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Recommend movies directed by women

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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Recommend films directed by women. Here are films directed by women that I have seen and recommend: (in alphabetical order)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, Marielle Heller )
A League of Their Own (1992, Penny Marshall)
A Wrinkle in Time (2018, Ava DuVernay)
Across the Universe (2007, Julie Taymor)
American Psycho (2000, Mary Harron)
Angela (1995, Rebecca Miller)
Antonia (1995, Marleen Gorris)
Belle (2013, Amma Asante)
Big (1988, Penny Marshall)
Bitch (2017, Marianna Palka)
Blockers (2018, Kay Cannon)
Booksmart (2019, Olivia Wilde)
Boys Don't Cry (1999, Kimberly Peirce)
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999, Jamie Babbit)
Children of a Lesser God (1986, Randa Haines)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda)
Clueless (1995, Amy Heckerling)
D.E.B.S. (2004, Angela Robinson)
Daisies (1966, Vera Chytilová)
Desert Hearts (1985, Donna Deitch)
Documenteur (1981, Agnès Varda)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982, Amy Heckerling)
Fat Girl (2001, Catherine Breillat)
Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold)
Frozen River (2008, Courtney Hunt)
Good Dick (2008, Marianna Palka)
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008, Cathy Randall)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
La Ciénaga (2001, Lucrecia Martel)
Lady Bird (2017, Greta Gerwig)
Late Night (2019, Nisha Ganatra)
Kung-fu master! (1988, Agnès Varda)
Little Women (2019, Greta Gerwig)
Miracles from Heaven (2016, Patricia Riggen)
Monster (2003, Patty Jenkins)
Mustang (2015, Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
Pet Sematary (1989, Mary Lambert)
Prevenge (2016, Alice Lowe)
Ramona and Beezus (2010, Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum)
Selma (2014, Ava DuVernay)
Sherrybaby (2006, Laurie Collyer)
Summer 1993 (2017, Carla Simón)
The Babadook (2014, Jennifer Kent)
The Beguiled (2017, Sofia Coppola)
The Edge of Seventeen (2016, Kelly Fremon Craig)
The Guilt Trip (2012, Anne Fletcher)
The Last Summer of La Boyita (2009, Julia Solomonoff)
The Love Witch (2016, Anna Biller)
The Lure (2015, Agnieszka Smoczynska)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018, Desiree Akhavan)
The Piano (1993, Jane Campion)
The Rider (2017, Chloé Zhao)
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982, Amy Holden Jones)
The Virgin Suicides (1999, Sofia Coppola)
The Watermelon Woman (1996, Cheryl Dunye)
The Wonders (2014, Alice Rohrwacher)
Tomboy (2011, Céline Sciamma)
Wadjda (2012, Haifaa Al-Mansour)
Water Lilies (2007, Céline Sciamma)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011, Lynne Ramsay)
You Were Never Really Here (2017, Lynne Ramsay)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Kathryn Bigelow)

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

For something different I'll give a shout out to the local Aussie ladies:

Gillian Armstrong:

My Brilliant Career (1979)
High Tide (1987)
Little Women (1994)
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

Jocelyn Moorhouse:

Proof (1991)
The Dressmaker (2015)

Sarah Watt:

Look Both Ways (2005)
My Year Without Sex (2009)

Nadia Tass:

Malcolm (1986)
The Big Steal (1990)
Amy (1997)

Cate Shortland:

Somersault (2004)

Rachel Perkins:

Radiance (1998)
Bran Nue Day (2010)

I realise folks outside of Australia probably haven't heard of many of these films, but they are all worth checking out.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I've seen Somersault and I may have seen Little Women and Oscar and Lucinda. I don't believe I have seen any of the others you mentioned.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Well if you were thinking of checking them out, Proof would be my pick as the best from that list. Really intriguing slow-burning thriller starring Russell Crowe and Hugo Weaving. It's one of the best Australian movies I've seen.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

proof is one of my brother in law's favourite films. i remember liking it quite a bit, but i haven't seen it in 25 years, & only have a few firm memories of it. i'd very much like to see it again - in fact, i'm going to add it to my watchlist and try to make a point of tracking it down this week.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 4 years ago

Also by Gillian Armstrong ' Death Defying Acts ' (2007). Easily Saoirse Ronan's best performance in my opinion.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

That sounds really interesting. I just bought it on iTunes for only 2.99.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 4 years ago

Big thumbs up and hope you enjoy it.

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

A few female filmmakers who have been influential for me personally:

Suzan Pitt - Asparagus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4VFjo9ZtU)
Maya Deren - Meshes of the Afternoon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRLJaueDWFI)
Germaine Dulac - The Seashell & the Clergyman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypseXIQVaF0)

Also Allaby, of all the titles in your OP I want to especially second a recommendation for Daisies.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

daisies is fun & weird, both things that i support. the only thing i didn't like: the scenes involving food being thrown about & the bits of loud chewing. i have a hang-up, bordering on phobia when it comes to things like that.

meshes of the afternoon is great. won't pretend to understand it, but guy maddin fans ought to love it.

don't know the other two you mentioned, but they're now on my list.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I've seen Meshes of the Afternoon. I haven't seen anything by Suzan Pitt or Germaine Dulac, but all of Pitt's films are currently available to stream on the Criterion channel.

[–] CKid (3829) 4 years ago

The Cake Eaters (2007) - Mary Stuart Masterson
Certain Women (2016) - Kelly Reichardt
The Runaways (2010)- Flora Sigismondi
The Safety of Objects (2001) - Rose Troche
Speak (2004) - Jessica Sharzer

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I've seen Certain Women and The Runaways. The other ones sound good.

[–] mikethemartian (6201) 4 years ago

The Hitch-Hiker (1953, Ida Lupino)

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I've been meaning to watch this for a while now.