5 Lesbian Films For Your Christmas List That You Could Actually Watch With Your Family After The Turkey
Posted: 15th Dec 2009 Author: Michelle Penny Topics: Film
Fed up with watching films full of straight characters that you can’t relate to? After some good old lesbian films to make the hours fly by over the festive period? Queeried have scoured the internet to try and find you five brilliantly made lesbian films that will have you laughing because of the comedy in them, not because they’re so darn awful..
1. I Can’t Think Straight
Starring Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth is the story of two women, Tala and Leyla. At the start of the film, Tala, an outgoing Jordanian Christian, is all set to marry her boyfriend, but then Leyla, a reserved Muslim appears on the scene. Appearing to have little in common on the surface it soon becomes apparent these women have an attraction, and a very strong one at that.
But are they both willing to throw everything away to find out? Well you’re going to have to watch it to find out…
(Available at Amazon)
2. Loving Annabelle
Whilst Loving Annabelle seems to break just about every taboo that exists, this is a film that manages to do so in an incredibly tasteful way. Focusing on two central characters, Annabelle, a rebellious Senator’s daughter who has sent to boarding school to sort her out, and Miss Simone Bradley, a Catholic school teacher, the film sees Bradley try to bring the teenager under control, but instead begins to fall under her spell, leaving them both struggling to work out what to do with the feelings they have.
Based on the 1941 film Mädchen in Uniform, this may not have the political element of the original but is still likely to have you hooked from start to finish.
(Available at Amazon)
3. The World Unseen
If you think you recognise the lead characters in this film you’d be right, because as well has having been written and directed by Shamim Sarif who produced I Can’t Think Straight, the two leads, Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth, also appear.
However whilst the stars may be the same the story couldn’t be more different, as instead of being set in modern times in the UK, this story takes place in at the beginning of the apartheid in South Africa in the 1950s.
Featuring Lisa Ray as Amina, a free spirited woman who has broken all the rules of her Indian community by going it alone and running a cafe that ignore all apartheid rules, the story sees her meet Miriam, a doting mother and subservient wife. To begin with the attraction Miriam has to Amina goes unnoticed as she instead, inspired by Amina’s attitude, focuses of breaking free of her constaints, but as the story develops and challenges arise for them both, her feelings quickly become hard to deny.
(Available at Amazon)
4. Nina’s Heavenly Delights
Returning home for her father’s funeral after three years in London, Nina (played by Shelly Conn) finds herself beginning a relationship with an old childhood friend, and now co owner of her late father’s restaurant, Lisa (played by Laura Fraser).
Following their blossoming relationship, this UK comedy film also sees the two try to save the restaurant by winning the “Best In The West Curry Competiotn” for the third year running. However the couple have much standing in their way, with their biggest problem being Nina’s mother and brother who want to sell the restaurant to the father of the man that Nina left at the altar.
Light hearted and guaranteed to have you spitting your tea out at least once.
(Available at Amazon)
5. Finn’s Girl
Following the death of her partner from breast cancer, Finn, a 40 something reproductive specialist with a passion for bikes, is forced to take care not only of her partner’s abortion clinic, but also her 11 year old daughter, Zelly.
Struggling to cope with Zelly as she goes wildly off the rails following her mother’s death, Finn also has to cope with the protesters that come daily to the clinic, and is soon forced to accept police protection, though she makes sure all know it is much to her annoyance.
Leading the team protecting her is Diana, an African American lesbian cop who sees Finn as a loose cannon that is as hard to control as Zelly. Beginning with a relationship that is barely civil, with time however that begins to change, until one event throws them together in a way that there’s no going back from.
(Available from Amazon)
