Subgenre Sampler
Girl-centric: 782 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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,…