Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minute, hippie wonder consisting of frolicking naked women in the countryside, broke new ground for its exploration of lesbian identity, desire and aesthetic.

I Can't Think Straight
2008
7.5/10

A Perfect Ending
2012
6.2/10

Camp Belvidere
2014
6.6/10

Elena Undone
2010
6.9/10

The World Unseen
2007
7.1/10

Big Stone Gap
2014
5.9/10

The Watermelon Woman
1997
6.8/10

Chasing Papi
2003
6.7/10

Iron Jawed Angels
2004
6.8/10

Appropriate Behavior
2015
6.2/10

Walking and Talking
1996
6.1/10

Broken English
2007
5.9/10

Love & Sex
2000
6.1/10

Am I OK?
2024
6.3/10

All Over Me
1997
5.9/10

Lucky Them
2013
6.0/10

Bessie
2015
6.3/10

The Truth About Emanuel
2013
6.0/10

Bloomington
2010
6.5/10

When Night Is Falling
1995
6.3/10
The End of the Rainbow
1979
4.5/10