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7. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson. Trans rights activist and icon Marsha P. Johnson. Credit: Netflix. The fact that no one has yet made a feature film about Marsha P. Johnson is ...
- Deanna Janes
- 'Alien' (1979) Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley is one of science fiction's most memorable female characters. She’s not a damsel in distress—she’s a ferocious final girl, and the only survivor to defeat the monster that mutilated and destroyed every other member of the Nostromo crew.
- Set It Off (1996) Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Kimberly Elise play a group of friends who find themselves at the mercy of intersectional violence, turning to robbing banks as their only way of dealing.
- Hidden Figures (2016) While the male brains at NASA fretted over how to put a man in space before their Russian adversaries, there were three brilliant African-American women doing the math that would actually get him there.
- The First Wives Club (1996) If the sight of Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn reclaiming their independence from their manipulative ex-husbands while singing in unison to Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me” isn't a pop-filmic ode to feminism, then we don't know what is.
- Megan Ditrolio
- 'She Said' She Said follows the true story behind New York Times journalists Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) as they expose Harvey Weinstein and his history of sexual abuse against women.
- 'Hustlers' Based on a true story, four dancers band together to con money out of sleazy finance bros. Sure, what they do is totally illegal, but in a way they are taking the power back from the men that completely objectify them.
- 'Battle of the Sexes' This sports biopic literally pits women against man in the so-called tennis match "Battle of the Sexes." The film follows the story of top women's player Billie Gene King who comes out on top of societal stereotypes to beat former No. 1 ranked men’s player Bobby Riggs.
- 'Boston Strangler' Yet another film based on real-life badass female journalists, this new crime drama dives into the story of the 1960s serial killer dubbed the Boston Strangler.
4. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) Film. Drama. France's Agnès Varda has long been a feminist film icon, and it's heartening to see her still making movies well into her eighties (including the recent ...
- Hidden Figures (2016) Stream Now. This inspiring film follows three Black American women—Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—working as mathematicians at the race- and sex-segregated Langley Research Center at NASA.
- Thelma and Louise (1991) Stream Now. One of the best female buddy movies of all time, Thelma and Louise was an instant classic when it came out in the early 1990s, and it remains so today.
- Frida (2002) Stream Now. Salma Hayek stars as the queenly monobrowed Mexican artist in this wonderful biopic. Frida Kahlo is famous for her self-portraits and her surrealist painting style, both of which she used to explore gender, race, class, and post-colonialism in Mexico.
- The First Wives Club (1996) Stream Now. This flick follows the story of four college friends (Stockard Channing, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton) who reconnect after one of them dies.
Jun 15, 2010 · Women's Studies: Directed by Lonnie Martin. With Judith O'Dea, Cindy Marie Martin, Tara Garwood, Kelley Slagle. A grad student and her friends become trapped at a women's academy run by a cult of homicidal feminists.
66 Metascore. A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York. Director: Duncan Tucker | Stars: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Andrea James. Votes: 42,313 | Gross: $9.02M.
