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- DirectorWayne WangStarsTamlyn TomitaRosalind ChaoKieu ChinhThe life histories of four East Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.
- DirectorKatja von GarnierStarsHilary SwankMargo MartindaleAnjelica HustonA little known, yet integral piece of American history: based on the lives of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two young radical women who were instrumental in getting women the right to vote in America.
- DirectorLake BellStarsLake BellFred MelamedMichaela WatkinsAn underachieving voice coach finds herself competing in the movie trailer voice-over profession against her arrogant father and his protégé.
- DirectorDaniel BarberStarsBrit MarlingHailee SteinfeldSam WorthingtonLeft without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three women must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army.
- DirectorCoralie FargeatStarsMatilda Anna Ingrid LutzKevin JanssensVincent ColombeNever take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsChantal AkermanNiels ArestrupClaire Wauthion'Je' is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room. 'Tu' is the script. 'Il' is a lorry driver. 'Elle' is the girlfriend.
- DirectorHouda BenyaminaStarsOulaya AmamraDéborah LukumuenaKévin MischelA street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsSalli Richardson-WhitfieldOmari HardwickMichole Briana WhiteChronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTom HardyCharlize TheronNicholas HoultIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsMichelle WilliamsLucyDavid KoppellOver the summer, a series of unfortunate happenings triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsSheila McCarthyPaule BaillargeonAnn-Marie MacDonaldScatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle rekindles an old romantic relationship with the younger painter Mary, Polly becomes jealous, and discovers Gabrielle is not who she claims to be.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsRosalind RussellHayley MillsBinnie BarnesTwo high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.
- DirectorF. Gary GrayStarsJada Pinkett SmithQueen LatifahVivica A. FoxDesperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.
- DirectorSally PotterStarsColette LaffontRose EnglishTony GaconWhat happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boh?me? In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic heroine Musetta to investigate her own death.
- DirectorShirin NeshatShoja AzariStarsShabnam TolouiPegah FerydoniArita ShahrzadAgainst the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsBingbing FanWei FanXiaogang FengAfter being swindled by her ex-husband, a woman takes on the Chinese legal system.
- DirectorZeresenay MehariStarsMeron GetnetTizita HagereAbel AbebeA young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaMaeve JinkingsIrandhir SantosClara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
- DirectorJayro BustamanteStarsMaría Mercedes CoroyMaría TelónManuel AntúnOn the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsÉmilie DequenneFabrizio RongioneAnne YernauxYoung and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMaría OnettoClaudia CanteroCésar BordónAfter hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsThérèse LiotardValérie MairesseRobert DadièsThe lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffMargarethe von TrottaStarsAngela WinklerMario AdorfDieter LaserA young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsJutta LampeBarbara SukowaRüdiger VoglerTwo sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsJutta LampeGudrun GabrielJessica FrühSisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria, a most proficient secretary, encourages Anna to finish her studies and start a career; Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with her boss' son Maurice starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish, drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria manages to establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a substitute younger sister, but Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?
- DirectorSally PotterStarsElle FanningAlice EnglertAnnette BeningA look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship.
- DirectorJulie DashStarsCora Lee DayAlva RogersBarbara OA languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.
- DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsGena RowlandsBuck HenryJulie CarmenWhen a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsMary McDonnellAlfre WoodardAngela BassettAfter an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
- DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsEdda BarendsNelly FrijdaHenriëtte TolWhen three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
- DirectorCheryl DunyeStarsCheryl DunyeGuinevere TurnerValarie WalkerA young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
- DirectorHelen WalshStarsLauren McQueenBrogan EllisStephen LordWhen Shelly meets Rachel, two dysfunctional girls from radically opposed backgrounds set off on a collision course that will leave one of them shattered, the other re-born.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsEleanor ParkerAgnes MooreheadEllen CorbyA gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?
- DirectorDee ReesStarsAdepero OduyeKim WayansAasha DavisA Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsKim VithanaJimmi HarkishinSarita KhajuriaA group of women of Indian descent take a trip together from their home in Birmingham, England to the beach resort of Blackpool. The events of the day lead them to better mutual understanding and solidarity.
- DirectorMary HarronStarsLili TaylorJared HarrisMartha PlimptonThe story of Valerie Solanas, a '60s radical who preached misandry in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but after he repeatedly ignored her, she shot him.
- DirectorJonah MarkowitzTracy WaresStarsJackie GoldbergChristine KehoeSheila KuehlPolitical Animals is a powerful, award winning documentary about four California lawmakers -- all women -- who took the fight for equality from the streets into the halls of government to create lasting social justice and equality.
- DirectorSally PotterStarsJulie ChristieColette LaffontHilary WestlakeAn avant-garde exploration of a woman's life.
- DirectorClaudia WeillStarsMelanie MayronEli WallachAdam CohenA photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsAlex AllinLucien BatailleGenica AthanasiouObsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
- DirectorLisa CholodenkoStarsRadha MitchellAlly SheedyPatricia ClarksonA young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.
- DirectorLisa CholodenkoStarsAnnette BeningJulianne MooreMark RuffaloTwo children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.
- DirectorSian HederStarsElliot PageAllison JanneyTammy BlanchardDesperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Manhattan housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.
- DirectorTali Shalom-EzerStarsElliot PageKate MaraAmy SeimetzThe daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsLouise BrooksJosef RovenskýFritz RaspAfter falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
- DirectorGillian ArmstrongStarsJudy DavisSam NeillWendy HughesA proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence.
- DirectorRobert BressonStarsRenée FaureJany HoltSylvieAnne-Marie joins a Dominican convent as a novice where she knows Therese. After shooting a man for which she was imprisoned, Therese protests her innocence, reluctant to tell her secret.
- DirectorRobert BressonStarsDominique SandaGuy FranginJeanne LobreA young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it.
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsMichelle WilliamsKristen StewartLaura DernThe lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
- DirectorFarida BenlyazidStarsAbderrahim BaygaAhmed BouananiChaaibia El AdraouiIn this Sufi tale, Nadia, a young Moroccan emigre returns from Paris to Fez to visit her dying father.
- DirectorFarida BenlyazidStarsMariola FuentesNadia AlamiFrancisco AlgoraThe daughter of an Englishman and an Andalusian woman, Juanita rejects the historical changes taking place in Tangier.She lives alone in this "Paradise lost", surrounded by her sister Elena; Esther, her close friend who dedicates her entire life to an impossible love affair with a Moroccan; and Hamruch the housemaid, who disappears one day without saying a word. The Spanish Civil War, WWII with the arrival of refugees from Europe, and the Moroccan independence finally returns the city to its Arab origins. Juanita's tragedy lies in not realizing that her world is destined to disappear by the destructive and rejuvenating force of History.
- DirectorLaura MulveyPeter WollenStarsDinah StabbMerdelle JordineRhiannon TiseIn this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.
- DirectorLaura MulveyPeter WollenStarsGavin RichardsLora LogicMary MaddoxFour people - a science fiction illustrator, a saxophonist who moves from busking to Top of the Pops, an analyst of satellite photography and Julian, a PHD student, meet at intervals, their lives set against a background of recession London. They are the focus of a story which begins to unravel the complex threads linking all aspects of life to an ever more desperate economic situation.
- DirectorMark LewisLaura MulveyDiscusses the destruction of monuments in Russia during the 20th century as each new regime takes control. Only recently have efforts been made to preserve these monuments as part of the Russian heritage. Features rare archival footage and interviews with sculptors, art historians and critics, gallery and museum directors.
- DirectorJill FriedbergA look at how an oppressed community can organize and overcome insurmountable odds to gain control of its government-run media in order to overthrow their corrupt governor. The documentary focuses on the non-violent uprisings that began in Oaxaca, Mexico during the summer of 2006.
- DirectorLourdes PortilloThis gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border
- DirectorJosé Antonio CorderoAlejandra Sánchez OrozcoAlejandra SánchezIn an industrial town in Mexico near the US border, hundreds of women have been sexually abused and murdered. As the body count continues to rise, a web of corruption unfolds that reaches the highest levels of Mexican society.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoThe inhabitants of a small town in El Salvador relive their life experiences during the civil war while remembering their loved ones.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoThe emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
- DirectorYulene OlaizolaStarsRegina CardoFlorencia Vega MoctezumaMy grandmother??s lodging house situated at the corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City. When I was ten years old I met one of them. His name was Jorge Riosse. My grand mother remembers him as a very special young man that filled up her life with art and love. But she also suspects that he murdered a dozen women.
- DirectorMaría Inés RoquéA filmic approach to well-known Argentinian guerilla fighter Iván Roqué by his daughter María Inés Roqué.
- DirectorJacaranda Velásquez
- DirectorBusi CortésStarsRamón BarragánPatricio CastilloLumi CavazosThe women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets ranging from amorous entanglements to murder for mercy or greed.
- DirectorChristine RichardsStarsHouston ArriagaCraig Thomas RivelaDaron RossA detective investigates the murder of a reality star as told from various unreliable perspectives, in this modern cross between Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) and The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995).
- DirectorGunvor Nelson"Schmeerguntz" is one long raucous belch in the face of the American Home. A society which hides its animal functions beneath a shiny public surface deserves to have such films as "Schmeerguntz" shown everywhere - in every PTA, every Rotary Club, every club in the land.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsLynda BenahoudaMohamed Chabane-ChaoucheKheira OualhaciSamia is the sixth of eight children in an Algerian family living in the outskirts of Marseille. Outside there are all the pressures and temptations of modern France; temptations Samia's brothers are watchful that she resists.
- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsPauline AcquartLouise BlachèreAdèle HaenelAfter meeting at a local pool over their summer break, a love triangle forms between three adolescent girls, which proves difficult to sustain as they each desire the love of another.
- DirectorJohanna DemetrakasOdette SpringerStarsEdward AlbertSamuel Z. ArkoffLisa BoyleA woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsDiahann CarrollJames Earl JonesLawrence Hilton-JacobsIn the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.
- StarsChristiane AmanpourCNN's award-winning journalist, Christiane Amanpour travels around the world to talk with women about the rules of engagement in relationships and intimacy. In this six-part documentary series, directed by women, Christiane meets regular people who are shaping the idea of modern love. How are roles changing for both men and women when it comes to sex, love, marriage, family and divorce?
- DirectorJhonny HendrixStarsEsteban CopeteKarent HinestrozaSebastián MosqueiraA young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same.
- DirectorAmel GuellatyStarsSarra HannachiFor Sarra, a middle-class girl from Tunis, everything seems to be going as her mother planned: she is taking sewing lessons and she is soon to be married to a good boy. But Sarra is hiding a dangerous plan with which she hopes to escape her current life.
- DirectorDagmar SchultzStarsAudre LordeAudre Lorde, the highly influential, award-winning African-American lesbian poet came to live in West-Berlin in the 80s and early '90s. She was the mentor and catalyst who helped ignite the Afro-German movement while she challenged white women to acknowledge and constructively use their privileges. With her active support a whole generation of writers and poets for the first time gave voice to their unique experience as people of color in Germany. This documentary contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz's archives including stunning images of Audre Lorde off stage. With testimony from Lorde's colleagues and friends the film documents Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany and the impact of her work and personality.
- DirectorMyriam FougèreStarsJackie AndersonSuzanne BoisvertNicole BrossardDocumentary constructed with archive images and testimonies of the lesbian movement in Canada and the US from the 70s until the 90s.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsLeïla BekhtiHafsia HerziHiam AbbassA comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favors if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well.
- DirectorFeriel Ben MahmoudThe Arab feminism existed for over a century. From Beirut to Casablanca, passing through Riyadh, Cairo and Tunis, this documentary tells the unknown History and wonders about the possibility of its perpetuation in the current geopolitical context.
- DirectorChristian SchwochowStarsCarla JuriAlbrecht SchuchRoxane DuranThe life and career of breakthrough German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker.
- DirectorMichael LarnellStarsChanté AdamsNia LongMahershala AliIn the late 80s/ early 1990s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita "Roxanne Shanté" Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in NYC.
- DirectorSally WainwrightStarsFinn AtkinsCharlie MurphyChloe PirrieA chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.
- DirectorClare WeiskopfNicolas van HemelryckStarsValerie MeikleDiego WeiskopfNicolas van HemelryckThis is the story of Val and Clare: a mother and a daughter. After the tragic death of her eldest daughter, Val left her kids and family behind and escaped into the Colombian jungle in order to search for her identity. Clare was only 11 years old when her mother left and couldn't understand what she was looking for. A son who became an addict, three break-ups and a fractured family remained behind. Now Clare is pregnant and decides to confront her mother, heal the wounds of the past and try to define motherhood on her own terms. Together they go on an intimate journey exploring the boundaries between responsibility and freedom, the power of love and the meaning of family.
- DirectorMadeleine GavinJudith KatzGary SunshineStarsMary AliceGlenn CloseEve EnslerA look at playwright Eve Ensler's writing workshop inside Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.
- DirectorRubaiyat HossainStarsShahana GoswamiRikita Nandini ShimuShatabdi WadudShimu fled her village as a child when her stepmother threatened to marry her off to a middle-aged man. Now 23 and living in the capital, she works grueling hours for paltry sums at a textile factory while her husband searches for work.
- DirectorRubaiyat HossainStarsShahana GoswamiRahul BoseMita ChowdhuryUnder Construction is about a modern Muslim woman struggling to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh.
- DirectorHinde BoujemaaStarsHind SabriLotfi AbdelliHakim BoumsaoudiWith her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad - but when the best-laid plans are upended, Noura must tap her unshakable will to fulfill her dream.
- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsLeila ZareFereshteh Sadre OrafaiyShahab HosseiniStory of a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country, which is what Mohammad Rasoulof did during the winter of 2010/11.
- DirectorGastón SolnickiStarsLaila MaltzLara TarlowskiKatia SzechtmanSeveral young daughters of rich industrialists examine in an equally intangible and compelling way the physical and spiritual aspects of a cultural recession.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsSarah PattersonAngela LansburyDavid WarnerA teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsKristýna KohoutováCamilla PowerA surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
- DirectorLouis-Julien PetitStarsPatricia MouchonKhoukha BoukherbacheBérangère TouralFollowing a municipal decision, SDF Women's Shelter, will close. There are only three months left for social workers to reintegrate at any cost the women they care for: falsification, pistons, lies - From now on, everything is allowed.
- DirectorKadija LeclereStarsHiam AbbassMehdi DehbiHafsia HerziAlsemberg, 1975, Sarah an 8-year-old-girl is living in a Catholic foster family. One day, her biological father whom she has never seen before, comes to take her for a weekend in Paris. But she wakes up in Morocco where her father abandons her with his family without any explanation. Nine years later, with no money coming from her father, during the 'Hunger Revolt' (The Revolt of Awbach): Sarah dreams of going back to Belgium, to school, to the books and to a life she considers free.
- DirectorMabel LozanoA documentary investigation across five countries on the big business of sexual slavery.
- DirectorLee TamahoriStarsRena OwenTemuera MorrisonMamaengaroa Kerr-BellA family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.
- DirectorAgustín Díaz YanesStarsVictoria AbrilPilar BardemFederico LuppiEscaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she tries to find work and earn some money...
- DirectorSarah Daggar-NicksonStarsOlivia WildeMorgan SpectorKyle CatlettAfter escaping her violent husband, Sadie makes it her life's mission to help free others in danger. After months of rigorous training in survival skills, boxing, and lethal martial arts, she is back with a vengeance.
- DirectorIsold UggadottirStarsLilja ÞórisdóttirMaría Heba ÞorkelsdóttirDaniel Aron DaviðssonAs the Icelandic economy collapses, Gudfinna (58) struggles to retain her dignity.
- DirectorDesiree AkhavanStarsDesiree AkhavanRebecca HendersonHalley FeifferShirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities. Being without a cliché to hold onto can be a lonely experience.
- DirectorJennifer ReederStarsFawzia MirzaShabana AzmiSari SanchezZaynab, a thirtysomething lesbian Pakistani Muslim in Chicago, takes care of her sweet, TV-obsessed mother. As Zaynab falls for Alma, a bold, very bright Mexican woman, she searches for her identity in life, love, and wrestling.
- DirectorJennifer ReederStarsJennifer EstlinUltra-Violet ArcherKelsey Ashby-MiddletonAn adult woman (the conductor) on the edge of failing and a pack of teenage girls (the choir) simultaneously experience a supernatural version of coming-of-age. The transformation is equal parts tense and tender. It unravels patiently to the infectious beat of an 80s era heavy metal anthem rearranged as a lamentation.