List of media SF with dykes
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- "Aliens" (second "Alien" film; a female character is coded as butch)
- "Antonia's Line" (magical realism; lesbians)
- "Born in Flames" (1983, USA) - Lizzie Borden, director. 16mm, 90mm. Stars Kathryn Bigelow & Jean Satterfield.
- "Contact" (1997, USA) - Robert Zemeckis, director. (Not at all lesbian, but it stars Jodie Foster, who is not quite believable as a straight girl in this film ...)
- "Flaming Ears" ("Rote Ohren Fetzen Durch Asche") (1992, Austria) - Angela Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek, and Ursula Purrer, directors. Super8 / 16mm. 84 minutes.
- "Fresh Kill" (1994)
- "The Hunger" (1983) - classic lesbian vampire film ... David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon
- "Liquid Sky" (1983, USA) - Slava Tsukerman, director. Starring Anne Carlisle, Paula Sheppard. 112 minutes, 35mm.
- "Ma View En Rose" ("My Life in Pink") (1998, France) (really a transgender little boy, but there is a little baby-dyke; this is a bit magical realist)
- "Odds and Ends (A New-Age Amazon Fable" (1993, USA) -Michelle Parkerson, director. African-American lesbian sf drama. 28 mins, video.
- "The Sticky Fingers of Time" (1997) - Hilary Brougher, director. USA. 35mm, 81-90 min. Starring Terumi Matthews & Nicole Saray.
- "Switch" (reincarnation of a man in a woman's body)
- "Tank Girl" with Lori Petty and Naomi Watts (lesbian tension & arguable bisexuality)
- "When Night is Falling" (small magical elements but very queer and wealth worth seeing)
- "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (Tom Robbins' works generally have fantastic elements)
- "Fire"
- "Fried Green Tomatoes" (very minor fantastic elements)
- lesbian vampire films
TV series
- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - various episodes with Willow & Tara
- "Millennium" episode "In Arcadia Ego" - lesbian couple escaping from prison; one of them may be pregnant supernaturally
- "Dark Angel" - lesbian character original Cindy
other suggestions
- "Alien Prey" (1984)
- "Class of Nuke 'Em High IV" (1999) - (Supposedly this film is filled with man-hating dykes.)
- "Daughters of Darkness" (lesbian horror classic)
- "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981, USA) - Joel Schumacher, director. Starring Lily Tomlin & Ned Beatty. 89 minutes, 35 mm. (it's Lily Tomlin...)
- "Kiosk" (1993) - according to the IMDb, murderous former Nazis, hookers & detectives from Pluto, and lesbian orgies lead to the discovery of the meaning of life ...
Further reading
- Weiss, Andrea. Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film. Penguin, 1993.