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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.
Style: bleak, emotional, touching, melancholic, intense, independent film, realistic, multicultural, psychological, tense ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, depression, loneliness, illness, women, dating, sadness, tarot card, abortion, character study, interracial relations, single parent, female nudity, lgbt, parents and children, siblings relations, multiple storylines, terminal illness, suicide, bittersweet, obsession, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship, parallel story, blindness ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century
Keyword: feminist film, doctors

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Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles
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Albert Nobbs (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape ...
Style: sad, touching, sincere, period piece, stylized ...
Plot: gender, cross dressing, lesbian, loneliness, master and servant, woman dressed as man, maid, hotel, servant, gender disguise, death, relationships ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 1800s, year 2011
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, britain, europe
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Finn's Girl (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's". The movie covers, teenage angst, ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, family life, teenage life, parents and children, family relations, rebelliousness, love and romance, human spirit, youth, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, ...
Style: captivating, sexual, psychological, disturbing, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, lesbianism, feminism, gender, lesbian interest, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian friend, tomboy ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 2000, year 1961 ...
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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: sincere, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lgbtq, forbidden love, parents and children, family relations, elderly lovers, nurse patient relationship, lgbt, love and romance, gays and lesbians ...
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Place: usa
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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, independent film, erotic, contemplative, serious ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 93 min.
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Place: south africa, africa
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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 ...
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Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, divorce, gender, self discovery, lesbianism, gay, lesbian sex, lgbtq, desert ...
Time: 50s, year 1985, year 1959, 60s, 1950s
Place: nevada, indiana, usa, reno nevada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
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Place: yorkshire, england, northern england
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Duration: 93 min.
Story: An intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: talky, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: haunted by the past, looking for love, couples, family relations, couple relations, introspection, strong female presence, sexual content, parents and children, hopes, dating, lesbian ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 111 min.
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Duration: 101 min.
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Style: emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
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Duration: 237 min.
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Duration: 87 min.
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Duration: 94 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 93 min.
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Style: sincere, realistic, clever, touching, emotional ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england
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The Twilight of the Golds (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Suzanne Stein has a genetic analysis done on her unborn child, she discovers that although she has a healthy baby, the child will most likely be born gay, like her brother, David. She must decide whether to keep the child, or to have an ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, talky, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, lgbtq, glbt, baby, genetics, acceptance, abortion, pregnancy, family relations, gay son, gay brother, unrequited love ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: From Writer/Director Marina Rice Bader (Executive Producer Elena Undone, A Perfect Ending) comes this film within a film that explores love in all its painful and messy glory. Six months ago Zoe and Mal fell for each other while filming a love ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sexy, erotic ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, lesbian romance, couples, lesbian love, love affair, love and romance, lgbt, woman woman relationship, gays and lesbians, rising to stardom, lesbian couple ...
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Place: indiana
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The Children's Hour (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A troublemaking student at a girl's school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.
Style: sad, emotional, touching, realistic, talky ...
Plot: lesbian, gay, gender, girls' school, bigotry, unrequited love, false accusation, evil child, bullying, prejudice, tragedy, women ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
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Mother and Child (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 125 min.
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Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, talky, sad ...
Plot: adoption, women, pregnancy, lawyer, family relations, teenage pregnancy, existentialism, manipulation, parents and children, estrangement, hopes, unfaithfulness ...
Time: year 2009, year 1973, 21st century
Place: los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: touching, sexy, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
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Shelter Me (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them.
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