The Female Gaze: Sight & Sound magazine's selection of 100 overlooked films directed by women
by oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx | created - 16 Mar 2016 | updated - 21 Mar 2016 | PublicThe first movie in the list The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg is listed as being directed as Sidney Olcott, a man. Jane Gaines who suggested the title wrote, "Although Sidney Olcott is traditionally listed as the sole director, we need to remember that when the film was made, moving picture work was highly collaborative and secreen credits did not yet appear, so advancing Gene Gauntier under the categoy of 'director' of any of her Kalem Company films is intended to challenge asusmptions about early cinema 'job' descriptions.
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1. The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg (1910)
14 min | Short, Drama, War
The opening scene of our story shows a Union powder wagon making its way down the road convoyed by a company of mounted Union soldiers. The route of this wagon is reported to Confederate ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Olcott | Star: Gene Gauntier
Votes: 60
2. Suspense (1913)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Votes: 2,174
3. The Ocean Waif (1916)
Unrated | 40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
An abused woman finds love in the arms of a famous novelist.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Carlyle Blackwell, Doris Kenyon, Edgar Norton, Fraunie Fraunholz
Votes: 477
4. Flickan i frack (1926)
114 min | Drama
Katja's father won't buy her a new gown, so she wears her brother's tailcoat to the ball. This scandalizes the society in town, until she is forgiven by the town's matriarch.
Director: Karin Swanström | Stars: Einar Axelsson, Magda Holm, Nils Aréhn, Georg Blomstedt
Votes: 71
5. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Alex Allin, Lucien Bataille, Genica Athanasiou
Votes: 2,283
6. Knowing Men (1930)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
An heiress poses as a marquise's companion to avoid fortune hunters.
Director: Elinor Glyn | Stars: Carl Brisson, Elissa Landi, Helen Haye, C.M. Hallard
7. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,932
8. Nobody's Wife (1937)
82 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Adela Sequeyro | Stars: Adela Sequeyro, Mario Tenorio, José Eduardo Pérez, Eduardo González Pliego
Votes: 22
9. Golden Gate Girl (1941)
110 min | Drama
In San Francisco, widower Jien-Sien Ho, known to the Chinese community as Gin Man, worries that his 16-year-old daughter Chain-Ying spends too much time at the Chinese Opera. Nevertheless, ... See full synopsis »
Director: Esther Eng | Stars: Yee-Man Tso, Hok-Sing Wong, Moon Quan, Liu Nom
Votes: 81
10. Homes for the People (1945)
Documentary, Short
Documentary on the problems of housing in Britain after the end of the Second World War.
Director: Kay Mander
Votes: 12
11. The Last Stage (1948)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Female prisoners of various ethnic background struggle to survive the hardships of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Director: Wanda Jakubowska | Stars: Wanda Bartówna, Huguette Faget, Tatyana Guretskaya, Antonina Gordon-Górecka
Votes: 764
12. Death Is a Caress (1949)
88 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a working man who has a gorgeous fiancee but she falls for a rich older woman - who turns out to be a femme fatale.
Director: Edith Carlmar | Stars: Claus Wiese, Bjørg Riiser-Larsen, Eva Bergh, Ingolf Rogde
Votes: 358
13. Outrage (1950)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond
Votes: 1,817
14. Trotacalles (1951)
101 min | Crime, Drama
Life is hard for a humble young woman, who arrives in the capital, and is forced to prostitute herself against her will.
Director: Matilde Landeta | Stars: Miroslava, Ernesto Alonso, Elda Peralta, Miguel Ángel Ferriz
Votes: 136
15. The Stranger Left No Card (1952)
23 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
A strangely-garbed and eccentric-acting stranger arrives in a small English town. But, after several days on being in the town, the citizens accept him as a harmless, though a bit daft, ... See full summary »
Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: Alan Badel, Cameron Hall, Geoffrey Bayldon, Eileen Way
Votes: 241
16. A Portrait of Ga (1952)
4 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A short film from Margaret Tait capturing the daily life of her mother, Ga.
Director: Margaret Tait | Star: Margaret Tait
Votes: 544
17. Mr. Lord Says No (1952)
86 min | Comedy
After the Government decides to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are ... See full summary »
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne, Dandy Nichols
Votes: 129
18. The Eternal Breasts (1955)
106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful ... See full summary »
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryôji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki
Votes: 627
19. Together (1956)
52 min | Drama
Two dockers, both deaf and dumb, stand together.
Directors: Lorenza Mazzetti, Denis Horne | Stars: Michael Andrews, Eduardo Paolozzi, Vali Myers, Denis Richardson
Votes: 166
20. Hitch-Hike (1962)
95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Agathe, a sweet hitch-hiker, is en route to the Riviera. She meets many men on her way.
Director: Jacqueline Audry | Stars: Darry Cowl, Pierre Mondy, Lino Ventura, Daniel Gélin
Votes: 138
21. El camino (1964)
95 min | Drama
A boy is separated for the summer from his girlfriend by 100 kilometers' distance.
Director: Ana Mariscal | Stars: José Antonio Mejías, Maribel Martín, Ángel Díaz, Jesús Crespo
Votes: 302
22. Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
After 2 years at sea, Charlie comes home to find his house demolished, wife Maggie gone, living with married Bert and their toddler. Charlie leaves a trail of mayhem as he tries to sort things out.
Director: Joan Littlewood | Stars: James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear, Avis Bunnage
Votes: 520
23. Enchanted Desna (1964)
81 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
An abstract depiction of the childhood of Aleksandr Dovzhenko.
Director: Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Evgeniy Samoylov, Vladimir Goncharov, Evgeniy Bondarenko, Zinaida Kirienko
Votes: 223
24. Wings (1966)
85 min | Drama
A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the ... See full summary »
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Mayya Bulgakova, Sergey Nikonenko, Zhanna Bolotova, Panteleymon Krymov
Votes: 2,234
25.
Omnibus (1967–2003)
Episode:
Vincent the Dutchman
(1972)
Not Rated | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Director: Mai Zetterling | Stars: Angela Conner, Anthony Daniells, Elisabeth Frink, Michael Gough
26. Brief Encounters (1967)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A maid works for the estranged wife of a geologist who once visited her village and whom she loves.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Kira Muratova, Lidiya Bazilskaya
Votes: 1,049
27. A Very Curious Girl (1969)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
An oppressed and exploited young woman (Marie) begins charging for her sexual favors and completely disrupts the smug patriarchal capitalist society of the village of Tellier.
Director: Nelly Kaplan | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Georges Géret, Henri Czarniak, Claire Maurier
Votes: 987
28. I Am Somebody (1970)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Documentary
In 1969, 400 poorly paid black women working in a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, went on strike to demand union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves confronting the National Guard and the state government.
Director: Madeline Anderson | Stars: Ralph Abernathy, Leon Davis, Coretta Scott King, Bill Kircher
Votes: 240
29. Wanda (1970)
GP | 102 min | Crime, Drama
Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.
Director: Barbara Loden | Stars: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes
Votes: 5,676 | Gross: $0.05M
30. The Arch (1968)
94 min | Drama
A woman falls in love with a visiting cavalry captain, but chooses to suppress it for the sake of her daughter.
Director: Shu Shuen Tong | Stars: Lisa Lu, Roy Chiao, Hilda Chow Hsuan, Szu-yun Chen
Votes: 245
31. The Velvet Vampire (1971)
R | 80 min | Horror
Lee and his wife Susan accept the invitation of mysterious Diane to visit her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware that Diane is a vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress's seductions.
Director: Stephanie Rothman | Stars: Michael Blodgett, Sherry E. DeBoer, Celeste Yarnall, Gene Shane
Votes: 1,713
32. Sambizanga (1972)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
Director: Sarah Maldoror | Stars: Elisa Andrade, Domingos de Oliveira, Jean M'Vondo, Dino Abelino
Votes: 768
33. Vivre ensemble (1973)
92 min | Drama
The turbulent love affair between a fuddy duddy history teacher and a free spirited hippie girl leads to drug abuse and domestic violence.
Director: Anna Karina | Stars: Anna Karina, Michel Lancelot, Monique Morelli, Viviane Blassel
Votes: 123
34. Year of the Woman (1973)
87 min | Documentary
Director: Sandra Hochman | Stars: Sandra Hochman, Liz Renay, Florynce Kennedy, Art Buchwald
Votes: 60
35. One Way or Another (1977)
78 min | Drama, Romance
In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.
Director: Sara Gómez | Stars: Mario Balmaseda, Yolanda Cuéllar, Mario Limonta, Isaura Mendoza
Votes: 642
36. Adoption (1975)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh, Péter Fried, László Szabó
Votes: 1,482
37. Hester Street (1975)
PG | 89 min | Drama, Romance
In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh
Votes: 1,870 | Gross: $5.00M
38. Letter from My Village (1976)
95 min | Documentary, Drama
Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Columba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba.
Director: Safi Faye | Stars: Assane Faye, Maguette Gueye, Safi Faye
Votes: 91
39. A Real Young Girl (1976)
Unrated | 89 min | Drama
Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller, Rita Maiden, Bruno Balp
Votes: 4,187 | Gross: $0.00M
40. Mikey and Nicky (1976)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama
Nicky is on the run from the mob, and he turns to old pal Mikey for help.
Director: Elaine May | Stars: Rose Arrick, Carol Grace, William Hickey, Sanford Meisner
Votes: 7,133
41. Khake Sar Beh Mohr (1977)
90 min | Drama
A young woman in pre-revolution Iran is caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality. Her persistent refusal of ... See full summary »
Director: Marva Nabili | Star: Flora Shabaviz
Votes: 116
42. La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua (1979)
115 min
Returning to her native region 15 years after the end of the Algerian war, Lila is obsessed by memories of the war for independence that defined her childhood. In dialogue with other ... See full summary »
Director: Assia Djebar
Votes: 52
43. Girlfriends (1978)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
Director: Claudia Weill | Stars: Melanie Mayron, Eli Wallach, Adam Cohen, Anita Skinner
Votes: 3,077
44. The Cuenca Crime (1980)
88 min | Drama, History
Two friends from a small village in Cuenca, Spain, accused of murder by their neighbors, confess to the crime after being tortured,
Director: Pilar Miró | Stars: Amparo Soler Leal, Héctor Alterio, Daniel Dicenta, José Manuel Cervino
Votes: 742
45. The Song of the Shirt (1979)
135 min
Directors: Susan Clayton, Jonathan Curling | Stars: Martha Gibson, Geraldine Pilgrim, Anna McNiff, Liz Myers
Votes: 8
46. Demon Lover Diary (1980)
90 min | Documentary
The film chronicles filmmaker Joel DeMott, significant other/film partner Jeff Kreines and filmmaker Mark Rance as they head to Michigan to make a low budget horror film.
Director: Joel DeMott | Stars: Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines, Mark Rance, Donald G. Jackson
Votes: 234
47. Liten Ida (1981)
87 min | Drama
Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during World War II, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who ... See full summary »
Director: Laila Mikkelsen | Stars: Sunniva Lindekleiv, Lise Fjeldstad, Arne Lindtner Næss, Howard Halvorsen
Votes: 139
48. The Loveless (1981)
R | 85 min | Drama
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
Directors: Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery | Stars: Willem Dafoe, J. Don Ferguson, Robert Gordon, Marin Kanter
Votes: 2,816
49. The Skin (1981)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama, War
After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Alexandra King, Carlo Giuffrè
Votes: 1,288
50. 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981)
122 min | Drama, Romance
After marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta.
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Jennifer Kendal, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Geoffrey Kendal
Votes: 432
51. Marianne & Juliane (1981)
106 min | Drama
Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade
Votes: 2,613
52. Will (1981)
80 min | Drama
Will is a former college basketball star, without a job and struggling to get off heroin, who cares for a youth whom his friends want to get hooked.
Director: Jessie Maple | Stars: Obaka Adedunyo, Robert Dean, Loretta Devine
Votes: 13
53. Losing Ground (1982)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
Director: Kathleen Collins | Stars: Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Billie Allen
Votes: 876
54. A Question of Silence (1982)
R | 92 min | Drama
When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Henriëtte Tol, Cox Habbema
Votes: 1,137
55. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
R | 77 min | Horror
A female high school student's slumber party turns into a bloodbath, as a newly escaped psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill prowls her neighborhood.
Director: Amy Holden Jones | Stars: Michele Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Debra De Liso
Votes: 17,863
56. Sugar Cane Alley (1983)
PG | 103 min | Drama, History
Set in 1931, Sugar Cane Alley paints a rich impasto of native life under French colonial rules, filtered through the coming-of-age of a bright, sweetly opportunistic boy.
Director: Euzhan Palcy | Stars: Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck, Joby Bernabé
Votes: 1,021
57. Angry Harvest (1985)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ... See full summary »
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus
Votes: 866
58. Desert Hearts (1985)
R | 91 min | Drama, Romance
While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.
Director: Donna Deitch | Stars: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers
Votes: 7,277 | Gross: $2.49M
59. Hour of the Star (1985)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens... See full summary »
Director: Suzana Amaral | Stars: Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman, Fernanda Montenegro
Votes: 1,434
60. Oriana (1985)
88 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana
Director: Fina Torres | Stars: Doris Wells, Daniela Silverio, Rafael Briceño, Mirtha Borges
Votes: 447
61. Vertiges (1985)
108 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Christine Laurent | Stars: Magali Noël, Krystyna Janda, Paulo Autran, Hélène Lapiower
Votes: 20
62. The Black Dog (1987)
18 min | Animation, Short
A woman travels through her fantastical dreams accompanied by her dog.
Director: Alison De Vere
Votes: 104
63. Pestonjee (1988)
Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Drama
Piroj and Pesi are best friends. They both meet the same girl for marriage but Pesi ends up marrying her. Later Piroj finds out that Pesi is having an affair. Piroj confronts Pesi but realizes things are complicated.
Director: Vijaya Mehta | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Cyprus Dastoor, Dady Dustoor, Anupam Kher
Votes: 305
64. Woman Demon Human (1987)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
The fictional life and career of a famous actress in Chinese opera, a woman who goes against tradition by specializing in playing male roles, especially that of Zhang Kui, a benevolent ... See full summary »
Director: Shuqin Huang | Stars: Shouli Xu, Baotian Li, Qilin Ji, Yanling Pei
Votes: 145
65. Celia (1989)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.
Director: Ann Turner | Stars: Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Victoria Longley, Mary-Anne Fahey
Votes: 1,493
66. Pet Sematary (1989)
R | 103 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 114,881 | Gross: $57.47M
67. Mirror Mirror (I) (1990)
R | 104 min | Horror, Thriller
A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.
Director: Marina Sargenti | Stars: Karen Black, Yvonne De Carlo, William Sanderson, Rainbow Harvest
Votes: 2,193
68. An Angel at My Table (1990)
R | 158 min | Biography, Drama
Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn
Votes: 8,671 | Gross: $1.05M
69. Daughters of the Dust (1991)
TV-PG | 113 min | Drama, History, Romance
A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.
Director: Julie Dash | Stars: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao, Trula Hoosier
Votes: 3,278 | Gross: $1.64M
70. Proof (1991)
R | 86 min | Drama, Romance
The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe, Heather Mitchell
Votes: 7,119 | Gross: $0.52M
71. The Party: Nature Morte (1991)
89 min | Drama
From Time Out Film Guide Beatt's first feature centres on a staggering performance from Swinton: part Diva, part Harpy, part woman struggling to cope and make sense of it all. She plays ... See full synopsis »
Director: Cynthia Beatt | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Féodor Atkine, Lutz Weidlich, Leland Wheeler
Votes: 35
72. Queen of Diamonds (1991)
77 min | Drama
Amid glittering casino lights and desert landscapes of Las Vegas, a blackjack dealer called Firdaus ponders the fate of her missing husband while her next-door neighbors deal in mutual abuse.
Director: Nina Menkes | Stars: Tinka Menkes, Jeff Douglas, Emmellda Beech, Kathryn Francomacaro
Votes: 347
73. Gas Food Lodging (1992)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A waitress lives with her two teen daughters in a trailer park in New Mexico. They all want a boyfriend.
Director: Allison Anders | Stars: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin
Votes: 4,405 | Gross: $1.35M
74. Poison Ivy (1992)
R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd
Votes: 20,132 | Gross: $1.83M
75. Wildwood, NJ (1994)
60 min | Documentary
A look into the lives of the women and girls who inhabit the seaside town of Wildwood, New Jersey.
Directors: Carol Weaks Cassidy, Ruth Leitman | Star: Zakaria Abdel Rahim
Votes: 38
76. Priest (1994)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson
Votes: 11,023 | Gross: $4.18M
77. The Silences of the Palace (1994)
116 min | Drama
As she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.
Director: Moufida Tlatli | Stars: Hind Sabri, Ghalya Lacroix, Nejia Ouerghi, Amel Hedhili
Votes: 1,105
78. Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (1995)
91 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A biography of the Portuguese-Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature was her tutti frutti hat. She came to the US as the "Brazilian Bombshell" and was a Broadway and Hollywood star in the 1940s.
Director: Helena Solberg | Stars: Helena Solberg, Eric Barreto, Cynthia Adler, Mario Cunha
Votes: 311
79. Elle (1995)
86 min | Drama, Mystery
"El" re-imagined by Ruiz and Sarmiento as a portrait of a marriage characterized by shared jealousy, paranoia and lunacy.
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Marine Delterme, Didier Flamand, Valérie Zarrouk, Nevena Mandadzhieva
Votes: 58
80. The Apple (1998)
86 min | Drama
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf | Stars: Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali Naderi, Azizeh Mohamadi
Votes: 2,739 | Gross: $0.12M
81. Welcome II the Terrordome (1995)
R | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Racial violence breaks out in a huge, black ghetto - triggered by a white woman living there with a black man.
Director: Ngozi Onwurah | Stars: Suzette Llewellyn, Saffron Burrows, Felix Joseph, Valentine Nonyela
Votes: 352
82. Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
R | 98 min | Drama
A mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?
Director: Anjelica Huston | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard, Glenne Headly, Lyle Lovett
Votes: 4,803
83. Kissed (1996)
R | 78 min | Drama, Romance
Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.
Director: Lynne Stopkewich | Stars: Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau, Natasha Morley
Votes: 3,992 | Gross: $0.47M
84. The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
Director: Cheryl Dunye | Stars: Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson
Votes: 3,499
85. Will It Snow for Christmas? (1996)
90 min | Drama
A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of... See full summary »
Director: Sandrine Veysset | Stars: Dominique Reymond, Daniel Duval, Jessica Martinez, Alexandre Roger
Votes: 888 | Gross: $0.01M
86. Eve's Bayou (1997)
R | 108 min | Drama
What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer Louis Batiste is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.
Director: Kasi Lemmons | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield
Votes: 11,592 | Gross: $14.82M
87. Out of Phoenix Bridge (1997)
110 min | Documentary
This groundbreaking work from Li Hong, China's first independent female documentarian, follows two years in the lives of four young women from the countryside who have come to Beijing for ... See full summary »
Director: Hong Li
Votes: 9
88. Martha... Martha (2001)
97 min | Drama
Director: Sandrine Veysset | Stars: Valérie Donzelli, Yann Goven, Lucie Régnier, Lydia Andrei
Votes: 196
89. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.
Director: Jamie Babbit | Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Michelle Williams, Brandt Wille
Votes: 41,108 | Gross: $2.21M
90. The Hat (1999)
6 min | Animation, Short, Horror
An exotic dancer recalls an incident from her childhood where she was physically abused by a male visitor.
Director: Michèle Cournoyer
Votes: 415
91. The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
A film comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday who is told that she can ... See full summary »
Director: Marzieh Makhmalbaf | Stars: Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh, Ameneh Passand
Votes: 1,990 | Gross: $0.34M
92. Szczesliwy czlowiek (2000)
84 min | Drama
A slacker in his thirties, a would-be writer living with his mother, decides to mend his ways when he discovers she may be terminally ill. To make her happy, he decides to settle down and get married
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska | Stars: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Malgorzata Hajewska, Piotr Jankowski, Roman Gancarczyk
Votes: 121
93. Chico (2001)
112 min | Drama
The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
Director: Ibolya Fekete | Stars: Sasa Anocic, Gyula Bodrogi, Carlos Díaz, András Fésös
Votes: 400
94. Kuen pra chan tem doueng (2002)
112 min | Drama
The soundtrack to a radio soap opera set in a luxury hotel is acted out by characters who are riding a ramshackle bus from Bangkok to a small town in Thailand's Northeast. When the bus ... See full summary »
Director: Mingmonkul Sonakul | Star: Mesini Keawratri
Votes: 32
95. She's One of Us (2003)
98 min | Drama
Echoes of Dostoyevsky. At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in... See full summary »
Director: Siegrid Alnoy | Stars: Sasha Andres, Carlo Brandt, Pierre-Félix Gravière, Catherine Mouchet
Votes: 236
96. Tarahumaras 2003, La Fêlure du temps (2003)
238 min | Documentary
A collection of five short films about an indigenous people living in the mountains of Mexico.
Director: Raymonde Carasco
97. Day Night Day Night (2006)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she ... See full summary »
Director: Julia Loktev | Stars: Luisa Williams, Josh Philip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Nyambi Nyambi
Votes: 2,304 | Gross: $0.03M
98. Jâman + Ame (2007)
71 min | Comedy, Drama
Is the story of a 16 year old girl named Yoshiko, who lives all alone since her mother died and father entered the hospital.
Director: Satoko Yokohama | Stars: Yoshimi Nozaki, Suzune Fujioka, Michio Hisauchi, Tatsunori Honda
Votes: 32
99. Behind the Rainbow (2008)
PG | 124 min | Documentary
Behind the Rainbow explores the transition of the ANC from a liberation organization into South Africa's ruling party, through the evolution of of the relationship between two of its most ... See full summary »
Director: Jihan El-Tahri | Stars: Kader Asmal, Pallo Jordan, Ronnie Kasrils, Mac Maharaj
Votes: 34
100. Middle of Nowhere (2012)
R | 101 min | Drama
Ruby goes on a journey of self-discovery when she drops out of medical school in order to focus on her incarcerated husband's well-being.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Lorraine Toussaint, Edwina Findley
Votes: 1,976 | Gross: $0.08M
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