The Best Feminist Movie Ever Made
“What are the best Feminist Movies?” We looked at 389 of the top Feminist films, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 36 films, all appearing on 4 or more “Best Feminist” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 350+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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Top 36 Best Feminist Movies Ever Made
36 .) All About Eve (1950) directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Lists It Appears On:
- Den Of Geek
- Fairy God Boss
- IMDB
- Time Out
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo’s Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo’s director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
35 .) Bend It Like Beckham (2002) directed by Gurinder Chadha
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Image
- Time Out
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.
34 .) Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) directed by Agnès Varda
Lists It Appears On:
- Fairy God Boss
- IMDB
- Taste Of Cinema
- Time Out
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
33 .) G.I. Jane (1997) directed by Ridley Scott
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- Image
- Ranker
- TV Over Mind
A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.
32 .) I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) directed by Mary Harron
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Indie Mag
- Time Out
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her “Scum” manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie’s story.
31 .) My Brilliant Career (1979) directed by Gillian Armstrong
Lists It Appears On:
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Time Out
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
30 .) The Day I Became a Woman (2000) directed by Marzieh Makhmalbaf
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI
- High Snobiety
- IMDB
- Time Out
A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could never get.
29 .) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Lists It Appears On:
- Den Of Geek
- Fairy God Boss
- IMDB
- Time Out
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she’d spoken to God, Jeanne d’Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
28 .) The Stepford Wives (1975) directed by Bryan Forbes
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Fairy God Boss
- Ranker
- TV Over Mind
The urban aspirant photographer Joanna Eberhart moves from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut with her family. Her husband Walter Eberhart decided to live in a calm suburb, but Joanna did not like the neighborhood with beautiful and perfect housewives. She becomes friend of Bobbie Markowe and Charmaine Wimperis, and when they change Joanna tries to escape.
27 .) Vagabond (1985) directed by Agnès Varda
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Time Out
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
26 .) Wonder Woman (2017) directed by Patty Jenkins
Lists It Appears On:
- Fairy God Boss
- Finder
- Time Out
- TV Over Mind
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
25 .) 9 to 5 (1980) directed by Colin Higgins
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Finder
- Ranker
- Time Out
- TV Over Mind
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?
24 .) Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) directed by Martin Scorsese
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- Ranker
- Taste Of Cinema
- The Cinemaholic
- Time Out
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.
23 .) All About My Mother (1999) directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- The Cinemaholic
- Time Out
A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress’ autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy’s father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
22 .) Clueless (1995) directed by Amy Heckerling
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Finder
- Time Out
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school’s pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was – and falls for him.
21 .) Daughters of the Dust (1991) directed by Julie Dash
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- High Snobiety
- IMDB
- Taste Of Cinema
- Time Out
Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastion of these mores in America.
20 .) Gone With The Wind (1939) directed by Victor Fleming
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed
- Den Of Geek
- Fairy God Boss
- Finder
- TV Over Mind
The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman’s destructive “March to the Sea,” during the American Civil War.
19 .) His Girl Friday (1940) directed by Howard Hawks
Lists It Appears On:
- Den Of Geek
- Fairy God Boss
- Grazia Daily
- High Snobiety
- Time Out
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can’t let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.
18 .) If These Walls Could Talk (1996) directed by Cher, Nancy Savoca
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- Flick Chart
- Ranker
If These Walls Could Talk follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion. Each of the three stories takes place in the same house in three different years: 1952, 1974, and 1996.
17 .) Persepolis (2007) directed by Marjane Satrapi
Lists It Appears On:
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- High Snobiety
- Indiewire
- Time Out
In 1970s Iran, Marjane ‘Marji’ Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah’s defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
16 .) Kill Bill – Volume 1 (2003) directed by Quentin Tarantino
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- Ranker
- Time Out
- TV Over Mind
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
15 .) Mona Lisa Smile (2003) directed by Mike Newell
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- Image
- TV Over Mind
The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women’s private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.
14 .) Orlando (1992) directed by Sally Potter
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Taste Of Cinema
- Time Out
The story begins in the Elizabethan era , shortly before the death of Queen Elizabeth I . On her deathbed, the Queen promises an androgynous young nobleman named Orlando a large tract of land and a castle built on it, along with a generous monetary gift. But Elizabeth will bequeath it to him only if he assents to an unusual command: Do not fade. Do not wither. Do not grow old…
13 .) Suffragette (2015) directed by Sarah Gavron
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- Image
- Ranker
- Time Out
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
12 .) Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) directed by George Miller
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Finder
- High Snobiety
- Ranker
- Time Out
- TV Over Mind
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
11 .) The Hours (2002) directed by Stephen Daldry
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- High Snobiety
- IMDB
- Ranker
- The Cinemaholic
“The Hours” is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
10 .) The Piano (1993) directed by Jane Campion
Lists It Appears On:
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Indiewire
- Ranker
- Taste Of Cinema
- Time Out
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.
9 .) A League of Their Own (1992) directed by Penny Marshall
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Finder
- Flick Chart
- Image
- Indie Mag
- Newsweek
- TV Over Mind
As America’s stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) on their way to fame. Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell co-star as two of the sisters’ teammates. ×
8 .) Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) directed by Jon Avnet
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- Image
- IMDB
- Ranker
- Time Out
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.
7 .) Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) directed by Chantal Akerman
Lists It Appears On:
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- High Snobiety
- IMDB
- Indiewire
- Taste Of Cinema
- The Cinemaholic
- Time Out
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
6 .) Legally Blonde (2001) directed by Robert Luketic
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Finder
- Hypable
- Image
- The Odyssey Online
- TV Over Mind
Elle Woods has it all. She’s the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But, there’s just one thing stopping Warner from popping the question: Elle is too blonde.
5 .) Whale Rider (2002) directed by Niki Caro
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- Hypable
- Indiewire
- Ranker
- Time Out
- TV Over Mind
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea’s direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. ×
4 .) Mulan (2009) directed by Jingle Ma
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Finder
- Hypable
- Image
- IMDB
- Ranker
- The Odyssey Online
When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier to swell the ranks in her aging father’s stead. The warrior’s remarkable courage drives her through powerful battle scenes and brutal wartime startegy. Mulan loses dear friends to the enemy’s blade as she rises to become one of her country’s most valuable leaders – but can she win the war before her secret is exposed?
3 .) Erin Brockovich (2000) directed by Steven Soderbergh
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Finder
- Flick Chart
- Image
- Indie Mag
- Ranker
- Time Out
- TV Over Mind
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins – with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.
2 .) The Color Purple (1985) directed by Steven Spielberg
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Buzzfeed
- Fairy God Boss
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Indie Mag
- Ranker
- Taste Of Cinema
- The Cinemaholic
- Time Out
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie’s abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing “Mister” Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.
1 .) Thelma and Louise (1991) directed by Ridley Scott
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Fairy God Boss
- Finder
- Flick Chart
- High Snobiety
- Indie Mag
- Ranker
- Taste Of Cinema
- The Cinemaholic
- The Odyssey Online
- Time Out
- TV Over Mind
Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.
The 350+ Additional Best Feminist Films
| # | Movies | Directors | Lists |
| 37 | 3 Women (1977) | Robert Altman | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 38 | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) | Ana Lily Amirpour | High Snobiety |
| – | – | – | Indiewire |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 39 | A Question of Silence (1982) | Marleen Gorris | BFI |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 40 | A Woman Under the Influence (1974) | John Cassavetes | Fairy God Boss |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 41 | Adam’s Rib (1949) | George Cukor | Grazia Daily |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 42 | Alien (1979) | Bustle | |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| – | – | – | TV Over Mind |
| 43 | Belle (2013) | Amma Asante | Buzzfeed |
| – | – | – | Fairy God Boss |
| – | – | – | Indiewire |
| 44 | Born in Flames (1983) | BFI | |
| – | – | – | High Snobiety |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 45 | Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) | Fairy God Boss | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 46 | Iron Jawed Angels (2004) | Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – | Fairy God Boss |
| – | – | – | Image |
| 47 | Johnny Guitar (1954) | Nicholas Ray | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | Grazia Daily |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 48 | Kill Bill – Volume 2 (2004) | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| – | – | – | TV Over Mind |
| 49 | Little Women (1933) | George Cukor | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| 50 | Miss Congeniality (2000) | Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – | Image |
| – | – | – | TV Over Mind |
| 51 | Moana (2016) | Image | |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 52 | Mustang (2015) | Fairy God Boss | |
| – | – | – | High Snobiety |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 53 | Persona (1966) | Ingmar Bergman | Taste Of Cinema |
| – | – | – | The Cinemaholic |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 54 | Set It Off (1996) | Bustle | |
| – | – | – | High Snobiety |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| 55 |
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014)
|
Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – | Image |
| – | – | – | Newsweek |
| 56 | The Circle (2000) | Jafar Panahi | Bustle |
| – | – | – | Indiewire |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 57 | The Craft (1996) | Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – | Fairy God Boss |
| – | – | – | She Thinx |
| 58 | The First Wives Club (1996) | Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | Image |
| 59 | The Joy Luck Club (1993) | Bustle | |
| – | – | – | Fairy God Boss |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| 60 | The Trouble with Angels (1966) | Ida Lupino | Fairy God Boss |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 61 | The Women (1939) | Den Of Geek | |
| – | – | – | High Snobiety |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 62 | Yentl | Barbra Streisand | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 63 | A Wrinkle in Time | Autostraddle | |
| – | – | – | Stylist |
| 64 | Aliens (1986) | James Cameron | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 65 | An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 66 | Black Panther | Autostraddle | |
| – | – | – | Stylist |
| 67 | Daisies (1966) | Vera Chytilová | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 68 | Elizabeth | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| 69 | Foxy Brown (1974) | Jack Hill | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 70 | FRIDA | Indie Mag | |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| 71 | Frozen (2013) | Fairy God Boss | |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 72 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) | Grazia Daily | |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 73 | Girlfight (2000) | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 74 | Girlhood (2014) | Céline Sciamma | Indiewire |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 75 | Gloria (1980) | John Cassavetes | Taste Of Cinema |
| – | – | – | The Cinemaholic |
| 76 | Gypsy (1962) | Den Of Geek | |
| – | – | – | TV Over Mind |
| 77 | Housekeeping (1987) | Bill Forsyth | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 78 | India Song (1975) | Marguerite Duras | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 79 | Matilda (1996) | Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – |
The Odyssey Online
|
| 80 | Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) | Maya Deren | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 81 | Miss Representation (2011) | Bustle | |
| – | – | – | Indie Mag |
| 82 | Moolaadé (2004) | Ousmane Sembene | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 83 | Morvern Callar (2002) | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 84 | Nine to Five | Fairy God Boss | |
| – | – | – | Flick Chart |
| 85 | Obvious Child (2014) | Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – |
The Odyssey Online
|
| 86 | Ocean’s 8 | Autostraddle | |
| – | – | – | Stylist |
| 87 | Offside (2006) | Jafar Panahi | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 88 | One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977) | Agnès Varda | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 89 | Pocahontas (1995) | Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – | TV Over Mind |
| 90 | Raise the Red Lantern (1991) | Yimou Zhang | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 91 | Real Women Have Curves (2002) | Bustle | |
| – | – | – | Fairy God Boss |
| 92 | Sweetie (1989) | Jane Campion | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 93 |
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
|
High Snobiety | |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 94 | The Accused (1988) | Jonathan Kaplan | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 95 | The Babadook (2014) | Jennifer Kent | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 96 | The Devil Wears Prada (2006) | Image | |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 97 | The Gold Diggers (1983) | BFI | |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 98 | The Handmaid’s Tale | Flick Chart | |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| 99 | The Headless Woman (2008) | Lucrecia Martel | BFI |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 100 | The Help (2011) | Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – | Image |
| 101 | The Hunting Ground (2015) | Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – | Indie Mag |
| 102 |
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
|
Den Of Geek | |
| – | – | – | TV Over Mind |
| 103 | The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) | Germaine Dulac | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 104 | The Student Nurses (1970) | Stephanie Rothman | High Snobiety |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 105 | Wanda (1970) | Barbara Loden | Flick Chart |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 106 | Wild (2014) | Buzzfeed | |
| – | – | – | Image |
| 107 | Women Without Men (2009) | Shirin Neshat | Bustle |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| 108 | Working Girl (1988) | Fairy God Boss | |
| – | – | – | Time Out |
| 109 | 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | Buzzfeed | |
| 110 |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
|
Time Out | |
| 111 | A Fantastic Woman | Stylist | |
| 112 | A Private War | Autostraddle | |
| 113 | A Star Is Born | Autostraddle | |
| 114 | A Touch of Zen (1971) | King Hu | IMDB |
| 115 | A Walk on the Moon | Flick Chart | |
| 116 | Ai zai bie xiang de ji jie (1990) | Clara Law | IMDB |
| 117 | Akeelah and the Bee | Hypable | |
| 118 | Alice in Wonderland | Hypable | |
| 119 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Hypable | |
| 120 | Alien: Resurrection (1997) | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | IMDB |
| 121 | American Horror Story (2011– ) | Lady Gaga | IMDB |
| 122 | An Angel at My Table | Flick Chart | |
| 123 | Angry Indian Goddesses (2015) | Book My Show | |
| 124 | Annie Hall (1977) | The Cinemaholic | |
| 125 | Annihilation | Stylist | |
| 126 | Antonia’s Line | Flick Chart | |
| 127 | Arrival (2016) | Newsweek | |
| 128 | Assunta Spina | Flick Chart | |
| 129 | At Five in the Afternoon (2003) | Samira Makhmalbaf | IMDB |
| 130 | Attack of the 50 Foot Woman | Flick Chart | |
| 131 | Audition (1999) | Time Out | |
| 132 | Bad Girls | Flick Chart | |
| 133 | Bandidas | Flick Chart | |
| 134 | Battle of the Sexes (2017) | Time Out | |
| 135 | Before Midnight (2013) | The Cinemaholic | |
| 136 | Black Girl (1966) | Ousmane Sembene | IMDB |
| 137 | Black Narcissus (1947) | Michael Powell | IMDB |
| 138 | Black Swan (2010) | Darren Aronofsky | IMDB |
| 139 | Bound (1996) | Time Out | |
| 140 | Boys on the Side | Flick Chart | |
| 141 | Brave (2012) | Image | |
| 142 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | High Snobiety | |
| 143 | Broken Blossoms (1919) | D.W. Griffith | IMDB |
| 144 | Brooklyn (2015) | Time Out | |
| 145 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996–2003) | Sarah Michelle Gellar | IMDB |
| 146 | But I’m A Cheerleader (1999) | Newsweek | |
| 147 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Stylist | |
| 148 | Carol | Newsweek | |
| 149 | Carrie (1976) | Time Out | |
| 150 | Carrie (2013) | Kimberly Peirce | IMDB |
| 151 | Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) | Jacques Rivette | IMDB |
| 152 | Certain Women (2016) | Time Out | |
| 153 | Chak De! India (2007) | Book My Show | |
| 154 | Chicago (2002) | Buzzfeed | |
| 155 | Christopher Strong (1933) | Dorothy Arzner | IMDB |
| 156 | Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) | Time Out | |
| 157 | Coco Before Chanel | Flick Chart | |
| 158 | Come Drink with Me | Flick Chart | |
| 159 | Crazy Rich Asians | Autostraddle | |
| 160 | Cría Cuervos (1976) | Carlos Saura | IMDB |
| 161 | Cries and Whispers (1972) | The Cinemaholic | |
| 162 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Fairy God Boss | |
| 163 | Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) | Time Out | |
| 164 | Dangal (2016) | Book My Show | |
| 165 | Dangerous Beauty | Flick Chart | |
| 166 | Dark Girls |
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| 167 | Dark River | Stylist | |
| 168 | Death Proof (2007) | Buzzfeed | |
| 169 | Desert Hearts | Flick Chart | |
| 170 | Destry Rides Again (1939) | George Marshall | IMDB |
| 171 | Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) | Time Out | |
| 172 | Diary of a Mad Housewife | Flick Chart | |
| 173 | Die bitteren Tranen der Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Taste Of Cinema |
| 174 | Disobedience | Stylist | |
| 175 | Dogville (2003) | The Cinemaholic | |
| 176 | Dolores Claiborne (1995) | Taylor Hackford | IMDB |
| 177 | Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) | Shekhar Kapur | IMDB |
| 178 | Elle (2016) | Time Out | |
| 179 | English Vinglish (2012) | Book My Show | |
| 180 | Entre Nous | Flick Chart | |
| 181 | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Flick Chart | |
| 182 | Everlasting Moments | Flick Chart | |
| 183 | Ex Machina | TV Over Mind | |
| 184 | Extremities | Flick Chart | |
| 185 | Fargo (1996) | Time Out | |
| 186 | Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) | High Snobiety | |
| 187 | Fatal Attraction (1987) | Adrian Lyne | IMDB |
| 188 | Felt | Jason Banker | Indiewire |
| 189 | Female Trouble (1974) | Time Out | |
| 190 | Fire | Flick Chart | |
| 191 | Foxfire | Flick Chart | |
| 192 | Frances Ha (2012) | High Snobiety | |
| 193 | Frida (2002) | Image | |
| 194 | Gabbeh (1996) | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | IMDB |
| 195 | Gas, Food Lodging | Flick Chart | |
| 196 |
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)
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| 197 | Ghostbusters (2016) | Time Out | |
| 198 | Ginger Snaps | Flick Chart | |
| 199 | Ginger Snaps: Unleashed | Flick Chart | |
| 200 | Girl Rising | Hypable | |
| 201 | Girl, Interrupted (1999) | Time Out | |
| 202 | Girlfriends | Flick Chart | |
| 203 | Grace of My Heart | Flick Chart | |
| 204 | Grandma (2015) | Time Out | |
| 205 | Gravity (2013) | Time Out | |
| 206 |
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967)
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Den Of Geek | |
| 207 | Hanna (2011) | Joe Wright | IMDB |
| 208 | Hard Candy (2005) | David Slade | IMDB |
| 209 | He Named Me Malala (2015) | Newsweek | |
| 210 | Heart Like a Wheel | Flick Chart | |
| 211 | Heavenly Creatures (1994) | Time Out | |
| 212 | Hidden Figures | Finder | |
| 213 | Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) | Alain Resnais | IMDB |
| 214 | Hush (2016) | She Thinx | |
| 215 | I Think We’re Alone Now | Stylist | |
| 216 | I, Tonya | Stylist | |
| 217 | I, You, He, She | Flick Chart | |
| 218 | I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) | Patricia Rozema | IMDB |
| 219 | I’m No Angel (1933) | Grazia Daily | |
| 220 | Images | Flick Chart | |
| 221 | In A World… | Lake Bell | Indiewire |
| 222 | In the Cut | Flick Chart | |
| 223 | Incredibles 2 | Autostraddle | |
| 224 | IRON CLAWED ANGELS | Indie Mag | |
| 225 | Jackie Brown (1997) | Quentin Tarantino | IMDB |
| 226 | Je, tu, il, elle | Chantal Akerman | Taste Of Cinema |
| 227 | Jennifer’s Body (2009) | She Thinx | |
| 228 | John Tucker Must Die | Hypable | |
| 229 | Julia | Flick Chart | |
| 230 | Juliet of the Spirits (1965) | Federico Fellini | IMDB |
| 231 | Juno (2007) | Jason Reitman | IMDB |
| 232 | La souriante Madame Beudet | Germaine Dulac | Taste Of Cinema |
| 233 |
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
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| 234 | Lady Bird | Stylist | |
| 235 | Lady Macbeth (2016) | Time Out | |
| 236 | Leaving Normal | Flick Chart | |
| 237 | Lianna | Flick Chart | |
| 238 | Lilo and Stitch | Newsweek | |
| 239 | Living Out Loud | Flick Chart | |
| 240 | Lizzie | Stylist | |
| 241 | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Flick Chart | |
| 242 | Lucía (1968) | Humberto Solás | IMDB |
| 243 | Maleficent (2014) | Robert Stromberg | IMDB |
| 244 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Autostraddle | |
| 245 | Mansfield Park | Flick Chart | |
| 246 | Marianne and Juliane (1981) | BFI | |
| 247 | Marie Antoinette (2006) | Sofia Coppola | IMDB |
| 248 | Mary Kom (2014) | Book My Show | |
| 249 | Mary Magdalene | Stylist | |
| 250 | Mary Poppins Returns | Stylist | |
| 251 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Stylist | |
| 252 | Meek’s Cutoff | Flick Chart | |
| 253 | Men Don’t Leave | Flick Chart | |
| 254 | Mildred Pierce (1945) | Michael Curtiz | IMDB |
| 255 | Miss You Already (2015) | Newsweek | |
| 256 | Molly’s Game | Stylist | |
| 257 | Muriel’s Wedding (1994) | High Snobiety | |
| 258 | Mystic Pizza (1988) | Time Out | |
| 259 | Neerja (2016) | Book My Show | |
| 260 | New Women (1935) | Chusheng Cai | IMDB |
| 261 | No One Killed Jessica (2011) | Book My Show | |
| 262 | Norma Rae (1979) | Time Out | |
| 263 | North Country (2005) | Bustle | |
| 264 | Now and Then | Fairy God Boss | |
| 265 | Now Voyager (1942) | Grazia Daily | |
| 266 | Onibaba (1964) | Kaneto Shindô | IMDB |
| 267 | Osaka Elegy | Flick Chart | |
| 268 | Parched (2016) | Book My Show | |
| 269 | Passenger (1963) | Andrzej Munk | IMDB |
| 270 | Passion Fish | John Sayles | Taste Of Cinema |
| 271 | Pink (2016) | Book My Show | |
| 272 | Prevenge (2016) | Time Out | |
| 273 | Prime Suspect (1991) | Helen Mirren | IMDB |
| 274 | Princess Mononoke (1997) | Time Out | |
| 275 | Private Benjamin | Flick Chart | |
| 276 | Proud Mary | Stylist | |
| 277 | Queen (2013) | Book My Show | |
| 278 | Queen Margot (1994) | Patrice Chéreau | IMDB |
| 279 | Queen of Katwe (2016) | Image | |
| 280 | Rachel, Rachel | Flick Chart | |
| 281 | Raw (2016) | Time Out | |
| 282 | RBG | Fairy God Boss | |
| 283 | Red Desert | Flick Chart | |
| 284 | Romance | Flick Chart | |
| 285 | Room | Newsweek | |
| 286 | Rosemary’s Baby (1968) | Roman Polanski | IMDB |
| 287 | Rosetta (1999) | Time Out | |
| 288 | Ruby in Paradise | Flick Chart | |
| 289 | Safe (1995) | Time Out | |
| 290 | Salt of the Earth (1954) | Herbert J. Biberman | IMDB |
| 291 | Sans toit ni loi | Agnès Varda | Taste Of Cinema |
| 292 | Season of the Witch | Flick Chart | |
| 293 | Sedmikrásky | Vera Chytilová | Taste Of Cinema |
| 294 | Seeing Allred ( | Newsweek | |
| 295 | Serenity (2005) | Buzzfeed | |
| 296 | Sex and the City (1998–2004) | Sarah Jessica Parker | IMDB |
| 297 | She’s the Man | Ranker | |
| 298 | She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry | Fairy God Boss | |
| 299 | Show Me Love (1998) | Time Out | |
| 300 | Shut Up & Sing (2006) | Time Out | |
| 301 | Smithereens (1982) | Susan Seidelman | IMDB |
| 302 | Smooth Talk (1985) | Time Out | |
| 303 | Song of the Exile (1990) | Ann Hui | IMDB |
| 304 |
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
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| 305 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Hypable | |
| 306 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | Time Out | |
| 307 | Steel Magnolias (1989) | Buzzfeed | |
| 308 | Story of Women (1988) | Claude Chabrol | IMDB |
| 309 | Sunrise (1927) | F.W. Murnau | IMDB |
| 310 | Tangerine (2015) | Newsweek | |
| 311 | Tank Girl (1995) | Rachel Talalay | IMDB |
| 312 | Teeth | Mitchell Lichtenstein | Indiewire |
| 313 | Ten | Flick Chart | |
| 314 | The Apple (1998) | Samira Makhmalbaf | IMDB |
| 315 | The Big City | Flick Chart | |
| 316 | The Blind Side (2009) | Image | |
| 317 | The Breadwinner | Newsweek | |
| 318 | The Burning Bed | Flick Chart | |
| 319 | The Children Act | Stylist | |
| 320 | The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) | Ritwik Ghatak | IMDB |
| 321 | The Company of Strangers (1990) | BFI | |
| 322 | The Contender (2000) | Time Out | |
| 323 | The Cranes Are Flying (1957) | Mikhail Kalatozov | IMDB |
| 324 | The Darkest Minds | Stylist | |
| 325 | The Docks of New York (1928) | Josef von Sternberg | IMDB |
| 326 | The Duchess (2008) | Newsweek | |
| 327 | The Exorcist (1973) | William Friedkin | IMDB |
| 328 | The Favourite | Stylist | |
| 329 | The Girl with All the Gifts (2017) | She Thinx | |
| 330 | The Goddess (1960) | Satyajit Ray | IMDB |
| 331 | The Good Mother | Flick Chart | |
| 332 | The Handmaiden (2016) | She Thinx | |
| 333 |
The Harry Potter Series (2001-2011)
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| 334 | The Hate U Give | Autostraddle | |
| 335 | The Hunger Games (2012) | Time Out | |
| 336 |
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
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| 337 | The Keeping Room | Daniel Barber | Indiewire |
| 338 | The Kids Are All Right (2010) | Time Out | |
| 339 | The Last Mistress (2007) | Catherine Breillat | IMDB |
| 340 | The Love Witch (2016) | Time Out | |
| 341 | The Mists of Avalon | Flick Chart | |
| 342 | The More You Ignore Me | Stylist | |
| 343 | The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (2008–2009) | Jill Scott | IMDB |
| 344 | The Official Story (1985) | Luis Puenzo | IMDB |
| 345 | The Portrait of a Lady | Flick Chart | |
| 346 | The Post | Stylist | |
| 347 |
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
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| 348 | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | Flick Chart | |
| 349 | THE PUNK SINGER | Indie Mag | |
| 350 | The Rain People | Flick Chart | |
| 351 | The Runaways (2010) | Image | |
| 352 |
The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
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| 353 | The Secret Life of Bees (2008) | Image | |
| 354 | The Shape of Water | Stylist | |
| 355 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | Time Out | |
| 356 |
The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants (2005)
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| 357 | The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) | Kenji Mizoguchi | IMDB |
| 358 | The Sun Behind the Moon (2001) | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | IMDB |
| 359 | The Thin Man (1934) | Grazia Daily | |
| 360 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) | Time Out | |
| 361 | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Flick Chart | |
| 362 | The Watermelon Woman (1996) | BFI | |
| 363 | The Whistleblower (2010) | Larysa Kondracki | IMDB |
| 364 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing | Stylist | |
| 365 | Three Colours: Blue (1993) | The Cinemaholic | |
| 366 | Tiny Furniture (2010) | Time Out | |
| 367 | Todo sobre mi madre | Pedro Almodóvar | Taste Of Cinema |
| 368 | Tokyo Story (1953) | Yasujirô Ozu | IMDB |
| 369 | Tomb Raider | Stylist | |
| 370 | Top of the Lake (2013– ) | Elisabeth Moss | IMDB |
| 371 | True Grit | Hypable | |
| 372 | Two Days, One Night (2014) | The Cinemaholic | |
| 373 | Under the Shadow (2016) | She Thinx | |
| 374 | Under the Skin (2013) | Time Out | |
| 375 | Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) | Image | |
| 376 | Verónica (2017) | She Thinx | |
| 377 | Viskningar och rop | Ingmar Bergman | Taste Of Cinema |
| 378 | Vita and Virginia | Stylist | |
| 379 | Viva Maria! | Flick Chart | |
| 380 | Vivre Sa Vie (1962) | The Cinemaholic | |
| 381 | Walking and Talking (1996) | Time Out | |
| 382 | When Night Is Falling | Flick Chart | |
| 383 | Whip It (2009) | Drew Barrymore | IMDB |
| 384 | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | Mike Nichols | IMDB |
| 385 | Widows | Autostraddle | |
| 386 | Winter’s Bone (2010) | Time Out | |
| 387 | WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) | Dusan Makavejev | IMDB |
| 388 | Yellow Earth | Flick Chart | |
| 389 | Zero Dark Thirty (2012) | Time Out |
25 Best Feminist Film Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| Autostraddle | The Top 10 Feminist Movies (That Weren’t Technically Gay) of 2018 |
| BFI | 10 great feminist films |
| Book My Show | 10 Movies That Proved Bollywood Is Feminist Too |
| Bustle | 23 Movies Every Feminist Should See At Least Once |
| Buzzfeed | 33 Feminist Films Every Girl Should See In Her Lifetime |
| Den Of Geek | 8 Classic Feminist Movies Well Ahead of Their Time |
| Fairy God Boss | 45 Feminist Movies to Add to Your Binge List |
| Finder | 10 feminist movies to stream this month in celebration of International |
| Flick Chart | The Top 100 Feminist Films of All Time |
| Grazia Daily | Classic Hollywood Films That Are Surprisingly Feminist |
| High Snobiety | 20 Feminist Films You Should Know |
| Hypable | 10 Best Feminist Films to watch with your girls |
| Image | 25 empowering movies that’ll make you proud to be a woman |
| IMDB | 100 best feminist films |
| Indie Mag | TOP 10 FEMINIST MOVIES TO WATCH BEFORE YOU DIE |
| Indiewire | 12 Feminist Indies Every Film Lover Must See |
| Newsweek | International Women’s Day 2018: Feminist Movies To Stream on |
| Ranker | Best Feminism Movies | List of Famous Films About Feminism |
| She Thinx | 7 Feminist Horror Movies That You Can Stream Right Now |
| Stylist | The 26 films every feminist needs to watch in 2018 |
| Taste Of Cinema | The 20 Best Feminist Movies of All Time « Taste of Cinema |
| The Cinemaholic | 15 Best Feminist Movies of All Time |
| The Odyssey Online | 6 Movies You Must Watch If You Consider Yourself A Feminist |
| Time Out | The 100 best feminist films of all time |
| TV Over Mind | The Top 20 Feminist Movies of All-Time |
