Films Directed by Women

1988 film directed by Claire Denis

根据布克奖得主Pat Barker的小说《Border Crossing》(越界)改编，Bette Gordon的这部心理恐怖片讲述了一位犯罪心理学家因为愧疚在多年之后对一桩旧案展开重新调查的故事。男主角(由Josh Charles所饰)因为提供的证词，而使一名年轻男孩被冠上谋杀罪并送进监狱。满怀愧疚的他，在多年后再次与男孩不期而遇。于是无法忍受内心折磨的他，展开了一系列对于旧案极具破坏性的追查... Based on Border Crossing, Booker Prize-winner Pat Barker’s controversial novel, Bette Gordon’s (Variety) psychological thriller is the story of a guilt-wracked forensic psychologist (Josh Charles) whose testimony once sent a young boy to prison for murder. When the boy later reappears in his life, he’s drawn into a destructive, soul-searching reinvestigation of the case.

In a remote part of rural, post-apocalyptic England, now occupied by unseen alien invaders, a feisty teenage girl sets out on a desperate attempt to fight back a group of bandits and defend her parents' farm, their remaining livestock, and the solar panels that keep them safe from extraterrestrials. If she doesn't succeed, she will lose her only source of food and shelter; if she resists, she and her helpless blind sibling will be killed.

During one unusually hot weekend, four friends struggle after hearing some life-changing news.

Forced to work under slave-like conditions in a "prison for profit" program, the inmates of a mostly-African-American female prison, Whitehead Correctional, try to take over the institution.

Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion.

After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee — head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government — has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee's tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl and Jet Girl rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system.

1995 film by Maria Maggenti

Paris, 1995. Laure is about to meet friends for dinner. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When she offers a handsome stranger a ride, Laure takes a highly charged, impossibly erotic detour.

Claudia and Flavio were once passionately in love, but all of that is over. Now, in their fifties, they must venture anew into the world of love and dating once more but for Claudia confronting the end and accepting a new beginning isn’t so easy. Claudia is unwilling to let go and forget the life she’s built with Flavio, while Flavio, eager to move on, soon finds himself in a relationship with a much younger woman. Claudia soon reconnects with Nina, a student from her days as a professor.

In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.

Haruka Asana is a young detective in the The Tokyo Metropolitan Police. She's joined by Detective Wakana, who received her anti-spy terrorist training in America. Together, they foil international conspiracies that threaten the safety of the free world! In Beach VolleyBall Detectives, they learn of a group of terrorists who plot to set off a nuclear device in Tokyo. The terrorists are posing as hot female volleyball players and participating in the world beach volleyball championships in Tokyo. Haruka and Wakana must wear their bikinis and pose as beach volleyball players, in an attempt to apprehend the terrorists and save the world!

Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he enjoys his wife and family and is content. One evening, he meets Elsa at a party and are immediately attracted to each other. Fifteen days later, they happen to meet again and the mutual attraction turns into infatuation. But his love for his wife and Elsa's rule about not dating married men prevents them from taking the next step. Instead, they fantasize about each other, and soon the fantasies mingle with the reality.

Pinku from 1972.

In the summer of 1942, two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother and their childlike aunt in Yonkers, New York.

An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way, but whatever salvation they find is illusory and short-lived.

Chantel Mitchell, a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is one of NYC's subway lines). She dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty and street-corner life her friends seem to have accepted as their lot. But personal and sexual challenges confront Chantel on her way to fulfilling these dreams.

When the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with.

Sylvia and Cora Miao play two widowed mothers, best friends and confidants who spend their days reminiscing about times past. Over the course of a lazy weekend afternoon, the two women conjure memories of Cora's husband, his life, his death, and his passionate affair with Sylvia. A series of wistful flashbacks reveal the sometimes touching, sometimes painful circumstances around the women's deep friendship with one another, and their love for the same man.

A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.