Lesbian Visibility Week: 9 films about queer women that changed the world

Laura Harring and Melissa George in Mulholland Drive (Image: Le Studio Canal+) 1) Carol

Nominated for six Oscars and recouping its $11.8m budget four times over, moody romance Carol felt like a cultural awakening at the time of its release. Arriving to great fanfare in the festive season of 2015 (we’ll take this over Die Hard as a Christmas movie, thanks), it proved a feverish talking point reminiscent of Brokeback Mountain a decade before.

Cate Blanchett is reliably polished as the titular character: an impossibly elegant high society lady in 1950s New York, who embarks on a secret affair with the younger Therese, an aspiring photographer played Rooney Mara. The passion is swooning and the stakes are high, but the film operates in a surprisingly gentle key for an

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