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🎬 Films

Explore powerful cinema that challenges perspectives and illuminates the feminist experience through storytelling

🎥 88 films total
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All Films (88 films)

Emma.

Emma.

An adaptation of Jane Austen's novel directed by Autumn de Wilde, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. The film follows wealthy young woman Emma Woodhouse in Regency-era England as she enthusiastically matchmakes for others, discovering her own true emotions in the process. The director reinterprets this classic literary work with exquisite visual aesthetics and a modern feminist perspective, deeply exploring important themes including female independence, class consciousness, marriage choices, and coming-of-age awakening.

查看详情 124 min
2020
UK

Emma.

Autumn de Wilde

Romance Comedy Period Drama
Class Analysis Economic Empowerment +4
Rocks

Rocks

The story of East London Black teenage girl Olushola (nicknamed 'Rocks') who must survive independently with her brother Emmanuel after their mother suddenly leaves home, evading social services. This coming-of-age drama showcases deep friendships between girls, urban youth resilience, and the vital role of female mutual aid networks in times of crisis through delicate perspective.

查看详情 93 min
2019
UK

Rocks

Sarah Gavron

Drama Coming-of-Age Social Realism
Female Friendship Youth Rights +4
Hustlers

Hustlers

A crime comedy-drama directed by Lorene Scafaria, starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. Based on true events, following a group of strippers who band together to scam wealthy Wall Street clients after the 2008 financial crisis. The film deeply explores crucial issues including class revenge, female solidarity, economic inequality, sex worker rights, and the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on working-class women, presenting a complex story of how marginalized women seek survival and fight back in economic hardship.

查看详情 110 min
2019
USA

Hustlers

Lorene Scafaria

Crime Comedy Drama
Economic Empowerment Class Analysis +4
The Farewell

The Farewell

Lulu Wang's semi-autobiographical work tells the story of Chinese-American writer Billi returning to China to say goodbye to her cancer-stricken grandmother. This warm and profound family drama explores death, family, cultural identity, and the complex roles of women in families through a cross-cultural perspective, showcasing deep emotional bonds between women across generations.

查看详情 100 min
2019
USA

The Farewell

Lulu Wang

Drama Comedy Family
Cross-Cultural Feminism Mother-Daughter Relationships +4
The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give

Adapted from Angie Thomas's bestselling novel, follows 16-year-old African American girl Starr's journey from silence to voice after witnessing her friend Khalil being shot by police. This coming-of-age drama deeply explores police violence, systemic racism, Black women's voices and agency, and young women's awakening and growth in social justice movements.

查看详情 133 min
2018
USA

The Hate U Give

George Tillman Jr.

Drama Coming-of-Age Social Issues
Race and Gender Intersectional Feminism +4
Roma

Roma

Writer and director Alfonso Cuarón has described Roma as a love letter to all the women who raised him. It's a beautiful rumination on all the 'hoods' women go through: girlhood, womanhood, motherhood. A domestic drama about a maid and the middle-class family she cares for in Mexico City, the story is told in crisp black-and-white, but it doesn't take long to see that a woman's work never ventures far out of the gray area.

查看详情 135 minutes
2018
Mexico

Roma

Alfonso Cuarón

Drama Historical
Intersectional Feminism Class Analysis +4

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