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John Huston – The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Synopsis: ‘Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That’s for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two men are partners, but Sam doesn’t like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by...
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Ira Cohen – The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda [+Extras] (1968)
Quote: J. Hoberman in the Mar. 16, 2006 Village Voice: “Part ‘Dr. Strange,’ part ‘Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome,’ [‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’ is] so High ’60s that you emerge from its...
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Julie Taymor – Frida (2002)
Frida chronicles the life of artist Frida Kahlo (beautiful Salma Hayek) with her mentor and husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as they took the art world by storm. From their own complex and...
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Ursula Puerrer & A. Hans Scheirl & Dietmar Schipek – Flaming Ears (1992)
FLAMING EARS is a pop sci-fi lesbian fantasy feature set in the year 2700 in the fictive burned-out city of Asche. It follows the tangled lives of three women — Volley, Nun and Spy. Spy is a comic...
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Amos Kollek – Fiona (1998)
Quote: Fiona is a crack-smoking prostitute. She lives a reckless life outside the law where she kills three cops with the same nonchalance with which she turns tricks… Gritty and unsparing, the film...
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Frank Ripploh – Taxi zum Klo (1980)
Quote: In this autobiographical feature, Frank Ripploh plays himself: a German elementary-school instructor who lives a double life in his beloved Berlin, socializing with his fellow teachers only...
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Pierfrancesco Campanella – Bugie rosse aka The Final Scoop (1993)
Pierfrancesco Campanella’s first giallo (also his directorial debut). The plot is about a series of murders among homosexuals, but the erotic element is mostly represented in heterosexual couplings,...
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Jean Rollin – Le frisson des vampires aka Shiver of the Vampires (1971)
Quote: Jean Rollin’s third feature film Le Frisson des Vampires, alternately known as Thrill of the Vampires, Shiver of the Vampires and Sex and the Vampire, is one of the key works in his impressive...
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Claude Gagnon – Keiko (1979)
Keiko is a 23-year-old lonely virgin who lives in a tiny room, and hopes to meet someone in the cafe she frequents. After a bad affair with one of the other diners, she vows to give up men. She then...
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José Ramón Larraz – Vampyres (1974)
“The 1970’s was the decade of the gothic lesbian vampire film. The exploitation efforts of Jean Rollin (LIPS OF BLOOD), Jess Franco (VAMPYROS LESBOS), and Hammer (LUST FOR A VAMPIRE) were enormously...
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Paul Newman – Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Paul Newman made his directorial debut and Newman’s wife, Joanne Woodward, stars as Rachel Cameron, a 35-year-old unmarried schoolteacher who feels as though she’s wasted her life. Rachel’s best...
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Nancy Meckler – Sister My Sister (1994)
Such Devoted Sisters The true story behind “Sister My Sister” has intrigued artists for 50 years, and who can blame them? It is an irresistible dark tale of murder, incest and class struggle, an event...
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Tom Kalin – Savage Grace (2007)
Synopsis: “Savage Grace,” based on the award winning book, is the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune....
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Maria Maggenti – The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
This enjoyable film combines features of teen movie, coming-of-age film, and lesbian flic. Made by a female director, with attractive actors, it is a role-reversal farce. The appeal is not restricted...
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Luigi Comencini – La Donna della domenica aka The Sunday Woman (1975)
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino’s high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla...
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Claude Chabrol – La demoiselle d’honneur aka The Bridesmaid (2004)
A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister’s bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is. Quote: the bridesmaid (First Run) Going to a new Chabrol film these days...
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John Cromwell – Caged (1950)
Quote: Caged, considered the best woman’s prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and the more stylized world of film noir. Marie, (Eleanor Parker), is...
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Lizzie Borden – Born in Flames (1983)
Plot Summary for Born in Flames (1983) Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power, this films presents a...
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Donna Deitch – Desert Hearts (1985)
Quote: It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She’s unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly...
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Lisa Cholodenko – High Art (1998)
AMG: Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed this lesbian-themed drama, winner of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Ambitious photography magazine associate editor Syd...
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