Women Make Film
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1. 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: 390
2. A byahme mladi (1961)
110 min | Drama
The film takes us back to the days of Bulgarian Resistance during Second World War. Beautiful love between two young people burns out against the background of the Nazi reality.
Director: Binka Zhelyazkova | Stars: Dimitar Buynozov, Rumyana Karabelova, Lyudmila Cheshmedzhieva, Georgi Georgiev-Getz
Votes: 133
3. You and Me (1971)
97 min | Drama
Because of the failed marriage neurosurgeon Pyotr going through an identity crisis by trying to solve accepting a job in far Siberia .
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Leonid Dyachkov, Yuriy Vizbor, Alla Demidova, Natalya Bondarchuk
Votes: 438
4. On the Twelfth Day... (1955)
23 min | Short, Comedy, Music
A proper Edwardian lady patiently endures the ever-increasing disruption to her quiet household when her Truelove gives her all the items from the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: David O'Brien, Wendy Toye, Franklyn Bennett, Peter Godsell
Votes: 139
5. Brief Encounters (1967)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A maid works for the estranged wife of a geologist who once visited her village and whom she loves.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Kira Muratova, Lidiya Bazilskaya
Votes: 1,051
6. The East is Red (1965)
117 min | Musical
The evolution of the People's Republic of China is told in this spectacular song and dance production, 'Dongfang hong' or 'The East is Red'. Vast, solemn, and glorifying the progress ... See full summary »
Director: Ping Wang
Votes: 137
7. First Comes Courage (1943)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
Nicole Larsen is detested by her countrymen because they suspect she is collaborating with the occupying Germans. In reality she is working for the Norwegian underground, risking her life passing secrets to the resistance fighters.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, Isobel Elsom
Votes: 263
8. The Silences of the Palace (1994)
116 min | Drama
As she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.
Director: Moufida Tlatli | Stars: Hind Sabri, Ghalya Lacroix, Nejia Ouerghi, Amel Hedhili
Votes: 1,106
9. Strange Days (1995)
R | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore
Votes: 78,393 | Gross: $7.92M
10. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
PG | 103 min | Documentary
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: John L. Lewis, Carl Horn, Norman Yarborough, Logan Patterson
Votes: 6,623
11. Innocence (II) (2004)
R | 122 min | Drama, Mystery
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Zoé Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Bérangère Haubruge, Marion Cotillard
Votes: 6,445
12. Things to Come (2016)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama
A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob
Votes: 14,739 | Gross: $0.28M
13. I, You, He, She (1974)
86 min | Drama
'Je' is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room. 'Tu' is the script. 'Il' is a lorry driver. 'Elle' is the girlfriend.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion
Votes: 2,957
14. All for Mary (1955)
79 min | Comedy, Romance
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. After the two come down with chicken pox,... See full summary »
Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison, David Tomlinson, Jill Day
Votes: 142
15. Däumlienchen (1954)
10 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A tiny girl is born from a flower. A toad and a mole propose marriage, but she is rescued, first by some fish, then by a swallow, and meets the fairies, who welcome her and give her wings.
Director: Lotte Reiniger
Votes: 109
16. Sweetie (1989)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Geneviève Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Jon Darling
Votes: 5,372 | Gross: $0.94M
17. Happiness (1965)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Romance
François, a young carpenter, lives a happy, uncomplicated life with his wife Thérèse and their two small children. One day he meets Emilie, a clerk in the local post office.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Jean-Claude Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Marcelle Faure-Bertin, Manon Lanclos
Votes: 9,506
18. Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne (1983)
99 min | Comedy
This film was made as a kind of a "protest-song" against the panic fear of getting old and also against flirtation. The main character (played by Leos Sucharípa) is an elderly man, ... See full summary »
Director: Vera Chytilová | Stars: Leos Sucharípa, Libuse Pospísilová, Vlasta Spicnerová, Jirí Hálek
Votes: 293
19. The Black Dog (1987)
18 min | Animation, Short
A woman travels through her fantastical dreams accompanied by her dog.
Director: Alison De Vere
Votes: 104
20. Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, War
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo | Star: Pirkko Saisio
Votes: 704
21. The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
A film comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday who is told that she can ... See full summary »
Director: Marzieh Makhmalbaf | Stars: Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh, Ameneh Passand
Votes: 1,991 | Gross: $0.34M
22. Blackboards (2000)
88 min | Drama, War
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a ... See full summary »
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf | Stars: Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari, Bahman Ghobadi, Mohamad Karim Rahmati
Votes: 2,904 | Gross: $0.00M
23. Attenberg (2010)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Votes: 7,667 | Gross: $0.02M
24. Be My Star (2001)
65 min | Romance
A girl's everyday life at the end of her school days, trying to find a way into society and her own life.
Director: Valeska Grisebach | Stars: Nicole Gläser, Monique Gläser, Jeanine Gläser, Christopher Schöps
Votes: 181
25. Die Besucherin (2008)
104 min | Drama
The radiologist Agnes must take care of a flat. Without her family knowing about it, she visits this flat regularly and begins a parallel life. One day she falls asleep there. When she wakes, a man lies beside her in the bed.
Director: Lola Randl | Stars: Sylvana Krappatsch, André Jung, Samuel Finzi, Jule Böwe
Votes: 104
26. Time to Die (2007)
104 min | Drama
When the witty old lady Aniela finally gets rid of her last lodger, she thinks it's finally time for her to feel at home in her beautiful old wooden house. But her greedy son and neighbours have other plans.
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Danuta Szaflarska, Krzysztof Globisz, Marta Waldera, Patrycja Szewczyk
Votes: 1,159
27. Butter on the Latch (2013)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, Horror
At a Balkan folk song and dance camp in the woods of Mendocino, California, Sarah reunites with her old friend Isolde and with a song she learned years before about dragons who entwine ... See full summary »
Director: Josephine Decker | Stars: Sarah Small, Isolde Chae-Lawrence, Charlie Hewson, Polly Tapia Ferber
Votes: 488
28. The Last Stage (1948)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Female prisoners of various ethnic background struggle to survive the hardships of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Director: Wanda Jakubowska | Stars: Wanda Bartówna, Huguette Faget, Tatyana Guretskaya, Antonina Gordon-Górecka
Votes: 764
29. The Swamp (2001)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Martín Adjemián, Leonora Balcarce
Votes: 7,846 | Gross: $0.10M
30. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,935
31. Wanda (1970)
GP | 102 min | Crime, Drama
Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.
Director: Barbara Loden | Stars: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes
Votes: 5,691 | Gross: $0.05M
32. Pet Sematary (1989)
R | 103 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 114,953 | Gross: $57.47M
33. Tank Girl (1995)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A girl is among the few survivors of a dystopian Earth. Riding a war tank, she fights against the tyranny of a mega-corporation that dominates the remaining potable water supply of the planet.
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Lori Petty, Ice-T, Naomi Watts, Don Harvey
Votes: 34,751 | Gross: $4.06M
34. By the Sea (2015)
R | 122 min | Drama, Romance
A couple tries to repair their marriage while staying at a hotel in France.
Director: Angelina Jolie | Stars: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Mélanie Laurent, Melvil Poupaud
Votes: 22,548 | Gross: $0.53M
35. Beau Travail (1999)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, War
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet
Votes: 14,545 | Gross: $0.25M
36. Olivia (1951)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Late nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia.
Director: Jacqueline Audry | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Marie-Claire Olivia, Yvonne de Bray
Votes: 732 | Gross: $0.01M
37. Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance
At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
Directors: Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Emilia Unda, Hedy Krilla
Votes: 3,735
38. Two in One (2007)
124 min | Comedy, Drama
This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "... See full summary »
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Aleksandr Bashirov, Sergei Bekhterev, Aleksandra Svenskaya, Nina Ruslanova
Votes: 334
39. American Psycho (2000)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage
Votes: 714,672 | Gross: $15.07M
40. A New Leaf (1971)
G | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman and - murder her.
Director: Elaine May | Stars: Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston, George Rose
Votes: 7,635
41. Concrete Night (2013)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama
A fourteen-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother.
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo | Stars: Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Anneli Karppinen, Juhan Ulfsak
Votes: 1,263
42. An Exercise in Discipline: Peel (1982)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A family get into a battle of wills on the side of the highway when their boy defiantly throws orange peels out the window.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Tim Pye, Katie Pye, Ben Martin
Votes: 1,437
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