Strong female presence movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant strong female presence movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, humorous, semi serious, touching and captivating films and TV shows about / with strong female presence, society, female protagonist, women, lesbian, youth, friendship, woman, friends and hopes plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
strong female presence
TOP 10 movies tagged as strong female presence: Sunny (2011), Miss Congeniality (2000), Land Girls (2009), Bloomington (2010), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Go for Sisters (2013), Bachelorette (2012), GCB (2012), Switch (2012), The Dovekeepers (2015).
Best films
List of strong female presence movies
6K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Na-mi, a transfer student, becomes a laughingstock on her first day of school because of her strong southern dialect. Six girls jump in to help the new kid adapt to the new environment, and the girls come to call their circle of friends ...
Style:
touching, humorous, sad, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
strong female presence, bullying, high school, best friends, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, social relations, friendship, hospital, coming of age, female friendship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
asia, korea
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
undercover agent, fish out of water, beauty pageant, female agent, personality change, working undercover, strong female lead, fbi agent, tomboy, fbi, tough girl, special agents ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
hawaii, austin texas, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, life is a bitch, family relations, military, strong female presence, friendship, soldier, rise and fall, love, women, intrigue ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A former child actress attends college in search of independence and ends up becoming romantically involved with a female professor. Their relationship thrives until an opportunity to return to acting forces her to make life-altering decisions.
Style:
sexy, touching, sexual, erotic, serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, gays and lesbians, lesbian couple, lesbian teen, teacher student relationship, lesbian sex, college, love, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, indiana
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, romantic, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
feminism, dedicated educator, teacher, art, college, women, teachers and students, coming of age, mentor, teenager, irreverence, gender ...
Time:
50s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
massachusetts, california, new jersey, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne’s parole officer- just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law.
Style:
serious, sincere, tense, realistic
Plot:
friends, family problems, strong female presence, friendship, addiction, missing child, missing person, murder, missing boy, disgraced, warden, missing son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, africa, mexico, california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.
Style:
ridiculous, funny, light, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
hung over, bridesmaid, friendship, casual sex, slumber party, women, wedding, high school, nothing goes right, wedding dress, teenager, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
california, new jersey, usa, new york
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9K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 430 min.
TV show
Story:
Amanda Vaughn, once the ultimate high school "mean girl," is forced to return home in disgrace after her marriage ends in scandal. As Amanda and her teenage kids try to adjust to their new lives, the ladies from her past alternate between ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
gossip and rumors, strong female presence, rivalry, starting over, hypocrisy, social relations, family relations, intrigue, hopes, haunted by the past, homecoming, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, dallas texas
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399
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The adventures of a group of witches living in the city.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sexy
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, strong female presence, magic, witchcraft, city life, curses spells and rituals, fashion, witch, female friendship, coven, deaf, nude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
This four-hour miniseries is based on Alice Hoffman’s acclaimed historical novel about four extraordinary women whose lives intersect in a fight for survival at the siege of Masada.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, biblical ...
Plot:
strong female presence, survival, religion, society, political unrest, rebellion, rebelliousness, siege, love and romance, antiquity, battles, hopes ...
Time:
1st century
Place:
holy land, israel, jerusalem, middle east
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Following Madoka's rewriting of the universe, sacrificing herself and her happy normal days to save all magical girls from the cruel fate that awaited them by wiping witches out of existence, the despair still manifest into creatures known as ...
Style:
anime, bleak, tense, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
magical girl, strong female presence, magic, surrealism, teenage life, twists and turns, wizards and magicians, supernatural, young heroes, high school, female friendship, wish come true ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows ...
Style:
erotic, realistic, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
brothel, sexual relations, strong female presence, prostitute, workplace, power relations, strong sexual content, lifestyle, society, slice of life, women, woman ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision...
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
introspection, breakup, strong female presence, singleness, unfulfillment, friendship, women, love and romance, society, bittersweet, thirtysomething life, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Animation, Short
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
Story:
SKRM (Skultimate Roller Maze) is an annual tournament between Monster High and different monster high schools that consists of a roller derby of dangerous obstacles and mazes. Granite City High, a high school team of gargoyles and Monster ...
Style:
exciting, sincere, anime, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
high school, high school life, vampire, friendship, supernatural ability, contests and competitions, teenage life, strong female presence, friends, social relations, ambition, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Latvia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A fantastical tale based on true events, about five women of Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and madness.
Style:
surreal, stylized, humorous, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
depression, mental illness, strong female presence, redemption, hopes, family relations, mental health, women, psychiatry, stop motion, escapades, suicide ...
Place:
latvia, ussr
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88K
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, light, melancholic, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
dancing, desire for fame, performer's life, cabaret, ambition, love and romance, performance, dancer, musician, nightlife, sexy woman, follow your dream ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, iowa, canada, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, psychological, touching
Plot:
world war two, village, female protagonist, strong female presence, wartime life, social relations, life is a bitch, society, friends, family relations, father son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Focusing on a group of women working in a munitions plant during World War II, this ensemble drama depicts the dangers and new experiences they face.
Style:
captivating, realistic, stylized, serious, tense
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, wartime life, working woman, factory, life is a bitch, sexism, workplace, gender, society, accident, strong female presence, strong female lead ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
strong female presence, prostitute, couples, city life, singleness, lifestyle, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three young friends, Tita, Mari and Aninha decide to change their situations and travel to a beach place for a weekend. On the road, they meet Estrella, a hippie that wants a hide to try to find her unknown father. Together, they will live ...
Style:
sexy, not serious, humorous, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
strong female presence, friends, buddies, escapades, silly humor, best friends, disorder, youth, beach, on the road, twentysomething life, drugs/alcohol ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
It's okay to feel intimidated - it's one night out with four talented women who are probably smarter than you, most likely sexier than you and definitely funnier than you. Top comediennes and close friends Amy Schumer, Rachel Feinstein, ...
Style:
witty, talky, humorous, clever, not serious ...
Plot:
strong female presence, couples, feminism, society, battle of the sexes, dark humor, sexual relations, gender, couple relations, racism, theater, stand up ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
A collection of hilarious and sometimes heinous moments from the real lives of three girls living in New York trying to make it as actors, or anything, really - as told to their therapist. Yes, they all see the same therapist.
Style:
talky, realistic, not serious, humorous
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
strong female presence, friends, best friends, friendship, actor's life, artists and showbiz, twentysomething life, city life, girl, motivation, communication, therapy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Shut inside their cars, two women face off in a silent duel that is fought out in the intimate violence of their stares. A wholly female duel punctuated by the refusal to drink, eat and sleep; more obstinate than the sun of Palermo and more stubborn ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot:
strong female presence, disorder, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, old woman, lesbian, driving, bet, food, dog, boat, sleeping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, sicily
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Asia is a young Iranian woman whose brother has been tortured in prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the recent controversial presidential elections in Iran. She goes to Berlin to find the grave of Hitler fulfilling a promise made to her ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, tense, serious, contemplative
Plot:
society, strong female presence, religions or cults, rabbi, political unrest, iranian, promise
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, germany, europe, berlin germany
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A girl gets in a car accident and wanders through the woods, encountering all kinds of nightmarish things.
Style:
experimental, atmospheric, surreal, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
strong female presence, memory loss, haunted by the past, forest, graphic violence, fear, surrealism, mental disorder, nightmare, a vision, on the road, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anna is coming out. But not as gay as a revolutionary. Itty Bitty Titty Committee is a rockin love song to the heady rush of sex, freedom and rebellion that happens when an everyday girl discovers her own strength and the righteous indignation ...
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, feminist film, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
lesbian, cheerleader, lesbian sex, lgbtq, gender, lgbt, feminism, breakup, coming out, fall in love, gays and lesbians, couples ...
Time:
year 1984, year 1948
Place:
mississippi, virginia, bahamas, sacramento california, california ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
female soldier, military, soldier, british army, military life, self discovery, doctor, basic training, female warrior, officers and cadets, power relations, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, england, afghanistan
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina, South Of Hell focuses on Maria Abascal (Suvari), a stunning demon-hunter-for-hire whose power stems from within. Like those she hunts, Maria is divided within herself, struggling with her own demon, ...
Style:
scary, serious, twist ending, suspenseful
Plot:
demon hunter, supernatural, supernatural ability, demon, religions or cults, good versus evil, small town, siblings relations, track down, family relations, strong female presence, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa, georgia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Florence, a young irresponsible mother and her precocious daughter, Eugenia, have an unusual relationship. The roles between the two are reversed. Florence is totally inept at caring for a daughter, whereas Eugenia, only 10 years old, shows maturity ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
drug use, abortion, dysfunctional family, youth, pregnancy, family relations, precocious child, single parent, child as adult, drug dealer, grandmother granddaughter relationship, pregnant woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Frankie is a British television drama series created by Lucy Gannon. The series stars Eve Myles as the eponymous character Frankie Maddox, a district nurse more emotionally involved with her job than her personal life. The series is both set and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Plot:
hospital, strong female presence, redemption, hopes, workplace, supportive coworker, workplace situations, female protagonist, nurse, british, patient, bbc ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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