Fragrance of the First Flower (Di Yi Ci Yu Jian Hua Xiang Di Na Ke 第一次遇見花香的那刻)
Year: 2021
Plot
Yi Ming lives alone with her son, as her husband works away from home. She meets Ting Ting at a wedding, a girl she once had some history with back in high school. Back in the days, Yi Ming denied their relationship out of fear of living as a lesbian woman, but meeting Ting Ting again reignites something in her, a possibility to escape her dull married life.
Cast: Zaizai Lin & Lyan Cheng
Ratings: 7.4/10
OP Note: There is a second season of this show and it is on Netflix
When it rains, it pours (Futtara Doshaburi ふったらどしゃぶり)
Year: 2025
Plot
Kazuaki Hagiwara lives a life without intimacy with his girlfriend, and one day mistakenly sends an email to his coworker Sei Nakarai. What begins as a simple message quickly develops into an open and freeing connection between two people who desire love and sex.
Cast: Asahi Ito & Jun Muto
Ratings: 8.1/10
TW: Domestic and Sexual Violence
My Beautiful Laundrette
Year:1985
Plot
In a seedy corner of London, Omar, a young Pakistani, is given a run-down laundromat by his uncle (Saeed Jaffrey), who hopes to turn it into a successful business. Soon after, Omar is attacked by a group of racist punks, but defuses the situation when he realizes their leader is his former lover, Johnny. The men resume their relationship and rehabilitate the laundromat together, but various social forces threaten to compromise their success
Cast: Gordon Warnecke & Daniel Day-Lewis
Ratings: 6.8/10
Life Is Beautiful (Insaengeun Areumdawo 인생은 아름다워)
Year: 2010
(couldn’t find a trailer, so watch this instead)
Plot
Set in Jeju, the drama revolves around a loving, multi-generation family led by the parents, Yang Byung Tae and Kim Min Jae, and their four children Tae Sub, Ji Hye, Ho Sup, and Cho Rong, as well as assorted grandparents and uncles. The story follows the family’s everyday lives and conflicts, including oldest daughter Ji Hye’s marital problems with her husband Soo Il; younger son Ho Sup’s pursuit of his mother’s assistant, Yeon Joo; and oldest son Tae Sup’s romantic pairing with divorced professor Kyung Soo, whose homosexual relationship their families react to while addressing issues of personal, social, and familial acceptance, leading to, finally, love and understanding.
Cast: Song Chang Eui & Lee Sang Woo
Ratings: 7.8/10
OP Note: A must watch. You can find it on specialist streaming platforms like TVTime.
Will & Harper
Plot
Will Ferrell and his close friend, former head writer at SNL, Harper Steele embark on a cross-country road trip together after Harper comes out as a trans woman.
Cast: Will Ferrell & Harper Steele
Reviews: 7.4/10
OP Note: You can watch this on Netflix
Forbidden Love The Unashamed Stories Of Lesbian Lives
Year: 1992
Plot
This feature documentary delves into the rich history of Canadian queer women’s experiences in the mid-20th century. Compelling, often hilarious and always rebellious, the women interviewed in this film recount stories about their search for the places where openly gay women gathered in urban centres. Contemporary interviews, archival footage, and a stylized fictional narrative based on the pulp novels of the 1950s are woven throughout this simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and empowering film. Forbidden Love brings an important and empowering history of lesbian sexuality in Canada out of the closet.
Cast: Stephanie Morgenstern, Lynne Adams, Marie-Jo Thério, George Thomas, Lory Wainberg, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Michael Copeland, Keely Moll, Ann Bannon, Stephanie Ozard, Reva Hutkin, Lois M. Stuart, Nairobi, Jeanne Healy, Carol Ritchie-MacKintosh, Amanda White & Ruth Christine
Ratings: 7.3/10
I think this is my first ever post here. Decided to stop being lazy and put something together. Pride for my city is this Saturday. Hope I can afford to at least have a coffee with a few friends.
