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When people think of lesbian films, they often picture sad, melancholy tearjerkers like Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Ammonite, or Blue is the Warmest Color, but lesbian movies can be funny too!Yes, there are some great lesbian dramas out there about coming out, tragic breakups, and society keeping people apart, but there are also hilariously delightful raunchy teen comedies, rom-coms, and laugh-out-loud dramedies about queer women that will have you laughing until your sides hurt. So forget all of the stereotypes youve ever heard about lesbian movies because these comedies prove that straight people and gay men dont have a monopoly on being funny!Drive Away DollsMargaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star alongside Colman Domingo, Beanie Feldstein, and Pedro Pascal in Drive Away Dolls, about two lesbian best friends who cross paths with inept criminals while on an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee, Fla. Ethan Cohens comedy caper features gay girlies behaving badly, getting sexy, and having the best time, and you will too when you watch this movie!Where to watch: Prime VideoRead PRIDE's review of Drive Away Dolls.BooksmartBooksmart is funny, clever, and fronted by Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever, who plays a lesbian teen. This female take on a teen sex comedy like Superbad feels smart, fresh and features a cute queer love story.Where to watch: Rent on Prime VideoRead PRIDE's review of Booksmart.BottomsBottoms is a raunchy teen comedy about lesbians finally! Queer actress Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott star in this high school comedy about two high school senior girls who start a fight club as a way to hook up with cheerleaders.Where to watch: Prime VideoSaving FaceSaving Face is one of the very few lesbian comedies made by and for queer women of color. This delightful and emotional rom-com is about a Chinese-American lesbian who is afraid to come out to her traditional mother, who she just found out is pregnant.Where to watch: Fubo or rent on Prime videoBut Im a CheerleaderBut Im a Cheerleader is a cult classic for a reason. Honorary lesbian Natasha Lyonne stars in this campy queer movie about a naive teen girl whose parents send her to a gay conversion camp. Worried it wont live up to the hype after all of these years? Dont fret, it absolutely will!Where to watch: tubiSuicide KaleDark, funny, and whip smart, this comedy about queer women of color follows Jasmine and Penn, a lesbian couple who unexpectedly find a hidden suicide note in the home of their friends Billie and Jordan.Where to watch: Rent on Prime VideoAppropriate BehaviorThis funny, quirky indie about a Persian bisexual Brooklynite stars Desiree Akhavan who also directed and co-wrote it. Its hilarious, full of inside queer jokes, and features the kind of messy characters we love to see on screen.Where to watch: tubiSomeone GreatThis 2019 film about a lesbian trying to move on after breakup is the kind of drunken, stoned, ridiculous comedy that usually only stars men, but this time its young women drunkenly dancing to Top 40 hits!Where to watch: NetflixWine CountryWine Country features your fave female comedians queer star Paula Pell, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, and Tina Fey and is about a group of middle-aged girlfriends getting together for a wine-soaked birthday trip that goes hilariously awry. Where to watch: NetflixHearts Beat LoudHearts Beat Loud stars Kiersey Clemons and Nick Offerman as a father and daughter who form an unlikely songwriting duo the summer before she leaves for college, but the real reason to watch is to see two young Black lesbians fall in love on screen.Where to watch: tubi and Prime Video