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Morocco (1930)
In her debut film Marlene Dietrich wearing an ambiguous men's tuxedo
with top hat as a singer in a Moroccan cabaret. While exhibited smoky
eroticism she sings "Quand L’mour" Dietrich take a flower from the hair of a young lady in the audience (asking: "May I have this?"),
sniffs it suggestively and then French kisses the woman on the mouth.
This is the first Hollywood girl-to-girl French kiss.
Adding to mystery of her character's bisexuality Dietrich
tosses the flower to admiring foreign legionnaire Gary Cooper
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Queen Christina (1933)
In this pre Hayes Code movie, with its lesbian ienuendos regarding the real-life bi-sexual 17th century Queen Christina of Sweden
(Greta Garbo), the queen expressed her romantic attraction to her lady-in-waiting Countess Ebba Sparre (Elizabeth Young) whom she affectionately kissed on the
lips. Then professed her desire. (Chancellor: "But your Majesty, you cannot die an old maid," Christina: "I have no intention to, Chancellor. I shall die a bachelor!")
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The Painted Veil
(1934) Movie drama based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name set in colonial China. Greta Garbo (an Austrian spinster Katrin Koerber) and Cecilia Parker (as her sister Olga Koerber) shared a lesbian kiss.
It was disguised, due to restrictive Hays Code just put into effect, as an intense series of multiple kisses between sisters on Olga's
wedding day
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Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Lumet's dark comedy depicts a scene in which fading playwright Sidney Bruhl (Michael Caine) and
a gay fledgling author Clifford Anderson (Christopher Reeve) passionately
kiss. The producers stated that it was "the $10 Million Dollar Kiss" - the
revenue lost as a result of negative publicity
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The Hunger (1983) Tony Scott's stylish
vampire film, with vampire Miriam Blaylock (Catherine Deneuve) and Dr. Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon) as her latest courtship victim
engaged in an explicitly erotic love scene filmed in the sunlight of a late afternoon
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My Beautiful Laundrette
(1985) In
Stephen Frears' subversive drama, two men engaged in a cross-racial, forbidden homosexual relationship
between a businessman Omar (Gordon Warnecke) a Pakistani-immigrant
and his Anglo-Saxon school friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis) The film's most
passionate love scene, the two embrace in the back manager's back
room Johnny slipped his hand beneath Omar's shirt and dribbled champagne from his mouth into Omar's
mouth to celebrate the launderette's grand opening
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Bitter Moon (1992)
Roman Polanski's voyeuristic drama set on a Mediterranean ocean liner bound for Istanbul featured a sexy dance and lesbian kiss during a shipboard party between sultry exhibitionist
Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner, the director's 27 year-old wife) and the
repressed, strait-laced Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) Mimi's wheelchaired
bound deviant husband Oscar (Peter Coyote) commented to husband Nigel (Hugh
Grant) "Oh, stop sulking, man. You ought to be glad they're getting it on so well"
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Cruel Intentions
(1999) Teenage version of Dangerous Liaisons in which an amoral,
teen-vamp Manhattan step-sister Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Geller) demonstrated her manipulative
intentions toward innocent Cecile Caldwell (Selma Blair) to destroy her reputation by teaching her how to
French kiss in the park, with Cecile's response to their lesbian kiss "That was cool!"
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Head in the Clouds (2004)
WWII
erotic melodrama set in 1930s England, Paris, and Spain with Charlize Theron as young American heiress, photographer and hedonistic
Gilda Bessé who shared her Parisian apartment with idealistic Irish schoolteacher Guy (Stuart Townsend) and
Spanish model, ex-stripper, Mia (Penelope Cruz) Scenes of bisexuality in a hot two-girl tango sequence in a Parisian nightclub
and another in which Gilda and Mia shared a lesbian kiss during a threesome
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Brokeback Mountain (2005) Ranch-hand Ennis del Mar (Heath Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) grew close while herding sheep
on an isolated Wyoming mountain.
Although initially Ennis rebuffed Jack's attempts he
returns with his hat in hand and accepted their first kiss before their first sexual experience.
During one reunion, the two hugged tightly. Jack forcefully grabs Ennis and pushed him into a secluded spot where they
kiss hungrily.
Ennis' wife Alma (Michelle Williams) accidentally witnesses their
passion. This French kiss was voted "the best screen kiss of all time"
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