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Carol (2015)
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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, serious, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking, erotic, costume drama, romantic, intense, social ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, forbidden love, lesbian love, women, age difference, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, lesbian romance, sapphic, older woman younger woman relationship, divorce, lesbian interest, road trip, photographer, lesbian sex, gay, impossible love, love story, love, child custody, photography, friendship, christmas ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1952, 2010s, year 2015, 90s, year 1953 ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, indiana, idaho, chicago, usa, united states of america
Keyword: feminist film

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, realistic, touching and erotic films with plots about lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, lesbian, sapphic, lesbian teen and lesbian love mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Carol: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Kiss Me (2011), The World Unseen (2007), Disobedience (2017), When Night Is Falling (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, costume drama, scenic, disturbing, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: painter, lesbian, painting, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, lesbian love, portrait, female protagonist, lesbian sex, lesbian attraction, arranged marriage ...
Time: 18th century, 2010s, victorian era, ancient times, year 2019 ...
Place: brittany, france
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95%
 6.8
 12K
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: sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian daughter, couples, lesbian teen, lesbian interest, engagement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, barcelona, spain, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, serious, realistic, erotic, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian love, gender, forbidden love, lesbian teen, love and romance, injustice, life is a bitch, self discovery, society ...
Time: ancient times, 20th century, year 1952
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 36K
Disobedience (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A woman learns about the death of her father. She returns to her Orthodox Jewish home and falls in love with her best childhood friend who is now married to her cousin.
Style: melancholic, depressing, sexy, sincere, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, forbidden love, infidelity, lesbian sex, female nudity, funeral, orthodox jew, scandal ...
Time: year 2017
Place: london, middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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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, art house, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, bisexual woman, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, lesbian sex, women, female nudity, bisexual ...
Time: 90s
Place: indiana
⇓ 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: sad, serious, psychological, romantic drama, deep ...
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, sister sister relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, death penalty, sapphic, lgbtq, protestor, brother sister relationship ...
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Vita & Virginia (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly ...
Style: sentimental, factual, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, polyamory, first lesbian experience, female writer, feminism, bisexual woman, female protagonist ...
Time: 1920s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, lesbian, lesbian romance, lesbianism, lgbt, lesbian sex, lesbian love, feminism, lesbian couple, lgbtq, forbidden love, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, victorian era, ancient times, 1800s
Place: england, britain, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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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: chick flick
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style: erotic, romantic, sad, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, holocaust, lesbian interest, gender, woman in danger, nazi, gays and lesbians, world war two, couples, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1999, ancient times, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943 ...
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
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, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, forbidden love, school, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, older woman younger woman relationship, love affair, teachers and students, teenage life, couples ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.8
 6K
Bloomington (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A former child actress attends college in search of independence and ends up becoming romantically involved with a female professor. Their relationship thrives until an opportunity to return to acting forces her to make life-altering decisions.
Style: sexual, sexy, touching, erotic, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, gays and lesbians, lesbian couple, lesbian teen, lesbian sex, teacher student romance, teacher student relationship, college, teacher student sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 6.6
 2K
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, disturbing, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, gender, island, gays and lesbians, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbianism, village life, forbidden love, lesbian sex ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1800s
Place: sicily, italy, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Imagine Me & You (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sentimental, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, wedding, lesbian couple, lesbian romance, love triangle, love affair, couple relations, lgbtq, sapphic ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: london, idaho, europe, tower bridge london
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.1
 7K
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 couple, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian mother, gays and lesbians, family problems, lesbian sex, lgbtq, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ 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, psychological, depressing, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian teen, coming of age, lesbian love, sapphic, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, gender, lesbian lover, boarding school, youth, lesbian sex ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 7.6
 23K
Maurice (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1909, Maurice Hall (James Wilby) enters Cambridge, where he befriends wealthy Clive Durham (Hugh Grant). Clive confesses he is sexually attracted to Maurice, who realizes he is a homosexual when he begins to return Clive's feelings. The two ...
Style: homoerotic, sexy, scenic, melancholic, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexuality, homosexual, gay relationship, friendship, gay love, lgbtq, first gay sexual experience, forbidden love, closeted homosexual, gay romance ...
Time: 1900s, pre world war one, 19th century, 1910s, edwardian era ...
Place: england, nebraska, britain, europe, buenos aires argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 8.1
 170K
The Handmaiden (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 145 min.
Story: 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. ...
Style: erotic, sexy, atmospheric, tense, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, plot twist, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, sex, lust, lgbtq, lesbian romance, lesbian sex, lesbianism, twists and turns, seduction ...
Time: 1930s, year 2016, 2010s, ancient times
Place: japan, south korea, asia, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 6.7
 6K
Summertime (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.
Style: sincere, sexy, sweet, aesthetic, eros ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, mother daughter relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian teen, lesbian love, feminism, female nudity, farmer, nudity, sisterhood ...
Time: year 1971, year 1976, year 2015, 70s
Place: indiana, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 23K
Ammonite (2020)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 1840s England, an infamous fossil hunter and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Style: psychological, intellectual, realistic, contemplative, disturbing ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbianism, lesbian couple, female scientist, older woman younger woman sex, female protagonist, scientist ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era, 2020s, ancient times ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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, contemplative, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian interest, lesbianism, love and romance, gender, gays and lesbians, passion, lesbian sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, indiana, london, middle east, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 7.4
 13K
Saving Face (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Style: touching, sexy, humorous, romantic comedy, intercultural ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lgbtq, sapphic, lesbian sex, gay, gays and lesbians, loneliness, marriage ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: indiana, new york, usa, paris france, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Anatomy of a Love Seen (2014)
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 ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An 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.
Style: teen, independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian teen, love and romance, lgbtq, lesbianism, self discovery, teenage love, lesbian sex, sex ...
Time: 90s
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 29K
The L Word (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, erotic, grindhouse ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, sexual activity, gays and lesbians, lesbianism, female protagonist, cafe, friendship, lesbian mother, lesbian sex ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, idaho, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tell It to the Bees (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
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: sad, psychological, thought provoking, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian interest, lesbian couple, lesbian sex, lgbtq, female nudity, intolerance, emotional abuse ...
Time: 50s, year 1952, 1950s
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.6
 11K
High Art (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
Style: erotic, sexy, emotional, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, photography, addiction, photographer, couples, drug, sexuality, love, lesbian teen, drug addiction, art ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, gays and lesbians, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lesbian couple, lesbian sex, forbidden love, tragic event, lgbtq, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Summer of Love (2004)
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.
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, coming of age, teenage life, gays and lesbians, women, summer, sex, countryside, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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