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

🎥 88 films total

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All Films (88 films)

The Keeping Room

At the end of the American Civil War, three women living alone on a desolate Southern farm must fight to defend themselves against two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the Union Army. This revisionist feminist western reexamines the brutality of war from a female perspective, exploring complex themes of women's self-defense rights, racial relations, and survival instincts.

查看详情 95 minutes

2014

USA

The Keeping Room

Daniel Barber

Western Drama Thriller

Anti-Sexual Violence Race and Gender +4

The Babadook

A widowed single mother Amelia and her young son confront the mysterious terror creature Babadook in their home. This Australian psychological horror film breaks traditional gender stereotypes in horror cinema, exploring profound themes of loss, grief, maternal stress, and women's inner darkness from a mother's perspective.

查看详情 94 minutes

2014

Australia

The Babadook

Jennifer Kent

Horror Psychological Drama

Motherhood Critique Mental Health +4

Belle

Based on the true story of 18th-century historical figure Dido Elizabeth Belle, this costume drama follows a mixed-race aristocratic woman navigating her place in British high society while fighting for justice amid intersecting racism and sexism. The film explores complex themes of race, class, gender intersectionality, and female agency.

查看详情 104 minutes

2013

Belle

Amma Asante

Drama Biography Historical

Race and Gender Intersectional Feminism +4

In a World...

Written, directed, produced, and starred in by Lake Bell, In a World... charts the efforts of a talented vocal coach with a husky cadence to break into the male-dominated world of movie trailer voice-overs.

查看详情 93 minutes

2013

USA

In a World...

Lake Bell

Comedy Drama

Workplace Equality Glass Ceiling +4

Wadjda

10-year-old Saudi girl Wadjda dreams of owning a green bicycle to race with her male friend Abdullah. This groundbreaking work is the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and the first directed by a Saudi woman, exploring complex themes of female freedom, social constraints, and cultural transformation through a girl's desire for a bicycle.

查看详情 98 min

2012

Saudi Arabia

Wadjda

Haifaa al-Mansour

Drama Comedy Family

Gender Norms Cultural Identity +4

Circumstance

Director Maryam Keshavarz's coming-of-age drama focuses on a wealthy Iranian family, particularly headstrong teenager Atafeh whose relationship with her friend Shireen evolves from friendship into romance and even eroticism, alongside her brother's journey from recovering drug addict to religious extremist. This vibrant exploration of sexual rebellion showcases high school protagonists confronting patriarchal oppression, culminating in a penetrating examination of women's treatment under Iranian theocracy.

查看详情 106 minutes

2011

USA

Circumstance

Maryam Keshavarz

Drama Coming-of-Age Romance

Queer Theory Anti-Feminism Studies +4

I Will Follow

If you can't get something done, do it yourself. Ava DuVernay took this adage to heart and wrote, directed, produced, and financed this family drama about a woman grieving the death of a loved one. It made just a blip on the box office radar, but her debut feature offers a peek at the woman behind the camera.

查看详情 83 minutes

2011

USA

I Will Follow

Ava DuVernay

Drama Family Independent

Black Feminism Economic Empowerment +4

Jennifer's Body

High school cheerleader Jennifer becomes possessed by a demon after being sacrificed by a male band seeking fame, then begins hunting the town's men. This initially misunderstood horror-comedy gained critical reappraisal during the MeToo era, recognized as a feminist horror film ahead of its time that explores toxic masculinity, complex female friendship, and gender violence under patriarchy.

查看详情 102 min

2009

USA

Jennifer's Body

Karyn Kusama

Horror Comedy Thriller

Anti-Sexual Violence Female Friendship +4

Wendy and Lucy

Director Kelly Reichardt recruits Michelle Williams for her character study mapping out the evolution of homelessness and destitution. With nothing but her pup Lucy, Williams's Wendy fights to survive in a recession-era landscape. Like all of Reichardt's characters, she is flawed, willful, and above all, strong.

查看详情 80 minutes

2008

USA

Wendy and Lucy

Kelly Reichardt

Drama

Economic Empowerment Mental Resilience +3

Persepolis

Based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, this black-and-white animated film tells the story of an Iranian girl's coming-of-age before and after the Islamic Revolution, profoundly exploring women's survival and resistance under religious totalitarianism.

查看详情 96 minutes

2007

France/USA

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

Animation Biography Drama

Decolonial Feminism Religious Patriarchy Critique +4

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

In 1987 Romania under Ceaușescu's dictatorship, college roommate Otilia helps pregnant Găbița seek an illegal abortion. This harsh and brutal realist masterpiece reveals the state's control over women's bodies and women's brave resistance for reproductive autonomy within the span of one night.

查看详情 113 minutes

2007

Romania

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Cristian Mungiu

Drama Social Realism

Abortion Rights Reproductive Autonomy +4

Iron Jawed Angels

Katja von Garnier made this Golden Globe winner, about the women who risked their lives for the suffrage movement. It stars Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston, and Vera Farmiga.

查看详情 123 minutes

2004

USA

Iron Jawed Angels

Katja von Garnier

Biography Drama History

First Wave Feminism Political Participation +4

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