Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Girl-centric: 376 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…