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<p><i>this is a</i> <i>global, comprehensive list of our history in chronological order</i>. <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/106U8VPpFHLnn_TUQjMnlRT86uNjXqsOWKezhq8gool8/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">HERE is how to watch each</a> </b><a href="https://TUQjMnlRT86uNjXqsOWKezhq8gool8" rel="nofollow"><b>film.</b></a><b> </b><a href="https://instagram.com/blackqueerfilm" rel="nofollow"><b></b><i>follow @blackqueerfilm on instagram for updates and history. </i></a><i></i></p><p>please comment any and every film you know so i can make sure its on here; i’d rather be safe than sorry. (i accept all Black queer films no matter the length, genre, production size or country of origin; indie Black queer filmmakers please let me know about your work so i can archive it)</p><p>i made this list because i want to archive our work. there’s been some confusion as to why some films are included so i will clear this up by saying <b><i>i am including any film that has a Black queer character or person on screen or was directed/written by a Black queer person.</i></b> to me, our film history is that. <i><b>if you know about a film with a Black queer cinematographer, editor, production designer, gaffer, etc, please don’t hesitate to comment!</b></i> i’d love to include them as well i just haven’t begun searching and i know that is a huge lapse in this archive (and the way film history is written in general). </p><p>i am trying to find every single Black queer film so please help me. share this list! watch a Black queer film even if you’re not like us. our work deserves to be spotlighted past the handful of films society has deemed as “cinema.” i will be watching all of these films (slowly but surely) and writing about them at length the way each of these films deserve so stay tuned and let me know what you watch! i’d love to read all of your thoughts. there’s many films on here with zero reviews; let’s change that. i know many are inaccessible so i am working on getting the highest quality files for us which i will share publicly in the sheet linked above.</p>
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<p>explicit and subtext. sapphic movie ≠ romance. sapphic movie = sapphic themes and characters.</p>
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<p>In defense of the lesbian dirtbag!</p><p>For the taxonomy obsessed, some of these characters are queer/bisexual.</p>
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<p>fun cheesy 90s-00s movies about the GIRLS and the GIRLS only</p>
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<p>wlw characters and/or plot.</p><p>current as of 2020 films. some 2021 films.<br />i made a conscious effort to avoid incest, pedophilia and rape as best i could considering i haven't seen all these movies.</p><p>read notes for more info, including whether it was directed or co-directed by a woman and qualifiers like subtext, moments, characters (if not the main ones).</p><p>this is not a list of recommendations! there are excellent gay movies on here, and plenty of shitty ones, including many with straight up bad representation. make your own choices. the goal is an attempt at being comprehensive without being excessively distasteful.</p><p>there are also wonderful queer directors who haven't dealt directly (yet) with queer issues but whose work i very much do recommend (lucrecia martel!). this list maps representations of wlw characters over time. a list of gay movies that i recommend would be MUCH shorter. i hope to make it! enjoy xo</p>
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<p>From the list on MUBI:<br />"For now, this list will serve as a cinematic guide through queer cinema, from Kenneth Anger to Pier Paolo Pasolini to Gus Van Sant. The focus will be placed not simply on films with gay images but on films that aggressively thwart (or simply ignore) the heteronormative, patriarchal notions of gender and sexuality (which applies just as often to the western gay and lesbian community). Queer cinema does not concern itself with political correctness or restrictive labels in regard to a person’s sexual being. As time goes on, I’d like to include quotes from noted theorists, writers, filmmakers, artists, professors to better illustrate these ideas, but for now, here’s a list to start you off. Camp, New Queer Cinema, Fassbinder, avant-garde, melodrama, Tilda Swinton, transsexuals, pansexuals, gender fuck, Jean Genet, counter-culture, Joan Crawford… what more do you need?"</p><p><a href="https://mubi.com/lists/fox-and-his-queer-friends" rel="nofollow">mubi.com/lists/fox-and-his-queer-friends</a></p><p>I decided to transfer the list to Letterboxd because I don't have MUBI! :-(</p><p>NOT ON LETTERBOXD:<br />225. 575 Castro St. (Jenni Olson, 2009)<br />249. Face Addict (Edo Bertoglio, 2005)<br />284. Third Known Nest (Tom Kalin, 1999)<br />287. The Opening of Misty Beethoven (Radley Metzger, 1976)<br />296. Women Who Love Women: Conversations in Singapore (Lim Mayling, 2007)<br />300. Place Without Limits (Arturo Ripstein, 1978)<br />329. Covered (John Greyson, 2009)<br />355. Corruption of the Damned (George Kuchar, 1965)<br />360. The Little Death (Francois Ozon, 1995)<br />465. Le sexe des anges (Lionel Soukaz, 1977)<br />577. Sex My Life (Bahman Motamedian, 2008)<br />592. Skin Flick (Bruce Labruce, 1999)<br />799. Heroin (David Wojnarowicz, 1981)<br />810. The Bath (Lee Mi-Rang, 2007)<br />820. The Seduction of Angels (Jan Kruger, 2000)<br />840. Why do you exist? (Nick Zedd, 1998)<br />888. Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage (Mark Achbar, 1999)<br />903. The Sex Garage (Fred Halsted, 1972)<br />913. The Strongest (Ricky Mastro, 2009)<br />936. Sex/Life in LA (Jochen Hick, 1998)<br />939. The Good American (Jochen Hick, 2009)<br />948. Vapor (Kaveh Nabatian, 2010)<br />953. Tub Girls (Andy Warhol, 1967)<br />970. Lunch (Curt McDowell, 1972)<br />999. Pass This On (Johan Renck, 2003)<br />1024. Constanca (Jose Castro, 2010)<br />1032. Ricardo Becher, The Final Stage (Tomas Lipgot, 2010)<br />1073. Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS (Barbara Hammer, 1988)<br />1079. First Date (Gary Huggins, 2006)<br />1081. K (Juan Simons, 2005)<br />1093. The Bereaved (Alexander Pfeuffer, 2010)<br />1105. The One Who Loves Is Right (Arnold Pasquier, 2005)<br />1133. A Few Days of Respite (Amor Hakkar, 2011)<br />1169. Spokane (Larry Kennar, 2004)<br />1196. Pride (Ulrike Ottinger, 1980)</p>
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<p>Only narrative, non-documentary films running 1 hour+ are listed.<br />Films must feature either: A) An explicitly queer, female-identifying protagonist. B) At least two secondary queer female protagonists whose screen time matches or exceeds that of the protagonist. C) In cases of large, ensemble casts, 50% of characters/content must be queer with 50% of that queer content being female.<br />WLW characters must be explicitly, unavoidably queer. Subtext and undertones are for cowards.<br />Bisexual characters and narratives are represented provided that the attraction to women aspect is unavoidable, inarguable and not limited to a singular scene.<br />Polyamorous relationships are represented provided there is romantic/sexual content between two women in said relationship.<br />Wholly pornographic films are not represented.</p>
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<p><b>all the lesbian films <i>(and some shows)</i> that I could find! </b>release order, constantly updated.</p><p><b>MORE LISTS:</b><br /><i><a href="https://boxd.it/bDp1m" rel="nofollow">lesbian must-watch</a></i><br /><i><a href="https://boxd.it/SP5p0" rel="nofollow">lesbian tv</a></i><br /><i><a href="https://boxd.it/kBHjU" rel="nofollow">homoerotic films</a><br /><a href="https://boxd.it/3E8kc" rel="nofollow">personal favorites</a><br /><a href="https://boxd.it/aSO0O" rel="nofollow">historical sapphists</a><br /><a href="https://boxd.it/caQVW" rel="nofollow">sapphics of color</a><br /><a href="https://boxd.it/ceGS2" rel="nofollow">brazilian lesbian films</a><br /><a href="https://boxd.it/Bph6E" rel="nofollow">lesbian christmas</a></i></p>
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<p>including: lgbtq+<br />- romance<br />- characters<br />- subtext<br />- documentaries<br />- writers/directors</p>
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List of long and short movies with lesbian and bisexual women.
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<p>Must have a woman as its:<br />☑️ lead, co-lead, or subject;<br />☑️ director or co-director; <i><b>and</b></i><br />☑️ writer or co-writer (screenplay, story, or source material).</p><p>If you happen to find the comments open and notice there’s anything missing <i><b>that fits the criteria above</b></i>—particularly non-American films—feel free to let me know. I get a lot of notifications on this list so I seldom reply, but if your suggestion belongs here I’ll add it.</p><p>This list is curated to invite reflection upon women’s perceptions and depictions of themselves and/or other women as they are presented through the medium of cinema, as films made by <i>and</i> about women are among the minority worldwide. For those interested, stats and research into this subject are available on the website of San Diego State University’s <a href="https://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/research/" rel="nofollow">Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film</a>.</p><p><b>As of January 2026, this list contains films in 86 languages from 147 countries and over 3,750 directors across a timespan of 121 years.</b> See the <a href="https://letterboxd.com/meagan/list/stuff-by-women-about-women/stats/" rel="nofollow">Stats</a> page for more.</p><p>Special congratulations to @M█████_F██████ (now blocked and thus his comments are hidden) for accidentally summing up more succinctly than I ever could why this list exists, while simultaneously missing the point:</p><blockquote><p>I’m thinking of making a list of films made by men. That would take me an infinite number of years 😂😂😂😂 .</p></blockquote><p>Since this list is much less time-consuming to make—enjoy!</p><p>- - - - - - - - - - -</p><p><b><i>Update 11/16/24:</i></b> As a courtesy to the Christmasheads, all Christmas movies are now cross-listed on <a href="https://boxd.it/ArHaC" rel="nofollow"><b>Christmas stuff by women, about women</b></a>.</p><p><b><i>Update 2/4/24:</i></b> (1) All stand-up specials, stage performances, concerts, music videos, “behind-the-scenes” and “making-of” films, standalone TV show episodes, and all other similar listings have been migrated over to a new list: <a href="https://boxd.it/stSBG" rel="nofollow"><b><i>More</i> stuff by women, about women</b></a>. Documentaries and miniseries remain on the main list along with regular ol’ movies. (2) This list is now sorted by Average Rating (High to Low). Should you ever wish to browse the list the way it was before, simply <a href="https://letterboxd.com/meagan/list/stuff-by-women-about-women/by/popular/" rel="nofollow">sort by Film Popularity</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://boxd.it/3ZVxm" rel="nofollow"><b>Check out the official top 100 narrative feature films by women directors list</b></a></p><p><b>FAQ (please read before commenting)</b></p><p><b>1) Why is [movie by male director] on here?</b><br />In most cases (Slumdog Millionaire, The Act of Killing, Out 1, Bela Tarr's movies) there's a female co-director who isn't credited everywhere. When it comes to new movies the reason is often that by the time I added the movie they credited as co-director and the credit was later changed to something else. Most of the time it's explained somewhere in the comments but of course it's possible that I accidentally added something that shouldn't be on here.<br /><b>2) Why is everything pink?????</b><br />It's sorted by colour, which you would notice if you spent more than 10 seconds looking at the list before commenting.<br /><b>3) Why is [movie by trans director] on here?</b><br />Trans women are women, if they made movies before they came out as trans women I'm gonna include it.<br /><b>4) What's the point of this list?</b><br />Female directors are still underrepresented in the film industry and this list is a place to highlight their movies no matter how good or bad they might be. If you want to watch more movies directed by women but are overwhelmed by the amount of movies on here I'd recommend you <a href="https://boxd.it/2qIJg" rel="nofollow">this list.</a><br /><b>5) Do you add shorts?</b><br />No. The list is already long enough as it is. Unfortunately that means I can't include a lot of silent films but I have a separate list for them <a href="https://boxd.it/ZL2G" rel="nofollow">over here.</a><br /><b>6) Do you take recommendations?</b><br />Yes!!</p>