The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.

City of Women

1980

Italian

6.9

♡ 18

68%

man woman relationship

train ride

Federico Fellini Director

Donatella Damiani as Donatella

Karina Verlier as Mock Bride

Marcello Mastroianni as Snàporaz

Bernice Stegers as Woman on train

The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.

Venus in Fur

2013

French

7.1

♡ 15

88%

Roman Polanski Director

Mathieu Amalric as Thomas

Emmanuelle Seigner as Vanda

An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.

Winter adé

7.6

german democratic republic

woman director

Helke Misselwitz Director

Helke Misselwitz as Narrator

Lieselotte Schaller as Self

Anita Rotter as Self

Helga Gerlach as Self

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers, intellectuals, young and old are implored to reflect on their life choices, the sacrifices they've made, and their place in the world. Despite everything, hope persists.

Shut Up & Sing

2006

English

7.6

♡ 5

Barbara Kopple Director

George W. Bush as Self

Anderson Cooper as Self

Bill Maher as Self

John McCain as Self

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped their number one hit off the charts and caused fans to hate them, destroy their CD’s, and protest at their concerts. A film about freedom of speech gone out of control and the three girls lives that were forever changed by a small anti-Bush comment

The Demons of Dorothy

2021

French

5.8

♡ 3

mother daughter relationship

mother-daughter relationship

sexual fantasy

Alexis Langlois Director

Sonia Deville as Bikeuse Lio

Lio as Motherator

Romy Alizée as Romy the Vampire Slayer

Carlotta Coco as Spike

Dorothy’s a film director and a bit of a loser. One night, after a few beers, she lets loose on her script when a call from her producer kills her buzz: enough with the queer comedies, it’s time to start making mainstream films. To avoid sinking to the deepest depths of despair, Dorothy seeks comfort in her favorite TV show "Romy the Vampire Slayer". Unfortunately, her own demons show up.

Sophie's Ways

1971

French

6.2

♡ 5

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

painting

Moshé Mizrahi Director

Bernadette Lafont as Céline

Micha Bayard as Juana - la bonne espagnole

Carl Studer as L'Américain

Virginie Thévenet as Stéphanie

Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.

L7: Pretend We're Dead

2016

English

7.4

♡ 8

Sarah Price Director

Shirley Manson as Self

Joan Jett as Self

Brody Dalle as Self

Exene Cervenka as Self

A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7.

#Female Pleasure

2018

English

7.5

♡ 5

92%

Barbara Miller Director

Deborah Feldman as Self

Leyla Hussein as Self

Rokudenashiko as Self

Doris Wagner as Self

A plea for the liberation of female sexuality in the 21st century. The film questions millennial patriarchal structures, as well as todays omnipresent porn culture. It accompanies five extraordinary women around the globe, reveals universal contexts and shows the successful fight of these courageous women for a self-determined female sexuality and an equal, passionate relationship between the sexes.

Medusa

2021

Portuguese

5.8

♡ 2

84%

evangelical christianity

Anita Rocha da Silveira Director

Joana Medeiros as Karen

Dora Freind as Leticia

Mariana Oliveira as Mariana

Carol Romano as Vivian

By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

2018

English

7.1

♡ 10

59%

Johanna Demetrakas Director

Michelle Phillips as Herself

Sally Kirkland as Herself

Gloria Steinem as Self

Malala Yousafzai as Self

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.

Miss Marx

2020

Italian

5.8

♡ 5

43%

Susanna Nicchiarelli Director

Romola Garai as Eleanor Marx aka Tussy

Oliver Chris as Friedrich 'Freddy' Demuth

Maria Vera Ratti as Jenny Marx

Philip Gröning as Karl Marx

In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, a children’s rights activist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father’s work. She held her own with twentieth century gods, including both her father and his colleague Engels. In her privately life, however, she was vulnerable and her attraction to the self-indulgent and self-important Edward Aveling led her into misery and ultimately proved fatal.

The Divine Order

2017

German

7.1

♡ 7

85%

husband wife relationship

politics

switzerland

village

Petra Biondina Volpe Director

Sofia Helin as Eden

Ella Rumpf as Hanna

Janis Joplin as Herself

Rachel Braunschweig as Theresa

Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.

Born in Flames

1983

English

6.5

♡ 6

89%

Lizzie Borden Director

Eric Bogosian as CBS Technician

Peggy Lee Brennan as Lawyer with Zella

Kathryn Bigelow as Newspaper Editor

Rosemary Hochschild as Woman in Jail

In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

The Punk Singer

2013

English

7.4

♡ 2

91%

Sini Anderson Director

Gloria Steinem as Self

Tavi Gevinson as Self

Carrie Brownstein as Self

Joan Jett as Self

A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement of the 1990s.

Ladies in Black

2018

English

6.8

♡ 30

88%

75%

Action

australia

based on novel or book

Bruce Beresford Director

Rachael Taylor as Fay

Angourie Rice as Lisa

Julia Ormond as Magda

Nicholas Hammond as Mr. ryder

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.

Potiche

2010

French

♡ 4

84%

François Ozon Director

Judith Godrèche as Joëlle Pujol

Jérémie Renier as Laurent Pujol

Gérard Depardieu as Maurice Babin

Catherine Deneuve as Suzanne Pujol

In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acquiescent wife, Suzanne, whose father had founded the factory, takes over management duties during Robert's convalescence.

Summertime

2015

French

6.7

♡ 19

91%

Catherine Corsini Director

Cécile De France as Carole

Alix Bénézech as Étudiante aux Beaux-Arts

Sarah Suco as Fabienne

Franc Bruneau as Guy

In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.

Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty

2023

Telugu

7.0

♡ 5

60%

Mahesh Babu P. Director Nassar

Nassar as

Harshavardhan as

Naveen Polishetty as

Anushka Shetty as

Miss Shetty is a feminist living in London and wants to be single forever. Mr. Polishetty from Hyderabad in Telangana, India, wants to be in a committed relationship. The two appear to be in different stages of life but somehow connect.

The Disappearance of Shere Hite

2023

English

7.4

♡ 10

100%

Nicole Newnham Director

Mike Douglas as Self

David Hasselhoff as Self

Michael Conrad as Self

Maury Povich as Self

Dakota Johnson as Shere Hite

Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender, sexuality, and bodily autonomy. So how did Shere Hite disappear?

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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

City of Women

Venus in Fur

Winter adé

Shut Up & Sing

The Demons of Dorothy

Sophie's Ways

L7: Pretend We're Dead

#Female Pleasure

Medusa

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

Miss Marx

The Divine Order

Born in Flames

The Punk Singer

Ladies in Black

Potiche

Summertime

Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty

The Disappearance of Shere Hite