Films Directed by Women

Nach jahrelanger Funkstille kreuzen sich die Wege der einst engen Freundinnen Lore Winter und Anneliese Müller unter abstrusen Umständen: Lores Ehemann hat sie gegen ein jüngeres Exemplar eingetauscht, und Anneliese ist frisch gebackene Witwe. Und so beschließen sie, in ihren alten Jahren eine Frauen-WG zu gründen und endlich all die Erfahrungen zu sammeln, die ihnen ihre brave Jugend und ihre jahrelangen Ehen verwehrt hatten.

Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.

It's Independence Day in Lebanon: three women who've never met before are on the same bus heading to visit a prison situated in a remote area of the country. Traveling through an arid landscape littered with mines and decapitated dreams, the journey transforms into the women's quest for their own independence.

Following the lackluster launch of her debut novel, 35-year-old writer Kate Conklin receives an invitation from her former professor and old crush to speak at her alma mater. With her book tour canceled and her ego deflated, Kate takes the trip, hoping it will give her the morale boost she sorely needs. Instead, she falls into a comical regression—from misadventures with eccentric 20-year-olds to feelings of jealousy toward her former professor’s new favorite student.

Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.

A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life

1986 film by Astrid Henning-Jensen

A drama about a group of women preparing to give birth who meet and bond at the hospital. Based on the best-selling Danish novel by Dea Trie Moerch and directed by acclaimed Danish filmmaker Astrid Henning-Jensen, "Winterborn" was considered one of the best movies of the decade in Denmark.

Directed by Danish filmmakers Bjarne and Astrid Henning-Jensen, THOSE BLASTED KIDS tells a story of a group of back-alley urchins that is considered Denmark’s first true children’s film.

We are at Fiskeby Badehotel, owned by a charming young executive's daughter, Miss Søgaard. One day, when Miss Søgaard is on her way to inspect the hotel, she meets a young man on the road. One day, when Miss Søgaard is on her way to inspect the hotel, she meets a young man on the road. It is love at first sight. However, the young man turns out to be the doorman at her own hotel, where she now takes a job disguised as a bellboy. She wants to get to know the doorman better without him knowing who she is.

1948 Danish film directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen and Bjarne Henning-Jensen

Erik Dahl escapes from prison where he is serving a sentence for smuggling. He seeks out his family, but the police have already been there, and he will have to flee. Erik alters their appearance and start a new life as fishmonger in a small town, but he plans to leave the country...

1980 film by Astrid Henning-Jensen

1969 film by Astrid Henning-Jensen

1966 film by Astrid Henning-Jensen

1996 film by Astrid Henning-Jensen

Per Brask is a fisherman's son, a lively 16-year-old boy, still too young to go out to sea, even though, like other boys on the west coast, he has to help out with the daily work. He is mostly preoccupied with playing, while dreaming of getting his own boat. The boys from the dunes are in a constant battle with the fjord boys, or land crabs – usually just called crabs – who are the boys from the village by the fjord or from the farms further inland.

Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.

2014 film directed by Paula van der Oest

2011 film by Paula van der Oest