25 Lesbian Movies on Hulu That You Can Watch Right Now For Fun If You Want

You might be wondering, “What best lesbian movies are on Hulu? I bet some of the best lesbian movies are all over Hulu!” More specifically: “Where can I see two women stare longingly into each other’s eyeballs?????” Well good news! we have you covered.

#17 on our list of the Best Queer Movies of 2023

In 1980s England, Jean is a high school PE teacher and netball coach who dodges lesbian rumors at work while enjoying a robust queer community at home and a radical dyke girlfriend, Viv. As homophobic politicians fight to root lesbians out of education altogether, Jean’s worlds begin to collide when she runs into a new student, Lois, at the gay bar. “The triumph ofBlue Jean is that it takes time showing the queer lives at stake,” writes Drew in her review of Blue Jean. “This is not a dour film. It has hot lesbian sex, sweaty snapshots of queer bars, and, ultimately, portrays the power of community. This makes the constricting environment of the school all the more painful.”

Ally Pankiw’s new documentary about Lilith Fair uses interviews and archival footage to tell the story of a revolutionary endeavor — a late ’90s concert tour, launched by Sarah McLachlan, that pushed back against the sexist music industry’s caps on female artists by touring a 100% female lineup across the country all summer long. I went and it was spectacular — but most people did not go, and Drew writes that “From the opening night at The Gorge to Indigo Girls creating camaraderie among the acts to the surprise success that became undeniable, the archival footage — of performances, of fans gushing — allows those of us who weren’t there a little taste of the magic.”

#62 on The 100 Best Lesbian Movies

This delightful teen rom-com is a lesbian movie on Hulu full of queer actors playing queer characters. Paige is an aspiring artist who joins the track team to beef up her college resume, hoping to get closer to her eternal crush, Gabby — but ends up finding herself drawn to somebody unexpected! “From the extremely winsome leads to the easy story beats and quick humor, it’s darn cute and wholly queer,” wrote Analyssa in her review. “By about 20 minutes in, I had adapted to all the Gen Z speak and was fully along for the ride.”

Drew called this movie, a “critique of non-violence in climate activism, a suggestion that destruction of property in pursuit of sabotage is not only morally justified but morally urgent,” a “radical masterpiece.” Sasha Lane plays Theo, a young woman dying from a rare cancer caused by pollution, and Jaume Lawson plays her Theo’s girlfriend, Alisha.

The documentary of the first American woman to go to space —remained closeted throughout her life, but gave her partner Tam O’Shaughnessy the go-ahead to attribute herself accurately in her obituary. Tam is the “true star” of this stirring film about Sally’s life and her relationship, wrote Drew, “delightfully blunt, funny and charming, and matter-of-fact.”

For over fifteen years, a rogue fan has posed as Tegan Quin, building relationships with other fans and even connecting with Tegan’s real-life friends and associates online, hacking into her computer and quietly terrorizing her life. This is about her mission to find her catfisher, but it’s also about so much more — a specific moment in queer online pop culture history when stars like Tegan & Sara made themselves available to fans who were looking for community and accessibility, and how that vulnerability ended up cutting both ways. Autostraddle readers overlapped a lot with Tegan & Sara fandom, so I was personally just so, so very captivated by it.

This hit holiday lesbian movie by Hulu is a rom-com co-written and directed by Clea Duvall. It stars the one and only Kristen Stewart as Abby, who’s meeting her girlfriend Harper’s (Mackenzie Davis) family for the first time. But, big surprise! They don’t know that Harper is gay! Also, Aubrey Plaza plays Harper’s ex-girlfriend, Riley.

Queer director Alesandra Lacorazza Samudio’s directorial debut is a semi-autobiographical film about two sisters, girly Eva and tomboy Victoria, who live in California and spend fraught summers with their father in New Mexico. ”The greatest strength of In the Summers are these well-written, realistic, complicated characters and watching how the change — or don’t — and how their relationships change — or don’t — over time,” wrote Drew.

A french teenager (Adèle Exarchopoulos) develops a deep romantic and sexual bond with an older blue-haired art student (Léa Seydoux)that will come to defin her life and future in this 3-hour film known for its extremely long lesbian sex scene and for how it is both deeply loved and deeply loathed by various members of the queer community. (Our reviewer, Kate, hated it!)

Based on a controversial graphic novel, Rhys Ernst’s Adam follows a teenage boy who spends the summer of 2006 embedded in his older sister’s vibrant queer community under false pretenses. Read this oral history and give it another chance.

“Eric Schaeffer’s romcom is the sweet — and messy — love story we deserve. Michelle Hendley is an absolute star as Ricky Jones, a small town girl with a YouTube following and a desire for love. It takes a dalliance with the engaged Francesca to reveal the love she has for her male best friend — and what a dalliance it is!” writes Drew. “Ricky’s sex scene with Francesca is hot and tender, and while some of us may have been rooting for the two of them to end up together, the whole thing is so sweet you probably won’t mind that she ends up with the friend. And Hendley is just so good — she’s such a pleasure to watch on screen.”

A documentary exploring the lives of three transgender high school athletes, fighting against bullying, legislation and a hostile political movement to simply have the right to play the sports they love.

This adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic novel finds Hercule Poirot aboard a Karnak traversing the river Nile, attempting to solve some murders! Unlike the original novel, this version features Mrs. Bowers and Marie Van Schuyler as members of a secret lesbian relationship with each other.

16-year-old Billie is thick as thieves with her mother, who throws Billie for a loop when he reveals his gender and plans for transition. Billie’s forced to live with his father, and Tuesdays become Billie’s time with James to work through their relationship, James’ transition, and Billie’s own sexuality journey.

As Erin eloquently wrote in her reviewI Watched Lesbian Classic ‘Elena Undone’ and I’m Sorry What, “rather than grade it to be a “good” or “bad” or “really not very good” or “garbagio” movie, I will simply ask a neutral question, which is: I’m sorry what.” The wife of a pastor embarks on an affair with a writer.

This heartwarming film about a group of gay friends looking for love and sex and community on Fire Island isn’t a lesbian movie, but it’s so hilarious and heartwarming and fantastic that any queer person who believes in queer community would enjoy it. Plus,Margaret Cho gives a delightful performance as “career brunch server, age unknown, lesbian scam queen” Erin. “I loved Fire Island because it was real. It’s real to be erased and undesirable in white queer spaces as a fat person of color,” wrote Carmen in her review. “It’s real to be gay and thirst after Christine Baranski or laugh until your sides hurt over Marissa Tomei. It’s real to want to escape for seven days and never once see a straight person.”

This “imperfect movie about bad mothers and worse lovers” stars Emma Mackey as Sofia, an anthropology student who accompanies her mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) to the Spanish coast in search of a cure for Rose’s mysterious illness.

“…my favorite works of queer horror aren’t so easily bound by genre descriptions,” wrote Kayla of this time-looping lesbian erotic thriller, “and Jagged Mind views to me much like a haunted house story — without the actual haunted house. The haunted house, instead, is a relationship.”

Hannah (Olivia Colman) is making a film about her politically active Dad (John Lithgow), who she visits in Amsterdam with her nonbinary child, Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde), who wants to move to Amsterdam full-time for its queer community. The story is based on director Sophie Hyde’s life andDrew writes that, “Ultimately, I wish Hyde had either committed to this film being her story or taken the risk to remove herself entirely. Instead, the film is in conflict with itself. ”

A raucous, heartfelt raunch-com starring Ashley Park as Audrey, a lawyer on a business trip to China who’s brought along her slacker best friend Lolo (queer actor Sherry Cola) and Lolo’s weirdo queer cousin Deadeye (queer / nonbinary actor Sabrina Wu). Once there, she reunites with estranged friend Kat (queer actor Stephanie Hsu), a Chinese soap opera actress, and together the foursome end up on a wild sidequest to meet Audrey’s birth mother which, of course, results in self-discovery for them all. Deadeye’s queerness is barely mentioned, let alone centered, but the movie is still just such a damn good time.

This is one of those formative lesbian films that holds a special place in every millennial’s heart, despite its problematic elements. Annabelle is sent to a Catholic girl’s boarding school after being expelled from the two schools before that — and once there, she falls for her teacher, Simone.

Dylan, a construction worker in his early twenties tasked with caretaking for his little brother and alcoholic mother, gets a job at a queer ranch where he metes and falls for Sky (Eve Lindley), a trans woman. “Rather than dismiss Sky as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, I’ll speak more bluntly,” wrote Drew in her review, which noted the film had many strengths and weaknesses, “She’s an empty vessel of a character who exists only for Dylan’s growth and projections.”

Tina Romero directs this very gay horror film that sees drag queens, club kids and frenemies forced to band together to fight a sudden zombie apocalypse. The cast includes Margaret Cho, Katy O’Brian, Eve Lindley, Dominique Jackson and Jack Haven.

As Nicole Conn movies go, this one is on the more bearable end —a rich, blonde, middle-aged wife in an unhappy marriage confides in her lesbian friends that she’s never had an orgasm and she rarely has sex with her husband, so they hire a high-class escort (Jessica Clark) to show her the ropes of herself.

“In Prom Dates, best friends Jess and Hannah (played by Antonia Gentry and Julia Lester respectively) hope to fulfill the pact they made when they were 13 to have the best prom ever. But now, it’s the day before, and both girls find themselves without dates. Determined to get things back on track, Jess and Hannah set out to find new dates, Hannah comes out to Jess as a lesbian, and chaos ensues. Prom Datesis not a bad movie, but it’s also not a good movie.” — Sai, Hulu’s Prom Dates Tries to be Superbad for Queer Girls

All Fun and Games (2023)
A horror movie about a group of teens in Salem who find a cursed knife from the 17th century that turns children’s games into horrorshows. Laurel Marsden is Sophie, a lesbian on her way to Smith College and the best friend of Billie, one of two protagonists.

The Drop (2023)
Set at a lesbian destination wedding, this comedy is focused on a straight couple who arrives and immediately drops a baby.Read Kayla’s review of “The Drop.”

Fresh (2022)
This horror movie finds a girl on an endless bad date with a seemingly perfect man who turns out to be a cannibal. Her bisexual best friend bi best friend Mollie (played by Jojo T. Gibbs of Twenties!) ends up having to save her ass.Read Kayla’s review of Fresh.

Mack & Rita (2022)
A comedy that wastes a lot of talented actors in which twentysomething Mack Martin, who feels like an old lady on the inside, becomes one (Diane Keaton) through an age-regression pod, while visiting Palm Springs with her lesbian best friend Carla (Taylour Paige).

Never Change! (2026)
The class of 2008 is forced to return to high school for another semester after a new law passes that makes their tornado-interrupted senior year insufficient. Amongst them is a lesbian cook played by Roberta Colindrez — she’s not a main character, but she makes hte most of every moment she’s given.

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
This biopic telling the story of Billie Holiday is “heavy on trauma and light on queerness,” going so far as to include a kiss between Billie and Tallulah Bankhead (Natasha Lyonne) in the trailer that was cut from the film! Read our review of The United States vs. Billie Holiday.

Whitney: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (2022)
“Whitney and Robyn moments are sprinkled throughout the film,” writes Amari, “with brief portrayals of Robyn cheering on Whitney’s televised performances from home, acting as her creative director on the sidelines, and begging Whitney to leave Bobby Brown, but they are passing moments — and they certainly do not capture the confirmed emotionally intimate nor romantic elements of their relationship.”

So there you have it, all the lesbian movies on Hulu that we could find! And we searched high and low! Which are you most excited to dust off and revisit, or watch for the first time?

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