A twenty-something African American lesbian struggles to make a documentary film about an elusive actress known as the "Watermelon Woman."

When love grows between two long-time Kenyan female friends from families with different political views, they form a romantic relationship and must decide between their happiness or safety in their own country.

Holden thinks Alyssa is the woman of his dreams but she has someone a little different in mind--another woman. They share the kind of relationship they've been looking for all along and discover the confusing ups and downs of love, sex and friendship in the '90s.

In the early eighteenth century, two noble women compete with each other for the position of Queen Anne's intimate companion and confidante.

In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds...