An Alternate Feminist Cinema
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For moving towards a decolonial, anticapitalist, emancipated-from-heteronormativity transfeminist future.
This is a list capped at 100 films threading a counter history to cinema. This is not a "ra-ra girl power" collection, or even a list of women's influences on a cinematic canon, but a collection of cinema that is unique in its willingness to show and to radicalize the female experience. Early films on here that may be less overt in their feminist messaging are included either because they show women's place in revolutionary causes, are a first to depict an experience, or have been key in the discussion surrounding this alternate text.
All films are briefly annotated explaining why they're here. Discussion is welcome, but please understand that this is made with an awareness of an intrinsically misogynist studio system, a desire for avant-garde and worldwide productions. Therefore, this will not be including the newest wide-release intended to pander to "women's issues".
In regards to the lack of so-called "genre films" here, with the exception of a couple art-horrors some exploitation cinema, and one work of speculative fiction, this list has ended up largely documentary centered, as this is what nearly all earlier entries are. The prevalence of documentary may be that the personal is political, and it is far easier to document reality than to work the truth of the world into fiction.
not on imdb (probably doesnt qualify)
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The Piano
1993, in 14 top lists Check -
115 new
Cléo de 5 à 7
1962 — a.k.a. Cleo from 5 to 7, in 15 top lists Check -
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Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
2019 — a.k.a. Portrait of a Lady on Fire, in 12 top lists -
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Sedmikrásky
1966 — a.k.a. Daisies, in 19 top lists Check -
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080...
1975, in 12 top lists Check -
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Mustang
2015, in 5 top lists Check -
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Orlando
1992, in 7 top lists Check -
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Wadjda
2012, in 3 top lists Check -
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Titane
2021, in 4 top lists -
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Baise-moi
2000, in 3 top lists Check -
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At Land
1944, in 6 top lists Check -
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Wanda
1970, in 11 top lists Check -
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La souriante Madame Beudet
1923 — a.k.a. The Smiling Madame Beudet, in 3 top lists Check -
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La teta asustada
2009 — a.k.a. The Milk of Sorrow, in 4 top lists Check -
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Antonia
1995 — a.k.a. Antonia's Line, in 5 top lists Check -
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India Song
1975, in 8 top lists Check -
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Mädchen in Uniform
1931, in 5 top lists Check -
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Dance, Girl, Dance
1940, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Portrait of a Lady
1996, in 1 top list Check -
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Je tu il elle
1974 — a.k.a. Je Tu Il Elle, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Watermelon Woman
1996, in 7 top lists Check -
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Born in Flames
1983, in 5 top lists Check -
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L'opéra-mouffe
1958 — a.k.a. Diary of a Pregnant Woman, in 1 top list Check -
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Les résultats du féminisme
1906 — a.k.a. The Consequences of Feminism, in 1 top list Check -
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Die bleierne Zeit
1981 — a.k.a. Marianne and Juliane, in 6 top lists Check -
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De stilte rond Christine M.
1982 — a.k.a. A Question of Silence, in 3 top lists Check -
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Outrage
1950, in 5 top lists Check -
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Dyketactics
1974, in 1 top list Check -
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I Am Not a Witch
2017, in 1 top list -
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Az én XX. századom
1989 — a.k.a. My 20th Century, in 6 top lists Check -
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Roozi ke zan shodam
2000 — a.k.a. The Day I Became a Woman, in 6 top lists Check -
43 new
L'une chante l'autre pas
1977 — a.k.a. One Sings, the Other Doesn't, in 4 top lists Check -
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Asparagus
1979, in 2 top lists Check -
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Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen
1983, in 4 top lists Check -
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Saute ma ville
1971, in 1 top list Check -
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Madame a des envies
1907 — a.k.a. Madam's Fancies, in 1 top list Check -
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Örökbefogadás
1975 — a.k.a. Adoption, in 5 top lists Check -
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Shoes
1916, in 6 top lists Check -
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Illusions
1982, in 4 top lists Check -
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Losing Ground
1982, in 4 top lists Check -
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Sambizanga
1972, in 4 top lists Check -
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Bad Girls Go to Hell
1965, in 1 top list Check -
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Samt el qusur
1994 — a.k.a. The Silences of the Palace, in 4 top lists Check -
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Variety
1983, in 3 top lists Check -
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O necem jiném
1963 — a.k.a. Something Different, in 3 top lists Check -
159 new
Fake Fruit Factory
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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The Juniper Tree
1990, in 0 top lists Check -
102 new
Une femme collante
1906 — a.k.a. A Sticky Woman, in 0 top lists Check -
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Working Girls
1986, in 3 top lists Check -
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A Hora da Estrela
1985 — a.k.a. Hour of the Star, in 3 top lists Check
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