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1. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017)
R | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Director: Angela Robinson | Stars: Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton
Votes: 28,677 | Gross: $1.59M
2. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 39,762
3. Hysteria (2011)
R | 100 min | Biography, Comedy, Romance
The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
Director: Tanya Wexler | Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones
Votes: 33,194 | Gross: $1.80M
4. Suffragette (2015)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, History
In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
Director: Sarah Gavron | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep
Votes: 44,782 | Gross: $4.69M
5. True Women (1997)
PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Covering nearly fifty years of mid-19th-century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early women's suffrage movement, "True Women" is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all, gritty female determination.
Stars: Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie, Michael York
Votes: 2,513
6. Iron Jawed Angels (2004 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
A 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.
Director: Katja von Garnier | Stars: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston, Frances O'Connor
Votes: 6,439
7. The Red Pill (2016)
TV-14 | 108 min | Documentary
The Red Pill chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the mysterious and polarizing Men's Rights Movement. The Red Pill explores today's gender war and asks the question "what is the future of gender equality?"
Director: Cassie Jaye | Stars: Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, Attila Vinczer, Dean Esmay
Votes: 12,055
8. The Lost Prince (2003 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 180 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the story of a British royal Prince locked away because of epilepsy.
Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Daniel Williams, Matthew James Thomas, Brock Everitt-Elwick, Rollo Weeks
Votes: 2,099
9. Warm Springs (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama
The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Tim Blake Nelson
Votes: 3,330
10. Fröken Frimans krig (2013–2017)
58 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Not all battles are violent. Meet a courageous group of women who takes on both the male rulers of the day and a corrupt grocery industry.
Stars: Sissela Kyle, Frida Hallgren, Maria Kulle, Lena T. Hansson
Votes: 1,293
11. The Divine Order (2017)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1971, a young housewife organizes the women of her town to petition for the right to vote.
Director: Petra Biondina Volpe | Stars: Marie Leuenberger, Maximilian Simonischek, Rachel Braunschweig, Sibylle Brunner
Votes: 3,045 | Gross: $0.08M
12. Children of War (2014)
160 min | Drama, History, War
Would you go to war for peace? A war child's search for acceptance and a nation inundated in blood.
Director: Mrityunjay Devvrat | Stars: Farooq Shaikh, Victor Banerjee, Pawan Malhotra, Indraneil Sengupta
Votes: 1,282
13. The Ballad of Josie (1967)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Western
A widow stirs things up in a western town by raising sheep instead of cattle--and by organizing the local women to demonstrate for women's suffrage.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, Andy Devine
Votes: 1,131 | Gross: $1.32M
14. Up the Women (2013–2015)
TV-PG | 174 min | Comedy, History
A group of Suffragists band together to spread the word--but they need to learn their own lessons first.
Stars: Jessica Hynes, Vicki Pepperdine, Emma Pierson, Judy Parfitt
Votes: 427
15. The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Western
In the late 1800s, 2 east coast sales ladies decide to stop selling corsets and head West to sell barbed wire to Texas cowboys but they face opposition from big ranchers who fear that steel wire would hurt cattle.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing, David Brian
Votes: 811
16. Mrs. Santa Claus (1996 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Neglected by her husband during the pre-Christmas rush, Mrs. Claus (Dame Angela Lansbury) takes the reindeer and sleigh out for a drive, only to end up stranded in the multicultural ... See full summary »
Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Michael Jeter, Terrence Mann, Lynsey Bartilson
Votes: 1,259
17. Lady for a Night (1942)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Joan Blondell, John Wayne, Philip Merivale, Blanche Yurka
Votes: 626
18. Rendezvous (1935)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, War
Powell plays an American cryptologist who tangles with German spies while falling in love.
Directors: William K. Howard, Sam Wood | Stars: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 1,012
19. Bella! (2023)
102 min | Documentary
As Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi lead the nation, they travel a path blazed by several women before them, notably Bella Abzug. In 1970, when the United States was ruled by men, Bella ... See full summary »
Director: Jeff L. Lieberman | Stars: Bella Abzug, Eve Abzug, Liz Abzug, Michael Abzug
Votes: 12
20. One Sunday Afternoon (1948)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Biff Grimes has spent the last ten years regretting that he hadn't married Virginia Brush, the girl of his dreams. Virginia ran off and married his best friend - breaking his heart. Virginia's best friend, Amy, consoles Biff.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 332
21. Iliza Shlesinger: Confirmed Kills (2016 TV Special)
TV-MA | 77 min | Comedy
Iliza Shlesinger performs in this standup talking about dating, feminism and some of the intricacies associated with being a woman in the 21st century.
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait | Star: Iliza Shlesinger
Votes: 3,135
22. The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington, Natalie Thompson
Votes: 324
23. María Cano (1990)
106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Colombia 1920's. The country receives compensation for the separation of Panama and is open to foreign credit to undertake major development works. Growing mass of workers but not improve ... See full summary »
Director: Camila Loboguerrero | Stars: María Eugenia Dávila, Frank Ramírez, Maguso, Diego Vélez
Votes: 55
24. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1917)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
A doctor's wife is the head of a bureau that publishes and hands out literature on birth control. However, the police stop it and forbid her to speak in meetings about the secret that was ... See full summary »
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber, Priscilla Dean, Wedgwood Nowell
Votes: 33
25. Fame Is the Spur (1947)
96 min | Drama
A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, Carla Lehmann
Votes: 225
26. What 80 Million Women Want (1913)
56 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A suffragist exposes a corrupt political boss who had compromised her lawyer fiancé.
Director: Will Louis | Stars: Emmeline Pankhurst, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ethel Jewett, Reginald Everett
Votes: 53
27. Mothers of Men (1917)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama
A melodrama about a woman governor whose husband is accused and convicted of a bombing and the dilemma she has to struggle with --- whether to let the law take its course and the pressures ... See full summary »
Director: Willis Robards | Stars: Dorothy Davenport, Willis Robards, Maclyn King, Hal Reid
Votes: 106 | Gross: $0.04M
28. Regal Cavalcade (1935)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Through the use of newsreel footage and re-enacted sequences, this B.I.P. production, modelled along the lines "The March of Time" shorts, presents a record of the highlights of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Herbert Brenon, W.P. Kellino, Norman Lee, Walter Summers, Thomas Bentley, Marcel Varnel | Stars: Marie Lohr, Hermione Baddeley, Robert Hale, J.H. Roberts
Votes: 27
29. Under This Sky (1979 TV Movie)
58 min | Drama
Director: Randa Haines | Stars: Irene Worth, Collin Wilcox Paxton, W.B. Brydon, John Glover
Votes: 6
30. The County Chairman (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Will Rogers, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor, Louise Dresser
Votes: 34
31. Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette (2013 TV Special)
47 min
Clare Balding examines the story of Emily Davison, her death at the Derby, and the Suffragette movement.
Director: Harvey Lilley | Stars: Clare Balding, Andrew Balding, Ian Balding, Emily Wilding Davison
Votes: 13
32. Fifty Years Before Your Eyes (1950)
Approved | 72 min | Documentary, History, Sport
Documentary about the major events of the first fifty years of the Twentieth Century.
Director: Robert Youngson | Stars: Arthur Godfrey, Quentin Reynolds, H.V. Kaltenborn, Clem McCarthy
Votes: 21
33. Under the Influence (I)
Documentary | Filming
Fusing secrecy with big money, global corporations and private interests have gradually gained control of our government and are now writing laws that dismantle our great republic. But if ... See full summary »
Directors: Terry Bennett, Sam Oliver | Star: Grace Wan
34. A Gude Cause maks a Strong Erm (2019)
5 min | Animation, Short
This tells the story of the Orcadian Woman's Suffrage Society and their campaign to gain women the vote from the late 19th Century until the outbreak of World War I.
Director: Martin Laird | Star: Kim Foden
35. Canada Vignettes: The Vote (1980)
1 min | Documentary, Short
The starting of the women's suffrage movement in Canada is shown and women receiving the right to vote.
Star: Elizabeth Leigh-Milne
36. The Long Road (2016)
104 min | Documentary
Documentary chronicling the development of the women's movement in Denmark from the suffragettes till present day.
Director: Mette Knudsen
Votes: 7
38. Citizens at Last (2021 TV Movie)
87 min | History
Citizens at Last is a documentary film that tells the story of the grit, persistence, and tactical smarts of the Texas women who organized, demonstrated, and won the vote for women.
Director: Nancy Schiesari | Stars: Jennymarie Jemison, Angela Smith, Anne Hulsman, Carlisha Tennille Bell
39. An Epic Poem (1982)
27 min | Short, Drama
AN EPIC POEM explores the contradictions in man's conception of love through the myths and representations. Central to the film is the 'Rokeby Venus', slashed by militant suffragette Mary ... See full summary »
Director: Lezli-An Barrett | Stars: Rex Barker, Steve Hurrel, Henriette Park, David Sanction
40. Votes for Women (1994 Video)
25 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Directors: Pauil Worthington, Paul Worthington
41. Suomen historian myytit: Ensimmäiset vaalit 1907 (2010 TV Movie)
40 min | Documentary, History
Director: Riika Nikkarinen | Stars: Juhani Rajalin, Rosa Meriläinen, Marko Tikka, Pertti Haapala
42.
Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode:
The Inner Circle
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Western
When threaten by anti-suffrage leaders, Bat decides to help a group of women campaigning for women's suffrage in Wyoming fight a cabal of wealthy ranchers who wish to prevent women from getting the vote fearing homesteaders.
Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Gene Barry, Marcia Henderson, Jean Willes, Phillip Baird
Votes: 37
43.
Bret Maverick (1981–1982)
Episode:
The Yellow Rose
(1981)
49 min | Western
The women's rights group is appalled when Bret wins a Chinese girl in a poker game.
Director: William Wiard | Stars: James Garner, Ed Bruce, Ramon Bieri, Richard Hamilton
Votes: 39
44.
The Rifleman (1958–1963)
Episode:
The Woman
(1959)
TV-PG | 30 min | Family, Western
When North Fork's lovely schoolteacher attempts to organize a women's suffrage movement, the town's less progressive element decides to run her out of town.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, James Westerfield
Votes: 129
45.
Avonlea (1990–1996)
Episode:
Aunt Janet Rebels
(1992)
TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Janet takes up the cause of women's suffrage, sending the town of Avonlea into an uproar. Her efforts to get votes for women bring up questions about the working conditions and pay of the Avonlea Cannery employees.
Director: Harvey Frost | Stars: Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Zachary Bennett, Gema Zamprogna
Votes: 49
46.
Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955)
Episode:
The Case of the Careless Suffragette
(1955)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A zealous suffragette acquires a bomb shaped like a croquet ball, intending only to draw attention to her cause, but it is switched with a real croquet ball and explodes, killing a member of Parliament.
Director: Steve Previn | Stars: Ronald Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford, Archie Duncan, Dawn Addams
Votes: 139
47.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The C.L. Harding Story
(1959)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A reporter has joined the wagon train. When the Major finds out he is a she, he finds his hands full especially when her looks and curiosity jeopardize everyone's safety and their right to vote.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Claire Trevor, Frank McGrath
Votes: 94
48.
Theatre 625 (1964–1968)
Episode:
Parade's End #1: Some Do Not
(1964)
Drama
The affairs and experiences of an aristocratic Englishman before and during the First World War.
Director: Alan Cooke | Stars: Judi Dench, Ronald Hines, Jeanne Moody, Fulton Mackay
Votes: 19
49.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
The Women Get the Vote
(1962)
Documentary, History
Star: Walter Cronkite
50.
Radio Free America (2017– )
Episode:
Primate Studies
(2019)
News
Stars: Halsey English, Jean-François Gariépy, Rebekah Ford, Turd Flinging Monkey