Our favorite lesbian+ and queer women movies for 2023.
Tar the movie, came out last year but it is so spectacular it is on our list for 2023.
So Damn Easy Going, the movie. Subtitled. While desperately trying to find ways to get her ADHD medication, 18-year-old Joanna is trying to figure out her newfound feelings towards her classmate Audrey, but also towards herself.
Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story based on Kiwi-Samoan writer/director Nikki Si’ulepa and producer Rachel Aneta Wills’ journey in pursuit of true love.
Blue Jean the movie takes place back in 1988, a closeted teacher is pushed to the brink when a new student threatens to expose her sexuality.
Gateway Grind is a movie about forgotten lesbian clubs. King’s Road, the swinging 60s, Vivienne Westwood pioneering punk fashion. One notable establishment in this enclave of history that’s often forgotten about is Gateways, London’s longest-surviving lesbian club. Alongside a host of its patrons over the years, Sandi Toksvig highlights the legacy of the club from its original owner, who won it in a poker game, to its blossoming into a hot-spot and safe space for lesbian life. From its signature green door to the sexy dance move that gives this film its name, Gateways was a crucial part of London’s queer history. In this charming and informative film, it’s celebrated in all its glory.
Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story based on Kiwi-Samoan writer/director Nikki Si’ulepa and producer Rachel Aneta Wills’ journey in pursuit of true love.
Marte Um based on a Brazilian family and is subtitled. A lower middle class family undergoes a series of challenging and profound changes, reinventing themselves and their family ties along the way.
You Can Live Forever When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah’s Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.
Jagged Mind is about a woman plagued by blackouts and strange visions that lead her to discover she’s stuck in a series of time loops, possibly related to her mysterious new girlfriend.
Framing Agnes is about a pioneering, pseudonymized, transgender woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel’s gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s, has long stood as a figurehead of trans history.
In this rigorous cinematic exercise that blends fiction and nonfiction, director Chase Joynt explores where and how her platform has become a pigeonhole. Framing Agnes endeavors to widen the frame through which trans history is viewed — one that has remained too narrow to capture the multiplicity of experiences eclipsed by Agnes’.
Through a collaborative practice of reimagination, an impressive lineup of trans stars take on vividly rendered, impeccably vintage reenactments, bringing to life groundbreaking artifacts of trans healthcare.