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Booksmart
Olivia Wilde's directorial debut revolutionizes the high school comedy genre, following two academic overachievers who decide to cram four years of fun into one wild night before graduation. This self-aware coming-of-age comedy explores female friendship, academic pressure, sexual identity, and teenage identity formation through an inclusive lens.
- Female Friendship
- Education Equality
- Third Wave Feminism
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão
A Vida Invisível de Eurídice GusmãoA tropical melodrama about two sisters separated by patriarchal deception, revealing how women’s ambitions, labor, sexuality, and kinship are made invisible in mid-century Brazil.
- Latin American Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Female Friendship
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait de la jeune fille en feuIn late 18th century Brittany, France, female painter Marianne is commissioned to paint a portrait of aristocrat Héloïse. This portrait will determine Héloïse's marriage, but she refuses to cooperate. During their time together, the two gradually develop a profound and secret emotional connection.
- Feminist Art
- Queer Identity
- Bodily Autonomy
37 Seconds
A manga artist with cerebral palsy seeks authorship, sexual experience, and independent life. HIKARI makes a disabled woman not an object of care but a subject with desire, contradiction, and agency.
- Disability Justice
- Bodily Autonomy
- Media Representation Critique
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.
- Race and Gender
- Intersectional Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Rafiki
A tender romance between two young women in Nairobi uses color, music, and everyday joy to resist a public culture in which queer love is treated as political betrayal.
- African Feminism
- Queer Theory
- LGBTQ+
Colette
A biographical drama about 19th-century French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's growth and awakening. Keira Knightley brilliantly portrays this pioneering female writer who challenged gender norms, fought for authorial credit, and explored gender fluidity in her legendary life.
- Women's Writing
- Economic Empowerment
- Women's Literature
The Chambermaid
La camaristaLila Avilés's debut centers a hotel room attendant in Mexico City, using minimalist drama to show hidden cleaning labor, fantasies of mobility, and women's isolation.
- Domestic Labor
- Care Economy
- Class and Gender
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.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Class Analysis
- Emotional Labor
The Favourite
Set in 18th-century British court, the power game between Queen Anne and two women - Sarah Churchill and Abigail Hill. This dark comedy explores complex themes of female power, gender politics, female friendship and competition through gorgeous visual style and sharp satire, challenging traditional gender role expectations.
- Gender Politics
- Female Friendship
- Political Participation
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.
- Sports Equality
- Equal Pay
- Gender Politics
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.
- Radical Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Bodily Autonomy
Angels Wear White
嘉年华In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working at the motel reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she stays silent. The film offers a piercing look at the systemic failures and societal indifference surrounding sexual violence against young women in contemporary China.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Patriarchy Critique
- Bystander Responsibility
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.
- Family Liberation
- Economic Empowerment
- Education Equality
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.
- Economic Empowerment
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Patriarchy Critique
Beauty and the Dogs
Aala Kaf IfritFollowing a rape survivor through one night of hospitals and police stations, Kaouther Ben Hania exposes how institutions convert the demand for care into an ordeal of proof, shame, and intimidation.
- Arab Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Political Violence
A Fantastic Woman
Una mujer fantásticaA trans woman’s struggle to grieve her partner becomes a precise study of how families, medicine, police, and property law decide whose love and personhood are credible.
- Latin American Feminism
- Trans Feminism
- LGBTQ+
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.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Workplace Equality
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.
- Cultural Identity
- Ecofeminism
- Family Liberation
Burning Birds
Davena VihagunSet amid Sri Lanka’s political violence, this drama follows a widowed mother of eight whose struggle for income reveals how war, sexual exploitation, and social respectability converge on women’s bodies.
- South Asian Feminism
- Feminist Security Studies
- Economic Empowerment
The Bacchus Lady
죽여주는 여자An older sex worker in a Seoul park is drawn into poverty, illness, and requests for death. E J-yong returns aging from demographic abstraction to class, gender, care, and survival.
- Ageism and Gender
- Sex Worker Rights
- Care Economy
Queen of Katwe
Directed by Mira Nair, this biographical drama tells the inspiring true story of Phiona Mutesi, a young girl from the Katwe slum in Kampala, Uganda, who becomes a world-class chess champion. The film explores poverty, gender expectations, and the power of intellectual empowerment in the face of systemic barriers.
- Cross-Cultural Feminism
- Education Equality
- Economic Empowerment
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. This film dives into one of recent American history's watershed moments, chronicling the testimony given before the nation regarding the sexual harassment of women in the workplace.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Legal Equality
- Political Participation
The Witch
The VVitch: A New-England FolktaleA 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.
- Radical Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Religious Patriarchy Critique