| Gold Leaf (2021) | 8.3 | |
| The Help (2011) | 8.1 | |
| Tootsie (1982) | 7.4 | |
| Bad Girlz (2025) | 9.4 | |
| A Woman's Fate (2021) | 8.1 |
Female empowerment movies and TV shows – page 5
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List of female empowerment movies
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ah Ying (Chen Ping) is a former gangster trying to lead an honest life, and occasionally using her fighting skills to help out the girls in the factory where she now works. She befriends young colleagues Chong Lee and Shao Yin-Yin, teaching them ...
Style:
crime drama, action drama, crime thriller, period piece, cult classic
Plot:
stepfather stepdaughter relationship, sisterhood, female protagonist, martial arts, female empowerment, friendship, violence, factory, urban, resilience, mentor protege relationship, female vigilante ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's a girl. With everyone from the coach to her next door neighbor against her, she's out ...
Style:
inspirational, heartfelt
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
american football, underdog, perseverance, high school football, female empowerment, determination, small town, gender equality, sexism, teenage protagonist, competition, trailblazer ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, period piece
Plot:
women, escape, female empowerment, solidarity, poverty, empowerment, friendship, working conditions, determination, working class, village life, resilience ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story:
This story's heroine is Qiao An but told modly through the eyes of her friend, Ni Hao. Qiao An used to be from a wealthy family but then something happened, her dad ran away, and now she's working from the bottom up. She's a real ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
female protagonist, ambition, workplace, workplace intrigue, corporate world, businesswoman, female empowerment, lifestyle change, changing lives, wealthy family, heiress, money problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Husband and wife Nora and Héctor's scientific breakthrough lets them time travel from 1966 to 2025. As Héctor struggles, Nora thrives—but at what cost?
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
female empowerment, travel, sexism, gender roles, culture clash, personal growth, feminism, social change, adaptation, identity crisis, fish out of water, liberation ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1966, 2020s, 21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Shaurya, a male chauvinist who believes that every girl's future belongs in the kitchen, is in for a surprise when he crosses paths with Anokhi, a hardworking girl.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opposites attract, male chauvinism, gender roles, patriarchy, female empowerment, romantic relationship, love story, male female relationship, relationships, love interest, couple relations, love affair ...
Place:
india
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In mid '90s, 3 female high school-grad office workers take up English classes together to get promotions and they team up to uncover corruption within their company.
Style:
semi serious, disturbing, captivating, realistic, period piece ...
Plot:
friendship, office, whistleblower, corporate corruption, female empowerment, workplace, office politics, manipulation, rivalry, twentysomething life, company, secret revealed ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
south korea, seoul
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
A goal kicking comedy drama about girls who are abandoning the sidelines and starting their local football club’s first all-female team. Against the odds, they’ll stand united and overcome any challenge the club, the boys or the opposition can ...
Style:
semi serious, disturbing, captivating, uplifting, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
soccer, football, friendship, female friendship, teamwork, football team, female empowerment, sport team, coping, female protagonist, ambitious woman, women ...
Place:
australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Akira Sharma is your average Jane from Jodhpur. Early in life she sees an atrocity committed on a neighbour and learns to defend herself. And, a spitfire is born.
Style:
action thriller, tense, suspense, brutal
Plot:
female martial artist, police corruption, female protagonist, false accusation, corruption, strong female lead, female empowerment, self defense, college, revenge, blackmail, murder ...
Place:
mumbai india
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1930 and as a young child, Tsuneko Kohashi lives at Enshu in Shizuoka Prefecture. She has a happy life with her parents and two younger sisters. Things change after her father dies from tuberculosis. Her father asked Tsuneko Kohashi to take care ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, satirical, psychological, heartfelt ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, women, entrepreneurship, magazine, sisterhood, female empowerment, family drama, resilience, perseverance, japanese woman, social problems, satire ...
Time:
post world war two, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
tokyo, japan
Is relevant?
106
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Leslie (Tony Award Winner ALICE RIPLEY), a housewife and 50-plus piano teacher, decides to follow her life-long dream of being a rock 'n roll singer much to the chagrin of her husband (SAG Award Winner ROBERT CLOHESSY), who is running for ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, feel good, uplifting ...
Plot:
rock band, dream, middle aged, housewife, rock and roll, female empowerment, musician, politician, musician's life, rock music, ambitious woman, female protagonist ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
After the breakthrough success of 'The Cariocas', the spin-off 'The Brazilians - The Women' embraces all the diversity of Brazil and its women. Powerful, fragile, funny, protective, beautiful, talented, insightful, and especially ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, hopes, couples, feminism, human spirit, strong female presence, city life, female empowerment, friendship, travel, identity, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Iran
TV show
Story:
The series Ghorbat tells the story of women fighting for freedom while living under the oppression of a ruthless dictator. These women secretly plan to escape from his clutches, but to do so, they need financial resources. Desperation drives them to ...
Style:
suspense, tension, grim, political drama
Plot:
female empowerment, dictator, oppression, resistance, fight for freedom, rebellion, social justice, solidarity, resilience, martial law, courage, escape ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It tells the inspiring story of a woman who, after surviving a brutal acid attack, refuses to be defined by society's rejection and follows her passion for music. Despite facing challenges in education and employment due to her disfigured face, ...
Style:
emotional, uplifting, intense
Plot:
inspiration, determination, female protagonist, empowerment, female empowerment, strength, human spirit, resilience, moving, classical music, prejudice, vocalist ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
Kesari Nandan wants to wrestle to fulfill her father Hanumant's dream. But Hanumant believes that girls cannot wrestle. Kesari fakes being a boy to wrestle and starts learning wrestling from Hanumant. When people get to know the truth about ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, emotional, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, female protagonist, ambition, girl, wrestling, courage, female athlete, determination, women's wrestling, gender roles, resilience, female empowerment ...
Place:
india
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
TV show
Story:
It revolves around Aurora, Yuliana, Manuela and Tabatha, four women seduced by power and money. Aurora's life changes the day the authorities unfairly kill her father. Once a citizen of Tierra Blanca, she became the leader of a group of women ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot:
revenge, social injustice, seduction, sisterhood, female empowerment, patriarchy, rich, power, women, showdown, attempted seduction, bossy woman ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
latin america
Is relevant?
137
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jenny was made for love and Lana for gambling. In this old-fashioned country, Lebanon, women have no say. Defying everyone and everything they will fight for their freedom whatever the cost.
Style:
crime drama, action packed, serious, emotional, tension
Plot:
gambling, female friendship, women's rights, patriarchy, female empowerment, oppression, courage, sisterhood, rebellion, gangster, escape, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
lebanon, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A group of women fight patriarchy and societal values. Prem Kaur, a new police officer, uncovers dark secrets and becomes a beacon of hope for the womenfolk.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, crime drama, tense, detective
Plot:
patriarchy, women's rights, female protagonist, female empowerment, feminism, activism, resilience, social justice, solidarity, female friendship, investigation, reform ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Pakistan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mother and her two daughters fight to protect their home.
Style:
tense, realistic, intense, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, bravery, determination, mother and daughter, female empowerment, siege, resistance, courage, land dispute, family drama, sisters, social commentary ...
Place:
middle east, pakistan
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The plot addresses Maria Luísa's struggle for freedom, the struggle for rights and privileges that, at the time, were reserved almost exclusively to men. Maria Luísa decides to assume a false identity - that of a man.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gender disguise, female protagonist, gender roles, patriarchy, female empowerment, feminist, oppression, women's rights, social problems, pretense, pretending to be someone else, gender issues ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
portugal
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A woman in a Catholic brotherhood in the south of Spain tries to be president in a world traditionally reserved to men.
Style:
humorous, psychological, captivating, independent film, social ...
Plot:
religion, female protagonist, women's rights, society, female empowerment, patriarchy, catholicism, tradition, political satire, social relations, social satire, civil rights movement ...
Place:
spain, andalusia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
TV show
Story:
Actor-turned-director Valérie Donzelli brings us Nona and Her Daughters, a delightful 30-minute dramedy series on the theme of motherhood. Nona, brought to life by the enchanting Miou-Miou (Going Places, Entre Nous) is a 70-year-old feminist. ...
Style:
funny, exciting, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
motherhood, pregnancy, female empowerment, feminism, sister sister relationship, sister, daughter, kids and family, family problems, mother daughter relationship, family life, three sisters ...
Place:
france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Four women set up an undercover detective agency to expose philandering husbands.
Style:
detective, tense, bleak, black comedy, noir
Plot:
infidelity, feminism, female friendship, sexism, women's rights, social commentary, female empowerment, gender roles, patriarchy, marriage, undercover, investigation ...
Place:
pakistan
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Genre: Drama
Country: United Arab Emirates
TV show
Story:
The show follows an ambitious young Arab female lawyer who got her law degree in the US and instead of joining her father's law firm back at home (UAE) she decides to go out on her own as a defense attorney, pushing the legal and cultural ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
female lawyer, female protagonist, ambition, father daughter relationship, attorney, courtroom, independent woman, defense attorney, female empowerment, hotshot lawyer, job, lawyer ...
Place:
dubai
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
A high-art, high-fashion showcase of a star's many personas-and a vivid reminder that our art, not our obstacles, ultimately defines us. Free, focused, and fucking shit up again, it shows every side of Fergie-the superstar, the visual artist, ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, aesthetic, dramatic ...
Plot:
eroticism, creative process, pop culture, female artist, female empowerment, female protagonist, sexual relations, seductress, seductive woman, music, fashion, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
This 1970s period dramedy inspired by the real life Kyle Richards and set amid the sexual revolution and the rise of second-wave feminism follows Bonnie, an unconventional mother struggling to raise her two daughters after leaving her husband. With ...
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, ironic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
sexual revolution, single mother, housewife, crumbling marriage, changing lives, female empowerment, mother daughter relationship, independence, female friendship, child care, topical humor, personal growth ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Kamali is a happy-go-lucky girl from a small town. She is a weak student who is hardly interested in studies when she falls in love with a studious boy in Chennai who aspires to make it to IIT Madras. She decides to take her studies seriously and ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, inspirational, uplifting ...
Plot:
education, women's rights, village life, village, female empowerment, problem, countryside, female protagonist, personal growth, aspiration, perseverance, determination ...
Place:
india
Is relevant?
284
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
inspired by the life of Santokben Jadeja, who ran the Mafia operations of Porbandar, Gujarat in the late 1980s and early 1990s and later turned politician.[1]
Style:
crime drama, political thriller, social
Plot:
mafia, crime family, political corruption, female protagonist, revenge, female empowerment, organized crime, corrupt system, murder of husband, rise to power, power struggle, survival ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Vanished genius boxer Kwon-sook and cold-hearted agent Tae-young risk all to defy match-fixing's clutches.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, exciting, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
female boxer, boxer, boxing, female protagonist, sporting event, sport competition, professional athlete, sports man, athlete and trainer, professional sports, female athlete, breaking point ...
Place:
seoul
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
Story:
A corruption inspector suddenly inherits a great fortune. In this mystery, she tries to regain her memory.
Style:
semi serious, disturbing, captivating, entertaining, psychological ...
Plot:
prosecutor, female protagonist, amnesia, memory loss, housewife, switching roles, body swapping, lifestyle change, changing lives, amnesiac, memory lapse, repressed memory ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
seoul
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