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| MONA
LISA SMILE 
2003
- Rated PG-13
It's Wellesley College in 1953, and a feminist art history teacher
causes waves. In a minor sub-plot, the school nurse is a lesbian. |
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| MY
BROTHER'S WAR 
2005
- Not Rated
Over 400 women fought in the Civil War disguised as men, some assuming
a male identity for the rest of their lives. This is one such story. |
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| ONE
FINE DAY and TAKE THE POWER
1984,
1987
Classic feminist music videos from Kay Weaver. Each song is a celebration
of women, and the videos made them inspiring anthems. | |
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| ORANGES
ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
1990
- Not Rated
Jess grows up in northwestern England in the 1960s with a religious
evangelical mother. An exorcism is performed when Jess and her girlfriend are
discovered. | | |
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| ORLANDO
1992 - Rated PG-13
Orlando (Tilda Swinton) lives for 400 years and moves between female and male
identities. | | |
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| PEKING
OPERA BLUES (Do ma daan)
1986
- Not Rated - Chinese with subtitles
Hong Kong comedic action film. The daughter
of the ruling general works for the guerrillas and passes as a man. |
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| PEONY
PAVILION (Youyuan jingmeng)
2001
- Not Rated - Chinese with subtitles
Love story about a Chinese opera singer
in the 1930s and her relationship with her crossdressing cousin. |
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| POSSESSION
2002 - Rated PG-13
A
researcher finds evidence that poet Randolph Henry Ash had an affair with another
poet, Christabel LaMotte, who left her lover for him. | |
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| QUEEN
CHRISTINA
1933
- Not Rated
The great Greta Garbo (bisexual herself) plays Queen Christina,
the 17th century lesbian, crossdressing Queen of Sweden. |
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| RUNNING
WITH SCISSORS
2006
- Rated R
Based on Augusten Burroughs' best selling memoir about his adolescence
in the 1970s. His mother has two lesbian lovers. | |
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| SHE
CREATURE
2001
- Rated R
Mermaid film in which she is an erotic seductress in 1905 Ireland,
but with an edge of horror. | | |
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| SIRENS
1994 - Rated R
A 1930s Anglican priest and his wife play host to an Australian artist and his
three nude models. Lots of lesbian subtext and sensuous nudity. |
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| SISTER
MY SISTER
1994
- Rated R
Two sisters are maids in a provincial French town in 1932. They
begin a sexual relationship with one other, psychologically troubled, moving towards
madness. | | |
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| THE
THISTLE HOTEL
1998
- Not Rated - Short - 25 minutes
Based on Katherine Mansfield's 1907 short
story "Leves Amores." Two independent women find one another in 1915
San Francisco. | | |
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| TIPPING
THE VELVET
2002
- Not Rated
BBC mini-series follows Nan, an 18 year old oyster girl in the
1890s, on her journey of self discovery from first love to heartache and beyond. |
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| WAITING
FOR THE MOON
1987
- Rated PG
This fictional film inspired by the lives of Gertrude Stein and
Alice B. Toklas is like listening in on conversations the famous couple might
have had. | | |
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| THE
WAR WIDOW
1976
- Not Rated
Amy's husband is away fighting in World War I when she meets
Jenny. She must eventually choose between her husband and the woman she loves. |
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| WHERE
THE TRUTH LIES
2005
- Rated R
Complex murder mystery in which a woman is manipulated into having
sex with another woman, with photos as blackmail material. |
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| WU
YEN
2001 -
Not Rated - Chinese with subtitles
Screwball period comedy, gender bending
fantasy tale about an emperor and his two loves. Women play both male and female
in the film. | | |
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| YOUNG
BLADES
2005 - Season
1
Takeoff on the classic Three Musketeers story. Jacqueline passes as Jacques
and joins the Musketeers to avenge the death of her father. |
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