A good drama sucks you in and does not let go until the end.

This is the place to find good dramas with strong female leads, straight and gay.



Films in the ‘Drama’ Category:


2 Minutes Later

Michael’s famous, egotistical twin brother Kyle goes missing. Hardboiled Abigail is the detective that teams up with Michael and jumps into Kyle’s world to track him down. Scheming assistants, evasive clients, kinky playmates and determined killers make for an absorbing and at times humorous thriller.

2 Seconds

2 Seconds is about Laurie, a woman who is kicked off her downhill mountain bike racing team. She moves to Montreal and develops a contentious friendship with a grumpy ex-cycling champion who now builds bikes. This is a well-received character driven story.

20 Centimeters

As though it isn’t hard enough to have to handle the regular crap of being a pre-op tranny with crazy friends, a girl has to deal with narcolepsy on top of it all? Music, please!

99 Women

Cliche example of the “Women In Prison” genre, so bad it’s fun now. While it pushed the boundaries back in 1969, this schlocky film includes the requisite sadistic dykey warden, lesbian prison sex, and women-in-chains escape scene. Sexploitation cinema at its best. Makes a good dyke movie night drinking game – spot a straightboy fantasy [...]

A Love to Keep

Based on a true story, this is a riveting portrayal of the power of real love. If you can imagine what your life would be if like if your beloved was ripped violently from your arms, while everything and everyone around you worked ceaselessly to keep you apart and punish you for your natural feelings, [...]

Alien (The Director’s Cut)

For several generations of teen girls, Ellen Ripley was the ultimate shero. Stuck in space with a ravenous monster and nothing but her wits, Ripley single-handedly survives the carnage, defeats the relentless terror and heads for home. Or does she? This suspenseful classic sci-fi horror movie is one of the American Film Institute’s 100 Best Films of All Time. Scary good!

Alucarda

Long before Carrie, these witchy girls get very, very bloody. Are they really in league with the devil, or just reflecting the craziness around them?

Amour de Femme

Jeanne attends the birthday party of a friend of her husbands. There she meets a dancer named marie and there is instant chemistry between them. Jeanne falls for marie and they embark on an extramarit

Anyone But Me: The Complete First Season

From the award winning team of Susan Miller, Consulting Producer/writer on the The L Word & Thirtysomething, and filmmaker Tina Cesa Ward, Anyone But Me follows the journey of six teenagers and the ad

Babe, The Babe Didrikson Zaharias Story

Before Sheryl Swopes, Martina Navratilova and Annika Sorenstam were even born, there was Babe Didrikson, one of the best athletes of all time and both genders. This excellent docudrama traces her life, wide-ranging sports career, and personal life with reverent dignity.

Bandaged

After his wife’s death, creepy surgeon Arthur lives an isolated life with his mother and daughter in an equally creepy mansion out in the boonies. Lucille,the hottie daughter, is a dreamer who feels terminally trapped with her dysfunctional relatives. Desperate to escape, she screws up suicide and suffers terrible burns, requiring around-the-clock nursing to convalesce. [...]

Bound

Sizzlingly hot thriller, it’s smart and sexy, has mainstream production values, and features two lesbian protagonists who come out on top of the game. Corky (Gina Gershon) and Violet (Jennifer Tilly) plot to steal two million from the mob. If it isn’t the first full-fledged lesbian thriller, it’s certainly the best. Bound won’t disappoint.
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Boys Don’t Cry

The true story of Brandon Teena’s life and death in Nebraska. Teena changed his name from Teena Brandon to Brandon Teena, moved to a new town where he lived as a charismatic and well-liked young man. Fateful events revealed his secret and lead to a brutal and tragic slaying at the hands of his newfound [...]

Brushfires

When a shy girl secretly in love with her rocker-girl roommate, meets an unbalanced heiress on the run, their already volatile existence is overturned. To complicate the situation even more the unbal

Carmilla: The Lesbian Vampire

Possibly the worst movie ever made, certainly the worst lesbian vampire movie ever made. Honestly, the best thing about this movie is the boxshot. This is so unbelievably bad it does not even qualify as funny Dykesploitation or Processed Cheese Food – it is simply indigestible, unwatchable crap. We include it here only to serve [...]

Change of Life

Gary Catell is a devout and outspoken evangelical minister, who leads his congregation in the persecution of gays and lesbians. When his gay daughter is outed and commits suicide on the air during his

Commander In Chief – The Inaugural Edition, Part 1

When the sitting president has a stroke, vice-president Mackenzie Allen becomes the first female Commander-in-Chief. More than able to rise to the occasion, President Allen embodies the best that the highest office in the USA demands, while deftly navigating the treacherous political waters. (Part One)

Commander in Chief – The Inaugural Edition, Part 2

When the sitting president has a stroke, vice-president Mackenzie Allen becomes the first female Commander-in-Chief. More than able to rise to the occasion, President Allen embodies the best that the highest office in the USA demands, while deftly navigating the treacherous political waters. (Part Two)

Drifting Flowers

Three lesbian stories weave in and out as themes of self-discovery, loyalty, aging, loss and true love are explored.
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El Cazador de la Bruja, Volume 1

In the fantasy-adventure El Cazador de la Bruja (\”The Witch Hunter,\” 2007), the heroines–Ellis, a blonde waif with erratic supernatural powers, and Nadie, a bounty hunter who\’s sworn to protect he

El Cazador de la Bruja, Volume 2

All they have is each other.Ellis is an amnesiac with a bounty on her head, and Nadie’s trigger finger is the only thing keeping her friend from falling into the wrong hands. They’re unlocking the

En Soap

In this seriocomic look at the vicissitudes of life, Charlotte moves into a new apartment after breaking up with her stupid boyfriend. Her downstairs neighbor, Veronica, whiles away the time until her gender reassignment surgery by watching soap operas on television and occasionally servicing a fetish client. After a botched suicide attempt, Veronica and Charlotte [...]

Eternal

Possibly the kinkiest crazybitch in history is the Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a 16th-century nutjob who believed that soaking in a bathtub full of the blood of beautiful young women would keep her forever young and beautiful. What if… the spa treatments really work, and Liz walks among us today?

Feuille

A veiled, poetic tale of two artists; one a painter from China, the other a French photographer. They meet in Paris and make an emotional connection. But is it strong enough to withstand the pressure of their families and cultures?

Fine Dead Girls

Iva and Marija are a nice, quiet lesbian couple who just want to live their quiet lives together in peace. But the crummy apartment complex they move into in Zagreb is full of dysfunctional freaks who make their lives anything but quiet and peaceful. A solid drama exploring homophobia and intolerance.

Fingersmith

This is the BBC three-part mini-series adaptation of the book by Sarah Waters (author of Tipping the Velvet). This Victorian era lesbian film follows the disparate upbringing of two young women, one raised by thieves, the other by a rich uncle. The girls each have their crosses to bear. When treacherous plotting brings them together, [...]

FIRE

Azmi and Das are sisters-in-law stuck in loveless, unfulfilling arranged marriages. When they dare to fall in love, they unleash the fierce disapproval of their families and society. A mesmerizing, erotic, and heartbreakingly romantic film.

Fish and Elephant

Mandarin with English subtitles. Xiao Qun works at Beijing Zoo as an elephant keeper, while her lover Xiao Ling a clothing designer sells her clothes at a stall at the mall. Their relationship comes

Four Minutes

Jenny, a convicted murderer, is recruited by piano teacher Traude Krüger. In spite of Jenny’s violent outbursts and Traude’s  conservatism, they find common ground and forge a bond of friendship. This is a hard, raw film with no room for sentiment, especially when the characters’ painful pasts are revealed. Award winning cinema.
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Fried Green Tomatoes

Evelyn’s life as a suburban housewife is going absolutely nowhere. Ignored and insulted by the world around her, she takes solace in candybars and shopping. Until she meets spry octogenarian Ninny, who tells her the amazing true story of Idgie and Ruth and the Whistle Stop Cafe.
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Gasoline

Stella and Lenni like their laid-back life in their one-horse village. But then Lenni’s bigger-than-life and twice as disapproving mother blows into town and promptly gets herself accidentally killed. Stella and Lenni stuff the body in the trunk, grab the loot and take it on the lam in this fast and furious action adventure.

Ghosted

After her lover is murdered, Sophie tries to regain her emotional balance by creating a video installation to Ai-Ling’s memory, and showing it in Taipei. While there, she meets the mysterious and alluring Mei-Li, but it is far too soon since Ai-Ling’s death for Sophie to handle, so she bolts back to Germany. When Mei-Li [...]

Gimme Sugar, The Complete First Season

Five hot young friends on the L.A. lesbian club scene may bite off more than they can chew when they try to launch and promote their own club night. If they succeed, they\’ll be the youngest female pr

Girl + Girl (Ws)

This wonderfully entertaining batch of lesbian short films showcases long unavailable film festival favorites and pioneering works including the short masterpiece, Rispondetemi (by Lost & Delirious di

Girl Play

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Girl Seeks Girl

Nines, Monica, Anna, Carmen – if you haven’t met these lesbianas deliciosas yet, you are in for a very fun ride. And if you have, I don’t need to catch you up, do I? Great Buddy Movie Night title. Grab your chicas and enjoy!

Girl’s View – A Collection of Lesbian Themed Short Films

Alluvial Filmworks present Girls\’ View, a collection of five lesbian-themed short films. Open Studio Rose gave up on her artistic career 30 years ago when she became pregnant. Now, after a life de

Girlfight

First-time director Karyn Kusama tells a simple but compelling story of a young woman in Brooklyn whose violent impulses in school, and her tendency to physicalize her anger, lead her to train as a bo

Girlfriends

“They’re young. They’re in love. They kill men.” How could you not love a slice of dykesploitation cheese with a tagline like that? Wanda and Pearle support themselves by hustling rich guys and then offing them. But the pension plan for that job sucks, and what the girls really want is a normal life with [...]

Girls Can’t Swim

Best friends Gwen and Lise spend every summer together, but this year, Lise can’t come. Gwen explores her budding sexuality with the local yokels, unaware of the real reason Lise has to stay home. As the summer progresses, the delicate dance between their deeply intimate love/hate friendship and the harshness of teen angst spirals into [...]

Girls on Film 2 (Lesbian & Gay)

GIRLS ON FILM II: GIRLS ON FILM-II is another groundbreaking compilation featuring the best lesbian-themed shorts made by POWER UP members. These films have delighted audiences at festivals worldwi

Girls’ View 2

Alluvial presents Girls View 2, another collection of award-winning lesbian-themed short films. The Rules Kyla, a lonely bored housewife embarks on a phone sex game with Melanie, a mysterious woman.

Hardcore

Intense look at the seamy underbelly of the Athens underworld. Two young girls leave their abusive homes and end up working on the streets. Falling in love, they protect each other against the hardships of their lifestyle.
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Heavenly Creatures

As almost every woman on earth can tell you, few relationships in life are as intense as your childhood for-real BFF. Juliet and Pauline are the very best of friends, and theirs is a magical shared fantasy life. Until, that is, their parents get worried that the girls are a tad too close, and try [...]

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Self-absorbed rock opera about a self-absorbed singer who stalks her thieving, unjustly successful ex-boyfriend and triumphs in the end. Surprisingly good drag king turn by Miriam Shor (‘Swingtown’, ‘Damages’) as Yitzhak, the hapless bandmate hopelessly smitten with a Tommy-obsessed Hedwig.

In Her Line of Fire

When the vice presidents plane goes down near a remote south american island he is kidnapped by rebel forces and held for ransom. It is up to his female secret service agent and a press secretary to infiltrate the camp and save him.

Itty Bitty Titty Committee

Bad lesbian cinema attempts to explore post-feminist social politics. Poorly conceived and executed, but nonetheless popular with the younger crowd. Plot: young heartbroken lesbian joins a post-feminist micro-cell; vandalism, bickering, sex and more heartbreak ensue. Proof that the bar for lesbian cinema is low enough for a limbo contest. Watch it if you like youthful anger and rebellion, riot grrrl music or if you just need to see a slice of young lesbian life. Enthusiastically acted.

Journey to Kafiristan

Based on a true story, this elegant, exotic and erotic film traces the inner and outer journeys of Ella and Annemarie, as they make their way into Afghanistan on the eve of World War Two.

Just the Two of Us

Bored housewives Denise and Adria have an on-again-off-again affair in this 1975 dykesploitation melodrama. Dated but entertaining.

Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl, Vol. 1: Role Reversal

High school junior Hazumu, the central character of Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl (2006), is a fragile, sensitive boy who\’s more comfortable around plants than people. His friend Tomari has protected hi

Kate’s Addiction

Modern dykesploitation straightboy fantasy, we have to say that overall, just pass on this turkey. Unless, of course, you want to see two hot, gorgeous actors getting very steamy. If you can put aside all cravings for plot, narrative, direction, originality, creativity or anything other than two hot actors getting steamy, then this is the [...]

Kitten In A Cage / Girl From Pussycat

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! No, it’s not that cult favorite, but you’ll be wishing it was when these two hokey ’script? we don’t need no stinkin’ script!’ excuses for stringing together a bunch of pseudo-lesbian scenes overheat your VCR. Another fun stinkeroo from the great golden era of 1969 dykesploitation flicks, “Kitten In A Cage [...]

Le Jupon Rouge

Bacha is a holocaust survivor who channels her experience into humanitarian activism. Manuela is her long-time aide. When Manuela falls for Claude, Bacha’s jealousy and passion come to the fore.

Les Biches

Frederique is wealthy and bored. Why is a young starving artist who lets rich Frederique whisk her off to a lovely villa in St. Tropez. Once there, Why meets and falls in love with Paul, but Frederique wants what she wants, and finds a way to make it happen. A suspenseful and erotic 1968 classic.

Les Vampires

Crafty, ruthless and charismatic Irma Vep is not a vampire in the classical sense, but she and her gang of jewel thieves are very much psychological bloodsuckers as they con, seduce and steal their way across the upper-crust landscape of Paris after WW1. An absorbing silent-era classic in serial form. A must for any serious [...]

Lesbian Nation

Five excellent short films exploring lesbian sexuality and the complexity of human relationships.

Let’s Love Hong Kong

Shot in a quasi-documentary style, Ho Yuk (Let’s Love Hong Kong) follows the lives of three lesbians in a near-future version of the bustling Asian port city. Chan works as a fetish stripper on an interactive website, Nicole is a businesswoman who gets her yayas watching Chan on her computer every night, and Zero is [...]

Love & Suicide

One Night. One Endless Desire.Inspired by a true story of two friends who learn their love for each other is much deeper than either anticipated.When pretty but troubled Kaye moves to New Orleans with

Lovers & Friends: Season 1 (Ws Dol)

Meet the Lovers & Friends: Lisa, the newly out med student; Kai, the friend with a heart of gold (and a psycho ex-girlfriend); laugh riot Tori involved with her boss; Yasmin, the activist with an unfo

Loving Annabelle

Forbidden love at a girls’ boarding school. This movie could have been a fun, intense fantasy of seduction, but instead settles for disjointed, boring and depressing. Loving Annabelle has its very strong supporters, so don’t take our word for it. Watch for yourself and then let us know what you think.
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Make A Wish

Lesbians love camping! In this comic send-up of the classic slasher flick, Susan and her exes get more than they bargained for when they head out to the woods for Susan’s birthday-bash campout. Cheesy, screamy Buddy Movie Night fun.

Making Maya

Maya (Amy Minderhout), a blonde and beautiful high school senior, lives in a sleepy Oregon town, but still dares to dream of a career in basketball. Along with her best friend and fellow athlete Mars

Maria Watches Over Us – Season 1

When Yumi Fukuzawa entered the Lillian Girls Academy, a prestigious all-girls Catholic school in Tokyo, she never imagined she would catch the eye of beautiful and demure Sachiko Ogasawara, one of the

Mercy

A series of gruesome sexual killings plunges Detective Catherine Palmer (Ellen Barkin) into a secret club of S&M lesbians and a growing attraction to Vickie (Peta Wilson), the chief suspect. A tight, suspenseful erotic thriller with good chemistry between Barkin and Wilson.

Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood\’s 25th film as a director, Million Dollar Baby stands proudly with Unforgiven and Mystic River as the masterwork of a great American filmmaker. In an age of bloated spectacle and compu

Mistress of Seduction

Processed cheese-food all the way. If this one sounds like a really bad softcore skinflick, it’s because it is a really bad softcore skinflick. But, (there is always a but), this one is so unbelievably bad, it’s funny, a complete riot after a couple of three or four beers. If Ed Wood had survived into [...]

Monster

Charlize Theron deserved the Oscar for her riveting portrayal of a highway prostitute discarded by society who turns serial killer. Based on the true story of Aileen Wournos, “Monster” shows the humanity beneath the monster and the casual monstrosity of a thoroughly broken human.
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Night Dragon

Can love and forgiveness overcome violence and betrayal? Beckett and Hansen are sociopathic hitmen working for the heartless gangster that Millie is prosecuting. What Millie doesn’t know is that her girlfriend, Liz, is also on the gangster’s payroll. A tense, dark thriller.

Peach/A Bitter Song

Lucy Lawless, the Amazonian star of \’Xena: Warrior Princess\’, is featured here in two short films. In PEACH, Lucy Lawless stars as a sexy tow truck driver attracted to a young Maori woman. In A BITT

Pendulum

When a sleazy law professor is murdered, tough detective Amanda Reeve (Rachel Hunter) must track down his killer. Do two gorgeous lesbian law students know more than they are letting on?

Person of Interest

Looks like there’s a serial killer on the loose, and Sheriff Nickie needs to get to the bottom of things. After the third woman disappears, Nickie turns to local psychic dude James to help solve the case. Nickie’s girlfriend, detective Sandra, is NOT down with that. Will terrible secrets pull the town apart?

Personal Best

Chris and Tory are olympic-caliber athletes. Their relationship moves over the span of three years from one of mentor to competitors and lovers. The best sports dyke movie ever. Both Chris (Mariel Hemingway) and Tory (real-life olympic athlete Patrice Donnelly) are hot, hot, HOT.

Pocahauntus

C’mon now, you gotta love the title. And that brand of cornball humor runs strong in this campy horror movie, a modern slice of cheesy fun that will have you laughing throughout. Buddy Night Movie!

Princesa

Fernanda (Ingrid DeSouza) is a Brazilian transsexual who moves to Milan and becomes a prostitute to save up money to finalize her gender reassignment surgery. She meets Gianni, a kind man, and attempts to live her dreams of a “normal” heterosexual family. But fantasy and reality have a way of colliding, and what you want [...]

Resident Evil

Marilyn Manson worked on the soundtrack, so it\’s no surprise that Resident Evil is best enjoyed by headbangers, goth guys, and PlayStation junkies. Like the interactive game it\’s based on, this horr

Resident Evil – Apocalypse

2002\’s popular video-game-derived hit Resident Evil didn\’t inspire confidence in a sequel, but Resident Evil: Apocalypse defies odds and surpasses expectations. It\’s a bigger, better, action-packed

Robin’s Hood

Robin, a disillusioned social worker,  and her girlfriend/bank robber, Brooklyn, present a modern take on stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Set in Oakland, CA.

Running on Empty Dreams

Sydney has played the part of a devoted wife to her husband for years, but her world is shattered when she meets Jane and is instantly attracted to her. She is quickly overwhelmed with the intensity o

S.

Graphically violent movie filled with “lesbian aggression” cliches. After a lifetime of abuse from all sides, S. is already on the edge mentally when she kills her philandering boyfriend and his new lover. Now on the run, S. tries to make things right in her inner world by killing everyone who crosses her. Trouble is, [...]

Salmonberries

Two women meet and develop an unusual and unexpected relationship. K.D. Lang portrays kotz an androgynous young eskimo. She is attracted to roswitha a german expatriate and the town librarian. Althoug

SALT: A Fatal Attraction

Randal is a nasty philanderer. His wife Phoebe starts fooling around with Randal’s sister, West. Together, Phoebe and West hatch a fiendishly clever plot to murder Randal in this dark, sexy, tense thriller.

Same Sex Parents

Olympia has Two Moms. And two dads, as well. High school is a bitch. Martine and Do, the mommies, have a less than perfectly functional relationship, and have a hard time being out in their little town. Olympia’s boyfriend Leo and best friend Marion help her cope, but it’s not enough, so she bails to [...]

Secret Weapons

In this fun, cheesy 80’s exploitation film with a hot Geena Davis and Linda Hamilton, the KGB trains a sexy young spy to become an “all-American” temptress and seduce secrets out of US officials and businessmen.

Seduction – Cruel Woman

This German film explores the psychology of S&M, B&D, Master and servant. A lesbian dominatrix runs a gallery show in Hamburg and ultimately must face her own desires and fears. This is one to watch more for the subject explored than for the quality of filmmaking.

Shades of Black

In this suspenseful tale of obsession, Kate allowes herself to be swept up into a passionate affair with the magnetic and sophisticated Lilly. But as things intensify, Kate discovers that Lilly’s charismatic personality hides a darker side.

She Likes Girls, Vol. 4

She Likes Girls 4: Tomboys & Tough GirlsTomboys and tough girls abound in this wonderful new installment in the She Likes Girls lesbian shorts series featuring eight terrific portrayals of girls who l

Shelter Me

Anna and Mara enjoy their cozy, idyllic life together. When they come home from vacation and find young Anis has stashed himself in the trunk of their car, they can’t bring themselves to just dump him on the side of the road, and take him home. At first all is well and the three enjoy [...]

Show Me

Smug yuppie Sarah is looking forward to a little “us” time in the woods with her girlfriend Sam. Getting carjacked by Jenna and Jackson was not on the agenda, and the ensuing hostage drama forces everyone to reconsider their perspectives. A decent psychological thriller, well acted.

Show Me Love

Sixteen-year-old Agnes lives in Amal, a Swedish one-horse town where nothing ever happens. She’s in love with Elin, the most popular girl in school. A magical night, a magical kiss, and then Elin freaks out the next day. The fierceness of teen emotions, the cruel simplicity of children, and the strength of self-awareness make this [...]

Simoun – Rondo of Loss Volume 3

As the sibyllae begin adjusting to life on their new home, the Messis, their relationships continue to evolve in the close-quarters environment. More is discovered about Alty and Kaim and why there is

Simoun – Vol. 1 – Choir of Pairs

In the peaceful theocracy of Simulacrum, everyone is born female. At age 17, each maiden undergoes a special ceremony where she chooses her sex. However, only Pairs of maiden priestesses can synchron

Simoun -Crescendo of Lamentation Vol. 4

Chor Tempest is given little time to recover from losses that occurred in the previous battle as they encounter strikingly familiar enemy aircraft en route to the Ruins. After a brief clash, stunning

Simoun Vol 5: Song of Prayer

The war finally comes to its inevitable conclusion, and the aftermath is more bitter than sweet. Though the political atmosphere remains unstable throughout the world, the Simoun sibyllae must be firm

Simoun: Complete Collection

In the peaceful theocracy of Simulicram, everyone is born female. At age 17, each maiden undergoes a special ceremony where she chooses her sex.  However, only Pairs of maiden priestesses can synchro

Soldier’s Girl

Barry is a soldier stationed in Tennesee. When he falls in love with the lovely transgendered Calpernia, things go way beyond “don’t ask/don’t tell” and become deadly dangerous. Based on a true story.

Sometimes in Life

Jill, a young fashion designer, finds herself feeling insecure about her relationship with her flirtatious girlfriend and her budding fashion career. Rob, a thirty-something who is a jobless do-nothin

Stained Glass Windows

Goth girl Cherry needs a change from being everyone’s punching bag, so she takes up martial arts and plots her revenge. But in doing so, she begins to come into her own power, and discovers what is real for her in life.

A gothic outsider fights to gain her own footing in life after being bullied [...]