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- DirectorJacques LasseyneMusidoraStarsMusidoraStephen WeberAbel TarrideIn late 19th century Spain, a civil war plays out in the Basque region between supporters of the pretender Carlos VIII and the republican government, with the feisty Allegria inspiring the Carlists.
- DirectorClara KuperbergJulia KuperbergStarsSherry LansingAlly AckerDorothy ArznerThe first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances Marion wrote screenplays for the Hollywood Star Mary Pickford and won two Oscars, Dorothy Arzner was the most powerful film director in Hollywood. And what do all of them have in common? They are all women and they have all been forgotten. Incredibly, it also took until 2010 for the first woman, Kathryn Bigelow, to win the Oscar for Best Director. Even if underrepresented women have always played a big part in Hollywood and it is this part of the film history left untold that this documentary sets out to uncover.
- DirectorElvira NotariStarsEduardo NotariRosè AngioneAlberto DanzaIn order to conquer Margaretella with expensive presents, a young man called Tore steals his mother's jewels but Margaretella seems to prefer another man.
- DirectorMabel NormandStarsMabel NormandCharles InsleeCharles AveryMabel's father is the local "constable", he is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines "her ideal". The couple's romance is disrupted by a misapprehension that a "tramp" is hiding in a closet at the mother's home.
- DirectorJacques LasseyneMusidoraJosé Sobrado de OnegaStarsAntonio CañeroSimone CynthiaMusidoraA famous bullfighter falls in love with the maid of a hostel and also with a foreigner woman who visits Spain and who will provoke the servant's jealousy. Musidora, the most mythical vampire and muse of surrealism, co-directs and plays the two protagonists roles of this film.
- DirectorClara KuperbergJulia KuperbergStarsEmily CarmanTony MaiettaShelley StampDorothy Arzner was Hollywood's most powerful director, though History has forgotten her. She began working in the film industry at 19 as a "cutter" before the advent of editors, and gradually worked her way up through the studio system. Determined and ambitious, she was accepted as a director at Paramount, as the first woman to direct a talking picture for the star Clara Bow. A true pioneer of the cinema, she was the only woman director at a major Hollywood studio in the 1930s and 1940s, openly lesbian, dressed like a man, making movies "avant-gardiste" about women condition.She was a mentor for Francis Ford Coppola, who considers her as one of the most important woman director of Hollywood.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsÈve FrancisGabriel GabrioJean TouloutCoveted by two different men, a woman turns to a third man instead.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsRaymond DubreuilEmma GyntRobert MirfeuilTired of being ignored by her husband, a young woman heads off to a nautical-themed nightclub, frequented by rowdy sailors. Her attentions is caught by a handsome naval officer.
- DirectorLois WeberStarsCourtenay FooteMyrtle StedmanHerbert StandingThe parallel stories of a modern preacher and a medieval monk, Gabriel the Ascetic, who is killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Truth, which is also represented by a ghostly naked girl who flits throughout the film.
- DirectorRaymond LongfordStarsArthur TauchertLottie LyellGilbert EmeryA down-at-heal ex-convict undergoes an epiphany as he experiences the love of a good woman for the first time.