Good movies for my fellow feminists (interesting female leads and stories)
Gravity
An astronaut tries to survive and find her way back to earth after an incident left her stranded in space.
Gett, the trial of Viviane Amsalem
A woman tries to divorce her husband but faces the misogyny of a rabbinical court.
Gerald’s Game
After being coerced into BDSM by her creepy husband, a woman finds herself abandonned, handcuffed to the bed and starts remembering the sexual abuse she endured as a child. She tries to free herself (both figuratively and litterally).
Doubt
Two nuns start suspecting that the priest of their parish is a pedophile and decide to confront him despite his authority as a male leader in a patriarchal institution.
M.F.A
After the man she had a crush on rapes her at a party on campus an art student realizes that most rapists get away with it. She decides to take matters into her own hands and becomes a serial killer of rapists.
Midsommar
After a tragic loss, a woman is struggling with grief and panic attacks. Her boyfriend is an absolute douchebag but the only person she has left. Him and his friends invite her to a trip to Sweden where they join a bizarre cult which turns out to be deadly. Keep in mind this is a horror movie.
Trust
A young girl is groomed by a pedophile and a culture that sexualizes girls more and more. After she is raped, both she and her father struggle to recover and communicate as she denies that it was rape claiming the pedophile loved her and he feels powerless to help her.
Camp X Ray
A young woman joins the army and is sent to Guantanamo Bay to help protect her country from terrorism only to discover that she is in fact helping her country commit human rights violations against muslim men emprisonned without trial, one of whom she becomes friend with. She also has to face sexist discrimination and sexual harassment from her peers.
Beatriz at dinner
Beatriz is a gentle and thoughtful vegetarian woman from Mexico who is invited to a dinner with rich white people. Throughout the dinner she can’t help confronting them about capitalism, racism and animal cruelty. As the evening gets more and more heated she starts considering murdering the rich white man who embodies the destruction of her values.
Another Earth
A young woman responsible for a car crash that killed a family is working as a cleaner and ends up working for the man who’s family she killed. She tries to help him recover from depression and grief. A relationship begins but he doesn’t know who she really is.
Hard Candy
Pretending to be a clueless teenager online, a girl is invited to a man’s house where she drugs him and holds him hostage accusing him of being a pedophile.
Ingrid Goes West
Ingrid wants to be popular like all the bourgeois instagram influencers who’s lives always seem so perfect. She becomes obsessed with one of them and starts stalking her and creating a fake identity to try and become part of her life.
Monster
Monster tells the real story of a prostituted woman who was executed for killing her rapist and other “clients” after him. The movie also focuses on her relationship with her girlfriend.
Notes on a scandal
A narcissistic and deeply manipulative teacher becomes obsessed with the new teacher at her school. She sees a love story… where there is none.
Precious
With the help of a sympathetic teacher, Precious, who comes from a poor family and is abused by her mother, tries to find a way out and build the confidence she never had after years of humiliation.
The Others
An isolated and very strict mother of two is frustrated with her daughter saying there are ghosts in the house that she calls “the others”. Turns out… there’s definitely something creepy going on. If you like intelligent scary movies without the gore this one is great.
The Stoning of Soraya M
In a remote muslim village, a man tries to get rid of his wife by accusing her of adultery and getting her stoned to death. The movie takes us through the surreal process of patriarchal “justice” with its inescapable and gruesome ending. Based on a true story.
Wild
After the death of her mother, a woman decides to go on a hiking trip alone for the first time, with all its difficulties, especially as a woman.
Speak
An introverted teenager who doesn’t fit in stops talking after she is raped at a party. No one understands what is wrong with her. Slowly she tries to find the strength to trust and speak again.
