55 best lesbian films & TV shows you can watch on Netflix now

We can't get enough of these sapphic stories!

In the mood for a binge-watch but stuck in an abyss of endless scrolling, too overwhelmed by the options to just pick something, anything? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!

We’ve all been there, but there is an escape. If you’re in the mood to watch some queer ladies living, laughing, and loving this is the list for you.

From queer-inclusive rom-coms and epic romances, to steamy interludes and even some coming-of-age period drama, these are the must-binge series and movies about queer women you can watch on Netflix right now.

All film and series descriptions are courtesy of Netflix.

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Yellowjackets

A highschool girls soccer team gets stranded following a plane crash. What happens next? Cannibalism, cults, and lesbianism, of course. But seriously, this show is one the best currently airing, full of twists, and sick humor. And the cast? To die for.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

This animated series is gay, gay, gay and the slow-burn romance between its hero She-ra and its villainess Catra is absolutely purr-fect.

Heartstopper

While Nick and Charlie may get most of the attention, one of the sweetest and most related stories in this coming-of-age series is the stuff baby dyke dreams are made of.

Teenage Bounty Hunters

Rebelling against their buttoned-up Southern community, sixteen-year-old fraternal twin sisters Sterling (Maddie Phillips) and Blair (Anjelica Bette Fellini) Wesley team up with veteran bounty hunter Bowser Jenkins (Kadeem Hardison) for an over-the-top adventure as they dive into the world of bail skipping baddies and suburban secrets while trying to navigate high school drama -- love, sex, and study hall.

Ride or Die

Thelma and Louse but make it actually gay!

Wynonna Earp

Wynonna Earp, the outcast descendant of lawman Wyatt Earp teams up with an immortal Doc Holliday to rid the world of demonic revenants from the Wild West. Her sister and the town's sheriff gave viewers the beloved queer couple, Wayhaught.

Heartbreak High

Amerie, played by queer actor Ayesha Madon, can't wait for the new school year, but her loud mouth is about to throw all of Hartley High - and herself - into absolute chaos.

Everything Now

When 16-year old Mia returns home after a lengthy recovery from an eating disorder, she is thrust back into the chaotic world of sixth form only to find that her friends have moved on with teen life without her. Along with an ever-evolving bucket list, three best mates and a major new crush, Mia throws herself headfirst into a world of dating, parties and first kisses, soon discovering that not everything in life can be planned for.

The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love

Randy cuts class to run her aunt's gas station. Evie's the popular girl at school. When the two meet, they discover love, trouble - and themselves in this indie classic from director Maria Maggenti.

Survival of the Thickest

Survival of the Thickest centers on Mavis Beaumont (Michelle Buteau). Black, plus-size and newly single (not by her choice!), Mavis unexpectedly finds herself having to rebuild her life as a struggling stylist. She’s determined to not only survive but thrive with the support of her chosen family, a body positive attitude, and a cute v-neck with some lip gloss. The scripted comedy is based on Buteau’s acclaimed book of essays.

Killing Eve

Eve's stuck in a boring desk job at MI5 when she's tasked with capturing a glamorous, ruthless killer in a case that becomes a twisty psychological game. Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, and Fiona Shaw star in the addicting thriller.

XO, Kitty

Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she'll soon realize that relationships are a lot more complicated when it’s your own heart on the line.

Loving Annabelle

An esteemed young poetry teacher at a Catholic boarding school risks everything when she engages in a feverish affair with a female student.

Carol

Set in 1950s New York, two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in the throes of love in Carol. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. Out screenwriter Phyllis Nagy wrote the screenplay based on Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt. Todd Haynes directs the cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, and Kyle Chandler.

The Half of It

Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help winning over a popular girl. But their new and unlikely friendship gets complicated when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.

Anne+: The Film

Preparing to move to Montreal, a queer woman in Amsterdam opens herself up to new possibilities when she finds her life going in a different direction.

Disenchantment

Princess Tiabeanie, 'Bean', is annoyed at her imminent arranged marriage to Prince Merkimer. Then she meets Luci, a demon, and Elfo, an elf, and things get rather exciting, and dangerous.

Duck Butter

Two women, who are dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating and relationships, decide to make a pact to spend 24 hours together hoping to find a new way to create intimacy in this film costarring and cowritten by queer Search Party star Alia Shawkat. Laia Costa costars.

Elisa & Marcela

1885. Elisa and Marcela meet at the school where they both work. What begins as a close friendship ends in a romantic relationship that they must keep secret. Marcela’s parents are suspicious and send her abroad for a couple of years. When she returns, the reunion with Elisa is magical and they decide to share a life together. Now the focus of social pressure and gossip, they decide to map out a plan. Elisa will leave town for a time in order to come back disguised as Mario and be able to marry Marcela. But nothing will be that easy for this forbidden love.

Sex Education

Insecure Otis has all the answers when it comes to sex advice, thanks to his therapist mother. So rebel Maeve proposes a school sex-therapy clinic.

The Ultimatum: Queer Love

In The Ultimatum: Queer Love, five new couples, made up of women and non-binary people, are at a crossroads in their relationship. One partner is ready for marriage, the other may have doubts. An ultimatum is issued. And in just over eight weeks, each couple will either get married, or get out, after they each choose new potential partners in a life-changing opportunity to get a glimpse of two different futures.

I Am Not Ok With This

I Am Not Okay With This is an irreverent origin story that follows a teenage girl who's navigating the trials and tribulations of high school, all while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.

Trinkets

When three teenage girls find themselves in the same mandated Shoplifters Anonymous meeting, an unlikely friendship forms between grieving misfit Elodie (Brianna Hildebrand), mysterious outsider Moe (Kiana Madeira), and Tabitha (Quintessa Swindell), an imperfect picture of perfection in Trinkets. They will find strength in each other as they negotiate the complicated dilemma of trying to fit in while longing to break out.

One Day At A Time

A reimagining of the Norman Lear classic, centering on a Cuban-American family. Our heroine is a recently separated, former military mom (Justina Machado) navigating a new single life while raising her radical, queer teenaged daughter and socially adept tween son, with the “help” of her old school Cuban-born mom (Rita Moreno) and a friends- without-benefits building manager named Schneider.

Everything Sucks!

A quirky, funny coming of age story that follows two groups of high school misfits, Everything Sucks! follows an A/V club and a Drama club that collide in 1996 Oregon. The series stars Peyton Kennedy (American Fable, The Captive) and Jahi Winston (The New Edition Story) as students Kate Messner and Luke O’Neil, with Patch Darragh (Sully, Boardwalk Empire) and Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako (Grimm) as their respective parents. The series also features Sydney Sweeney (The White Lotus, Euphoria), Elijah Stevenson, Quinn Liebling, and Rio Mangini.

She’s Gotta Have It

A seriously sexy comedy and rousing celebration of female empowerment, She’s Gotta Have It Season 2 offers a timely and topical portrait of rising talents, with free-spirited artist Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise) at the center. Struggling with newfound success this season, against a backdrop of black art and culture, Nola must decide if she will remain true to her creative ideals or give in to the corporate world. Her journey of self-discovery helps transform the lives of those around her, including friend and sometimes lover Mars Blackmon (Anthony Ramos), who sets out to pursue his true passion of music as well as her inner circle of Opal (Ilfenesh Hadera), Greer Childs (Cleo Anthony), Jamie Overstreet (Lyriq Bent), Clorinda Bradford (Margot Bingham), Shemekka Epps (Chyna Layne) and Winnie Win (Fat Joe). Their journey expands to new destinations this season beyond their home base of Fort Greene, the vibrant Brooklyn enclave, that continues to evolve and change as gentrification remakes the neighborhood

The Perfection

The Perfection is an elegant and terrifying and very queer suspense ride filled with unexpected twists and turns. When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte (Allison Williams) seeks out Elizabeth (Logan Browning), the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.

Heart Shot

High school seniors Nikki and Samantha are in love and planning their future — until Nikki's violent past comes back to threaten everything she holds dear.

Master of None (Season 3)

[Season 3] chronicles the relationship of Denise (Lena Waithe) and her partner Alicia (Naomi Ackie). This new season is a modern love story that intimately illustrates the ups and downs of marriage, struggles with fertility, and personal growth both together and apart. Fleeting romantic highs meet crushing personal losses while existential questions of love and living are raised.

Warrior Nun

Ava and the Sister-Warriors of the OCS must find a way to defeat the angel, Adriel, as he attempts to build his following into the dominant religion on the planet in Warrior Nun.

Ginny & Georgia

Free-spirited Georgia and her two kids, Ginny and Austin, move north in search of a fresh start but find that the road to new beginnings can be bumpy.

Atypical

Atypical is a coming-of-age story that follows Sam (played by Keir Gilchrist), a 19-year-old on the autism spectrum as he searches for love and independence. While Sam is on his funny and emotional journey of self-discovery, the rest of his family must grapple with change in their own lives as they all struggle with the ongoing central theme of the series: what does it really mean to be normal? Nonbinary actor Brigette Lundy-Paine plays Sam's queer sibling whose girlfriend is played by Fivel Stewart.

Orange is the New Black

Orange is the New Black is the outrageous and critically acclaimed and queer series from Emmy Award-winner Jenji Kohan about a diverse group of inmates serving time in a women's prison.

Mindhunter

In the late 1970s two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters. Out Tony Award-winner Jonathan Groff stars.

Never Have I Ever

Never Have I Ever is a coming-of-age comedy about the complicated life of a modern-day first-generation Indian American teenage girl. The series stars Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi, an overachieving high school student who has a short fuse that gets her into difficult situations. Lee Rodriguez plays Devi's queer best friend, Fabiola, while Ramona Young's Eleanor completes the friendship triangle.

Ratched

From Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, Ratched is a suspenseful drama series that tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched. In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning and as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred’s stylish exterior belies a growing darkness that has long been smoldering within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born. Queer star Sarah Paulson plays Mildred while Cynthia Nixon plays her love interest, Gwendoline.

First Kill

When it's time for First Kill's teenage vampire Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) to make her first kill so she can take her place among a powerful vampire family, she sets her sights on a new girl in town named Calliope (Imani Lewis). But much to Juliette's surprise, Calliope is a vampire hunter from a family of celebrated slayers. Both find that the other won't be so easy to kill and, unfortunately, way too easy to fall for.

The Haunting of Bly Manor

From The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy comes The Haunting of Bly Manor, the next highly anticipated chapter of The Haunting anthology series, set in 1980s England. After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) hires a young American nanny (Victoria Pedretti) to care for his orphaned niece and nephew (Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen (Rahul Kohli), groundskeeper Jamie (Amelia Eve) and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose (T’Nia Miller). But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling gothic romance. At Bly Manor, dead doesn’t mean gone.

The Fear Street Trilogy

A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside. Amid all of Fear Street's horror, there's true queer love.

I Care a Lot

With shark-like self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It’s a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest “cherry,” Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) — a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play — one that’s neither fair, nor square.

Feel Good

Stand-up comic Mae Martin navigates a passionate, messy new relationship with her girlfriend, George, while dealing with the challenges of sobriety in Feel Good.

Do Revenge

Part Alfred Hitchcock and part Patricia Highsmith thriller in the campy Do Revenge, Drea (Camila Mendes) is at the peak of her high school powers as the Alpha it-girl on campus when her entire life goes up in flames after her sex tape gets leaked to the whole school, seemingly by her boyfriend and king of the school, Max (Austin Abrams). Eleanor (Maya Hawke) is an awkward new transfer student who is angered to find out that she now has to go to school with her old bully, Carissa (Ava Capri) who started a nasty rumor about her in summer camp when they were 13. After a clandestine run-in at tennis camp, Drea and Eleanor form an unlikely and secret friendship to get revenge on each other’s tormentors.

Bridgerton

Ok, we know what you're thinking right now: "There are lesbians on Bridgerton?" And the answer is no, well, yes. Lesbians are coming — and since it's Bridgerton cumming — next season. So now is the time to get caught up so you'll be ready to Sapphic spiral with the rest of us, when Francesca Bridgerton and Michaela Stirling's romance arrives!

The Imperfects

This coming-of-age story about three young adults pursuing the mad scientist who monkeyed with their DNA, which triggered super powers, may have only had one season before being unceremoniously canceled, but it's worth checking out for the fun plot and Hannah, a lesbian character who was experimented on and ends up having complicated feelings for Abbi.

Nyad

Nyad tells the remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.

The Hunting Wives

Based on the bestselling novel by May Cobb, The Hunting Wives follows a woman as she and her family move from Boston to Texas. There, she grows close to a socialite — maybe too close — and becomes consumed by obsession, seduction, and murder.

Wayward

Nothing is what it seems in Tall Pines. After an escape attempt from an academy for “troubled teens", two students join forces with a newly local police officer, unearthing the town's dark and deeply rooted secrets.

Cable Girls

The series is set to begin in Madrid during 1928. The national telephone company opens its headquarters in the city centre and hundreds of girls queue up to get a job as a “cable girl” in the only place that represents progress and modernity for women at the time. Four girls, coming from very different backgrounds, will start work as operators. From that day on, jealousy, envy and betrayal will get mixed up with the hunger for success, friendship and love.

Long Story Short

Long Story Short is an animated comedy from the creator of BoJack Horseman about one family, over time. Jumping through the years, we follow the Schwooper siblings from childhood to adulthood and back again, chronicling their triumphs, disappointments, joys, and compromises.

Umjolo: There is No Cure

After a scandal rocks her world, a former pageant queen writes a tell-all book, setting the story straight and finding love hidden between the pages.

Gypsy

Gypsy is a ten-part psychological thriller that follows Jean Holloway (Naomi Watts), a Manhattan therapist with a seemingly picturesque life who begins to develop intimate and illicit relationships with the people in her patients' lives. As the borders of Jean's professional life and personal fantasies become blurred, she descends into a world where the forces of desire and reality are disastrously at odds.

Dating Around

Every episode, one single goes on five first dates filled with flirty banter, awkward exchanges and moments of true connection. Who will get a second date? Netflix's first original dating show takes an honest and compelling look at the real world of dating.

The Most Beautiful Flower

Curvy, curly, confident Mich knows she's fabulous. Now she just has to convince everyone else at her Xochimilco high school to believe it too.

Reverse 4 You

One sister foretells the future, and the other controls time. When a promised love seeps doomed to tragedy, the pair sets out to change fate Itself.

On Swift Horses

When her free-wheeling brother-in-law returns from war and drifts to Vegas, newlywed Muriel seeks freedom at the racetrack — and in a forbidden romance.