Feminist film movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant feminist film movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, touching and independent film films and TV shows about / with feminism, feminist, women, strong female presence, gender, woman, strong female lead, society, female protagonist and girl power plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as feminist film: I, You, He, She (1974), Hidden Figures (2016), Antonia's Line (1995), Ocean's Eight (2018), Wadjda (2012), A Different View (2018), The Runaways (2010), A Question of Silence (1982), Real Women Have Curves (2002), Daughters of the Dust (1991).

List of feminist film movies

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I, You, He, She (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the weak of a devastating breakup.
Style: contemplative, art house, social, experimental, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian sex, lgbt, nudity, lgbtq, feminist, feminism, isolation, breakup, lgbtqi, underground, minimalism ...
Time: 70s
Place: europe, france
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 7.8
 253K
Hidden Figures (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into ...
Style: inspirational, sincere, motivational, touching, factual ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, chick flick, date night, teens ...
Plot: racism, mathematics, nasa, space program, african american, stereotypes, prejudice, sexism, strong female character, scientist, genius, racial segregation ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, year 2016, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place: persia, indiana, virginia, usa, langley virginia
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Antonia's Line (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around ...
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, independent film, art house ...
Plot: village life, strong female character, village, lesbian, philosophy, friendship, women, magic realism, free love, mathematics, generation gap, widow ...
Time: post world war two
Place: germany, holland
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 6.3
 240K
Ocean's Eight (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of seven other female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.
Style: exciting, clever, suspense, saga, tense ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: heist, women, female protagonist, partners in crime, female thief, female criminal, con artists, perfect crime, outsmarting, jewelry, escapades, friends ...
Time: 2010s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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 7.5
 21K
Wadjda (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight ...
Style: stylized, talky, touching, realistic, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: childhood, islam, bicycle, muslim, gender, children, dream, coming of age, friendship, muslim girl, hijab, cycling ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, saudi arabia, maghreb
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A Different View (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
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Story: Things change massively at a girls' school in 1920s Sevilla when a new teacher arrives with a secret goal related to the academy itself.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, period drama
Audience: chick flick
Plot: school, workplace situations, feminist, manipulative woman, workplace, equality, feminism, fatal attraction, twists and turns, family relations, interwar period, lesbian ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: spain
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 6.5
 51K
The Runaways (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengalilike influence of ...
Style: stylized, sexy, teen, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: rock music, music, lesbian, music band, biopic, musician, coming of age, teenage sexuality, rock and roll, punk, revisionist history, sex scene ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, japan, usa
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A Question of Silence (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other two join her in beating the man to death. Other female ...
Style: mind bending, rough, realistic, bleak, tense ...
Plot: feminist, feminism, girl power, philosophy, gender, solidarity, sisterhood, murder, profanity, dishonesty, false accusation, society ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: holland
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Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.
Style: touching, captivating, sentimental, clever, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, overweight, youth, first sex, mother daughter relationship, culture clash, women, dressmaker, physical appearance, working class, unsupportive parent, society ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Style: dark, surreal, stylized, black and white, art house ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, loneliness, cat, prostitute, murder, father son relationship, drug addict, women, following someone, drug use, feminist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place: middle east, iran, persia, maghreb
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Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastion of these mores in America.
Style: independent film, gothic, aesthetic, mysterious, southern gothic ...
Plot: women, feminist, black, women of color, island, feminism, african american, racism, culture clash, black history, pregnancy, memory ...
Time: year 1991, 1900s
Place: indiana, africa, usa, south carolina
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 7.1
 19K
Orlando (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Russia, Italy, France, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1600, nobleman Orlando inherits his parents' house, thanks to Queen Elizabeth I, who commands the young man to never change. After a disastrous affair with Russian princess Sasha, Orlando looks for solace in the arts before being appointed ...
Style: surreal, stylized, period piece, art house, enigmatic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gender bending, gender, transsexual, surrealism, transgender, immortality, painting, women, looking for love, switching roles, feminist, lgbt ...
Time: 17th century, 16th century, year 1992, 18th century, victorian era ...
Place: england, ottoman empire, europe, london, middle east ...
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The Headless Woman (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, aesthetic ...
Plot: feminist, memory loss, car accident, uncover truth, women, twists and turns, hospital, recovery, danger, woman, woman peeing, gender ...
Time: 2000s
Place: argentina, latin america
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 7.6
 171K
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the ...
Style: road movie, sexy, touching, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: road trip, friendship, feminism, female friendship, on the road, fugitives, rape, female bonding, gender, escapades, lovers on the run, attempted rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1991, 90s
Place: arizona, southern usa, oklahoma, bolivia, usa ...
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The Color Purple (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, incest, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, life is a bitch, feminism, slavery, incest rape, abusive relationship, wife abuse, lgbtq ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place: africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
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Born in Flames (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: In a future where a socialist government gains power, a group of women decides to organize and rebel.
Style: independent film, underground film, political, cult classic, indie film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: feminism, lesbian, anarchism, feminist, radical, socialist, sexual harassment, police brutality, racism, anarchist, dystopia, chaos ...
Time: distant future, future
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.3
 15K
Daisies (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap ...
Style: psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surrealism, nihilism, flapper, feminist, feminism, female friendship, absurd humor, teenage girl, women, satire, trippy, youth ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague, europe
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 8.4
 758K
Aliens (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style: scary, futuristic, suspense, space horror, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, space travel, strong female character, space, survival, female warrior, outer space, creature, space and aliens, human versus alien, monster, deadly creature ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1986, 22nd century
Place: space western
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 7.4
 7K
The Circle (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Style: bleak, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: politics, pregnancy, on the run, prostitute, life is a bitch, society, friendship, injustice, feminist, dialogue, women's rights, discrimination ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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 6.7
 26K
Obvious Child (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.
Style: humorous, atmospheric, independent film, witty, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: abortion, pregnancy, kick-butt women, loneliness, feminist, self discovery, relationships, existentialism, unwanted pregnancy, one night stand, nothing goes right, introspection ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city
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 7.5
 44K
Whale Rider (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, ...
Style: touching, emotional, thought provoking, atmospheric, poignant ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: sexism, whale, tradition, coming of age, childhood, culture clash, empowerment, youth, society, female protagonist, women, loss of son ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new zealand, oceania
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Marianne & Juliane (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic ...
Style: political, serious, realistic, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: years of lead, feminist, terrorism, raf, politics, marxist, woman peeing, prison escape, sisters, solidarity, prison, siblings ...
Time: 70s, year 1981
Place: germany, west germany, europe
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 4.2
 238
Spidarlings (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Poverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days, but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start.
Style: lgbt cinema, underground film, psychedelic, psychotronic, horror musical ...
Plot: spider, drag queen, body horror, lesbian, punk, lgbt, camp, tarantula, strong female lead, punk rock, lgbtq, feminist ...
Place: england
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 7.4
 219K
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. ...
Style: inspirational, factual, uplifting, touching, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: environmental, lawyer, court, single mother, justice, small town, contamination, investigation, corporate crime, against the odds, lawsuit, corruption ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Women Without Men (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Ukraine, Morocco, Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
Style: sincere, stylized, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot: women, feminist, society, life is a bitch, social differences, state affairs, rich and poor, coping, feminism, woman, female warrior, iranian ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
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 8.5
 943K
Alien (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast ...
Audience: kids, manly, adult
Plot: alien, monster, space travel, outer space, space and aliens, evil alien, space, heroine, female protagonist, survival horror, spaceship, alien monster ...
Time: future, 22nd century, 20th century, year 1979, distant future
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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: friendship, small town, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, small town life, cannibalism, female bonding, midlife crisis, female protagonist, discrimination, lesbian love ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana
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The Gold Diggers (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into a post-punk, heady brew.
Style: experimental, independent film, avant garde
Plot: feminist, money, bank, golddigger, feminism, lady, chase, mother daughter relationship, dancing, tap dancer, prospector, stage play ...
Place: yukon
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The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could ...
Style: touching, stylized, talky, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: feminism, culture clash, against the odds, injustice, feminist, life is a bitch, society, rebelliousness, women, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, bicycle ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play ...
Style: feel good, touching, light, sweet, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: soccer, football, culture clash, friendship, hinduism, wedding, feminism, immigrant, tradition, stereotypes, coach, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, hamburg germany, germany
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