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The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (2006)
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The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (2006)
Original name: Les Filles du botaniste
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: At 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.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, sexy, realistic, sexual, queer cinema
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship, forbidden love, lgbt, friendship, intern, family relations, fall in love, couples, parents and children, lgbtq, father daughter relationship, tragic love, loveless marriage, lesbian interest, court, death sentence, professor, family abandonment, domineering father, gay, lesbian teen, chinese ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: china

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, queer cinema and sexy films with plots about lesbian, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian kiss, gays and lesbians and lesbianism mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Chinese Botanist's Daughters: The World Unseen (2007), Loving Annabelle (2006), Room in Rome (2010), Purple Sea (2009), Spider Lilies (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The World Unseen (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, romantic, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, gender, love and romance, forbidden love, lesbian love, injustice, society, life is a bitch, self discovery, rebellion ...
Time: 20th century, year 1952
Place: africa, south africa
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100%
Loving Annabelle (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of ...
Style: erotic, touching, emotional, sexy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, forbidden love, school, lesbian romance, older woman younger woman relationship, love affair, teachers and students, lesbian relationship, teenage life, lesbian love, love and romance ...
Place: australia, melbourne australia
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100%
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Room in Rome (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A 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.
Style: sexy, sexual, erotic, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: lesbian, gays and lesbians, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian sex, sex scene, sexual relations, lesbian relationship, couples, lesbian romance, intimacy, hotel room ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully unaware that she is a lesbian,recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe ...
Style: captivating, emotional, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, lesbian, lesbian romance, lesbianism, lesbian sex, feminism, lgbt, lesbian couple, lgbtq, forbidden love, love and romance, lesbian love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, georgian era
Place: england, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Purple Sea (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, disturbing, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, gender, gays and lesbians, island, lesbian romance, lesbianism, village life, forbidden love, lesbian love, lesbian sex ...
Time: 19th century
Place: sicily, italy, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Spider Lilies (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Jade, a web-cam girl, visits Takeko's tattoo studio she becomes entranced with the image of the spider lily and with Takeko as well. In order to get closer to the object of her desire, Jade asks Takeko to give her the same lily tattoo, ...
Style: sexy, captivating, realistic, psychological, erotic ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian interest, femme fatale, tattoo, introspection, haunted by the past, power relations, lifestyle, lgbtq, coming of age, lesbian relationship, gay ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia, taipei
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100%
I Can't Think Straight (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: I Can't Think Straight is a 2007 romance movie about a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian descent, Tala, who is preparing for an elaborate wedding. A turn of events causes her to have an affair and subsequently fall in love with another ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, coming out, lesbianism, love and romance, gays and lesbians, passion, lesbian sex, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, middle east, london, jordan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Drifting Flowers (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexy ...
Plot: gender, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian, feminism, love affair, fall in love, couples, love and romance, gays and lesbians, teenage life, transsexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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When Night Is Falling (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A prudish woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman whom works at a local carnival which comes to town.
Style: erotic, sexy, romantic, art house, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, bisexual woman, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, sex, lesbian sex, women, christian ...
Time: 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Below Her Mouth (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
Style: erotic, sexy, romantic, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian sex, erotica, lesbian couple, lesbianism, lesbian lover, lesbian romance, love affair, female friendship ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lost and Delirious (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lost and Delirious is the story of three adolescent girls' first love, their discovery of sexual passion, and their search for identities. Set in a posh, private boarding school surrounded by luxuriant, green forest, Lost and Delirious moves ...
Style: touching, sexy, romantic, psychological, depressing ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian teen, coming of age, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian lover, gender, youth, friendship, boarding school, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the 18th century, an artist is commissioned to paint a young woman's wedding portrait.
Style: touching, scenic, disturbing, sexy, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, painter, painting, lesbian love, portrait, female protagonist, lgbtq, lesbian attraction, arranged marriage, lesbian sex ...
Time: 18th century, victorian era, georgian era
Place: brittany, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Eloïse's Lover (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A sensuous and ethereal story of two young women falling in love for the first time. Young, beautiful Àsia lies in a coma, her mother and boyfriend keeping constant vigil by her side. In flashback we see what led up to her accident, her life ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, sexy, romantic ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, gays and lesbians, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lesbian couple, lesbian sex, forbidden love, tragic event, lgbtq, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Days of Mercy (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
Style: romantic, serious, sad, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, sister sister relationship, death row, lesbian interest, lgbtq, death sentence, protestor ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Truth About Jane (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane's troubles when Jane's ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: lesbian, coming out, school, lesbian sex, fall in love, high school life, youth, lesbian relationship, gay teacher, friendship, high school, lesbian couple ...
Time: 90s, year 1989, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Kiss Me (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mia (Ruth Vega Fernandez) and Frida (Liv Mjönes), both in their thirties, meet each other for the first time at their parents' engagement party. Mia's father, Lasse (Krister Henriksson), is about to get married to Frida's mother, ...
Style: sincere, sexy, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, coming out, couples, lgbtq, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, spain, barcelona, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
A Village Affair (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the bestselling novel by Joanna Trollope Recently returned to England from New York City, vivacious heiress Clodagh Unwin befriends a couple new to her village. The husband is entranced by the young aristocrat, but Clodagh has eyes for ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot: adultery, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian sex, village life, lesbian, infidelity, family relations, family life, family problems, love and romance, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tell It to the Bees (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the ...
Style: psychological, sad, touching, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian sex, lesbian couple, intolerance, emotional abuse, lgbtq, gay, lesbian interest ...
Time: 50s, year 1952
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Rome & Juliet (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Rome and Juliet follows the romantic journey and soul mating of two straight women caught in a web of forbidden love. Juliet (a conservative pre-school teacher) is a bride to be who befriends and hires Rome (a liberated businesswoman) as her wedding ...
Style: sincere, serious, disturbing, captivating
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Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Desert Hearts (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story of straight-edge literature professor Vivian who travels to Reno to get away from a relationship breakup when she falls in love with an attractive and unconventional girl named Cay.
Style: sexy, touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, divorce, lesbian love, self discovery, gender, gay, coming out, lesbian relationship, lesbian sex, lgbtq, desert ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Carol (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Style: sexy, emotional, serious, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, forbidden love, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, women, gays and lesbians, department store, lesbian romance, age difference, divorce, older woman younger woman relationship ...
Time: 50s, year 1952, year 1953, 20th century
Place: new york, chicago illinois, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Fire (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.
Style: touching, controversial, sexy, affectionate, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, hinduism, lesbian love, gay, love, lgbtq, sexuality, lesbian romance, homosexuality, feminist ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, canada, new delhi, asia, taj mahal
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Summer Lover (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On honeymoon on the island of Lesbos, a woman falls for the daughter of a Russian archaeologist.
Style: erotic, realistic, sexy, melancholic, suspenseful ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, lesbian, love triangle, island, tragic love, dishonesty, impossible love, lesbian sex, gender, lgbt, sexual relations, strong sexual content ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Elisa & Marcela (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1901, Marcela Gracia Ibeas took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Elisa Sanchez Loriga.
Style: captivating, disturbing, sincere, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbianism, lesbian couple, gay love, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian sex, love, forbidden love, gay marriage, lgbtq ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 19th century, 1920s
Place: spain, argentina, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Womb (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Hungary, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, atmospheric, serious, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mother son incest, incest, tragic love, parents and children, couple relations, hopes, unfulfillment, moral dilemma, sexual perversion, dealing with death, cloning, love ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Better Than Chocolate (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young brother. The timing is especially bad, considering Maggie has fallen hard for an attractive woman, Kim, ...
Style: humorous, sexy, sexual, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, transsexual, lesbian sex, sex, lgbtq, gender, female masturbation, divorce, lesbianism, family relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Style: erotic, sexy, realistic, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, youth, lesbian love, coming of age, sexuality, lesbian relationship, lesbianism, couples, lesbian teen, love story, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
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Elena Undone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
Style: captivating, realistic, touching, sexual, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbianism, lesbian mother, lesbian couple, gays and lesbians, lesbian relationship, coming out, family problems, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Claire of the Moon (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Claire of the Moon is set in the 1990s in the Pacific Northwest. Claire Jabrowski, a famous heterosexual author, decides to attend a retreat for all-female writers. Claire's rommate at the retreat is Dr. Noel Benedict, author of a book called ...
Style: sexual, sexy, erotic, talky, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, gays and lesbians, lesbian sex, lesbianism, lgbt, lgbtq, passionate sex, lesbian love, coming out, love triangle, lesbian interest ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
 409
Hannah Free (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lgbtq, forbidden love, family relations, parents and children, elderly lovers, nurse patient relationship, lgbt, gender, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%