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Film About a Woman Who... has been restored in 4K by the Museum of Modern Art and the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation. Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber is the sole worldwide distributor of this film.
- 'Alien' (1979) Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley is one of science fiction's most memorable female characters. She’s not a damsel in distress—she’s a ferocious final girl, and the only survivor to defeat the monster that mutilated and destroyed every other member of the Nostromo crew.
- Set It Off (1996) Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Kimberly Elise play a group of friends who find themselves at the mercy of intersectional violence, turning to robbing banks as their only way of dealing.
- Hidden Figures (2016) While the male brains at NASA fretted over how to put a man in space before their Russian adversaries, there were three brilliant African-American women doing the math that would actually get him there.
- The First Wives Club (1996) If the sight of Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn reclaiming their independence from their manipulative ex-husbands while singing in unison to Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me” isn't a pop-filmic ode to feminism, then we don't know what is.
Film About a Woman Who…, a landmark film that is still considered by many to be her masterpiece, is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.
- 'She Said' She Said follows the true story behind New York Times journalists Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) as they expose Harvey Weinstein and his history of sexual abuse against women.
- 'Hustlers' Based on a true story, four dancers band together to con money out of sleazy finance bros. Sure, what they do is totally illegal, but in a way they are taking the power back from the men that completely objectify them.
- 'Battle of the Sexes' This sports biopic literally pits women against man in the so-called tennis match "Battle of the Sexes." The film follows the story of top women's player Billie Gene King who comes out on top of societal stereotypes to beat former No. 1 ranked men’s player Bobby Riggs.
- 'Boston Strangler' Yet another film based on real-life badass female journalists, this new crime drama dives into the story of the 1960s serial killer dubbed the Boston Strangler.
Aug 2, 2023 · From Frances Ha to A Woman Under the Influence, these are 10 of the most memorable films about womanhood which are guaranteed to bring female viewers solace and understanding while...
50 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Gone with the Wind. 1939 3h 58m G. 8.2 (336K) Rate. 97 Metascore. A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Best feminist movies. 1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975) Film. Among the greatest films ever made, Chantal Akerman's nearly three-and-a-half-hour masterpiece (not a...
