Women Directors: The Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Joey, Kathy, Sylvia, and Maritess, best friends from 1979 to 1982, navigate drug use, singing dreams, unconventional relationships, and housewife roles, depicting personal battles and societal challenges during that period.

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

The film depicts the beginning and end of UFO cult and the lives of the people around it.

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet, but something happens that changes her safe routine.

19th century Massachusetts. While the March sisters - Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth - enter the threshold of womanhood, they go through many ups and downs in life and endeavor to make important decisions that can affect their future.

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

A deaf girl, Shoko, is bullied by the popular Shoya. As Shoya continues to bully Shoko, the class turns its back on him. Shoko transfers and Shoya grows up as an outcast. Alone and depressed, the regretful Shoya finds Shoko to make amends.

A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Sonya, an old maid is about to give up on herself until one day, she meets a corpse in her family's embalming business that changes her life.

A 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home.

A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.

A relationship between two high school second years, Licht Sajo, who is an honor student, and Hikaru Kusakabe, who plays in a rock band.

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.

Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.

Follows five young men and about the marginalized, excluded humanity who seeks a place in the world.

Director Anna traverses Europe for film events, encountering strangers, family, and a Polish Jewish refugee friend, listening to their personal stories. The aftermath of war persists throughout her journey across the continent.