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Manji (1964)

Sonoko a bored housewife entering middle age met a young girl Mitsuko at a private school of art. Sonoko paints a portrait of her and when she invite Mitsuko at her house the two end up locked in a passionate embrace. Unable to think rationally about what she wants Sonoko becomes steadily more obsessed with her new lover.

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Director:
Yasuzo Masumura

Writers:
Kaneto Shindô, Junichirô Tanizaki (novel)

Starring:
Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida and Yûsuke Kawazu

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese

April 5, 2012
You and I (2010)

Two teenage girls, Janie who is American and Lana who is Russian, fall in love after meeting at a t.A.T.u concert and are swept into a dangerous world of obsession, drug abuse and murder.

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Alternate Title: Finding tATu
Director: Roland Joffé
Writers: Shawn Schepps, Luke Goltz
Starring: Mischa Barton, Shantel VanSanten and Alex Kaluzhsky

Country: USA | Russia
Language: English | Russian

March 4, 2012
Tomboy (2011)

A 10-year-old girl, settling into her new neighborhood outside Paris, is mistaken for a boy and has to live up to this new identity since it’s too late for the mistake to be clarified.

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Director:
Céline Sciamma
Writer:
Céline Sciamma (screenplay)
Starring:
Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana and Jeanne Disson

January 27, 2012
Xdeal (2011)

Dana (Jamilla Obispo), a professional blogger, lives in an apartment unit next to the new tenants, live in partners Billy (Jon Hall) and Sara (Paloma). Quite attractive, Dana arouses a red-hot desire in Billy. But she has the hots for the equally voluptuous Sara. With raging libidos, the two make an outrageous deal. If Dana will give Billy a night of passionate sex, the latter will convince Sara to sleep with her.

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Director:
Lawrence Fajardo
Starring:
Jamilla Obispo, Jon Hall and Paloma
Country:
Philippines
Language:
Filipino | Tagalog

Source: ELMS

January 11, 2012
Gigola (2010)

George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover’s eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle’s nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.

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Director: Laure Charpentier
Writer: Laure Charpentier (novel)
Starring: Lou Doillon, Marie Kremer and Eduardo Noriega

Country: France
Language: French
Release Date: 25 November 2010

October 14, 2011
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)

A trilogy of stories set in the same house, but with different occupants and spanning over 40 years, deals with various women and moral crisis over unexpected pregnancies and their choice of abortion. In 1952, when abortion was illegal, a nurse deals with her unexpected pregnancy and takes drastic measures to get one. In 1974 a family housewife with four children discovers that she’s pregnant and decides she can’t handle another child to raise. In 1996, a pregnant college student decides on an abortion, but doesn’t realize the means to go through to get one.

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Directors: Cher, Nancy Savoca
Writers: Pamela Wallace
Starring: Demi Moore, Shirley Knight and Catherine Keener

September 28, 2011
Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together (2011)

Have you ever fallen in love with your best friend? Jamie is moving from Chicago to New York hoping to become a famous actress. Her best friend and roommate, Jessica, is bummed because she’s not-so-secretly in love with Jamie. As moving day gets closer, Jessica tries to make Jamie jealous by sleeping around with other girls. But Jessica’s plan backfires, in a way she could never imagine.

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Director: Wendy Jo Carlton
Writer: Wendy Jo Carlton
Starring: Jacqui Jackson, Jessica London-Shields and Fawzia Mirza

May 9, 2011
The Hunger (1983)

The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don’t age… until Miriam has enough of them. Unfortunately that’s currently the case with John, so his life expectancy is below 24 hours. Desperately he seeks help from the famous Dr. Sarah Roberts. She doesn’t really belive his story, but becomes curious and contacts Miriam … and gets caught in her ban, too.

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Director: Tony Scott
Writers: James Costigan, Ivan Davis
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon

May 5, 2011
I Like It Hot (2008)

A screenwriter dreams of success and has a boyfriend who is a member of an unsuccessful rock band. Her sister, an interior designer, meets an actor she falls for. Her niece is trying to figure out how to get her first kiss from her boyfriend. Three stories about life and dating.

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Director: Chil-in Kwon
Writers: Soo-ah Kim , Hyeon-su Kim
Starring: Mi-suk Lee, Min-hie Kim and So-hee Ahn

April 17, 2011
Sugar Boxx (2009)

Sugar State Woman’s Prison. An Everglades hellhole where innocent girls are forced to slave in the swamps by day then turn tricks for the warden by night. A prison camp where corruption, brutality, and sexual abuse are all part of the daily routine.

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Director: Cody Jarrett
Writer: Cody Jarrett (screenplay)
Starring: Geneviere Anderson, Ellie Arket and Rainbow Borden

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March 26, 2011
Desert Hearts (1985)

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 drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranchowner’s daughter. The emotions released by their developing intimacy, and Vivian’s insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs.

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Director: Donna Deitch
Writers: Jane Rule (novel), Natalie Cooper
Starring: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau and Audra Lindley

March 26, 2011
The Berlin Affair (1985)

Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ambassador to Germany. Louise’s husband Heinz soon finds out and tries to break up the union between his wife and Mitsuko only to eventually fall in love with Mitsuko also, while outside parties who include art professor Joseph Benno, Mitsuko’s lover, and Heinz’s cousin Wolf, a Gestapo officer, figure in which threatens to destroy the love triangle for good.

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Director: Liliana Cavani
Writers: Liliana Cavani, Roberta Mazzoni, and 1 more credit »
Starring: Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally and Mio Takaki

March 26, 2011