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Recommend lesser known films directed by women


Recommend film(s) directed by women that you think most people haven't seen. (i.e.. Don't say Big, The Hurt Locker, Ladybird, American Psycho, or any of the really popular ones that often get mentioned) The more obscure and unknown the better! Here are my recommendations:

Viva (2007) directed by Anna Biller
We Go Way Back (2006) directed by Lynn Shelton
Puppylove (2013) directed by Delphine Lehericey
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014) directed by Josephine Decker
Old Enough (1984) directed by Marisa Silver
I Believe in Unicorns (2014) directed by Leah Meyerhoff
Angela (1995) directed by Rebecca Miller
L'une chante l'autre pas (1977) directed by Agnès Varda
Kung-fu master! (1988) directed by Agnès Varda
Heaven on Earth (2008) directed by Deepa Mehta
The Last Summer of La Boyita (2009) directed by Julia Solomonoff
The Watermelon Woman (1996) directed by Cheryl Dunye
Emporte-moi (1999) directed by Léa Pool
River of Grass (1994) directed by Kelly Reichardt
Corpo Celeste (2011) directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008) directed by Cathy Randall
Treeless Mountain (2008) directed by So Yong Kim

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Lynne Ramsay's catalog

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In Darkness (2011)

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I saw a sweet little movie called 'Unlovable'.
here's the page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5926990/?ref_=rt_li_tt
IMDB rating of 5.7 is just - not right. It is worthy of attention.
I gave it an 8.

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I Am Not a Witch.

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We know, but please, you avoided the OP's question!

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Damn XD

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The Beguiled by Sofia Coppola.

It a remake of the Clint Eastwood movie from 1971.

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The Safety of Objects, directed by Rose Troche

It had quite an interesting cast, including ...
Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Clarkson, Moira Kelly and Timothy Olyphant

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It's actually pretty good as a film, even if it proves that Kristen Stewart has been acting since childhood and therefore has no excuse for her future 'skills'.

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Tonight I will watch Chien de Garde, by Sophie Dupuis

It represented Telefilm Canada at the Oscars but didn’t make the cut

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gillian armstrong - my brilliant career & starstruck. i can't say i love either film - both are the kind of very worthy, heartfelt stories about women showing bravery in adversity, going their own path & rejecting conventionality that are loved by critics, & i think they're perfectly fine but they don't really excite me.

josephine decker's madeline's madeline was one of my favourite films of last year, #3 if i remember correctly. it's a mad leap into the deep end of someone's mental breakdown - it's weird & funny & disturbing, yet also somehow a little lighthearted. i don't like her earlier films butter on the latch & thou wast mild & lovely quite as much, but they're both worth checking out as well.

kelly reichardt is probably one of the most acclaimed film-makers going these days. i think all of her films are worth watching, but i'd say the best ones are meek's cut-off and 'wendy and lucy.' they're very small movies, really closer to being the film equivalent of short-stories that are little character studies. i heard one guy describe wendy & lucy as a snapshot of nothing and that sums most of her films up quite nicely.

chloe zhoe's 'the rider' was also near the top of my favourites of last year. i had an emotional reaction to the end unlike anything i've seen in a film in years. a bit like classic malick meets the wrestler. truly great.

anna biller's films 'viva' and 'the love witch' are big favourites of mine, the love witch in particular. she says she's not influenced by 70s exploitation & russ meyers, and i believe her, but her films do come close to having that same sort of skewed borderline campy sensibility. the love witch must have been a real labour of love - it's painstakingly costumed, all made by her apparently. both of them are streaming on criterion.

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