Lesbian lead character movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant lesbian lead character movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out queer cinema, realistic, independent film, captivating, sexy and serious films and TV shows about / with lesbian, lesbian lead character, lgbt, gay, lgbtq, lesbian interest, lesbian kiss, female female kiss, lesbian love and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lesbian lead character: Battle of the Sexes (2017), Jack & Diane (2012), How to Get Away with Murder (2014), Life Partners (2014), White Lie (2019), Almejas y mejillones (2000), The Killing of Sister George (1968), High Tension (2003), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), I Am Not Okay with This (2020).
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List of lesbian lead character movies
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
Style:
sexy, period piece, semi serious, captivating, uplifting ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
tennis, lgbtq, battle of the sexes, sexism, gender equality, tennis player, strong female lead, sapphic, lesbian lead character, lesbian love, feminism, woman ...
Time:
year 1973, year 2017, 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane's charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack's tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a ...
Style:
erotic, serious, atmospheric, stylized, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lgbtq, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbianism, lesbian interest, lesbian teen, werewolf, lesbian, lesbian lead character, making love, lesbian relationship, lgbt, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder mystery, legal, defense attorney, hotshot lawyer, lawyer, law student, murder, court case, courtroom, college, lgbt, attorney ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, chicago, idaho, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship
Style:
realistic, humorous, sweet, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian friend, relationships, friendship, couples, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, loneliness, best friend, unlikely couple, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, tokyo, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Katie Arneson is faking cancer. A university dance major, Katie's falsified diagnosis and counterfeit fundraising have transformed her into a campus celebrity surrounded by the supportive community she's always dreamed of: a close-knit ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, touching, captivating, crying ...
Plot:
cancer, lesbianism, lesbian relationship, terminal illness, lie, deception, love, popularity, regret, university, money, couples ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Rolondo (Jorge Sanz), a marine biologist who specializes in sexual behavior of the mussels, has rented a house in Tenerife that, to his surprise, when he comes, he discovers inhabited by a beautiful woman, Paula (Leticia Brédice) paradigm for all ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, sex comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male female friendship, lgbt, lesbian friend, marine biologist, fall in love, unrequited love, gay, male female relationship, relationship problems, unfulfilled love, love and romance, in love ...
Place:
canary islands
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
When June Buckridge (Beryl Reid) arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught (Susannah York) realises that things are going to ...
Style:
sexual, dark comedy, soap opera, sadistic, independent film ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lgbtq, sex, infidelity, jealousy, doll, satire, older woman younger woman relationship, obsession, female nudity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe, england, london, ireland, new york
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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, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lesbian, lgbt, lesbian romance, lgbtq, lesbianism, lesbian sex, lesbian couple, feminism, lesbian love, forbidden love, gay relationship ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, ancient times, 1830s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style:
scary, slasher, twist ending, psychological, brutal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, gory, home invasion, brutality, torture, macabre, disturbed individual, farmhouse, psycho killer, kidnapping, killing spree, death ...
Time:
year 2003, turn of the century, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
france, south of france, europe
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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:
sexy, scenic, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
painter, lesbian, lgbtq, lgbt, painting, portrait, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtqi, love, female protagonist, lesbian sex ...
Time:
18th century, 2010s, ancient times, victorian era, year 2019 ...
Place:
brittany, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.
Style:
feel good, captivating, light, humorous, anime ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, teenager, youth, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, lesbian lead character, telekinesis, high school, love, friendship, lgbt teen, lgbt ...
Time:
future, 2020s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story:
The journey of Jean Holloway – a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives.
Style:
sexy, psychological, cliffhanger, erotic, sensual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lesbian, psychology, lgbt, lesbian love, jealousy, double life, lgbtq, dark past, unrequited love, lesbianism, lesbian relationship, sexual tension ...
Place:
indiana, new york, connecticut, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and ...
Style:
sexual, teen, cult classic, feel good, dark comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, sapphic, lesbian love, gay, lgbt, gays and lesbians, conversion therapy, cheerleading, lgbtq, cheerleader, lesbian relationship, lesbianism ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
usa
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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, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lgbtq, gender, sapphic, divorce, self discovery, desert, lesbianism, lesbian relationship, passionate kiss ...
Time:
50s, year 1959, year 1985, 60s, 1950s
Place:
nevada, indiana, usa, san francisco, reno nevada
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A two-part anime series about a weather anchor who becomes famous after flashing her underwear live on TV.
Style:
sexy, anime, yuri, seinen, erotic ...
Plot:
sex, lesbian lead character, lesbian sex, lesbianism, lesbian, business rivalry, occupation, job, lesbian interest, lesbian erotica, female nudity, humiliation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style:
sexual, atmospheric, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, black lesbian, lgbt teen, teenage girl, coming of age, lesbian teen, homosexuality, african american, teenager, sapphic ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city, africa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When Dot (Brenda Fricker)'s granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella (Olympia Dukakis) stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.
Style:
road movie, touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, couples, gay, lesbian lead character, gay parent, lesbian romance, social relations, small town, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, france, indiana ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. The plan seems solid, but as ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, semi serious, touching, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lesbian, coming of age, lesbian teen, closeted homosexual, lesbian love, gay, lgbt, friendship, lgbtqi, bullying, high school life, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s
Place:
ireland, london, dublin ireland
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a group of filmmakers trek deep into the woods to investigate a missing persons case, they inadvertently start a chain of events that lead to horrific consequences.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
psychopath, violence, death, vengeance, brutality, disguise, fear, revenge, masked killer, murder, serial killer, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1951 New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Although ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian couple, poetry, writer's life, lesbian love, love and romance, love, lgbt, poet, alcoholism, american abroad, writers ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1951, 1950s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, nebraska, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Mexico, Switzerland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the late 1970s, a Parisian TV executive seeks to restore her credibility with an ambitious production after it is initially disrupted by a serial killer.
Style:
slasher, queer horror, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lgbtq, nightmare, film producer, serial killer, male nudity, lesbian, gay porn, police inspector, homosexual, filmmaking, drug, murder ...
Time:
year 1979, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Feature film from award-winning writer/director Patrik-Ian Polk, tells the story of five black Brown University classmate s- four gay men and one lesbian - reuniting in the Big Apple for a weekend of sin, fun, secrets, lies and drama.
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, suspense, light ...
Plot:
black lgbt, gay, gay lead character, homosexual, first gay sexual experience, friendship, gay african american, gay relationship, lgbtq, sex scene, friendship between men, infidelity ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, harlem
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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, sincere, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, nurse patient relationship, lgbtq, forbidden love, family relations, parents and children, elderly lovers, lgbt, couple relations, gender ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Detective Amelia Van Helsing is on the desperate hunt for the killer responsible for a string of grisly murders targeting young women. Matters only worsen when all evidence leads to the seemingly untouchable Count Dracula. And when Van Helsing’s ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, tense, mockbuster, twist ending ...
Plot:
lesbian couple, murder, morgue, bat, lgbt, female doctor, doctor, female nudity, vampire, lesbian lead character, lesbian, nude dance ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Style:
lgbt cinema, sexual, touching, sad, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, cancer, lesbian love, older woman younger woman relationship, sapphic, politics, death, gay marriage, gay bar ...
Place:
new jersey, indiana
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a huge blizzard (that doesn't show signs of stopping) hits, Gracetown is completely snowed in. But even though it's cold outside, things are heating up inside, proving that Christmas is magical when it comes to love.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, teen, sincere, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
christmas, lgbtq, christmas spirit, love, teenager, young adult, small town, christmas time, lgbtqi, small town life, winter, couple relations ...
Time:
future
Place:
illinois
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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, sexual, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, sexuality, lesbian love, coming of age, lesbian relationship, lovers, lesbian teen, lesbianism, love, sex, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Saban's Power Rangers follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our ...
Style:
mecha, psychotronic, colorful, super sentai, dutch angle ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen fantasy
Plot:
power rangers, superhero, superpower, teenager, superhero team, giant robot, mission, transformation, good versus evil, supernatural power, student athlete, teenage superhero ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, prehistory, prehistoric times
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, France, Slovakia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, art house ...
Plot:
socially awkward, true crime, mental illness, murder, lesbian, dysfunctional family, lgbt, mass murder, paranoia, trial, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
90s, 70s, year 1975
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anna is coming out. But not as gay as a revolutionary. Itty Bitty Titty Committee is a rockin love song to the heady rush of sex, freedom and rebellion that happens when an everyday girl discovers her own strength and the righteous indignation ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, suspense, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
lesbian, cheerleader, lesbian sex, lesbian love, lgbt, feminism, feminist, fall in love, breakup, gays and lesbians, strong female presence, society ...
Time:
year 1948, year 1984
Place:
indiana, sacramento california, california, los angeles, bahamas ...
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