However, Esti is married to a man she doesn’t love and, in a neighborhood where you can’t really trust anyone to keep a secret, has no one other to confide in than Ronit. When Ronit returns to the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood to pay respects to her late father, it becomes pretty clear that she left for a reason: The entire neighborhood couldn’t accept her relationship with Esti (who, by the way, is played by the one and only Rachel McAdams), another woman in the community. Understated, unexpected, and just plain good, Disobedience is the classic tale of love that just doesn’t die. Here are my top eight picks of movies featuring women-loving-women romances that are just a sign-in to Netflix or Hulu away. And what would you know? I think I finally have a solid list of non-cringey, actually good movie romances between women. Though a treacherous time-especially when you account for the borderline concerning number of LGBTQ+ movies clearly made for a straight audience than the community they were supposed to represent-I watched all the women-loving-women movies I could find. So in what might have been an unhealthy level of competition with no one other than myself, I set out to watch every single movie that features two women in a relationship, romance, or even the classic situationship on good ol’ Netflix and Hulu.
