From: Minotaur@cup.portal.com (Frank - Swilling)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: The GLBO-Centered Film List
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:10:03 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

The Lesbian-Centered Foreign Film List
6th of 7 Lists
compiled by Frank Swilling

Anna und Elisabeth - 1933, Germany (Lesbian - Drama:  A peasant girl's
     touch heals the paralysis of the lady of the manor, and the lady
     soon discovers that she can't live without the girl.)
Anna und Edith - 1975, West Germany (Lesbian - Drama: Made-for-German-
     TV movie about two clerical workers who fall in love while trying
     to get better working conditions.)
Anne Trister - 1986, Canada (Lesbian - Drama: An Israeli artist goes to
     Montreal, stays with a psychologist friend, and falls in love with
     her.)
Another Way [Egymasra Nezve] - 1982, Hungary (Lesbian - Drama:  Two
     journalists fall in love against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian
     uprising.)
The Banker [La Banquiere] - 1980, France (Lesbian - Drama: The rise and
     fall of a masculine self-made bank president in the 1920's in Paris.)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant [Die Bitteren Tranen der Petra von
     Kant] - 1972, West Germany (Lesbian - Drama: A decadent fashion
     designer plays the dominant role in a sado-masochistic relationship
     with one of her employees, but she meets someone who turns the tables
     on her.)
By Design  - 1981, Canada (Lesbian - Comedy:  A lesbian couple who decide
     to have a baby "the old-fashioned way" encounter humorous obstacles.)
Can't You Take a Joke? - 1989, Australia (Lesbian - Comedy: A woman
     cartoonist, with the help of pet character lady dick, sets about
     recovering her mysterious female client's lost sense of humor.)
Celine and Julie Go Boating [Celine et Julie en Bateau] - 1974, France
     (Lesbian - Drama: A magician and a librarian meet in Montmartre.)
Daughters of Darkness [La Rouge aux Levres, Blud an den Lippen, Bloed
     and de Lippen] - 1970, Belgium, West Germany, France (Lesbian - Horror:
     Campy cult lesbian horror film which features a lesbian vampire as its
     most sympathetic character and makes heterosexuality seem abnormal.)
Depart to Arrive [Weggehen um Anzukommen] - 1981, West Germany (Lesbian -
     Drama:  The story of the separation of a photographer and a journalist
     from the photographer's point of view.)
Domestic Bliss - 1984, Great Britain (Lesbian - Comedy: Made-for-British-TV
     soap opera about a lesbian couple and their chaotic adventures.)
Entre Nous [Between Us, Coup de Foudre] - 1983, France (Lesbian - Drama: In
     1950's Lyons, France, two married women meet, develop a friendship, and
     leave their husbands for one another.)
Erika's Passions [Erikas Leidenschaften] - 1978, West Germany (Lesbian -
     Drama:  A butch lesbian and her femme lover are accidentally locked in
     a room together after a long separation and are forced to confront
     each other's differences and complaints.)
The Farewell [Jaahyvaiset] - 1982, Finland-Sweden (Lesbian - Drama: In the
     1930's, a young Finnish woman defies her tyrannical father to have a
     relationship with a young German woman.)
La Fuga - 1967, Italy (Lesbian - Drama: Well-to-do wife finds fulfillment
     with a lesbian interior decorator.)
Full Moon in New York - 1989, Hong Kong (Lesbian - Drama:  Three Chinese
     women immigrants in New York, one from mainland China, one a
     Taiwanese actress, and one a successful entrepreneur and restaurateur
     from Hong Kong.  The film can be taken as a symbol of the struggles
     of the three Chinas to come together.)
The Getting of Wisdom - 1977, Australia (Lesbian - Drama:  A gifted young
     pianist becomes inseparable with a classmate in an oppressive
     finishing school in turn-of-the-century Melbourne, Australia.)
Girls in Uniform [Madchen in Uniform] - 1931, Germany (Lesbian - Drama:
     Considered by many to be the first radical lesbian-feminist film, in
     which a student at a repressive authoritarian Prussian boarding school
     finds comfort only in the companionship of a sympathetic teacher.  It
     was remade in 1958 in English.  See the original German version.)
The Gold Diggers - 1983, Great Britain (Lesbian - Drama: An actress and a
     mysterious woman on horseback come together while searching for social
     roots.)
In This House of Brede - 1975, Great Britain (Lesbian - Drama: Younger
     nun gets a crush on older one who wants to reciprocate but cannot.)
I've Heard The Mermaids Singing - 1987, Canada (Lesbian - Comedy: An
     "organizationally-impaired person Friday falls in love with her boss,
     the sophisticated Curator of an art gallery.)
I, You, He, She [Je, Tu, Il, Elle] - 1974, Belgium (Lesbian - Drama:
     Conflict-ridden relationship between a woman and her lover and a
     strange man.  Features an 18-minute love scene between the two women.)
Johanna, D'Arc of Mongolia - 1988, West Germany (Lesbian - Adventure: Our
     heroine is invited on a trip by an affluent older woman.  They travel
     to Mongolia where they are kidnapped by Mongolian Amazons, and the
     adventure begins.)
The Life that We Dreamt [Het Leven dat we Droomden] - 1981, Belgium
     (Lesbian - Drama: Two women fall in love with the same man, but soon
     discover that they love each other.)
Madame X - Eine Absolut Herrscherin - 1977, West Germany (Lesbian - Drama:
     Women cannot resist the pirate Madame X, and board her ship in quest of
     gold, love, and adventure.)
Miss A and Miss M - 1987, Great Britain (Lesbian - Drama: A young girl
     slowly becomes aware of the true nature of the relationship between two
     school teachers.)
Night Visions - 1989, Canada (Lesbian - Drama: Racism and homophobia are
     explored in two overlapping stories, one about a Native American
     single mother fighting social welfare authorities and her white
     ex-husband for custody of her daughter, the other about a lesbian
     photographer whose erotic photographs have been seized by the police.)
Nocturne - 1990, Great Britain (Lesbian - Drama: Joy Chamberlain's film of
     a woman who returns home for her mother's funeral and meets memories
     which are the key both to her self-repression and her desire.)
November Moon [Novembermond] - 1985, West Germany (Lesbian - Drama:  During
     WWII in France, a Frenchwoman hides her lover, a German Jew, from the
     Nazis.)
Olivia [Pit of Loneliness] - 1951, France (Lesbian -Drama: Set in the latter
     half of the 1800's, an English schoolgirl falls deeply in love with one
     of her headmistresses in the French boarding school she attends.)
On Guard - 1983, Australia (Lesbian - Drama: An aerobics instructor, a
     disillusioned nurse and two other lesbians conspire to sabotage a
     reproductive engineering facility and alert the media to a Brave New
     World bioproduction line.  A heist movie which incorporates frank
     portrayal of the characters' domestic and sexual, personal and
     political struggles.)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - 1989, Great Britain (Lesbian - Drama:
     Coming of age story about a young woman who's been raised by a strict
     evangelical stepmother.)
Richard's Things - 1980, Great Britain (Lesbian- Drama: Made-for-British-TV
     movie about a dead businessman's widow and mistress, who go from open
     hostility to falling in love with each other.)
Salmonberries - 1991, Canada (Lesbian - Drama: A woman searches for meaning
     in her life and makes contact with another woman in the bleak North.)
Simone - 1984, France (Lesbian - Drama:  Simone, a mysterious stranger,
     enters the life of Francoise, a suicidal woman, and the two explore
     their fantasies.)
Therese and Isabelle - 1968, United States-West Germany-France (Lesbian -
     Drama: A woman reminisces about a love affair she had with a girl in
     boarding school.)
To Forget Venice [Dimenticare Venezia] - 1979, Italy (Lesbian/Gay - Drama:
     In 1920's Italy, Anna and Claudia live in the country with Anna's
     Aunt Marta.  Anna and Claudia have become bored with each other,
     but one day Aunt Marta's brother Nicky shows up with his young
     lover Picchio, and things start to change.)
Twice a Woman - 1985, Great Britain (Lesbian - Drama: A man becomes obsessed
     with the young female lover of his ex-wife.)
The Virgin Machine - 1988, West Germany (Lesbian - Drama: A naive German
     journalist searches for love in San Francisco's lesbian underground.)
A Woman in Transit [La Femme de l'Hotel] - 1984, Canada (Lesbian - Drama:
     A director and her leading lady search for someone to play the
     central figure in their movie and find her in the hotel where they
     are all staying.)
A Woman Like Eve [Een Vrouw als Eva] 1979, Netherlands (Lesbian - Drama:
     On vacation in France, a married Dutch woman falls in love with a
     French lesbian.  When she attempts to divorce her husband, a bitter
     custody battle ensues.)
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