Movies directed by women

In 1960s San Francisco, a once-promising catholic school girl, Celina Guerrera, sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future for herself that sets new precedents for the time.

In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.

A little known, yet integral piece of American history: based on the lives of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two young radical women who were instrumental in getting women the right to vote in America.

Nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be - she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs from the past.

A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.

Iceland has been ranked first in gender equality by the U.N. nine years in a row. World champion snowboarders Anne-Flore Marxer and Aline Bock hit the road to explore the terrain, and the people, that make this feminist country so unique.

A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.

Living in the slum of Katwe in Kampala, Uganda, is a constant struggle for 10-year-old Phiona and her family. Her world changes one day when she meets Robert Katende, a missionary who teaches children how to play chess.

Wanda's world has been turned upside down when her teenage daughter Nina suddenly turns up in a hijab. Nina has secretly converted to Islam.

Cut-Out Girls is the story of how six young women's lives are altered by the actions of two aspiring sportsmen.

A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.

A boy from the streets of L.A., travels to Tahiti to visit his relatives., only to find out his younger cousin is being abused by one of the locals.

Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter, Warda. When Samia, a young pregnant woman, knocks on their door, Abla is far from imagining that her life will change forever.

Ready to leave her UK boarding school and enter the working world, a young Black woman faces pressure to change her name and natural hairstyle.

A journalist takes justice into her own hands when her Internet stalker walks free from the law.

Set in 1976 San Francisco, Ivy Ling is a Chinese-American who struggles to find a balance between her two cultural identities. With the help of her best friend, Julie Albright, Ivy makes a tough call on two important events in her life when her gymnastics tournament and family's Chinese New Year dinner land on the same day.

After her partner breaks up with her on her 39th birthday, Gaby tackles her fears of loneliness as well as preconceptions of what it means for a woman to be single.

Rosie, mourning her younger sister's death discovers the mysterious man who sexploited and bullied her sister to commit suicide back online trolling for new victims, and she takes justice into her own hands.

Kati and Steffi have been best friends forever. Their love lives are heating up, so they're hitting the books less and going out to nightclubs more. When Steffi sees her father with another woman, her life begins to spiral out of control.

A harrowing tale of human trafficking, a young woman from rural Peru is lured to Spain with the promise of work, and then forced into the dark world of prostitution with no hope of escape.

After years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.

Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Following a denial of pregnancy, she finds herself illegally giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital leaves her 24h to provide the papers of the father of the child before alerting the authorities .

Irina Vladimirovna seems to love her son Zhenya, but her custody is stiflingly excessive: the relationship is so strained that she has to visit a family psychologist. At one of the receptions, the specialist invites the woman to start the separation process with the child. Irina Vladimirovna just has a second apartment, which is now being rented to tourists, where Zhenya could move - and there, you see, some kind of social life will improve, since one of the two rooms will still be put up for daily rent. In a new place, Zhenya immediately meets his neighbor's girlfriend Dasha.

Tanya tells the story of a young girl who is trapped as a sex slave until she meets a man who is just as lonely as she is.

Gorgeous young Tia Logan, the envy of every woman and desire of every man, is about to have it all. Aside from securing the coveted morning-newsanchor position at WBX DC television station, she is a week away from marrying DC's most eligible bachelor, Malcolm Wright. While she is at her final dress-fitting, she sees her fiance' walking down the street sharing serious PDA with another woman. In full wedding attire, Tia runs outside and all hell breaks loose. Within a 24-hour time period, Tia loses everything: her fiance', her career, and her home. How in the world will she ever recover, and will she ever be able to find her "Happily Ever After"?