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Bodily Autonomy - Films

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Poor Things

Poor Things

A surrealist fantasy drama directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone. Adapted from Alasdair Gray's novel, it follows the extraordinary evolution journey of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life through brain transplantation in Victorian times. The film explores profound themes of female sexual autonomy, body politics, social liberation, and personal awakening through richly imaginative visual language, becoming a significant representative work of contemporary feminist cinema.

查看详情 141 min
2023
UK

Poor Things

Yorgos Lanthimos

Drama Comedy Fantasy
Female Desire Bodily Autonomy +4
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Adapted from Judy Blume's groundbreaking 1970 novel, follows 11-year-old Margaret Simon as she navigates puberty's physical changes, religious exploration, and identity formation. This warm and honest coming-of-age film explores female adolescent experiences, mother-daughter relationships, religious freedom, and the universality of women's intergenerational experiences through a delicate perspective.

查看详情 106 min
2023
USA

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Kelly Fremon Craig

Drama Comedy Family
Gender Socialization Mother-Daughter Relationships +4
Happening

Happening

Adapted from Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, following a 23-year-old French university student's desperate and dangerous journey seeking abortion in 1960s France when it was illegal. Directed by Audrey Diwan, this award-winning film deeply explores reproductive autonomy, body politics, class inequality, and women's predicament in patriarchal society, becoming a powerful testimony to contemporary women's rights struggles.

查看详情 100 min
2021
France

Happening

Audrey Diwan

Drama Social Issues Biographical
Reproductive Autonomy Abortion Rights +4
Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

In the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court, Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always is necessary viewing. A tiny independent film that topped critics' best-of lists, it's about a pair of friends who are forced to travel from their small Pennsylvania town to New York City in search of medical aid for an unwanted pregnancy.

查看详情 101 minutes
2020
USA

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Eliza Hittman

Drama Social Realism
Abortion Rights Reproductive Autonomy +4
The Keeping Room

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
Real Women Have Curves

Real Women Have Curves

18-year-old Mexican-American Ana García struggles between her college dreams and traditional family expectations. This groundbreaking independent film explores themes of body autonomy, cultural identity, class mobility, and intergenerational conflict through a Latina lens, becoming a milestone in the body positivity movement and Latina feminist cinema.

查看详情 90 min
2002
USA

Real Women Have Curves

Patricia Cardoso

Drama Comedy Coming-of-Age
Intersectional Feminism Bodily Autonomy +3