🎬 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)

The Piano

Never one to succumb to labels, pioneering filmmaker Jane Campion delivers a love story about a mute woman whose erotic affair has life-altering repercussions. And even though Campion would probably fight us on this, one can't help but spot and appreciate what seems to be a feminist vision.

查看详情 121 minutes

1993

New Zealand

The Piano

Jane Campion

Drama Romance Music

Female Desire Sexual Liberation +4

Orlando

Adapted from Virginia Woolf's novel, this tells the legendary life story of immortal aristocrat Orlando spanning four centuries, experiencing a gender transformation from male to female during this journey. This pioneering work explores gender fluidity, identity formation, and patriarchal oppression of women through poetic cinematic language.

查看详情 93 minutes

1992

Orlando

Sally Potter

Drama Fantasy Biography

Gender Identity Queer Theory +4

A League of Their Own

The late Penny Marshall directed this gem about the very first female professional baseball league. Geena Davis stars as the World War II–era catcher fighting the patriarchy, and Tom Hanks plays the cranky team manager with a heart of gold. As inspirational as it is just plain entertaining, the film encourages female viewers young and old to embrace the champion stifled inside each one of us.

查看详情 128 minutes

1992

USA

A League of Their Own

Penny Marshall

Comedy Drama Sport

Sports Equality Historical Context +4

Thelma & Louise

Two ordinary women—housewife Thelma and diner waitress Louise—embark on a weekend trip that turns into a fugitive journey after killing in self-defense. During their cross-country road trip, they experience a transformation from fear to liberation, ultimately choosing freedom over surrender.

查看详情 130 minutes

1991

USA

Thelma & Louise

Ridley Scott

Drama Crime Adventure

Radical Feminism Anti-Sexual Violence +3

The Handmaid's Tale

Based on Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a future dystopian society where women are reduced to breeding tools. It profoundly depicts women's oppression under patriarchy and the power and price of resistance.

查看详情 109 minutes

1990

Germany/USA

The Handmaid's Tale

Volker Schlöndorff

Drama Science Fiction Thriller

Radical Feminism Bodily Autonomy +2

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Canadian avant-garde cinema mostly seen and analyzed by college students, Patricia Rozema's fairy-tale whimsy, about an artist on her journey to self-discovery, is one you should seek out—particularly because it's made by a fantastic team of women.

查看详情 81 minutes

1987

Canada

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Patricia Rozema

Comedy Drama

Queer Theory Feminist Art +4

The Color Purple

Whoopi Goldberg brings Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel to life as Celie, a Southern Black woman who has suffered abuse for decades. A project brought to a hesitant Steven Spielberg by producer Quincy Jones, the film was the director's first with a female lead.

查看详情 154 minutes

1985

USA

The Color Purple

Steven Spielberg

Drama Period

Black Feminism Anti-Sexual Violence +4

Desperately Seeking Susan

A bored housewife becomes fascinated by the free-spirited lifestyle of mysterious Susan and embarks on an adventure of mistaken identity. This 1980s film by a female director uses humor and wit to explore themes of female identity, self-discovery, and breaking free from social constraints.

查看详情 104 minutes

1985

USA

Desperately Seeking Susan

Susan Seidelman

Comedy Drama Mystery

Family Liberation Cultural Critique +4

9 to 5

A classic workplace revenge comedy featuring three female employees who unite against their sexist boss, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton. This groundbreaking film profoundly reveals gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and pay inequality issues in the 1980s workplace.

查看详情 110 minutes

1980

USA

9 to 5

Colin Higgins

Comedy Drama

Workplace Equality Anti-Sexual Violence +3

Alien

A classic science fiction horror film where Sigourney Weaver's Ripley becomes one of the most influential female characters in sci-fi cinema history. The film not only redefines the 'final girl' archetype but also deeply explores workplace gender discrimination and the dismissal of female leadership through its space horror packaging.

查看详情 117 minutes

1979

USA/UK

Alien

Ridley Scott

Science Fiction Horror Thriller

Feminist Art Media Representation Critique +4

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

There's no rioting, protesting, or marching for civil rights here. Jeanne Dielman, single mother and sometime sex worker, has a simple life: laundry, dinner, the occasional john. The mundanity of being a housewife is on achingly tedious display for three-plus hours in Chantal Akerman's experimental film. And that's why it's brilliant.

查看详情 201 minutes

1975

Belgium

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman

Drama Experimental

Emotional Labor Feminist Film Criticism +4

Foxy Brown

If you don't yet worship at the altar of Pam Grier, then good lord, what are you waiting for? An action legend who has been shattering glass ceilings for decades, the woman has made a film or television show nearly every single year since 1970. And one of her best is Foxy Brown, a crime classic that has a feminist streak piercing through all its revenge-glory chaos.

查看详情 94 minutes

1974

USA

Foxy Brown

Jack Hill

Action Crime Thriller

Black Feminism Economic Empowerment +4

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