCheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter, a teacher who loves her job, refuses to give up everything -including her comfort- to follow her. Sonia makes all the efforts in the world to forget Cheyenne, whether in the arms of Pierre, a charming anarchist, or in those of Béatrice, a gay woman who soon proves perverse and dangerous, only to realize that her heart belongs to Cheyenne and nobody else. If Cheyenne does not come back, Sonia feels life is not worth living any longer...
- DirectorKantemir BalagovStarsViktoria MiroshnichenkoVasilisa PerelyginaAndrey Bykov1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
- DirectorMélanie LaurentStarsJoséphine JapyLou de LaâgeIsabelle CarréCharlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there's nothing average about how she feels.
- DirectorJulio MedemStarsElena AnayaNatasha YarovenkoEnrico Lo VersoA hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for two young and recently acquainted women to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsOlga PakalovicNina ViolicKresimir MikicA lesbian couple rents an apartment in a seemingly normal building which happens to be populated with all kinds of freaks. Initially kind but unaware of their secret, a landlady tries to introduce one of them to his son, but after spying on them through the keyhole, the Pandora's box of hatred and violence has been opened.
- DirectorMarie KreutzerStarsValerie PachnerPia HierzeggerMavie HörbigerA high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.
- DirectorJean-Claude BrisseauStarsCoralie RevelSabrina SeyvecouRoger MiremontNathalie teaches Sandrine that sexual transgression can cause violent pleasure and give those who use it a powerful weapon to climb the social hierarchy. They decide to get a job in a bank, a place where victims abound.
- StarsRachael StirlingKeeley HawesJodhi MayThe story of Nan Astley who falls in love with three different women on her journey to stardom and happiness in 1887 Victorian England.
- DirectorNancy MecklerStarsJulie WaltersJoely RichardsonJodhi MayTwo sisters separated in childhood reunite years later as servants at a household in France. Their happiness to be reunited spirals into an incestuous relationship.
- DirectorMax FärberböckStarsMaria SchraderJuliane KöhlerJohanna WokalekIn 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.
- StarsElaine CassidySally HawkinsImelda StauntonIn Victorian England, Sue, a young thief, participates in a scam to defraud a rich heiress by becoming her maid. Things take an unexpected turn and Sue's plan goes horribly wrong.
- StarsRachael Hip-FloresNicole PacentJessy HodgesWhen 16-year-old Vivian is forced to move and leave her girlfriend behind in NYC, she struggles with her sexual identity as she tries to fit into her new suburban neighborhood. (Short Form Series)
- DirectorLeonie KrippendorffStarsLena UrzendowskyJella HaaseLena KlenkeNora from Berlin struggles with growing up and her own identity. Her sister and her best friend are only interested in fashion and social media. Nora tries to do the same, but it does not make her happy. Then she meets Romy.
- DirectorAlice WuStarsJoan ChenMichelle KrusiecLynn ChenA gay Chinese-American and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.