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1. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin
Votes: 286,949 | Gross: $140.54M
2. The Souvenir (2019)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Neil Young, Tosin Cole, Jack McMullen, Frankie Wilson
Votes: 14,563 | Gross: $1.04M
3. Sibyl (2019)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer. However, her life is complicated by a desperate film actress who wants her help, and who draws her into a world of questionable ethics.
Director: Justine Triet | Stars: Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Gaspard Ulliel, Sandra Hüller
Votes: 5,290
4. Official Competition (2021)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Oscar Martínez, José Luis Gómez
Votes: 14,838
5. The Souvenir: Part II (2021)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Honor Swinton Byrne, James Spencer Ashworth, Alice McMillan
Votes: 4,333
6. Greed (I) (2019)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
Satire about the world of the super-rich.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Caroline Flack, Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher
Votes: 8,500
7. Virgins of Sherwood Forest (2000 Video)
R | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Roberta is a low-budget movie director dealing with numerous problems on the set of her current production. When she is accidently hit on the head, she is knocked unconscious and dreams of living in Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest.
Director: Cybil Richards | Stars: Gabriella Hall, Shannan Leigh, Amber Newman, Brian Heidik
Votes: 408
8. Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
Director: Paul Auster | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Richard Edson, Don Byron
Votes: 4,215
9. This Changes Everything (2018)
TV-PG | 96 min | Documentary
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
Director: Tom Donahue | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Mira Nair, Shonda Rhimes, Tracee Ellis Ross
Votes: 1,888
10. Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018– )
TV-14 | 840 min | Documentary, History
A documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Adjoa Andoh, Jane Fonda, Sharmila Tagore
Votes: 392
11. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
120 min | Documentary, History
The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.
Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Frank Barrett
Votes: 2,158 | Gross: $0.13M
12. The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
183 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, a German film director most notorious for making the most effective propaganda films for the Nazis.
Director: Ray Müller | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Arnold Fanck, Walter Frentz
Votes: 3,057 | Gross: $0.45M
13. This Is My Body (2001)
87 min | Drama
Young student Antoine jumps off studies to follow an acting career, and is offered a main role after a boy who killed himself after a fling with the director.
Director: Rodolphe Marconi | Stars: Louis Garrel, Jane Birkin, Elisabeth Depardieu, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 219
14. A Scream from Silence (1979)
96 min | Drama
A director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
Director: Anne Claire Poirier | Stars: Julie Vincent, Germain Houde, Paul Savoie, Monique Miller
Votes: 196
15. Carl Laemmle (2019)
91 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Carl Laemmle is a feature documentary about the extraordinary life story of Carl Laemmle, the German-Jewish immigrant who founded Universal Pictures, and saved over 300 Jewish families from Nazi Germany.
Director: James L. Freedman | Stars: Antonia Carlotta, Ahilan Arulanantham, Bob Balaban, Peter Bogdanovich
Votes: 233
16. My Sister, Sara (2020)
30 min | Short, Biography, Drama
In late 2018 and throughout 2019, Sudan experienced months of protests that ultimately overthrew a 30-year dictatorship. Sara Elhassan was among the young grassroots activists who kept the ... See full summary »
Directors: Amin Elhassan, Sarra Idris | Stars: Amin Elhassan, Awad Elhassan, Sara Elhassan
17. Widows (2011)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A married man's death puts his widow and mistress in an unusual living arrangement.
Director: Marcos Carnevale | Stars: Graciela Borges, Valeria Bertuccelli, Rita Cortese, Martín Bossi
Votes: 617
18. Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts (2013)
83 min | Comedy
At the film festival in Cannes, young director Isabell fights against her incompetent producer and the stone age stereotype attitude in film business.
Director: Isabell Suba | Stars: Anne Haug, Matthias Weidenhöfer, Eva Bay, Elmira Rafizadeh
Votes: 120
19. Privilege (1990)
103 min | Drama
Privilege is an intelligently-conceived, boldly-anarchic, and wickedly-insightful exposition on the culturally-ingrained and socially-divisive malaise of isms that artificially define and ... See full summary »
Director: Yvonne Rainer | Stars: Daniel Martin Berkey, Blaire Baron, Gabrielle Made, Novella Nelson
Votes: 126
20. Let There Be Light (1998)
110 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A comedy in which God writes a screenplay and goes to earth to find someone to make the film.
Director: Arthur Joffé | Stars: Hélène de Fougerolles, Tchéky Karyo, Ticky Holgado, Pierre Arditi
Votes: 154
21. Ella (I) (2017)
20 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
A woman finds herself being interrogated having to answer questions about her previous day. Memory fails her but slowly she begins to discover the frightening truth.
Director: Daria Shiyanova | Stars: Holly Ashman, Hadleigh Brooks, Lucien Morgan, Collette Fraser
22. Seeing Is Believing: Women Direct (2017)
84 min | Documentary, Short
Four diverse women share the story of how they became directors, what motivates them, how they lead, and how they overcome obstacles to create the most optimal working environment and work that makes a difference.
Director: Cady McClain | Stars: Lesli Linka Glatter, Sarah Gavron, Li Lu, Naima Ramos-Chapman
Votes: 36
23. Reel Wahine of Hawai'i (2018– )
Documentary
Wahine is the Hawaiian word for women, and the Reel Wahine of Hawai'i film series features stories about the creative challenges and triumphs of Hawai'i women filmmakers. Produced and ... See full summary »
Stars: Ciara Lacy, Connie M. Florez, Anne Misawa, Victoria Keith
24. Cinemaphobia (2001)
15 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
Psychological horror film about a film actor who is tormented by the movies he plays in.
Director: James Rolfe | Stars: James Rolfe, Bob Schemelia, Phil Knab, Eric Kesterson
Votes: 93
25. Family Business: Chantal Akerman Speaks About Film (1984 TV Short)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Aurore Clément, Colleen Camp
Votes: 70
26. Women Filmmakers in Russia (1988)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Kira Muratova, Natalya Ryazantseva, Lana Gogoberidze, Inna Churikova
Votes: 20
27. Reel Women (1995 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe today, exploring the opportunities and obstacles that face them. Program made to accompany a Channel 4 season of films directed and produced by women.
Director: Chris Rodley | Stars: Allison Anders, Kathryn Bigelow, Jane Campion, Gurinder Chadha
Votes: 16
28. Sandra Maischberger trifft Leni Riefenstahl (2002 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, Biography
Sandra Maischberger meets Leni Riefenstahl.
Director: Hans-Jürgen Panitz | Stars: Sandra Maischberger, Leni Riefenstahl
Votes: 38
29. Gli invisibili - Esordi nel cinema italiano 2000-2006 (2007)
52 min | Documentary
Directors: Christian Carmosino, Enrico Carocci, Pierpaolo De Sanctis, Francesco Del Grosso | Stars: Andrea Adriatico, David Ballerini, Mariangela Barbanente, Franco Battiato
Votes: 10
30. Das 'Ich' in 'Ich bin' ist ein anderes als in 'Ich denke' (2010)
6 min | Short
A film, developed from a direction-workshop: The workshop participant Agnes Friedrich suffers a severe bicycle accident and loses her biographical memory. To help her, find her identity ... See full summary »
Director: Björn Last | Stars: Marlene Denningmann, Helena Wittmann, Martin Prinoth, Marie Lauerbach
Votes: 14
31. The Making of 'Youling renjian - Visible Secret' (2001 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Eason Chan, Shu Qi, Sam Lee, Kara Wai
32. Sat-Nav (2018)
Short, Horror
When GPS technology dictates our every movement - or does it?
Director: Liane Moonraven | Stars: Vicky Moloney, Tee Morris, Susie-May Lynch, Antony J. Stanton
33. Dorothy Arzner: A Profile (1993 TV Short)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A documentary about the Hollywood filmmaker Dorothy Arzner.
Director: Clare Beavan | Stars: Pam Cook, Tracey MacLeod
34. Woman with a Movie Camera (2012 Video)
Short
A succinct and compelling evaluation of the current position of women in film and its consequences.
Director: Donna Don | Stars: Julie Bertuccelli, Iman Kamel, Yaelle Kayam, Kadija Leclere
35. Adam & Howa (2015)
9 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A young rickshaw driver haunted by his past finds inspiration.
Director: Sarra Idris | Stars: Nahla Al Amin, Hamad Elneel, Hashim NasrEldin Elsayed, Magid Faisal Khogaly
36. Viva, Women Directors! (2008)
87 min | Documentary
Director: Hiroko Yamazaki | Stars: Young-Joo Byun, Isabel Coixet, Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Christine Hakim
Votes: 14
37.
Cinéma cinémas (1982–1991)
Episode:
Lettre d'un cinéaste: Chantal Akerman
(1985)
18 min | Documentary
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Aurore Clément
Votes: 33
38.
Cinéma, de notre temps (1989– )
Episode:
Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman
(1996)
64 min | Documentary
Approached to direct an episode of the tv series Cinema of Our Times, the Belgian auteur turns the camera on herself and offers a selection of clips from her work.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Star: Chantal Akerman
Votes: 100
39.
Friends (1994–2004)
Episode:
The One Where Ross Dates a Student
(2000)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
Ross jeopardizes his career when he starts dating a student from one of his palaeontology classes. Rachel and Phoebe's apartment catches fire.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc
Votes: 4,626
40.
Prostor X (2018– )
Episode:
Theodora Remundová
(2019)
28 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Theodora Remundová, Cestmír Strakatý
41.
Výzva (2017– )
Episode:
Olga Malírová Spátová
(2019)
17 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Jirí Kubík, Olga Spátová
42.
DVTV (2014– )
Episode:
Olga Malírová Spátová
(2019)
22 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Emma Smetana, Olga Spátová
43.
What We Do in the Shadows (2019–2024)
Episode:
Freddie
(2022)
TV-MA | 25 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Guillermo has a visitor from overseas.
Director: D.J. Stipsen | Stars: Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén
Votes: 1,371
44.
The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
Slippery Slope Confirmed Again: 50 Year Old Man Competes Against 13 Year Old Girls
(2024 Podcast Episode)
69 min | News, Talk-Show
Stars: Matt Walsh, Nicholas J. Cepeda, David Menzies
Votes: 12
45.
Na plovárne (1999– )
Episode:
Na plovárne s Agnieszkou Holland
(2017)
Talk-Show
Stars: Marek Eben, Agnieszka Holland
46.
DVTV (2014– )
Episode:
Alice Nellis
(2015)
18 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Daniela Drtinová, Alice Nellis
47.
DVTV (2014– )
Episode:
Agnieszka Holland
(2017)
25 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Daniela Drtinová, Agnieszka Holland
48.
Les échos du cinéma (1961–1962)
Episode:
Episode #1.38
(1962)
26 min | Short, Talk-Show
Director: Jean Guillon | Stars: Normand Champoux, Claude Le Gac, John Berry, Danielle Darrieux
49.
DVTV (2014– )
Episode:
Olga Sommerová
(2017)
25 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Daniela Drtinová, Olga Sommerová
50.
Host Lucie Výborné (2017– )
Episode:
Agnieszka Holland
(2017)
27 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Agnieszka Holland, Lucie Výborná