Sarah’s Great Big Somehow Controversial Lesbian Cinema Recommendation List

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

After a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.

After a young woman commits suicide, her neighbors try to piece together why she did it by tracking down her acquaintances.

A gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?

Late nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia.

A rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with...a vampire?

Suzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses.

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

After realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?

Two women, Jill and Ellen, struggle with a chicken farm. Paul Grenfell returns, restores order, and proposes to Ellen. Jill's manipulations awaken Ellen's dormant homosexuality, leading them to become lovers.

Two young girls experience awakening sexuality in the heated atmosphere of a Swiss girls' boarding school...

The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.

A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.

This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.

Jane Arden's surreal take on a group of females in a therapy session.

An experimental film from Barbara Hammer about lesbian couples.

The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris. In the end, their struggles are eased when the widow of a man they had both been married to gives them a small legacy.

'Je' is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room. 'Tu' is the script. 'Il' is a lorry driver. 'Elle' is the girlfriend.

Satirizing a variety of film genres and the ways in which they perpetuate lesbian stereotypes.

From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾" tape recorder and microphone. Winner of the Louise Riskin Prize at the 1976 San Francisco Art Festival.