Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Drama > Girl-centric: 51 films to Buy on DVD
- Reality (2023)
- A potent chamber drama that re–enacts true events surrounding a government security breach related to Russian interference in the 2016 US…
- DVD $29.95
- Shayda (2023)
- This Australian drama filmed mostly in the Persian language is made something special by two magnetic actresses. Iranian émigré Zar Amir Ebrahimi…
- DVD $29.95
- Quiet Girl, The (An Cailín Ciúin) (2022)
- An exquisite rites–of–passage drama filmed mostly in the Irish/Gaelic language, it is the very definition of a literary pastoral that…
- DVD $29.95
- Two Tickets To Greece (2022)
- A sunlit escapist comedy set in Les Cyclades (the original French title) starring Laure Calamy and Olivia Côte as long–estranged childhood…
- DVD $29.95
- Full Time (A Plien Temps) (2021)
- A cracker of a French drama that teeters on the edge of a thriller throughout because it’s all about the pressure cooker that is modern life.…
- DVD $29.95
- To Chiara (A Chiara) (2021)
- A rites–of–passage drama in the Italian neo–realist tradition that examines the impact of Mafia activity on those in the close…
- DVD $29.95
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Guzen to Sozo) (2021)
- An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, the director of DRIVE MY CAR explores…
- DVD $29.95
- Worst Person in the World, The (2021)
- Gloriously provocative and richly perceptive comedy drama from talented Norwegian director Joachim Trier (THELMA), which follows an unpredictable,…
- DVD $29.95
- Shirley (2020)
- Elisabeth Moss gives another inspired performance in this literary themed thriller, playing a renowned horror writer who is interrupted on the brink…
- DVD $29.95
- Deep Water (Mini-series) (2019)
- Hailed as Britain's answer to BIG LITTLE LIES, this modern day drama about three school–run mothers balancing work and family pressures is…
- DVD $29.95
- Girlfriends (TV Series) (2018)
- British TV comedy following a trio of middle–aged woman who were friends in childhood, and who are coping with divorce, age discrimination,…
- DVD $34.95
- Good Girls (TV Series) (2018)
- A female–centric take on the premise of BREAKING BAD in which three suburban moms who're tired of trying to make ends meet take a leap into…
- DVD $29.95, $34.95, $34.95
- Judy & Punch (Judy and Punch) (2018)
- A gorgeously carnivalesque and blackly comic Australian period drama in which the traditional fairy tale of Punch and Judy is turned on its head. The…
- DVD $29.95
- Kindergarten Teacher, The (2018)
- English–language remake of the 2014 Israeli film of the same name about a jaded teacher, mother and aspiring poet who becomes obsessed with one…
- DVD $29.95
- Little Woods (2018)
- Impressive debut from writer–director Nia DaCosta, detailing the struggles faced by a pair of sisters trying to make ends meet in an…
- DVD $29.95
- Red Joan (2018)
- The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest–serving British spy. Arrested in retirement by the MI5, the extraordinary…
- DVD $19.95
- Working Woman (2018)
- Workplace drama capturing the spirit of the "Me Too" movement to tell the story of a smart and capable mother of three who returns to the workforce…
- DVD $29.95
- Aurore (I Got Life!) (2017)
- Actress and co–writer Jaoui is the heart and soul of this witty if overly–familiar rom–com as the eponymous 50–year–old…
- DVD $29.95
- I Am Not a Witch (2017)
- Full of joy and tragedy in the equal measure, this assured debut from Zambian writer–director Rungano Nyoni follows the story of 9–year…
- DVD
$29.95 $19.95
- Novitiate (2017)
- A young woman in 1960's Tennessee decides to give her life to God and studies to become a nun with the Sisters of the Beloved Rose. But amidst the…
- DVD $24.95
- Like Crazy (La Pazza Gioia) (2016)
- Gratifying comedy–drama following two women, one a troubled introvert, one an impassioned mythomaniac, who break out of a psychiatric facility…
- DVD $29.95
- Mum (TV Series) (2016-2019)
- Quality British character comedy following twelve months in the life of a newly widowed mother in her late fifties who attempts to rebuild her life…
- DVD $29.95, $34.95
- Sami Blood (2016)
- Emotionally powerful female coming–of–age movie set in 1930's Sweden, where a reindeer–herding teenager, an indigenous Sami child,…
- DVD $29.95
- Diary of a Teenage Girl, The (2015)
- This brave and bittersweet portrait of an unusual sexual awakening has Bel Powley as a fledgling cartoonist entering into a relationship with her…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Dressmaker, The (2015)
- Kate Winslet cuts a dashing figure (and a true–blue Aussie accent) as a talented dressmaker who returns home from Paris to the tiny isolated…
- DVD $19.95
- In Bloom (2013)
- Set in the newly independent state of Georgia in the wake of the Soviet regime, this powerful story follows two young girls as they courageously…
- DVD $29.95
- Orange is the New Black (TV Series) (2013)
- A bracing, darkly humorous addition to the women–in–prison genre, centred on the plight of a privileged young woman whose fling with a…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Short Term 12 (2013)
- A counselor at a foster–care facility for at–risk teenagers struggles with her own troubled past as a youngster in this tough but tender…
- DVD $29.95
- Wetlands (2013)
- Provocative comic tale of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents.
- DVD $29.95
- Just Like a Woman (2012)
- Sienna Miller plays a Chicago housewife who joins a North African belly dancer en route to Santa Fe in this light comedy of…
- DVD
$29.95 $19.95
- Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
- A damaged young woman struggles to re–assimilate with her sister after fleeing an abusive cult in this unnerving, suggestive psycho–drama…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Whip It (2009)
- Drew Barrymore's directorial debut is a joyful tale of a small town outsider (Page) who empowers herself through the bruising sport of roller…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
- Caramel (Sukkar banat) (2007)
- Charming Lebanese soap opera with a social conscience, the latest in an emerging wave of dissenting Middle Eastern dramas divulges the stifled lives…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- La Vie en Rose (2007)
- Marion Cotillard excels (and deservingly won a Best Actress Oscar) in this stunning new biopic of the life and times of French singer Edith…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Whale Rider (2003)
- A stirring, widely–acclaimed adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s novel about a young girl’s struggle to win the approval of her patriarchal…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- A Tale of a Naughty Girl (Mondo Meyer Upakhyan) (2002)
- Caught between the push of tradition and the pull of the promise of a new life, a bright prostitute's daughter runs away to Calcutta to escape a…
- DVD $29.95
- Secretary (2002)
- A spanking good black comedy detailing the bizarre relationship between a peculiar, ill–tempered lawyer and the meek secretary he…
- Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres) (2001)
- Sturdy, unconventional French thriller about an insecure, partially–deaf office clerk who tries to help an irascible ex–con integrate…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
- Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
- Based on the bestselling Me–generation memoir of Beverly D’Onofrio, this follows Drew Barrymore’s efforts to fulfill her dreams…
- DVD $14.95
- All About My Mother (1999)
- Almodovar's "celebration of mother and womanhood" has been hailed as something of a departure for the director, though in fact all of his (beloved)…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Soft Fruit (1999)
- From NZ short film dir. Christina Andreef comes this ripely entertaining comic drama about the ties that separate and bind as four Aussie siblings…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
- Elizabeth (1998)
- Attended by much ballyhoo, Australian actress Cate Blanchett fruitfully represents England's famous Queen as a key player in the sex…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Post Coitum (1997)
- The director herself plays a 40–year–old wife, mother and book editor who has her respectable life devastated after a whirlwind affair…
- Poster (F) $9.95
- Fun (1994)
- Two teenage girls just want to have fun, but their obsessive pursuit of it leads them to murder an old lady for no other reason.
This remarkable…
- Poster (G) $9.95
- Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (TV Series) (1993-1998)
- Appealing western series starring Jane Seymour as the wilful Dr. Quinn starting up a practice in the wilds of redneck Colorado while dealing with the…
- DVD $59.95, $59.95, $59.95, $69.95
- Joy Luck Club, The (1993)
- From Amy Tan's novel, this story of four Chinese–American women and their daughters will touch a chord with mums and daughters of all races,…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Piano, The (1993)
- A romantic masterpiece set in pioneering New Zealand worthy of its reputation and phenomenal success. Worth a second glance for the cast's impeccable…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Fried Green Tomatoes (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe) (1991)
- Kathy Bates strikes up a friendship with Jessica Tandy who waxes nostalgic about a pair of Southern belles who triumphed over adversity in the '30s.…
- DVD $19.95
- Thelma and Louise (1990)
- Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon take action and escape their housebound repression in a T–Bird, but discover the road to freedom is littered…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Elizabeth R (TV Series) (1971)
- Glenda Jackson makes a banquet of English history, as Elizabeth I, one of Auld England's most influential monarchs. This BBC series is exceptional in…
- DVD
$40 $30
- Chalk Garden, The (1964)
- British melodrama based on the eccentric stage play by Enid Bagnold, with Hayley Mills playing a rebellious teenager who meets her match in governess…