Emily Blunt and Natalie Press star on this award-winning British drama tailored from the novel of the identical title. In it, two unlikely girls from two totally different walks of life change into quick buddies — and possibly one thing extra — throughout one summer time within the Yorkshire countryside. When you’re recognized to swoon at pastoral cinematography and British accents, you’re in all probability going to love this story of adolescence and coming into your self.
Stream it on BBC iPlayer.
22. Fried Inexperienced Tomatoes (1991)
In our ebook, no checklist of the very best lesbian films could be full with out Fried Inexperienced Tomatoes. That’s true although the film model is technically a narrative of two Actually Shut Mates who, you recognize, run a enterprise collectively, stay collectively, and lift a baby collectively. Typical buddy stuff! In a way, it doesn’t matter if the film is explicitly homosexual or not — the subtext is all there, and the 1987 ebook it’s based mostly on is super-explicitly queer. Stream it and see for your self why Idgie and Ruth are so necessary to lesbian cinema lore.
Stream it on ITVX, Amazon Prime, or Apple TV.
23. Ammonite (2020)
Loosely based mostly on the lifetime of palaeontologist Mary Anning (performed right here by Kate Winslet), this romantic drama focuses on the speculated affair between Anning and married geologist Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan). When you love the sound of chilly, moody days by the ocean, dripping wax candles, and plenty of fossils, you’re in all probability going to take pleasure in this aesthetically very 1840s-lesbian film, even when the chemistry between Winslet and Ronan, frankly, isn’t fairly there.
Stream it on YouTube, Apple TV, or Amazon Prime.