Films Directed by Women

A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.

A nice guy turns murderous after undergoing a penis transplant.

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.

Amy is a single 29 year old Jewish woman. She wrote a successful self-help book about how women can't truly be in love and experience "mental orgasm." Her parents and acquaintances always try to give her advice. Eventually, she breaks her celibacy and starts dating a radio shock jock, who is known for hitting on his bimbo guests. Of all men, will she find in him the true love she never believed in

Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!

An adaptation from the controversial John Adams opera about the true life incident that took place in the mid 80s. The liner "Achille Lauro" is on a 12-day cruise in the Mediterranean. While the ship is docked in Alexandria, a maid discovers that four of the passengers are actually members of the Palestine Liberation Organization traveling incognito. Startled by their discovery, the PLO cadre is forced to act. They take the passengers on board hostage and demand the release of 50 Palestinian activists held in Israeli jails. As Egyptian, American, Italian, and Palestinian authorities bicker over the best way to handle the situation (and who would negotiate with the terrorists), the kidnappers find themselves dealing with rebellion among their captives, and an argument between the four PLO members and Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish-American confined to a wheelchair, eventually escalates into violence.

Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne Labrune's drama stars Isabelle Huppert and Bouli Lanners as, respectively, Alice, a disaffected call girl and Xavier, a shrink with a crumbling domestic situation.

Debbie Bender is a New Jersey housewife whose husband gives her a gun for self-protection; soon her life is turned upside down when their cute but wacky neighbor Skippy "borrows" it.

Complementing the release of Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette, this selection of silent films from the BFI National Archive shows how suffrag ettes were portrayed on the cinema screen while their battles were still being waged on the streets outside.
UK 1899-1917
Music composed and performed by Lillian Henley
你必须比别人发出更多的噪音，必须比别人更具侵略性……事实上，你想要变革成真，你就必须一刻不离地坚守于此，以防他们玩弄诡计。
——埃米琳·潘克赫斯特（1913年11月）
本片是萨拉·加夫隆导演的《妇女参政论者》（台译：女权之声）一片的延伸，由英国电影学会整理汇编全国范围的默片档案而成。如今，这些无声的黑白片段为我们再现了当年那些女权主义者在街头为争取妇女选举权而战的惊心动魄场景。"大英百科"评选100年来影响世界的英国十大人物，潘克赫斯 特因领导争取妇女选举权运动，超越伊丽莎白二世、戴安娜王妃、撒切尔夫人，位居榜首。一位女性谈到为何投票给潘克赫斯特时，很干脆地说:"因为她给了我们投票权。"

Ammani is about a 82-year-old woman and her emotional bond with another woman named Salamma.

The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.

After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.

2012 film by Alexandra Leclère

Two professional assassins take over the home of two women and their "houseguest" in order to assassinate a visiting foreign dignitary.

In the late 1960s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, anti-imperialist guerrilla movement. Director Heiny Srour and her team crossed 500 miles of desert and mountains by foot, under bombardment by the British Royal Air Force, to reach the conflict zone and capture this rare record of a now mostly-forgotten war.

A privileged, black college student with a fiance falls in love with a white musician she meets on her 21st birthday.

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he wants a large family. The two of them discuss their differing attitudes and desires but come to no resolution.

2015 film by Nandita Roy, Shiboprosad Mukherjee