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1. Don't Cry, Pretty Girls! (1970)
84 min | Drama, Music
Savanyú and his friends work at a plant. After the monotonous shifts they engage in the pleasures of the afternoon and the night: Sex, parties and concerts. Savanyú dates Juli, who works in... See full summary »
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Kati Sir, Márk Zala, Lajos Balázsovits
Votes: 399
2. News from Home (1976)
85 min | Documentary
Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Star: Chantal Akerman
Votes: 2,809
3. My Survival as an Aboriginal (1979)
49 min | Documentary, History
The movie delves beneath surface appearances to reveal a strong resistance to assimilation and loss of identity, as the late Essie Coffey, a Murrawarri woman, takes us into the Aboriginal struggle for survival.
Director: Essie Coffey | Star: Essie Coffey
Votes: 16
4. Crystal Gazing (1982)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Four people - a science fiction illustrator, a saxophonist who moves from busking to Top of the Pops, an analyst of satellite photography and Julian, a PHD student, meet at intervals, their... See full summary »
Directors: Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen | Stars: Gavin Richards, Lora Logic, Mary Maddox, Jeff Rawle
Votes: 25
5. Diary for My Children (1984)
Unrated | 106 min | Biography, Drama
Having lost her parents to Stalin's purges, a girl returns from Soviet Union to her native Hungary to live with her Stalinist aunt.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Ágnes Csere, Anna Polony, Teri Földi
Votes: 1,014
6. Topos (1985)
91 min | Drama, History
During its 85-minute, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in Western art.
Director: Antouanetta Angelidi | Stars: Jany Gastaldi, Magia Lymberopoulou, Annita Santorinaiou, Arietta Moutousi
Votes: 122
7. Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989)
108 min | Documentary, History, Romance
Trinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present. She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contradictions.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Votes: 188
8. Two Sisters (1991)
10 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Two sisters live alone on an island. Viola, whose face is terribly disfigured, writes beautiful novels in her room. Marie is protective and won't let anyone see her sister. Then, a fan of Viola's books swims up on shore.
Director: Caroline Leaf | Stars: Kathleen Fee, Michael Rudder, Jane Woods
Votes: 345
9. Debt Begins at 20 (1980)
38 min | Short
With music by The Cardboards, The Shakes, Hans Brinker and The Dykes. By combining semi-fictionalized and documentary material, this film is as definitive a record of the Pittsburgh punk ... See full summary »
Director: Stephanie Bereos | Star: Reid Paley
Votes: 23
10. The Vanishing Lion (2003)
Not Rated | 12 min | Romance, Short
Magic, synchronicity, love and loss around the Place Denfert-Rochereaus and its famous statue of the lion of Denfert.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Julie Depardieu, Frédérick E. Grasser-Hermé, Silvia Urrutia, David Deciron
Votes: 716
11. Walking and Talking (1996)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.
Director: Nicole Holofcener | Stars: Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Amy Braverman, Miranda Rhyne
Votes: 3,939 | Gross: $1.28M
12. The Big Steal (1990)
99 min | Comedy
To impress a girl a shy teenaged boy buys a used Jaguar.
Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan, Marshall Napier, Damon Herriman
Votes: 1,462
13. Blue Steel (1990)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A rookie in the police force must engage in a cat-and-mouse game with a pistol-wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña
Votes: 17,775 | Gross: $8.22M
14. Family (I) (2001)
90 min | Documentary, Drama
The directors, who are also partners, take a journey in pursuit of Sami's father, who abandoned his Danish family when Sami was very young. Before this ambitious film project started, ... See full summary »
Directors: Phie Ambo, Sami Saif | Stars: Phie Ambo, Sami Saif, Walid Khalil Kaid Saif
Votes: 180
16. Salt of This Sea (2008)
Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home.
Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Dana Drigov
Votes: 1,463 | Gross: $0.01M
17. One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, History
The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès, Mona Mairesse
Votes: 2,535 | Gross: $0.02M
18. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
R | 157 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong
Votes: 318,942 | Gross: $95.72M
19. The Hurt Locker (2008)
R | 131 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce
Votes: 473,794 | Gross: $17.02M
20. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
Not Rated | 111 min | Documentary, Sport
The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford, Erwin Blask
Votes: 5,239
21. Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Sport
The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi, Ferenc Csík
Votes: 4,325
22. Triumph of the Will (1935)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History
The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Max Amann, Martin Bormann
Votes: 18,322
23. Four Little Adults (2023)
122 min | Drama
A middle-aged couple who, in the middle of an infidelity crisis, decide to open their marriage and venture into polyamory.
Director: Selma Vilhunen | Stars: Alma Pöysti, Vilhelm Blomgren, Eero Milonoff, Oona Airola
Votes: 322
24. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck
Votes: 27,296
25. Love It Was Not (2020)
86 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
The tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
Director: Maya Sarfaty | Stars: Helena Citron, Roza Citron, Frank Wunsch
Votes: 187
26. The Most Beautiful Woman (2016)
32 min | Documentary, Short
A tragic love story between a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and SS officer.
Director: Maya Sarfaty
Votes: 7
27. Ma (2015)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
MA is a striking modern-day vision of Mother Mary's pilgrimage through the eyes of Ma (played by Celia Rowlson-Hall), a woman who must venture across the scorched landscape of the American Southwest to fulfill her destiny.
Director: Celia Rowlson-Hall | Stars: Kentucker Audley, Matt Lauria, Andrew Pastides, Michelle Perks
Votes: 242
28. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig | Stars: Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Benny Safdie
Votes: 27,435
29. Children of a Lesser God (1986)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
Director: Randa Haines | Stars: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco
Votes: 18,680 | Gross: $31.85M
30. Hotel Monterey (1973)
65 min | Documentary
Hotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual place as well as the people who live there, from the reception up to the last story.
Director: Chantal Akerman
Votes: 913
31. Last Summer (2023)
104 min | Drama, Thriller
Follows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau
Votes: 1,759
32. Unruly (2022)
135 min | Drama
The year is 1933, and society has very specific expectations of how young women should behave. Seventeen-year-old Maren is wild and unruly, so she is sent to the women's institution on Sprogø to adapt. The stay has the opposite effect.
Director: Malou Reymann | Stars: Amalie Drud Abildgaard, Lene Maria Christensen, Danica Curcic, Jessica Dinnage
Votes: 682
33. The Lighthouse (2006)
80 min | Drama, War
In the 90s, Lena returns to the home of her grandparents in a tiny, war-torn village in Armenia. Lena begs them to follow her lead and retreat to the safety of Moscow. They are hesitant to ... See full summary »
Director: Mariya Saakyan | Stars: Anna Kapaleva, Olga Yakovleva, Sos Sargsyan, Sofiko Chiaureli
Votes: 810
34. The Current (2017 Video)
61 min
The artist is lying outdoors on a metal bunk bed as a storm seems to approach. Metaphorically, her body holds an electrical source and becomes a transmitter and conductor of energy as the current flows through it.
Director: Marina Abramovic | Star: Marina Abramovic
Votes: 6
35. I Was at Home, But... (2019)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
Director: Angela Schanelec | Stars: Thorbjörn Björnsson, Esther Buss, Martin Clausen, Lucas Confurius
Votes: 1,200
36. Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.
Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum
Votes: 26,069 | Gross: $27.40M
37. Baise-moi (2000)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences.
Directors: Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi | Stars: Raffaëla Anderson, Karen Lancaume, Céline Beugnot, Adama Niane
Votes: 18,564 | Gross: $0.01M
38. Nico Icon (1995)
67 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item,... See full summary »
Director: Susanne Ofteringer | Stars: Nico, Tina Aumont, Christian Päffgen, Edith Boulogne
Votes: 748 | Gross: $0.21M
39. Ladies in Waiting (2023)
68 min | Documentary
As the era of psychiatric asylums in Europe draws to an end, Ladies in Waiting opens a window to its past. Through the unique perspectives of caregivers from the Psychiatric Hospital of ... See full summary »
Director: Ioanna Tsoucala
Votes: 19
40. After Before (2016)
31 min | Short
A documentary made by Athina Rachel Tsangari, from footage she captured on location in Greece during the film's production, interspersed with candid conversations between Linklater, Delpy, and Hawke after the final day of shooting.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Panos Koronis
Votes: 72
41. 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: 7,670 | Gross: $0.02M
42. Chevalier (2015)
Unrated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A fishing trip in the Aegean Sea among a sextet of friends becomes the perfect setting for a relentless contest of male dominance. Everything can spark a fierce competition; but, only one can wear the precious chevalier. Who will it be?
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Nikos Orfanos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Yiorgos Kendros
Votes: 4,968 | Gross: $0.03M
43. Girlfight (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama, Sport
Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.
Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Douglas Santiago, Jamie Tirelli, Paul Calderon
Votes: 11,382 | Gross: $1.52M
44. The Invitation (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When a man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, the unsettling past reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.
Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michiel Huisman, Tammy Blanchard
Votes: 119,094 | Gross: $0.23M
45. Under the Open Sky (2020)
126 min | Crime, Drama
A lifelong Yakuza, released from prison after 13 years, journeys to find the mother who abandoned him as a child. He is hindered by his gangster past and struggles to adapt to his new life outside of prison.
Director: Miwa Nishikawa | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Seiji Rokkaku, Yukiya Kitamura, Hakuryû
Votes: 1,819
46. Old Joy (2006)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama
Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith, Robin Rosenberg
Votes: 8,828 | Gross: $0.26M
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