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Battle of the Sexes(2017)

PG-13
| 2h 1min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 841 votes)

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Made in Dagenham(2010)

R
| 1h 53min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 127 votes)

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Fill the Void(2012)

PG
| 1h 30min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 29 votes)

Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child, Mordechay. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira's promised match. Everything changes when a match is proposed to Yochay-Esther's late husband-to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it's too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again. When the girls' mother finds out that Yochay may marry the widow and move to Belgium with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart's wish and her family duty. She will find out that the void which she must choose exists only within her heart.

Orlando(1992)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Drama, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 130 votes)

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.

The Divine Order(2017)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 62 votes)

Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.

Die Glasbläserin(2016)

1h 28min | Drama, History, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

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Directed by Christiane Balthasar - With Maria Ehrich, Luise Heyer, Franz Dinda, Dirk Borchardt, Max Hopp, Karel Heřmánek Jr., ...

Five Girls and a Rope(1990)

2h 3min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.

The King's Daughters(2000)

2.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free women. Madame de Maintenon is the secret wife of Louis XIV, and empowered by his support, she offers "her" two hundred fifty girls a playful and avant-garde education. Anne and Lucie, two inseparable friends, allow themselves to be carried away by the promise of a bright future. But Maintenon has arrived at the pinnacle of power through scheming and debasing herself and she now fears the fires of hell. She is counting on her model school to atone for her past sins.

A Matter of Sex(1984)

1h 40min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.

Adventure in Baltimore(1949)

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.

Commander Arian(2018)

1h 17min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an ISIS-controlled city and emerges severely wounded, forcing her to redefine herself in this empowering tale of emancipation and freedom.

Frimas(2021)

19min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

In the near future, when getting an abortion has once again become a criminal offense, Kara is confronted by a grim and brutal reality. Even though obvious dangers are at play, she seeks out the services of an illegal mobile abortion clinic. Once inside the meanders of this morbid clinic, she is confronted with the consequences of her painful decision. Not only are her life and freedom in danger, but Kara is unprepared to face the emotional repercussions that her decision will have on her and those around her.

Directed by Marianne Farley - With Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Chantal Baril, Kent McQuaid, Jean-Moïse Martin, Alex Bisping, Christian Jadah, ...
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A Powerful Noise(2008)

1h 20min | Documentary

Bookended by call-to-action quotes from Margaret Mead and Mahatma Gandhi, this inspiring documentary follows three extraordinary women -- in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mali, and Vietnam -- as they lead day-to-day battles against ignorance, poverty, oppression, and ethnic strife.

For Neda(2010)

1h 7min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

On June 20, 2009, Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran during the turmoil that followed the Iranian presidential contest. Within hours, images of her dying moments, captured on cell phones, appeared on computer screens across the world, focusing the world's attention on mass protests against the rigged elections in Iran. Featuring previously unseen footage of Neda with friend and family, as well as exclusive video of her recorded the day she died, "For Neda" debuts just before the anniversary of her death.

9to5: The Story of a Movement(2020)

1h 29min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a movement to force changes in their workplaces. This movement became national, and is a largely forgotten story of U.S. twentieth century history. It encapsulates a unique intersection of the women’s movement with the labor movement. The awareness these secretaries brought to bear on women’s work reverberates even today. Clericals were the low-wage workers of their era. America now confronts the growing reality of deep income inequality. The stories and strategies of these bold, creative women resonates in contemporary America.

La plaça del diamant(1982)

1h 51min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Colometa is an average housewife with two children to care for in the late 1930's, as the Spanish Civil War is starting and her husband goes off to fight. She had been an ordinary woman working in a shop when she met the lively carpenter who married her, and their life together was without major problems. But now she is forced to raise her children under straitened circumstances, and after her husband dies, her life undergoes another major change as she marries for the second time. Underneath Colometa's acquiescent, forebearing exterior must lie just a few discontents, a few unrealized dreams - but they never surface as she blithely moves from one episode in her life to another.

Saudi Women's Driving School(2019)

3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

An unprecedented access to a number of Saudi women in the capital city of Riyadh as they embrace the freedom that comes from being behind the wheel.The Saudi Women’s Driving School is said to be the world's largest driving school, which caters exclusively to women since the ban on female drivers was lifted in 2017.

LFG(2021)

1h 45min | Documentary
4.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Three months before the 2019 World Cup, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation. At the center of this no-holds-barred account are the players themselves–Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O'Hara and others–who share their stories of courage and resiliency as they take on the biggest fight for women's rights since Title IX.

Directed by Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine

De Zitting(2021)

1h 18min | TV Movie, Drama
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A popular prime minister candidate and a well-known thriller book writer face each other in court after she accuses him of sexual abuse just before the election.

Purdah(2018)

1h 11min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The inspiring story of a young Indian Muslim woman who trades her burka for dreams of playing on the Mumbai Senior Women's Cricket Team and how the harsh realities for women in her country creates an unexpected outcome for her own family, ultimately shattering and fueling aspirations.

Kampf um ein Kind(1975)

2h 15min | Drama

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birth clinic of a hospital. Her husband doesn’t know that she’s pregnant with their second child. Will she have to choose between motherhood and her career?

You'll Have the Sky: The Life and Work of Anne Morrow Lindbergh(2016)

A film portrayal of a pioneering aviator and best-selling author whose extraordinary public life had a deep impact on her inner world.

Angélica(2016)

1h 37min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Angélica has spent her whole life escaping from her mixed racial identity, but a family crisis forces her to return to Puerto Rico and rethink her life.

Bread & Roses(1993)

3h 14min | Drama, War
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.

Directed by Gaylene Preston

75e, elles se souviennent(2015)

- No description / details available yet. -

Whina(2022)

1h 52min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Biopic about the life of Whina Cooper, an activist who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of fellow Māori women.

Directed by James Napier Robertson, Paula Whetu Jones - With Rena Owen, James Rolleston, Vinnie Bennett, Miriama McDowell, Kali Kopae, James Tito, ...

The Women(1966)

22min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Handbook for a Privileged European Woman(2021)

9min | Comedy
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

How to ride a mechanical bull and not care that everyone is picturing you naked.

For Women, Chapter 1(1971)

27min | Documentary

Saleswomen in a supermarket discover that they are paid less than their male colleagues who do the same work. They decide to take action. The band Ton Steine Scherben sings along that “Everything changes if you change it / But you can't win as long as you're alone!” With a lay cast, the film fulfils the demand for solidarity that it preaches – “this film was made by saleswomen and housewives. They came up with the story and acted themselves. The film students helped them”.

Served Like a Girl(2017)

1h 43min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of stranded homeless women veterans by entering a competition that unexpectedly catalyzes moving events in their own lives.

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