Historical

lackawanna-blues

Our Rating: ★★★★☆
L Factor: Gender Bender/Minor lesbian character
Short Take: The story of growing up in an upstate New York boarding house. Ricky is one of the boarders, a butch lesbian who looks fine in a man’s suit.

mona-lisa-smile

Our Rating: ★★★★☆
L Factor: Minor lesbian character
Short Take: It’s Wellesley College in 1953, and a feminist art history teacher causes waves.

my-brothers-war

Our Rating: ★★½☆☆
L Factor: Gender Bender/Major lesbian content
Short Take: Over 400 women fought in the Civil War disguised as men, some assuming a male identity for the rest of their lives.

One Fine Day

Our Rating: ★★★★☆
L Factor: Major lesbian content
Short Take: Classic feminist music videos from Kay Weaver

oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit

Our Rating: ★★★★½
L Factor: Lesbian Film
Short Take: Jess grows up in northwestern England in the 1960s with a religious evangelical mother.

orlando

Our Rating: ★★★★☆
L Factor: Gender Bender
Short Take: Orlando (Tilda Swinton) lives for 400 years and moves between female and male identities.

peking-opera-blues

Our Rating: ★★★★☆
L Factor: Gender Bender
Short Take: Hong Kong comedic action film. The daughter of the ruling general works for the guerrillas and passes as a man.

peony-pavilion

Our Rating: ★★½☆☆
L Factor: Gender Bender
Short Take: Love story about a Chinese opera singer in the 1930s and her relationship with her crossdressing cousin.

pirate-radio

Our Rating: ★★★★☆
L Factor: Minor lesbian character
Short Take: Rogue DJs in 1960s Britain

possession

Our Rating: ★★½☆☆
L Factor: Major lesbian content
Short Take: A researcher finds evidence that poet Randolph Henry Ash had an affair with another poet, who left her lover for him.