The 27 Best Movies Featuring Lesbian Characters

There are so many more movies about gay characters than there used to be, but sometimes it feels like we're making up for lost time by setting them all in the past. You know how it seemed for a second that every new movie with lesbian characters was set multiple decades, if not centuries, in the past with like... lots of longing looks over candlelight? No disrespect to history, but not every sapphic movie has to be a historical drama! We've compiled some of the best, just for you. Some of them are old-timey lesbians, but we're keeping that energy to a minimum.

FYI that inclusivity in film is technically on the rise. The 2021 edition of the GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index, which "maps the quantity, quality, and diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) characters in films released by eight major motion picture studios" and "four subsidiaries of these major studios" in order to increase quality LGBTQ+ representation in film found that while the sample size was low (there were fewer films released in general in 2020) and only 44 films were released by the major studios and subsidiaries studied, representation increased 4.1 percent.

With that in mind, check out some of the best movies featuring lesbian characters, below.