Break Up/ Goodbye Stories

Breaking up or saying goodbye is hard. These foreign films give you all the feels from that moment.

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  • The Throwaways

    2 seasons

    When newly out teen Olivia loses her family, her home, and her future in one fell swoop, she's taken in by a resilient group of lesbian misfits. Things can only get better. Right?
    LGBTQ+ kids are still being bullied, harassed, and thrown out of their homes because of their sexuality. The Throwawa...

  • Rumors
    1 season

    Rumors

    1 season

    A young woman recounts the devastating experience of relationships destroyed, reputation tainted, and career halted - all due to rumors spread by a "friend".

  • Rent Controlled

    1 season

    When the love of her life breaks up with her the day after they move in together, Heather (Heather Dean) has to decide if she should move on, move out, or put on the moves that would win back Jennifer's (Remy Maelen) heart.

  • The Flannel Channel

    1 season

    College student Jordan (Kaytra Parkman) is hopelessly, helplessly in love with her best friend Ashley (Megan DeHart). What’s a useless lesbian to do? Find out in this clever comedy.

  • #Hashtag

    2 seasons

    (Season 1 FREE) #HASHTAG follows the love lives of two technology-obsessed best friends in Chicago. From Instagram seduction to inappropriate selfies, Twitter oversharing to OKCupid dating, Liv and Skylar are about to learn the real-life consequences of over-indulgence in the virtual world.

  • Tell It To the Bees

    Movie

    Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the ...

  • Snapshots

    Movie

    When a grandmother's secret past collides with her granddaughter's secret future and her daughter's angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit? With a simple roll of film it begins. (dir. Melanie Mayron, US, 2018)

  • Over Easy

    Movie

    A college professor surprises her partner with a weekend trip in a final attempt to reconnect and salvage their struggling relationship. Over this getaway, old wounds resurface, communication breaks down and blooms anew, and both women confront whether their love is worth rewriting or letting go....

  • Moonlit Winter

    Movie

    Soon after her divorce, Yun-hee receives a letter and recalls a memory of her first love, a Japanese lady of her age. Her daughter Sae-bom comes up with a secret plan to find the sender thinking it might help Yun-hee to overcome her post-divorce depression. After Saebom’s repeated asking, Yun-hee...

  • You Can Live Forever

    Movie

    1992 — Jaime, 17 years old and growing up in Thunder Bay, loves sci-fi, The Cure, and getting high. And unbeknownst to anyone around her, she's gay. When her father dies and her mother suffers a breakdown, she's sent to the Saguenay region to live with her aunt and uncle, both members of the town...

  • Ma Belle, My Beauty

    Movie

    Ma Belle, My Beauty explores the intimate re-encounter between two former lovers of a polyamorous triad. Bertie, an esteemed New Orleans vocalist, has recently married French trumpet player, Fred, and moved with him to Southern France, where, to Fred's distress, she's since been uninspired and re...

  • Love Rewind

    Movie

    Penny and Althea promised to be together forever, despite opposition from family, society, and the law. Seventeen years later, Australia is voting on same-sex marriage, but their relationship is strained. Penny wants to revive their love, but when althea suffers a stroke and her hidden affair is ...

  • My Brother's War

    Movie

    On the day of her engagement, Grace Kieler finds her family and fiancé divided on political matters. With her future husband off to join the Union army and her brother vowing loyalty to the Confederates, she is torn. She promises her father that she will protect and care for her brother. Upon he...

  • Love Is A Map

    Movie

    Annie and Mary were in love in college but ultimately went separate ways. They spend a weekend rekindling when Mary asks Annie to help spread her husband's ashes in the Catskill Mountains. (dir. Ryan Balas, US, 2022)

  • Idle Thoughts

    Movie

    When a demanding lover inspires her to write, an idle woman must fake the relationship in order to complete her new book. (dir. Andrew Willig, Canada, 2018)
    Best suited for viewers who enjoy scrappy, character-driven lesbian indies, rather than polished, feel-good romances.

  • A Sweetest Kiss

    Movie

    In the mid-20th century, a lesbian estranged from her family struggles to get them back by falsely adopting the faith of a Christian household where she takes shelter, but finds herself infatuated with their daughter. (dir. Nguyen Nguyen, 2018, US)

  • A Place We Go To

    Movie

    Set in the middle of a breathtaking South Dakota landscape, a love affair between Dong and Laurin, two women of different backgrounds buds, flowers, and fades. (dir. Jenny Wang, US, 2018)

  • Stagger (English Subtitles)

    During a heated argument with her younger lover over a sudden departure, Olive falls into the memories that originally drew them together.

  • Queen Emma (English Subtitles)

    Paris, nowadays. Single, waitress, 24, kind Emma is often bullied by her entourage. She only finds confidence in herself when she is with her imaginary friend, Queen Margrethe of Denmark. Emma’s life changes when one day, she finds a crown…

  • For One Night

    When she discovers that Diana cheated on her, Caterina decides to end their relationship. Saying goodbye will be harder than expected.

    Lesbian / LGBTQ+ / Queer Short Film

  • The Night That Holds You (English Subtitles)

    A young woman is obsessed by memories of her vanished lover.

    Lesbian / LGBTQ+ / Queer Short Film

  • We're Not Who We Used To Be Anymore (English Subtitles)

    A Portuguese Film - Two women face their breakup head-on as they pack up the apartment they once shared.

  • Body Milk

    After many attempts to save their relationship and as a last chance, Ágata surprises Teresa by inviting her on a special date. A massage room. Ágata and Teresa will have fun as Svetlana and Gemma, two characters invented very contrary to their respective personalities. The erotic game they had pl...

  • In the Bedroom (Au Bord Du Lit)

    A couple separates...
    This is the suspended moment, frozen in the night, when the breakup is at stake.

    Lesbian / LGBTQ+ / Queer Short Film