With Women Make Movies (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Boys Don't Cry (1999)
R | 118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.
Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III
Votes: 92,254 | Gross: $11.53M
2. Radium Girls (2018)
102 min | Drama, History
In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work conditions after some of their colleagues become ill from radium exposure.
Directors: Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler | Stars: Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd
Votes: 367
3. Citizenfour (2014)
R | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum
Votes: 52,483 | Gross: $2.80M
4. The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
Director: Cheryl Dunye | Stars: Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson
Votes: 1,792
5. Pariah (I) (2011)
R | 86 min | Drama
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Director: Dee Rees | Stars: Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Aasha Davis, Pernell Walker
Votes: 6,095 | Gross: $0.76M
6. Inside Her Sex (2014)
R | 68 min | Documentary
This film is a thought-provoking documentary that explores female sexuality and shame through the eyes an experiences of three women from different walks of life, each brave enough to chart... See full summary »
Director: Sheona McDonald | Stars: Samantha Allen, Elle Chase, Candida Royalle
Votes: 30
7. Sister Aimee (2019)
Not Rated | 87 min | Biography
In 1926 America's most famous evangelist is a woman. And she's looking for a way out. Fed up with her own success, she gets swept up in her lover's daydreams about Mexico and finds herself ... See full summary »
Directors: Samantha Buck, Marie Schlingmann | Stars: Michael Mosley, Amy Hargreaves, Julie White, Macon Blair
Votes: 154
8. Risk (I) (2016)
TV-MA | 86 min | Documentary
The story of WikiLeak's editor-in-chief Julian Assange as seen by documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Jacob Appelbaum, Joseph Farrell
Votes: 2,137 | Gross: $0.20M
9. The Orphanage (2019)
90 min | Drama
A 15-year-old ticket scalper in Kabul dreams of Bollywood until the Soviets force him into a state facility.
Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat | Stars: Anwar Hashimi, Quodratollah Qadiri, Karan Jeet Singh, Hasibullah Rasooli
Votes: 507
10. The Gold Diggers (1983)
89 min | Drama, Music
An avant-garde exploration of a woman's life.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Julie Christie, Colette Laffont, Hilary Westlake, David Gale
Votes: 248
11. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011)
PG-13 | 86 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the life and work of the influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland.
Directors: Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Frédéric Tcheng | Stars: Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Lauren Bacall
Votes: 1,442 | Gross: $1.00M
12. Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992)
85 min | Documentary
Ten women, most of them in Vancouver or Toronto, talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first ... See full summary »
Directors: Lynne Fernie, Aerlyn Weissman | Stars: Keely Moll, Stephanie Ozard, Ann Bannon, Reva Hutkin
Votes: 239
13. What My Mother Told Me (1995)
57 min | Drama
Exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving, What My Mother Told Me is a dramatic journey towards self discovery. The story focuses on Jesse, a young woman from England, who goes to ... See full summary »
Director: Frances-Anne Solomon | Stars: Adjoa Andoh, Leonie Forbes, Clarence Smith, Nadine Williams
Votes: 18
14. Wolf and Sheep (2016)
86 min | Drama
Based upon unpublished diaries, the film assumes the role of an anthropologist observing remote shepherd communities in Afghanistan where wolves and sheep have equal importance.
Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat | Stars: Sediqa, Qodrat, Amina, Sahar
Votes: 275
15. The Blonds (2003)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
Los rubios focuses on the directors search for her dissappeared parents. Is it possible to get to the truth or they are only fictions, imaginary characters from everyone who rememebers them?
Director: Albertina Carri | Stars: Analía Couceyro, Albertina Carri, Santiago Giralt, Jesica Suarez
Votes: 326
16. Gideon's Army (2013)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
Follows three young, committed Public Defenders who are dedicated to working for the people society would rather forget. Long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads are so common that even the most committed often give up.
Director: Dawn Porter
Votes: 770
17. Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003)
90 min | Documentary
A profile of the African-American actress Beah Richards, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Director: LisaGay Hamilton | Stars: Beah Richards, Bill Cobbs, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
Votes: 81
18. The Body Beautiful (1991)
23 min | Short
The story of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her relationship with her black daughter who begins a modeling career.
Director: Ngozi Onwurah | Stars: Brian Bovell, Saffron Burrows, Maureen Douglass, Sian Martin
Votes: 129
19. The Day I Will Never Forget (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
The practice of female genital mutilation is explored through personal stories of Kenyan women.
Director: Kim Longinotto
Votes: 122
20. Love Between the Covers (2015)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, History, Romance
In LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS Emmy Award Winning director Laurie Kahn turns her insightful eye towards another American pop culture phenomenon: the romance industry.
Director: Laurie Kahn | Stars: Len Barot, Melanie Bernier, Mary Bly, Celeste Bradley
Votes: 109
21. Sonita (2015)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through music. Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the face of oppressive traditions.
Director: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami | Stars: Sonita Alizadeh, Latifah Alizadeh, Fadia Alizadeh, Ahmad Ahmadi
Votes: 770
22. Sink or Swim (1990)
Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary
Through a series of twenty six short stories, a girl describes the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual ... See full summary »
Director: Su Friedrich | Star: Jessica Meyerson
Votes: 355
23. Flag Wars (2003)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
"Flag Wars" is a cinema verite documentary that follows the conflicts that arise when gay white professionals move into a black working-class neighborhood. Filmed over a four years in ... See full summary »
Directors: Linda Goode Bryant, Laura Poitras | Stars: Nina Masseria, Floyd Goode, Josephine Goode, Shango Baba Olugbala
Votes: 195
24. Rough Aunties (2008)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary
Fearless, feisty and resolute, the "Rough Aunties" are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Longinotto | Stars: Jackie Branfield, Eureka, Ladyfair, Mildrid
Votes: 127
25. Missing Young Woman (2001)
74 min | Documentary
This gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border
Director: Lourdes Portillo
Votes: 140
26. Sisters in Law (2005)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary
Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a Female Judge.
Directors: Florence Ayisi, Kim Longinotto | Stars: Vera Ngassa, Beatrice Ntuba
Votes: 377 | Gross: $0.03M
27. Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989)
108 min | Documentary, History, Romance
Trinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present. She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contradictions.
Director: T. Minh-ha Trinh
Votes: 136
28. Divorce Iranian Style (1998)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
A documentary about real divorce cases in Iran's tribunals.
Directors: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Votes: 415
29. Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989)
165 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
Director: Ulrike Ottinger | Stars: Badema, Lydia Billiet, Christoph Eichhorn, Sevimbike Elibay
Votes: 151
30. How to Lose Your Virginity (2013)
67 min | Documentary, Comedy, News
It has launched both purity balls and porn franchises, defines a young woman's morality-but has no medical definition. Enter the magical world of virginity, where a white wedding dress can ... See full summary »
Director: Therese Shechter | Stars: Abiola Abrams, Hanne Blank, Lena Chen, Heather Corrina
Votes: 54
31. What doesn't kill me (2017)
80 min | Documentary
In the US, abusive fathers are seeking custody of their children in increasing numbers. And frighteningly - they are winning. Rachel Meyrick's directorial debut explores a terrifying trend ... See full summary »
Director: Rachel Meyrick
32. Democrats (2014)
100 min | Documentary
In politically unstable Zimbabwe, a new constitution is being put together by the ruling party of strongman Robert Mugabe and the divided opposition. Various political, local and personal interests are bogging the process down.
Director: Camilla Nielsson | Stars: Paul Mangwana, Robert Mugabe, Douglas Mwonzora, Morgan Tsvangirai
Votes: 339
33. Red Wedding (2012)
58 min | Documentary
This is a 2012 documentary film co-directed by Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon, which portrays a victim of forced marriage under the Khmer Rouge regime. The film premiered at the 2012 ... See full summary »
Directors: Lida Chan, Guillaume Suon
Votes: 15
34. It Happened Here (2014)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Through the intimate portraits of five student survivors, IT HAPPENED HERE exposes the alarming pervasiveness of sexual assault on college campuses, the institutional cover-ups and the ... See full summary »
Director: Lisa F. Jackson | Stars: Kylie Angell, Anna Chapman, Erica Daniels, Angie Epifano
Votes: 86
35. Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990)
19 min | Short, Drama
A middle aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying old white mother till the mother dies.
Director: Tracey Moffatt | Stars: Marcia Langton, Agnes Hardwick, Jimmy Little, Alkira Fitzgerald
Votes: 256
36. Desire (2005)
84 min | Documentary
Nearly a decade in the making, this refreshingly honest film documents the challenges and desires of a group of young women in New Orleans by letting them film their own stories. As this ... See full summary »
Directors: Julie Gustafson, Isaac Webb | Stars: Cassandra Swaing, Tiffanie Johnson, Tracy Morton, Kimeca Rodgers
37. Boy I Am (2006)
72 min | Documentary
While female-to-male transgender visibility has recently exploded in this country, conversations about trans issues in the lesbian community often run into resistance from the many queer ... See full summary »
Directors: Sam Feder, Julie Hollar | Stars: Elizabeth Cline, Lucey Cummins, Judith Halberstam, Imani Henry
Votes: 45
38. The Rest I Make Up (2018)
79 min | Documentary
Cuban-American playwright Maria Irene Fornes created astonishing worlds onstage. When she stops writing due to dementia, a friendship with a young writer reignites her visionary creative ... See full summary »
Director: Michelle Memran | Stars: Maria Irene Fornes, Brooke Berman, Constance Congdon, Migdalia Cruz
Votes: 41
39. Men: A Love Story (2016)
Documentary
"Men: A Love Story" pieces together a rich tapestry of vignettes, woven from stories shared by men of different race, age, and socio-economic backgrounds. The result is a stunningly honest,... See full summary »
Director: Mimi Chakarova
40. Pink Saris (2010)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary, Drama
Now she follows Sampat Pal Devi, the leader of the 'Pink Gang' who brings her own brand of justice to the streets of Uttar Pradesh, India, combating violence against women.
Director: Kim Longinotto | Stars: Renu Devi, Sampat Pal Devi, Niranjan Pal, Rekha Paswan
Votes: 187
41. Dream Girls (1994)
50 min | Documentary
This film is about Japanese women, escape, glamour and dreams. The Takarazuka Revue is an enormously successful spectacular where the all-women cast create fantasies of erotic love and ... See full summary »
Directors: Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams | Stars: Miki Maya, Anju Mira, Takarazuka Revue Company
Votes: 39
42. Night Passage (2004)
96 min | Sci-Fi
Night Passage is a digital film on friendship and death. Made in homage to Miyazawa Kenji's classic novel, Milky Way Railroad, the story evolves around the spiritual journey of a young ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Paul Bourdier, T. Minh-ha Trinh | Stars: Vernon Bush, Howard Dillon, Denice Lee, Yuan Li-Chi
Votes: 5
43. Love Always, Carolyn (2011)
70 min | Documentary
Documentary about Carolyn Cassady, her life and marriage to Neal Cassady, her relationship with Jack Kerouac and how she takes care of the literary legacy from both.
Directors: Malin Korkeasalo, Maria Ramström | Stars: Carolyn Cassady, John McWhinnie, John Allen Cassady, Neal Cassady
Votes: 105
44. Salma (2013)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Internationally-acclaimed, multiple award winning filmmaker Kim Longinotto (ROUGH AUNTIES, World Cinema Jury Prize in Documentary, Sundance, 2009) returns to Sundance 2013 with the World ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Longinotto
Votes: 80
45. Geek Girls (2017)
83 min | Documentary
When filmmaker Gina Hara sets out to explore the hidden half of nerd culture, she struggles through unexpected resistance. Welcome to the world of cute dresses, professional gamers, fake names and death threats.
Director: Gina Hara | Stars: Stephanie Harvey, Anita Sengupta, Rachel Weil
Votes: 34
46. A Jury of Her Peers (1980)
30 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A farm woman is accused of murdering her husband in early 1900's Midwest America.
Director: Sally Heckel | Stars: Diane de Lorian, Dorothy Lancaster, Sheila Hinchliffe, Mark Margolis
Votes: 47
47. Calling the Ghosts (1996)
Unrated | 60 min | Documentary, War
Movie about tortured and humiliated women in concentration camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Directors: Mandy Jacobson, Karmen Jelincic | Stars: Jadranka Cigelj, Nusreta Sivac
Votes: 57
48. The Ties That Bind (1985)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
The Ties That Bind is an experimental documentary about the filmmaker's mother, who was born and lived in southern Germany from 1920-1950. Through a mixture of personal anecdote and social ... See full summary »
Director: Su Friedrich | Star: Lore Bucher
Votes: 61
49. Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama - A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation (2010)
98 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Thirteen years, two inspiring women, both radical activists-one conversation. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING is a historically rich and unique documentary about two formidable women who share a ... See full summary »
Directors: C.A. Griffith, H.L.T. Quan
Votes: 5
50. Flaming Ears (1992)
84 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Flaming Ears is a pop sci-fi lesbian fantasy feature set in the year 2700 in the fictive burned-out city of Asche. It follows the tangled lives of three women - Volley, Nun and Spy.
Directors: Ursula Puerrer, A. Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek | Stars: Susana Helmayr, Ursula Puerrer, A. Hans Scheirl, Margarete Neumann
Votes: 48