Which is the best lesbian-themed movie?

Showgirls, duh

Both lesbians and gays love this film.

Thelma and Louise??

Two BBC adaptations of lesbian novels are my favorite "movies," though technically they are TV series: Jeanette Winterson's Oranges aren't the Only Fruit and Sarah Waters' Fingersmith. The adaption of Waters' Tipping the Velvet was pretty good too, but the one of Affinity was bad.

Windows with Talia Shire and Liz Ashley is so sensual.

These are terrible choices.

The thread title itself is an oxymoron.

Not sure about best as I don't go out of my way looking for them but I thought Cloudburst was a nice down to earth movie about two elderlez characters (Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker) running away from a nursing home to go to Canada to get married (back in 2011). They pick up a hitch-hiker on the way which makes it a bit Thelma-and-Louise-esque but they only have eyes for each other.

There was a lovely, quirky Canadian movie decades ago called I Heard the Mermaids Singing that was quite fun.

Young Man with a Horn. Lauren Bacall. Doris Day. Say no more.

There was an Argentine movie about Sor Juana Inez de La Cruz, a brilliant Mexican nun who was the most prolific author in the new world in the 1700s called I the Worst of All.

The Watermelon Woman deserves mention.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Personal Best

Entre Nous

Boys on the Side

Personal Best for sure

Fucking Åmål

Ahem…

The correct answer is BOUND, of course.

I loved Bound.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion

Steel Magnolias

The Watermelon Woman is complete shit. Only someone with an interest in gay film history would find meaning in it. Maybe. But I'm a Cheerleader is also crap.

Anyway, The Handmaiden is hands down the best film on the list. Portrait of a Lady on Fire is great. Ammonite is okay. Happiest Season is really good and fun in my opinion. Rafiki was alright. Kajillionaire was quite good. The Favourite is a great film. Battle of the Sexes is alright. Saving Face is okay. Disobedience is okay. Duckbutter is good. If These Walls Could Talk 2 is okay. I liked the Fear Street films but I definitely wouldn't say they were masterpieces.

My favorite lesbian move is "Aimee and Jaguar." It was based on a real story. It happened during Nazi Germany; a young Jewish woman living "underground" meets a Nazi housewife with four kids and a husband at the front and they fall in love. I really liked the actresses who played the women and the film had a beautiful score.

Another vote for Personal Best

I haven't seen many but Boys On The Side and Carol are both really good imo.

I hated Carol. Rooney Mara was so droopy. Why would Cate leave her hot, wealthy husband for someone so unappealing?

Another vote for Entre Nous.

Kiss Me.

Blue Is The Warmest Color.

When Night is Falling.

I loved the Swedish movie Kiss Me.

Morocco with La Dietrich.

Blue is the Warmest Color.

I, the Worst of All

Mädchen in Uniform

The Greengage Summer

Salmonberries

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Not Without My Nutloaf

Devil with a Red Vagina Cape

She's Gotta State Her Boundaries

The Long, Long U-Haul

Silkwood

Albert Nobbs

Basic Instinct

Clitty Clitty Bang Bang with Willa Fingerdoo.

Matilda, she was in love with Miss Honey.

Lianna

The Hours

The Kids Are Alright

Did I ever munch 50 carpets one weekend?

The Killing of Sister George

"Hey Lady, My Snatch Isn't Gonna Eat Itself" starring Helen Lawson

Tango & Cash

[quote] The Watermelon Woman is complete shit.

Oh, Tamara, of course you’d say that, since you’re complete shit in it.

Never mind that it is considered a landmark film worthy of historical preservation and also the first feature film directed by a black lesbian.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

I choshe 'Kisshing Jesshica Shtein' ash the mosht shibilant leshbian-themed film.

The Hours and Portrait of a Lady on Fire for oscar-worthy cinema. Carol was also up there, but not quite at that level.

Tipping the Velvet is such a fun, raunchy BBC post-Victorian coming of age story that I watch it every few years.

But I’m a Cheerleader for laughs and creativity.

Thelma (Norway) was a great lesbian suspense/thriller.

And how could we all forget Fried Green Tomatoes??!!! Lesbian subtext only, but a great movie.

What was the title of the lesbian film with Elliot Page and Julianne Moore?

Also, the Kids are Alright with Julianna and Annette Bening.

Zora Stanford is a fat, ugly lesbian who worked as a physical therapist at Springtime Spa.

Blue Is the Warmest Color

Tipping the Velvet

Bound

My glamour lesbian sister and her glamour lesbian partner brought over a lesbian film to watch together. The husbear and I side-eyed each other, but the film was excellent. It was Aimee and Jaguar.. Deserved an Oscar for best foreign film IMO.

Bound !! And it’s not even close.

Bound. Agree 100%!

Hannah Does Her Sisters.

Another vote for Basic Instinct. It really opened my eyes to the powerful possibilities of what women are capable of when they come together.

Hope Emerson in Caged is the greatest lesbian character in movie herstory.

R44 The movie was Freeheld, which was based on the term Freeholder, which I only know because I lived for a few year in New Jersey and it’s a New Jersey only thing, but I’ve never understood it even based on this article. And I don’t have any memory how it ties into the plot other then about house ownership. I do remember thinking the movie would have done a hell of a lot better with a different title.

Where was “Bar Girls?!?” Bound was erotic as hell, and I’m a Kinsey 6. All the Lesbetarians I came out with we’re obsessed with “The Hunger(1983),” with Susan Sarandon and Catherine Denuve.

Mulholland Drive

Carol is my favorite

Cat people. The original.

Has Even Cowgirls Get The Blues been mentioned?

I like the movies that show lesbians to be murderers. I'm not saying all of them are, but it's a silly trope that entertains me.

Paint Drying.

This one and all the rest.

Being the Ricardos

The best lesbian-themed movie *should* have been FRIED GREEN TOMATOES....but Jon Avnet decided ambiguity was better.

Surprised no one has mentioned "The Color Purple." Not that I think it's a great movie; it wasn't. But it DID have a "lesbian" scene, two women pecking each other's faces with kisses with the tinkling of wind chimes in the background. For Steven Spielberg, that was a hot lesbian scene.