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Genre "Feminist Film" Movies
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| 1. A League of Their Own (year: 1992) |
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The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asi ...
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| 2. Adoption (year: 1975) |
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The film zeroes in on two women: Kata, older and widowed, and Anna, a downtrodden young women kept in a children's institution by her unloving parents ...
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| 3. Bandidas (year: 2006) |
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Latina heartthrobs Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz co-headline the rousing indie Western Bandidas. The brainchild of producer/screenwriter Luc Besson (L ...
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| 4. Brick Lane (year: 2007) |
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Director Sarah Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan team to adapt author Monica Ali's award-winning novel about a young girl from Bangladesh who finds t ...
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| 5. Dangerous Beauty (year: 1998) |
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Marshall Herskovitz directed this look at life in 16th-century Venice, based on Margaret Rosenthal's 1994 book The Honest Courtesan. Positioned outsid ...
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| 6. Erin Brockovich (year: 2000) |
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Julia Roberts stars in this legal drama based on the true story of a woman who helped win the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit. ...
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| 7. Fried Green Tomatoes (year: 1991) |
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A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evel ...
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| 8. Ginger Snaps (year: 2000) |
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In the generic Canadian suburb of Bailey Downs live Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), 15-year-old sisters committed to introve ...
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| 9. Heart Like a Wheel (year: 1983) |
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Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia as real-life racing champion Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. Overcoming sexist hurdles, Shirley works h ...
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| 10. If These Walls Could Talk 2 (year: 2000) |
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This three-part drama, produced for HBO, examines the changing tides of the lives of lesbians in America, both politically and personally, as we eaves ...
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| 11. In the Cut (year: 2003) |
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Jane Campion directs the erotic thriller In the Cut, based on the best-selling suspense novel by Susanna Moore. Set in New York City during the summer ...
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| 12. Iron Jawed Angels (year: 2004) |
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German filmmaker Katja von Garnier directs the HBO original movie Iron Jawed Angels, inspired by a pivotal chapter in American history. Hilary Swank p ...
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| 13. Lianna (year: 1983) |
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After helping to kick-start the independent film movement in America with The Return of the Secaucus Seven, John Sayles wrote, directed, and edited hi ...
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| 14. Mona Lisa Smile (year: 2003) |
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Set in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a new young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-femal ...
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| 15. Orlando (year: 1992) |
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Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main chara ...
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| 16. Punch Lady (year: 2007) |
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Do ji-won stars in this tense and cathartic South Korean drama as a battered housewife whose husband's regular beatings drive her to the absolute brea ...
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| 17. Sexo Por Compasion (year: 2000) |
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The healing power of the sexual act is the focus of this magic-realist entry, shot in Mexico and produced in Spain by writer-director Laura Mana. Evok ...
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| 18. Stigmata (year: 1991) |
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| 19. The Color Purple (year: 1985) |
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) ...
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| 20. The Hours (year: 2002) |
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Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature in this film ...
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| 21. The Mists of Avalon (year: 2001) |
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This three-hour miniseries adapts Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist recasting of the Arthurian mythos into a big-budget cable television event. In anci ...
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