Films by directors who are women or gay men:

The Substance (2024) by Coralie Fargeat
With Demi Moore
Vagabond (1985) by Agnes Varda
Le Bonheur (1965) by Agnes Varda
Queer (2024) William Burroughs. By Luca Guadagnino (gay)
With Daniel Craig
"Junk is a cellular equation that teaches the user facts of general validity. I have learned a great deal from using junk: I have seen life measured out in eyedroppers of morphine solution. I experienced the agonising deprivation of junk sickness, and the pleasure of relief when junk-thirsty cells drank from the needle. Perhaps all pleasure is relief. I have learned the cellular stoicism that junk teaches the user. I have seen a cell full of sick junkies silent and immobile in separate misery. They knew the pointlessness of complaining or moving. They knew that basically no one can help anyone else. There is no key, no secret someone else has that he can give you.
I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life." -Junky, Prologue (by William Burroughs)
The Nature of Love by Monia Chokri
·     French-Canadian film about a blue-collar construction guy, and a philosophy professor
This Closeness (2023) by Kit Zauhar
·     A couple renting an airbnb place where the host is awkward
Actual People (2021) by Kit Zauhar
·     Philosophy college student's last semester
·     Brita scene
Parallel Mothers (2021) by Pedro Almodovar (gay)
·     Two mothers giving birth the same day
·     Babies swapped? Or not?
Carol (2015) by Todd Haynes (gay)
With Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara
·     based on Patrica Highsmith’s The Price of Salt
Things to Come (2016) by Mia Hansen-Love
With Isabelle Huppert
·     Middle-aged philosophy professor, husband cheating, Paris
Shiva Baby (2020) by Emma Seligman
Barbie (2023) by Greta Gerwig

Honourable mentions
Compartment No.6 (2021) by Juho Kuosmanen
Mothers’ Instinct (2024) by Benoît Delhomme