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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  1. 169 new

    The Piano

    1993, in 14 top lists Check
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    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080...

    1975, in 12 top lists Check
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    Sedmikrásky

    1966 — a.k.a. Daisies, in 19 top lists Check
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    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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    Baise-moi

    2000, in 3 top lists Check
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    Orlando

    1992, in 7 top lists Check
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    Mustang

    2015, in 5 top lists Check
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    Dance, Girl, Dance

    1940, in 4 top lists Check
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    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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    La souriante Madame Beudet

    1923 — a.k.a. The Smiling Madame Beudet, in 3 top lists Check
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    India Song

    1975, in 8 top lists Check
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    Wanda

    1970, in 11 top lists Check
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    At Land

    1944, in 6 top lists Check
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    O necem jiném

    1963 — a.k.a. Something Different, in 3 top lists 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 Portrait of a Lady

    1996, in 1 top list Check
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    Antonia

    1995 — a.k.a. Antonia's Line, in 5 top lists Check
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    Die bleierne Zeit

    1981 — a.k.a. Marianne and Juliane, in 6 top lists Check
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    Saute ma ville

    1971, in 1 top list Check
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    Az én XX. századom

    1989 — a.k.a. My 20th Century, in 6 top lists Check
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    Baxter, Vera Baxter

    1977, in 2 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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    Sambizanga

    1972, in 4 top lists Check
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    Wadjda

    2012, in 3 top lists Check
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    Baby ryazanskie

    1927 — a.k.a. Women of Ryazan, in 2 top lists Check
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    De cierta manera

    1977 — a.k.a. One Way or Another, in 3 top lists Check
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    Mädchen in Uniform

    1931, in 5 top lists Check
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    Outrage

    1950, in 5 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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    Titane

    2021, in 4 top lists
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    The Watermelon Woman

    1996, in 7 top lists Check
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    Bad Girls Go to Hell

    1965, in 1 top list Check
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    The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East...

    1916, in 1 top list 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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    Flickorna

    1968 — a.k.a. The Girls, in 2 top lists Check
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    Golden Eighties

    1986, in 1 top list Check
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    The Juniper Tree

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
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    Örökbefogadás

    1975 — a.k.a. Adoption, in 5 top lists Check
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    Ostatni etap

    1948 — a.k.a. The Last Stage, in 2 top lists 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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    Shoes

    1916, in 6 top lists Check
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    Suzanne, Suzanne

    1982, in 1 top list Check
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    Working Girls

    1986, in 3 top lists Check
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    Asparagus

    1979, in 2 top lists Check
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    Born in Flames

    1983, in 5 top lists Check
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    Chibusa yo eien nare

    1955 — a.k.a. The Eternal Breasts, in 2 top lists Check
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    Daughter Rite

    1980, in 2 top lists Check
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    Deux fois

    1968 — a.k.a. Twice Upon a Time, in 1 top list Check
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    Divorce Iranian Style

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
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