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1. From Straight A's to XXX (2017 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Biography, Drama
In order to pay her college tuition, a young woman turns to the adult film industry and must balance her personal life with a new life as porn star Belle Knox.
Director: Vanessa Parise | Stars: Haley Pullos, Sasha Clements, Judd Nelson, Jessica Lu
Votes: 1,828
2. Summertime (2015)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader in this drama set in 1970s France.
Director: Catherine Corsini | Stars: Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky, Jean-Henri Compère
Votes: 5,683 | Gross: $0.04M
3. Hot Girls Wanted (2015)
TV-MA | 84 min | Documentary
A documentary about young women who have been drawn into the sex trade - and how easy it is for a web-savvy generation to end up making porn.
Directors: Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus | Stars: Tressa Silguero, Riley Reynolds, Rachel Bernard, John Anthony
Votes: 18,496
4. The Whistleblower (2010)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.
Director: Larysa Kondracki | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn
Votes: 35,768 | Gross: $1.12M
5. Made in Dagenham (2010)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone
Votes: 16,083 | Gross: $1.09M
6. Carry on Girls (1973)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor
Votes: 3,186
7. French Twist (1995)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
Director: Josiane Balasko | Stars: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat, Ticky Holgado
Votes: 5,366 | Gross: $1.40M
8. Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, News
Ukraine's topless feminist sensation Femen has created a media frenzy across Europe, but before they take the world by storm, these bold and beautiful women must confront the dark and perverse forces that power their organisation.
Director: Kitty Green | Stars: Inna Shevchenko, Sasha Shevchenko, Anna Hutsol, Oksana Shachko
Votes: 539
9. Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
What is the difference between us and pedophiles?
Director: Jan-Willem Breure | Stars: Jan-Willem Breure, Dick Swaab, Corine de Ruiter, Savannah van Zweeden
Votes: 6,332
10. Three Families (2021– )
118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.
Stars: Sinéad Keenan, Lola Petticrew, Amy James-Kelly, Colin Morgan
Votes: 726
11. Becoming Belle Knox (2014)
Documentary, Short
Miriam Weeks is an 18-year-old college student attending Duke University. She is also Belle Knox, America's newest top adult-film actress, and she uses her income as a porn star to pay her tuition. This is her story.
Director: Phillip Van | Stars: Nina Hartley, Ron Jeremy, Belle Knox, Mia Malkova
Votes: 25
12. Perfect Strangers (1984)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Anne Carlisle, Brad Rijn, John Woehrle, Matthew Stockley
Votes: 580
13. Shouting Down Midnight (2022)
97 min | Documentary
This timely doc follows Texas State Senator Wendy Davis's filibuster in 2013, when she stood for 13 hours to fight an antiabortion law threatening women's access to lifesaving healthcare.
Director: Gretchen Stoeltje | Star: Wendy Davis
Votes: 30
14. GirlFight: inVite (2016)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Sinister fatal femme Rachel inVites four unlikely model hopefuls into an underground death fight inside a barbaric steel cage surrounded by razor-sharp barb-wire. An all-female nightmare horror concept short film inspired by true events.
Director: Kelcey Coe | Stars: Becca Chanay, Kelly Culbertson, Brianna Culp, Amanda Dicapo
Votes: 380
15. She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary, History
A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.
Director: Mary Dore | Stars: Chude Pamela Allen, Alta, Judith Arcana, Nona Willis Aronowitz
Votes: 1,655 | Gross: $0.42M
16. Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981)
69 min | Documentary
Documentary about the pornography industry and the apparent violent anti-woman slant much of it takes.
Director: Bonnie Sherr Klein | Stars: Linda Lee Tracey, Bonnie Sherr Klein, Suze Randall, Kate Millett
Votes: 312
17. Finn's Girl (2007)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
With the death of her partner Nancy, Finn must raise their daughter alone while receiving death threats at the abortion clinic Nancy founded.
Directors: Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert | Stars: Brooke Johnson, Yanna McIntosh, Maya Ritter, Richard Clarkin
Votes: 277
18. Sois belle et tais-toi! (1981)
115 min | Documentary
Famous actresses talk about their role in the movie industry, and the demand to "be beautiful and shut up".
Director: Delphine Seyrig | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Jill Clayburgh, Marie Dubois, Delia Salvi
Votes: 299
19. Made in Secret: The Story of the East Van Porn Collective (2005)
86 min | Drama
A thought-provoking and genre-bending look behind the scenes of what might be the world's only underground DIY anarcho-feminist porn collective.
Director: One Tiny Whale | Stars: Hugh Jorgen, Muffy LaRue, Nerdgirl, J.D. Superstar
Votes: 55
20. Erotissimo (1969)
100 min | Comedy
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Annie Girardot, Jean Yanne, Francis Blanche, Dominique Maurin
Votes: 262
21. Delphine and Carole (2019 TV Movie)
69 min | Documentary, History
In the 70s and 80s, activist Carole Roussopoulos and actress Delphine Seyrig made use of new video technologies to fight for the women's movement. Archive material documents their interventions into the events of the time.
Director: Callisto McNulty | Stars: Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig, Alexandra Roussopoulos, Ioana Wieder
Votes: 244
22. Scum Manifesto (1976)
26 min | Short
S.C.U.M.= Society for Cutting Up Men.
Directors: Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig | Star: Delphine Seyrig
Votes: 152
23. Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone (2007)
74 min | Documentary
A documentary that celebrates and examines an unabashed vulgarian.
Director: Joan Brooker-Marks | Stars: Larry Flynt, Al van Schaik, Simon L. Leis Jr., Robert Scheer
Votes: 282
24. We Are Not Defeated (2006)
105 min | Documentary
The film reveals the hidden history of Korean women workers. Mixing interviews and archives, the filmmaker enlightens the history of their movement and over thirty years of struggle against... See full summary »
Director: Hye-ran Lee
25. La parenthèse enchantée (2000)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series of memorable adventures, couples fall ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Spinosa | Stars: Clotilde Courau, Vincent Elbaz, Géraldine Pailhas, Karin Viard
Votes: 350
26. Just Don't Fuck (1971)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Made when abortion was still illegal in France, Just Don't Fuck irreverently alternates images from the first feminist demonstrations in favour of abortion and the images of an illegal ... See full summary »
Director: Carole Roussopoulos
Votes: 146
27. My Tango with Porn (2003 Video)
40 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Siobhan Devine | Stars: Raffaëla Anderson, Kay Armatage, Marc B., A. Alan Borovoy
Votes: 28
28. The Delegate (2006)
27 min | Documentary, Short
The story of a 21 year old (CA) female delegate to a national political convention.
Director: John Robert | Stars: Spiro Agnew, Bob Dole, David Eisenhower, Ethel Merman
29. Rate It X (1986)
93 min | Documentary
A portrait of the various forms of male sexism existing in contemporary American society.
Directors: Paula De Koenigsberg, Lucy Winer | Stars: Lucy Winer, Ugly George, Joel M. Reed, Dwaine Tinsley
Votes: 61
30. Pelon maantiede (2000)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When her sister is mugged and raped, Oili, a young female forensic dentist, meets a group of abused women who have taken matters to their own hands to make the living in fear and just letting it happen stop.
Director: Auli Mantila | Stars: Tanjalotta Räikkä, Leea Klemola, Kari Sorvali, Anna-Elina Lyytikäinen
Votes: 422
31. Maso and Miso Go Boating (1975)
55 min | Documentary
Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud, then Secretary of State for Women, on his popular TV show. A collective of women parody the misogynistic statements from the show in a provocative way.
Directors: Nadja Ringart, Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig, Ioana Wieder | Stars: José Artur, Simone de Beauvoir, Françoise Giroud, Bernard Pivot
Votes: 112
32. Parisa
Documentary | Filming
Parisa, a Jewish mother of two is forced to flee Iran after being jailed, drugged, and tortured by the Iranian Government, only to find herself fighting for her life when she is diagnosed with stage-4 breast cancer.
Directors: Erez Tadmor, Michal Zys | Stars: Parisa Daniel, Roni Kuperman
33. La révolution du désir (2006)
80 min | Documentary
Directors: Alessandro Avellis, Gabriele Ferluga | Stars: Marie-Jo Bonnet, Françoise d'Eaubonne, Catherine Deudon, Anne-Marie Faure
Votes: 13
34. L'égalité professionnelle, ça bouge (1986)
31 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Carole Roussopoulos
35. Debout! Une histoire du mouvement de libération des femmes (1999)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Carole Roussopoulos
Votes: 18
36. Femmes mutilées, plus jamais! (2007)
35 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Fatxiya Ali Aden, Sarah Osman, Carole Roussopoulos | Stars: Fatxiya Ali Aden, Sarah Osman, Halima
37. FHAR (1971)
26 min | Documentary, Short
First meetings and manifestation of the FHAR (Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionnaire).
Director: Carole Roussopoulos
Votes: 96
39. Year of the Woman (1973)
87 min | Documentary
Director: Sandra Hochman | Stars: Sandra Hochman, Liz Renay, Florynce Kennedy, Art Buchwald
Votes: 60
40. L'égalité professionnelle, ça avance dans les transports (1987)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Carole Roussopoulos
41. Dabla! Excision (2003)
52 min | Documentary
Follows the growing movement across Africa to stop the traditional custom of female circumcision.
Director: Erica Pomerance
Votes: 10
42. Les violences du silence (1997)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Carole Roussopoulos
Votes: 8
43. Cinquantenaire du deuxième sexe, 1949-1999 (2001)
47 min | Documentary
In January 1999, fifty years after the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex", a colloquium held in Paris brought together women from 37 different countries. The film shows ... See full summary »
Director: Carole Roussopoulos | Stars: Sylvie Chaperon, Simone de Beauvoir, Christine Delphy
Votes: 14
45. Sonhos Brasileiros (1991)
57 min | Documentary
The documentary explores social movements in Brazil, taking viewers on a journey from feminist activists in the slums of Sao Paulo to the militants of the Partido dos Trabalhadores, and to ... See full summary »
Stars: Marta Baiano, Zé Carratú, Caitlin Manning, Chico Mendes
47. What Are We Doing Tonight? (2003)
7 min | Short
The film follows a group of women through the night while they undertake actions against sexist advertising. This funny and political film focuses on their physical, creative and sensual energy.
Director: Marie Vermeiren
48. Monique et Christiane (1976)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Being women in a factory in strike.
Director: Carole Roussopoulos | Star: Monique Piton
Votes: 10
49. Le mouvement de libération de la femme: 1970-2004 (2004)
38 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Denise Brial