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As Good As You

In the midst of mourning the untimely death of her wife, Jo resolves to move forward with their plan to have a baby, and asks her brother-in-law to be her sperm donor. But unexpected dalliances with her two best friends change the equation.

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Bedrooms & Hallways

Director Rose Troche's (The L Word) sparkling romantic comedy that the Village Voice calls 'sophisticated, romantic and wildly funny, a gay-friendly Friends!' With Kevin McKidd (Grey's Anatomy), Jennifer Ehle (The King's Speech), and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix).

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Bliss

Based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Zülfü Livaneli and set against the backdrop of Turkey’s natural wonders, Bliss is an eye-opening story about the taboo subject of honor killings.

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Born in Flames

The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative, thrilling classic is a fantasy of female rebellion set in America ten years after a social democratic cultural revolution.

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Brownian Movement

Charlotte is a young doctor living in Brussels with her husband and son. She leads a normal life - except for the fact that she secretly maintains an apartment where she has sex with her patients. When Max finds out, their relationship is put to the test.

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Committed

This highly stylized film is the story of movie star and leftist iconoclast Frances Farmer. In 1935, Farmer became an overnight Hollywood sensation; within ten years she was in a state mental hospital.

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Deserted Station

In this lyrical and intimately nuanced story conceived by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Leila Hatami, a photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote Iranian village after their car breaks down.

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Dreaming Lhasa

Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to India to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. There she embarks on a journey into Tibet's fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery.

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Farewell Party, The

The Farewell Party tackles an extremely sensitive issue in a humorous way. Yehezkel and Levana live contented lives inside a Jerusalem retirement home. When their friend Max falls prey to an irreversible illness, he asks Yehezkel to help end his suffering.

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Fest Selects: Best Lesbian Shorts

A cross-section of some of the best recent lesbian shorts culled from top film festivals including Sundance, Outfest, Frameline and more. Included are Birthday, Parental Guidance, Swimming, You Move Me and more.

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Fidelio: Alice’s Odyssey

Leaving her fiancé ashore, Alice (Arianne Labed) joins the crew of an old cargo ship and once on board, discovers that her first great love is the ship’s captain. Lulled by life aboard the ship, Alice must grapple with conflicting desires in an almost exclusively male world.

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Ghosted

A mysterious love story about a German artist trying to come to terms with the unsolved murder of her Taiwanese lover. From director Monika Treut (Seduction: The Cruel Woman, Female Misbehavior and Gendernauts).

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He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not

Art student Angelique (Audrey Tautou) is madly in love with Loic, a married cardiologist. Halfway through, this black comedy reverses perspective, showing the preceding events from Loic's (wildly different) point-of-view.

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Hussy

Academy Award Winner Helen Mirren gives a smoldering performance as Beaty, who works as a hostess and prostitute in a posh London nightclub in order to support her young son.

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I, The Worst of All

In 17th century Mexico, the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna) enters a convent, and the local vicereine (Dominique Sanda) becomes her protectress and erotic muse.

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Kira's Reason

Enjoying life in their mid-thirties, Kira and her husband Mads have a large house and two wonderful children. Their world is perfectly secure and comfortable until Kira develops a psychiatric disorder, which eventually commits her to a hospital. A Dogme 95 film.

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L'iceberg

After Fiona, the manager of a fast-food restaurant, accidentally gets locked into a walk-in freezer, she develops an obsession with everything cold and icy. One day she drops everything and leaves home - in search of a real iceberg.

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La Vie Promise: Empire Collection

Isabelle Huppert stars as Sylvia, a prostitute who suddenly makes contact with her estranged teenage daughter. Desperate not to see her daughter repeat her own mistakes, Sylvia tries to re-discover her once promising past.

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Leila

From one of Iran's greatest directors, Dariush Mehrjui, and starring Leila Hatami (A Separation, Deserted Station) comes Leila, a beautiful and mesmerizing story of love, conflict and tradition.

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Linnea In Monet's Garden

A Film by Lena Anderson & Christina Bjork. From the pages of the best-selling book comes the charming animated tale of a little girl's love of the paintings of French Impressionist Claude Monet.

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Little Girl

In a run-down park on the outskirts of Rome, a two year-old girl is discovered and taken in by a family of hard-luck circus performers. A note in the child's pocket from a desperate mother reveals little about who she is or why she was left.

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Louise by the Shore

On the last day of summer in a small seaside resort town, an older woman named Louise realizes that the last train has departed without her. With no one to keep her company, she must rely on her past to help her survive the present.

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Mademoiselle Paradis

The true story of Maria Paradis, a gifted pianist and friend of Mozart who lost her eyesight as a child but unexpectedly regains it as a young adult. But this miracle comes at a price.

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Me Without You

Michelle Williams and Anna Friel star as best friends growing up in the London suburbs in the 1970s. Spanning three decades, Marina and Holly's friendship endures drugs, random sex, manipulation and betrayal.

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Mountain

Zvia lives with her family on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. She goes for walks, trying to escape the endless house work. One night, she is exposed to an unsettling sexual scene and starts exploring this new realm of the mountain.

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Quarry, The

A Film by Marion Hansel. Acclaimed Irish actor John Lynch stars as the strangely sympathetic fugitive who battles inner demons in this 'provocative, mysterious thriller!' (New York Times)

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Seaside

In a small beach town in France, beautiful young Marie works at a pebble processing plant. Her boyfriend, Paul, a warehouse employee in winter and a lifeguard in summer, doesn’t understand Marie’s dreamy temperament and stifles her with his clumsy love.

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Secret Society

The story of Daisy, twenty years old and plump as a dumpling, and her adoring husband Ken. When Ken discovers that Daisy has joined a "secret society" of women sumo wrestlers, Daisy is forced to make a difficult decision.

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Seduction: The Cruel Woman

Pina Bausch dancer Mechthilde Grossmann plays Wanda, a dominatrix with an S&M "gallery" on the Hamburg waterfront who leaves her German shoe fetishist lesbian lover for an American trainee.

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She Must Be Seeing Things

Agatha is a lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads her diaries. Problems ensue as Agatha’s transgression leads to jealousy and a spiraling cycle of sexual obsession.

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Special Treatment

In this darkly erotic drama, Isabelle Huppert stars as a prostitute who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele. When she crosses paths with a neurotic psychoanalyst, the two quickly realize their professions share a thing or two in common.

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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

This powerful film tells the story of the Austrian writer and his life in exile from 1936 to 1942. Zweig was one of the most famous writers of his time, but as a Jewish intellectual he struggled to find the right stance towards Nazi Germany.

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Stopover, The

On their way home from Afghanistan, a band of French soldiers stop at a resort in Cyprus for decompression. Marine and Aurore (Ariane Labed) confront rage, trauma, and army sexism as they struggle to readjust to "normal" life.

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Strangers In Good Company

The surprising hit about seven old women stranded at a deserted farmhouse miles from civilization. Though they don't have much food - or much in common - these surprising, remarkable women turn a crisis into a magical time of humor and spirit.

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Suddenly: Empire Collection

A sexy road movie with a raw freshness reminiscent of early Godard or Jarmusch, Suddenly is the story of Marcia, a lonely salesclerk in Buenos Aries who dreams of escaping her dreary life.

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Sweet Ecstasy

Elke Sommer, the original cinematic sex kitten, plays a voluptuous vixen in this steamy 1962 beach romance filmed on the exotic French Riviera.

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Tokyo Fiancée

In this entertaining romantic comedy, Amelie, a French tutor in Tokyo, finds herself in a passionate relationship with her only student, the charming Rinri. As the two explore the joys of their first real romance, many cultural barriers fall...but some still remain.

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Virgin Machine

In this "lesbian Candide" (San Francisco Examiner), a young journalist, foiled in her attempts to find romantic love in her native Hamburg, moves to San Francisco and discovers the rich lesbian scene - and her own sexuality.

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Watermelon Woman, The

Re-released for its 20th anniversary in a pristine 2K HD restoration, The Watermelon Woman is the story of Cheryl (Cheryl Dunye), a twenty-something black lesbian struggling to make a documentary about an elusive 1930s black film actress.

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What If...?

This clever romantic comedy from director Léa Fazer explores the feelings so many of us have as we question the trajectory of our lives: what if I had done this instead of that? What if this had happened, and not that?

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With Love...From the Age of Reason

Margaret, an executive at a multinational construction firm, leads a regimented lifestyle. But when she receives a stack of letters written by herself when she was seven years old, the successful professional begins to rethink her existence.

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You Go To My Head

In a desolate stretch of the Sahara, a mysterious car accident leaves a young woman lost and alone. Jake, a reclusive architect, finds her unconscious; intoxicated by the woman's beauty, he takes her to his remote desert home to recuperate.