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

🎥 88 films total

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Battle of the Sexes

A biographical sports drama centered on the famous 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Emma Stone portrays tennis legend Billie Jean King, while Steve Carell plays former tennis champion Bobby Riggs. The film deeply explores crucial issues including sports equality, equal pay, women's rights, and LGBTQ+ identity, showcasing a historic showdown that changed both sports history and the trajectory of the women's rights movement.

查看详情 121 min

2017

USA

Battle of the Sexes

Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton

Biography Drama Sport

Sports Equality Equal Pay +4

Revenge

Coralie Fargeat's breakthrough rape-revenge film redefines the feminist possibilities of this genre. Through extreme visual style and violent aesthetics, the film explores complex themes of female revenge, bodily autonomy, and fourth-wave feminist rage.

查看详情 108 minutes

2017

France

Revenge

Coralie Fargeat

Action Thriller Horror

Radical Feminism Anti-Sexual Violence +3

Lady Bird

Greta Gerwig's directorial debut, a coming-of-age film about high school student Christine (who calls herself Lady Bird) and her complex relationship with her mother, as well as her teenage confusion and growth in pursuing independence and self-identity.

查看详情 94 minutes

2017

USA

Lady Bird

Greta Gerwig

Drama Comedy Coming-of-age

Family Liberation Economic Empowerment +2

Wonder Woman

Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman stars Gal Gadot as the titular DC Comics superhero, who fights injustice with strength, courage, and her golden Lasso of Truth. A box-office smash that scored more than $100 million on opening weekend—a record for a female-helmed film—it definitely positions Wonder Woman as the antidote to toxic masculinity her original creator imagined her to be.

查看详情 141 minutes

2017

USA

Wonder Woman

Patty Jenkins

Action Adventure Fantasy

Economic Empowerment Anti-Sexual Violence +4

Hidden Figures

The true story of three African-American female mathematicians who played crucial roles in NASA's space race during the 1960s. They not only had to face racial discrimination but also overcome gender bias, ultimately making indelible contributions to America's aerospace program through their exceptional talents.

查看详情 127 minutes

2016

USA

Hidden Figures

Theodore Melfi

Drama Biography History

Intersectional Feminism Black Feminism +4

Moana

Disney's 2016 animated masterpiece tells the adventure story of Polynesian teenager Moana who saves her homeland. Voiced by Auli'i Cravalho, this film breaks from traditional Disney princess formulas with no romantic subplot, focusing instead on themes of female empowerment, cultural identity, and environmental protection.

查看详情 107 minutes

2016

USA

Moana

Ron Clements, John Musker

Animation Adventure Musical

Cultural Identity Ecofeminism +2

Queen of Katwe

Disney has a way of making us feel like pawns in a game of "Let's See How Hard We Can Make Them Cry." But that's not the case with Mira Nair's feel-good drama about a Ugandan girl's path to chess champion, adapted from an ESPN the Magazine essay.

查看详情 124 minutes

2016

USA

Queen of Katwe

Mira Nair

Biography Drama Sport

Cross-Cultural Feminism Education Equality +4

Confirmation

This HBO television movie stars Kerry Washington as Anita Hill, a law professor whose story of sexual harassment is worth revisiting through a post-#MeToo lens. As a made-for-television movie, gripping performances and timely political material make it suited for any size screen. This film dives into one of recent American history's watershed moments, chronicling the he said/she said between now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the woman who testified before the nation that he had sexually harassed her for years.

查看详情 110 minutes

2016

USA

Confirmation

Rick Famuyiwa

Drama Biography Historical

Anti-Sexual Violence Legal Equality +4

The Witch

A 17th-century New England folktale from Robert Eggers, this spooky picture is more than a supernatural horror—it's an exercise in female rebellion during a time when anyone 'different' was declared a witch.

查看详情 93 minutes

2015

USA

The Witch

Robert Eggers

Horror Drama Fantasy

Radical Feminism Patriarchy Critique +4

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Bel Powley is a breakout as 15-year-old Minnie, a budding cartoonist and soon-to-be harlot (her word, not ours). Marielle Heller's exuberant journey through the teenage psyche has more penis drawings than a Seth Rogen comedy, and the best part? It doesn't judge.

查看详情 102 minutes

2015

USA

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Marielle Heller

Comedy Drama Romance

Female Desire Sexual Liberation +4

Mad Max: Fury Road

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Imperator Furiosa leads a group of women escaping the tyrannical rule of Immortan Joe in search of a promised land of freedom. This action film places female resistance and sisterhood at the heart of a traditionally male-dominated genre.

查看详情 120 minutes

2015

Australia

Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller

Action Adventure Sci-Fi

Radical Feminism Bodily Autonomy +3

Wild

A biographical drama adapted from Cheryl Strayed's memoir, starring Reese Witherspoon as a woman who hikes the Pacific Crest Trail alone. This 2014 film deeply explores themes of female self-redemption, identity reconstruction, and independent survival in a male-dominated world.

查看详情 115 minutes

2014

USA

Wild

Jean-Marc Vallée

Drama Biography Adventure

Family Liberation Bodily Autonomy +2

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