List of feature films with lesbian characters
The following is a list of feature films with fictional and factual lesbian characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-linear network).
Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.
20th century
1900–1959
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1929 | Pandora's Box | Countess Augusta Geschwitz | Alice Roberts | The Countess likes to wear a man's jacket, shirt, and tie as informal attire. She is in love with Lulu. At Lulu's wedding party, she looks at her longingly and finds an opportunity to dance with her. She then helps rescue Lulu from being taken to prison. Later, she goes in search of Lulu, who is hiding on a gambling ship, and gives her much-needed money. Lulu tells the Countess that she is being blackmailed by Rodrigo Quast, who threatens to turn her over to the police, and the Countess agrees to help Lulu by tricking Rodrigo into thinking that she is interested in him, luring him to his death. Countess Geschwitz is often cited as cinema's first explicit lesbian character. | Germany | [1][2][3] |
1931 | Mädchen in Uniform | Manuela von Meinhardis | Hertha Thiele | The first film about a lesbian coming out. | Germany | [4][5][6] |
1936 | Dracula's Daughter | Countess Marya Zaleska | Gloria Holden | Dracula's daughter, Countess Marya Zaleska, pursues and seduces women. | United States | [7] |
1940 | Rebecca | Mrs. Danvers | Judith Anderson | Mrs. Danvers is the housekeeper of Manderley. | United States | [8][9][10] |
1958 | Touch of Evil | Gang leader | Mercedes McCambridge | A butch leader of a Mexican biker gang. She watches as the bikers terrorize Susan Vargas with gang-rape. | United States | [11][12][13] |
1960–1969
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1961 | The Children's Hour | Martha Dobie | Shirley MacLaine | Based on the 1934 play of the same name. | United States | [1][14] |
1962 | Walk on the Wild Side | Jo Courtney | Barbara Stanwyck | The owner and madam of New Orleans brothel the Doll House. Jo Courtney is the first conspicuous lesbian character in a Hollywood feature film. Stanwyck is the first Hollywood movie star to portray an overt lesbian in an American film. | United States | [1][15][16] |
1963 | The Balcony | Madame Irma | Shelley Winters | Madame Irma is the madam of a brothel where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution that is sweeping the country. | United States | [1] |
1963 | From Russia with Love | Rosa Klebb | Lotte Lenya | Klebb is a former SMERSH colonel-turned-SPECTRE operative. | United Kingdom | [1] |
1964 | Goldfinger | Pussy Galore | Honor Blackman | Although her sexual orientation is not explicit, hints are made in the dialogue. When Bond is flirting with her in one scene, she tells him "You can turn off the charm. I'm immune." In another scene he asks her "What would it take for you to see things my way?" and she replies "A lot more than you've got." | United Kingdom, United States | [17][18] |
1964 | The Night of the Iguana | Judith Fellowes | Grayson Hall | Fellowes is Charlotte's chaperone. | United States | [1] |
1965 | Sylvia | Irma Olanski | Viveca Lindfors | Irma is a librarian. | United States | [1] |
1965 | Who Killed Teddy Bear | Marian Freeman | Elaine Stritch | Marian is the older, experienced manager of the discotheque. | United States | [1][19][20] |
1966 | 7 Women | Agatha Andrews | Margaret Leighton | Agatha is Head of Mission. | United States | [1] |
1966 | The Group | Elinor "Lakey" Eastlake | Candice Bergen | Lakey is regarded as the leader of the devoted women friends. | United States | [1] |
1967 | The Fox | Jill Banford | Sandy Dennis | Jill tends to household chores and finances of the farm, while her intimate roommate, Ellen (bisexual), does the manual labor. | United States, Canada | [1] |
1967 | Tony Rome | Irene | Elisabeth Fraser | Fraser's character Irene is misidentified as "Irma" in credits. | United States | [1] |
1968 | Barbarella | The Great Tyrant | Anita Pallenberg | The Black Queen is the Great Tyrant of Sogo, a city located on Tau Ceti's 16th planet. | United States | [1] |
1968 | Flesh | Geri | Geraldine Smith | Geri is in a marriage with Joe, a hustler and heroin addict. She's in a relationship with Patti. | United States | [1] |
Patti | Patti D'Arbanville | |||||
1968 | The Killing of Sister George | June Buckridge | Beryl Reid | June is an ageing television actress. | United States | [1] |
1968 | The Legend of Lylah Clare | Rossella | Rossella Falk | Rossella is an acting coach. | United States | [1] |
1968 | Rachel, Rachel | Calla Mackie | Estelle Parsons | Calla, an extroverted schoolteacher, has a crush on her best friend Rachel. (Parsons was nominated for the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.) | United States | [21][1] |
1968 | Therese and Isabelle | Thérèse | Essy Persson | Thérèse and Isabelle grow up together and share affectionate intimacies in a Swiss boarding school for girls. | United States | [1] |
Isabelle | Anna Gaël |
1970–1979
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1970 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Casey Anderson | Cynthia Myers | Casey, the daughter of a United States Senator, performs in a rock band, The Kelly Affair. Roxanne is a fashion designer. | United States | [1][22][23] |
Roxanne | Erica Gavin | |||||
1970 | Five Easy Pieces | Terry Grouse | Toni Basil | Terry and Palm are two stranded women headed for Alaska. | United States | [1] |
Palm Apodaca | Helena Kallianiotes | |||||
1970 | Puzzle of a Downfall Child | Pauline Galba | Viveca Lindfors | Pauline is a sophisticated fashion designer. | United States | [1] |
1970 | The Vampire Lovers | Carmilla Karnstein | Ingrid Pitt | She has romantic feelings for Emma who lets her dress her. | United Kingdom | [24][25][26] |
1971 | Daughters of Darkness | Countess Bathory | Delphine Seyrig | Bathory is a countess who has a loyal servant named Ilona and tries to seduce a woman named Valerie. | Belgium | [27][28] |
1971 | Vampyros Lesbos | Countess Nadine Carody | Soledad Miranda | Nadine inherited Count Dracula's estate. | West Germany, Spain | [29][30][31] |
1972 | Heat | Jessica | Andrea Feldman | Jessica is Sally's psychotic daughter. | United States | [1] |
1972 | They Only Kill Their Masters | Mrs. Watkins | June Allyson | Mrs. Watkins is married but holds a secret that she murdered her ex-lover, Jenny. Watkins' husband helped her in covering up the crime. | United States | [1] |
1973 | Cleopatra Jones | Mommy | Shelley Winters | "Mommy" is the gang leader. | United States | [1] |
1974 | Caged Heat | Superintendent McQueen | Barbara Steele | Superintendent McQueen is the deeply closeted prison guard. | United States | [1] |
1974 | Once Upon a Time in the East | Hélène | Denise Filiatrault | A young teenager gets pregnant. However, she must find a way to secretly abort her child. | Canada | [1] |
1975 | Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold | Dragon Lady | Stella Stevens | Dragon Lady opens a casino, which, is actually the headquarters for her underground drug empire. | United States | [1] |
1975 | Farewell, My Lovely | Frances Amthor | Kate Murtagh | Frances is a notorious madam. | United States | [1] |
1975 | Once Is Not Enough | Deidre Milford Granger | Alexis Smith | Granger is one of the world's wealthiest women. She has already been through multiple marriages and demands that things be done her way. She is also secretly carrying on a same-sex affair. | United States | [1] |
Karla | Melina Mercouri | |||||
1975 | The Wild Party | Madeline True | Jennifer Lee | Madeline is the sensual friend of Queenie and Burrs. | United States | [1] |
1977 | Desperate Living | Muffy St. Jacques | Liz Renay | Muffy is the lover of butch Mole. | United States | [32][33] |
Grizelda Brown | Jean Hill | |||||
1977 | Prey | Josephine | Sally Faulkner | Reclusive, possessive Josephine is the girlfriend of Jessica-Ann (bisexual). They encounter a carnivorous alien. | United Kingdom | [34][35] |
1978 | A Different Story | Stella Cooke | Meg Foster | A gay man and a lesbian who become temporary housemates end up falling in love with each other. Film critic Janet Maslin's original review elaborates: "The movie's use of [Albert and Stella's] homosexuality is indeed exploitative, insensitive, and offensive in a variety of ways. Even worse, it is unconvincing." | United States | [1] |
1978 | A Wedding | Rita Billingsley | Geraldine Chaplin | Rita is a wedding planner who develops feelings for a bride she is assisting. | United States | [1] |
1979 | A Perfect Couple | Mary | Heather MacRae | Mary and Sydney are a happy and well-adjusted couple in Shelia's band. | United States | [1] |
Sydney Ray | Tomi-Lee Bradley | |||||
1979 | The Bell Jar | Joan | Donna Mitchell | Joan attempts to convince Esther to agree to a suicide pact, an incident that is not in the book. | United States | [1] |
1979 | Manhattan | Connie | Karen Ludwig | Connie is the lover of Isaac's ex-wife, Jill. | United States | [36][37] |
1979 | The Rose | Sarah Willingham | Sandra McCabe | Sarah is a former lover of Mary. | United States | [1] |
1979 | To Forget Venice | Anna | Mariangela Melato | Anna is a distant relative of Marta's. | Italy | [1] |
1979 | A Woman Like Eve | Eve | Monique van de Ven | While on holiday in France, Eve is irresistibly drawn to a young feminist and commune-dweller, Liliane. | Netherlands | [1] |
Liliane | Maria Schneider |
1980–1989
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1980 | American Gigolo | Anne | Nina van Pallandt | Anne is Julian's procurer. | United States | [1] |
1980 | The Last Metro | Arlette Guillaume | Andréa Ferréol | Arlette is a production designer. | France | [38] |
1980 | Times Square | Nicky Marotta | Robin Johnson | Nicky is being examined for mental illness. | United States | [1] |
1980 | Windows | Andrea Glassen | Elizabeth Ashley | Andrea is a psychotic neighbor of Emily, who she is obsessed with. (Film critics and gay rights groups criticized the film for what they considered to be an offensive portrayal of lesbians.) | United States | [1] |
1982 | By Design | Helen | Patty Duke | Helen and Angie are lovers who ask their co-worker to father them a child. | Canada | [1] |
Angie | Sara Botsford | |||||
1982 | Personal Best | Chris Cahill | Mariel Hemingway | Chris and Tory fall in love while training for the Olympics. | United States | [1] |
Tory Skinner | Patrice Donnelly | |||||
1982 | Tenebrae | Tilde | Mirella D'Angelo | Tilde is a feminist journalist. | Italy | [39] |
1983 | Lianna | Lianna | Linda Griffiths | Lianna has a crush on Ruth and comes out after she has an affair with her. Ruth is a child psychology professor at the college. | United States | [1][40] |
Ruth | Jane Hallaren | |||||
1983 | Silkwood | Dolly Pelliker | Cher | Dolly is a friend of Karen Silkwood. | United States | [1] |
1984 | Angel | Solly Mosler | Susan Tyrrell | Solly is an eccentric painter. | United States | [1] |
1984 | The Bostonians | Olive Chancellor | Vanessa Redgrave | Chancellor is a Back Bay Boston spinster and leader of the women's suffrage movement, who becomes enamored of Verena Tarrant, an inspirational young speaker, and adopts Verena as her protégée, her friend, and her companion. | United Kingdom, United States | [41] |
1984 | Fear City | Leila | Rae Dawn Chong | Leila is an exotic dancer. She is attacked and fatally injured by the stalker. | United States | [42] |
1985 | Avenging Angel | Solly Mosler | Susan Tyrrell | Solly is a landlord and has a foul mouth. (The film is a sequel to Angel.) | United States | [1][43][44] |
1985 | Desert Hearts | Vivian Bell | Helen Shaver | Vivian, a professor from Columbia University, goes to Reno, Nevada to await her divorce. She meets Cay, a free-spirited woman who does not hide her sexual orientation. Vivian begins to discover her true nature as she and Cay grow closer. | United States | [45][46] |
Cay Rivers | Patricia Charbonneau | |||||
1985 | The Good Father | Cheryl Langford | Frances Viner | Cheryl leaves her husband for a woman. | United Kingdom | [47] |
1985 | November Moon | November Messing | Gabriele Osburg | November is Jewish and fled to Paris in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. She meets Férial, a gentile, and they fall in love. When Germany invades France, November flees to the south, and Férial goes to work at a Nazi newspaper so that she can learn about plans by the Nazi occupiers and protect November from the Gestapo. | West Germany, France | [48][49][50] |
Férial | Christiane Millet | |||||
1985 | Outside the Walls (Extramuros) | sor Ana | Carmen Maura | Ana and Ángela are lovers and nuns in the same convent. | Spain | [51][52] |
sor Ángela | Mercedes Sampietro | |||||
1985 | Red Sonja | Queen Gedren of Berkubane | Sandahl Bergman | Gedren is a sorceress. She murdered Sonja's parents and brother after she rejected Gedren's sexual overtures. | United States | [53][54] |
1985 | To Live and Die in L.A. | Serena | Jane Leeves | Serena is Bianca’s girlfriend. | United States | [1] |
1986 | Anne Trister | Anne | Albane Guilhe | Anne is a Swiss Jewish artist who is grieving her father, moves to Montreal and forms a friendship with a child psychiatrist. | Canada | [55] |
1986 | Mona Lisa | Simone | Cathy Tyson | Simone is a prostitute searching for a missing woman, who she was in love with. | United Kingdom | [1] |
1986 | Reform School Girls | Charlie Chambliss | Wendy O. Williams | Charlie is the villainous leader of the reform school. | United States | [1] |
1986 | She's Gotta Have It | Opal Gilstrap | Raye Dowell | Opal is Nola's friend who believes every person is capable of sexual fluidity. | United States | [1][56][57] |
1986 | Working Girls | Molly | Louise Smith | Molly, a Yale University graduate, works in a New York City brothel to support herself and her girlfriend, Diane. | United States | [58] |
Diane | Deborah Banks | |||||
1987 | Sammy and Rosie Get Laid | Vivia | Suzette Llewellyn | Vivia and Rani are an interracial couple and friends of Rosie. They discover evidence of Rafi's involvement in the torture and murder of political dissenters in Pakistan. | United Kingdom | [59][60] |
Rani | Meera Syal | |||||
1987 | Slam Dance | Bobby Nye | Millie Perkins | Bobby is the former lover of murdered call girl Yolanda. She hires a hitman to kill Drood, who was Yolanda's married lover. | United Kingdom, United States | [61][62] |
1988 | Arizona Heat | Jill Andrews | Denise Crosby | Jill is a detective trying to catch a serial killer who is murdering police officers. | United States | [63][64] |
1989 | Full Moon in New York | Lee Fung-jiau | Maggie Cheung | Fung-jiau is the closeted owner of a Chinese restaurant. | United States, Hong Kong | [65][66] |
1990–1999
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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1990 | The Handmaid's Tale | Moira | Elizabeth McGovern | Moira's motivation to become a rebel is particularly strong because she is a "gender traitor," i.e., a lesbian, in the dystopian society she lives in. | United States, West Germany | [67] |
1991 | The Butcher's Wife | Grace | Frances McDormand | Grace is a dress shop clerk. | United States | [68] |
1991 | Double Impact | Kara | Corinna Everson | Kara is Griffith's bodyguard. | United States | [69] |
1991 | Fried Green Tomatoes | Idgie Threadgoode | Mary Stuart Masterson | Idgie has always loved Ruth. Ruth had a previous relationship with Buddy Threadgoode, Idgie's brother, before she married and had a child with another man. After Idgie rescues Ruth from her abusive husband, the romantic relationship between the two women begins. Based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, where the relationship between Idgie and Ruth is not explicitly identified as a lesbian relationship, but every resident knows about them and accepts their relationship. | United States | [70][71] |
1991 | Switch | Sheila Faxton | Lorraine Bracco | A cosmetics magnate. She responds to Amanda Brooks' seduction and takes her to a lesbian nightclub. Sheila was in a 10-year relationship with Kathleen Seymour, a perfumer at Faxton Cosmetics. The cutting of the sex scene between Sheila and Amanda was criticized by Ellen Barkin (Amanda). | United States | [72] [73][74] |
1992 | Basic Instinct | Roxy Hardy | Leilani Sarelle | Roxy is a murderer. | France, United States, United Kingdom | [75][76] |
1992 | The Days of Being Dumb | Jane | Anita Yuen | Jane is a prostitute from Singapore. | Hong Kong | [77] |
1992 | Gigolo and Whore II | Sherin Chan | Rosamund Kwan | Sherin is a rich and beautiful lady who has acquired the family business of Johnson, and he tried to change her into a man-loving heterosexual. | Hong Kong | [78] |
1992 | Inside Monkey Zetterland | Grace | Patricia Arquette | Grace is Monkey's sister. | United States | [79] |
Cindy | Sofia Coppola | |||||
1992 | The Living End | Daisy | Mary Woronov | Daisy and Fern are serial killers. | United States | [80][81] |
Fern | Johanna Went | |||||
1992 | Naked Killer | Princess | Carrie Ng | Princess and Baby are lovers and assassins hired by the Yakuza. Sister Cindy mentors women to be assassins. | Hong Kong | [82][83] |
Baby | Madoka Sugawara | |||||
Sister Cindy | Yiu Wai (Kelly Yao) | |||||
1992 | Poison Ivy | Sylvie Cooper | Sara Gilbert | Sylvie is a young girl at a private school for the wealthy. | United States | [84] |
1993 | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Sissy Hankshaw | Uma Thurman | Sissy has a love affair with Bonanza, the ranch leader. | United States | [85] |
Bonanza Jellybean | Rain Phoenix | |||||
1993 | Fight Back to School III | Ching Man Ching | Kathy Chow Hoi-mei | Ching is the girlfriend of bisexual heiress Judy Tong Wong. | Hong Kong | [86] |
1993 | Three of Hearts | Connie Czapski | Kelly Lynch | Connie is Joe's best friend. | United States | [87] |
1994 | Go Fish | Camille 'Max' West | Guinevere Turner | Camille is a college student in Chicago who has gone ten months without having sex. | United States | [88][89] |
Ely | V.S. Brodie | |||||
1995 | Antonia's Line | Danielle | Els Dottermans | When Danielle falls in love with Lara, she has a vision of her as the Venus by Botticelli. | Netherlands | [90][91][92] |
Lara | Elsie de Brauw | |||||
1995 | Boys on the Side | Jane DeLuca | Whoopi Goldberg | Jane is a musician who recently broke-up with her girlfriend and her band, decides to move from New York City to Los Angeles. | United States | [93][94] |
1995 | The Brady Bunch Movie | Noreen | Alanna Ubach | Noreen had a crush on Marcia. | United States | [95] |
1995 | French Twist | Marie-Jo | Josiane Balasko | Marie-Jo is a campervan driver. | France | [96] |
1995 | Higher Learning | Taryn | Jennifer Connelly | Taryn is a junior student at Columbus University and the head of feminist activist group Students for a Non-Sexist Society. She has a relationship with Kristen Connor, unaware that Kristen is also involved with Wayne. (The sex scene between Taryn and Kristen was deleted from the U.S. theatrical release and the subsequent DVD. The scene was not censored in the United Kingdom and Australia film releases, as well as in the regions 2 and 4 DVDs.) | United States | [97][98][99] |
1995 | The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love | Randy Dean | Laurel Holloman | Randy is a 17-year-old student in her final school year with poor grades. | United States | [100][101] |
Evie Roy | Nicole Ari Parker | |||||
1995 | When Night Is Falling | Camille Baker | Pascale Bussières | Camille is a mythology professor at a religious college and engaged to theology professor Martin. When her terrier, Bob, dies she realizes that she loved her dog more than she loves Martin. Petra is a circus performer. | Canada | [102] |
Petra Soft | Rachael Crawford | |||||
1995 | Wild Side | Alex Lee | Anne Heche | Alex is a California banker. | United Kingdom, United States | [103] |
1996 | Bound | Corky | Gina Gershon | Ex-con Corky enters into an affair with the girlfriend of a mafioso, and the two women hatch a scheme to steal $2 million of Mafia money. | United States | [104] |
1996 | Citizen Ruth | Diane Siegler | Swoosie Kurtz | Diane is a pro-choice spy working within the ranks of the "Baby Savers". Rachel is Diane's partner. | United States | [105][106] |
Rachel | Kelly Preston | |||||
1996 | Eye for an Eye | Angel Kosinsky | Charlayne Woodard | Angel is a FBI Agent. | United States | [107] |
1996 | Fire | Sita | Nandita Das | The first mainstream Indian film to feature a lesbian relationship and one of the first to show homosexual love. | India, Canada | [108] |
Radha | Shabana Azmi | |||||
1996 | The First Wives Club | Christine Paradis | Jennifer Dundas | Christine is Annie's feminist daughter. | United States | [109] |
1996 | Freeway | Rhonda | Brittany Murphy | Rhonda is a heroin addict. | United States | [110] |
1996 | Grace of My Heart | Kelly Porter | Bridget Fonda | Pop singer Porter is in a closeted relationship with her roommate Marion. After one of her songwriters overhears Porter on the phone with her secret lover, the coded song "My Secret Love" is written for her and it becomes a solid-gold hit. (The character is alleged to have been partially inspired by singer Lesley Gore, who co-wrote "My Secret Love" for the film.) | United States | [111][112] [113] |
Marion | Lucinda Jenney | |||||
1996 | How to Meet the Lucky Stars | Sheung Kung Fei Fa | Kung Suet-Fa | Suet-Fa is a notorious gambler. | Hong Kong | [114] |
1996 | Losing Chase | Chase Phillips | Helen Mirren | Chase is in an unhappy marriage. After returning home from treatment for a nervous breakdown, a helper, Elizabeth, is hired to assist her. She initially resists Elizabeth's presence, but as time passes she begins to appreciate her and a friendship grows between them. Chase eventually confesses to Elizabeth that she is in love with her and kisses her, but Elizabeth cannot return the same attraction. Afterwards, Chase leaves her husband. | United States | [115][116] |
1996 | Love and Other Catastrophes | Mia | Frances O'Connor | Mia is a film studies student. | Australia | [117] |
Danni | Radha Mitchell | |||||
1996 | Set It Off | Cleopatra "Cleo" Sims | Queen Latifah | Cleo has prior convictions and works as a janitor. | United States | [118][119] |
1996 | The Watermelon Woman | Cheryl | Cheryl Dunye | Cheryl works at a video rental store. She falls in love with Diana and has sex with her. (Their sex scene was described by a critic as "the hottest dyke sex scene ever recorded on celluloid"). Tamara is a Black co-worker at the video store. She is critical of Cheryl for having a White girlfriend. Diana flirts with Cheryl in the store. She later enters into a romantic relationship with her. Shirley is a friend of Cheryl's mother and helps Cheryl with her project about "The Watermelon Woman". Fae is an actress credited as "The Watermelon Woman" in the 1930s film "Plantation Memories" that Cheryl discovers. It is later revealed that she was in a relationship with film director Martha Page. June is the "special friend" of Fae, with whom she had a romantic relationship for over 20 years. | United States | [120][121][122] |
Tamara | Valerie Walker | |||||
Diana | Guinevere Turner | |||||
Shirley Hamilton | Ira Jeffries | |||||
Fae Richards | Lisa Maria Bronson | |||||
Martha Page | Alexandra Juhasz | |||||
June Walker | Cheryl Clarke | |||||
1997 | All Over Me | Claude | Alison Folland | Claude is a tomboy teenage girl who lives with her divorced mother in Hell's Kitchen. | United States | [123][124] |
Lucy | Leisha Hailey | |||||
1997 | Chasing Amy | Alyssa Jones | Joey Lauren Adams | Alyssa is a comic book artist. | United States | [125] |
1997 | First Love Unlimited | Hong's sister | Erica Yuen Lai-Ming | Hogn's sister is depicted as a homosexual. | Hong Kong | [126][better source needed] |
1997 | Little City | Kate | Joanna Going | After meeting Anne, Kate comes out and leaves her husband, then comes out to her parents. After Anne breaks up with her, she decides to become pregnant and to do so tries to renew her relationship with her estranged husband, but realizes she is only attracted to women. Anne is an art teacher. She does not want to be monogamous and breaks up with Kate. | United States | [127] |
Anne | JoBeth Williams | |||||
1998 | Edge of Seventeen | Angie | Lea DeLaria | Angie is a manager at the amusement park. | United States | [128] |
1998 | High Art | Lucy Berliner | Ally Sheedy | Lucy is a renowned photographer. She lives with her heroin-addicted German girlfriend, Greta. | Canada, United States | [129][130] |
Greta | Patricia Clarkson | |||||
1998 | Portland Street Blues | Sister Thirteen | Sandra Ng | Thirteen is a mobster and branch leader of the Hung Hing triad. | China (Hong Kong) | [131][132] |
1998 | Primary Colors | Libby Holden | Kathy Bates | Holden is Stantons' tough but unbalanced old friend. | United States | [133] |
1998 | Show Me Love | Agnes Ahlberg | Rebecka Liljeberg | Agnes attends school in Åmål, a small Swedish town. | Sweden | [134] |
1999 | Aimée & Jaguar | Lilly Wust (Aimée) | Juliane Köhler | Aimée (real name Lilly) is in love with Felice, but married to a Nazi. Felice is Jewish and a member of the underground resistance, known by the name "Jaguar". | Germany | [135] |
Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar) | Maria Schrader | |||||
1999 | All About My Mother | Huma Rojo | Marisa Paredes | Huma is an actress involved with Nina, who later runs off. | Spain | [136] |
1999 | Being John Malkovich | Lotte Schwartz | Cameron Diaz | Lotte is an unhappily married and confused person, and one of multiple people whose mind temporarily enters the mind of John Malkovich through a portal. Lotte becomes more confident in Malkovitch's body, enjoying how she feels. Lotte (not in John's body anymore) and Maxine end together as a couple raising their daughter, Emily. | United States | [137] |
1999 | Better Than Chocolate | Francis | Ann-Marie MacDonald | Frances is a lesbian separatist who owns a bookstore. Maggie is in a relationship with Kim. | Canada | [138][139] |
Maggie | Karyn Dwyer | |||||
Kim | Christina Cox | |||||
1999 | But I'm a Cheerleader | Megan Bloomfield | Natasha Lyonne | Megan is the 17-year-old protagonist. Her parents send her to True Directions, a conversion therapy camp that aims to convert its campers to heterosexuality. She eventually meets Graham, another camper at True Directions. Graham starts a relationship with Megan, with both having sex. Sinead and Hilary are campers. In the True Directions orientation video which depicts homosexuality as a problem to be "fixed", Kelly is a girl shown to be a lesbian until "cured" by the organization. The lipstick lesbian character makes a brief cameo and is referred to as "Lipstick Lesbian" in the film's credits. | United States | [140][141][142] |
Graham Eaton | Clea DuVall | |||||
Sinead Laren | Katharine Towne | |||||
Hilary Vandermuller | Melanie Lynskey | |||||
Kelly | Ione Skye (uncredited) | |||||
Lipstick Lesbian | Julie Delpy | |||||
1999 | The Deep End of the Ocean | Candace "Candy" Bliss | Whoopi Goldberg | Candy is a detective investigating the disappearance of Ben. | United States | [143][144] |
1999 | Election | Tammy Metzler | Jessica Campbell | Tammy is closeted. Early in the film she is dumped by her girlfriend, Lisa Flanagan, for her brother. She later runs a nihilistic campaign for class president with the intent to dismantle the student government, and get revenge on her brother. She falsely confesses to ripping down campaign posters, resulting in her expulsion and transfer to a Catholic girls school. Her story ends happily, as she meets her next love, Jennifer, at the school. (Early on in the film, Tammy gives a narration where she says, "it's not like I'm a lesbian or anything, I'm attracted to the person. It's just that all the people I've ever been attracted to happen to be girls.") | United States | [145][146][147] |
1999 | Limbo | Frankie | Kathryn Grody | Frankie and Lou are a couple and businesswomen. | United States | [148] |
Lou | Rita Taggart | |||||
1999 | Tea with Mussolini | Georgina 'Georgie' Rockwell | Lily Tomlin | Georgina is an archeologist. | United Kingdom, Italy | [149] |
1999 | Tempting Heart | Chen-Li | Karen Mok | Chen-Li is Xiao-rou's best friend, whom Xiao-rou confides in. | Hong Kong | [150] |
1999 | Why Not Me? | Camille | Amira Casar | The movie is about three out friends in Barcelona. | France, Spain, Switzerland | [151][152] |
Ariane | Alexandra London | |||||
Eva | Julie Gayet |
21st century
2000–2004
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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2000 | Best in Show | Christy Cummings | Jane Lynch | Christy is an extremely competitive butch and romantically involved with Sherri Ann. | United States | [153][154] |
Sherri Ann Ward Cabot | Jennifer Coolidge | |||||
2000 | Dr. T & the Women | Dee Dee Travis | Kate Hudson | Dee Dee is Dr. T's closeted daughter who is in a secret relationship with Marilyn. | United States, Germany | [155][156] |
Marilyn | Liv Tyler | |||||
2000 | Miss Congeniality | Karen Krantz (Miss New York) | Melissa De Sousa | Krantz professes her love for Tina Texas. | United States | [157] |
2000 | Sordid Lives | Bitsy Mae Harling | Olivia Newton-John | Bitsy is an ex-con, and honky-tonk singer and guitar player. | United States | [158][159][160] |
2000 | Spacked Out | Sissy | Christy Cheung | Sissy and Bean Curd are a couple. | Hong Kong | [161][162] |
Bean Curd | Maggie Poon | |||||
2000 | Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her | Lilly | Valeria Golino | Christine's partner Lilly is critically ill with an unnamed disease, possibly cancer. | United States | [163] |
Christine Taylor | Calista Flockhart | |||||
2000 | Time and Tide | Ah Jo | Cathy Tsui | Cathy is a policewoman. | Hong Kong | [164][165] |
2000 | What's Cooking? | Carla | Julianna Margulies | Rachel is welcomed home, along with her girlfriend Carla on Thanksgiving day. | United Kingdom, United States | [166] |
Rachel Seelig | Kyra Sedgwick | |||||
2001 | Blow Dry | Sandra | Rachel Griffiths | Sandra operates a hairdressing shop with her domestic partner. | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | [167] |
2001 | Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter | Mary Magnum | Mary Moulton | Mary becomes a vampire after being bitten by Shreck. | Canada | [168][169] |
Maxine Shreck | Murielle Varhelyi | |||||
2001 | Lost and Delirious | Pauline Oster | Piper Perabo | Mary (nicknamed Mouse) is a new student at the all girls' boarding school, and dorms with Victoria (nicknamed Tori). | Canada | [170] |
Victoria "Tori" Moller | Jessica Paré | |||||
2001 | Mulholland Drive | Betty Elms | Naomi Watts | Aspiring actress Betty meets and befriends Rita, who has amnesia after a car accident. | France, United States | [171][172] |
Rita | Laura Elena Harring | |||||
2002 | The Hours | Sally Lester | Allison Janney | Sally is in a long-term relationship with Clarissa, who pines for "a long-lost romance with Richard." | United Kingdom, United States | [173][174][175] |
2002 | Kiss the Bride | Amy Kayne | Alyssa Milano | Toni is accompanied by her biker girlfriend Amy and long for the approval and love of their domineering father | United States | [176] |
Antonia "Toni" Sposato | Monet Mazur | |||||
2002 | May | Ambrosia | Nichole Hiltz | May's colleague Polly shows an interest in her, who later enters a relationship with another girl named Ambrosia. | United States | [177] |
Polly | Anna Faris | |||||
2003 | Gigli | Ricki/Rochelle | Jennifer Lopez | Gigli and Ricki get to like each other, even though she makes it perfectly clear that she is a lesbian. | United States | [178][179] |
2003 | Monster | Aileen Wuornos | Charlize Theron | Biopic about Wuornos, a street prostitute who becomes a serial killer after being brutally raped and beaten by a john. Based on Wuornos's real-life girlfriend Tyria Moore, Selby is Wuornos' semi-fictionalized lover. | United States | [180][181] |
Selby Wall | Christina Ricci | |||||
2003 | Something's Gotta Give | Zoe | Frances McDormand | Erica's sister and feminist women's studies professor who disapproves of her sister's relationship with playboy socialite Harry Sanborn. | United States | [182] |
2003 | Under the Tuscan Sun | Grace | Kate Walsh | Patti is Frances' best friend and is expecting a child with her partner Grace. | United States | [183] |
Patti | Sandra Oh | |||||
2004 | Butterfly | Flavia | Josie Ho | Flavia is a married high school teacher, who meets a beautiful free-spirited female singer-songwriter named Yip and develops a relationship with the younger girl. | Hong Kong | [184][185] |
Yip | Tian Yuan | |||||
2004 | D.E.B.S | Lucy Diamond | Jordana Brewster | Diamond is an infamous supercriminal, known for her operations, thefts, an alleged attempt to sink Australia, as well as supposedly killing every agent that goes up against her. | United States | [186] |
2004 | Eulogy | Judy Arnolds | Famke Janssen | Lucy and her girlfriend Judy are criticized throughout the movie because of their relationship. | United States | [187] |
Lucy Collins | Kelly Preston | |||||
2004 | My Summer of Love | Tamsin | Emily Blunt | Tasin forms a romantic relationship with her partner despite their different classes and backgrounds. | United Kingdom | [188] |
2004 | Saving Face | Willhelmina "Wil" Pang | Michelle Krusiec | Wil, a closeted hospital surgeon, falls in love with Vivian, but is afraid that her traditional Chinese family will find out her secret. Vivian, a ballet dancer, wants Wil to stop being afraid of what others may think about them. | United States | [189][190] |
Vivian Shing | Lynn Chen | |||||
2004 | She Hate Me | Fatima Goodrich | Kerry Washington | Fatima is Jack's ex-fiancée who came out and now wants a child. | United States | [191] |
Alex Guerrero | Dania Ramirez |
2005–2009
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2005 | Gypo | Tasha | Chloe Sirene | Tasha, a Romani refugee from Czechia, is the college schoolmate of Helen's daughter. She has an affair with Helen. | United Kingdom | [192] |
2005 | Imagine Me & You | Luce | Lena Headey | Flower shop owner Luce enters a relationship with Rachel. | Germany, United Kingdom | [193][194] |
2005 | Red Doors | Julie Wong | Elaine Kao | Julie is a fourth-year medical student who begins to question her life choices when she meets Mia Scarlett. | United States | [195] |
Mia Scarlett | Mia Riverton | |||||
2005 | Rent | Joanne Jefferson | Tracie Thoms | Joanne Jefferson is a Harvard-graduate lawyer and Maureen's love interest. | United States | [196][197] |
2005 | Russian Dolls | Isabelle | Cécile de France | Isabelle, a financial expert and television commentator, helps her friend Xavier by posing as his fiancée. | France, United Kingdom | [198][199] |
2005 | Sin City | Lucille | Carla Gugino | Lucille is Marv's parole officer. | United States | [200] |
2005 | V for Vendetta | Valerie Page | Natasha Wightman | Valerie was sent to a detention facility for her lesbianism and then had medical experiments performed on her, reminiscent of the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | [201] |
2006 | Bug | R.C. | Lynn Collins | R.C. is Agnes' friend and co-worker at the lesbian bar. | United States | [202][203] |
2006 | Gray Matters | Gray Baldwin | Heather Graham | Gray is a family-oriented and quiet bachelorette, who lives a close-knit life with her brother, Sam. | United States | [204] |
2006 | In Her Line of Fire | Lynn Delaney | Mariel Hemingway | Sergeant Major Delaney is a Secret Service agent guarding the VP of the United States. She's an ex-Marine and friend of the VP, and served with him during Operation Desert Storm. Lynn and Sharon fall for each other. Air Force Two, the alternate version of the film distributed outside of the United States, deleted all references to Delaney's lesbianism including the two kiss scenes between her and Sharon. | United States | [205][206][207] |
Sharon Serrano | Jill Bennett | |||||
2006 | Loving Annabelle | Annabelle Tillman | Erin Kelly | Annabelle in an emotionally mature student that transfers to a strict Catholic boarding school in her senior high school year after being expelled from two previous schools. She falls in love with her poetry teacher, Simone. Simone is a closeted teacher who resists Annabelle's flirtations and advances, but falls in love with her. After the suicide of her lover, Amanda, she repressed her sexual orientation; and instead of dealing with the pain and loss, she uses a male teacher from another school as a beard. | United States | [208] |
Simone Bradley | Diane Gaidry | |||||
2006 | Notes on a Scandal | Barbara Covett | Judi Dench | Covett is a closeted teacher. | United Kingdom | [209][210] |
2006 | Smokin' Aces | Sharice Watters | Taraji P. Henson | Sharice and Georgia are partners and contract killers who work together on assignments. | United States, United Kingdom, France | [211][212] |
Georgia Sykes | Alicia Keys | |||||
2006 | Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) | Anne Beck | Marina Hands | Anne and Hélène are married. Anne is Alex's sister. | France | [213][214] |
Hélène Perkins | Kristin Scott Thomas | |||||
2007 | 88 Minutes | Shelly Barnes | Amy Brenneman | Barnes is the assistant of forensic psychiatrist Jack Gramm. | United States, Canada, Germany | [215][216] |
2007 | Across the Universe | Prudence | T.V. Carpio | Cheerleader Prudence is attracted to Sadie and becomes depressed when Sadie and Jo-Jo begin a relationship. | United Kingdom, United States | [217] |
2007 | After Sex | Kat | Zoe Saldaña | Kat is a college student who admits to her roommate Nikki that she's a lesbian but hides it from her parents. | United States | [218] |
2007 | Dolls | Iska | Marie Doležalová | After graduating from high school, Iska and her friends go on a trip where she develops an attraction to her friend Karolina, and hooks up with a much older woman named Hanka. | Czech Republic | [219] |
2007 | Feast of Love | Jenny | Stana Katic | Jenny is a shortstop in a women's softball team and the woman that Kathryn leaves her husband for. (The film follows the love lives of several couples.) | United States | [220][221][222] |
2007 | The Jane Austen Book Club | Allegra | Maggie Grace | Allegra is Sylvia's 20-something daughter. | United States | [223] |
2007 | Planet Terror | Tammy Visan | Fergie (as Stacy Ferguson) | Tammy is the former lover of Dakota. | United States | [224] |
2007 | Steam | Elizabeth | Kate Siegel | Elizabeth is a first-year college student who is beginning to understand her sexual orientation. She spends a night with a female classmate. | United States | [225] |
2007 | Wrong Turn 2: Dead End | Amber Williams | Daniella Alonso | Williams is an Army war veteran and contestant in a survivalist reality television show. When Matt Jones is being obnoxious, she says to him: "You don't get it, do you? I'm not into men!" | United States | [226][227][228] |
2008 | Dim Sum Funeral | Dede | Bai Ling | Dede and Meimei are a couple, who hope have a child, and they are on the lookout for a sperm donor. | United States, Canada | [229] |
Meimei | Steph Song | |||||
2008 | Milk | Anne Kronenberg | Alison Pill | Kronenberg is Harvey Milk's campaign manager in his run for a seat on the Board of Supervisors. | United States | [230][231] |
2008 | Sunshine Cleaning | Lynn | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Lynn is the daughter of a woman whose house Rose and Norah they cleaned. She was in arealtionship with Norah before breaking off. | United States | [232][233] |
2008 | The Women | Alex Fish | Jada Pinkett Smith | Alex and Natasha are exes. | United States | [234] |
Natasha | Natasha Alam | |||||
2009 | Boogie Woogie | Elaine | Jaime Winstone | Elaine is a video artist, who exploits everyone around her | United Kingdom | [235] |
2009 | Cracks | Miss "G" Gribben | Eva Green | Miss G is the school's enigmatic diving instructor. | United Kingdom, Ireland | [236][237] |
Di Redfield | Juno Temple | |||||
2009 | I Am Love | Elisabetta Recchi | Alba Rohrwacher | Elisabetta is Edoardo Jr.'s young adult sibling. | Italy | [238] |
2009 | Life Blood | Brooke Anchel | Sophie Monk | Brooke and Rhea are a couple. After Brooke kills a rapist, they are driving on the highway when Brooke disappears in a sudden sandstorm. A supernatural entity appears before Rhea and offers her immortality, but she refuses to spend eternity without Brooke, and Rhea dies. Forty years later, they both awaken from the dead and return to life as vampires. | United States | [239][240] |
Rhea Cohen | Anya Lahiri | |||||
2009 | Precious | Ms. Blu Rain | Paula Patton | Ms. Rain is a teacher at the Reach One Teach One alternative school. | United States | [241] |
2009 | The Private Lives of Pippa Lee | Trish | Robin Weigert | Trish is Pippa's aunt. Her girlfriend Kat is a photographer of erotica and S&M. | United States | [242][243] |
Kat | Julianne Moore |
2010–2014
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | Black Swan | Lily / Black Swan / Odile | Mila Kunis | Lily is Nina's new rival dancer. | United States | [244][245] |
2010 | Kaboom | Lorelei | Roxane Mesquida | Stella is Smith's best friend, whom he has known since junior high. Stella hooks up with a girl named Lorelei, who Smith recognizes from one of his dreams. | United States | [246] |
Stella | Haley Bennett | |||||
2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Nicole 'Nic' Allgood | Annette Bening | To conceive a child, Nic used the same sperm donor as Jules, her spouse. Their teenage son wants to find out about his biological father and his older sister helps him find the contact information, which leads to an unexpected turmoil in their marriage when Jules meets the father. | United States | [247] |
2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Roxanne "Roxy" Richter | Mae Whitman | Roxy was Ramona's college roommate. | United Kingdom, United States, Japan | [248][249] |
2010 | Sex and the City 2 | Erin | Alice Eve | Erin is the Irish nanny for Charlotte's child. They nicknamed her "Erin Go Braless". | United States | [250][251] |
2010 | Tierra madre | Aidée | Aidée González | Based on Aidee Gonzalez's true life, when she lived on the Mexican border towns of Tecate and Tijuana, determined to raise her children with her female partner. | Mexico | [252] |
2010 | Yes or No | Kim | Suppanad Jittaleela | Kim is the first butch character in a lesbian-related Thai film. Pie comes out after meeting Kim and getting to know her. | Thailand | [253][254] |
Pie | Sushar Manaying | |||||
2011 | Cloudburst | Stella | Olympia Dukakis | Stella and Dot are an elderly couple in Maine who have been together for decades. Dot is in poor health and Stella has been taking care of her. The only one who is clueless that they are lesbians in a relationship is Dot's granddaughter. After she convinces the frail Dot to sign a power-of-attorney and relocate to an assisted living facility, Stella breaks into the home and she and Dot flee to Nova Scotia where same-sex marriage is legal. | Canada, United States | [255] |
Dot | Brenda Fricker | |||||
2011 | Love Actually... Sucks! | Policewoman | Lareine Xu | One of the six real-life court cases shown is a role-playing lesbian couple. | Hong Kong | [256][257] |
Policewoman's girl | Celia Chang | |||||
2011 | Our Idiot Brother | Cindy Harris | Rashida Jones | Harris lives withher hipster girlfriend Natalie. | United States | [258] |
2011 | Pariah | Alike | Adepero Oduye | Alike is a 17-year-old Black teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian. | United States | [259] |
2011 | The Perfect Family | Shannon Cleary | Emily Deschanel | Shannon marries her girlfriend Angela, but her Catholic mother refuses to accept her. | United States | [260] |
Angela Rayes | Angelique Cabral | |||||
2011 | The Skin I Live In | Cristina | Bárbara Lennie | Cristina is a salesgirl in the dress shop. Her co-worker, Vicente, was infatuated with her. | Spain | [261] |
2011 | Your Sister's Sister | Hannah | Rosemarie DeWitt | Hannah has recently broken up with her partner and is staying at the cabin without her sister Iris's knowledge. | United States | [262] |
2012 | Jack & Diane | Diane | Juno Temple | Diane meets fellow teenager Jack, a skateboarding butch girl. Jack becomes instantly smitten by Diane. Jack takes Diane to a night club, where they kiss passionately. | United States | [263] |
Jack | Riley Keough | |||||
2012 | Love Is Not Perfect | Adriana | Lorena Cacciatore | Adriana is realizing her sexual orientation and preference for women. | Italy | [264] |
2013 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Emma | Léa Seydoux | After her previous relationship ends, Emma enters into a relationship with Lise. | France | [265] |
Lise | Mona Walravens | |||||
2013 | Chinese Puzzle | Isabelle | Cécile de France | Isabelle and Ju are a couple with a child. Isabelle later cheats on Ju with the young woman who babysits for them. | France, Belgium | [266][267] |
Ju | Sandrine Holt | |||||
2013 | Concussion | Abby Ableman | Robin Weigert | Abby and Kate are a married couple. Unbeknownst to Kate, Abby prostitutes herself to numerous women. | United States | [268] |
Kate | Julie Fain Lawrence | |||||
2013 | The Hot Flashes | Ginger Peabody | Daryl Hannah | Middle-aged, closeted Ginger comes out with the help of her friends on the basketball team. | United States | [269][270] |
2013 | The Nun | Abbess Saint Eutrope | Isabelle Huppert | Eutrope is the superior mother of the church. | France, Belgium, Germany | [271] |
2013 | Riddick | Dahl | Katee Sackhoff | A mercenary bounty hunter and the crew's sniper. | United States, Canada | [272][273] |
2014 | Appropriate Behavior | Crystal | Halley Feiffer | Shirin is left homeless and jobless after her girlfriend Maxine breaks up with her. | United Kingdom | [274] |
2014 | A Girl at My Door | Lee Young-nam | Bae Doona | Young-nam is a police officer. After a scandal involving her private life, she is transferred from Seoul to a station in a small coastal village. To protect a troubled girl who has been the victim of bullying and domestic abuse, she takes her into her home. | South Korea | [275][276] |
2014 | Girltrash: All Night Long | Misty Monroe | Mandy Musgrave | The film is a prequel to the Girltrash! web series. | United States | [277] |
Daisy Robson | Lisa Rieffel | |||||
Colby Robson | Gabrielle Christian | |||||
Sid | Kate French | |||||
2014 | The Humbling | Pegeen Mike Stapleford | Greta Gerwig | After a lifetime of lesbianism and female lovers, Pegee gives up women to be with Simon Axler, a once-legendary actor twice her age whom she has admired since childhood. | United States | [278][279] |
2014 | Julia | Julia | Ashley C. Williams | Julia is a young woman who was drugged and raped by Pierce and three friends, then left for dead. | United States | [280] |
2014 | Life Partners | Sasha Weiss | Leighton Meester | Sasha is a struggling musician with a string of bad dates. | United States | [281] |
2014 | Lyle | Leah | Gaby Hoffmann | Leah and June are a young couple moving into a new home suffer a guilt and grief filled journey to losing their child. | United States | [282] |
June | Ingrid Jungermann | |||||
2014 | Never | Nikki | Zelda Williams | Nikki is a twenty-something musician who befriends a straight man and they develop a bond. | United States | [283][284] |
2014 | Pride | Stephanie "Steph" Chambers | Faye Marsay | Stephanie is a founder of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners alliance. Stella is a militant member of LGSM. Zoe is Stella's girlfriend. | United Kingdom | [285][286] |
Stella | Karina Fernandez | |||||
Zoe | Jessie Cave | |||||
2014 | The Taking of Deborah Logan | Sarah Logan | Anne Ramsay | Sarah becomes the caregiver for her ailing mother and tries to protect her from a demonic possession. | United States | [287][288] |
2014 | Tammy | Lenore | Kathy Bates | Tammy and Pearl stay at the home of Pearl's cousin Lenore and her wife, Susanne. | United States | [289] |
Susanne | Sandra Oh | |||||
2014 | This Is Where I Leave You | Hilary Altman | Jane Fonda | Altman announces to her family that she’s turned into a happy, dedicated lesbian and is romantically involved with Linda. | United States | [290] |
Linda | Debra Monk |
2015–2019
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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2015 | 3 Generations | Dolly | Susan Sarandon | Dolly is Ray's grandmother, a quick-witted music manager who shares her brownstone with her life partner, Frances. | United States | [291] |
Frances | Linda Emond | |||||
2015 | Addicted to Fresno | Martha | Natasha Lyonne | Kelly is Martha's trainer who takes an interest on her. | United States | [292][293] |
Kelly | Aubrey Plaza | |||||
2015 | Carol | Carol Aird | Cate Blanchett | Carol was always attracted to females, but married as was expected of her social status and the post-World War II era. While in divorce proceedings, she meets Therese and comes out publicly after her love affair with her is exposed. Therese realizes she is gay after she meets Carol and falls in love with her. (The film is based on The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith.) | United Kingdom, United States | [294][295] |
Therese Belivet | Rooney Mara | |||||
2015 | Dope | Cassandra "Diggy" Andrews | Kiersey Clemons | Diggy can be seen wearing masculine clothing. | United States | [296] |
2015 | Freeheld | Laurel Hester | Julianne Moore | Real life story of police officer Laurel Hester who, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, fought the Ocean County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders so that her pension benefits could be transferred to her domestic partner Stacie. | United States | [297] |
Stacie Andree | Elliot Page [a] | |||||
2015 | Grandma | Elle Reid | Lily Tomlin | Elle is a poet coping with the recent death of her long-term life partner. She ends a four-month relationship with a younger admirer, Olivia. | United States | [298][299] |
Olivia | Judy Greer | |||||
2015 | Skin Deep | Caitlin Davies | Monica Zanetti | Caitlin is a university student struggling with suicidal thoughts after the relationship with her girlfriend ends. She meets a young woman by chance who has terminal cancer, and they set out together on a whirlwind 'bucket list' adventure. | Australia | [300][301] |
2015 | While You Weren't Looking | Dez | Sandi Schultz | Dez is a real estate developer. Terri takes care of their household. The mixed-race couple have been together for twenty years and live in suburban Cape Town with their adopted teenage daughter. | South Africa | [302][303] |
Terri | Camilla Waldman | |||||
2016 | Allied | Bridget Vatan | Lizzy Caplan | Bridget is Max's sister. | United Kingdom, United States | [304] |
2016 | Catfight | Lisa | Alicia Silverstone | Ashley is struggling to sell her artwork, straining the relationship with her girlfriend Lisa. | United States | [305] |
Ashley Miller | Anne Heche | |||||
2016 | Center of My World | Pascal | Nina Proll | Tereza is a lawyer who always has good advice for Phil. | Germany | [306] |
Tereza | Inka Friedrich | |||||
2016 | First Girl I Loved | Anne Smith | Dylan Gelula | Anne is the nerdy editor of her high school yearbook. Sasha is a softball star in the school. | United States | [307][308] |
Sasha Basanez | Brianna Hildebrand | |||||
2016 | The Handmaiden | Izumi Hideko / Lady | Kim Min-hee | Set in 1930's Korea, Sook-hee is a pickpocket hired as the maid of Lady Hideko, a young Japanese heiress, in a scheme designed to convince her into marrying a con man posing as a count and afterwards have her committed to an asylum. They fall in love and turn the tables on the conspirators. (Based on the 2002 historical crime novel Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.) | South Korea | [309][310] |
Nam Sook-hee / Maid | Kim Tae-ri | |||||
2016 | I, Olga Hepnarová | Olga Hepnarová | Michalina Olszańska | Hepnarová was a Czechoslovakian mass murderer, who killed eight people with a truck in 1973 Prague. | Czech Republic | [311] |
2016 | The Intervention | Jessie | Clea DuVall | Jessie and Sarah are a couple. | United States | [312][313] |
Sarah | Natasha Lyonne | |||||
2016 | Mother's Day | Gabi | Sarah Chalke | Gabi and Max are married, but Gabi has not come out to her parents because they're homophobic. | United States | [314][315] |
Max | Cameron Esposito | |||||
2016 | The Neon Demon | Ruby | Jena Malone | Ruby is a makeup artist, who introduces Jesse to fellow older models Gigi and Sarah. | Denmark, France, United States | [316][317] |
2016 | Spidarlings | Eden | Sophia Disgrace | Eden and Matila are a couple trying to get by. | United Kingdom | [318] |
Matilda | Rahel Kapsaski | |||||
2016 | Their Finest | Phyl Moore | Rachael Stirling | Phyl is the Ministry of Information liaison keeping an eye on the screenwriters and coordinating the development of the film script. She wears button-down shirt and tie, jacket and tailored pants. She says to Catrin Cole, "I've never much seen the point in men"; and when one of the screenwriters asks who else the girls in the story are going to fall in love with she responds, "each other?" | United Kingdom | [319][320] |
2017 | Allure | Laura Drake | Evan Rachel Wood | Laura Drake is an emotionally disturbed young woman who works as a house-cleaner for her father's company in an urban environment. | Canada | [321] |
2017 | Anchor and Hope | Eva | Oona Chaplin | Eva and Kat's humble, yet carefree, life in their London canal boat is turned upside down when Eva gives Kat an ultimatum: she wants a child. | Spain, United Kingdom | [322] |
Kat | Natalia Tena | |||||
2017 | Atomic Blonde | Delphine Lasalle | Sofia Boutella | Delphine is a young undercover French agent. She meets MI6 secret agent Lorraine in a bar, and they kiss passionately. Later they have sex, which evolves into a romantic relationship. The emotionally intimate post-sex scene between Delphine and Lorraine was deleted in the final cut but included in the DVD/Blu-ray bonus features under the title "Not Afraid of Love". | United States | [323][324][325] |
2017 | Battle of the Sexes | Billie Jean King | Emma Stone | Biopic about champion tennis player King during the time of the famous tennis match between her and Bobby Riggs. She starts to explore her sexuality when she meets Bennett, a hairdresser. King falls in love with Bennett and has an affair with her. | United Kingdom, United States | [326][327] |
Marilyn Bennett | Andrea Riseborough | |||||
2017 | The Carmilla Movie | Carmilla Karnstein | Natasha Negovanlis | Carmilla and Laura are romantic partners. Based on the web series of the same name, the movie takes place five years after 330 year-old vampire Carmilla became human. | Canada | [328][329] |
Laura Hollis | Elise Bauman | |||||
Elle Sheridan | Dominique Provost-Chalkley | |||||
Danny Lawrence | Sharon Belle | |||||
2017 | Disobedience | Esti Kuperman | Rachel McAdams | As a teenager, Esti had a forbidden romance with Ronit, the daughter of a rabbi. Because of Orthodox religious expectations and obligations, Esti married a man but always remained sexually attracted to females. Years later, following Roni's return to London, Esti comes to terms with her sexual orientation and separates from her husband. | United States, Ireland, United Kingdom | [330][331] |
2017 | My Days of Mercy | Lucy Moro | Elliot Page [b] | Lucy feels betrayed after learning that Mercy has a boyfriend. | United States, United Kingdom | [332] |
2017 | The Party | Martha | Cherry Jones | Martha and Jinny are a couple. | United Kingdom | [333][334] |
Jinny | Emily Mortimer | |||||
2017 | Power Rangers | Trini Kwan/Yellow Ranger | Becky G | The first LGBT superhero in a high-budget film. | United States | [335] |
2017 | Princess Cyd | Katie | Malic White | Katie works as a barista. | United States | [336][337] |
2017 | Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High AKA Volume 2 | Lauren | Catherine Corcoran | Lauren and Chrissy are a secret couple. | United States | [338][339] |
Chrissy | Asta Paredes | |||||
2017 | Rough Night | Frankie | Ilana Glazer | Frankie is an activist and organizer of political protests. | United States | [340] |
2017 | Signature Move | Zaynab | Fawzia Mirza | Zaynab is a Pakistani American lawyer who wants to be a lucha libre wrestler. | United States | [341][342] |
2017 | Song to Song | Zoey | Bérénice Marlohe | Zoey is a wealthy French artist living in the US. | United States | [343][344] |
2017 | Thelma | Thelma | Eili Harboe | Thelma discovers that she has an inexplicable power that materializes when she feels desire for Anja, a fellow student at her university. | Norway | [345] |
Anja | Kaya Wilkins | |||||
2017 | To the Bone | Judy | Lili Taylor | Judy is Ellen's mother. | United States | [346][347] |
2017 | You, Me and Him | Olivia | Lucy Punch | Olivia and Alex are a couple. Olivia wants to become pregnant through artificial insemination, but Alex is not keen on parenthood. After Alex becomes very drunk at a party given by their womanizing neighbor, John, she is impregnated by him. | United Kingdom | [348] |
Alex | Faye Marsay | |||||
2018 | Blockers | Sam Lockwood | Gideon Adlon | Sam has a crush on Angelica. She comes out to her father and friends. Then kisses Angelica at their senior prom. | United States | [349] |
Angelica | Ramona Young | |||||
2018 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Lee Israel | Melissa McCarthy | Israel attempts to revitalize her failing writing career by forging letters from deceased authors and playwrights. | United States | [350] |
2018 | Diamantino | Lucia | Maria Leite | Lucia is a Secret Service agent disguised as a nun. | Portugal, France, Brazil | [351][352] |
2018 | The Favourite | Anne, Queen of Great Britain | Olivia Colman | The plot examines the relationship between Queen Anne and cousins Abigail Masham and Sarah Churchill, who are both vying to be the court favourite. | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | [353] |
Abigail Masham | Emma Stone | |||||
2018 | Future World | Ash | Suki Waterhouse | Ash is a gynoid assassin under the command of the Warlord. After she becomes damaged and taken prisoner by the Drug Lord, she is repaired and reactivated by Lei, a mechanic also held prisoner. When Lei reveals her attraction towards her, Ash reciprocates. After a battle where Ash kills the Warlord, the two leave together for the wasteland to search for other gynoids. | United States | [354] |
Lei | Margarita Levieva | |||||
2018 | Hearts Beat Loud | Samantha Lee "Sam" Fisher | Kiersey Clemons | Sam secretly writes a song about her relationship with Rose. | United States | [355][356] |
Rose | Sasha Lane | |||||
2018 | JT LeRoy | Eva | Diane Kruger | Eva is an actress and director. She has an affair with Savannah Knoop (bisexual). | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | [357] |
2018 | Knife+Heart | Anne Parèze | Vanessa Paradis | In the summer of 1979 in Paris, Anne, a producer and director of gay pornography, is abandoned by her girlfriend and editor, Loïs. | France, Mexico, Switzerland | [358][359] |
Lois McKenna | Kate Moran | |||||
2018 | The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Cameron Post | Chloë Grace Moretz | Cameron is sent to a gay conversion therapy centre by her aunt for having sex with her girlfriend Coley. | United Kingdom, United States | [360] |
Coley Taylor | Quinn Shephard | |||||
2018 | The Perfection | Charlotte Willmore | Allison Williams | Charlotte is a talented young cellist who befriends Elizabeth “Lizzie” Wells, Anton's star pupil and her replacement. After a night of clubbing, they return to Lizzie's hotel room and have sex. | United States | [361] |
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wells | Logan Browning | |||||
2018 | The Professor | Olivia Brown | Odessa Young | Olivia is the daughter of professor Brown. | United States | [362][363] |
2018 | Rafiki | Kena | Samantha Mugatsia | Kena and Ziki, develop a romance between them amidst family and political pressures around LGBT rights in Kenya. | Kenya | [364] |
Ziki | Sheila Munyiva | |||||
2018 | Ready Player One | Helen "H" Harris | Lena Waithe | Harris's avatar Aech is Wade's best friend. | United States | [365] |
2018 | Vice | Mary Cheney | Alison Pill | After Mary comes out, former vice president Dick Cheney decides to retire from public life to spare her from media scrutiny. | United States | [366] |
2018 | Wild Nights with Emily | Emily Dickinson | Molly Shannon | Film story based on the lifelong romantic relationship between Emily and another woman, Susan, to whom she wrote poems and love letters that after Emily's death were falsely attributed as works she had directed to a man. | United States | [367] |
2019 | Anna | Maude | Lera Abova | Maude is a fashion model in love with Anna, who unbeknownst to Maude is a double agent assassin. | France, United States | [368][369] |
2019 | Before You Know It | Rachel Gurner | Hannah Pearl Utt | Rachel is a business-minded person whose attempts to be the responsible member of the family have made her something of a control freak. | United States | [370] |
2019 | Bombshell | Jess Carr | Kate McKinnon | Jess is closeted and Hillary Clinton supporter. | United States, Canada | [371][372] |
2019 | Booksmart | Amy Antsler | Kaitlyn Dever | Amy has a crush on a girl named Ryan, and later has her first lesbian sexual encounter with Hope, who has a reputation for not being nice. | United States | [373][374] |
Hope | Diana Silvers | |||||
2019 | Carmilla | Lara | Hannah Rae | When a carriage crash nearby brings a young woman into the family home to recuperate, Lara is enchanted by Carmilla. The pair then strike up a passionate romantic relationship. | United Kingdom | [375][376] |
Carmilla | Devrim Lingnau | |||||
2019 | Despite Everything | Sofía | Amaia Salamanca | Sofía and Marta are a couple, but Sofía has commitment issues. | Spain | [377] |
Marta | Ariana Martinez | |||||
2019 | Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga | Sweety Chaudhary | Sonam Kapoor Ahuja | Sweety is a closeted homosexual who comes out to her traditional Punjabi father and family. Kuhu is Sweety's love interest. They are in a relationship that is kept secret. | India | [378] |
Kuhu | Regina Cassandra | |||||
2019 | Elisa & Marcela | Elisa | Natalia de Molina | True story of two Spanish women who posed as a heterosexual couple in 1901 so that they could marry, with Marcela assuming the identity of "Mario Sánchez". | Spain | [379] |
Marcela | Greta Fernández | |||||
2019 | Last Christmas | Marta Andrich | Lydia Leonard | Marta is outed to her parents by her sister Kate. She has been in a stable relationship with Alba. | United Kingdom, United States | [380][381] |
Alba | Jade Anouka | |||||
2019 | Let It Snow | Dorrie | Liv Hewson | Dorrie and Kerry begin a romantic relationship. | United States | [382] |
Kerry | Anna Akana | |||||
2019 | Moonlit Winter | Yoon-hee | Kim Hee-ae | Before Yoon-hee entered into an unhappy marriage with a friend of her brother, she was in love with Jun, resulting in her parents sending her to a mental hospital. Jun, however, never married and continued to feel the same about Yoon-hee. Twenty years later, a letter Jun wrote to Yoon-hee is mailed by Jun's aunt. When Yoon-hee's daughter accidentally reads the letter, she becomes determined to reunite her mother with the person from her past who made her happy. | South Korea | [383][384][385] |
Jun | Yûko Nakamura | |||||
2019 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Héloïse | Noémie Merlant | Set in the 18th century, Héloïse is a painter commissioned to unobtrusively do the portrait of Marianne, who has been reluctant to pose for one because the painting was meant to be presented to her prospective husband, but Marianne did not want to marry. Héloïse and Marianne fall in love. | France | [386] |
Marianne | Adèle Haenel | |||||
2019 | Riot Girls | Nat | Madison Iseman | Nat and Scratch are a couple. | Canada | [387][388] |
Scratch | Paloma Kwiatkowski | |||||
2019 | Saint Maud | Amanda Köhl | Jennifer Ehle | A hedonist and atheist, Amanda was a celebrated dancer and choreographer before she was felled by a terminal illness and became disabled. Carol is Amanda's lover. | United Kingdom | [389][390][391] |
Carol | Lily Frazer | |||||
2019 | Someone Great | Erin Kennedy | DeWanda Wise | Erin is best friends with Jenny and Blair. Although Erin loves her girlfriend, Leah, she is commitment-phobic. | United States | [392][393] |
2019 | Sword of Trust | Cynthia | Jillian Bell | Cynthia and Mary are a couple. | United States | [394] |
Mary | Michaela Watkins | |||||
2019 | To the Stars | Maggie Richmond | Liana Liberato | Maggie and closeted Hazel are drawn to each other and have sex. | United States | [395][396] |
Hazel Atkins | Adelaide Clemens | |||||
2019 | Two of Us | Nina Dorn | Barbara Sukowa | While living in the same apartment building, Nina and Madeleine have been secret lovers for many years. All the while, Madeleine remained in a loveless marriage. After the death of her husband the two women decide to come out to Madeleine's adult children so that they can finally live together, but Madeleine loses her nerve, which leads to an angry argument with Nina, followed by a stroke. Madeleine's children cannot understand why Nina is always hanging around Madeleine while she is convalescing because they considered her to be just a neighbor. (The film was the Best International Feature Film submission by France at the 93rd Academy Awards.) | France, Belgium, Luxembourg | [397][398] |
Madeleine Girard | Martine Chevallier |
2020
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020 | Ammonite | Mary Anning | Kate Winslet | Mary is a fossil collector and paleontologist. She is hired by a geologist to care for his wife, Charlotte, and keep her company while he's away on an expedition. Mary falls in love with her. | United Kingdom, Australia | [399][400] |
2020 | Bruised | Bobbi 'Buddhakan' Berroa | Sheila Atim | Bobbi is a trainer. She begins an intimate relationship with Jackie, an MMA fighter. | United States, United Kingdom | [401][402] |
2020 | Forgotten Roads | Claudina | Rosa Ramírez | Septuagenarian Claudina has lived a traditional and repressed life. After the death of her husband, her life and world begins to change with self-discovery. She comes out to herself when she meets her neighbor Elsa (bisexual) and falls in love with her. | Chile | [403] |
2020 | Friend of the World | Diane | Alexandra Slade | Diane is an experimental filmmaker whose sexual orientation isn't the only difference between her and Gore, an insane war general. Eva is Diane's lover. | United States | [404][405][406] |
Eva | Kathryn Schott | |||||
2020 | Friendsgiving | Abby | Kat Dennings | Abby came out at 29 years old and was dumped by her first girlfriend. The quiet Thanksgiving she planned with her best friend Molly turns into a large party after several friends and acquaintances, including lesbian friends who want to find a new girlfriend for Abby, start to show up for the holiday dinner. | United States | [407][408] |
2020 | The Half of It | Ellie Chu | Leah Lewis | A shy, introverted, straight-A student who earns money on the side by writing papers for fellow students, accepts being the ghostwriter of heartfelt correspondence from a football player pupil to the girl he wants to date. In the process, Ellie falls in love with her. The film is a spin on the play Cyrano de Bergerac. | United States | [409] |
2020 | Happiest Season | Abby | Kristen Stewart | Abby and Harper are in a romantic relationship. Riley is Harper's ex-girlfriend. | United States | [410] |
Harper | Mackenzie Davis | |||||
Riley Johnson | Aubrey Plaza | |||||
2020 | Holly Slept Over | Holly | Nathalie Emmanuel | Holly had a fling in college with Audra as a lesbian experiment. | United States | [411] |
2020 | I Care a Lot | Marla Grayson | Rosamund Pike | Marla and Fran are romantic and business partners. | United States | [412] |
Fran | Eiza González | |||||
2020 | Kajillionaire | Old Dolio Dyne | Evan Rachel Wood | Dyne is an emotionally stunted 26-year-old woman in a manipulative relationship with her con artist parents. She later begins a relationship with Melanie, a friendly young woman. | United States | [413] |
Melanie Whitacre | Gina Rodriguez | |||||
2020 | My First Summer | Grace | Maiah Stewardson | Grace is a rebellious but free-spirited idealist, who is determined to help Claudia through her tragedy and introduce her to things from the outside world. | Australia | [414] |
2020 | The New Mutants | Danielle Moonstar / Mirage | Blu Hunt | Mirage is a Native American mutant who can create illusions based on the fears and desires of other people. She is in love with Wolfsbane. | United States | [415][416] |
Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane | Maisie Williams | |||||
2020 | The Prom | Emma Nolan | Jo Ellen Pellman | Emma, a 17-year-old girl, wants to bring her girlfriend Alyssa to the high school prom. Alyssa is a cheerleader and closeted. | United States | [417] |
Alyssa Greene | Ariana DeBose | |||||
2020 | Summer of Mesa | Mesa | Andrea Granera | Mesa is a confident and beautiful teenage girl. | United States | [418] |
2020 | Summerland | Alice Lamb | Gemma Arterton | Alice is a reclusive historian of folklore. When she reluctantly takes in an Operation Pied Piper evacuee from the London Blitz, she confronts her past and the love she lost. | United Kingdom | [419][420] |
2020 | Unpregnant | Bailey Butler | Barbie Ferreira | Bailey has her first kiss with Kira after revealing her sexuality. | United States | [421][422] |
Kira Matthews | Betty Who | |||||
2020 | Valley Girl | Jack | Mae Whitman | Jack is Randy's best friend, band mate, and wingman. | United States | [423][424] |
2020 | The World to Come | Abigail | Katherine Waterston | Set in the 19th century, Abigail is in a marriage of convenience to a farmer. She meets Tallie, who moves into a farm nearby and is married to an abusive husband. A deep friendship develops between them, becoming a secret romantic relationship. | United States | [425][426] |
Tallie | Vanessa Kirby |
2021
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | After Blue | Zora | Elina Löwensohn | Zora is the hairdresser of planet After Blue. She falls for avant-garde artist Sternberg. | France | [427][428] |
2021 | Benedetta | Benedetta Carlini | Virginie Efira | Benedetta, a novitiate in a 17th-century Italian convent, begins a love affair with another nun. | France | [429][430] |
2021 | Christmas at the Ranch | Haley Hollis | Laur Allen | Power broker Holly returns to her family ranch, Hollis Hills, to help her grandmother save it from bankruptcy and prevent being forced to sell it. Kate is the experienced ranch hand who cares about what happens to the ranch. | United States | [431][432][433] |
Kate | Amanda Righetti | |||||
2021 | The Fallout | Mia Reed | Maddie Ziegler | Mia is an Instagram influencer. During a night of drinking, she has sex with Vada, who has a boyfriend. | United States | [434] |
2021 | Fear Street Part One: 1994 | Deena Johnson | Kiana Madeira | Denna and Samantha are a young couple. (This film is the first installment in the Fear Street trilogy.) | United States | [435][436][437] |
Samantha "Sam" Fraser | Olivia Scott Welch | |||||
2021 | Fear Street Part Three: 1666 | Deena Johnson | Kiana Madeira | When the witch's grave is discovered and Deena comes in contact with her severed skeletal hand, she is transported back in time and into Sarah Fier's body. Sarah was falsely accused of being a witch and hung. She is blamed for cursing Shadyside and causing centuries of unexplained violence and murders in the town. In truth, she was the victim of homophobia, sexism, and superstition. Hannah is Sarah's lover. (This film is the third installment in the Fear Street trilogy.) | United States | [438][439][437] |
Sarah Fier | Elizabeth Scopel | |||||
Kiana Madeira | ||||||
Hannah Miller | Olivia Scott Welch | |||||
Samantha "Sam" Fraser | ||||||
2021 | Matcha & Vanilla | Yuki | Tomoko Hayakawa | Yuki and Ai are a couple. When Yuki is diagnosed with lung cancer, they must fight their families and Japan's conservative society to stay together until Yuki's inevitable death. | Japan | [440][441] |
Ai | Qyoko Kudo | |||||
2021 | The Novice | Alex Dall | Isabelle Fuhrman | Alex is a perfectionist who joins her college rowing team. She starts a romance with Dani, her teacher's assistant. | United States | [442][443] |
Dani | Dilone | |||||
2021 | Nudo Mixteco | María | Sonia Couoh | María uses her home visit to reunite with her old lover, Piedad, who now has a baby | Mexico | [444][445] |
2021 | One Four Three | Rebecca | Ellouise Shakespeare-Hart | Rebecca is the woman that Genevieve left her fiancé for. | United Kingdom | [446][447][448] |
2021 | The Retreat | Renee | Tommie-Amber Pirie | Renee and Valerie are a same-sex couple who book a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods, only to be abducted and tortured by a mysterious figure | Canada | [449][450] |
Valerie | Sarah Allen | |||||
2021 | Ride or Die | Rei Nagasawa | Kiko Mizuhara | Rei was in love with Nanae when they were in high school. She decides to kill Nanae's abusive husband to prove her love for her. | Japan | [451][452] |
2021 | Sentinelle | Klara | Olga Kurylenko | The first hint that Klara is lesbian is her observing the nude body of a female soldier in their locker room. Later, she dances with a woman in a nightclub and has a one-night stand with her. | France | [453] |
2021 | Silent Night | Alex | Kirby Howell-Baptiste | Alex and Bella are married. | United Kingdom, United States | [454] |
Bella | Lucy Punch | |||||
2021 | Stillwater | Allison Baker | Abigail Breslin | Allion is convicted of murdering her roommate and unfaithful lover, Lina. | United States | [455][456] |
2021 | Twist | Sikes | Lena Headey | Sikes is a burglar and criminal. She is attracted to Nancy "Red" Lee. (The film is an adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1838 novel Oliver Twist.) | United Kingdom | [457][458] |
2021 | Walk with Me | Logan Pierce | Bridget Barkan | As Amber struggles to find her way, she meets Logan, a free spirited musician with a kind heart who lends an ear to Amber's situation. | United States | [459][460] |
2021 | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Moka Natsuko | Fusako Urabe | Moka is a middle-aged woman with memory loss who goes in search of the girlfriend she had in high-school. | Japan | [461] |
2022
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | Aftersun | Sophie | Celia Rowlson-Hall | The partner of adult Sophie is a woman and she is the parent of an infant with her. | United Kingdom, United States | [462][463][464] |
2022 | Am I Ok? | Lucy | Dakota Johnson | A woman living in Los Angeles, who realizes that all her dates with men are unsuccessful because of her sexuality. With the help of her lifelong best friend Jane, Lucy attempts to navigate coming out and dating women in her 30s. | United States | [465][466] |
2022 | Attachment | Maja | Josephine Park | Maja is a fading actress and Leah is a university student. Leah shares her home with her mother. After Leah has a seizure, Maja moves in with her. Maja learns that Leah may be possessed by a dybbuk. | Denmark | [467][468] |
Leah | Ellie Kendrick | |||||
2022 | Babylon | Lady Fay Zhu | Li Jun Li | Cabaret entertainer Zhu has an affair with Nellie. | United States | [469][470] |
2022 | Badhaai Do | Suman Singh | Bhumi Pednekar | Suman enters into a lavender marriage to escape the pressure from her family. Rimjhim is Suman's girlfriend. | India | [471][472][473] |
Rimjhim Jongkey | Chum Darang | |||||
2022 | Bodies Bodies Bodies | Bee | Maria Bakalova | Bee is a working-class young woman from Eastern Europe traveling with her wealthy girlfriend Sophie. | United States | [474][475] |
Sophie | Amandla Stenberg | |||||
2022 | Blue Jean | Jean | Rosy McEwen | Set during the introduction of Section 28 anti-homosexuality laws in the 1980s, Jean is a closeted physical education teacher living a double life. When a new student at her school sees her in a lesbian bar, she must decide whether to risk or save her career and personal safety. Viv is Jean's out and proud long-term girlfriend. | United Kingdom | [476][477] |
Viv | Kerrie Hayes | |||||
2022 | Call Jane | Virginia | Sigourney Weaver | Virginia is a women's health and abortion activist, and leader of the "Jane" underground group. | United States | [478] |
2022 | Causeway | Lynsey | Jennifer Lawrence | Lynsey is a veteran of the Afghanistan War recovering from combat injuries. | United States | [479][480] |
2022 | Dangerous | Nalini | Naina Ganguly | Nalini and Rashmi love each other. (Billed as India's first lesbian crime drama.) | India | [481][482] |
Rashmi | Apsara Rani | |||||
2022 | Death on the Nile | Mrs. Bowers | Dawn French | Mrs. Bowers and Marie are a secret couple. When in public, Bowers presents herself as Marie's nurse. | United Kingdom, United States | [483][484] |
Marie Van Schuyler | Jennifer Saunders | |||||
2022 | Do Revenge | Eleanor | Maya Hawke | Transfer student Eleanor, who was outed at summer camp when she was 13 years old and became the subject of a false rumor, finds that she's now attending the same school as her nemesis from camp. Eleanor crushes on Gabbi, a confident student who has no interest in being involved in school cliques. | United States | [485][486][487] |
Gabbi | Talia Ryder | |||||
2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki | Stephanie Hsu | Joy has been trying to get her mother to accept her girlfriend, Becky. | United States | [488][489] |
Becky | Tallie Medel | |||||
2022 | Girl Picture | Mimmi | Aamu Milonoff | Three young girls at the cusp of womanhood, try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland by trying to draw their own contours. | Finland | [490][491] |
Emma | Linnea Leino | |||||
2022 | Heatwave | Claire Valens | Kat Graham | Claire is a young woman who starts a relationship with Eve, not knowing that she is her boss' wife. | United States | [492] |
2022 | Maja Ma | Pallavi Patel | Madhuri Dixit | Pallavi is a closeted homosexual who married and had children. She fell in love with Kanchan when they were young women, but did not accept her request to run away together. She impulsively comes out to her daughter during an argument. | India | [493][494] |
Kanchan Adhia | Simone Singh | |||||
2022 | Marry Me | Parker Debbs | Sarah Silverman | Parker is a huge fan of pop star Kat Valdez and a friend of Charlie. She takes him and his daughter to a concert by Valdez, carrying a sign that says "Marry Me!". Parker asks Charlie to hold the sign while she shoots a video of Valdez performing a song. Valdez sees the sign and picks Charlie to marry her. Parker encourages Charlie to go along with it. | United States | [495] |
2022 | Mars One | Eunice | Camilla Damião | Eunice is a young woman who wants to be more independent and move out of her parents house. She begins a romantic relationship with another woman but fears telling her parents, particularly her traditional father. | Brazil | [496][497] |
2022 | Moving On | Evelyn | Lily Tomlin | Evvie comes to terms with her unfulfilled life as a cellist. | United States | [498][499] |
2022 | My Best Friend's Exorcism | Glee Tanaka | Cathy Ang | Shy, closeted Glee is tricked into coming out by demon possessed Gretchen. | United States | [500][501] |
2022 | My Policeman | Jackie Stewart | Maddie Rice | Friend of Marion Taylor, who recognizes what is happening between her policeman husband and his male friend. | United States | [502][503] |
2022 | Nope | Emerald "Em" Haywood | Keke Palmer | Emerald brags about flirting with women and having sex with them. | United States | [504][505] |
2022 | The Origin of Evil | Nathalie Cordier | Laure Calamy | Natalie is an ex-convict whose financial situation begins to deteriorate after her girlfriend, Stéphane, is sent to prison. Stéphane was born out of wedlock and has a wealthy father she has never met. Nathalie assumes Stéphane's identity and contacts him. | France, Canada | [506] |
Stéphane Marson | Suzanne Clément | |||||
2022 | Scream | Mindy Meeks-Martin | Jasmin Savoy Brown | Mindy is a Woodsboro teenager and the fraternal twin sister of Chad. | United States | [507][508][509] |
2022 | Senior Year | Martha Reiser | Mary Holland | One of Stephanie's closest friends in high school, but closeted when she was young. Becomes Harding High's principal and cheerleader coach. | United States | [510][511] |
2022 | Sneakerella | Sami | Devyn Nekoda | Skateboarder Sami is El's best friend. | United States | [512][513] |
2022 | Tack för senast | Ullis | Liv Mjönes | Ullis and Tessan are a couple. Ullis likes relationships that aren't demanding, but Tessan wants to be a parent. | Sweden | [514][515] |
Tessan | Madeleine Martin | |||||
2022 | Tár | Lydia Tár | Cate Blanchett | Lydia is the first female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. She refers to herself as a "U-Haul lesbian". Sharon is first violin and concertmaster, and Lydia's romantic partner. | United States, Germany | [516][517][518] |
Sharon Goodnow | Nina Hoss | |||||
2022 | Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody | Robyn Crawford | Nafessa Williams | This version of Crawford enters a romantic relationship with Whitney Houston. | United States | [519] |
2022 | You Can Live Forever | Jaime | Anwen O'Driscoll | A romantic relationship develops between two young women in a Jehovah's Witness religious community. | Canada | [520] |
Marike | June Laporte |
2023
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | All the Silence | Miriam | Adriana Llabrés | Miriam, a part time sign language teacher and actress, is diagnosed with impending hearing loss. Her girlfriend, Lola, and her parents are deaf, but Miriam refuses to accept a life without sound. | Mexico | [521][522] |
Lola | Ludwika Paleta | |||||
2023 | Anyone but You | Claudia | Alexandra Shipp | Claudia and Halle are engaged and planning their wedding in Sydney, Australia | United States | [523][524] |
Halle | Hadley Robinson | |||||
2023 | Backspot | Eileen McNamara | Evan Rachel Wood | Eileen is the ruthless coach of the cheerleading team. | Canada, United States | [525][526] |
2023 | Bad Things | Ruthie Nodd | Gayle Rankin | Ruthie inherited her grandmother's abandoned hotel, and has returned to stay in it for a few days with her girlfriend Cal and others. | United States | [527] |
Cal | Hari Nef | |||||
2023 | Bottoms | PJ | Rachel Sennott | High school students PJ and Josie start an all-female fight club so that they can meet cheerleaders and get laid. | United States | [528][529] |
Josie | Ayo Edebiri | |||||
2023 | The Color Purple | Celie Harris-Johnson | Fantasia Barrino | Celie enters into a relationship with jazz singer Shug Avery. | United States | [530][531] |
Phylicia Pearl Mpasi | ||||||
2023 | Days of Happiness | Emma | Sophie Desmarais | Emma is an orchestra conductor who is navigating her toxic relationship with her father and agent Patrick and her budding new romantic relationship with Naëlle. | Canada | [532][533] |
Naëlle | Nour Belkhiria | |||||
2023 | A Deadly Invitation | Agatha | Regina Blandón | Agatha is the host of a podcast about unsolved crimes. | Mexico | [534][535] |
2023 | Dumb Money | Riri | Myha'la Herrold | College students Riri and Harmony are a couple. They invest all their money in GameStop stocks. | United States | [536][537] |
Harmony Williams | Talia Ryder | |||||
2023 | Eileen | Eileen Dunlop | Thomasin McKenzie | Rebecca is a psychologist at a juvenile correctional facility, who develops a relationship with Eileen. | United States | [538][539] |
Rebecca Saint John | Anne Hathaway | |||||
2023 | Fancy Dance | Jax | Lily Gladstone | Native American ex-convict Jax is Roki's aunt. She teaches Roki how to steal and takes her away from her grandparents, who had custody of Roki after her mother disappeared. | United States | [540][541] |
2023 | Freud's Last Session | Anna Freud | Liv Lisa Fries | Anna is Sigmund Freud's daughter. She and Dorothy are in a relationship. | United States, United Kingdom | [542][543] |
Dorothy Burlingham | Jodi Balfour | |||||
2023 | Herd | Jamie Miller | Ellen Adair | Couple Jamie and Alex go on a canoe trip getaway to try to repair their marriage. After Alex breaks her leg in an accident and they go for help, they encounter sinister people and a zombie outbreak. | United States | [544][545] |
Alex Kanai | Mitzi Akaha | |||||
2023 | Jagged Mind | Billie | Maisie Richardson-Sellers | Billie and Alex are dating. | United States | [546][547] |
Alex | Shannon Woodward | |||||
2023 | Khufiya | Krishna Mehra (aka KM) | Tabu | KM is a closeted intelligence officer in the Research and Analysis Wing agency. | India | [548][549] |
2023 | Kill Boksoon | Gil Jae-yeong | Kim Si-a | Jae-young is Gil Bok-Soon's teenage daughter. | South Korea | [550][551] |
2023 | My Animal | Heather | Bobbi Salvör Menuez | Heather is a tomboy and werewolf. She falls in love with Jonny, a figure skater. | Canada | [552][553][554] |
2023 | Nyad | Diana Nyad | Annette Bening | Biopic about long-distance swimmer Nyad's swim from Cuba to Florida in 2013. Stoll is Nyad's swimming coach. | United States | [555][556] |
Bonnie Stoll | Jodie Foster | |||||
2023 | The Persian Version | Lelia | Layla Mohammadi | Lelia is a filmmaker whose relationship with her mother deteriorated after she brought her wife to her parents' home on Thanksgiving. | United States | [557][558] |
2023 | Say I Do to Me | Yi "Yee" Lok | Candy Lo | Closeted Yee follows YouTuber influencer Ping Cheung on social media, and offers to sponsor her. Her admiration of Ping encourages her to come out. | Hong Kong | [559][560] |
2023 | Shortcomings | Alice | Sherry Cola | Alice is a 'philanderer' and Ben's best friend. | United States | [561][562] |
2023 | A Song Sung Blue | Liu Xian | Zhou Meijun | Xian, a shy and introverted 15-year-old, becomes romantically infatuated with Mingmei, the daughter of her father's girlfriend. | China | [563] |
2023 | Tripped Up | Taylor | Sasha Fox | Taylor, a musician and friend of Lizzie, joins her on the road trip female-bonding getaway to the Saucy Food Festival. There she meets a new girlfriend. | United States | [564] |
2023 | You People | Liza | Molly Gordon | Ezra's parents Shelley and Arnold awkwardly explain that they are accepting and supportive of everyone, including their daughter Liza. | United States | [565] |
2024
Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
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2024 | All Shall Be Well | Angie | Patra Au | Angie and Pat have been a couple for over forty years. After Pat suddenly dies, her family takes over the arrangements for burial proceedings, referring to Angie as just a best friend of Pat. Because she did not finalize a will, the apartment that Pat bought for herself and Angie, and lived in, is passed to Pat's next of kin, leaving Angie without any rights to the property. | Hong Kong | [566] |
Pat | Maggie Li Lin Lin | |||||
2024 | Drive-Away Dolls | Jamie | Margaret Qualley | After her girlfriend Sukie ends their relationship, free-spirited and uninhibited Jamie goes on an impromptu road trip with Marian. Marian is Jamie's uptight best friend who agrees to let Jamie accompany her on her drive to Tallahassee, where her family lives. Sukie is a police officer. She breaks up with Jamie when she catches her cheating with another woman. | United States | [567][568] |
Marian | Geraldine Viswanathan | |||||
Sukie | Beanie Feldstein | |||||
2024 | I Saw the TV Glow | Maddy | Brigette Lundy-Paine | Maddy introduces Owen to The Pink Opaque. | United States | [569][570] |
2024 | In the Summers | Carmen | Emma Ramos | Carmen owns a lesbian bar and is Vicente’s lifelong friend. Violeta will eventually seek support from Carmen as her own queer identity emerges. | United States, Mexico | [571][572] |
2024 | Love Lies Bleeding | Lou | Kristen Stewart | Lou is the manager of a gym. Daisy is Lou's former lover who is smitten with her. | United States | [573][574] |
Daisy | Anna Baryshnikov | |||||
2024 | Mean Girls | Janis 'Imi'ike | Auliʻi Cravalho | Janis came out to Regina in private, then was outed by her to their school. | United States | [575] |
2024 | Miller's Girl | Winnie Black | Gideon Adlon | Winnie is Cairo's best friend. | United States | [576][577] |
2024 | The Shameless | Renuka | Anasuya Sengupta | After killing a policeman, sex worker Renuka flees and hides in a brothel in northern India. | India, Switzerland, France, Bulgaria, Taiwan | [578] |
2024 | Stress Positions | Vanessa | Amy Zimmer | Vanessa is Karla's girlfriend who wrote a book about her. | United States | [579][580] |
Notes
See also
- List of feature films with gay characters
- List of feature films with bisexual characters
- List of feature films with transgender characters
- List of film franchises with LGBT characters
- List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters
- List of lesbian characters in television
- List of LGBT-related films
- List of LGBT-related films by year
- Films about intersex
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Further reading
- Alderson, Chris (2014). The Lesbian Film Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Lesbian Movies (3rd ed.). Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1493755837.
- Becker, Edith; Citron, Michelle; Lesage, Julia; Rich, B. Ruby (March 1981). "Lesbians and film". Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media (24–25): 17–21. ISSN 0146-5546.
- Darren, Alison (2000). Lesbian Film Guide (1st ed.). London, England: Cassell. ISBN 030433376X.
- Hadleigh, Boze (1993). The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films: Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics. New York: Citadel Press. ISBN 0806513411.
- Weiss, Andrea (1992). Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film (1st ed.). London, England: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0224035754.
- White, Patricia (1999). UnInvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (1st ed.). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253336414.