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51. Sexo às Avessas (1982)
96 min | Comedy
Heleno and Cláudia reverse the roles traditionally reserved for men and women in marriage. He dedicates himself to domestic chores, feels like a sexual object, and in the club defends the ... See full summary »
Director: Fauzi Mansur | Stars: Darby Daniel, Ênio Gonçalves, Kleber Afonso, Deusa Angelino
Votes: 51
52. The Return of the Whistler (1948)
Approved | 62 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
On the eve of his marriage, a young man's fiance disappears. He hires a private detective to help him track her down, but soon finds himself entangled in a web of lies, intrigue and murder ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane, James Cardwell
Votes: 469
53. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)
Not Rated | 625 min | Drama
The collapse and the struggle of a poor farming clan in Philippines.
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Elryan de Vera, Angie Ferro, Pen Medina, Marife Necesito
Votes: 514
54. Not Tonight Henry (1960)
75 min | Comedy
Hank Henry is more than a little frustrated at the lack of attention he is getting from his wife and starts dreaming up amorous escapades with sirens from the past.
Director: W. Merle Connell | Stars: Hank Henry, Joni Day, Babe McDonnell, Marge Welling
Votes: 109
55. Stormquest (1987)
89 min | Action, Fantasy
In a female-ruled society where men are kept solely for breeding, two women come to believe that their society's treatment of men is wrong, and lead them in a revolt against the system.
Director: Alejandro Sessa | Stars: Brent Huff, Kai Baker, Mónica Gonzaga, Rocky Giordani
Votes: 141
56. Women in Temptation (2010)
118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.
Director: Jirí Vejdelek | Stars: Lenka Vlasáková, Eliska Balzerová, Vojtech Dyk, Veronika Khek Kubarová
Votes: 812
57. Bloody Romance (2018)
45 min | Action, Fantasy, Romance
During a chaotic period towards the end of the Tang Dynasty, Qi Xue (Li Yi Tong) was sold to a brothel by her own father. She gets a second chance after inadvertently entering a mysterious ... See full summary »
Stars: Hsueh-Fu Kuo, Duo Wang, Chuxiao Qu, Yitong Li
Votes: 209
58. Que Viva Mexico (1979)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, Western
Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Votes: 1,891
59. The North Wind (2021)
122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The matriarchal clan led by gorgeous Margarita enters a turbulent period when her son loses his beloved fiancée.
Director: Renata Litvinova | Stars: Mariya Berdinskikh, Ulyana Dobrovskaya, Sofya Ernst, Michael Gavasheli
Votes: 499
60. Ödipussi (1988)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Gray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the... See full summary »
Director: Vicco von Bülow | Stars: Vicco von Bülow, Katharina Brauren, Evelyn Hamann, Edda Seippel
Votes: 4,356
61. Women on the Run (2019)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
Women on the Run. Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish - running a marathon. The emancipated and spirited mother of three ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Horský | Stars: Zlata Adamovská, Tereza Kostková, Veronika Khek Kubarová, Jenovéfa Boková
Votes: 845
62. The Warrior's Husband (1933)
75 min | Comedy
In Pontus, the land of the Amazons, gender roles and natures are completely reversed: men stay at home and take care of the children and women are the strong sex, thanks to the sacred ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Elissa Landi, David Manners, Ernest Truex, Lionel Belmore
Votes: 82
63. Two Sane Nuts (1974)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Two rival friends guide a young man through the Colombian jungle, hunting for, and finding a tribe of (not so) wild Amazons and a cache of (not so) bright emeralds.
Directors: Ernst Hofbauer, Fernando Orozco | Stars: Alberto Dell'Acqua, Wolf Goldan, Rinaldo Talamonti, Raquel Ércole
Votes: 49
64. Slaves of Love (1969)
X | 76 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A tribe of Amazon women use a magnetic force to pull down airplanes flying over their island. They enslave all the men aboard the planes and use them as their sex slaves.
Director: Charles Nizet | Stars: Sally Blair, Tina Brown, Lloyd Davish, Mary Horton
Votes: 55
65. God Is a Woman (2023)
86 min | Documentary
The Kuna indigenous people of the Guna Yala islands of Panama intend to claim a 1975 documentary that portrayed their community, but was not ever shown to them.
Director: Andres Peyrot | Stars: Olonigdi Chiari, Laida Diaz de Prestan, Demetria Prestan Diaz, Demetriana Prestan Diaz
Votes: 31
66. Tiger Theory (2016)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
The last drop for Jan's resolution is the voluntary death of his father-in-law, whose strength and patience ran dry. Grandma made decisions about Grandpa's life, old age as well as the ... See full summary »
Director: Radek Bajgar | Stars: Jirí Bartoska, Eliska Balzerová, Tatiana Dyková, Jirí Havelka
Votes: 808
67. Chlap na strídacku (2020)
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Happily married for fifteen years, Zuzana finds out one day that her husband has been having an affair with another woman for a long time. Zuzana does not hesitate and decides to visit her ... See full summary »
Director: Petr Zahrádka | Stars: Jirí Langmajer, Ivana Chýlková, Lucie Zácková, Iva Janzurová
Votes: 141
68. Hail Mary Country (2018)
18 min | Short, Action, Comedy
A house robbery in suburbia goes awry and leads to a showdown between the victims and the robbers.
Director: Tannaz Hazemi | Stars: Jason Boggs, Drew Canan, Vera Cherny, Kelly Fulton
Votes: 67
69. Kingdom of Women (2007)
56 min | Documentary
In a remote corner of Southwestern China, at the border of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, lies a body of water called Lugu Lake. Nestled against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains, nearly ... See full summary »
Directors: Elizabeth Dukal Flander, Roger J. Zou | Stars: George Eckhart, Yi Cheng Zhang, Wah-Shan Chou
70. The Bed (1998)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
An erotically-charged drama by the late Park Chul-soo, intertwining stories of three characters whose joy, passion and despair played out on the same bed are tangled like a puzzle.
Director: Oskar Reif | Stars: Jitka Andelová, Jirí Ded, Jana Drbohlavová, Jan Dvorák
Votes: 155
71. Et la lumière fut (1989)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
The film depicts daily life in an Senegalian village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain, et cetera, while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers, is slowly encroaching.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Sigalon Sagna, Saly Badji, Binta Cissé, Marie-Christine Dieme
Votes: 372
72. Dead Man Tells His Own Tale (2016)
90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A sisterhood of Celtic goddesses have under their control men who have attacked somehow the female gender. Angel is addicted to women, his life will turn into a calvary as he become slave of their plan to install the universal matriarchy.
Director: Fabián Forte | Stars: Diego Gentile, Mariana Anghileri, Emilia Attías, Damián Dreizik
Votes: 68
73. The Castle of Crossed Destinies (2012)
124 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Fuminori Kaneko | Stars: Machiko Ono, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Masato Sakai, Masaaki Sakai
Votes: 114
74. Spit and Ashes (2019)
73 min | Fantasy, Mystery
Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces in the name of religion, medicine and family. The High Priestess embodies the wild, ... See full summary »
Director: Maria Beatty | Stars: Sadie Lune, Dion de Rossi, Daniel Maszkowicz
Votes: 14
75. La isla de las mujeres (1953)
90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Germán Valdés, Lilia del Valle, Fernando Soto, Marcelo Chávez
Votes: 41
76. Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone (2007)
74 min | Documentary
A documentary that celebrates and examines an unabashed vulgarian.
Director: Joan Brooker-Marks | Stars: Larry Flynt, Al van Schaik, Simon L. Leis Jr., Robert Scheer
Votes: 283
77. Rate It X (1986)
93 min | Documentary
A portrait of the various forms of male sexism existing in contemporary American society.
Directors: Paula De Koenigsberg, Lucy Winer | Stars: Lucy Winer, Ugly George, Joel M. Reed, Dwaine Tinsley
Votes: 61
78. Bees in Paradise (1944)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Musical
During World War II, a plane crashes on an island full of dominating women.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Max Bacon
Votes: 168
79. When Women Ruled the World (2008– )
Reality-TV
Stars: Jammie Patton, Jacqueline Reres, Breanne Munro, Selena Liu
Votes: 35
80. The Night Servants (2019– )
153 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Teenage boy Luukas starts working with his dad and uncle at family's funeral home. They pick up corpses at night from deceased's homes. Suddenly Luukas discovers a mysterious power within.
Stars: Pietu Wikström, Jari Virman, Tiina Weckström, Mikko Nousiainen
Votes: 37
81. Years to Come (1922)
10 min | Comedy, Short
Women rule the world in this vision of the future. Men wearing frills and lace, women in charge is the least of the zany future envisioned in this film, sure to be banned in Tennessee.
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini, Noah Young, Wally Howe
Votes: 34
82. Taková normální rodinka (1971– )
Comedy, Family
Legendary Czech TV sitcom about four generations living under the same roof in a small house.
Stars: Marie Rosulková, Dana Medrická, Jana Stepánková, Zdenek Rehor
Votes: 184
83. Gamitin mo ako (1985)
Drama
Mother and daughter fight over one man in this dramatic film about three people who, while genuinely love each other, express their affection the wrong way.
Director: Ishmael Bernal | Stars: Rita Gomez, Al Tantay, William Martinez, Orestes Ojeda
84. Matriarhat (1977)
103 min | Drama
The film belongs to the 'migration cycle' in the Bulgarian cinema. It is about the drama of a group of women who have been left alone in their 'female kingdom' - a village deserted by its entire men folk.
Director: Lyudmil Kirkov | Stars: Nevena Kokanova, Katya Paskaleva, Katya Chukova, Milka Tuykova
Votes: 129
85. Art/Crime (2011)
100 min | Documentary
A Documentary about violence, horror, censorship and legislation on the web. In 2009, Remy Couture, a special effects makeup artists from Quebec was arrested by the police right in front of... See full summary »
Director: Frederick Maheux | Stars: Nacho Cerdá, Rémy Couture, Joseph Elfassi, Éric Falardeau
Votes: 19
86. My Tango with Porn (2003 Video)
40 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Siobhan Devine | Stars: Raffaëla Anderson, Kay Armatage, Marc B., A. Alan Borovoy
Votes: 28
87. Sweet Mother (2014)
30 min | Comedy
Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. At 85 years old, she pushes the limits of her age and does everything she can for her family and friends... See full summary »
Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Marco Ricca, Louise Cardoso, Matheus Nachtergaele
Votes: 90
88. Skirt Power (1997)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of woman in an African village finds a mystical mask. Using the mask, they reverse gender roles, women act like men, and men act like women.
Director: Adama Drabo | Stars: Fanta Berete, Oumu Berthé, Yamadou Cissé, Kani Coulibaly
Votes: 66
89. The Women's Kingdom (2006)
20 min | Documentary, Short
La Mu lives beyond the strictures of mainstream Chinese society. She is part of the Mosuo, an ethnic minority that has a matriarchal society, one of the last in the world.
Director: Xiaoli Zhou
Votes: 109
90. Debout! Une histoire du mouvement de libération des femmes (1999)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Carole Roussopoulos
Votes: 18
91. Bonchi (1960)
105 min | Drama
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business,... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Tamao Nakamura, Mitsuko Kusabue, Machiko Kyô
Votes: 122
92. Stâtoappu gâruzu (2019)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
A young female founder runs in to societal barriers during her drive to create startup projects, in a Japanese society that hasn't traditionally accepted entrepreneurs . She finds herself, and maturity along the way.
Director: Chihiro Ikeda | Stars: Mone Kamishiraishi, Hirona Yamazaki, Ayaka Ônishi, Meisha Brooks
Votes: 53
93. Little Sister's vs. Big Brother (2002)
71 min | Documentary
The story of how Little Sister's, a small bookstore in the heart of Vancouver's gay and lesbian community, has flourished in the face of book seizures and bombings.
Director: Aerlyn Weissman | Stars: Jim Deva, Bruce Smythe, Knowlton Nash, Nino Ricci
Votes: 25
94. Ôoku: Tanjô - Arikoto · Iemitsu-hen (2012– )
Drama, Sci-Fi
Stars: Masato Sakai, Mikako Tabe, Kôki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hirayama
Votes: 33
95. Lobo (I) (2023)
16 min | Short, Drama
Life goes on and change is inevitable - a fact that Aline must accept upon returning to Brazil following deportation from the UK. Faced with uncertainty about her future, family tensions ... See full summary »
Director: Charlie Reader | Stars: Elaine Fernandes, Maria de Lourdes Nogueira, Adriano Brito, Izadora Ferreira Souza
96. Dum Doni Bernardy (1974 TV Movie)
68 min | Drama
Mrs. Bernada Alba is a proud and tough woman who carefully guards the reputation of her house. In fact, it's the only thing that matters to her. After the death of her husband, she closes ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Belka | Stars: Eliska Balzerová, Eva Jirousková, Miriam Kantorková, Vera Koktová
97. John Blue 7 (2009)
Short, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Alain Yves | Stars: Terry Sasaki, Shauna Jaeger Kartt, Amore Leighton Black, Sebastien Fruit
98. Männerherrschaft unbekannt (1979 TV Movie)
Documentary
Directors: Claude Deffarge, Gordian Troeller
99. Our Bodies, Our Minds (2001)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
Our Bodies, Our Minds is about feminists who work as prostitutes, exotic dancers, and in other areas of the adult entertainment industry. How can these women be feminists, you ask? That's ... See full summary »
Director: Rebecca M. Alvin | Stars: Priscilla Alexander, Nina Hartley, Carol Leigh, Carol Queen
Votes: 22
100. Mother of Many Children (1977)
58 min | Documentary
Collage of stories about the lives and times of sturdy Indigenous and Native women from all around the world and their enduring struggles to maintain their personal matriarchal traditions.
Director: Alanis Obomsawin | Star: Alanis Obomsawin
Votes: 25