Emily Blunt and Natalie Press star on this award-winning British drama tailored from the novel of the identical identify. In it, two unlikely ladies from two completely different walks of life develop into quick mates — and perhaps one thing extra — throughout one summer time within the Yorkshire countryside. For those who’re recognized to swoon at pastoral cinematography and British accents, you’re most likely going to love this story of adolescence and coming into your self.
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22. Fried Inexperienced Tomatoes (1991)
In our guide, no checklist of one of the best lesbian motion pictures could be full with out Fried Inexperienced Tomatoes. That’s true though the film model is technically a narrative of two Actually Shut Pals who, you already know, run a enterprise collectively, dwell collectively, and lift a baby collectively. Typical pal stuff! In a way, it doesn’t matter if the film is explicitly homosexual or not — the subtext is all there, and the 1987 guide it’s primarily based on is super-explicitly queer. Stream it and see for your self why Idgie and Ruth are so necessary to lesbian cinema lore.
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23. Ammonite (2020)
Loosely primarily based on the lifetime of palaeontologist Mary Anning (performed right here by Kate Winslet), this romantic drama focuses on the speculated affair between Anning and married geologist Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan). For those who love the sound of chilly, moody days by the ocean, dripping wax candles, and plenty of fossils, you’re most likely going to get pleasure from this aesthetically very 1840s-lesbian film, even when the chemistry between Winslet and Ronan, frankly, isn’t fairly there.
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