Subgenre Sampler
Girl-centric: 781 Films to Buy & Rent
- Reality (2023)
- Dir. Tina Satter
Feat. Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
- A potent chamber drama that re–enacts true events surrounding a government security breach related to Russian interference in the 2016 US…
- Shayda (2023)
- Feat. Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Selina Zahednia, Osamah Sami
- This Australian drama filmed mostly in the Persian language is made something special by two magnetic actresses. Iranian émigré Zar Amir Ebrahimi…
- Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts (2022)
- Dir. Roger Michell
- A nostalgic, uplifting, and modern documentary about Queen Elizabeth II – the greatest British monarch of all time and longest–serving female…
- Fall (2022)
- Dir. Scott Mann
Feat. Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding…
- For best friends Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner), life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they…
- M3gan (Megan) (2022)
- Dir. Gerard Johnstone
Feat. Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng
- The Hollywood debut of Gerard Johnstone, Kiwi director of the brilliant "Housebound", who here more than delivers a sci–fi horror…
- Merkel (2022)
- Dir. Eva Weber
- A fittingly admirable portrait of the one of the great diplomats of modern times, Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany for sixteen years, and most…
- Quiet Girl, The (An Cailín Ciúin) (2022)
- Dir. Colm Bairead
Feat. Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett…
- An exquisite rites–of–passage drama filmed mostly in the Irish/Gaelic language, it is the very definition of a literary pastoral that…
- She Said (2022)
- Dir. Maria Schrader
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Jennifer Ehle…
- Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) and Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) star in this excellent dramatisation of the true story of New York Times…
- Two Tickets To Greece (2022)
- Dir. Marc Fitoussi
Feat. Laure Calamy, Olivia Cote, Kristin Scott Thomas
- A sunlit escapist comedy set in Les Cyclades (the original French title) starring Laure Calamy and Olivia Côte as long–estranged childhood…
- Whina (2022)
- Dir. James Napier Robertson, Paula Jones
Feat. Miriama McDowell, Rena Owen, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne…
- A biopic of the trailblazing female Maori leader, Dame Whina Cooper, whose extraordinary life saw her break gender boundaries, champion innovation,…
- Black Widow (2021)
- Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour…
- Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow gets deserved time in the spotlight in this belated, but very much welcomed, Marvel movie.
Set before the events…
- Cousins (2021)
- Dir. Ainsley Gardiner, Briar Grace-Smith
Feat. Tanea Heke, Ana Scotney, Te Raukura Gray…
- Powerful Kiwi drama from the directors of WARU, following the intertwining lives of three Maori women who are cousins.
While one of them is…
- Full Time (A Plien Temps) (2021)
- Dir. Eric Gravel
Feat. Laure Calamy, Genevieve Mnich, Anne Suarez
- 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.…
- Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
- Dir. Navot Papushado
Feat. Karen Gillan , Lena Headey, Carla Gugino…
- Navot Papushado (BIG BAD WOLVES) directs this neon–infused action thriller about a master assassin (Karen Gillan) who teams up with her…
- Hatching (2021)
- Dir. Hanna Bergholm
Feat. Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen
- Hanna Bergholm's feature debut has finally put Finland on the horror film map – an enchanting pubescent allegory about a 12–year–old…
- Suicide Squad, The (2021)
- Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena…
- The standalone sequel to SUICIDE SQUAD is this bold, bright and chaotic superhero movie based on the DC Comics characters.
Harley Quinn (Margot…
- To Chiara (A Chiara) (2021)
- Dir. Jonas Carpignano
Feat. Swamy Rotolo, Claudio Rotolo, Giorgia Rotolo…
- A rites–of–passage drama in the Italian neo–realist tradition that examines the impact of Mafia activity on those in the close…
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Guzen to Sozo) (2021)
- Dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, the director of DRIVE MY CAR explores…
- Worst Person in the World, The (2021)
- Dir. Joachim Trier
Feat. Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum
- Gloriously provocative and richly perceptive comedy drama from talented Norwegian director Joachim Trier (THELMA), which follows an unpredictable,…
- Birds of Prey (Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)) (2020)
- Dir. Cathy Yan
Feat. Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rosie Perez…
- Margot Robbie returns as the edgy anti–hero Harley Quinn in this follow–up to the DC Comics adaptation SUICIDE SQUAD. Full of wickedly…
- Broken Hearts Gallery, The (2020)
- Dir. Natalie Krinsky
Feat. Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery, Bernadette Peters
- Glossy rom–com featuring a winning performance from Geraldine Viswanathan as a 20–something in New York who creates an art gallery to…
- Craft: Legacy, The (2020)
- Dir. Zoe Lister Jones
Feat. Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone…
- Sequel to the 1996 film THE CRAFT, following four high school students who form a coven of witches.
After the original's all–male creative…
- Doctor Who (Series 12) [Jodie Whittaker] (2020)
- Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole…
- Jodie Whittaker returns for her second series as the Thirteenth Doctor, along with traveling companions Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill.…
- Girls Can't Surf (2020)
- Dir. Christopher Nelius
- An Australian documentary about the female surfers who challenged the male–dominated surfing industry of the 1980's, and who rejected their…
- Glorias, The (2020)
- Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Janelle Monáe…
- Audacious biopic based on the autobiography of journalist and feminist icon Gloria Steinem that begins with a Greyhound bus filled with Gloria…
- Misbehaviour (2020)
- Dir. Philippa Lowthorpe
Feat. Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keeley Hawes…
- Crowd pleasing comedy based on real life events in which a group of women disrupted the live broadcast of the 1970 Miss World competition to protest…
- Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
- Dir. Tony Tilse
Feat. Essie Davis, Nathan Page
- Film based on the acclaimed TV series MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES, with Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) returning as the Jazz age sleuth, unravelling…
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
- Dir. Eliza Hittman
Feat. Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Sharon Van Etten
- The director of BEACH RATS directs impressive newcomers Sidney Flanigan and Talia Ryder as a pair of teenage girls from rural Pennsylvania who travel…
- Promising Young Woman (2020)
- Dir. Emerald Fennell
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie…
- Carey Mulligan is sensational as the 'promising young woman' who contrives an elaborate scheme to avenge for a traumatizing past event in this…
- Reunion (2020)
- Dir. Jake Mahaffy
Feat. Julia Ormond, Emma Draper, John Bach…
- Beautifully–lensed NZ horror shot in a grand old mansion in Lower Hutt, following an academic studying black magic (Emma Draper, DAFFODILS) who…
- She Dies Tomorrow (2020)
- Dir. Amy Seimetz
Feat. Kate Lyn Sheil, Jane Adams, Kentucker Audley…
- Extraordinary arthouse horror in which a young woman's traumatic feelings of imminent death appears to be a contagion. The seemingly absurd premise…
- Shirley (2020)
- Dir. Josephine Decker
Feat. Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg
- Elisabeth Moss gives another inspired performance in this literary themed thriller, playing a renowned horror writer who is interrupted on the brink…
- Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
- Dir. Patty Jenkins
Feat. Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig…
- Israeli actress Gal Gadot is as charismatic as ever in this sequel to the 2017 DC Comics hit WONDER WOMAN, with Patty Jenkins (MONSTER) returning as…
- Animals (2019)
- Dir. Sophie Hyde
Feat. Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat
- Raucous comedy with Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat brilliant together as best friends living in Dublin, whose hard partying lifestyle comes under…
- Assistant, The (2019)
- Dir. Kitty Green
Feat. Julia Garner, Matthew MacFadyen, Makenzie Leigh…
- A searing, beautifully modulated indictment of toxic office culture in the wake of the #MeToo movement, that follows the daily routine of an intern…
- Big Little Lies - Season 2 (TV Mini-series) (2019)
- Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley…
- The second chapter of this acclaimed HBO series, this time from the director of FISHTANK and AMERICAN HONEY, throws a grief ridden…
- Booksmart (2019)
- Dir. Olivia Wilde
Feat. Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein
- Sensational directorial debut for actor Olivia Wilde, who transforms the High School coming–of–age comedy into a riotous celebration of…
- Captain Marvel (2019)
- Dir. Anna Campion, Ryan Fleck
Feat. Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn…
- Thoroughly enjoyable entry into the bloated Marvel Franchise, notable for being the first one to be female–led and female co–directed.…
- Charlie's Angels (2019)
- Dir. Elizabeth Banks
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska…
- Third installment in the glamorous action comedy film series, with three new private detective "Angels" who work for the Townsend Agency. A more…
- Cheat (TV Mini-series) (2019)
- Dir. Louise Hooper
Feat. Katherine Kelly, Molly Windsor, Tom Goodman-Hill…
- Another female–centric psychological thriller from Britain premised on a dangerous relationship between university professor and her student.…
- Deep Water (Mini-series) (2019)
- Feat. Anna Friel, Sinead Keenan, Rosalind Eleazar
- Hailed as Britain's answer to BIG LITTLE LIES, this modern day drama about three school–run mothers balancing work and family pressures is…
- Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
- Dir. James Bobin
Feat. Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Pena…
- Live action adaptation of the Nickelodeon animated series about the adventures of Dora, the daughter of Peruvian explorers. Now 16, Dora takes her…
- Emma (2019)
- Dir. Autumn de Wilde
Feat. Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Callum Turner…
- Adaptation of the beloved Jane Austen novel, from a screenplay by New Zealand novelist Eleanor Catton. Lead actress Anna Taylor–Joy is wickedly…
- Frida: Viva La Vida (2019)
- Dir. Giovanni Troilo
Feat. Asia Argento
- Asia Argento narrates this documentary about the enigmatic, iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, exploring her letters and diaries to present both the…
- Gloria Bell (2019)
- Dir. Sebastián Lelio
Feat. Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Caren Pistorius…
- Another winner from Chilean director Sebastian Lelio, who remakes his superb Spanish–language mid–life romance with absolute assurance…
- Hustle, The (2019)
- Dir. Chris Addison
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Alex Sharp…
- A female makeover of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (1988), with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson starting as scam artists, one low rent and the other high…
- Hustlers (2019)
- Dir. Lorene Scafaria
Feat. Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles…
- A group of former strip club employees take on their Wall Street Clients in this high energy, whip smart crime comedy. Inspired by the New York…
- Kitchen, The (2019)
- Dir. Andrea Berloff
Feat. Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss…
- After their mobster husbands get locked up in prison, three housewives decide to take over the family business. Set in Hell's Kitchen in 1978, and…
- Like a Boss (2019)
- Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Coolidge…
- Buddy–comedy about two woman with contrasting ambitions who run a cosmetics company together, and have to find a way to reconcile their…
- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019)
- Dir. Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- Superb rock–doc celebrating the humble yet prodigiously talented singer and trail–blazing female rock star, Linda Ronstadt, who –…
- Little Women (2019)
- Dir. Greta Gerwig
Feat. Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh…
- The director of LADY BIRD turns her attention to a classic text in the coming–of–age genre, the oft–filmed story based on the novel…
- Miss Bala (2019)
- Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Córdova
- Mexican crime thriller which marks a gritty turn for director Catherine Hardwicke (TWILIGHT), with Gina Rodriguez (JANE THE VIRGIN) playing a woman…
- Paradise Hills (2019)
- Dir. Alice Waddington
Feat. Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina …
- A rebellious teen girl is sent to an apparently idyllic disciplinary school to learn how to be a "young lady" in this visually elegant sci–fi…
- Poms (2019)
- Dir. Zara Hayes
Feat. Diane Keaton, Jackie Weaver, Pam Grier…
- Delightful and energetic ensemble comedy set in a picture–perfect retirement community near Phoenix, Arizona, where residents form the Sun City…
- Queens of Mystery (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Julie Graham, Rebecca Grant, Andrew Leung…
- Delightfully tongue–in–cheek British crime series set in a picturesque fictional English village, following a young detective and her…
- Radioactive (2019)
- Dir. Marjane Satrapi
Feat. Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Aneurin Barnard…
- Biopic about Marie Curie, with Rosamund Pike playing the nobel–prize winning French physicist and chemist who pioneered research into…
- Russian Doll (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Natasha Lyonne, Charlie Barnett, Yul Vazquez…
- Emmy–nominated comedy–thriller series, in which co–creator Natasha Lyonne stars as a game developer who repeatedly dies and relives…
- Suzi Q (2019)
- Dir. Liam Firmager
- The story of trailblazing American rock singer–songwriter Suzi Quatro, who helped redefine the role of women in rock 'n' roll when she broke…
- Vai (2019)
- Dir. Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater
Feat. Evotia-Rose Araiti, Ro Mereani Adi Tuimatanisiga, Agnes Pele…
- Eight connecting moments of seemingly different lives thread together Vai’s journey of empowerment through culture over her lifetime. Beautifully…
- What Men Want (2019)
- Dir. Adam Shankman
Feat. Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Richard Roundtree…
- A mildly raunchy, gender–switched remake of the 2000 romantic comedy, WHAT WOMEN WANT, following a woman who, after drinking a potent…
- You Don't Nomi (2019)
- Dir. Jeffrey McHale
- Initially derided by critics and audience alike, Paul Verhoeven’s notoriously trashy sexploitation SHOWGIRLS has developed a devoted fan following…
- A Simple Favour (2018)
- Dir. Paul Feig
Feat. Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding…
- Featuring a knowing cocktail of far–fetched twists and betrayals, secrets and revelations, this stylish post–modern film noir stars Anna…
- A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
- Dir. Ava DuVernay
Feat. Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Storm Reid…
- High–pitched Disney fantasy that follows a young woman and friends through space in search of her missing father who is held in the clutches of…
- Assassination Nation (2018)
- Dir. Sam Levinson
Feat. Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Abra …
- Stylish, witty and chaotic, this youth–centered thriller manages to blend exploitation and social commentary into something a bit derivative…
- Breaker Upperers, The (2018)
- Dir. Madeleine Sami, Jackie Van Beek
Feat. Madeleine Sami, Jackie Van Beek, James Rolleston…
- Madeleine Sami and Jackie Van Beek write, direct and star in this frisky and flat–out hilarious Kiwi comedy as heart–burned pals who form…
- Divine Order, The (2018)
- Dir. Petra Biondina Volpe
Feat. Marie Leuenberger
- A passionate drama set in Switzerland, following a mother and housewife who campaigns for a referendum on the right of women to vote – in 1971…
- Doctor Who (Series 11) [Jodie Whittaker] (2018)
- Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole…
- The Thirteenth Doctor and first Doctor to be a woman, played by Jodie Whittaker, touches down on Earth where she recruits three new friends –…
- Eighth Grade (2018)
- Dir. Bo Burnham
Feat. Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson
- Superb coming–of–age drama providing an unflinching glimpse into the experience of a 13–year–old girl striving to gain social…
- Favourite, The (2018)
- Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Feat. Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone
- A viciously witty tragi–comedy from Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos, set in early 18th century England where a frail Queen Anne allows her close…
- Girl (2018)
- Dir. Lukas Dhont
Feat. Victor Polster
- This Belgian drama was a hit at Cannes owing to it's grace and emotional depth. Transsexual teenager Lara is committed to becoming a professional…
- Girlfriends (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Kay Mellor
Feat. Phyllis Logan, Miranda Richardson, Zoe Wanamaker
- British TV comedy following a trio of middle–aged woman who were friends in childhood, and who are coping with divorce, age discrimination,…
- Girls of the Sun (Les filles du soleil) (2018)
- Dir. Eva Husson
Feat. Golshifteh Farahani
- Powerful wartime film following a Kurdish female battalion who are fighting against ISIS extremists to take back control of their village. Stars…
- Good Girls (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Christina Hendricks, Mae Whitman, Retta
- 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…
- Greta (2018)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Chloe Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe…
- Creepy psychological thriller from Neil Jordan with a reliably fantastic performance from Huppert as a lonely widow with a sinister agenda who…
- I Feel Pretty (2018)
- Dir. Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein
Feat. Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams, Emily Ratajkowski
- An insecure woman bonks her head in a fall and awakens to extreme self–confidence and a new lease on life. Explores, in a simplistic and…
- Judy & Punch (Judy and Punch) (2018)
- Dir. Mirrah Foulkes
Feat. Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman
- 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…
- Kindergarten Teacher, The (2018)
- Dir. Sara Colangelo
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar…
- 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…
- Little Woods (2018)
- Dir. Nia DaCosta
Feat. Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby
- Impressive debut from writer–director Nia DaCosta, detailing the struggles faced by a pair of sisters trying to make ends meet in an…
- Maiden (2018)
- Dir. Alex Holmes
- Documentary about the all–female crew of the Maiden, who won the 1989–1990 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race against all odds,…
- Mary Shelley (2018)
- Dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour
Feat. Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, Bel Powley…
- A startling Elle Fanning enlivens this period melodrama about Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's romantic relationship with the poet Percy Shelley, which…
- Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018)
- Dir. Stephen Loveridge
- A uniquely textured portrait of innovative Sri Lankan–English pop star and activist Maya Arulpragasm, drawn from a cache of personal tapes shot…
- Ocean's 8 (Ocean's Eight) (2018)
- Dir. Gary Ross
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway…
- A star–studded ensemble cast deliver a slick heist caper in the vein of previous installments. A team of crooks go for a 150 million dollar…
- On the Basis of Sex (2018)
- Dir. Mimi Leder
Feat. Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux…
- Following on from the recent documentary, RBG, the story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is given the Hollywood biopic treatment here, detailing her…
- RBG (2018)
- Dir. Julie Cohen, Betsy West
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the worthy subject of this documentary exploring her life and career, successfully fighting gender…
- Red Joan (2018)
- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes…
- The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest–serving British spy. Arrested in retirement by the MI5, the extraordinary…
- Roma (2018)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira
- Another masterclass in storytelling from Mexican maestro Alfonso Cuarón, about a year in the life of a middle–class family's maid in Mexico…
- Second Act (2018)
- Dir. Peter Segal
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Leah Remini…
- Jennifer Lopez stars as a 40–year–old woman frustrated by her unfulfilled dreams until she gets the chance to prove to Madison Avenue…
- She Shears (2018)
- Dir. Jack Nicol
- A documentary about the minority of women who belong to NZ's shearing industry, following 4 female shearers who are preparing for Golden Shears, the…
- Support the Girls (2018)
- Dir. Andrew Bujalski
Feat. Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, James LeGros
- Indie stalwart Andrew Bujalski (MUTUAL APPRECIATION) directs this keenly observed comedy about a relentlessly optimistic and dedicated woman who…
- Tea With the Dames (Nothing Like a Dame) (2018)
- Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright…
- British acting legends Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith discuss their remarkable lives at Plowright's country home in…
- Vermilion (2018)
- Dir. Dorthe Scheffmann
Feat. Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Theresa Healey, Emily Campbell
- The story of a group of women – mothers, daughters, friends and neighbours – set over a summer month. Jennifer Ward–Lealand…
- Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018)
- Dir. Lorna Tucker
- Unvarnished account of the grande dame of punk and "enfant terrible" of British fashion, Vivienne Westwood, told in her own words, and through…
- Wind, The (2018)
- Dir. Emma Tammi
Feat. Caitlin Gerard, Ashley Zukerman, Julia Goldani Telles…
- Atmospheric arthouse horror–western in which a tough, resourceful frontierswoman senses a sinister presence at her isolated homestead, with her…
- Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)
- Dir. Mark Cousins
- Mark Cousin's follows up his ground–breaking THE STORY OF FILM series with this equally–lauded celebration of women in film, with…
- Working Woman (2018)
- Dir. Michal Aviad
Feat. Liron Ben-Shlush
- 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…
- Atomic Blonde (2017)
- Dir. David Leitch
Feat. Charlize Theron, James McAvoy
- Pulpy, neon–lit thriller from the makers of JOHN WICK with a remarkable performance from Charlize Theron, giving real emotional depth to a…
- Aurore (I Got Life!) (2017)
- Dir. Blandine Lenoir
Feat. Agnes Jaoui, Thibault de Montalembert, Pascale Arbillot
- Actress and co–writer Jaoui is the heart and soul of this witty if overly–familiar rom–com as the eponymous 50–year–old…
- Big Little Lies - Season 1 (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley…
- A superb, darkly comedic seven–part HBO miniseries set in the tranquil seaside town of Monterey, California, that weaves a tale of murder and…
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
- Dir. Alexandra Dean
- A revelatory and entertaining portrait of enigmatic Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, whose ravishing beauty consistently belied her brilliant mind,…
- Edie (2017)
- Dir. Simon Hunter
Feat. Sheila Hancock, Kevin Guthrie, Paul Brannigan
- A bitter Octogenarian full of regrets decides to fulfill her largest unrealised dream, to climb a mountain in the Scottish Highlands.…
- Fearless (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Helen McCrory, Wunmi Mosaku
- A classy 6–part British miniseries following a human rights lawyer (Helen McCrory in an absorbing performance) as she attempts to secure a…
- Girls - Season 6 (TV Series) (2017)
- Dir. Lena Dunham
Feat. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke…
- Final season of Lena Dunham's savvy HBO series on the highs and lows of living and dating in New York – a show that's at once witty, shallow,…
- Girls Trip (2017)
- Dir. Malcolm D Lee
Feat. Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Haddish…
- A group of four friends reconnect on a road trip to Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. Filled with high energy and good vibes, as well as being…
- Handmaid's Tale, The (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski…
- Emmy Award–winning drama created by Bruce Miller and based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood. Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced…
- I Am Not a Witch (2017)
- Dir. Rungano Nyoni
- Full of joy and tragedy in the equal measure, this assured debut from Zambian writer–director Rungano Nyoni follows the story of 9–year…
- I Kill Giants (2017)
- Dir. Anders Walter
Feat. Madison Wolfe, Imogen Poots, Zoe Saldana
- A magical–realist coming–of–age movie following an independent young girl who escapes the troubles of her reality by retreating…
- I Used to Be Normal - A Boyband Fangirl Story (2017)
- Dir. Jessica Leski
- A passionate and proud interrogation of music fan culture following the lives of four diverse women aged 16–64 who are self–confessed…
- Jane The Virgin (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Gina Rodriguez
- Miami–set comedy about a bright young Latina woman who is accidentally inseminated during a trip to the doctor. A unique series which satirises…
- Lady Bird (Ladybird) (2017)
- Dir. Greta Gerwig
Feat. Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts…
- Sublime coming–of–age drama which marks the writing and directing debut of formidable indie talent Greta Gerwig, who draws upon her own…
- Last Word, The (2017)
- Dir. Mark Pellington
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Amanda Seyfried
- A once–successful businesswoman writes her own obituary in an effort to keep tight control over her life, enlisting the help of a young local…
- Let the Sunshine In (2017)
- Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine…
- Juliette Binoche is radiant as a Parisian artist and divorced mother who bravely searches for sexual fulfillment and companionship in middle age.…
- Madame (2017)
- Dir. Amanda Sthers
Feat. Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, Rossy de Palma
- Aristocratical farce starring Toni Collette and Harvey Keitel as a wealthy, well–connected American couple who move into a manor in Paris where…
- Megan Leavey (Rex) (2017)
- Dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Feat. Kate Mara, Ramon Rodriguez, Tom Felton…
- Heartfelt war drama based on the true events about the eponymous young female US Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with a military…
- Miniaturist, The (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Anya Taylor-Joy, Romola Garai
- Handsomely executed period drama based on the best–selling novel by Jessie Burton, with Anya Taylor–Joy (THE WITCH) as a woman newly…
- My Year With Helen (2017)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
- With unique access to high–ranking candidate Helen Clark, filmmaker Gaylene Preston casts a wry eye on proceedings as the United Nations turns…
- No Ordinary Sheila (2017)
- Dir. Hugh MacDonald
- The immensely inspiring life–story of one Sheila Natusch, nonagenarian natural historian, mountain climber, intrepid cyclist and publisher of…
- Novitiate (2017)
- Dir. Maggie Betts
Feat. Margaret Qualley, Julianne Nicholson, Dianna Agron…
- 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…
- Prime Suspect 1973 (TV Series) (Prime Suspect: Tennison) (2017)
- Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. Stefanie Martini, Sam Reid, Blake Harrison…
- A retro–dated prequel to Lynda LaPlante's long–running British detective drama series, originally starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane…
- Replacement, The (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Dir. Joe Ahearne
Feat. Morven Christie, Vicky McClure, Richard Rankin…
- Three part British miniseries set in Glasgow, with a successful architect who interrupts her work on a big project to have a child, hiring an…
- Rough Night (2017)
- Dir. Lucia Aniello
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Ilana Glazer, Jillian Bell…
- Indelicate femme comedy that has friends from college reunite for an anything–goes bachelorette weekend at a Miami beach house that turns…
- Skate Kitchen (2017)
- Dir. Crystal Moselle
Feat. Rachelle Vinberg, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran
- Beautifully evocative and uplifting teen drama set in the world of NYC skateboarding, following a group of real–life female skaters who are…
- Snatched (2017)
- Dir. Jonathan Levine
Feat. Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn
- Low–brow comedy staged around the sex–crazed single girl persona of Amy Schumer, who takes over–cautious mom Goldie Hawn for an…
- That's Not Me (2017)
- Dir. Gregory Erdstein
Feat. Alice Foulcher, Isabel Lucas, Richard Davies
- A charming Australian comedy that exceeds its very modest independent budget, with Alice Foulcher playing dual roles as acting sisters, one of whom…
- Their Finest (2017)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy…
- Charming, rousing WWII romance starring Gemma Arterton as a greenhorn screenwriter who joins a makeshift cast and crew to make a film to lift British…
- Unforgettable (2017)
- Dir. Denise Di Novi
Feat. Rosario Dawson, Katherine Heigl
- Katherine Heigl plays a scorned divorcee seeking revenge on her ex–husband's new lover in this deliciously villainous suburban thriller.
- Waru (2017)
- Dir. Briar Grace-Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner
Feat. Miriama McDowell, Tanea Heke, Kararaina Rangihau…
- An outstanding and confronting film exploring the subject of domestic child abuse in New Zealand.
Eight female Maori directors have each…
- Wonder Woman (2017)
- Dir. Patty Jenkins
Feat. Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright…
- Israeli actress Gal Gadot dazzles as the charismatic warrior princess who must leave her mythical island paradise and sail into WWI–embattled…
- XX (2017)
- Dir. Jovanka Vuckovic, Roxanne Benjamin, Karyn Kusama
Feat. Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Breeda Wool…
- Female helmed anthology of horror shorts, which makes this a milestone of horror film making, fortunately living up to expectations and providing a…
- Adult Life Skills (2016)
- Dir. Rachel Tunnard
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Ozzy Myers, Brett Goldstein…
- Smart indie Brit–com with Jodie Whittaker as a women approaching 30 but caught a state of arrested adolescence, living reclusively in her mum's…
- Anne Of Green Gables (2016)
- Dir. John Kent Harrison
Feat. Martin Sheen, Ella Ballentine, Sara Botsford
- A very respectable retelling of L.M. Montgomery's evergreen story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a…
- Bad Moms (2016)
- Dir. Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Feat. Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell…
- High–spirited raunch–fest from the writers of THE HANGOVER stars Kunis, Bell and Hahn as three stressed out mothers who ditch their…
- Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
- Dir. Sharon Maguire
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey…
- A belated and rather witty third screen outing for Helen Fielding's comic heroine, with Renee Zellweger returning as the beleaguered Bridget, now 43,…
- Brief Encounters (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Sophie Rundle, Angela Griffin, Penelope Wilton…
- In early 1980s England, four women wrestling with the pressures of family and finances grasp the opportunity to become party planners for "Ann…
- Bright Lights (2016)
- Feat. Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds
- A touchingly intimate portrait of an eccentric Hollywood royal family – actress Debbie Reynolds and her beloved children, Carrie Fisher and…
- Carrie Pilby (2016)
- Dir. Susan Johnson
Feat. Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne…
- Bel Powley (DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL) gives another excellent performance as a highly intelligent but isolated 19–year–old woman who is…
- Certain Women (2016)
- Dir. Kelly Reichardt
Feat. Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern…
- The lives of three women intersect in small–town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail. Another poignant, intimate drama…
- Christine (2016)
- Dir. Antonio Campos
Feat. Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, J. Smith-Cameron
- Rebecca Hall delivers a searing performance as 1970's news reporter Christine Chubbuck, whose struggle with depression and professional frustrations…
- Dear Eleanor (2016)
- Dir. Kevin Connolly
Feat. Isabelle Fuhrman, Liana Liberato, Jessica Alba…
- Family–friendly drama follows two teenage girls who travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of…
- Eagle Huntress, The (2016)
- A 13–year–old nomadic Mongolian girl breaks a 2,000 year–old gender barrier to follow her father and train hunting eagles in this…
- Edge of Seventeen (2016)
- Dir. Kelly Fremon Craig
Feat. Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner…
- Candid and humourous coming–of–age drama where an awkward seventeen year old comes to terms with her all–star older brother dating…
- Embrace (2016)
- Dir. Taryn Brumfritt
- Empowering documentary follows Body Image Activist Taryn Brumfit on an extensive crusade to illuminate the global issue of women's body image and its…
- Equity (2016)
- Dir. Meera Menon
Feat. Anna Gunn, James Purefoy, Sarah Megan Thomas…
- Sharp, female–centric financial thriller with BREAKING BAD's Anna Gunn as a senior investment banker who finds her career undermined by scandal…
- Fleabag (TV Series) (2016)
- Dir. Tim Kirkby, Harry Bradbeer
Feat. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford, Olivia Colman…
- Ground breaking British comedy from the brain of genius writer, actor and producer Phoebe Waller–Bridge, developed from her one–woman…
- Ghostbusters (2016)
- Dir. Paul Feig
Feat. Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon…
- Proving they're not always a "bridesmaid", Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig headline this riotous girl–powered reboot of the eighties comedy…
- Girl on the Train, The (2016)
- Dir. Tate Taylor
Feat. Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson…
- Adapted of the best–selling novel by Paula Hawkins (and transposed from its British setting to America), the mystery unravels for Emily Blunt…
- Girls - Season 5 (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Lena Dunham, Adam Driver
- Further episodes from Lena Dunham's savvy HBO series on the highs and lows of living and dating in New York – a show that's at once witty,…
- Great Maiden's Blush, The (2016)
- Dir. Andrea Bosshard, Shane Loader
Feat. Miriama McDowell, Renee Lyons
- A precarious friendship develops between two first–time single mothers – one a taxi–driver and girl racer, the other a pianist and…
- Happy Hour (2016)
- Dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Feat. Tanaka Sachie, Kikuchi Hazuki, Mihara Maiko…
- Intelligent and novelistic drama exploring the private and professional lives of four Japanese women in their 30's across an ambitious, but…
- Hidden Figures (2016)
- Dir. Theodore Melfi
Feat. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe…
- Inspirational story of a team of African–American women mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space…
- How to Be Single (2016)
- Dir. Christian Ditter
Feat. Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann…
- Straight–talking sex comedy with Dakota Johnson taking counsel from Rebel Wilson on how to navigate the New York singles scene.
- Innocents, The (Agnus Dei) (2016)
- Dir. Anne Fontaine
Feat. Lou de Laâge, Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek…
- In Poland after World War II, a young French Red Cross intern who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in…
- Jackie (2016)
- Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig…
- A portrait of Jackie Kennedy following the assassination of her husband John F. Kennedy. Natalie Portman provides an intimate and sensitive portrayal…
- Lady Macbeth (2016)
- Dir. William Oldroyd
Feat. Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton…
- A confronting, whip–smart "costume noir" about a woman stifled by her loveless marriage in rural England, 1865, whose passionate affair with a…
- Letters From Baghdad (2016)
- Feat. Tilda Swinton
- The complex history of the Middle East and British colonial power is explored in this documentary centered around the remarkable life of British…
- Level, The (TV Series) (2016)
- Dir. Mark Everest, Andy Goddard
Feat. Karla Crome, Lindsey Coulson, Noel Clarke…
- Six–part British crime drama featuring Karla Crome as a detective with the National Crime Division assigned to Brighton CID to investigate the…
- Levelling, The (2016)
- Dir. Hope Dickson Leach
Feat. Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden
- British drama set in Somerset, where a veterinary student (Ellie Kendrick) is facing the death of her younger brother by apparent suicide, and…
- Like Crazy (La Pazza Gioia) (2016)
- Dir. Paolo Virzi
Feat. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti
- Gratifying comedy–drama following two women, one a troubled introvert, one an impassioned mythomaniac, who break out of a psychiatric facility…
- Moana (2016)
- Dir. John Musker, Ron Clements
Feat. Aulii Cravalho, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Jemaine Clement…
- An epic CGI Disney adventure about a Polynesian girl who sets sail on a daring ocean voyage to find a home for her people.
Features Kiwi voice…
- Monster, The (2016)
- Dir. Bryan Bertino
Feat. Zoe Kazan, Ella Ballentine
- Zoe Kazan (THE BIG SICK) gives an emotive performance as a dysfunctional mother trapped with her 10–year–old daughter after a breakdown…
- Morgan (2016)
- Dir. Luke Scott
Feat. Kate Mara, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Yeoh…
- A flawed yet tense and thought–provoking sci–fi thriller about a corporate risk–management consultant who must decide whether or…
- Mum (TV Series) (2016-2019)
- Dir. Richard Laxton
Feat. Lesley Manville, Peter Mullan
- 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…
- Neon Demon, The (2016)
- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Jena Malone…
- An aspiring model moves to Los Angeles where her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty–obsessed women and exploitative…
- Planetarium (2016)
- Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski
Feat. Natalie Portman, Lily-Rose Depp, Emmanuel Salinger
- Natalie Portman and Lily–Rose Depp play two American sisters in pre–war France with apparent psychic abilities that engage the interest…
- Polina (2016)
- Dir. Valérie Müller, Angelin Preljocaj
Feat. Anastasia Shevtsova, Veronika Zhovnytska, Juliette Binoche
- Elegant, methodical drama about a gifted Russian dancer who gives up the chance to join the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet when she moves to France to…
- Raw (Grave) (2016)
- Dir. Julia Ducournau
Feat. Garance Marillier , Ella Rumpf
- A bright young veterinary student and ardent vegetarian is unexpectedly subjected to a series of cruel hazing rituals in her first week at college,…
- Sami Blood (2016)
- Dir. Amanda Kernell
Feat. Lene Cecilia Sparrok , Hanna Alström
- Emotionally powerful female coming–of–age movie set in 1930's Sweden, where a reindeer–herding teenager, an indigenous Sami child,…
- Wynonna Earp (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Melanie Scrofano, Shamier Anderson, Tim Rozon…
- Canadian supernatural Western series based on the IDW Comic, that follows Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures…
- Black Work (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Sheridan Smith, Matthew McNulty, Geraldine James…
- Pacy British crime series with Sheridan Smith as a policewoman who sets out to discover who murdered her husband, an undercover officer.
- Diary of a Teenage Girl, The (2015)
- Dir. Marielle Heller
Feat. Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Kristen Wiig…
- This brave and bittersweet portrait of an unusual sexual awakening has Bel Powley as a fledgling cartoonist entering into a relationship with her…
- Dressmaker, The (2015)
- Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse
Feat. Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth…
- 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…
- Girl Asleep (2015)
- Dir. Rosemary Myers
Feat. Bethany Whitmore, Harrison Feldman, Amber McMahon
- Based on the theatre production, this colourful coming–of–age tale set in 1970’s Australia expressively journeys into the absurd, scary…
- Girls - Season 4 (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke…
- Further episodes from Lena Dunham's savvy HBO series on the highs and lows of living and dating in New York – a show that's at once witty,…
- Grace and Frankie (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Sam Waterston…
- Appealing and heartfelt sitcom with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as a retired cosmetics mogul and a hippie art teacher, brought together after their…
- Hot Pursuit (2015)
- Dir. Anne Fletcher
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara, Matthew Del Negro
- Reese Witherspoon headline this buddy–comedy as an uptight and by–the–book cop trying to protect the widow of a drug boss as they…
- I Smile Back (2015)
- Dir. Adam Salky
Feat. Sarah Silverman, Josh Charles, Thomas Sadoski…
- Comedian Sarah Silverman demonstrates her impressive dramatic range portraying a middle–class suburban housewife suffering from depression,…
- Into the Forest (2015)
- Dir. Patricia Rozema
Feat. Elliot Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Callum Keith Rennie…
- Quiet, character driven post–apocalyptic drama following two sisters whose peaceful Pacific Northwestern lives are disrupted by a…
- Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)
- Dir. Amy Berg
- Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power) narrates this documentary portrait of the ground–breaking American singer of the 1960s, who pioneered a raw and…
- Jem and The Holograms (2015)
- Dir. Jon M. Chu
Feat. Stefanie Scott, Aurora Perrineau, Hayley Kiyoko…
- Live–action update of the popular '80's cartoon about a small–town girl who catapults from underground video sensation to global…
- Modus (TV Series) (2015-2017)
- Feat. Melinda Kinnaman, Greg Wise, Kim Cattrall…
- Swedish psychological thriller series following the work of a criminal psychologist and profiler who has previously assisted both the Swedish police…
- Mustang (2015)
- Dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Feat. Gunes Senoy, Doga Doguslu, Elit Iscan…
- Sublime female coming–of–age story set in a remote Turkish village, where five sisters face the stifling expectations of their…
- Our Little Sister (Umimachi Diary) (2015)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho …
- Another exquisite domestic drama from Kore–eda Hirokazu that revolves around the loves and working lives of three sisters who accommodate their…
- Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
- Dir. Elizabeth Banks
Feat. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld…
- Agreeable sequel takes place after a humiliating performance at Lincoln Center forces the Barden Bellas to enter an international competition in…
- Spy (2015)
- Dir. Paul Feig
Feat. Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law…
- Melissa McCarthy's third outing for the dir. of BRIDESMAIDS comes up roses in this frequently side–splitting James Bond spoof that doubles as a…
- Sunset Song (2015)
- Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie
- Dir. Terence Davies applies his refined visual sensibility to this luminescent adaptation of the Scottish literary classic of the 1930's by Lewis…
- Supergirl (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Melissa Benoist
- Enjoyable new take on the adventures of Supergirl sent to Earth to watch over her younger cousin.
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Carol Kane…
- Infectious sitcom from the makers of 30 ROCK (Tina Fey and Robert Carlock) following a woman who is attempting to rebuild her life in New York city…
- Younger (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Sutton Foster, Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor…
- Sitcom created by Darren Star (SEX AND THE CITY, 90210) about a 40–year–old mother who passes herself off as 26 to land a job and has to…
- Anzac Girls (TV Mini-series) (2014)
- Feat. Georgia Flood, Antonia Prebble, Laura Brent
- Honouring the centenary of the commencement of World War One, this six–part mini–series is based on true stories of Australian and New…
- Big Eyes (2014)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston…
- Director Tim Burton refreshingly breaks with fantasy for this resplendent biopic of painter Margaret Keane, whose prolific and popular work was…
- Girlhood (2014)
- Dir. Céline Sciamma
Feat. Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh…
- Potent coming–of–age drama set on the margins of Paris that follows a 16–year–old girl whose poor prospects tempt her to join…
- Girls - Season 3 (TV Series) (2014)
- Dir. Lena Dunham
Feat. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke…
- Further episodes from Lena Dunham's savvy HBO series on the highs and lows of living and dating in New York – a show that's at once witty,…
- In The Club (TV Series) (2014)
- Dir. Kay Mellor
Feat. Hermione Norris, Katherine Parkinson, Jill Halfpenny…
- Warm, gutsy British ensemble drama following six pregnant women in various stages of life. From the creator of COLD FEET.
- Keeping Rosy (2014)
- Dir. Steve Reeves
Feat. Maxine Peake, Brooke Skylar Baptist, Delta Storm Baptist…
- Maxine Peake plays a women whose life is shattered after her company's board of directors betrays her, in this chilly thriller based on director…
- Life Partners (2014)
- Dir. Susanna Fogel
Feat. Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody…
- A lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship.
- Nancy Wake: Gestapo's Most Wanted (2014)
- The heroics of Wellington–born Nancy Wake, aka 'The White Mouse', are given a pulpy treatment in this doco–drama celebrating the famed…
- She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)
- Dir. Mary Dore
- A retrospective but indeed still relevant account of the history of the tenacious and resilient women who founded the modern women's movement from…
- Afternoon Delight (2013)
- Dir. Jill Soloway
Feat. Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor…
- A dissatisfied thirtysomething woman seeks "a cure for the common marriage" through her friendship with a young stripper in this serio–comic…
- Frozen (2013)
- Dir. Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Feat. Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff…
- Phenomenally successful Disney animated fairytale musical based on Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Snow Queen', about the quest to free a kingdom from…
- Girls - Season 2 (TV Series) (2013)
- Dir. Lena Dunham
Feat. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke…
- Further episodes from Lena Dunham's savvy HBO series on the highs and lows of living and dating in New York – a show that's at once witty,…
- Gloria (2013)
- Dir. Sebastián Lelio
Feat. Paulina García, Sergio Hernández
- Another superb Chilean drama in the wake of the previous year's NO, Paulina Garcia plays a free–spirited 58–year–old divorcee who…
- In Bloom (2013)
- Dir. Nana Ekvtimishvili
Feat. Lika Babluani, Mariam Bokeria
- 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…
- Orange is the New Black (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Kate Mulgrew…
- A bracing, darkly humorous addition to the women–in–prison genre, centred on the plight of a privileged young woman whose fling with a…
- Punk Singer, The (2013)
- Dir. Sini Anderson
Feat. Carrie Brownstein, Kim Gordon
- A living celebration of influential punk frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, who became a feminist icon of the 1990's as a founding figure of the "Riot Grrrl"…
- Short Term 12 (2013)
- Dir. Destin Cretton
Feat. Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Stephanie Beatriz…
- 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…
- This is Roller Derby (2013)
- Dir. Daniel Hayward
- An entertaining ride that visits the pioneering Australian leagues of Roller Derby and meets the women who have kick–started the roller derby…
- Touchy Feely (2013)
- Dir. Lynn Shelton
Feat. Rosemarie DeWitt, Elliot Page, Scoot McNairy…
- Rosemarie DeWitt returns for the dir. of YOUR SISTER'S SISTER in this drama about two siblings – one a succesful massage therapist, the other a…
- Very Good Girls (2013)
- Dir. Naomi Foner
Feat. Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Ellen Barkin…
- Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen play best friends determined to lose their virginity over one long hot summer. A pseudo–serious treatment of…
- We Are the Best (Vi är bäst!) (2013)
- Dir. Lukas Moodysson
Feat. Mira Grosin, Mira Barkhammar, Liv LeMoyne
- Endearing portrait of teenage experimentation set in early '80s Stockholm where two decidedly unmusical 13–year–old girls decide to form…
- Wetlands (2013)
- Dir. David Wnendt
Feat. Carla Juri, Christoph Letkowski, Marlen Kruse
- Provocative comic tale of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents.
- WPC 56 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Jennie Jacques
- In the tradition of JULIET BRAVO, this Birmingham–set police drama follows the trials and triumphs of a woman constable to serving in the…
- Wrestling Queens (Les Reines du Ring) (2013)
- Dir. Jean-Marc Rudnicki
Feat. Marilou Berry, Nathalie Baye, Andre Dussollier…
- Broad French sports spoof with Nathalie Baye as an under–appreciated mother who recruits her working class friends to train to be wrestling…
- Bachelorette (2012)
- Dir. Leslye Headland
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Rebel Wilson, Lizzy Caplan…
- A post–BRIDESMAIDS comedy of out–of–control maids of honour, in which a trio of bitter BFFs (led by Kirsten Dunst) scramble to…
- Beyond the Hills (2012)
- Dir. Cristian Mungiu
Feat. Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur
- Cristian Mungiu directs this engrossing companion piece to his Cannes–winning 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, about the test of closeness between…
- Black & White & Sex (2012)
- Dir. John Winter
Feat. Katherine Hicks, Roxane Wilson, Anya Beyersdorf…
- Provocative, multifaceted portrait of a sex worker –played by eight different actresses – who through a series of interviews with a…
- Bomb Girls (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Meg Tilly, Jodi Balfour, Ali Liebert…
- A first–rate Canadian drama centred on the lives of women on the home–front who were recruited to work in dangerous munitions factories…
- Brave (2012)
- Dir. Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Feat. Kelly MacDonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson…
- Pixar's latest winning animation centres on an impetuous Scottish princess torn between her royal duty to the kingdom and her true desire to become…
- Call the Midwife (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter, Miranda Hart…
- Immensely popular BBC series follows – in fashionable period detail – the trials and tribulations of a newly–qualified midwife, who begins…
- Foxfire (2012)
- Dir. Laurent Cantet
Feat. Raven Adamson, Katie Coseni
- From a Joyce Carol Oates story, Laurent Cantet (THE CLASS) directs this plucky period drama of a girl gang who rally against male oppression in 1950s…
- Frances Ha (2012)
- Dir. Noah Baumbach
Feat. Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver…
- The whimsical exploits of a struggling dancer at the tail end of her adolescence are semi–improvised in this Manhattan indie rom–com,…
- Free Samples (2012)
- Dir. Jay Gammill
Feat. Jess Weixler, Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter…
- A small–scale but deceptively smart and engaging "retail comedy" that spends a day in the life with a sarcastic LA law–school dropout who…
- Girls - Season 1 (TV Series) (2012)
- Dir. Lena Dunham
Feat. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke…
- Following her "mumblecore" hit TINY FURNITURE, wunderkind Lena Dunham's breakthrough into television (with the help of kingpin Judd Apatow) heralds a…
- Jackie (2012)
- Dir. Antoinette Beumer
Feat. Carice Van Houten, Jelka van Houten, Holly Hunter
- Two Dutch sisters (played by real life siblings Carice and van Houten) trek from the Netherlands to mid–west America in aid of a mother they've…
- Just Like a Woman (2012)
- Dir. Rachid Bouchareb
Feat. Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani, Roschdy Zem
- Sienna Miller plays a Chicago housewife who joins a North African belly dancer en route to Santa Fe in this light comedy of…
- Pitch Perfect (2012)
- Dir. Jason Moore
Feat. Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Brittany Snow…
- New girl on campus Anna Kendrick joins an all–female a cappella group determined to win the male–dominated national competition in this…
- Venus and Serena (2012)
- Dir. Maiken Baird, Michelle Major
- Dominant tennis sister act Venus and Serena Williams get their due in this broad documentary covering the siblings' gifts for tennis, relationship…
- Wadjda (2012)
- Dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour
Feat. Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah
- This humanist triumph is the first ever feature to be shot in Saudi Arabia, centering on a plucky young girl who attempts to raise money for a…
- What Really Happened: Votes for Women (2012)
- Feat. Sara Wiseman, Craig Hall, Stephen Lovatt
- Another edifying take on a key turning point in New Zealand history (following What Really Happened: Waitangi), this Sunday Theatre commission…
- What To Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
- Dir. Kirk Jones
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks…
- Strictly one for those either expecting or rearing, this predictable rom–com via the rocky road of motherhood angles its jokes squarely at…
- Bridesmaids (2011)
- Dir. Paul Feig
Feat. Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne…
- Kristen Wiig and Rose Byrne bitch it out in this enjoyably, tastefully vulgar comedy as they compete to be maid–of–honour at their…
- Corpo Celeste (2011)
- Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
Feat. Salvatore Cantalupo, Anita Caprioli
- A thirteen–year–old girl moves back to southern Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place, restlessly…
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2011)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer…
- David Fincher helms this electrifying big–budget remake of the dynamite Swedish thriller, adapted from Stieg Larsson's worldwide bestseller.…
- Hanna (2011)
- Dir. Joe Wright
Feat. Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett…
- Saoirse Ronan plays a ruthless teenage assassin who is raised by her father (Eric Bana) in isolation and pursed by CIA operatives across Europe in…
- Life Happens (2011)
- Dir. Kat Coiro
Feat. Krysten Ritter, Kate Bosworth, Rachel Bilson…
- An unplanned pregnancy galvanizes a young woman's best friends to rally around her with impending single motherhood on the horizon.…
- Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
- Dir. Sean Durkin
Feat. Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy…
- A damaged young woman struggles to re–assimilate with her sister after fleeing an abusive cult in this unnerving, suggestive psycho–drama…
- Mildred Pierce (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
- Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood…
- Kate Winslet gives a towering performance as the titular housewife of James M. Cain's classic noir novel of Depression Era desperation and…
- Miss Representation (2011)
- Dir. Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Feat. Rosario Dawson
- A critical analysis of the media representation of women which presents the facts and statistics accompanied by celebrity interviews – Dr.…
- Moth Diaries, The (2011)
- Dir. Mary Harron
Feat. Sarah Bolger, Lily Cole, Scott Speedman…
- Rachel Klein’s vampire–themed young adult novel receives a curious adaptation from the dir. of AMERICAN PSYCHO, touching on the source…
- Mrs. Carey's Concert (2011)
- Dir. Bob Connolly, Sophie Raymond
- Invigorating doco on the power of music. At a Sydney girl's school, Mrs Carey butts head with her obstinate students as they prepare for a…
- Source, The (La Source des femmes) (2011)
- Dir. Radu Mihaileanu
Feat. Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass
- A dashing feminist dramedy sprung from the male bias in the Middle East, about a village of women who take up a 'sex strike' after their husbands…
- Sucker Punch (2011)
- Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone…
- The dir. of 300 helms this male adolescent fantasy based around a group of nubile young girls who reimagine the mental asylum they've been committed…
- This Girl is Badass!! (2011)
- Dir. Mum Jokmok
Feat. JeeJa Yanin
- Jija Yanin (CHOCOLATE) stars in this martial arts comedy about a girl whose family life is turned upside–down when she gets mixed up with…
- Two Broke Girls (TV Series) (2 Broke Girls) (2011)
- Feat. Beth Behrs, Kat Dennings, Garrett Morris
- A sassy, wiseacre comedy of two penniless 20–somethings who make ends meet waiting tables at a run–down Brooklyn diner while dreaming of…
- Winners and Losers (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Melissa Bergland, Virginia Gay…
- Winning female–centric dramedy concerns the altered lives of four Melbournian women who score big on the Lottery. Gets great mileage from the…
- Yogawoman (2011)
- Dir. Saraswati Clere, Kate McIntyre Clere
Feat. Annette Bening
- Feel–good no–brainer documentary which posits that yoga is very, very good for you – with particular attention given to it's…
- Your Sister's Sister (2011)
- Dir. Lynn Shelton
Feat. Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass
- A note–perfect indie drama from the dir. of HUMPDAY, this 'chick flick' may well appeal as much to male audiences with its engaging cast and…
- Adventure Time (TV Series) (2010)
- One of the more inspired Cartoon Network creations follows the wildly original, mind altering adventures of Finn, and his best friend Jake – a…
- Another Year (2010)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville…
- A happily married middle–aged couple attempt to fix up their cheery, if secretly depressed friend in this honest domestic drama, another winner…
- Attenberg (2010)
- Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari
Feat. Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou…
- Highly original Greek oddity following the surreal antics of two young women who take life inspiration from the wildlife documentaries of David…
- Copacabana (2010)
- Dir. Marc Fitoussi
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Aure Atika, Lolita Chammah
- Free–spirited and perpetually unemployed Isabelle Huppert must get with the program after learning her newly engaged daughter (played by her…
- El Monstro Del Mar! (2010)
- Dir. Stuart Simpson
Feat. Nelli Scarlet, Karli Madden, Kate Watts
- Three fugitive vixens battle a monster from the deep in this slavishly entertaining ode to the grindhouse exploits of yesteryear, lodged somewhere…
- Flicka 2 (2010)
- Dir. Michael Damian
Feat. Tammin Sursok, Patrick Warburton, Clint Black
- Wholesome story in a similar vein as the first film, this time with a disgruntled city teenager sent out to the Wyoming horse–ranch. She…
- For Colored Girls (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf) (2010)
- Dir. Tyler Perry
Feat. Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Anika Noni Rose…
- Potent, if melodramatic, adaptation of the acclaimed play that has an extraordinarily diverse cast exploring the lives of nine black women through…
- Hot in Cleveland (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick…
- An old–school sitcom in the tradition of CHEERS and THE GOLDEN GIRLS, about three past–their–prime female entertainers who…
- Lost Kisses (I baci mai dati) (2010)
- Dir. Roberta Torre
Feat. Carla Marchese, Donatella Finocchiaro
- A 13–year–old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word…
- Made in Dagenham (2010)
- Dir. Nigel Cole
Feat. Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson…
- Nostalgic, uplifting dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford car plant in Dagenham, where female machinists famously walked out in protest…
- Please Give (2010)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet…
- Writer–director Nicole Holofcener secures her informal reputation as a "female Woody Allen" with this bittersweet New York story that again…
- Potiche (2010)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini…
- Bubbly satire has 60–something Catherine Deneuve transform from trophy wife to a strong–headed businesswoman after her chauvinist husband…
- Ramona and Beezus (2010)
- Dir. Elizabeth Allen
Feat. Joey King, Selena Gomez, John Corbett…
- Sweet and playful adaptation of Beverly Cleary's popular children's novels about a young girl's overactive imagination which keeps things interesting…
- Rizzoli & Isles (TV Series) (2010-2016)
- Feat. Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Bruce McGill…
- Girl–powered police procedural series that teams up Angie Harmon as police detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as medical examiner Dr.…
- Sex and the City 2 (2010)
- Dir. Michael Patrick King
Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon…
- While wrestling with the pressures of life, love, and work in Manhattan, Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte join Samantha for a trip to Abu Dhabi, where…
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2010)
- Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Gianna Jun, Bingbing Li, Russell Wong…
- Wayne Wang (THE JOY LUCK CLUB) directs this unsubtle but sweeping multi–generational weepie, framed around the enduring bond between two women…
- Tiny Furniture (2010)
- Dir. Lena Dunham
Feat. Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Alex Karpovsky…
- A prototype for Lena Dunham's hugely successful HBO series GIRLS, this smart–funny indie finds the talented actress/director mining the…
- We Are the Night (Wir sind die Nacht) (2010)
- Dir. Dennis Gansel
Feat. Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich
- A fraulein vampire flick of sleek, urbane sensibility, centred on an alpha–female vamp (Nina Hoss) who descends on Germany in search of a soul…
- Agora (2009)
- Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac…
- A strident and admirable account of Greek scholar Hypatia, whose principles and pagan beliefs attracted the ire of Christians in 4th century…
- Amelia (2009)
- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor…
- A conventional retelling of the Amelia Earhart legend, examining the ground–breaking aviator’s turbulent love life during the years between…
- An Education (2009)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina…
- An assured and alluring coming–of–age drama set in swinging sixties London (1961 in fact), with teenage ingenue Carey Mulligan falling in…
- Beyonce: I Am Yours (2009)
- Feat. Beyonce Knowles
- An intimate performace of Beyonce live at the Wynn Las Vegas filmed over four nights in July and August 2009.
Setlist: "Hello", "Halo",…
- Bitch Slap (2009)
- Dir. Rick Jacobson
Feat. Erin Cummings, America Olivo, Julia Voth…
- Wickedly titled but low–grade fusion of Russ Meyer and Tarantino follows three ass–kicking bad girls as they plot to extort a drug…
- Blessed (2009)
- Dir. Ana Kokkinos
Feat. Miranda Otto, Frances O’Connor, Deborra-Lee Furness
- Four vivid stories of mothers and their children are interwoven in this confronting drama set in Melbourne's outer suburbs, blessed by the acting…
- Blood - The Last Vampire (2009)
- Dir. Chris Nahon
Feat. Gianna Jun, Allison Miller, Liam Cunningham
- Nonsensical 'live action' movie of the popular anime sees a surly demon–killing teenage vampire inserted in a military school in order to catch…
- Cheri (2009)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates…
- Gorgeously–appointed period drama set in the "Belle Époque" of 1900s Paris, focused on a love affair between a retired courtesan (Pfeiffer)…
- Coco Avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) (2009)
- Dir. Anne Fontaine
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola…
- Fittingly stylish and appealing biopic of legendary couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, tracing her early life from the rags of an orphaned childhood…
- Coraline (2009)
- Dir. Henry Selick
Feat. Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders…
- The prodigious talents of fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and animator Henry Selick combine for this wonderful – though admittedly creepy –…
- Cracks (2009)
- Dir. Jordan Scott
Feat. Eva Green, Juno Temple, Maria Valverde…
- Moody boarding–school set drama follows a clique of six girls whose dynamic is thrown off–kilter by the arrival of a new girl whose…
- Finding Bliss (2009)
- Dir. Julie Davis
Feat. Leelee Sobieski, Matthew Davis, Denise Richards…
- Patchy yet thoughtful indie sex comedy anchored by the charming Leelee Sobieski as an insecure young film–maker who reluctantly lands a job as…
- Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
- Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Joan Allen, Jeremy Irons, Ed Jr. Begley
- This made–for–television biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, is distinguished as…
- Girl Who Played with Fire, The (2009)
- Dir. Daniel Alfredson
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre
- Part two of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium Trilogy' sees the return of touch–as–nails Lisbeth Salander, who must clear her name of murder…
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2009)
- Dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Feat. Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre
- One of the highest–grossing foreign language hits at the NZ box office, this riveting, full–bodied Swedish thriller follows an escalating…
- Grace (2009)
- Dir. Paul Solet
Feat. Jordan Ladd, Gabrielle Rose, Samantha Ferris
- Provocative, artful gyno–horror about a desperate mother–to–be who continues to carry her still–born baby despite losing it…
- Grey Gardens (2009)
- Dir. Michael Sucsy
Feat. Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange, Jeanne Tripplehorn…
- Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore resurrect iconic mother–daughter eccentrics Big and Little Edie, in this neat little biopic that’s a must…
- Labour Pains (2009)
- Dir. Lara Shapiro
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Luke Kirby, Cheryl Hines
- 'Troubled starlet' Lindsay Lohan stars in this comedy vehicle about a woman who fakes her pregnancy for the perks.
Destined for…
- Land Girls (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Summer Strallen, Christine Bottomley, Jo Woodcock…
- Four Women's Land Army recruits experience the highs and lows of wartime service in this stirring BBC drama which pays tribute to the lives of…
- Love, Lust & Lies (2009)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
- The fifth film in the documentary series about the lives, hopes and dreams of three lively, working class Adelaide girls (now aged 47) since they…
- Mother and Child (2009)
- Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Feat. Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington…
- Thoughtfully handled ensemble drama focuses on the maternal and filial ties that bind, centered around three women; an unhappy therapist, the…
- Motherhood (2009)
- Dir. Katherine Dieckmann
Feat. Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver
- Uma Thurman is miscast (to amusing effect) as a frumpy, frazzled mommy–of–two juggling the middle–class plight of career aspiration…
- My Tehran for Sale (2009)
- Dir. Granaz Moussavi
Feat. Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini, Asha Mehrabi
- Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express…
- Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The (2009)
- Dir. Rebecca Miller
Feat. Robin Wright, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin…
- Drama boasting a formidable performance from Robin Wright Penn as the beautiful, middle–aged Pippa Lee, who finds herself living in a…
- Raging Phoenix (2009)
- Dir. Rashane Limtrakul
Feat. JeeJa Yanin
- The female star of CHOCOLATE returns with break dancing moves to complement her sick martial arts skills, in this over–the–top kickboxing…
- September Issue, The (2009)
- Dir. R.J. Cutler
- An unprecedented peek into the world of Anna Wintour, legendary editor–in–chief of fashion magazine "Vogue", as she and her team put…
- Splice (2009)
- Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley
- The director of cult hit CUBE ups the ante in hybrid horror with this story of geneticists who, after recombining DNA from different species, give…
- St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)
- Dir. Oliver Parker
Feat. Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, David Tennant…
- Solid sequel has the girls of St. Trinians on the hunt for buried treasure after discovering headmistress Miss Fritton is related to a famous pirate.
- TiMER (2009)
- Dir. Jac Schaeffer
Feat. Emma Caulfield, Michelle Borth, John Patrick Amedori…
- A fresh, engaging independent rom–com that posits the invention of a literal biological clock which, when implanted, counts down to the moment…
- Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (2009)
- Dir. Leanne Pooley
Feat. Jools Topp, Lynda Topp
- An adorable, "Kiwi–as" portrait of NZ's beloved folk–singing comedy duo, Jools and Lynda Topp, which also resonates as a ripely…
- Totally Spies! (2009)
- Dir. Pascal Jardin
- The winning animated adventures of three high school girls who also happen to be spies. Based on the popular Cartoon Network series, this…
- Whip It (2009)
- Dir. Drew Barrymore
Feat. Elliot Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig…
- Drew Barrymore's directorial debut is a joyful tale of a small town outsider (Page) who empowers herself through the bruising sport of roller…
- Bride Flight (2008)
- Dir. Ben Sombogaart
Feat. Karina Smulders, Waldemar Torenstra, Anna Drijver…
- New Zealand in the 1950's from a Dutch perspective makes this melodrama an intriguing, unique experience for Kiwi audiences, which also has the…
- Cashmere Mafia (TV Series) (2008)
- Dir. Peyton Reed
Feat. Lucy Liu, Miranda Otto, Frances O’Connor…
- Short–lived drama series centred on four career hungry New York friends who turn to each other in times of personal and professional crisis.…
- Chocolate (2008)
- Dir. Prachya Pinkaew
Feat. JeeJa Yanin, Hiroshi Abe, Pongpat Wachirabunjong
- Impressive newcomer Jeeja Yanin plays a butt kicking autistic girl (!) in this exhilarating revenge movie, a standout amongst Thailand’s recent…
- Coco Chanel (2008)
- Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Malcolm McDowell, Robert Dawson…
- Made–for–television biopic of prolific fashion designer Coco Chanel, covering three different stages of her life from childhood through…
- Duchess, The (2008)
- Dir. Saul Dibb
Feat. Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling…
- Costume connoisseurs will rejoice in the splendour of Keira Knightley’s dazzling dresses and eye–catching cranial plumage in this depiction…
- Everlasting Moments (2008)
- Dir. Jan Troell
Feat. Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
- A touching, delicately shot memoir told from the perspective of a Finnish immigrant in Sweden who finds relief from her abusive husband in the art of…
- Female Agents (Les femmes de l'ombre) (2008)
- Dir. Jean-Paul Salome
Feat. Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain…
- Substantial, exciting WWII espionage thriller following an all–female commando unit of the French Resistance recruited to rescue a British…
- Good Dick (2008)
- Dir. Marianna Palka
Feat. Marianna Palka, Jason Ritter, Martin Starr…
- A romantic–comedy fraught with emotional damage, this unique American indie follows the strange yet touching relationship between a troubled,…
- Gracie (2008)
- Dir. Davis Guggenheim
Feat. Dermot Mulroney, Elisabeth Shue, Carly Schroeder
- Feel–good drama focused on a passionate female soccer player faced with the death of her brother and a battle against the odds to play for an…
- Julia (2008)
- Dir. Erick Zonca
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo
- Gutsy, dynamic melodrama propelled by a full–tilt performance from Tilda Swinton as a loose cannon alcoholic who becomes embroiled in…
- Lipstick Jungle (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, Lindsay Price
- Sassy, if at times sappy, TV drama based on another Candace Bushnell book (author of SEX AND THE CITY) centred on three NYC gal pals attempting to…
- Mistresses (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Sarah Parish, Sharon Small, Orla Brady…
- Provocative Brit series featuring four 30 something friends – a doctor, 9/11 widow, party gal and married mistress that get themselves into all…
- Nim's Island (2008)
- Dir. Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Feat. Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler
- Sun–baked family adventure set in the magical land of Nim's Island, where an imaginative bookworm (Abigail Breslin) must enlist the help of her…
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)
- Dir. Steven Sebring
- Narrated by the rock icon herself, this intimate, lyrical observation of Patti Smith's art and philosophy plays rather like a sitting through one of…
- Powerful Noise, A (2008)
- AIDS, peacekeeping, and the rights of the disenfranchised are front and centre of this inspirational portrait of three women making a difference in…
- Rosario + Vampire (TV Series) (Rozario To Banpaia) (2008)
- Tskune accidentally gets on a bus to a school of monsters.
- Roxy Hunter (2008)
- Dir. Eleanor Lindo
Feat. Aria Wallace
- Nancy Drew–ish family drama revealing another precocious kid sleuth and her best buddy as they use their investigative know–how to solve…
- Secret Life Of Bees, The (2008)
- Dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood
Feat. Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson…
- Honey–soaked drama set in the South during the Civil Rights era follows 14 year old Lily Owens (Fanning), and her relationship with a group of…
- Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)
- Dir. Michael Patrick King
Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon…
- Highly–anticipated movie version of the groundbreaking series SEX AND THE CITY, meeting up with the Big Apple's four hottest gal pals Carrie,…
- Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
- Dir. Christine Jeffs
Feat. Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin…
- Amy Adams lends her considerable charms to this quirky yet easy–going comedy–drama about two sisters who start up a cleaning service that…
- Tears for Sale (Charleston and Vendetta) (2008)
- Dir. Uros Stojanovic
Feat. Katarina Radivojevic, Sonja Kolacaric
- The sombre title belies what is in fact a joyously bawdy Balkan fairytale that blends fantastical folklore, striking burlesque visuals and ample…
- Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Busy Phillips
- Flashy sci–fi series set two years after TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY and centred on Sarah Connor and her son preparing for battle against the…
- Wanted (2008)
- Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman
- A relentless rollercoaster ride on amphetamines, this breakneck graphic novel adaptation from the Russian director of NIGHT WATCH tracks the…
- Women, The (2008)
- Dir. Diane English
Feat. Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes…
- Fluffy remake of the 1930s original focuses on a group of shrieking high–society women who rally together to help their friend deal with a…
- Bratz - The Movie (2007)
- Dir. Sean McNamara
Feat. Logan Browning, Janel Parrish, Nathalia Ramos…
- Live–action feature debut for the mega–popular ‘Bratz’ doll franchise and animated spin–off series, bringing to life Jade,…
- Caramel (Sukkar banat) (2007)
- Dir. Nadine Labaki
Feat. Nadine Labaki
- Charming Lebanese soap opera with a social conscience, the latest in an emerging wave of dissenting Middle Eastern dramas divulges the stifled lives…
- Elizabeth - The Golden Age (2007)
- Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen…
- Cate Blanchett reprises her all–conquering role as Queen of England, in dir. Shekhar Kapur’s grandiose sequel to 1998’s acclaimed…
- Exodus (Cheut ai kup gei) (2007)
- Dir. Pang Ho-Cheung
Feat. Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Annie Liu
- An indifferent Hong Kong detective slowly becomes convinced that women are conspiring to kill off the entire male species in this curious melange of…
- Fighter (2007)
- Dir. Natasha Arthy
Feat. Semra Turan, Nima Nabipour, Cyron Bjørn Melville
- Girls–can–do–anything drama focused around a young Turkish–Danish teenager who is determined to become a kung–fu…
- Georgia Rule (2007)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman…
- Jane Fonda leads three generations of strong–minded females in this uneasy mix of comedy and drama.
Georgia (Fonda), the…
- Girls Rock! (2007)
- Dir. Arne Johnson
- Lightweight doco centered around the Portland–based Rock & Roll Camp for Girls, where girls from 8–18 participate in a therapeutic week…
- Hell On Wheels (2007)
- Dir. Bob Ray
- Bruising introduction to the world of Roller Derby combines a short history of the sport with a fly–on–the–wall document of the…
- I Really Hate My Job (2007)
- Dir. Oliver Parker
Feat. Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Maria Lara
- Character–driven comedy focused around a group of frustrated artsy–types working at a restaurant in London's fashionable Soho district…
- Jane Austen Book Club, The (2007)
- Dir. Robin Swicord
Feat. Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Emily Blunt…
- A refreshing 'click flick' in which six Californians convene to discuss the literary works of Jane Austen and discover their own lives are starting…
- Juno (2007)
- Dir. Jason Reitman
Feat. Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner…
- Upstart indie comedy that broke wide into the mainstream, this packages up Gen–Y angst and 'riot–grrl' attitude into a commercially…
- La Vie en Rose (2007)
- Dir. Olivier Dahan
Feat. Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Emmanuelle Seigner…
- Marion Cotillard excels (and deservingly won a Best Actress Oscar) in this stunning new biopic of the life and times of French singer Edith…
- Margot at the Wedding (2007)
- Dir. Noah Baumbach
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black
- Nicole Kidman stars as an acid–tongued, permafrosty writer in Noah Baumbach's (THE SQUID & THE WHALE) ongoing treatment of middle–aged…
- Mind the Gap (Se upp för dårarna) (2007)
- Dir. Helena Bergstrom
- Feelgood coming–of–age comedy drama focused on two twenty–somethings from different backgrounds who form a solid friendship when…
- Powder and the Glory, The (2007)
- A welcome insight into two of America's greatest female entrepreneurs – Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein; two immigrants with limited…
- St Trinian's (2007)
- Dir. Oliver Parker
Feat. Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Lena Headey…
- Worthy, updated version of the cheeky Brit comedy set in a school of badly behaved misfits bent on saving their risqué educational institution from…
- Starter Wife, The (Mini-Series) (2007)
- Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Debra Messing, Miranda Otto, Judy Davis…
- Attractive, summery affair concerns a pampered Hollywood trophy wife (Messing) who must get back on the horse after her marriage comes abruptly to an…
- Teeth (2007)
- Dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein
Feat. Jess Weixler
- Squeamishly entertaining horror centred on a sweet high school virgin who discovers she has a set of mutant teeth between her legs, the perfect…
- Two Days in Paris (2 Days in Paris) (2007)
- Dir. Julie Delpy
Feat. Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg
- Delightful, self–starring directorial debut from Julie Delpy about an angsty Franco–American couple who drop in to visit her very…
- World Unseen, The (2007)
- Dir. Shamim Sarif
Feat. Sheetal Sheth, Lisa Ray
- Actors Lisa Rayand and Sheetal Sheth team up again for director Shamim Sarif (I CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT) in this beautiful depiction of a lesbian love…
- Yella (2007)
- Dir. Christian Petzold
Feat. Nina Hoss
- Engrossing metaphysical thriller set in a predatory corporate world in which a divorcee accountant (Hoss) decides to leave behind her redundant life…
- .45 (2006)
- Dir. Gary Lennon
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Angus Macfadyen, Stephen Dorff
- Sultry crime drama centred on two petty–crime thugs addicted to danger and each other, until a violent attack spurs the woman (Jovovich) to…
- Anna Pihl (TV Series) (2006-2008)
- Feat. Charlotte Munck, Iben Hjejle
- Praised for its realism, this Danish police drama centres around a Copenhagen policewoman also having to deal with solo parenthood.
- Bandidas (2006)
- Dir. Joachim Roenning, Espen Sandberg
Feat. Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Steve Zahn…
- A spicy and saddled western vehicle for bosom buddies Hayek and Cruz, with the spunky duo turning to bank robbery in an effort to combat a marauding…
- Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Carice Van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman
- A Jewish singer goes deep undercover for the Dutch resistance in this splashy, larger–than–life WWII yarn set in Nazi–occupied…
- Bonneville (2006)
- Dir. Christopher Rowley
Feat. Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen…
- Endearing road dramedy featuring a trio of Mormon friends that set out for Santa Barbara in a vintage 66' Bonneville Convertible to deliver the ashes…
- Flicka (2006)
- Dir. Michael Mayer
Feat. Alison Lohman, Maria Bello
- Nicely polished revision of horse classic MY FRIEND FLICKA, with a plucky Alison Lohman taking the reins of an untamable mare to prove to her father…
- Friends with Money (2006)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener…
- Diverting relationship–drama skips through dir. Holofcener's (LOVELY AND AMAZING) perennial wry life lessons, presenting the tribulations of…
- Hey Good Looking! (Comme t'y es belle!) (2006)
- Dir. Lisa Azuelos
Feat. Aure Atika
- Frank French chick flick centred around a SEX AND THE CITYish cast of four gal pals who share with each other the trials of finding (and keeping) the…
- Hills, The (TV Series) (2006-2008)
- Heavy–handed Reality TV series focused on Laguna Beach It girl Lauren Conrad and her sassy friends trying to gain careers, a great tan and the…
- Hula Girls (2006)
- Dir. Sang-il Lee
Feat. Yasuko Matsuyuki, Yu Aoi
- Feel–good true story of a depleted coal–mining town in Japan, and its residents’ efforts to build a Hawaiian–themed tourist…
- Jam and Jerusalem (TV Series) (Clatterford) (2006)
- Feat. Sue Johnston, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French…
- Jennifer Saunders penned this eccentric ensemble comedy about 'The Women's Guild', an eclectic sisterhood of ladies in small town Clatterford who…
- Jane Eyre (TV Mini-Series) (2006)
- Dir. Susanna White
Feat. Toby Stephens, Ruth Wilson
- Commendable mini–series version of the classic Charlotte Bronte tale of a headstrong governess who falls madly in love with her employer.…
- Lipstick (Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy) (2006)
- Dir. Peter Werner
Feat. Sarah Chalke, Jay Harrington
- Based on a true story of a woman's fight to maintain her humour and passion while battling breast cancer, Sarah Chalke (SCRUBS) gives a raw and…
- Madonna - The Confessions Tour (2006)
- Dir. Jonas Akerlund
Feat. Madonna
- The queen of pop reigns supreme with an extravagent, state–of–the–art stage show filmed live at London's Wembley Arena, presided by…
- New Adventures of Old Christine, The (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Julia Louis–Dreyfus (everyone's favourite gal pal from SEINFELD) headlines this likeable sitcom about a single mother adjusting to her new life…
- Notes on a Scandal (2006)
- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy
- Authorities Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench go head–to–head in this psychological gambit between a pottery teacher engaged in an illicit…
- Penelope (2006)
- Dir. Mark Palansky
Feat. Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara…
- Whimsical fantasy comedy about an unfortunate girl cursed with the face of a pig whose family are driven to find her a "handsome prince" to undo the…
- Shut Up and Sing (2006)
- Dir. Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
- Politics ("shut up") and music ("sing") find themselves reluctantly linked in this portrait of country superstars, "The Dixie Chicks", and the…
- Ugly Betty (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. America Ferrera, Salma Hayek, Eric Mabius…
- A spunky, savage parody of the fashion world, based around a dorky, but ever–determined Hispanic (Ferrera), thrown into the industry deep end…
- Volver (2006)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas
- Formidable Spanish brand–name dir. Almodovar re–embracing what he knows best – womanhood – in a vibrant and tempestuous tale of…
- Woods, The (2006)
- Dir. Lucky McKee
Feat. Agnes Bruckner, Patricia Clarkson, Bruce Campbell
- Creepy excursion has a teenage pyromaniac (Bruckner) sent to girls' school located deep in the malign woods of 1960s New England, which is possibly…
- Young, Single and Angry (2006)
- Dir. Richard Waterhouse
Feat. Sarah Blevins, Jamie Anderson, Heather Stewart…
- Low budget chick–flick following a group of LA women turned bitter and disillusioned from years of unsuccessful dating, until they discover…
- Broad Horizons (2005)
- Dir. Various
- Ten galvanizing short films by women tackling issues such as globalisation, spirituality, lesbianism and more, across multiple mediums. Released to…
- Catherine the Great (2005)
- Dir. John Burgess, John-Paul Davidson
- Made with the help of newly–available documentation from the former Soviet archives, this impressive biopic about the life and times of…
- Descent, The (2005)
- Dir. Neil Marshall
Feat. Shauna Macdonald
- Terrific subterranean survival horror from the dir. of DOG SOLDIERS, with a group of thrill–seeking ladies venturing into an uncharted cave…
- Domino (2005)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Delroy Lindo…
- Brash, hyperkinetic action rendition of the life and times of Domino Harvey (played by Knightley), the daughter of movie–star Laurence Harvey,…
- Elektra (2005)
- Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Terence Stamp
- Reprising her quasi–superhero role from DAREDEVIL, Garner dons a red supervixen outfit as a contract assassin pitted against a cabal of ninjas…
- Hating Alison Ashley (2005)
- Dir. Geoff Bennett
Feat. Delta Goodrem, Saskia Burmeister
- Candyfloss comedy set in a Melbourne high school, where the arrival of pretty Alison Ashley (Goodrem) creates difficulties for Erica Yurken…
- Heart of the Game, The (2005)
- Dir. Ward Serrill
- Often–rousing documentary about a Seattle girls’ high school basketball team and their unconventional coach.
Darnelia, a socially…
- Heartbreak Hotel (2005)
- Dir. Colin Nutley
Feat. Helena Bergstrom, Maria Lundqvist
- Two recently–divorced Swedish women form an unlikely bond and navigate their way through the perils of singledom in this fresh–faced…
- In Her Shoes (2005)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley Maclaine
- Intelligent, if overly conventional adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's chick–lit novel about two contrasting and clashing sisters: the ebullient…
- Linda Linda Linda (2005)
- Dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita
Feat. Doona Bae, Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii…
- Guided by a rousing rock anthem, three high school seniors – and one gawky Korean exchange student – strive to have three Japanese punk classics…
- Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)
- Dir. John Pasquin
Feat. Sandra Bullock, William Shatner, Treat Williams…
- Bullock returns as the tomboy FBI detective, this time on a downward spiral through losing her partner, being made the advertised 'face of the FBI',…
- Nine Lives (2005)
- Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Feat. Robin Wright, Holly Hunter, Sissy Spacek…
- Soulful ensemble drama delving into the lives of nine women, portrayed by nine top–notch actresses gifted a single vignette each to portray the…
- North Country (2005)
- Dir. Niki Caro
Feat. Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek…
- Fact–based drama about a group of women miners in 1970s Minnesota who endured a hostile work environment, bullying and sexual abuse after…
- Seeing Other People (2005)
- Dir. Wally Wolodarsky
Feat. Jay Mohr, Josh Charles, Lauren Graham…
- Sporting a nicely screwball premise – a soon–to–be–married couple (Mohr and Nicholson) agree to have a two–month bout…
- She's the Man (2005)
- Dir. Andy Fickman
Feat. Amanda Bynes, Vinnie Jones, Julie Hagerty…
- Spunky, if rather uncomfortable transposition of Shakespeare’s 'Twelfth Night' into the realm of American teen comedy, about a talented female…
- Sisters in Law (2005)
- Dir. Kim Longinotto, Florence Ayisi
- Spirited portrait of two women working in the Cameroonian Judiciary – a State Prosecutor and a judge in the magistrate’s court, respectively –…
- Southern Belles (2005)
- Dir. Brennan Shroff, Paul S Myers
Feat. Laura Breckenridge, Anna Faris, Justin Chambers
- Simple chick comedy about Belle and Bell, a couple of sweet–as–pie, trailer–trapped Georgia peaches who dream of Atlanta –…
- Virgin Queen, The (TV Mini-Series) (2005)
- Dir. Coky Giedroyc
Feat. Anne-Marie Duff, Joanne Whalley, Dexter Fletcher…
- Imprecise yet compelling mini–series portraying the life and loves of the infamously independent Queen Elizabeth I – from her fearful…
- Appleseed - The Movie (Appurushîdo) (2004)
- Dir. Shinji Aramaki
- Muscular and violent anime set in a post–WW3 landscape, where a gung–ho woman warrior is captured and transported to a seemingly benign…
- Bratz - Starrin' and Stylin' (2004)
- The popular four 'Bratz' dolls (Jade, Close, Sasha and Yasmin) come to life in various animated episodes of their lives' as The Girls with a Passion…
- Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
- Dir. Sara Sugarman
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Adam Garcia
- Light 'tweeny' comedy in which teenage centre–of–attention Lohan (FREAKY FRIDAY) is moved to the dull suburbs with her family and finds…
- Cutie Honey (Kyûtî Hanî) (2004)
- Dir. Hideaki Anno
Feat. Eriko Sato
- Colourful cluster bomb romp pits a sexy supercharged heroine against an assembly line of comic book villains in a camp futuristic netherworld. Fun,…
- Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 1 (2004)
- Feat. Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross…
- A wildly popular "super–soap" which explores the secrets, neuroses, affairs and generally intriguing lives of a group of middle–aged…
- Edgeplay - A Film about The Runaways (2004)
- Dir. Victory Tischler-Blue
- Minus the input of Joan Jett (who denied the filmmakers access to her songs), this rough–and–ready retrospective of The Runaways' heady…
- Gladiatress (2004)
- Dir. Brian Grant
Feat. Sally Phillips, Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan
- A modest spoof on the sword–and–sandal genre (see GLADIATOR or XENA), with three Celtic lasses kitting up for a wander through a welter…
- Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
- Dir. Katja von Garnier
Feat. Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston, Frances O’Connor…
- Fairly inventive telemovie concerning the rise of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which had the aim of gaining voting and other…
- Life Begins (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. David Caffrey, Charles Palmer
Feat. Caroline Quentin, Alexander Armstrong, Frank Finlay…
- Charming British series concerning a woman who must face life as a single middle–age woman after the sudden departure of her husband.…
- Maria Full of Grace (2004)
- Dir. Joshua Marston
Feat. Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez…
- An accomplished delve into the experience of a 'drug mule', a teenage Colombian girl who enlists to smuggle heroin into the United States, so as to…
- Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood…
- Clint Eastwood's straight–ahead drama about a feisty young woman who trains under his grizzled, reluctant coach to become a boxing champion…
- Moolaade (2004)
- Dir. Ousmane Sembene
Feat. Fatoumata Coulibaly
- A rare glimpse for New Zealanders of the work of elderly Sengalese dir. Sembene – novelist, newspaper editor and founder of the New African…
- Saving Face (2004)
- Dir. Alice Wu
Feat. Joan Chen, Lynn Chen, Michelle Krusiec
- Comfy American indie which plumbs various relationship taboos in the world of Asian–America, centred around the lesbian longings of a surgeon…
- Sheilas: 28 Years On (2004)
- Dir. Annie Goldson, Dawn Hutchesson
- Utilising the approach of Michael Apted's 7–UP films, this features encounters with the participants of the 1976 New Zealand TV series 'Women'…
- Somersault (2004)
- Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran…
- Visually impressive though underwritten account of a fragile Australian teenager who flees her home for the wider world after being caught in bed…
- Tori Amos - Welcome to Sunny Florida (2004)
- An excellent live concert film of singer Tori Amos, who fuses pop melodies, classical piano chops and weird lyrics into a compelling whole. FIlmed in…
- Twenty Thirty Forty (20 30 40) (2004)
- Dir. Sylvia Chang
Feat. Sylvia Chang, Rene Liu, Lee Sinji
- The destinies of three women in contemporary urban Taiwan – aged 20, 30 and 40 – evolve in parallel as each feels their way through the…
- Vera Drake (2004)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight
- An impeccable period drama from Mike Leigh that ranks alongside the director's best work, this is the moving story of a middle aged woman who was…
- Winx Club (TV Series) (2004-2005)
- An animated Italian series (dubbed into English) that concerns a gang of fairy–girls at a magic high–school learning about boys and the…
- Anatomy of Hell (Anatomie De L'enfer) (2003)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi
- A queasily explicit sex drama about a suicidal woman who challenges (and pays) a promiscuous gay man to participate in an uneasy nightly ritual of…
- Ashes and Sand (2003)
- Dir. Bob Blagden
Feat. Nick Moran, Lara Belmont
- Promising but ultimately disappointing drama set among the members of a girl–gang in Brighton, England.
Although based on an…
- Casa de los Babys (2003)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah, Marcia Gay Harden…
- Another quality ensemble drama from dir. John Sayles, that this time brings together six American women waiting to start a family through a Mexican…
- Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle (2003)
- Dir. McG
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu…
- Charlie's most recent 'Angels' return for a second comic–action romp with all the bright colours, sexy costumes, hi–tech clowning and…
- High Tension (Haute tension, Switchblade Romance) (2003)
- Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Cecile De France, Maïwenn
- A grisly yet indeed tense French horror movie directed with stunning virtuosity, about two women whose rural weekend getaway turns horrific when they…
- Joy of Madness (Lezate divanegi) (2003)
- Dir. Hana Makhmalbaf
- An unusual and invigorating self–reflexive documentary created by the teenage sister of acclaimed filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf, during the…
- Kill Bill - Vol. 1 (2003)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox…
- A blunt revenge picture souped up as an over–the–top homage to 70s ‘grindhouse’ flicks, this “fourth film by Quentin Tarantino”…
- Mother, The (2003)
- Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Stephen Mackintosh…
- An unforgettable British drama about an aging widow, alienated from her ambitious son and neurotic daughter, who confronts the vacuum of her life…
- Osama (2003)
- Dir. Siddiq Barmak
Feat. Marina Golbahari
- Though nothing to do with a certain infamous terrorist, this first Afghani film made since the rise and fall of the Taliban also happens to be a…
- Prey For Rock n Roll (2003)
- Dir. Alex Steyermark
Feat. Gina Gershon, Drea De Matteo, Lori Petty
- Gina Gershon puts her all into a role playing an aging rock–singer who must decide whether to continue pursuing the dream after her 40th…
- Real Women Have Curves (2003)
- Dir. Patricia Cardoso
Feat. America Ferrera
- A natural antidote to Hollywood silicone, this tells the charming coming–of–age story of an ‘ordinary’ Mexican–American…
- Singing Behind Screens (Cantando dietro i paraventi) (2003)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Bud Spencer, Davide Dragonetti
- Visually opulent Italian epic directed by Ermanno Olmi (THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS) set in coastal China and centred on a plucky widow who takes her…
- Thirteen (2003)
- Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed
- Startling depiction of a young teenager who spins out of control as she falls in with the wrong crowd and beyond the reach of her struggling…
- Uptown Girls (2003)
- Dir. Boaz Yakin
Feat. Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Heather Locklear
- Effectively fluffy comedy of teenage bad manners and pre–pubescent precociousness has Brittany Murphy playing an airhead pop–star who…
- Whale Rider (2003)
- Dir. Niki Caro
Feat. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton…
- A stirring, widely–acclaimed adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s novel about a young girl’s struggle to win the approval of her patriarchal…
- A Tale of a Naughty Girl (Mondo Meyer Upakhyan) (2002)
- Dir. Buddhadev Dasgupta
Feat. Samata Das, Rituparna Sengupta, Arpan Basar
- 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…
- Banger Sisters, The (2002)
- Dir. Bob Dolman
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Goldie Hawn, Geoffrey Rush
- Cute comedy about the reunion of two rock groupies from the 70s, one of whom is still living the life (Goldie Hawn), the other (Susan Sarandon) has…
- Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
- Dir. Gurinder Chadha
Feat. Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers…
- Adding exotic, gender–twisting charm and two vivacious performances to the underdog–feelgood formula, this…
- Between Strangers (2002)
- Dir. Edoardo Ponti
Feat. Sophia Loren, Pete Postlethwaite, Mira Sorvino…
- The lives of three quite different women move into thematic proximity in this lightweight, but worthy drama.
As played by Loren, Sorvino and…
- Blue Car (2002)
- Dir. Karen Moncrieff
Feat. Agnes Bruckner, David Strathairn
- A rites–of–passage drama of distinction, this is realistic and affecting in its account of a high–school student whose flair for…
- Cherish (2002)
- Dir. Finn Taylor
Feat. Robin Tunney, Tim Blake Nelson, Jason Priestley…
- A self–consciously offbeat ‘indie’ about a retro–pop obsessed misfit (Robin Tunney in a winning, flaky performance) who finds…
- Coffee, Tea or Me? (2002)
- Dir. Brita McVeigh
- An engaging lowkey look at the experiences of seven woman who worked as air hostesses in the 1960s and 70s.
Similiar in tone to the documentaries…
- Daughter from Danang (2002)
- Dir. Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
- A moving and troubling documentary about Heidi Bub, the daughter of an American serviceman and a poor Vietnamese woman, born in Danang and raised in…
- Face (2002)
- Dir. Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
Feat. Ling Bai, Will Yun Lee, Kirsty Wu…
- Chinese–American drama that deals commendably with familiar themes of relationships, marriage and cultural identity.
Alternating its…
- Frida (2002)
- Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Ashley Judd…
- Long awaited biopic of the celebrated 20th–century Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, whose troubled marriage to Diego Riviera and crippling injuries…
- Hysterical Blindness (2002)
- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, Gena Rowlands
- A red–maned Uma Thurman comes to terms with her 'Jersey Girl' existence in this noted telemovie from dir. Mira Nair (MONSOON…
- Linda Green (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Liza Tarbuck
- Surprisingly endearing comic drama, follows the life of swinging single girl Linda (played by former TV presenter Liza Tarbuck) from work to home to…
- Morvern Callar (2002)
- Dir. Lynne Ramsay
Feat. Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott
- Enigmatic drama from the dir. of RATCATCHER that unreels a woman's journey into the unknown after her boyfriend commits suicide and she purloins his…
- Naked Weapon (Chek Law Dak Gung) (2002)
- Dir. Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Maggie Q
- A quasi–homage to NAKED KILLER, this sleazily–violent actioner portrays the development of a three–women hit squad by the…
- Panic Room (2002)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam…
- Gifted visual stylist David Fincher downsizes a little with a dark, Hitchcockian chamber piece that pushes enough of the right buttons to make it a…
- Personal Velocity (2002)
- Dir. Rebecca Miller
Feat. Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk
- Daughter of playwright Arthur Miller, Rebecca, announces herself as a talent worthy of her famous father on evidence of her second feature – a…
- Powerpuff Girls Movie, The (2002)
- Dir. Craig McCracken
- The heroines of the small–screen get their own feature–length action–packed bustout which explains the origins of the three…
- Satin Rouge (2002)
- Dir. Raja Amari
Feat. Hiam Abbass, Hend El Fahem
- A still–attractive but lonely widow is liberated through the world of belly–dancing in this infectious romantic drama from Tunisia.
At…
- Secretary (2002)
- Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies…
- A spanking good black comedy detailing the bizarre relationship between a peculiar, ill–tempered lawyer and the meek secretary he…
- So Close (Chik yeung tin sai) (2002)
- Dir. Corey Yuen
Feat. Shu Qi, Karen Mok, Vicki Zhao
- Presenting... a heroic trio of femmes for a new generation – a kind of high–octane "Asian Charlie's Angels".
This super–flash…
- Suddenly (2002)
- Dir. Diego Lerman
Feat. Carla Crespo, Tatiana Saphir, Veronica Hassan
- Grimy, punkish road movie morphs that into a rather tender tale with two tough girls from the hood kidnapping a local shop girl and taking her on an…
- Teknolust (2002)
- Dir. Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, Karen Black
- Human and artificial frontiers overlap to intriguing effect in this independent feature propelled by Tilda Swinton in four incarnations – a…
- 8 Women (8 Femmes) (2001)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart…
- In the classic whodunnit mould, this whimsical French "thriller" starts with a man’s dead body in a snowbound Alpine manse in the 1950s, and eight…
- A Ma Soeur! (For My Sister, aka Fat Girl) (2001)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Anais Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo…
- An artfully impassive study of sexual predation that takes place during the summer holidays of two teenage sisters – the dumpy Anais Reboux and…
- Alias (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Michael Vartan…
- Depicts the adventures of a college student (Garner) who moonlights as a special agent – fulfilling dangerous covert operations for the CIA and…
- Amelie (2001)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz
- A charming romantic comedy stamped with the purely cinematic style of dir. Jean–Pierre Juenet, who here remixes intricate set pieces, editing…
- Amy's O (Amy's Orgasm) (2001)
- Dir. Julie Davis
Feat. Julie Davis, Nick Chinlund, Caroline Aaron
- Invigorating rom–com of a single author on the hunt for a man and the ideal sexual experience. Guaranteed crowd pleaser for the single and…
- Blood - The Last Vampire (2001)
- Dir. Hiroyuki Kitakubo
- A half–length feature that packs twice the punch of the average Anime, its astounding combination of CGI and cell–characters raises the…
- Born Romantic (2001)
- Dir. David Kane
Feat. Jane Horrocks, David Morrissey, Catherine McCormack
- An acerbic portrait of romantic illusion and disillusion encompassing six regulars of a London sal sa club, all ‘born romantic’ and…
- Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
- Dir. Sharon Maguire
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
- The anti–heroine of Helen Fielding’s novel makes the transition to the screen with her shrinking romantic options, stalled career and talent…
- Business of Strangers, The (2001)
- Dir. Patrick Stettner
Feat. Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Weller
- In what amounts to a gender–flip of “In the Company of Men”, Stocking Channing and Julia Stiles are business women polarized by money,…
- Down and Out With the Dolls (2001)
- Dir. Kurt Voss
- Based around the rise and fall of an all–grrl goth–rock band in early 1990s Portland, Oregon, this packs enough scene authenticity to…
- Ghost World (2001)
- Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Feat. Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi…
- Nothing to do with the paranormal, but everything to do with the anti–normal, this independent gem is a surprisingly endearing tale of two…
- Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
- Dir. Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Feat. Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Rachael Leigh Cook…
- Cute, but declawed pop–biz satire derived from an ‘Archie’ comic spinoff (and TV series), in which the titular girl–band use their…
- Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001)
- Dir. Simon West
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Noah Taylor
- Hugely silly fantasy–action is never a bore, despite all the odds, with an oiled Angelina Jolie filling the kit of the pneumatic…
- Lovely and Amazing (2001)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Jake Gyllenhaal…
- Rewarding indie drama – seasoned with touches of painful comedy – that observes the troubles between three sisters waiting for their…
- Me Without You (2001)
- Dir. Sandra Goldbacher
Feat. Anna Friel, Kyle MacLachlan, Oliver Milburn…
- Growing up on the outskirts of 1970s London, Anna Friel and Michelle Williams make a friendship–pact that helps them through the sex, drugs and…
- Princess Blade (Shurayuki-Hime) (2001)
- Dir. Shinsuke Sato
- Post–apocalyptic Japanese samurai action adapted from a graphic novel, employs a stark visual style to convey its tale of a disturbed young…
- Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres) (2001)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos
- Sturdy, unconventional French thriller about an insecure, partially–deaf office clerk who tries to help an irascible ex–con integrate…
- Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, James Woods
- Based on the bestselling Me–generation memoir of Beverly D’Onofrio, this follows Drew Barrymore’s efforts to fulfill her dreams…
- Searching for Debra Winger (2001)
- Dir. Rosanna Arquette
- Hollywood actress Roseanna Arquette analyzes the pressures and rewards of her profession in this loosely–formed patchwork of interviews with…
- Snakeskin (2001)
- Dir. Gillian Ashurst
Feat. Melanie Lynskey, Dean O'Gorman, Boyd Kestner…
- Searching for a little excitement in those hills due west of Christchurch, NZ, Melanie Lynsky and Dean O’Gorman are sucked into a series of private…
- Titless Wonders (2001)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
- “An upfront exploration of the emotional discoveries of women with breast cancer”, this bravely and valuably documents a subject most people…
- Wild Iris (2001)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Laura Linney, Fred Ward…
- Superior tele drama that cultivates a convincingly dysfunctional relationship between mother Gena Rowlands and daughter Laura Linney, returning home…
- Beautiful Creatures (2000)
- Dir. Bill Eagles
Feat. Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch
- An ultra–violent Scottish twist on THELMA AND LOUISE, with Rachel Weisz and Susan Lynch leaving Glasgow in a shower of blood, and heading out…
- Charlie's Angels (2000)
- Dir. McG
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu…
- TV's favourite female crimefighters get the big screen makeover. Not quite the phenomenon that were Farrah and co., contemporary imposters Drew…
- Contender, The (2000)
- Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges…
- Strongly performed political thriller centred around the confirmation of Vice–Presidential candidate Joan Allen, whose enemies try every trick…
- Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)
- Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. Daryl Hannah, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Tilly…
- Revealing the mixed–up lives of those who work at an L.A. stripclub, this well–meaning drama was written chiefly through the…
- Day I Became a Woman, The (2000)
- Dir. Marziyeh Meshkini
Feat. Fatemeh Cherag Akhur, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh
- A trio of strong metaphorical tales that outline three aspects of “a woman’s lot” in contemporary Iran, with humour and cinematic…
- Ellen DeGeneres Collection, The (The Beginning, Here and Now) (2000-2004)
- Feat. Ellen DeGeneres
- Two live standup gigs from the industrious comedian/entertainer/lesbian icon Ellen DeGeneres, filmed in New York’s Beacon Theatre, and concerning…
- Erin Brockovich (2000)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart
- An interesting and successful marriage of a Hollywood star vehicle (Julia Roberts) and independent credentials (dir. Soderbergh), that takes an…
- Gilmore Girls - Season 1 (TV Series) (2000-2001)
- Feat. Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel
- Critically lauded and invitingly fresh TV drama about an amiably eccentric mother and daughter, whose suburban American lives in Connecticut explore…
- Ginger Snaps (2000)
- Dir. John Fawcett
Feat. Emily Perkins, Katherine Isabelle, Mimi Rogers
- Canadian variation on the teen–horror model mixes the gene pool of adolescent angst with the werewolf genre, adopting lycanthropy as a metaphor…
- Girlfight (2000)
- Dir. Karyn Kusama
Feat. Michelle Rodriguez
- A teenage girl breaks out of her working–class rut by training as a boxer, an arena that presents sexual prejudice as her chief opponent.…
- Girls Can't Swim (Les filles ne savent pas nager) (2000)
- Dir. Anne-Sophie Birot
Feat. Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx, Pascale Bussieres…
- Moody French coming–of–age drama about two girls, one who lives in the coastal town in Brittany, the other from the city.
Best…
- Life-Size (2000)
- Dir. Mark Rosman
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Tyra Banks, Jere Burns
- Lindsay Lohan plays a withdrawn tomboy who attempts to cope with her mother's death by resurrecting her with a magic spell, only the plan backfires…
- Lilith Fair (2000)
- All–woman’s tour from 1997 that sold out around the US that included Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow, Jewel and Meredith Brooks.…
- Magik and Rose (2000)
- Dir. Vanessa Alexander
Feat. Alison Bruce, Nicola Murphy, Oliver Driver…
- Uplifting comic melodrama set during the Hokitika Wild Food Festival that rises above its familiar story of two women who, in different ways, have…
- Me You Them (Eu Tu Eles) (2000)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia
- Set in the arid hinterlands of Brazil, this serio–comic study of rural polyandry has Regina Case (Brazil’s Oprah Winfrey) hitch up three…
- Powerpuff Girls, The (TV Series) (2000)
- Spunky super–sisters Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup trade school lessons for fighting crime in this savvy, sugar–coated superhero series…
- Woman On Top (2000)
- Dir. Fina Torres
Feat. Penelope Cruz
- English language vehicle for ravishing Spanish star Penelope Cruz, whose magnetism makes up for some of the lulls in the plot of this romantic 'magic…
- Wonderland (2000)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Ian Hart, Gina McKee…
- A sobering view of contemporary London life as three sisters, friends and relatives struggle to connect in a stressful urban world. Plot mechanics…
- 24 Hour Woman (1999)
- Dir. Nancy Savoca
Feat. Rosie Perez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Diego Serrano…
- An incisive, often hilarious film about a very real dichotomy – how does parenthood fit into the life of a modern career woman?
In a…
- All About My Mother (1999)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Cecilia Roth
- 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)…
- Anywhere But Here (1999)
- Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman
- Creating a credible array of intelligent female characters, the dir. of THE JOY–LUCK CLUB deals honestly with the plight of flaky Mum Susan…
- Aristocrats (TV Mini-series) (1999)
- Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. Sian Phillips, Alun Armstrong, Ben Daniels…
- BBC costumer set in 18th–century England and Ireland tells the story of four beautiful, privileged sisters who are the…
- Bad Girls (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Simone Lahbib, Mark Pegy, Jack Ellis
- Top rating and dramatically juicy ITV series set in a British women’s prison, which directly confronts bisexuality, female violence, drugs and the…
- Cooler Climate, A (1999)
- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Sally Field, Judy Davis
- Exploring the emotional climate between newly–separated Sally Field and her new boss, rich–bitch Judy Davis, this small–scale drama…
- Girl (1999)
- Dir. Jonathan Kahn
Feat. Dominique Swain
- Hybrid of the teen–flick with grunge–rock movie, starring Dominique Swain (LOLITA) as a brainy virgin who decides to fall in with some…
- Girl, Interrupted (1999)
- Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie
- Winona Ryder flies over the cuckoo's nest as the confused middle–class waif of Susanna Kaysen's 60s counterculture memoir, who's persuaded by…
- Holy Smoke (1999)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel
- An adventurous attempt to fuse psychological thriller, broad caricature and Eastern spirituality has guru–besotted Kate Winslet being lured…
- Joan of Arc (The Messenger) (1999)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich…
- The French heroine gets the big–budget splurge with a religiously inspired Milla Jovovich leading the French peasantry against the Brits, only…
- Madonna - The Ultimate Collection (1999)
- Feat. Madonna
- A double DVD set featuring the ‘Immaculate Collection’ (1990) of music videos with the more recent ‘Video Collection’.
The ‘Immaculate…
- Soft Fruit (1999)
- Dir. Christina Andreef
Feat. Jeanie Drynan, Linal Haft, Russell Dykstra…
- From NZ short film dir. Christina Andreef comes this ripely entertaining comic drama about the ties that separate and bind as four Aussie siblings…
- Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (1999)
- Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Feat. Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter…
- A quietly impressive portmanteau film, portraying the interior lives of five Los Angeles women in crisis, this was unfairly shelved after its…
- Tumbleweeds (1999)
- Dir. Gavin O'Connor
Feat. Janet McTeer, Gavin O'Connor, Kimberly J Brown
- Exceptional mother–daughter drama that won British actress Janet McTeer an Oscar nomination for her dedicated portrait of a sassy, impetuous…
- Venus Beauty Institute (Venus Beauty) (1999)
- Dir. Tonie Marshall
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou
- A modest beauty salon is the setting for this wry ensemble piece about the vagaries of womanhood, with an engagingly eccentric collection of clients…
- An Autumn Tale (1998)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Alain Libolt
- Completing his suite of films based on the four seasons, dir. Rohmer provides another mellow, seemingly unplotted comedy, in which Rhone valley…
- Charmed (TV Series) (1998-2005)
- Feat. Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs
- A career–reviving hit for Doherty and Milano, as two of a trio of sisters who discover they have the supernatural powers of witches. This…
- Destiny of Her Own, A (Dangerous Beauty) (1998)
- Dir. Marshall Herskovitz
Feat. Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell
- Historical romance that profits from a sensuous 16th century Venetian setting, as the low–prospect Catherine McCormack opts for the tradeoffs…
- Elizabeth (1998)
- Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes…
- Attended by much ballyhoo, Australian actress Cate Blanchett fruitfully represents England's famous Queen as a key player in the sex…
- Fishing Trip, The (1998)
- Dir. Amnon Buchbinder
Feat. Jhene Erwin, Melissa Hood, Anna Henry
- Independent drama made when director Amnon Buchbinder was a student at the Candian Film Centre, telling a story of two sisters who confront their…
- Girls' Night (1998)
- Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Julie Walters, Brenda Blethyn
- A windfall at the local bingo hall puts air in the wings of forty–something factory gals Julie Walters and Brenda Blethyn, but a wheel of…
- Hairy Bird, The (Strike) (1998)
- Dir. Sarah Kernochan
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Gaby Hoffmann
- Good–natured meditation on the importance of female–bonding set in a girls prep–school (run by Lynn Redgrave) in 1963, with the…
- Land Girls, The (1998)
- Dir. David Leland
Feat. Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel
- Gently romantic look at the lives of three young women serving old Blighty during World War II as members of the nearly forgotten Women's Land Army.…
- Occasional Coarse Language (1998)
- Dir. Brad Hayward
Feat. Sara Browne
- Taking cheeky inspiration from women's magazine culture, this hilarious Oz comedy flies on a ticket of enthused charm, homespun wit and Sara Browne…
- Practical Magic (1998)
- Dir. Griffen Dunne
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman
- Modern–day witchy women Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman contend with the family curse, whereby their husbands always seem to die (shortly…
- Price Above Rubies, A (1998)
- Dir. Boaz Yakin
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Julianne Margulies…
- Sincere though meddlesome attempt to depict life in the closed society of Hasidic Judaism, finds it hard to measure up to dir. Boaz Yakin's…
- Run Lola Run (1998)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Franke Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu
- Runaway foreign–language hit clocks up mileage from a simple conceit – flame–haired punkette Lola has twenty minutes to go like the…
- Sex and the City - Season 1 (TV Series) (1998)
- Dir. Daniel Algrant, Allison Anders
Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon…
- Smash hit TV–series that broke new ground in its frank discussion of the varying sexual mores of four NYC friends – Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim…
- Sinead O'Connor - The Value of Ignorance (1998)
- Dir. John Maybury
- English video artist John Maybury (Love is the Devil) directs reworkings of her album tracks. 8 tracks.
- Terrorist, The (1998)
- Dir. Santosh Sivan
Feat. Ayesha Dharkar
- Discovered and championed by the actor John Malkovich, this intensely concentrated thriller depicts the hardening and training of 19–yr old…
- Wild Things (1998)
- Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Matt Dillon…
- Rattle–brained thriller sets highschool minxes Neve Campbell and Denise Richards into action, putting honest–Joe sailing instructor Matt…
- A Thousand Acres (1997)
- Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse
Feat. Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Pfeiffer…
- Daughters of rancher Jason Robards are an embattled trio, in this adaption of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Story attempts to…
- All Over Me (1997)
- Dir. Alex Sichel
Feat. Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Cole Hauser…
- A lesbian festival hit that has 'crossover' hit written all over it, as it persuasively pinpoints some of the universal, intense emotions of…
- Artemisia (1997)
- Dir. Agnes Merlet
Feat. Valentina Cervi, Miki Manojlovic, Michel Serrault
- Study of the first significant female painter, Artemisia Gentileschi, the daughter of Caravaggio's one–time assistant in 17th Century…
- Career Girls (1997)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman
- Mike Leigh sidesteps the impossibly tall order of living up to SECRETS AND LIES with a character–driven two–hander about a pair of…
- Female Perversions (1997)
- Dir. Susan Streitfeld
Feat. Tilda Swinton
- Based on the Freudian texts of noted psychoanalyst Louise Kaplan, this serious–minded, erotically charged and stylish film probes several…
- GI Jane (1997)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft
- A staunch, suede–headed Demi Moore is enlisted in a US Army commando squad in a call for equal–opportunity by stylist dir. Ridley Scott. …
- Office Killer (1997)
- Dir. Cindy Sherman
Feat. Cindy Sherman, Molly Ringwald, Barbara Sukowa
- A bloody revenge fantasy – a mousy secretary gets her own back on intimidating office co–workers – informed by a stylised,…
- Post Coitum (1997)
- Dir. Brigitte Rouan
Feat. Brigitte Rouan
- The director herself plays a 40–year–old wife, mother and book editor who has her respectable life devastated after a whirlwind affair…
- Radiance (1997)
- Dir. Rachel Perkins
Feat. Rachel Maza, Deborah Mailman, Trisha Morton-Thomas
- An Aboriginal mother's funeral brings disparities among the surviving daughters into vibrant relief.
Adapted from Louis Nowra's play, this…
- Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Smilla's Sense of Snow) (1997)
- Dir. Bille August
Feat. Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris
- From Peter Hoeg's acclaimed novel, Julia Ormond glistens in the plumb role of the frosty, feisty half–eskimo woman who over–concerns…
- Spiceworld: The Movie (1997)
- Dir. Bob Spiers
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton…
- Rocking–good time of a shallow band movie, with great costumes, sets, attitude, etc. The girls sure know how to have fun, Richard E. Grant is…
- True Women (1997)
- Dir. Karen Arthur
Feat. Dana Delaney, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie…
- A female–driven historical saga spanning five decades from the Texas Revolution through to the American Civil War. A Hallmark production based…
- Washington Square (1997)
- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith…
- Portrait of a lady adapted from the pen of Henry James profits from an exemplary Jennifer Jason Leigh performance – as an eccentric, plain…
- Antonia's Line (1996)
- Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Willeke van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans, Jan Decleir
- The deserving winner of the '96 Best Foreign Film Oscar recalls the 50 year history of matriarch Antonia and her defiantly unconventional brood in…
- Babysitters' Club (1996)
- Dir. Melanie Mayron
Feat. Brooke Adams, Peter Horton, Ellen Burstyn…
- For the girl club–members, about to encounter the world of high–school, those treasured nights of babysitting may be over. Based on the…
- Bound (1996)
- Dir. Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Feat. Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon
- Modern film noir madeover in lesbian chic – Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon pout, titillate and conspire their way through the moral marshlands…
- Craft, The (1996)
- Dir. Andrew Fleming
Feat. Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell…
- The director of THREESOME conjures a fast–paced and slick tale of teenage outcasts who prefer to look pretty in black than pink. It's a dark…
- Diabolique (1996)
- Dir. Jeremiah Chechik
Feat. Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri
- Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani and Chazz Palminteri star in this flashy remake of the 1955 French classic, LES DIABOLIQUES. Strictly for those that…
- Dogs (Dogs: The Rise and Fall of an All-Girl Bookie Joint) (1996)
- Dir. Eve Annenburg
Feat. Pam Columbus, Pam Gray, Melody Beal…
- Four Brooklyn women opt for a life of running an illegal bookie joint, over the dead–end, unemployed lifestyle of the local area. In her debut,…
- Emma (1996)
- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cosmo, Greta Scacchi…
- A clued up reworking of Jane Austen's classic, set in 19th century England, about a congenial young lady's well–intentioned but misjudged…
- Entertaining Angels (1996)
- Dir. Michael Ray Rhodes
Feat. Moira Kelly, Martin Sheen
- Stirring biopic of American champion of the poor Dorothy Day (played with passion by Moira Kelly), who rose from obscurity in 1920s New York to…
- Evita (1996)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Madonna, Antonio Banderas
- The Broadway Extravaganza, complete with Madonna, wall–to–wall songs and political melodrama, is bravely swallowed whole by Hollywood. …
- Flower of My Secret, The (1996)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Marisa Paredes
- An artistic maturing for the director of kitsch sex comedies like HIGH HEELS and KIKA, this is an introspective study of a successful authoress…
- Girls Town (1996)
- Dir. Jim McKay
Feat. Lili Taylor, Idina Harris, Anna Grace
- Winner of both the Filmmaker's Trophy and the Special Jury prize at Sundance, this little seen film was one of genuine highlights of the 1997 NZ Film…
- How to Make an American Quilt (1996)
- Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse
Feat. Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn…
- Pleasurable, star–domed female–stitching movie has Winona Ryder sorting out her personal foibles with an ear for the mixed–fortuned…
- I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
- Dir. Mary Harron
Feat. Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton
- Both an absorbing time capsule of Warhol's 'factory' ultra–decadence and a gutsy portrait of extremism and delusion. Lili Taylor is a dynamo of…
- If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
- Dir. Nancy Savoca, Cher
Feat. Cher, Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek
- Cher, Demi Moore and Sissy Spacek examine issues and attitudes surrounding abortion in three separate stories spread over 40 years. Strong…
- Jane Austen Collection, The (1996-2007)
- Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Billie Piper, Samantha Morton…
- Collection of three of Austen's greatest stories; Emma, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park, brought to life by prestigious British casts.
Emma…
- Jane Eyre (1996)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin, William Hurt…
- Zeffirelli's version of Charlotte Bronte's gothic romance, filmed in appropriately murky hues, preserves the sombre integrity of the novel. Charlotte…
- Lady Ninja: Reflections of Darkness (1996)
- Dir. Masaru Tsushima
Feat. Yuka Ohnishi, Tetsuo Kurata, Rina Kitahara
- Snappy example of the Martial Sex–Arts sub–genre, with a gang of 'Lady Ninjas' hired by a lascivious Emperor to wipe–out his royal…
- Libertarias (1996)
- Dir. Vincente Aranda
Feat. Victoria Abril, Ana Belen, Miguel Bose…
- Examining the Spanish Civil War from a left–wing point–of–view, this passionate war drama focuses on a trio of women – a…
- Long Kiss Goodnight, The (1996)
- Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson
- Heroic chemistry between Geena Davis and Samuel L Jackson fuels this spectacular actioner, with more than a few eyebrows raised sardonically along…
- Moll Flanders (1996)
- Dir. Pen Densham
Feat. Robin Wright, Morgan Freeman
- The hardships of the 18th century England prove a lifelong test of character for the eponymous heroine, born into poverty, then graduating to both…
- Not Fourteen Again (1996)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
- Inspired by the British 7–UP series, film–maker Armstrong completes(?) her anthropological documentary following the lives of three…
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)
- Dir. Tibor Takacs
Feat. Melissa Joan Hart
- The pilot TV–movie for the ongoing series about a teenage girl who moves to a new town to be taken care of by her eccentric aunts. Struggles to…
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV Series) (1996)
- Feat. Melissa Joan Hart
- The terrible teens got a whole lot tougher for Sabrina, who upon turning sweet sixteen, is informed by her two spellbinding aunts that she is now a…
- Set It Off (1996)
- Dir. F. Gary Gray
Feat. Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox…
- An exciting black crime movie with a twist – the bankrobbing gang are all women. Kicking out against economic crisis, these chicks don't wait…
- Spitfire Grill, The (1996)
- Dir. Lee David Zlotoff
Feat. Alison Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden…
- If you enjoyed the down–home cookin' of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES you might wanna sample this fare, but otherwise this is a folkie melodrama, with a…
- Walking and Talking (1996)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Liev Schreiber
- A sort of femme flipside to 'Swingers', two women – one single, one about to be married – work out their romantic hangups in original and…
- Wish Upon a Star (1996)
- Dir. Blair Treu
Feat. Katherine Heigl, Danielle Harris
- A little Disney magic is sprinkled on this fetching TV movie about a younger sister who wishes to switch places with her popular older sister (a very…
- Angel Baby (1995)
- Dir. Michael Rymer
Feat. John Lynch, Jacqueline McKenzie
- Searing tragicomedy in which two schizophrenics fall in love and for better and worse navigate a path to independence and happiness.
The…
- Boys On the Side (1995)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore
- Strangers hit the road together and share more in common than they expect. As disparate women–of–the–nineties the three stars keep…
- Buffalo Girls (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Dir. Rod Hardy
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith
- Miniseries based on the best–selling novel by Larry McMurtry (LONESOME DOVE), which brings to life the Wild West escapades of Calamity Jane and…
- D'Artagnan's Daughter (Revenge of the Musketeers) (1995)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret
- This gleefully French swashbuckler checks in as a loose sequel to the Three Muskeeters. The magnetic Sophie Marceau stars as the feisty titular…
- Edie and Pen (1995)
- Dir. Matthew Irmas
Feat. Stockard Channing, Jennifer Tilly, Scott Glenn…
- Unhappily–marrieds Stockard Channing and Jennifer Tilly cut out to Reno to dispense with husbands, bad luck and sobriety. Bittersweet comedy…
- Georgia (1995)
- Dir. Ulu Grosbard
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham
- Sibling rivalry in the music industry contrasts the careers and temperaments of two sisters. Jennifer Jason–Leigh and Mare Winningham are in…
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (TV Series) (1995-1999)
- Feat. Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst
- Hugely popular fantasy series starring Kevin Sorbo as the classic half God/half man who travels through a fantastical ancient Greece in search of…
- Jade (1995)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Linda Fiorentino, David Caruso, Chazz Palminteri…
- Her sultriness Linda Fiorentino (LAST SEDUCTION) revamps for this did–she–or–didn't–she thriller from the lurid pen that…
- La Ceremonie (Judgement in Stone, A) (1995)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset
- Veteran new–wave director Chabrol takes this HEAVENLY CREATURES–ish tale of the unholy synergy between two women, adds some class theory,…
- Live Nude Girls (1995)
- Dir. Julianna Lavin
Feat. Dana Delaney, Kim Cattrall
- A slumber–party gathering of five thirtysomething Californian women provokes an exchange of intimate thoughts. An intelligent script has plenty…
- Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
- Dir. David Anspaugh
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Kathleen Turner, Gwyneth Paltrow…
- Whoopi Goldberg, Kathleen Turner and Gwyneth Paltrow gather to console Elizabeth Perkins on the tragic death of her hubby. Enter house–painting…
- Now and Then (1995)
- Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter
Feat. Demi Moore, Melanie Griffith, Rosie O'Donnell…
- Pleasant enough stroll down memory lane – estranged childhood chums reunite after 25 years for tears and celebration of their lives, er, now…
- Pocahontas (1995)
- Dir. Michael Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
- Disney accounts the historical union between the daughter of an Indian chief and an English colonist. No surprise that this is politically and…
- Politician's Wife, The (TV mini-series) (1995)
- Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve, Minnie Driver…
- Hell hath no fury like Juliet Stevenson in this Bafta and Emmy award–winning drama as a woman humiliated by the public revelation that her…
- She's Out (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Dir. Ian Toynton
Feat. Ann Mitchell, Linda Marlowe, Maureen Sweeney…
- Six–part crime drama written by Lynda La Plante (PRIME SUSPECT) as a sequel to her 1980's series, Widows. Ann Mitchell is superb as Dolly…
- Something to Talk About (1995)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall…
- The screenwriter of THELMA AND LOUISE penned this tale of a happily married woman (Julia Roberts) whose life is turned on its head when she discovers…
- Tank Girl (1995)
- Dir. Rachel Talalay
Feat. Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Ice-T
- Lori Petty is well cast as the rumbuncious heroine of Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett's subversive comic strip. Purists may cry foul but though its…
- Waiting to Exhale (1995)
- Dir. Forest Whitaker
Feat. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett
- Well–trodden version of men–bemoaning female bonding flick in which Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett among others share tales of…
- War Stories (War Stories our Mothers never told us) (1995)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
- Remarkable documentary manages to compel almost exclusively via the spoken word as seven elderly women offer candid yet articulate and boldy frank…
- West Side Waltz (1995)
- Dir. Ernest Thompson
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Liza Minnelli, Jennifer Grey…
- Cold widow Shirley Maclaine lives for playing the piano and isolates all except her violin accompanist, Liza Minnelli. A prelude to change comes in…
- Xena - Warrior Princess (TV Series) (1995-1996)
- Dir. Charles Siebert, Anson Williams, Gary Jones
Feat. Lucy Lawless
- Spinoff to the iconic 1990s 'Hercules' series, that became a cult in its own right.
Mixing slapstick action and snappy one–liners into a…
- Attack of the 50ft Woman (1994)
- Dir. Christopher Guest
Feat. Daryl Hannah, Daniel Baldwin
- Remake of the 1958 classic is a cheesy spoof of the B–movie genre with Hannah in strapping form as the she–beast who avenges her…
- Bad Girls (1994)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell, Mary Stuart Masterson…
- Saddle up with four popular Hollywood femmes for this enjoyably silly Western – easier on the eye than most.
- Disclosure (1994)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Michael Douglas, Demi Moore
- Michael Douglas exposes himself to become the sexual prey of no–nonsense lady–boss Demi Moore and is forced to sue her for sexual…
- Double Happiness (1994)
- Dir. Mina Shum
Feat. Sandra Oh, Allanah Ong, Stephen Chang…
- A Chinese–Canadian woman faces a common dilemma – how far is she willing to compromise her parents expectations and values in pursuit of…
- Fun (1994)
- Dir. Rafal Zielinski
Feat. Renee Humphrey, Alicia Witt
- 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…
- Getting Gotti (1994)
- Dir. Roger Young
Feat. Lorraine Bracco, Ellen Burstyn, Anthony John Denison
- Lorraine Bracco pre–SOPRANOS stardom takes on the role of a determined U.S. Attorney Assistant tracking down a Mafia Crime Boss that grew up in…
- Heroic Trio 2 - Executioners (1994)
- Dir. Johnnie To, Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung…
- Downbeat sequel returns the trio of feisty femmes to combat the evil mega–corporation that taken a stranglehold on the world's…
- I Like It Like That (1994)
- Dir. Darnell Martin
Feat. Griffin Dunne, Rita Moreno
- Dynamic, funny Bronx comedy in which a young mother takes on a job at a record company while juggling the demands of her children, headstrong husband…
- Little Women (1994)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes…
- Impeccable version of Louisa May Alcott's classic of American girlhood updates the warm–hearted saga of four sisters and their…
- Martha and Ethel (1994)
- Dir. Jyll Johnstone
- This touching and absorbing recount of the lives and times of two octogenarian nannies, one a fastidious German immigrant, the other a compassionate…
- Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick, Campbell Scott
- Jennifer Jason Leigh lends her perfectly mannered precision to Dorothy Parker, anguished writer, poet and lonely socialite who merrily drowned her…
- My Crazy Life (Mi Vida Loca) (1994)
- Dir. Allison Anders
Feat. Angel Aviles, Seidy Lopez, Jacob Vargas
- Latino, girl–centic spin on BOYZ 'N THE HOOD from the director of GAS, FOOD, LODGING derives its script from anecdotes from real gang girls and…
- Oleanna (1994)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Debra Eisenstadt, William H. Macy
- David Mamet brings his penetrating tete–a–tete about sexual agendas from the stage to screen in purely theatrical form. Stay with its…
- Only the Brave (1994)
- Dir. Ana Kokkinos
Feat. Elena Mandalis, Dora Kaskanis, Maud Davey
- Gritty portrait of a bleak rite–of–passage for two Greek girls in the wasteland of suburban Melbourne. Succinct feature possesses a…
- Romeo Is Bleeding (1994)
- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Gary Oldman, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis…
- Petty corrupt cop Gary Oldman gets into all sorts of bother with the mob and his three women – Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis and…
- Serving in Silence (1994)
- Dir. Jeff Bleckner
Feat. Glenn Close, Judy Davis
- Glenn Close and Judy Davis star in this biopic of Margarethe Cammermeyer, an exemplary colonel of the US military who was forced to fight for her…
- Silences of the Palace (1994)
- Dir. Moufida Tlatli
Feat. Amel Hedhili, Hend Sabri, Najia Ouerghi…
- The daughter of a palatial servant reflects on her upbringing and steady revolt of her birthright obligations.
Impassioned look at the status of…
- Wing Chun (1994)
- Dir. Yuen Woo Ping
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen
- Martial–arts star Michelle Yeoh lends some charisma to a cotton–sugar tale of remote villagers plagued by robbers. In the title role Yeoh…
- Assassin, The (Point of No Return) (1993)
- Dir. John Badham
Feat. Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney…
- Hollywood goes for the sure thing with this virtual frame–by–frame remake of NIKITA. Bridget Fonda does the best she can as the sexy…
- Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
- Dir. Maggie Greenwald
Feat. Suzy Amis
- Suzy Amis is terrific as a cowgirl who masquerades as a man in order to realise her fiercely independent dreams. A refreshing revision of the Wild…
- Bandit Queen (1993)
- Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Feat. Seema Biswas
- Far and away from the innocuous fluff that dominates India's film industry, comes this bold, controversial true story of Phoolan Devi, a notorious…
- Bhaji On the Beach (1993)
- Dir. Gurinder Chadha
Feat. Kim Vithana, Jimmi Harkishin, Sarita Khajuria
- Warm and energetic comedy joins a mini–bus full of Indian women on a day–trip to Blackpool. The first Asian woman to helm a Brit feature…
- Bread and Roses (1993)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Genevieve Picot
- A gracious tribute to the post–war generation of New Zealand women, Gaylene Preston does a job worthy of her forebears in charting the early…
- Chantilly Lace (1993)
- Dir. Linda Yellen
Feat. Lindsay Crouse, JoBeth Williams, Martha Plimpton
- Satisfying story of friendship among seven women who trade memories at a country retreat.
- Crush, The (1993)
- Dir. Alan Shapiro
Feat. Alicia Silverstone, Cary Elwes, Jennifer Rubin
- Psycho–brat Alicia Silverstone, all pert and pout at only fourteen, tries to ensnare her new neighbour of twice her age. Curious adolescents…
- Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (TV Series) (1993-1998)
- Feat. Jane Seymour, Chad Allen
- 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…
- Go Fish (1993)
- Dir. Rose Troche
Feat. Guinevere Turner, V.S Brodie
- A free–wheeling and revealing study of things lesbian with all its inherent prejudices and dilemmas. Not a 'coming–out' movie, but rather…
- Heroic Trio (1993)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh
- An invisible criminal is stealing babies for a sewer–dwelling villain and it's up to three dazzling super–chicks. Hugely entertaining…
- Innocent Blood (A French Vampire in America) (1993)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Anne Parillaud, Robert Loggia
- Director Landis rekindles the AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON formula and almost reaches the heights of his classic predecessor. Scrummy Anne 'NIKITA'…
- Joy Luck Club, The (1993)
- Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin
- 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,…
- Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1993)
- Dir. Leslie Harris
Feat. Ariyan Johnson
- This cautionary tale from the Brooklyn streets lacks technical polish, but its heart–felt enthusiasm paints a geniune picture of what it is to…
- Last Seduction, The (1993)
- Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, J.T. Walsh…
- Magnificent modern noir in which Linda Fiorentino offers the most brazen female performance in years, power–driving her way through a script…
- Moon Warriors (1993)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui
- Flashy feudal martial arts adventure features the high kicks of Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui, in a battle of noble siblings to regain the…
- P.J. Harvey - Reeling (1993)
- Feat. Polly Jean Harvey
- Darlings of the indie rock press, Polly Jean Harvey and band, captured on stage and off during her Euro–American tour of 1993.
- Piano, The (1993)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin…
- A romantic masterpiece set in pioneering New Zealand worthy of its reputation and phenomenal success. Worth a second glance for the cast's impeccable…
- Poetic Justice (1993)
- Dir. John Singleton
Feat. Janet Jackson
- Janet Jackson plays Justice, a girl who writes poetry and stuff about the problems of the 'hood. She's the best thing on offer in this tepid follow…
- Basic Instinct (1992)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas
- Sharon Stone leapt into fame, fortune and notoriety with her raunchy portrayal of the sultry crime novelist who may or may not be living out her…
- Body of Evidence (1992)
- Dir. Uli Edel
Feat. Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna…
- Madonna does the femme fatale thing. Willem Dafoe does the lawyer whose penis clouds his judgement thing. Did she bonk the old geyser to death for…
- Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1992)
- Dir. Dan Hoskins
Feat. Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff
- Hit–and–miss parody of zombie and biker flicks with a feminist–revenge kick. An improvement from the dreaded 'Troma' label.
- Crazy in Love (1992)
- Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Holly Hunter, Gena Rowlands
- Romantic complications ensue for three generations of women – especially Holly Hunter – whose worries about her 'perfect' husband's…
- Crush (1992)
- Dir. Alison Maclean
Feat. Marcia Gay Harden
- A downbeat analysis of female personal politics, with Marcia Gay Harden, an American vixen in Rotorua who neglects her dear friend recently paralysed…
- Dragon Inn (New Dragon Gate Inn) (1992)
- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)…
- Gory Ming Dynasty–set epic in which forces of good and evil clash swords over the fate of feudal China. An extravagant climax, featuring…
- Enchanted April (1992)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker…
- A gentle, lucid ensemble piece about four women who escape the constrictions of Edwardian London for a month in a castle on the Riviera.
- Forbidden Love (1992)
- Dir. Aerlyn Weissman, Lynne Fernie
- A wonderful collection of vignettes that celebrates the experiences and defiance of a dazzlingly diverse bunch of Canadian lesbians who came out in…
- League of Their Own, A (1992)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Geena Davis, Madonna, Tom Hanks…
- Good–natured comedy centres around the female baseball league that formed while the men were off fighting in WW2.
- Leaving Normal (1992)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly
- Post–THELMA AND LOUISE female–bonding drama with the ever–likeable Christine Lahti and Meg Tilly, who abandon their lives of…
- Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful (1992)
- Dir. John Fortenberry
Feat. Julie Brown, Bobcat Goldthwait
- The talented Julie Brown sharpens her claws and is not afraid to use them in this parody of Madonna's self–adoring documentary, TRUTH OR DARE.
- Naked Killer (1992)
- Dir. Clarence Fok-Yiu
Feat. Chingmy Yau, Simon Yam, Carrie Ng
- Sex and violence potently combust in a tale of nubile assassins and a love–struck, traumatised cop. The plot may typically wander but it…
- Orlando (1992)
- Dir. Sally Potter
Feat. Tilda Swinton
- Majestic interpretation of Virginia Woolf's 'unfilmable' novel salutes the work of Greenaway and gives Tilda Swinton the role of a lifetime, not to…
- Passion Fish (1992)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Mary MacDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn
- After a debilitating accident, soap–opera super–bitch Mary MacDonnell returns to Louisiana and finds an unlikely soulmate in her black…
- Redheads (1992)
- Dir. Danny Vendramini
Feat. Claudia Karvan, Catherine McClements, Alexander Petersons
- With nothing in common except auburn locks, two women – a rookie barrister and a murder witness – join forces to unravel a mystery that…
- Saviour of the Soul (1992)
- Dir. David Lai
Feat. Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok
- Breathtaking camerawork and special effects combine with hallucinatory plotting as two city–dwelling mercenaries do battle with the silver fox,…
- Silent Feminists, The (1992)
- Dir. Anthony Slide, Jeffrey Goodman
- A factual study of the silent movie era that tributes the pioneering women behind Hollywood's cameras.
Features rare film clips,…
- Black Cat (1991)
- Dir. Dickson Poon
Feat. Jade Leung
- The Hong Kong industry could not resist a crack at French action fave Nikita, the foxy misfit trained as an assassin for the secret service. A…
- Danzon (1991)
- Dir. Maria Novaro
Feat. Maria Rojo
- Lovely film about a phone operator and mother in Mexico City enthralled by the popular Cuban dance, known as "danzon". When her regular dance partner…
- Fried Green Tomatoes (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe) (1991)
- Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker…
- 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.…
- Gas, Food, Lodging (1991)
- Dir. Allison Anders
Feat. Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk
- Delectable romantic tale of life in a truck–stop town for mom and two teenage daughters adds up to much more than the sum of its incidental…
- Madonna Truth Or Dare (In Bed With Madonna) (1991)
- Dir. Alek Keshishian
Feat. Madonna
- The consummate article on the pressures of pop stardom and the rigours of world touring. Madonna presents a stylish and illuminating portrait of…
- Not Without My Daughter (1991)
- Dir. Brian Gilbert
Feat. Sally Field, Alfred Molina
- Sally Field stars in this gripping true story of a woman who accompanied her Iranian–born husband to his homeland, and became his permanent…
- Pleasures and Dangers (1991)
- A glance at the work and lives of six women artists in New Zealand; Alexis Hunter (painter), Alison MacLean (film–maker), Julia Morison…
- V.I. Warshawski (1991)
- Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning…
- Kathleen Turner hams it up as the vivacious gumshoe of Sara Paretski's pulp novellas, grappling with both crime and chauvinism, armed with some sharp…
- Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Gabrielle Anwar, Cliff Robertson
- A young Gabrielle Anwar plays an orphaned 'wild heart' in the Depression era who finds her calling in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show.
Her…
- Wisecracks (1991)
- Dir. Gail Singer
Feat. Ellen DeGeneres
- A pre–famous Ellen DeGeneres is just one of many comediennes in this fascinating and overdue tribute to the women of stand–up comedy.…
- Antonia and Jane (1990)
- Dir. Beeban Kidron
Feat. Saskia Reeves, Imelda Staunton
- Whimsical portrait of friendship will tickle the fancy of women in particular. Insecurities abound for long–time chums – attractive…
- Blue Steel (1990)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver
- A predatory psychopath stalks rookie cop in rare action from a female perspective. The genre is assaulted by the director with unequivocal flair.
- Company of Strangers (Strangers in Good Company) (1990)
- Dir. Cynthia Scott
Feat. Alice Diabo, Constance Garneau, Winifred Holden
- A special film created from a script that was inspired by the real lives of the seven elderly women who play the roles. Relationships are forged and…
- Men Don't Leave (1990)
- Dir. Paul Brickman
Feat. Jessica Lange
- Jessica Lange stars as the mother of two precocious sons, forced to adapt to a new environment after losing her husband and their rural home.
- Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tcheky Karyo…
- A stylish thriller if ever there was one. The director combines the visual ostentation from his THE BIG BLUE with the plot mechanics of a classic…
- Postcards from the Edge (1990)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Meryl Streep, Shirley Maclaine
- Loose adaptation of Carrie Fisher's autobiography with Meryl Streep as the high–strung actress coping with the pitfalls of show–biz.…
- Seduction: The Cruel Woman (1990)
- Dir. Monika Treut, Elfi Mikesch
Feat. Udo Kier
- The director of VIRGIN MACHINE takes her subversive sensibilities further with this outing exploring the activities of a domanatrix. Udo Kier takes…
- She Shoots Straight (Huang jia nu jiang) (1990)
- Dir. Corey Yuen
Feat. Joyce Godenzi, Sammo Hung
- Taut and melodramatic, this HK policier concerns a decorated and ultra–competent female police officer (Godenzi) who arouses jealousy in her…
- Thelma and Louise (1990)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel…
- Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon take action and escape their housebound repression in a T–Bird, but discover the road to freedom is littered…
- Without You I'm Nothing (1990)
- Dir. John Boskovich
Feat. Sandra Bernhard
- Sandra Bernhard struts her stuff on various New York stages with music, dance and humour packaged into something that's gloriously sexy, flamboyant,…
- Hush-A-Bye-Baby (1989)
- Dir. Margo Harkin
Feat. Seamus Ball, Rosina Brown, Sean Carlin…
- Excellent portrayal, using 'workshop' methods, of the tribulations of four teenage girls in Northern Ireland, as they negotiate the local facts of…
- Island (1989)
- Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Irene Papas, Eva Sitta
- Three disparate women cross paths on a remote Greek island where they come to terms with their past to reconsider their place in the world.
- Rainbow, The (1989)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Sammi Davis, Amanda Donohoe
- The director steers away from his usual excesses for D.H. Lawrence's portrait of a young woman's sexual and feminist liberation, set in Edwardian…
- She-Devil (1989)
- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Meryl Streep, Roseanne, Ed Jr. Begley…
- A stylised comic treatment of Fay Weldon's dark novel with Rosanne Barr exacting ultimate retribution on husband–stealing rich–bitch…
- Shirley Valentine (1989)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Pauline Collins, Tom Conti
- Pauline Collins adapts her stage role for the screen and the result is an unqualified success. You'll take delight in witnessing her rediscover her…
- 36 Filette (Virgin) (1988)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Olivier Parniere
- The thrills and fears of a young girl's willed sexual awakening are explored when she opts to accept a ride from a mysterious stranger in order to…
- Bingo, Bridesmaids and Braces (1988)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
- Taking a cue from the British 7–UP series, Gillian Armstrong's anthropological documentary follows the lives of three working–class…
- Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1988)
- Dir. J.D. Athens
Feat. Shannon Tweed, Bill Maher, Karen Mistal…
- For once as good as its title, this is a feminist cult satire about a oddball trio who trek into the treacherous Avocado Belt where they discover…
- Cherry 2000 (1988)
- Dir. Steve DeJarnatt
Feat. Melanie Griffith, Ben Johnson, David Andrews
- Melanie Griffith stars as a sort of bazuka–wielding female MAD MAX in this tongue–in–cheek blast from the future. An A–grade…
- Echoes (TV Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. Barbara Rennie
Feat. Siobhan Garahy, Robert Hines, Geraldine James…
- Set in Ireland in the 1950's, this picturesque romance traces the life of a small town girl whose dreams of escape come true when she wins a…
- Lair of the White Worm (1988)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Sammi Davis…
- Dir. Ken Russell's campy masterwork combines many estranged ideas from his previous films for an outlandish horror spoof.
As hilarious as it is…
- Satisfaction (Girls of Summer) (1988)
- Dir. Joan Freeman
Feat. Justine Bateman, Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson…
- Flavour of the '80s, Justine Bateman (TV's FAMILY TIES), stole the limelight from her then fledgling co–star, Julia Roberts, in this hoary girl…
- Sinead O'Connor - Live (Value Of Ignorance, The; Year Of The Horse, The) (1988-1990)
- Feat. Sinead O'Connor
- One of the most uncomprising and original forces to emerge in popular music in the late '80s does her stuff live in London 1988 and Brussels 1990.…
- A Taxing Woman (1987)
- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Nobuko Miyamoto
- A nicely offbeat look at the potentially boring subject of tax evasion. Nobuko Miyamoto plays our star tax collector who meets her match in a hotshot…
- Fatal Beauty (1987)
- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Ruben Blades
- Whoopi Goldberg stars in this action–comedy thriller as a tough narc cop with a wig for every occasion. Clearly modelled after the BEVERLY…
- High Tide (1987)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels
- The director of MY BRILLIANT CAREER encores with Judy Davis for this bittersweet exploration of mother–daughter relations at a bleak coastal…
- Outrageous Fortune (1987)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Bette Midler, Shelley Long, George Carlin…
- Floozy Bette Midler and straight–gal Shelley Long search for their boyfriend in common.
- Whales of August, The (1987)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price
- A gently homespun slice of life in one's final years, with the joyous presence of late cinema icons Bette Davis, Lillian Gish and Vincent Price.
- Winter Tan, A (1987)
- Dir. Jackie Burroughs, Louise Clark, John Frizzell
Feat. Jackie Burroughs
- Based on the late Maryse Holder's raw, confessional letters from Mexico, Jackie Burroughs brilliantly interprets this woman who "took a holiday from…
- Black Widow (1986)
- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey…
- Husband–murdering Theresa Russell, is cautiously snooped by Debra Winger.
- Crimes of the Heart (1986)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek…
- Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek play the Magrath sisters, who reunite in their family home in Mississippi to regroup and settle their…
- Kate Bush - The Whole Story (1986)
- Feat. Kate Bush
- Video compilation includes Wuthering Heights, and 13 others up to the mid 80s.
- Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The (1986)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Julie T Wallace, Dennis Waterman, Patricia Hodge…
- Splendidly ripe BBC adaptation of Fay Weldon's quasi–feminist satire in which a housewife (Wallace) discovers her husband's (Waterman)…
- Peking Opera Blues (1986)
- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Brigitte Lin, Cherie Chung, Sally Yeh
- One of prolific Hong Kong director/producer Tsui Hark's most celebrated films is a genre–blending romp set around the Peking Opera in 1913. A…
- Space Camp (1986)
- Dir. Harry Winer
Feat. Kate Capshaw, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott…
- Good natured 80's adolescent romp in which a group of young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is…
- Working Girls (1986)
- Dir. Lizzie Borden
Feat. Louise Smith, Deborah Banks
- A frankly realistic, 'fly–on–the–wall' insight into the daily lives of women working in a high–class New York brothel.…
- Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean (Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean) (1985)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black
- The repressed anxieties and memories of five women are triggered when they congregate to celebrate their childhood hero, James Dean. Stunningly…
- Desert Hearts (1985)
- Dir. Donna Deitch
Feat. Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau
- '50s Nevada provides the backdrop for a freindship between two women that develops in a love affair. Provocative yet dignified drama is well served…
- Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn…
- Rosanna Arquette and Madonna shine in this spunky and spirited New York comedy/murder mystery – up there with the best of John Hughes' popular…
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
- Dir. Alan Metter
Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, Lee Montgomery…
- An early lead–role for Sarah Jessica Parker (SEX AND THE CITY) as a teenager frustrated from entering a dance–contest by her conservative…
- Legend of Billie Jean, The (1985)
- Dir. Matthew Robbins
Feat. Helen Slater, Christian Slater, Keith Gordon…
- Under–rated 80's youth drama about a young woman and her pals who become media–hyped "legends" after an incident involving a gun and…
- Plenty (1985)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, John Gielgud, Sam Neill…
- Meryl Streep plays a hero of WWII, who finds the rest of her life an anticlimax.
- Police Assassins (Yes Madam) (1985)
- Dir. Corey Yuen
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock, Tsui Hark
- Cheesy but fun outing has two hard–as–nails policewomen Michelle Yeoh (in her first lead role) and Cynthia Rothrock turning in their…
- Smooth Talk (1985)
- Dir. Joyce Chopra
Feat. Laura Dern, Treat Williams, Mary Kay Place…
- Poignant yet sinister coming–of–age tale chronicles a young girl's sexual awakening and the attention she attracts from a mysterious…
- Steaming (1985)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Brenda Bruce…
- A low–rent London bathhouse is the setting for six women’s weekly get–togethers, in this adaptation of Neil Dunn’s stageplay. Often…
- Vagabond (1985)
- Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire
- Award–winning drama that artfully presents poetic moments from young vagabond Sandrine Bonnaire’s last month alive, listlessly drifting…
- Ladies On the Rocks (1984)
- Dir. Christian Thomsen
Feat. Gotha Anderson, Bruno Bjorn, Peter Boesen
- Two women cabaret performers win the hearts of provincial audiences with their raucous brand of feminist humour. Ironically, their increasing…
- Pumping Iron II - The Women (1984)
- Dir. George Butler
- This look at the burgeoning world of women's bodybuilding is even more entertaining than its male precursor. Conflicts over what determines a…
- She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1984)
- Dir. John Goldschmidt
Feat. Julie Walters, Anthony Higgins
- Eight women come together to have a crack at a week–long survival course, so as to let off some steam and gather life–focus.
Leading…
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Carmen Maura
- Carmen Maura plays a delirious feminist housewife in this early black–comic farce from Almodovar, here working at his freshest and most…
- Widows (TV Series) (1984)
- Feat. Ann Mitchell, Ann Mitchell
- Gritty crime TV from the writer of PRIME SUSPECT, Lynda La Plante, about the widows of three armed robbers who take over their husbands' crime busines
- Calamity Jane (1983)
- Dir. James Goldstone
Feat. Jane Alexander, David Hemmings, Talia Balsam…
- Gutsy western adventure centred on the west's ultimate tomboy 'Calamity Jane,' (realistically portrayed by Jane Alexander) renowned for her ability…
- Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Jesse Aragon, Bonnie Bedelia
- Well–rated biopic of woman racing–car driver, Shirley Muldowney.
- Issues Facing Women (1983-1987)
- Dir. Patricia Robins, Diana Rowan, Melanie Read
Feat. Judy McIntosh, Elizabeth McRae, Bridgette Allen…
- Three short films from New Zealand made by and about women.
Instincts (1987) 20 mins
The story of a woman in a communal relationship in the 70's…
- Jane Eyre (TV Series) (1983)
- Dir. Julian Amyes
Feat. Zelah Clarke, Timothy Dalton
- Charlotte Bronte's ever–popular story, of orphan Jane's marriage to the enigmatic Mr Rochester (Timothy Dalton), is here adapted to its…
- Cagney and Lacey (TV Series) (1982)
- Feat. Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly
- Women’s Lib. makes headway into New York’s crime fighting ranks in this sturdy eighties policier propelled by two staunch female detectives in a…
- Losing Ground (1982)
- Dir. Kathleen Collins
Feat. Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones
- Noted as the first feature–length drama directed by a black American woman since the 1920s – a semi–autobiographical story of a…
- Personal Best (1982)
- Dir. Robert Towne
Feat. Mariel Hemingway, Glenn Close
- Excellent directorial debut for scriptwriter Towne (of CHINATOWN fame), that uses slow–motion photography to dynamise its story of two lesbian…
- Scrubbers (1982)
- Dir. Mai Zetterling
Feat. Imogen Bain, Honey Bane, Debby Bishop
- A women–behind–bars movie that sidesteps exploitative trappings to deliver a grimly realistic reminder of tragic and frustrated lives.…
- Woman Called Golda, A (1982)
- Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty, Judy Davis…
- Much–praised biopic in which Ingrid Bergman gives her final performance as Israeli Prime Minister and so–called "mother of Israel', Golda…
- Angel of Vengeance (Ms.45) (1981)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Zoë Tamerlis, Jack Thibeau
- Surreal drama about a deaf–mute who seeks revenge after two sexual assaults. Taut and disturbing, with minimal dialogue, it has the distinction…
- Raggedy Man (1981)
- Dir. Jack Fisk
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard…
- Texas–set drama led by Spacek (fresh from her Oscar winning performance in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER) portraying a perturbed divorcee mother who…
- Foxes (1980)
- Dir. Adrian Lyne
Feat. Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman…
- Four teenage loose cannons speed towards self–destruction in this frank, impressionistic portrait of L.A. teen culture. A young Jodie Foster…
- Gentle Touch, The (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe
- Ground–breaking police drama featuring Britain's first female TV detective fighting crime and the demands of being a solo mother. Jill Gascoine…
- Soldier Girls (1980)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
- Early Nick Broomfield entry surveys the US Army's training regime for female recruits. Though less obtrusive than in later incarnations, Broomfield…
- Agatha (1979)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton…
- Speculating over the 11 days in 1926 when detective–writer Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) went missing, this gently–toned drama sees…
- Facts of Life, The (TV Series) (1979-1988)
- Feat. Charlotte Rae, Molly Ringwald
- Coming–of–age spin–off from the series DIFFERENT STROKES focused on a group of young girls growing up in a boarding house under the…
- My Brilliant Career (1979)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Sam Neill
- Landmark Australian film, with Judy Davis as a determinedly independent femme in the late 19th century. From the novel by Miles Franklin.
- An Unmarried Woman (1978)
- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy…
- Jill Clayburgh endeared herself to a generation of women with this well–loved character study of a divorced New Yorker navigating the single…
- Classic Bronte Collection, The (TV Series) (1978-1996)
- Dir. Julian Amyes, Mike Barker
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Zelah Clarke, Tara Fitzgerald…
- Five–disc box–set containing three BBC television drama productions from the pen of the Bronte sisters.
– Jane Eyre (83')…
- Little Women (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Susan Dey, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Ann Dusenberry…
- Emmy Award–winning two part miniseries adapting Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical novel. Mostly unsurprising except for the casting of…
- Night The Prowler, The (1978)
- Dir. Jim Sharman
Feat. Ruth Cracknell, John Frawley, Kerry Walker
- Based on a play by Patrick White, this stylised drama concerns a sexually repressed young woman (Walker), under the thumb of her domineering snobbish…
- Journey Among Women (1977)
- Dir. Tom Cowan
Feat. June Pritchard, Martin Phelan
- Ten female convicts, on the lam from an outback prison, set up utopian bush camp in this heady feminist treatise, where men are scum and women frolic…
- Wonder Woman, The New Adventures of (TV Series) (1977-1979)
- Feat. Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner
- Charles Moulon’s 1940s comic strip updated to the feminist 70s, his superheroine fighting terrorist and subversive elements for undercover…
- Caddie (1976)
- Dir. Donald Crombie
Feat. Helen Morse, Drew Forsythe, Jack Thompson…
- Key film of the Australian cinema renaissance with Helen Morse exceptional as a young solo mother struggling to get by in a male dominated…
- Lipstick (1976)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King…
- A trashy yet compulsive thriller in which a gorgeous fashion model (Margaux Hemingway) is raped by a seemingly benign admirer, who dabbles in bizarre…
- UP! (1976)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Raven De La Croix, Kitten Natividad
- Wacky and extreme Russ Meyer sexploitationer takes the dir.'s cherished fascination with ample bosomage into sexually hardcore territory, but with…
- Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)
- Dir. Chuck Bail
Feat. Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens
- Buxom blaxploitation flick. The 6'2 Tamara Dobson is Cleopatra Jones, a karate–chopping government agent sent to Hong Kong to bring her special…
- One Day at a Time (TV Series) (1975-1984)
- Feat. Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, Richard Masur…
- Very popular, appealing primetime sitcom about a divorced mother raising two teenage daughters in an apartment in Indianapolis. Filmed in front of a…
- Switchblade Sisters (1975)
- Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail
- Packing leather, knives and proto–feminist wiles, the innocent–looking Sisters run the local drug and prostitution rackets with the…
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Harvey Keitel…
- Resonant account of a young widow trying to secure self–assurance and financial stability for herself and her pre–teen son. Scorsese's…
- Caged Heat (1974)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Jonathan Demme, Barbara Steele, Erica Gavin
- The definitve women–in–prison movie – directed with economy, flair and atypical integrity (for the genre) by a fledgling Jonathan…
- Celine & Julie Go Boating (Celine et Julie vont en bateau) (1974)
- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier
- Rivette assaults the narrative form for his epic–lengthed, dream–like, near indescribable tale of two girls whose lives and imaginations…
- Foxy Brown (1974)
- Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Pam Grier, Peter Brown, Terry Carter…
- Badass Pam Grier vehicle from director Jack Hill, the "Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking" according to Tarantino.
When mobsters murder her…
- A Doll's House (1973)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Jane Fonda
- Jane Fonda plays the liberated 19th Century woman of Ibsen's play.
- Cleopatra Jones (1973)
- Dir. Jack Starrett
Feat. Tamara Dobson, Shelley Winters
- Beautiful black Amazon Tamara Dobson stars as 6–foot–2–inch CIA narcotics agent, Cleopatra, who deploys James Bond–style…
- Doll Squad, The (1973)
- Dir. Ted V. Mikels
Feat. Francine York, Tura Satana
- Legendary crackpot polygamist Mikels moaned how they ripped this off to make 'Charlie's Angels'. A thing to be proud of? Leaden direction and acting…
- Female Yakuza Tale (Yasagure anego den: sôkatsu rinchi) (1973)
- Dir. Teruo Ishii
Feat. Reiko Ike
- A scorned Reiko Ike returns in this remarkably trashier sequel to SEX AND FURY, ready to unleash another roaring rampage of revenge on sadistic…
- Lady Snowblood 1 (Shurayukihime) (1973)
- Dir. Toshiya Fujita
Feat. Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon…
- A classic samurai B–movie made in the heyday of 'Wu Xia' influence, with Kaji playing a bereaved young woman who seeks revenge on the gangsters…
- Sex and Fury (Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô) (1973)
- Dir. Norifumi Suzuki
Feat. Reiko Ike
- Japanese exploitation cinema proves itself unrivaled with this slice of 70s celluloid anarchy, trailing a mostly nude Reiko Ike as she slashes and…
- Boxcar Bertha (1972)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Barbara Hershey, David Carradine
- Dir. Scorsese's first 'for hire' effort, constructing an atmospheric and reasonably sturdy period gangster film, set in the Depression. Produced by…
- Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
- Dir. Shunya Ito
Feat. Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Kayuko Shiraishi
- A classic of Japanese 70s exploitation cinema, this charts the grim road to freedom for a gaggle of women escaped–convicts with a feverish…
- Panda Go Panda (1972)
- Dir. Isao Takahata
- An early proto–Studio Ghibli kids flick (made as a 2–part TV special) features Hayao Miyazaki as writer and character designer and…
- You'll Like My Mother (1972)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas
- Patty Duke plays a heavily pregnant woman who travels to rural Minnesota to meet her late husband's mother–in–law, who turns out to have…
- Big Doll House, The (1971)
- Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Pam Grier, Judy Brown, Roberta Collins…
- This salacious yet good–natured women–in–prison picture set in a steamy jungle penal colony exploited its premise well, made a…
- Countess Dracula (1971)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Lesley-Anne Down, Nigel Green…
- A moody late–Hammer Horror concerns the bloodthirsty deeds of Countess Bathory, she who liked to bathe in the blood of virgins to retain her…
- Elizabeth R (TV Series) (1971)
- Dir. Claude Whatham, Herbert Wise, Various.
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Robert Ellis
- 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…
- Hannie Caulder (1971)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Christopher Lee…
- Raquel Welch dons poncho and six–shooters in this violent quasi–spoof Western, playing the victim of a gang rape who, with the help of a…
- What's the Matter With Helen? / Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971-1972)
- Dir. Curtis Harrington
Feat. Shelley Winters, Debbie Reynolds, Dennis Weaver…
- A double feature disc in the "Grande Dame Guignol" genre (directly inspired by WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE), with Shelley Winters hamming/slumming…
- Mary Tyler Moore Show, The (TV Series) (1970-1974)
- Feat. Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Knight, Edward Asner…
- A highly polished, somewhat revolutionary sitcom following the career path and domestic life of a determinedly single newsroom journalist, this made…
- Vampire Lovers (1970)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing
- Hammer's famous lesbian–vampire pick made a cult star of the Polish–born volupte, Ingrid Pitt, as Carmilla. Esteemed…
- Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
- Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Marianne Faithful, Alain Delon
- Straight out of the late 60s ethos of freedom, rebellion, psychedelics and women’s liberation, a leather–clad Marianne Faithful speeds away…
- She-Devils On Wheels (1968)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Betty Connell, Nancy Lee Noble, Christie Wagner
- The indefatigable 'father of gore' takes his brutal brand of B–grade to the 1960s bikie genre with the tale of an all–female gang in…
- Daisies (1966)
- Dir. Vera Chytilova
Feat. Julius Albert, Jitka Cerhova, Marie Ceskova
- Much–loved cinematic firecracker from the halcyon days of 60s Czech radicalism, in which two girls (both called Marie) live out their anarchist…
- Deadlier Than the Male (1966)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina…
- Retro adventure spy flick compiled of alluring girls with spear guns in trouble after knocking off a couple of oil industry big wigs. This thriller…
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Tura Satana, Haji
- Russ Meyer’s most famous film is the ultimate “fast cars, fast women” fantasy about three go–go dancers who find trouble in the desert…
- That Girl (TV Series) (1966)
- Feat. Marlo Thomas, Ted Bessell
- A forerunner to MARY TYLE MOORE, this classic sixties sitcom stars the perky Marlo Thomas as a struggling actress in New York City, and the comical…
- She (1965)
- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Ursula Andress
- A scantily–clad Ursula Andress commands attention in this Hammer exotica as the love–starved eternal queen seeking reincarnation of her…
- Chalk Garden, The (1964)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills…
- British melodrama based on the eccentric stage play by Enid Bagnold, with Hayley Mills playing a rebellious teenager who meets her match in governess…
- Gertrud (1964)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
- Exploring similar territory to fellow Scandinavian Ingmar Bergman, Dreyer's final film is an intense psychological study about a middle–aged…
- Naked Kiss, The (1964)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley
- Redemptive prostitute Constance Towers assimilates into smalltown USA, only to unwittingly bait trouble and dredge up unspeakable secrets. This…
- Wasp Woman, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark
- A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe
- One of the great comedies, in which Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dress as women and join an all–girl travelling jazz band in order to escape the…
- Astounding She-Monster, The (1958)
- Dir. Ronnie Ashcroft
Feat. Robert Clarke
- Cheap drive–in fodder has a deadly female alien crash–land near the hideout of a band of kidnappers. Some fun to be had with the cheesy…
- Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958)
- Dir. Nathan Hertz
Feat. Allison Hayes, William Hudson
- After a close–encounter, Allison Hayes starts growin' while her sleazeball husband philanders the town hussy. Bad special FX, charismatic…
- Bonnie Parker Story, The (1958)
- Dir. William Witney
Feat. Dorothy Provine, Dick Bakalyan, Jack Hogan
- Dorothy Provine is sensational in this low–budget telling the story of the tommy–gun toting 1930s gangster Bonnie Parker,…
- Reform School Girl (1958)
- Dir. Edward Bernds
Feat. Gloria Castillo, Sally Kellerman
- A “shocking true story”, this cheapie concerns the rough–ride of 17 year–old Gloria Castillo, who gets mixed up with a…
- Viking Women And The Sea Serpent (Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent) (1958)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot
- Roger Corman schlock scraped from the seabed, about a clan of viking women who head out to sea in pursuit of their missing husbands. Soon they are…
- Mother India (1957)
- Dir. Mehboob Khan
Feat. Nargis , Sunil Dutt, Raaj Kumar
- A quintessential Indian classic, depicting the struggle of a woman through her adult life to reconcile traditional values and village life with a…
- Runaway Daughters (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marla English, Anna Sten, John Litel…
- Drive–in fare from American–International, this time about a trio of disaffected teenage girls – one wanting more than her…
- She-Creature, The (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marla English, Tom Conway, Chester Morris…
- A sideshow hypnotist attains fame by predicting murders that are actually carried out by his lovely assistant, under his hypnotic spell. Slow yet…
- Sorority Girl (The Bad One) (1957)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Fay Baker, Dick Miller
- Nastily excellent early Corman has Susan Cabot play an evil–minded college student who blackmails, teases and dominates various social…
- Girls in Prison (1956)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Richard Denning, Joan Taylor
- A seminal women–in–prison movie sure to have packed the kids in at US drive–ins to see 'what happens when a group of deranged,…
- Yield to the Night (Blonde Sinner) (1956)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
- British crime drama film that features a celebrated performance by "blonde bombshell" Diana Dors. Bearing a coincidental resemblance to the Ruth…
- Virgin Queen, The (1955)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Bette Davis
- Bette Davis is in full flight playing Queen Liz I, for the second time. Quality Hollywood.
- Les Diaboliques (1954)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse…
- Simone Signoret stars as one of two women who conspire to murder the man they share – a sadistic schoolmaster. Iconic French thriller with a…
- Niagara (1952)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters…
- This bold film provided Marilyn with her first big part, and it's possibly her best. She's a scheming, faithless wife who plots to murder her husband…
- All About Eve (1950)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders…
- Bette Davis is in her element as ageing Broadway star Margot Channing, under threat of the hidden menace of an ambitious young actress. A scathing…
- Three Secrets (1950)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman
- Three women exchange handkerchiefs and spill their secrets while awaiting news of their children after a plane crashes. You may need the tissues…
- Letter to Three Wives, A (1949)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern…
- Three women each hear from a friend that she is about to run off with one of their husbands. Replete with characteristically sharp dialogue from the…
- Gun Crazy (1948)
- Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. John Dall, Peggy Cummins
- Cocked with outstanding set pieces, daring twists and a desperate, exciting romanticism, this 'B–movie' thriller makes the grade with any of…
- Snake Pit, The (1948)
- Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Celeste Holm
- Hollywood melodrama that gives serious attention to the subject of mental illness with Olivia de Havilland (in a career–best performance) as a…
- Gilda (1946)
- Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
- Rita Hayworth defines the femme fatale for Hollywood in this sassy love–triangle musical set in Latin America. Glenn Ford and George Macready…
- Leave Her to Heaven (1946)
- Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde
- Beware the beautiful woman! Gene Tierney makes a gorgeous yet domesticated vamp whose suffocating personality mutates into murderous frustration.…
- Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin…
- Compelling noir with Barbara Stanwyck as the eponymous rich bitch whose dark secret threatens to topple her off her ivory tower.
- Detour (1945)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Tom Neal, Ann Savage
- Often touted as the best B–movie ever made, this blistering film noir upstaged many of the Hollywood main features it was paired with. Short on…
- Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Joan Crawford
- Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her career–defining role as a stoical housewife–turned–waitress who finds success in business, but…
- Outlaw, The (1943)
- Dir. Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell…
- Off–beat retelling of the legend of Billy the Kid with Jane Russell's cleavage outraging the censors of the day. Now a tame curiosity.
- Lydia (Illusions) (1941)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotton, Alan Marshall…
- Dreamy, melancholic melodrama follows the life and numerous loves of a society gal (Oberron) in New England over thirty odd years. Dir. Duvivier…
- Destry Rides Again (1939)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Una Merkel
- James Stewart is once again a mild–mannered law–man while Marlene Dietrich makes her most sensational Hollywood turn as exotic saloon…
- Nancy Drew...Reporter (1939)
- Dir. William Clemens
Feat. Bonita Granville
- One of the very first screen adaptations of Edward Stratemeyer’s series of "Nancy Drew" mystery stories, Bonita Granville stars as the youthful…
- Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Bette Davis, Errol Flynn
- Bette Davis is perfectly cast as Queen Liz, opposite Errol Flynn. An enjoyable romp.
- Women, The (1939)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell…
- They gossip! They bitch! They cackle! What does one expect with a cast of 135 women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell head the…
- Bete Humaine, La (1938)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux…
- Adaptation of Zola's romantic tragedy brims with tension and exults the presense of French icon Jean Gabin as a hot–headed train driver coaxed…
- Jezebel (1938)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Bette Davis, Henry Fonda
- A classic, Oscar–winning role for Bette Davis, as a southern belle who defies the arch conventions of 19th century New Orleans high society…
- Annie Oakley (1935)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas…
- Sharpshooter Barbara Stanwyck joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for friendly rivalry with resident top gun Preston Foster. A romantic–comic…
- Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant
- Katharine Hepburn looks smashing as a boy in this cross–dressing flop that was reappraised in the 1960s as a lost classic, with a unique style…
- Little Women (1933)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn
- Constantly enjoyable version of Louisa Alcott's novel about four sisters and their mother coping while their father fights in the Civil War. Splendid…
- Rain (1932)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Joan Crawford, Walter Huston
- A turbulent adaptation of Somerset Maugham's short story 'Miss Thompson' set on a Samoan island quarantine station during the rainy season.
When a…
- Joys of the Women
- Dir. Franco Di Chiera
- An Australian–Italian folk–singer rediscovers the songs of her grandmother's generation in this inspiring document of her search, and…