Lesbian Drama Movies

List of the best lesbian drama movies selected by visitors to our site: Disobedience, Blue Is the Warmest Color, The Handmaiden, Chloe, Below Her Mouth, Ammonite, Happiest Season, Benedetta, Pariah, The Duke of Burgundy.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
Duration02:30

A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium, Spain
Duration02:59

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.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, history
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:01

    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. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, France
    Duration01:36

    A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:05

    An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA

    In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada

    A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryFrance, Netherlands, Belgium

    In the late 17th century, with plague ravaging the land, Benedetta Carlini joins the convent in Pescia, Tuscany, as a novice. Capable from an early age of performing miracles, Benedetta’s impact on life in the community is immediate and momentous.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary
    Duration01:44

    Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:02

    Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:31

    Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:59

    In 1993, teenager Cameron is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, the center is built upon repenting for "same sex attraction." In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners including the amputee stoner Jane, and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit, Adam. Together, this group of teenagers form an unlikely family as they fight to survive.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend, Clifton—who has always harbored a secret crush on her—he does his best to get in the way.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    At the start of the summer, Bridget has an abortion just as she lands a much-needed job in affluent Evanston, Illinois — nannying a six-year old.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, western, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:01

    Based on the IDW Comic, Wynonna Earp follows Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures. With her unique abilities, and a posse of dysfunctional allies, she's the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    BOY MEETS GIRL is a funny, tender, sex positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be a real man or woman, and how important it is to live a courageous life not letting fear stand in the way of going after your dreams.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:38

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, India

    A Muslim fundamentalist in New York kidnaps a liberal Muslim scholar with intent to kill. A closeted lesbian in New Delhi kidnaps her activist bisexual lover with intent to marry. The resulting torture and violence evokes a brutal struggle of identities against unfreedom.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Two women who forge a close connection despite their isolation in the mid-19th-century American frontier.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A teenage girl, distraught from her vain attempt to connect with her estranged mother, resorts to cutting herself. When she develops an online relationship with an older woman, she learns to accept her sexuality and the endless solitude of sprawling suburbia.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Danny, a commercial editor and documentary filmmaker attempts to finish his film, a study on relationship while navigating the relationships in his own life. Will he continue to chase the unattainable Theresa a hippy new age dancer(Caitlin Fitzgerald) or will he finally admit he's in love with his best friend Carla (Katherine Waterston) who is in an unfulfilling relationship with a political strategist(Gaby Hoffman). Manhattan Romance is a funny insightful look at contemporary life in Manhattan. It explores new age ideas and open relationship as well as true friendship and connection.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    ToY is a drama about two lost souls from disparate backgrounds who find each other amid the desperation and glamour of Los Angeles, forging an unlikely relationship that spirals into tragic chaos.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, musical, short, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    The story of five girls and one epic night. The girls will find love, lust, girl-fights, rock and roll, and a whole lot of stoned sorority girls.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:46

    Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    Soon after moving in with her aging aunt Dora, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious, who tests the limits of Adele's moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    A disturbed young woman must confront her worst fears when she finds herself trapped alone in a New York City loft during the 2003 blackout.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany, Sweden
    Duration01:55

    In Stockholm, Sweden, hacker Lisbeth Salander is hired by Frans Balder, a computer engineer, to retrieve a program that he believes it is too dangerous to exist.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    After being assigned as study partners, two Chicana high schoolers find a bond that confuses them at times.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    Under small-town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:27

    A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:59

    An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Irene, a thirty-something housewife with a successfull husband and a young son, has her life thrown in a spin when she becomes attracted to Billy, a member of a landscape crew outside her house. When Irene's husband and son leave for a weekend fishing trip, Irene wanting to see Billy, gets locked in the back of his trailer and ends up at remote Lake Consequence with Billy and his girlfriend Grace where they take Irene on a trip into the nearby town to a Chinese New Year Festival, and through a series of adventures they bring out the repressed sexual needs Irene has been holding inside for a long time.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Netherlands
    Duration01:37

    Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA

    Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    The lives of three young Middle Eastern women intertwine as they struggle to defy tradition and create their own realities. From an arranged marriage and a lesbian love affair to an abusive family situation, the film delicately tackles some of the issues Middle Eastern women are confronted with today.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:49

    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.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genredrama
    CountryItaly

    Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. The other nuns, however, are jealous and angry, they want Susanna for themselves, and accuse her of being possessed by the Devil.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:07

    Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada

    An unusual, real-world romance involving relatable people, with one catch - there are three of them! You Me Her infuses the sensibilities of a smart, grounded indie rom-com with a distinctive twist: one of the two parties just happens to be a suburban married couple.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryRomania, France, Belgium
    Duration02:35

    A drama centered on the friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defense secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.




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