Carol(2015)

Combined Rating:
94
Combined Critics Rating: 94

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.



American Beauty(1999)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.



Blue Is the Warmest Colour(2013)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 87

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.



Mulholland Dr.(2001)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 83

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.



Blue Valentine(2010)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.



Under the Skin(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.



And Your Mother Too(2001)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 83

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.



The Handmaiden(2016)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.



Shame(2011)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A man's carefully cultivated private life is disrupted when his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.



Vicky Cristina Barcelona(2008)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.



The Beguiled(2017)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 85

The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.



The English Patient(1996)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 77

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.



The Diary of a Teenage Girl(2015)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.



Eyes Wide Shut(1999)

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Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.



Nymphomaniac: Vol. I(2013)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.



The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



The Virgin Suicides(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid-1970s.



The Dreamers(2003)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.



The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



Unfaithful(2002)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.




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