From left: Dirve Away Dolls, But I'm a Cheerleader, and Someone Great.
Focus Features; Ignite; Netflix
When people think of lesbian films, they often picture sad, melancholy tearjerkers like Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Ammonite, or Blue is the Warmest Color, but lesbian movies can be funny too!
Yes, there are some great lesbian dramas out there about coming out, tragic breakups, and society keeping people apart, but there are also hilariously delightful raunchy teen comedies, rom-coms, and laugh-out-loud dramedies about queer women that will have you laughing until your sides hurt.
So forget all of the stereotypes you’ve ever heard about lesbian movies because these comedies prove that straight people and gay men don’t have a monopoly on being funny!
Drive Away Dolls
Focus Features
Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star alongside Colman Domingo, Beanie Feldstein, and Pedro Pascal in Drive Away Dolls, about two lesbian best friends who cross paths with inept criminals while on an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee, Fla. Ethan Cohen’s comedy caper features gay girlies behaving badly, getting sexy, and having the best time, and you will too when you watch this movie!
Where to watch: Prime Video & Peacock
Read PRIDE's review of Drive Away Dolls.
Booksmart
Annapurna Pictures
Booksmart is funny, clever, and fronted by Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever, who plays a lesbian teen. This female take on a teen sex comedy like Superbad feels smart, fresh and features a cute queer love story.
Where to watch: Rent on Prime Video
Read PRIDE's review of Booksmart.
Bottoms
ORION Pictures Inc.
Bottoms is a raunchy teen comedy about lesbians — finally! Queer actress Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott star in this high school comedy about two high school senior girls who start a fight club as a way to hook up with cheerleaders.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Saving Face
Alamy
Saving Face is one of the very few lesbian comedies made by and for queer women of color. This delightful and emotional rom-com is about a Chinese-American lesbian who is afraid to come out to her traditional mother, who she just found out is pregnant.
Where to watch: Fubo or rent on Prime video
But I’m a Cheerleader
Ignite
But I’m a Cheerleader is a cult classic for a reason. Honorary lesbian Natasha Lyonne stars in this campy queer movie about a naive teen girl whose parents send her to a gay conversion camp. Worried it won’t live up to the hype after all of these years? Don’t fret, it absolutely will!
Where to watch: tubi
Suicide Kale
Dark, funny, and whip smart, this comedy about queer women of color follows Jasmine and Penn, a lesbian couple who unexpectedly find a hidden suicide note in the home of their friends Billie and Jordan.
Where to watch: Rent on Prime Video
Appropriate Behavior
Gravitas Ventures
This funny, quirky indie about a Persian bisexual Brooklynite stars Desiree Akhavan who also directed and co-wrote it. It’s hilarious, full of inside queer jokes, and features the kind of messy characters we love to see on screen.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Someone Great
Netflix
This 2019 film about a lesbian trying to move on after breakup is the kind of drunken, stoned, ridiculous comedy that usually only stars men, but this time it’s young women drunkenly dancing to Top 40 hits!
Where to watch: Netflix
Wine Country
Netflix
Wine Country features your fave female comedians — queer star Paula Pell, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, and Tina Fey — and is about a group of middle-aged girlfriends getting together for a wine-soaked birthday trip that goes hilariously awry.
Where to watch: Netflix
Hearts Beat Loud
Gunpowder & Sky
Hearts Beat Loud stars Kiersey Clemons and Nick Offerman as a father and daughter who form an unlikely songwriting duo the summer before she leaves for college, but the real reason to watch is to see two young Black lesbians fall in love on screen.
Where to watch: Tubi and Prime Video
Blockers
Universal Pictures
This genuinely hilarious comedy primarily focuses on the parents of three high school seniors — Julie (Kathryn Newton), Kayla (Geraldine Viswanathan), and Sam (Gideon Adlon) — who have made a pact to lose their virginities on prom night. Sam, a closeted lesbian, begins coming to terms with her identity as the night goes on.
Where to watch: Prime Video
The Wedding Banquet
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Kelly Marie Tran and Lily Gladstone play a couple trying to start a family with the help of their gay friends in this charming and hilarious film. Things get complicated when they’re roped into a green card marriage and a full traditional Korean wedding.
Where to watch: Paramount+
Everything Everywhere All At Once
A24
This movie is the most accurately named film ever. It truly is everything. It will make you howl with laughter one minute and weep the next, and at its heart is a lesbian storyline that will both break and mend your heart.
Where to watch: Rent on Prime Video
