Closeted lesbian movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant closeted lesbian movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out queer cinema, touching, realistic, independent film, crying and captivating films and TV shows about / with closeted lesbian, lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian interest, lgbtq, lesbianism, female female kiss, lesbian kiss and gays and lesbians plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as closeted lesbian: Bad Girl (2016), To the Stars (2019), Apartment (2010), My Little Friend (2011), Circumstance (2011), Blue Jean (2022), After Sex (2007), Daphne (2007), In Between (2016), I Can't Think Straight (2008).

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 5.4
 854
Bad Girl (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bad girl Amy, 17, is given one last chance by her adoptive parents, who think Amy's friendship with local girl Chloe is a step in the right direction. But when Amy discovers Chloe's secret she finds herself fighting for her life, and for ...
Style: unusual plot structure, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: closeted lesbian, lesbian, murder, psychopath, small town, friendship, family relations, danger, friendship between girls, friends, violence, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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 6.2
 2K
To the Stars (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Under small-town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
Style: sentimental, psychological, melancholic, sexy, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, closeted lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, abusive father, sexual confusion, gay love, opposites attract, love and romance, lesbianism, love ...
Time: 60s, year 1961
Place: oklahoma
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 3.5
 275
Apartment (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Preeti Sengupta (Tanushree Dutta) is an airhostess living in with her boyfriend Karan Malhotra (Rohit Roy). They share a nice 2BHK apartment in the northern suburbs of Mumbai and are befriended by their elderly neighbor Madhusudan Tanha (Anupam ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, remake of american film
Plot: femme fatale, dark past, insanity, bipolar disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, roommate, mental illness, insecurity, breakup, anxiety, investigation, friendship ...
Place: mumbai india
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My Little Friend (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Two friends reunite in after ten years and one has a secret waiting to come out.
Style: light, romantic, entertaining, captivating, independent film
Plot: lesbian daughter, best friend, lesbian seduction, lesbian friend, relationships, love and romance, lesbian, jealousy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, closeted lesbian, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship ...
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 5.9
 8K
Circumstance (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession
Style: touching, emotional, atmospheric, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, first lesbian experience, teenage girl, lgbt, closeted lesbian, iranian, family relations, teenage life, lesbian love, rebellion, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, tehran iran, persia, indiana ...
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 7.0
 5K
Blue Jean (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jean, a PE teacher, is forced to live a double life. When a new student arrives and threatens to expose her sexuality, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep her job and her integrity.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, crying, independent film ...
Plot: lesbian, teacher, closeted homosexual, lgbt, lesbian relationship, social issues, social problems, life is a bitch, bullying, gay slur, double life, lesbian teen ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: england
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Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (Glenn Close) had seen her share of battles. But nothing could prepare her for the fight ahead: an intensely personal ...
Style: cult classic, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian couple, lgbtq, gender, military, lesbian mother, biopic, sapphic, resistance, international relations, promotion ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
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 5.5
 9K
After Sex (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Sex is a background to examine intimacy and vulnerability. Looks at the complexity of modern day relationships told through eight separate couples. Through dialogue and compromising situations, the film takes us from the beginning of a relationship ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sexy, realistic, talky ...
Plot: sex, lesbian, sexuality, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship, strong sexual content, outdoor sex, loss of virginity, first sex, teenage sex, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, swinger ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.5
 548
Daphne (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband Frederick 'Boy' Browning, and her.
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, writers, art, bisexual woman, girl, mistress, biopic, closeted lesbian, black ops ...
Time: 1940s
Place: venice, cornwall
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 7.3
 3K
In Between (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and ...
Style: sincere, humorous, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot: israeli, muslim, dating, arab, friendship, female friendship, student, young woman, university, single woman, roommate, drug use ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, maghreb, jerusalem ...
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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 ...
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A Woman's a Helluva Thing (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the death of his estranged mother, a womanizer discovers that they had a lot in common.
Style: erotic, independent film
Plot: making love, sex scene, ranch, lesbian mother, lesbian incest, death of mother, sex, estate, lesbian interest, single mother, lesbian, gay parent ...
Place: denver colorado, colorado, texas
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Moonlit Winter (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The arrival of an intimate letter prompts a young woman to bring her mother on vacation to a small Japanese town, where someone special resides.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: first love, lesbian, winter, female female relationship, railway, love interest, secret, teenager, mother, women, sexuality, lgbtq ...
Place: south korea, hokkaido, japan
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 4.8
 375
Text to Kill (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Teens band together to investigate the source of anonymous messages that threaten to expose their secrets.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, smart
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, stalker, anonymous telephone call, teenage life, undercover, hidden truth, teenager, threatening telephone call, secret, investigation, murder investigation, high school ...
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Childhood's End (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A story of two teens discovering their budding sexuality. Greg is having his first sexual experience and first relationship with his friend's mother, a woman twice his age....while Denise is angry with Greg, and sleeps with another girl. Both ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Plot: sexual awakening, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, first kiss, feminism, age-gap relationship, older woman younger man, dialogue, male pubic hair, teenage sexuality, lgbt, parent child relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: minneapolis minnesota, las vegas
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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
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Footballers' Wives (2002)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006. The ...
Style: sexy, stylized, soap opera, captivating, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love affair, soccer, ambition, rise to the top, lifestyle, relationship vs career, manipulation, against the rules, womanizer, dishonesty, obsession, infidelity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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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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 7.2
 4K
Two of Us (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Pensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades. From everybody’s point of view, including Madeleine’s family, they are simply two neighbors living on the top floor of their building. They come and go ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian interest, lesbian attraction, lesbian mother, senior citizen, closeted lesbian, lesbian friend, secret love, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Place: france
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 7.2
 278
Transit Girls (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: High School student Sayuri is falling in love with Yui, the daughter of her father's fiancee.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, sentimental, touching, yuri ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, coming of age, high school, teenage sex, lesbian friend, lgbt, father daughter relationship, teenager, lesbian love, teenage protagonist ...
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Merry Happy Whatever (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: A strong-willed dad navigates the stress of the holiday season when his daughter brings her new boyfriend home for Christmas.
Style: sitcom, humorous, funny, light, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: christmas, musician, parents and children, family relations, conflict, marriage proposal, domineering father, meet the parents, eccentric family, sheriff, gay, black sitcom ...
Place: philadelphia
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, touching, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lgbt teen, lgbtq, teenager, teenage sexuality, religion, lesbian teen, lesbian love, conversion therapy, female sexuality, sex education ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, year 1993
Place: indiana
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 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 ...
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 6.4
 261
The Garden (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the summer of 1976, a shared family yard becomes the setting, as the adults bicker over selling the garden and the kids are free to explore the mysterious neighboring lot. Then they hear about a girl that has disappeared...
Plot: family life, husband wife relationship, birthday party, serial killer, garden, wasp, treehouse, cannibal, little boy, child in peril, cannibalism, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1976
Place: bavaria
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Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A busboy at a disco has sexual problems related to events in his childhood. He becomes obsessed with a disc jockey at the club.
Style: neo noir, psychosexual thriller, psychotronic, psychological thriller, surreal ...
Plot: sleazy, peeping tom, fetish, sex crime, juvenile delinquent, voyeurism, disco, police detective, perversion, vice squad, depravity, sexual obsession ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
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Starting Over (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana confronts them in her yearning for love, but the world does not give it to her. With her whole life ...
Style: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: lesbian, mother daughter relationship, lesbian interest, female friendship, lesbian love, awkward situation, shame, photograph, lesbian daughter, high school, youth, coming of age ...
Place: asia, japan, tokyo
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 5.6
 1K
Triple Dare (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they devise a rite of passage, the 'fortune teller', symbolizing their entry into adulthood. As ...
Style: light, sexy, absurd, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, lesbian, teenage love, virgin, lesbianism, older man younger woman relationship, sex talk, sexual awakening, teenage sex, lgbtq, lesbian sex, hipster ...
Place: copenhagen
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Tournament of Dreams (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Lady Cavaliers high school girls' basketball team is on the verge of extinction because of school budget cuts. The school's principal (Debbie Allen) is just about consign the Cavs to oblivion when the team and certain faculty members ...
Style: exciting, rough, touching, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: interracial friendship, racial slur, basketball, school, friendship, revenge, african american, gay slur, father daughter relationship, teen angst, first love, emotional abuse ...
Place: california, los angeles
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The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Drama while a tour bus driver shows church ladies around Mexico. Helped establish Puerto Vallarta as tourist destination.
Style: black and white, talky, atmospheric, psychological, tense ...
Plot: church, mental illness, priest, hotel, redemption, iguana, clergy, bishop, tour guide, self discovery, human nature, nymphet ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: mexico, usa, virginia, latin america, tennessee
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 7.0
 10K
Irma Vep (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
Style: stylized, art house, witty, clever, surreal ...
Plot: filmmaking, latex, cat burglar, actress playing herself, nervous breakdown, satire, culture clash, kung fu, paranoia, hotel, slave, fantomas ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe, los angeles, new york
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